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| [...]Several years ago , a group of history minded people of Three[...]by invitation of Mayor Claude '<There's no sense in going further - Rice, who was interested in the history of Three Forks. it's the edge of c[...]the Headwaters Area Historical Society, which was a Built my barns and strung my fences in ':!hapter of the Gallatin County Hist[...]area, which had never been well recorded. Till a voice, as bad as conscience rang I asked Mrs. Buford (Ruth) Myers to chair a committee to interminable changes[...]pulling the threads of history togethe·r to make a Something lost behind the Ranges,[...]ight have found it, but - received a $1000.00 gift from the IBM Company; the first and[...]and humble thanks for their success in publishing this history[...] |
| [...]on, Lo_gan,_Lombard, Trident pendent organization in 1982. At that time we purchased the -M arie T[...]istrict. The Book ·committee beg~n to function in 1979 for the Louise Steingruber:[...] |
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| The three rive.rs, the Jefferson on the left,-the Madison in the middle, and the Gallatin on the right,join to[...]"Both Cap. C. and myself corisponded in opinion with rispect to the[...]ing previously named one river in honour of the Secretaries of War and Navy. In pursuance of this resolution we called the S. W.[...]that which we meant to ascend, Jefferson's River in honor of that illustrious pe[...]prize.) the Middle fork we called Madison's River in honor of James Madison, and the S.E. Fork we called Gallatin 's River in honor of Albert Gallitin. Th[...]pearances may be navigated to a considerable distance. Cap. C.[...]waters perfectly transparent; in short they are three noble[...] |
| [...]only white man's haven in all the vast outer reaches of the John Colter was a Virginian by birth, a Kentuckian by Louisiana Territory. In a brief but fierce fight, some 1,500 chance, and a Montanan by choice.[...]400 Flatheads and about the Above all, he was a Montanan. In the years 1806-10, he same number of Crows - and John Colter. Abandoned by his actually became a legend among his notoriously skeptical[...]because of his incredible Raymond, in spite of a severe leg wound. 200-odd-mile Race for Life from[...]Blackfeet at the Headwaters of the Missouri River in 1808. the world's first national park,[...]l us that he was born at Stuart's Draft, In September of the same year, he and John Potts, also a Virginia, near Staunton, about 1775, that his wel[...]their beaver traps by night and that he enlisted in the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery and[...]ntucky, on October 15, 1803. surprised by a large war party of Blackfeet. Potts killed one[...]r his It was love at first sight. The awe he felt in the presence of the life. might, the mystery an[...]ostrils, he wheeled sharply and threw his arms up in the air. the return trek.[...]tossed his spear, which He was eager to become a commercial trapper in the snapped ofif as it struck the[...]olter grabbed it up beaver-rich Three Forks area, a land that the white-hating and ran the Indian through. He sprinted another mile to a Blackfeet called their own.[...]d Blackfeet, called by one and hid under a pile of driftwood until the Indians went on historian the Raiders of the Plains, came in the summer of downriver. At nightfall,[...]was on the home- Raymond. bound leg of a remarkable 500-mile "sales trip" to round up[...], the legendary mountain man was "happy in having escaped from Colter's Race for Lif[...] |
| [...]Manuel Lisa's party may have started out in 1809 to estab- completely naked, under a burning sun: the soles of his feet lish a post on the three forks of the Missouri, but they[...]. abundance around him ... He arrived at the fort in seven Louis Missouri Fur Company, set up a post at the mouth of the days, having subsisted on a root much esteemed by the Indians[...]ut what McDaniels, started out in November 1809 several miles up- Bradbury has over[...]e River with the Missouri Colter was far too fine a woodsman to allow himself to go[...]the point where the Little Missouri joined hungry in the midst of plenty. A simple snare made of willow the[...]iscovered his feet branches, strategically placed in a deliberately ruptured were f[...]ack to Fort Lisa beaver dam would readily net him a beaver for food, sinew and for h[...]elt for moccasins. The sinew could have served as a string for friendly Indians helped James overcome his plight. An a crude bow fitted with crude arrows. Or a rock or stubby stout American name[...]Cana- branch would have performed fairly well as a bludgeon for dians found him[...]d for the three forks of the Missouri, supposedly in 1809, Indian.[...]uable bered that James, who was a member of the party was still beaver traps that h[...]Among those traveling in the main party were Andrew What happened this[...]and Colonel Pierre Menard, leaders of the group, a man it happened at night and only a handful oflndians made up the named James Cheek, who was a rather notorious individual, surprise party. John[...]hunting for food . over Bozeman Hill in a spring snow storm, their horses floun- So, on[...]r, the Ulysses of the Rock- dering in snow up to their shoulders and hips in many places. ies, reluctantly bade the mountains[...]The sturdier men had to forge ahead to break a trail for the loaded canoe at Fort Raymond and po[...]er said they became snow blind, and since Back in civilization, he married a woman named Sally or there wa[...]tled their horses for meat. on a farm near Dundee, Missouri , on the south bank of[...]one the Missouri and constructed a fort which proved to be of a child, Hiram.[...]ssment by hostile John Colter died of jaundice in November of 1813. Black[...]acked them without provocation. M J O'Brien was a full-time newspaper writer, and as a freelancer, has The fort , which was really intended to be a trading post, was publiahed thousands of magazine and newspaper articles in national, regional constructed out of cottonwoo[...]a of about and local markets. Mr. O'Brien resides in W. Palm Beach, Fl. He is writing a 800 square feet. Apparently these logs were set[...]to form a double stockade which in later years rotted out and[...]left a trench where the logs had been. The enclosure, ac[...]Hanley's store". Another article There has been a certain amount of speculation over the indicated the site to be on a point ofland between the Jefferson course of year[...]ssouri River about early fur traders establishing a fort mately one half mile wide. o[...]rom the river (Jefferson) Henry and Pierre Menard in April 1810. bank and had a stockade running to the stream. A heavy gate[...]de at the Montana State Historical Society, wrote in the October 12, night to avoid th[...]The buildings had no windows or doors in the walls forming "The only written narrative o[...]t Three Forks came from the hand of Thomas James, a free type constructed during that period. The old Fort Atkinson on trapper, and a member of the Manuel Lisa party ... that the Missouri River in present day Nebraska had elongated made the trip[...]roof sloping downward toward the back. The point in 1809."[...] |
| [...]described their advice. We started forward in company and soon -found the purpose. When the Ind[...]ee were allowed inside, the two gates locked them in. The arrows and bullets and lying near each oth[...]oods and tossed what deadi the former mangled in a horrible manner; his head was the Indians wanted[...]body hacked to pieces: _we Two men constructed a cabin about two and one half miles saw from marks on the·ground that he must have fought in a up the Jefferson. Not long afterward the Blackfee[...]ing with the trappers, decided to eliminate them. In Col- being a brave man and well armed with a rifle, knife and onel Menard's account" . .. a party of our hunters were de- tomahawk." fe[...]ides there are missing Pierre Drouillard and a Shawnee woman. He was considered young Holland, F[...]men, John Daugherty, Brown and Ware, traveled in dugout companions deciding to trap on their own.[...]es down the Missouri River, possibly to establish a post known as "Drewyer" boasted, "I am too much o[...]Daugherty keep going out alone. What happened is in Thomas James' and Brown were in struck a submerged rock and upset. words:[...] |
| Blackfeet. During this incident a dog was mentioned for the feet on the 12t[...]two men killed, all their first time, that it was a good watch dog, being able to smell beaver[...]f their traps lost, and the ammunition of Indians a long way off.[...]of them, and also seven of our horses. We set out in There were conflicting reports as~ when and wh[...]which we brought back here, and we hope to find a few more enducated guess is that they all departed from the Three traps. Forks region sometime in August. Andrew Henry, with fifteen Thi[...]on the Snake River. tomorrow, however, a party of thirty who are all gena gage, Lt. James H. Bradley, who was killed in the Battle of the Big fourteen loues and sixte[...]he place where Hole against the Nez Perce Indians in 1877, wrote about the the others were def[...]udent to risk more, especially since still intact in 1870, but due to flooding by the river, only a they are not to separate, and half are to remain in camp. small portion - the southwest angle - still[...]nine of them were absent tending their traps post in 1810, had left behind an anvil, which remained un[...]. The two persons turbed for nearly 40 years, and in his words: '' .. . gazed upon killed are James[...]fort Freehearty and his man who were camped ·a bout two miles had vanished. In 1867 Major James Aplin found the anvil and[...]e found four traps belonging to these men used it in his shop at Gallatin City. The anvil is now on di[...]ce where they were pursued by the savages, but we in the Headwaters Heritage Museum in Three Forks. have not yet found[...]ere killed. Surveying engineers, while laying out a sewer system for the In the camp where the first two men were killed we found a town of Three Forks, either in 1908 or 1909, came across the Blackfoot wh[...]he alone defended himself. Land Company to erect a granite monument at the point some This unhappy miscarriage causes us a considerable loss, but three hundred yards beyond[...]where the old Three Forks this country in beaver fur are immense. It is true that we shall[...]upon the Blackfeet so that we may the time, lived in the vicinity, mainly at Bridgeville (Old[...]nless we can have took possession of the land and a cabin located on it about peace with thes[...]can be destroyed, it is 1890. Alexander had found a large number of remarkably idle to t[...]well-preserved rifles and smoothbore guns buried in the river Assure Madame Chouteau of my m[...]ned if the voted trading post had remained in use for an extended number of[...]AU, Fur Company had to abandon their posts set up in the heart of[...]Lt. James H. Bradley, who was interested in the Three[...]1 , 1810 Forks trading post, visited the site in 1870. He stated later Mr. Pierre Chouteau, Esq.,[...]ll intact, but due to re- Dear Sir and Brother-in-Law: I had hoped to be able to peated flooding only a small portion of the structure - the write you mo[...]knew was brought out to the Three Forks area in 1810 by it is today. A party of our hunters was defeated by the B[...] |
| [...]ttack by the Blackfeet, who suffered greatly from a smallpox epidemic that took such a heavy toll of their people[...]the year before. The opening of a central route, by way of the[...]west Montana from a different direction. In 1822-23 the men working for Ashley had also consi[...]Company, sent a pair of reliable men, Michael Immell and[...]Robert Jones with a brigade of29 men to Three Forks. William[...]" (?n the~,r way dow1: ~he Yellowstone (1823) a small party of[...]Blackfeet Jomed them. These Blackfeet tipped off a[...]. The Mis- Missouri Fur Co;,,pany. lt now has a permanent souri Fur Company, late~ absorbed by the American Fur home in the museum.[...]feet, came to Three Forks between 1810 and 1822. In Alexan-[...]ss' journals there are notations that he was here in 1824[...]that Company ever had, sent Samuel Tullock in 1827-28 to the it was "gazed upon only by the In[...]- supersitition and awe." Bradley was interested in knowing ased out by .the unrelenting Blackfeet. In 1830, after a change what had happened to the anvil which had[...]the Three Forks area and surrounding country. In 1867, during the time the second Gallatin City was still a thriving town, James Aplin picked up the anvil to use in his Keen competition developed between t[...]. Mrs. Hopping, after hard-nosed tactics in recruiting the free trappers and smaller Carl's[...]Fitzpatrick took the AFC men on a wild goose chase through Margaret Hutchinson[...]their time, including both factions, was occupied in started a museum of their own. The beginning of the latter's travelmg and not much hunting for beaver. In October Van- museum began in 1980 when two rooms were reserved for that[...]is way overland along the Jefferson when purpose in the Sacajawea Inn. The anvil is now in the Head- h~ found plenty of signs that Bl[...]gans, .eager for more scalps, killed Vanderburgh, a man legend:[...]the flesh off his bones and tossed them in the Jefferson River "in the Gal. County hoping to hide his identity.[...]Exhibits" In spite of. believing they were of sufficient stren[...]also had their troubles. The Piegans were moving in large "In 1867 Major James Aplin visited the site of the fort and numbers through the Three Forks area too. A confrontation found the anv~l which he took to use in his shop at Gal. City. wa.s inevitable and the Blackfeet had a brave ride up to He later gave it to Carl I. Hopping of that community and was Bridger for a "peace talk". The wiley mountain man was later put in the care of his sister Mrs. Eva Faris.[...]down. A prolonged fight between the trappers and the Pieg[...]Bridger had received two arrows in his shoulder. One was[...]as late as 1838 was the Three Forks.area clear of a remained in his back until three years later when the[...] |
| [...]een. This fight didn't deter the trappers, now a part of the Ameri- can Fur Company. They returned in 1838 to trap for more beaver. In 1837 there was no stopping the smallpox epidemic[...]ting the culprit who brought the disease with him in some form , such as his clothes, blanket or tradi[...]iniboin and Black- feet. Alexander Culbertson, in charge of Ft. McKenzie near the Marias River,. caught the disease and after recovering, took a trip to find out why there were no Indians at the[...]lack- feet until he reached the Three Forks where a village ap- peared to be deserted. The awful sten[...]d was exposed by the dissolving and cutting from a siege of smallpox when visiting their ncousins" the action of the river at this point. Arapaho in 1831. No accurate tally was ever made, but it was generally agreed the dead numbered in the thousands.[...]sh not too far from the Three Forks country. And in 1838 they returned by way of the Gallatin and[...]crossed over to the Madison where they came upon a single through the reports of Meriwether Lewis. Following this, a teepee with nine Blackfeet dead with the smallpox[...]ear on all trappers hunted the headwaters country in com- W. Hayden, frequented the area and contributed importantly[...]to the geological knowledge. A culminating report appeared in[...].D. Robinson (Geology of the Three Forks Quad- In 1840 Father DeSmet, the Jesuit priest, traveled w[...]rves as an outstanding update on all previous was a demand for silk hats rather than on~s made out of[...]ely known what shape its intrusion was discovered in California, which started a massive migra- has at depth. tion to the Pacific[...]the years of 1859 and 1860 Captain Raynolds with a corps of topographical engineers traveled north f[...]t. Henry E. Maynadier was with this group, taking a different route and joining Raynolds at Three For[...]f the Yellowstone affords peculiar facilities for a rail- road, and it is moreover, the most direct r[...]ny features conspire to make the Three Forks area a classic in North American geology. The dry climate an[...] |
| [...](after G.D. Robinson 1965) Age In[...]In feet |
| [...]A' (after G.D. Ro[...]~ ----- Line of cross section A-A '[...]A[...]N .__.::;._-=;;.-J...a.:....-<--L...L..-----'-__.....se[...]Diagrammatic Cross Section A-A' (Hossfeldt Hills) PC /[...]rocks such as gneiss and schist. in their extent to the line south of Three Forks, but which "Hard" rocks such as these may be seen in just a few places in covered most of the western part of t[...]of these formations may be familiar to those who in the cores of the surrounding mountains. This comp[...]ton Formation, and many more. They are famous in the years ago. Seas poured into this ancient tren[...]ture, (see stratigraphic column). activity formed a wedge-shaped mass of coarse boulders,[...]yment realms are represented in these deposits, and these rocks are branching eas[...]at time. No and Mesozoic Eras. In all, these rocks aggregated a thickness doubt Three Forks was situated then along a continental of some 8000 feet,[...]relative to shelf deposits of this age in the Rocky Mountains. any other continents is not[...]may be implied from the abundance of algal masses in these area about 65 million years[...]relines were frequented by the horned influential in localizing subsequent dynamic movements in dinosaurs, and a teaming marine life included hordes of fish, the[...]ace of the crust as compression the topography to a monotonous plain broken only by a few ushered in a period of mountain building. The then swam[...] |
| dotted the landscape just to the west in the Elkhorn Moun- of Three Forks, Montana, not as a prehistoric mine, but as a tains. As compressive forces increased, the fold[...]ved giant sheets ofrocks many the site of a historic mineral mine. As a young man, in about miles eastward across the landscape. The s[...]pping relationships. an Indian campsite. In 1969, certain that the site was unusual, For[...]he Three Forks area has been he returned with a bulldozer and had three shallow cuts made subjec[...]xisted. The resulting "Three were exposed in the cuts convinced him that the site was of Fork[...]and therefore important. He contacted Les became a trap for water-borne sediments and wind blown[...]s ments blanketed practically all previous rocks in the Three Drew (former Director of the Museum of the Rockies) with Mr. Forks Basin. In places, these light-colored rocks contain Kolokotrones in 1971. The site proved at that time to be abundan[...]prehistoric site. In time that extends up to the present, continued tensional · The Schmitt mine is located on a barren knoll in rolling faulting and warping fractured the younger rocks, and the uplands developed in Mississippian age limestone bedrock at sequence[...]latitude and 111 degrees 29' west longitude in Broadwater[...]site consists of a Stipa comata - Bouteloua gracilis rocks almost at[...]ted needle-and-thread and blue was established at a relatively higher elevation than it is g[...]souri River. The undisturbed soil is an aridosol a desert soil alternating with drier and hotter, a[...]that has a surface th_a t is almost dark enough and thick times in the highlands surrounding Three Forks. Streams[...]enough to be a mollisol, a typical grassland soil. eacting to increased vo[...]geometry of former stream systems were inherited in the new including many other snakes, rod[...]Bends The Schmitt mine was excavated in Madison Limestone in the Missouri near Lombard preserved the older mea[...]the west bluffs of the Missouri River. Here, the in canyon form. Former erosion surfaces and terraces[...]doned and left high and dry to project into space in the north and east. These limestones are similarly well exposed in surrounding areas. The topography of Three Forks reflects a the mountain ranges that surround the Ga[...]throughout much of southwestern Montana. In this region, past geologic activity has had at least a subtle influence on the limestone beds in the upper part of the Madison are chert- present[...]bearing, the chert (a glassy rock from which tools could be[...]Professor Emeritus of Geology section in places. The upper part of the Madison is also[...]in the Schmitt mine, chert occurs as 2 to 30-cm nodu[...]onsists of an infilled open pit, four tipi rings, a 200+ surface was severely weathered and the roc[...]cess to subsurficial cherts that had been exposed in Other infilled open pits are also present in the Schmitt mine bedrock context at the surface as a result of weathering. vicinity.[...] |
| [...]for these facts by suggesting that the miners had in the Rocky Mountain/Northwestern Plains area, Schm[...]of chert. They would have returned at a later time to continue from buried contexts in the mine fill. The initial entry into penetrating the undisturbed chert-bearing bedrock in their bedrock by miners in about 1350 B.C. and their eventual quest for chert. Much of the infilling in the open cut is a abandonment of the mine around A.D. 350 indicate a product of gophering, that is,[...]ring 1700-year chert mine operation by peoples of a single cultural loosened matrix behind the miners, thus clearing the area in tradition. The corner-notched dart points are cha[...]n conscious of keeping their activities here low- in this area. Clustered radiocarbon dates suggest ep[...]along apparently successful, since only a single technological or the eastern margin of wha[...]hase of Rocky Mountain/Northwestern Plains ing'', in modern mining parlance. They would excavate follo[...]and prying of diverse activities in areas where chert nodules were ex- through one of[...]lock, they directed its primary emphasis in analyzing the Schmitt artifacts (N = lateral disp[...]s had been dropped and moved tion and in estimating the uses of the various stones, bone, aside in this way to permit continued westward, downslope[...]been documented during modern excavation; changes in subsistence rounds. Their presence has been documented in the direction of mining made at various times in the past the three Canadian prairie provinces and in North and South thoroughly churned up the mine fi[...]ming, and Montana. Beyond those spatial limits A singularly distinctive solution cavity, the roof and sides of similar artifacts recorded elsewhere in western North which are still intact, extends 12 m to the west back under America, i.e., in the Great Basin and Columbia Plateau, may overlyi[...]that miners extracted and obtained chert in surplus beyond surface of the open pit, th[...] |
| [...]exotic rocks suggests Pelican Lake participation in some kind of product-raw material ex- change network, since porcellanite crops out in eastern and southeastern Montana and the Knife River material occurs along the Knife River in North Dakota. Obsidian and basalt are abundant in both primary and redeposited geological con- texts in the mountains west and south of Schmitt. Indicati[...]hells imported from the Pacific Coast and used as a necklace or wristlet. Presumably, Schmitt chert w[...]sites. The number of animal species documented in the mine fill now stands at 43 , of which two are[...]nd 39 are vertebrates. Recent discoveries include a short-legged dwarf adult Canis familiaris , a newborn C. familiaris, and a turtle. Recorded ungulates now include wapiti , w[...]recovery of cultural materials from the mine fill in order to fully expose the mined open pit, in all its dimensions and aspects. In this way, we will be enabled to determine , by di[...]o hazardous to enable further chert extrac- tion. In that event, abandonment about A.D . 350 can be exp- lained without resort to othe[...]to Floyd and Freda Schmitt for their generos- ity in making the Schmitt site available for stud[...] |
| [...]the Sawyer Ranch. He established a store and post office at The Clarkston Valley is a narrow strip extending from the "Magpie" a[...]ion Three Forks of the Missouri down the river to a few miles name -changed to Clarkston. Th[...]the crossing of the Northern Pacific and the a wagon road. You had to walk, ride a saddle horse, or come in Milwaukee, near the lower end of the valley.[...]ll been taken. Soon On the west, it is bounded by a range of nameless hills running three school houses were built in the district. There were from the Three Forks to Toston, with an elevation of five to six people in every coulee. Most all land was plowed. Then came[...]uenza came, too. There Hills with an elevation of a little over four thousand feet to were almost no crops and only a little grass. The population about four thousand[...]y Montana, 1919-20. The rainfall was better in the 20's until noted the big springs we now call the Toston Spring, and 1929 when a second knockout blow lasted for nearly 10 years,[...]g the lower Jefferson, about five years In 1925, a real shock hit the valley, an earthquake hit earlier, or possibly in the year 1800. without warning. There were 45 shocks that night and a During the days of wagon freighting, most of the traffic mountain slipped down in Sixteen Mile Canyon. The center of crossed the ri[...]the shocks were near the center of the Clarkston a shorter trail leaving the Gallatin at the junctio[...]only two or three families in residence, the bigger farmers The first livesto[...]appearing to take care of their land and crops in season but The River Side Ranch Co. of the firm o[...]rk living elsewhere, the biggest farmers in the area now are the were in the valley and George Geddes of Willow Creek ran[...]cattlemen have wintered their hundreds of horses in the area. cattle in the valley. One stockman, Mike Quinn, ran horses[...]ran and owned several sections of land in the area. sheep over the area before homestead days. About 1910, W. In 1970, Mike sold his holdings to Roberta Moche of Hawaii, Guy Clark from the little Missouri in Western Dakota bought and the land[...] |
| [...]elevator in the distance was built about 1916 or 1917 and[...]cGee. Circle S Store run by Jim and Mabel Corbett in early 1900's. Also contained Post Office. which had a drawback as cars had a bit of trouble bucking the[...]elements that were in the area then, some times the kids got to Quarles[...]der, tom down and moved out. of 20 sections lying in an H shape. There were quite a few families in the Clarkston area at one The valley now has 25 families living in it, has 6 day a week time. The town was a Post Office located in a store that stocked mail service, phones in all but just those places used for sum- • almost everything, also a stock yard, a depot, and one time an mer ot vacation use, electricity and a school bus service taking elevator. Later on, after the elevator was abandoned, in the children to Logan and Three Forks schools and[...]e mouth was loaded the hard way, by manpower with a scoop shovel, of Pole Gulch on the Dyke property. both in and out of the granaries and into the box cars.[...]t was called be- ONE VERSION OF LIVING IN THE . cause it only con[...]baggage car, diner and one CLARKSTON AREA IN THE EARLY 1900's passen[...]rdless of all the ups and downs that are involved in a butter, cottage cheese and with a few dozen eggs added~ Id go farming and stock rai[...]5 or 6 miles to drought to combat there was still a lot of fun and neighborly Clarkston and leave my[...](so many of the birds what mother needed, ifl had a little credit left over I could get in the area I suppose), until a person and family moved in by some candy. I'd then catch the stub back in the evening to the name of W. Guy Clark, a better than thou type, and Clarkston and go back[...]Ranch, Circle S, the store was called the riding in the winter time for the kids, and family get togethers Circle S. Clark also acquired a large block ofland. He changed with the neighbors[...]e travel from 1½ miles to 2 miles farther gather in what was called Home Gulch, east of Clarkston, or[...]Mud Springs in Garden Gulch above the Pike place, there There were three schools in the area, Garden Gulch to the were nice springs a[...]ream, like south. The Harbison school was located in a hollow north of our potlucks now. After the feed[...]inds of games, horse and foot races, tugs-of-war, in their respective gulches. To get to school the kids rode or horseshoe pitching, kids climbing trees and a lot of visiting. drove horses or walked. In our case my dad made us a sorta box In the winter would be sleigh ride parties, coasti~g, box sled to ride in and pulled by one horse with just a single tree, socials and dances in the three different schools, first one then no shafts. In our road we had a steep pitch to go down, ana the the other. At tha[...]nd covers. Ifwe team and food for midnight 1unch. In the sled there'd be a lot of didn't turn over we were elated. For our school there was a homemade heavy quilts and good sized heated rocks[...]get the Pole Gulch School away family played for a lot of the dances, they living in the Recap by hiring extra men and getting more o[...]t was proved he got sleepy they were put to sleep in the cloak rooms and wasn't a U.S. citizen and the extra men hadn't been in the area covered with the quilts and coats, somet[...]to vote. Later the schools were consolidated and a or sat on. . school built in Clarkston. A bus was run to pick u_p the ~ids__ In the winter of 1918 and_ 1919 _!;he flu hit[...] |
| [...]on a bodice, when Nan's screams brought the conductor.[...]was on fire, the Chinaman was trying to save her. A cinder had[...]wool collar on her middy blouse. As it smoldered a thin[...]any money in addition to the ticket so she had to walk all the[...]kept watching the house for a short time then left. Later we[...]found out he was the Chinese laundry man in Bozeman. Home of caretaker whoever took care of t[...]There was a large hole burned in the back of the coat, the wiping out a whole family name of Bolt, they are buried on a lining of the collar was damaged and the[...]ttle hill east of Clarkston, almost straight, but a little to the was ruined. We hid the middy blou[...]he the rest of the winter with the hole in it. We did not tell Mother winter was so bad it w[...]many of the families being down with the flu. A drought started in 1918 and grew until by the summer of[...]REE HERALD lost everything, just as everyone else in the area. Following A man from the Herald went to Magpie, the site of the this an earthquake hit in 1925 drying wells and springs and renamed town (Clarkston). A good-sized crowd was in atten-[...]g that was the end of the Clarkston community for a spell.[...]n lots was spirited. About 82 lots were sold, and a[...]lots aggregated about $15,000. Recap was a flag stop on the N .P. Railroad, located between[...]olman of Sioux City, Ia., was the auctioneer, and in Trident and Clarkston, its purpose, a place for trains to take his introductory[...]his portion. Our people will remember There was a large water tank along the track here and[...]The new town of Clarkston lies in a beautify valley, sur- There was a nice clear spring where the occupants of the[...]. surrounded by a splendid section of bench as well as valley If[...]lands. The big Circle S ranch is being sold in forty acre tracts back or walked to Trident along[...]rty, and Montana Across the river from Recap on a little flat between the Milwaukee co[...]reason Milwaukee railroad track and the river was a grove of the best to feel proud of their efforts, and those who invested in Clark- chokecherry bushes I know of around, peopl[...]ston, realize that they have bought wisely, a statement which area used to go there for berries[...]arkston, each family tak- 4-20-1922 - A ferry cable of carrying the largest size trac- in[...]be in operation on the Missouri river opposite Clarksto[...]very warm, she had on her heavy winter coat with a large fur collar so she opened one of the grimy windows by her SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 76 IN EARLY 1900's seat and sat looking out at the scenery. In the seat across the This district was one district, but included three schools; isle from her was a Chinaman. He kept looking at her for a Evergreen or Pole Gulch, located in Pole Gulch, Garden long time. She moved closer to the window. He moved closer to Gulch, locted in Garden Gulch, and Harbison, located in a the end of his seat near the isle. Finally[...] |
| In 1923, Ree (Hale) Hester, daughter of Ernest and L[...]hacked at home for being naughty. Hale, who lived in Garden Gulch then, became the youngest[...]s Scull, Alta Slater and Mrs. Morri- school clerk in Montana history and was so appointed by then[...]Box". away, she gave Ree pointers before leaving. In Ree's first year This school was abandoned in the late teens and students she received 125 applications for a teaching job. Her parents transported to Clarkston. Later the schoolhouse was sold to got a kick out of her answers, another year there was 9[...]to be the lower Madison, used to build a barn. cashed at the Commercial Bank (First Nation[...]the Clarkston school. Garden Gulch continued for a time longer before abandonment. All these schools[...]en they weren't enough people to hold an election in later · years. EVERGREEN OR POLE[...]OF DISTRICT NO. 76 |
| [...]which proved a chore. The result of this, Ruby spent the school[...]months in a rented house next door to the Clarkston school so[...]and returning home in a bob-sled filled with quilts, hot irons[...]Harold Cheney. It is serving as a barn on his ranch ½ mile east[...]Hester for a play house.[...]the Herb Fergusons live. A school play, ·'Pandora's Box " L. to R. Jim Free[...]take the place of the Evergreen or order to have a school. There was Dwight and Charlie Conner, Pole Gulch and Harbison schools, in 1919 with classes com- they lived south of the Harbison school, Elisha, Gladys and mencing in Nov. of 1920. The teacher was Margaret Gee who Ji[...]l Prather had to taught 1½ days. Her story in this area. start school a little young to make the eight. Lillian Crail w[...]en Slater, then Mavis Lestrude, who later married a Norman boy. Ruby Prather's sister, Sadie Page, wa[...]closing, the families in the area started drifting away until[...]there was no reason for a school , finally in 1953 District No. 76[...]Tennessee in the year of 1916. Mr. Booher's wife, Amelia, had[...]died and he was left with eight children ranging in ages from 4[...]ears to 16 years. His despair was to move them to a healthy[...]in Tennessee at that time. Bill spent the previous summer in Manhattan working on a ranch for Bill Niven to get ac-[...] |
| [...]tly that I went off over her head and landed near a big and liked the Niven family very much. So with[...]y took off running so fast that she couldn't make a sharp turn bravely set out for Montana.[...]So Dixie, Mary and all went through We settled in Manhattan and Daddy bought a home there. a barb wire fence cutting them both badly. Mosquitoes were By the following spring he had located a dry-land wheat ranch horrible that first summer t[...]er, just time that Montana was not all that great a place to live. By across the river from the little village of Clarkston. This was a then we had learned to love the good points and accept the big adventure for dad starting in a new state a type of farming bad. and practically from scratch[...]ic train to Manhattan (there were few made enough in spite ofit all to feed the family and make his ca[...]oks and housekeepers. Part of the family remained in Man- Clarkston. I got up with a stiff neck and didn't feel good. By the hattan an[...]mps. tended the garden and canned for the family. In the fall Daddy Apparently Daddy had never had the[...]th measles, mumps and who- Finally after being a widower for over ten years he met and oping cough[...]After several years of crop failures, a big earthquake in Mitzi, Billy and Keith. Anna had been hired to te[...]dy and their two first children, Mitzi and school in the ranch district. So Anna and her good friend Alfa Billy, moved to the beautiful Crow Creek Valley, just a few came from South Dakota to teach the Barron an[...]cated and Schools. We kids were delighted to have a stepmother and we bought a nice irrigated farm and were soon started in the all loved her as a big sister. She was a pal to us all and loved to black Angus business.[...]oved the new adventure and ride horseback with us in the hills. She continued to teach rode her[...] |
| months apart while still in high school. Their ailment was termed athletic hearts in those days. They were blessed with an even two dozen grandchildren and now a few great ones. Mary died when she was sixty but[...](Myrtle she was called) Burrell and he grew up in that area. On March 5, 1911 he was married to[...]teaded. To this union four children were born - a daughter, Gladys, and three sons, James (Jimmie), Lester (Bus) and Claude. Charlie and Maggie lived in the Clarkston area for a number of years northeast of Clarkston in Pole Gulch, a short distance below the Pole Gulch school house. Like many others in the area he farmed, raising wheat, some barley an[...]the Deaconess Hospital in Bozeman and following several[...]operations over a period of years.[...]three children: Ralph Edward who lives in Helena, Eugene Charles lives in Townsend, a daughter Elaine Louise (Cook)[...]James Alvin never married and passed away in June 1962. Maggie passed away in Sept. 1962. Maggie and Charlie had 6[...]ng grade (Burrell) Cook, and Charley Burrell with a grandchild. school in Logan and 2 years of high school in Manhattan. I live After leaving Clarkston the family lived on Carpenter part time in Helena where I work and part time at the home Lan[...]n as Carpenter Drive and at one time as the place in Logan. Yellowstone Trail. They lived at that time[...]d between Logan and Three Forks, with I am a Corbett from Three Forks and was born a short way a team of horses, he made the twice a day, changing teams at from town, up not far from[...]were located where some Jim and Tom. Tom drowned in the river at Logan, so I was told. of the Logan i[...]ide. While I was very small my parents lived in Logan, the three From here they moved to Logan residing in a house along the older children in my family went to school there. There were Gallat[...]ie could witch water and wherever he lived he had a now deceased; Lester Corbett, 82 years old and a wheat farmer good well. He was the one who got a good well on the Raymond in Round Hill, Alberta, Canada; Alice Corbett Place,[...]had many friends. He like to Dave Corbett settled in Vancouver, B.C. George settled in work with horses and do some swapping.[...]the Horse He passed away August 14, 1947 after a lingering illness, at Shoe Hills worked or helped out in a plumbing shop as you go[...] |
| [...]Mr. Good.kind has just infonaed me that yau. are a staunch support.er[...]'-.xaursion train. When 'a 111&?1 will fight for Helana , ·1 think he[...]I also enclose a complimentary Fair ticket.[...]· you come here. Jim in his later years while with Savages.[...]rs truly, into Bozeman. Later on the owner made a home for him in |
| When I married Walter Savage in 1941 at Bozeman (at age Bill t ried farming in the horseshoe hills until 1917, this of 18) I als[...]successful so he returned to Logan and worked was a great "old man" and we loved him dearly. Especially, as for the Northern Pacific for the winter. In the spri~ ,they our children were born. Our young[...]ow returned to Clarkston and worked for a sheep rahch and nearly 32 was born in Feb. 1951 and Jim Corbett died in Emma doing the cooking until 1925. October 1951. As I wrote on a note I sent to old Jim, whenn I In 1925 Emma finally left Bill, going to work in the Pea was in the hospital with our new baby - ul've named our baby Cannery in Bozeman. Later she moved with her brother Calbe a[...]Dale who farmed at Central Park. Then in Three Forks area From our marriage Feb. 1941 until his death in 1951 we had living across from Old Town of Three Forks. a home for Jim. First when we Ii ved upstairs over[...]worked for different ranches cooking. She worked in shop on Main Street (where the new Montana Bank is now). Trident as a cook for Mrs. Birdie Olsen when she ran the hotel. Then when we built a new home on West College St. , we built a Bill and son Chancy worked on the railroad for awhile and little house in our back yard for Jim, so he was a great part of then in Yellowstone Park at Old Faithful Lodge. In 1925 he our life. Although we never knew many det[...]Peggy Savage eral eyars as a sheep herder. In 1936 he moved to Logan to live with his son, Chan[...]Jim and Mabel were great people. When they lived in[...]mostly with Elsie until her especially to us kids in the area. Jim also worked for W. Guy death[...]the Circle S. Ranch. They moved from this area to a little acreage north of Logan where they lived un[...]Edna (olsen) Gillespie They lived in the Logan area until 1945 when they seperated.[...]James Burrell family , they lived in Logan until 1942 when to Montana. Henry Davis was a carpenter and William fol-[...]they moved to Bozeman where Frank became a plumber work- lowed in his footsteps. ing at the college until he retired. Maude died in 1962. Frank They built several schoolhouses in the Springhill area and died in?????. Gallatin valley. The Reese schoolhouse is s[...]ral Park, Nov. 23, 1928. while living and working in Reese Creek area that Bill met[...]They later moved to Bozeman where James died in 1939. Elsie and married Emma Dale Feb. 20 , 1898.[...](Toots) worked as a cook in c:Ufferent restaurants for 18 years. daughter of[...]married Ed Cass and after his death she moved to in the Reese Creek area.[...]Belgrade. Bill build the first schoolhouse in Logan which was moved[...]Chancy E . Davis married Ellen Kelly in Minnesota, they or tom down when the No. 10 Highw[...]moved to Montana and separated in 1942. Manhattan.[...]Lavina E . Davis married George Hartle seperating in 1940. In 1899 Anna Elizabeth Davis was born to them. The f[...]She worked as a cook in different towns. At present time is ing year Mude Elzina Davis was born in 1900.[...]to Ben Peterson of Three Forks. · In 1901 William and Emma went out to Idaho and Oregon to the Polouse country where he worked for a thrashing crew, Alice Davis married Harold Dingman in 1929. They sepa- Emma did the cooking. They traveled by covered wagon using rated in 1941. She later married Spike Simons of Turner, b[...]Alson W. Freeman was born in New York, grew up in and Chancy Everett.[...]migrated to Nebraska. He drilled wells, worked In 1910 they moved to Clarkston where he was foreman on in sawmills and freighted in western Nebraska and homes- the Guy Clark Cattle Ranch, staying a year. The family then teaded. His special[...]thrashing machines. Pacific R.R. Co. In 1913 he quit the railroad and went to work Our mother, Harriett Ryan was born in lowa, but grew up in as deputy sheriff in Logan until 1914. sm[...]k to Clarkston and worked for wanted to make a change from town life to the farm, even Guy Clark[...], Lavina L. Davis and Alice manager of a farm machinery store in Belgrade, Nebraska, Sarah Davis. At the birth of the last baby Mrs. Davis had but he rented a place to farm . Someone showed him some become so[...]12 yields and the beauty of the state, so in the fall of 1911, he sold years old and some clot[...]livestock and farm machinery. He left for Kansas in Olsen was the mid-wife who helped deliver the bab[...]12, to follow the thrashers northward to Montana. In[...] |
| Al and Hattie getting ready_to take off first class in the early 1900's. August, we four, myself (Camille, age 10,) Clyde 7, Glenn 5 and Jim 3, and mother boarded a train for Bozeman. He had planned to homestead, b[...]well settl~d up, so he bought homestead rights to a half section of land m the Horseshoe Hills from a fellow who wanted out. In February, 1913, Dad left Bozeman for Clarkston wi[...]o the hills. It was nearly dark when we arnved at a small barn, a metal covered granary and a roof that grew out Camille, daughter. of a rise that surrounded the barn lot. A light in the window beneath the roof welcomed us as did the Burrell's with a good to supply the animals, but we still had to p[...]trough filled. Our new home was a semi-dugout set almost entirely into The[...]the hill came nearly to the eave. The door ridge in Pole Gulch out of sight of ours. The Schenfields lived on that side opened into a cellar which was frost-proof in in Lone Tree Gulch. Northwest ofus, John Scholtz, a bachelor, winter and "refrigerated" in summer. There were only two and the LaBecks resid[...]s of bare logs chinked with clay. The front lived in Garden Gulch. Grandma and Grandpa Linebarger wind[...]s were only and the Charles Burrells also resided in Pole Gulch. about 2 x 3 feet. The tar-paper roof,[...]en's daughter, Enid, stayyed with her Grandmother in which helped immensely. The place had a drilled well, very Logan to attend school, the yo[...]for house were still at home. There was no school in Clarkston, but our and livestock. A second well was dug on the southeast corner paren[...]cabin in Pole Gulch was repaired and equipped with essenti[...]for school. The following September we had a brand new schoolhouse with a playground and equipment. Our first[...]teacher, Miss Vreeland, was a relative of either the Hales or[...]Rance Wright who worked for a cattle company at Clarkston.[...]Enid Olsen and I became fast friends the first ye_a r. She[...]an empty depot, a smaller building housing both a store and[...]post office, and corrals for loading cattle. In summer, we w~re too busy to go to town and in winter we were often snowed m.[...]Our nearest doctor was Dr. Whithead in Logan. In our time[...] |
| [...]prospected around Florence for awhile then joined a Everyone raised good gardens. The Olsens and those in stampede called the Buffalo Hump. Befor[...]down the river to Fort Owen. then. We always laid in a large supply of dried fruit and plenty There he bought some provisions, flour at $1.25 and tobacco a t of apples, did our own butchering and put the meat in salt $2.50 a pound, then on down river to Susan Fork trail, go[...]ty where Magruder and party were murdered, bought a threshing outfit and did most of the threshing finally to Elk City. He returned to Florence in 1862, spent the thorughout the area. Everyone neighbored with the Fourth of summer as a butcher. He was held up and shot that summer, Jul[...]times especially memorable. thinking he had a lot of money on him but he'd put it in a pack The farmers left the Hills one by one as[...]- saddle so it was overlooked. The robber, a Peter Riggs, was tinued. We left in the fall of 1917 for Manhattan so I could l[...]d confessed he'd been Mr. attend school. Dad took a job on a railroad work-train for the Gallop's robber. winter, he and the family returning in the spring to farm once Mr. Gallop spent quite a lot of time in Oregon recuperating, more. I worked for room and[...]that summer worked at odd jobs, worked on a ditch and mined in the and didn't see the place again for 60 years.[...]ea along the river of the same name. We farmed a rented place near Manhattan a few years James started back to Oregon in the fall of 1862 but before before moving to Livingston. Dad died at age 86 in 1948. he got there he bought 9 head of milk cows and dairy outfit. He Mother died at age 79 in 1958. went in partnership with John T . Silverwood and A. B. I taught school in Hill County, married and was widowed in Chidester for a place at Clearwater Bridge, the Montana less than two years. I took a nursing course in Spokane at house, which was profitable la[...]alter Haun and we farmed $1200 and went in the cattle business for Brown Odle in the in the Palouse country for 37 years. late '60s, spending the winter in Lewistown, Montand in 1865[...]rs, then at Trident until they moved to In March of 1866 he bought forty-five head of cattle, mostly Bremerton, Washington working in the Navy yards during cows, and broug[...]160 acres ofland and engaged in stockgrowing. During the ten[...]years of his stay in that neighborhood he was buying and Glenn worked for the NP shops in Livingston, then the selling produce and merchandise, having in the summer of McCracken Stores and became manager for one in Forsyth. He 1867 sold 200 pounds of butte[...]o died two years later at their son's $500. In 1872 he opened a store at Gallatin, but not having birth, Glenn, Jr. He then married Dorothy Goodnow who had a experience in that line the venture was not a success, and in son, Dee, in Sheridan, Wyoming, going to Deer Lodge and 1873 he sold out to old Gov. Harris. Dillon as a car salesman. He died in 1966. Jim worked for the CCC's and he and Glenn served in the Mr. Gallop was married July 6, 187[...]. Jim took mechanics at Boze- Hutchinson, a native of Michigan and daughter of Nathna man Sta[...]ried as Mr Gallop's father and settled in the same neighborhood. Ruth Skands. She died shor[...]July 1, 1866. Mr. lived with them until her death in 1972 in Hamilton, Mon- Gallop and Frank were associated in livestock and respected tana. Kirsten is married and has a son; both she and Preston each other. Frank died at age 34. reside in California and Jim is near us in Garfield, Washing- In 1876, having his cattle at Magpie and looking up a loca- ton. tion for a permanent residentce, he selected a ranch, twenty[...]n, the district and postoffice being named Gallop in his James was born Feb. 10, 1834 at Scipio, Cayuga, N.Y. a son honor. In April, 1876, he moved to the ranch, homesteading[...]ngland. His father and 160 acres, taking up a desert claim of 200 , and purchasing a two uncles migrated to the United States in 1833, locating in half section of railroad land , having now 720 acres in one body Cayuga County, but in 1840 moved to Michigan settling in and 320 acres, four miles west and one[...]tain- Ionia County where he remained to his death in 1950. James ing his preemption at Magpie.[...]frequently raised James spent his school days in Michigan and remaining on as much as 10,00[...]s of hay . the homestead until 1852. He worked as a carpenter in In the matter of cattle the Durham (Shorthorn) was his favo- Michigan, Illinois and Indiana engaged principally in bridge rite breed, and of these he had ofte[...]point cross country to Walla Walla. Here he went in teen years. His public services were mu[...]ed by the partnership with Arad Chidester, bought a pack pony and people and they insisted[...]n their with the Knight of Pythias. He was a heavy stockholder in the backs. After conveying his own goods in this way, he engaged Bozeman Milling Company, and was connected with many in packing for other people, and in awhile was making $40 a other industrial enterprise . In his community of Gallop he[...] |
| [...]f the peace, school clerk and general leading man in the community. An incident in his life which illustrates the dangers to which the early settlers were subjected, is worth recording. In July, 1869, he was summoned to court at Boz~man, and t~e high water in the rivers made it necessary for him to make his way across the mountains to Magpie. In the Nixon basin he was attacked by seven Indians, and one of their bullets grazed his horse's hip, making a flesh wound. His shot in return killed one of their horses. They chased hi[...]tacked on the night of April 3, 1868, by fourteen In- dians, who tried to get their horses, locked in the barn. The next morning they shot at a Mr. Davis, the ball cutting off his hat band. The[...]ence was one to re- the many pieces of clothing a young lady wore in those days - member.[...]overs, etc. She World War I had been over only a short time and there was a[...]chers. The shortage was so great they were and a little extra change. taking students who had just[...]l to My sisters, Edith and Nan, were staying in Bozeman. Edith teach in rural areas, issuing them temporary certificates[...]d find no teacher with Nan until train time. for a new one-room school in Clarkston, Montana, it being a We were teenage girls but had always lived in the country, flag stop on the N orthem Pacific Ra[...]spend and had never been away I had graduated in the spring of 1919 and staying at home from home[...]train alone was too much for especially to become a teacher, altho several of my relativesme, so I as[...]I but much braver and willing to try anything. A chum, Meda Becker, who had graduated with me was[...]I bought two tickets and we boarded the train in Bozeman. should have in each grade so Meda made a list of what subjects[...]get a ticket for Nan to go back on the morning train. W[...]ther helped wash, starch, iron and pack all both in a panic. We got quite excited and I began looking[...]ed near Belgrade. Clakston schoolhouse - Margaret in front, where she taught She was related on my fat[...]The train reached Clarkston in the late afternoon and we[...]were told to go to the section house, a short way along the[...]We went to the section house and a very large dirty woman[...]opened the door. She was the cook and had a four year old girl[...]Nan and I went to the house indicated and a very nice,[...]spotlessly clean woman met us and asked us into a lovely clean[...] |
| [...]doctor was there patch- Mr. Stockton lived about a mile down the track. We picked up ing and[...]it was getting late, almost to her parents in Bozeman. On the way in I wrote a note to the sundown and not very warm. As we neared Stockton's house a Clarkston School Baord saying I could no[...]GIBSON FAMILY HISTORY house where a cheerful fire was burning in a fireplace and was Edgar Gibson was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, November comfortably warm.[...]t his parents at the age of about 13 years, in January 1885. He put us up for the night as his w[...]t old Gallatin City, near Three Forks. supper and a room for the night, so we stumbled back up the[...]Pannel, track to the section house. We didn't get a very warm welcome . near the present site of Willow Creek in the Jefferson Valley. The dirty old lady said she had no bed but she slammed a They then moved to the outskirts of Bo[...]this bed." the Sheilds Valley to prove up on a heomstead on Rock Creek, That bed was the dirties[...]to and following his marriage, Mr. Gibson engaged in covers and camisoles. Then we took the clean pett[...]or whom he shortly became sheep and ranch foreman in don't remember but Nan took the train back to school. which position he remained for a period of years. After she left I took my suit[...]his own went back to the schoolhouse. Everything in it was new. A extensive sheep ranching operations on Bracket Creek and large heater with a reflecting drum around it, two small cloak Fall Creek in the Sheilds Valley. rooms on either side of the f[...]floor was hardwood, white oak, several new desks, a large near the head of 16 Mile Creek, east of Ringling, to his ranch teacher's desk with a hand bell but no books or supplies. kno[...]At this time Mr. Gibson was quite active in the affairs of the the Harbinson schoolhouse wher[...]community, serving the public for several years in the capac- plies. He had an old automobile and we[...]ioner, as well as president of the Clyde miles up a gulch. Just before we reached the school there was a Park Bank. steep little hill. As we started u[...]he stripped the Closing out his operations in the Sheilds Valley during the gears. After a moment he said we'd have to walk back but first[...]s needed. Ranches in the Yellowstone Valley at the mouth of Little[...]would need so I started Timber Creek, in Sweet Grass County, near Big Timber where selecti[...]hem and carried At the time he resided in Clyde Park, the editor of the local them back to[...]kept making uncouth remarks about him We got back a little after noon and after eating lunch, the[...]old him to cut it out or he would give the editor a Rohla children and I went to the schoolhouse and[...]any of the town businesses. I held school for a short time that afternoon and all day B[...]ot remember one thing I taught. All I in the Reo car, the editor was crossing the stteet,[...]eing that dirty little four year old girl sitting in Russel's saloon. one of the seats. I took the[...]day. When the fracas was over the editor was a mess, but dad said When I reached Belgrade my old[...]said it was worth it even ifit did cost a $10.00 fine, levied by J . W. there had been two[...]de horse- Closing out his operations in the Yellowstoen Valley, he back to school. That d[...]Selling his farm he moved to but his boot caught in the stirrup and the horse dragged him Manhattan and retired there. for a ways. His head was badly cut from his broken glas[...]He passed away June 9, 1957, and was laid to rest in the although the pony stopped quick. A witness came to help. Mountain View Ce[...]earest phone. She was going so fast when she made a tum into a lane her horse fell and broke[...] |
| [...]pper Co. at Butte and later was sent to Lime Spur in Jefferson Canyon. He married Nellie M. Fredrickson in Bozeman in 1927. At Gus Gogos on a handcar. one time he owned two houses in Three Forks. He worked at Trident about two years. away. He got a job on the Northern Pacific Railroad as a water In 1933 or' 34 he went to work for the Broad Water Sheep Co. boy. He lived on apple pje and milk for a long time until he as foreman for several years,[...]My father worked hard as a railroad «Gandi" or extra gang He bought a small farm on the Missouri River below Tri- worker, section man and then became a section foreman at dent, about 1936. He later sold this place and bought a small Clarkston when he was 18 years old. place in the edge of Manhattan which he later sold and moved My father and mother met at a barn dance in Clarkston. His to the old creamery building in Manhattan where he lived opening statement was, 'Tll teach a preacher's daughter to until entering a rest home in Livingston. dance." My m[...]ank childbirth. Daddy went 56 miles to get a doctor on an old-time Gibson - passed away, eleve[...]own; Gladys Gibson Ballheim - two children, lives in Vancouver, Washington; Grace Gibson[...]and Gus's brother John. Nye - no children, lives in Vancouver, Washington; Percy (Bud) Gibson - two b[...]us t. gogos) Gus Gogos was born April 14, 1900 in Coucoura, Nofpactes, Greece and arrived in Livingston, Montana as a boy, aged 10, April 10, 1910. He arrived there by train with all his posses- sions tied in a small bundle, not able to speak english. The cous[...]e hid under the depot platform for two days until a teacher in Livingston found him and took him home. The teacher taught him some English, just a few words. The teacher's young daughter got a small kitten and named it Gus. M.v father[...] |
| a train was coming he and George Reppas would take[...]nd churchyard were full . continue on, usually a job for six men. Mrs. Reppas cared for Even[...]died shortly He belonged to the BPOE in Livingston and the Railroad thereafer. My gran[...]s was honest, intelligent, kind, generous and had a won- first three years of my life. It was hard to find someone in that derful sense of humor, a good word and quick smile for rural area. Anne[...], Dianne and still alive, 96 years old, and is in a nursing hime in Townsend. Bob, for a few years, and Dianne claims he is her angel that[...]her safe. His granddaughter Dianne Schanno, lives in for me in Clarkston. They were three maiden ladies, Frona,[...]d their bachelor brother, John. lives in Billings, Montana. He has six great-grandchildren. I Florene was the postmistress and storekeeper in Clarkston for am proud to be his daughter.[...]Helen H. Brown young. John had a small farm and was an old-time stone[...]om the black and gold marble he would get once a year in Radersburg, Montana. He Jesse Green wa[...]and also worked at the Trident Cement factory in the summer Mary E. (Slater) Green. He[...]d uncle. His dad came to Bozeman in the early spring of 1883 when My father too[...]ific had just reached Bozeman and was train on a weekend with me, a baby, under one arm and "panting''[...]her permitted, to meet the diapers and bottles in his pockets and under the other arm. He west[...]used to tell the story of getting off the train in Manhattan one walked down the Valley to Central Park where he got work on day and the nipple came off a bottle and milk streamed down the ranch o[...]ter. They re- the problems though and loved me a great deal. He loved all turned to Montan[...]les to Jess Green attended grade school in Central Park, Bozeman doctors when they were s[...]ga Green. soles on their shoes and hleped them in any way he could. The kids still remember the[...]d my teacher, Elizabeth Williams, June 7, 1930 in Missoula, when I was 11 years old. She taught all eight , grades in the school at Clarkston. She taught me from the f[...]she had six children and •six grades. She was a good teacher and expected the best from us. My father was very patriotic, being a naturlized citizen. He never wanted to go back to Greece - said he lived in the best country in the world. He was devoted to his family and friendE.t and was generous to a fault. If anyone wanted to borrow money, they knew who to ask. No one in need or hungry was ever turned from our house. Gus Gogos lived a big share of his life in a large double section house in Clarkston. It is on a hill now overlooking the valley as you go down to Clarkston from Logan. It is in bad repair and is used to store grain. My fath[...]acres of bottom land near the river. It is now a Fish and Game access at Clarkston. He had his own brand, ran 30 or 40 steers in the foothills, raised alfalfa and had one cow[...]Logan and Livingston. He and my stepmother lived in Logan and Belgrade. My father was promoted to the position of Assis- tant Road.master in 1944 and in 1952 was appointed Roadmas- ter in Livingston. My father was active in his church and at the time of his heart attack[...]enior Warden of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. A processional cross for the Sunday School was dedicated in his honor when he died. Gus Gogos had[...] |
| [...]They moved· to Bozeman where they had built a new home.[...]had been a World War and he had driven the horses in the[...]married and in the buisness of raising wheat the draft board[...]After the harvest of 1922 and fall crop in, he registered for Back Row: I:,. to R . - Ralph[...]college after 13 years. His course of study was in Chemicsty. In Damuth working for Ralph at the time, Jesse Green, Bob 1926 he graduated with a degree in Industrial Chemistry. As Green.Front Row: L. toR.[...]y , Karolin, David, jobs were scarce, while in school he planted and harvested a Mrs. Ralph (Gunvor) Green, Jim and Dick. crop up until 1929. In 1930 he went back to college to get a[...]t time at the and graduated from the eighth grade in Manhattan in 1905., chemistry department of the Experiment Station. He went to In 1905-1906 entered the Short Course in Steam Engineering work for the Anaconda Company in 1937 as a field man in the at Montana Agriculture College. The following[...]Phosphate Department. He retired from the company in 1958. tered in the college entrance preparatory course and[...]any he traveled the graduated from the department in June of 1908. His professor state extensively and became interested in the history and in mechanical drawing arranged a place for him in the rail- nature of Montana. As a result, on December 1939, after some road shops in Livinston as an apprentice machinist. However,[...]r interests, Jesse Green, his mother was aware of a tendency toward tuberculosis and Prof. Harvey Murdock, and George Shaw formed a group insisted that he return to the ranch. In 1909-10 he tried college called the Montana Soci[...]he Rock Club. he had achieved his amibtion to run a steam thresher, which The Madison Buffalo Jump State Park was one of his most he did for a few falls . Then came the fever to take homestead[...]projects. He thought that this sight was the best in and this was his next step.[...]by saddle pony to Sexton the park became a reality in 1965. Three Forks, then north to the ranch of Fra[...]en: Mrs. John Reilly there rode the north benches in search of a homestead. Al- (Mary) living south of Boze[...]of Oregon, children of Ralph. David and Dan both in Spring came and the last of the homesteads were[...]aken up all over the country. He and his dad took a day off and neth. rode north ot the main divide of the Horse Shoe Hills, past the spot where a beacon light now stands. There was an abun-[...]high. The trip to the point We started farming in the Horseshoe Hills in the spring of overlooking the Clarkston Valley wa[...]n ten miles from home. On returning home they met a former neighbor Ralph's father Jesse Green standing in the field of his first Mrs. J. W. Wright and her[...]ed, planted and harvested with horses and knew of a vacant quarter section north of their place. The[...]to the Horse Shoe Hills to locate the land. After a good night's rest at home went to Bozeman to file[...]proper to jump claim but Mr. Wolf was far overdue in his time to establish residence and lay cliam to[...]applicant. About this time the government got in a hurry to dispose of all free land and opened up homestead rights to as much as a section of rough pasture land. The north half of the section in which he was located was available so he obtained[...]f 320 acres. With the help of his father he built a[...] |
| [...]Ralph was born in Bozeman, Mt., January 15, 1923. His[...]in Bozeman and graduated from Montana State College.[...]ing World War Il enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and became a fighter pilot, flying P-51s in Europe. Gunvor was born in Rawlins, Wyoming Sept. 29, 1925. Her[...]parents were Mr. and Mrs. A.G. (Gus) Olson who came to this country in 1923 from Sweden. Attended school in West Yel-[...]lowstone and graduated from high school in Bozeman. There was no high school in West Yellowstone at that time. Ralph using the mo[...]rming, 1954. We were married in Bozeman July, 1946 and have three[...]Kraft, 3 step-children Tommy, Eileen, '1950 with a degree in Physics. Since the job offerings were out Anna Ma[...]o leave he decided to try farming. He ricia, live in Belgrade and is engaged in farming with his went into partnerhsip with his[...]perations. It children, Carmen and Nicholas, live in Beaverton, Oregon. was a happy time for both to be back farming in the Hills again; this time with machinery instead of horses. From 1951 until 1976 we lived in the hills during the sum- THE HAJEK FAMILY mer months only, and in Bozeman during the school months. The Hajek family lived in the Clarkston, Montana area in We had no modern conveniences, indoor plumbing, telephone 1917 and 1918. Anton Hajek was born in Czechoslavakia in nor electricity. We did have running water in the house: a the middle 1800's. He came to South Dakota where[...]ter barrel (first two 50 gal. wooden barrels then a 150 gal. married Anna Bouza. To this family were[...]we would go down to the well and start They lived in the Tyndall, South Dakota area for a couple of the gasoline pump to draw the water fr[...]g there about 2 years, he moved back to Tyndall, a year a rattlesnake would show up. This was the place whe[...]homesteaded. she killed her first snake. She had a snake catcher half way Being the person he was, there was only one Grandpa through it, a couple of big rocks on it and had sprinkled some[...]tures. He, along with DDT powder on it (had read in a magazine that this was deadly some friends, made a trip to Montana to look over the area toward sna[...]came home he just laughed which was fast becoming a popular place to settle, with unli- at her and s[...]move a part of his family there. Edward Hajek, his wife Toni , In 1957 we finally got a telephone. The only way we could Mary Hajek and F[...]t that time was to build our own and maintain it. In residents of Montana. Edward Hajek purchased a small groc- the spring of that year Ralph and Ji[...]5 miles of telephone line. Today ward also became a carpenter. His wife Toni, along wityh this line is still going strong, the last mile and a half. The Mary Hajek operated the store and Post Office. Frank Hajek telephone company put in buried cable along the county road and hooked us[...]arwood. For lights we used gasoline lanterns. In 1968 we purchased Middle row: Mrs. Ed Hajek, Fanny Dale, Earl Hester. Front a used Army surplus generator. It used about 5 gal. of gas in a row: Little Mary Hajek , Mary Hajek, Clara Nack,[...]to use an electric and Bill Smith (Picture taken in front of their store). washing machine, iron, watch TV, and most power tools in the - ~ shop. Before this washing was done with a 2-cylinder gas |
| [...]ill, Sadie Page, Ruby Prather, sister of Will and a[...]k and Little Mary Hajek. Ohio in 1863 from Bohemia (Czeckslovakia); in 1865 homes~ teaded in Yankton County, South Dakota. They had two sons was to become the farmer. In 1918 crops were put in and and one daughter. prospects were for a good crop but before harvest, Frank Hajek[...]Their son, Joseph F. married Josephine Bartos in 1897 and was called into the service to serve his[...]ged from the Army, Frank came settled on a homestead at Lake Andres, South Dakota. They back[...]ie), Anna, Hattie, Mary, Johnny turned to Montana in the spring of 1919. The wheat was and Joseph, Jr. (Joey). Johnny died a few days old in 1909. planted but because of-the dry conditions,[...]and Vlasta along boug~t more. They built a new eight-room house and a big with Mary Hajek moved back to South Dakota. Ed and Toni barn m 1914 and had large granaries and a silo. In the Hajek stayed for a short time building a new home and barn summer of 1916, an agent for Adams Land Company ap- for a family by the name of Farmer. Ed and Toni then so[...]eir grocery store and also moved back to Tyndall. In later and Ahce Clark came to see the land in the fall when the years, they moved to Rapid City[...]knees and with large full heads the life of Toni in the terrible flood in Rapid City in 1972. and the pastures still green, was so imp[...]to Anton Bambas. They had place. Dad had a large auciton sale and reserved only what one dau[...]ntana. The ~ajek family were proud to have been a part of Mon- We arrived at Three Forks b[...]roe Vita, Lester Woodring, snow March day in 1917, with a boxcar holding a Model T Car: August Rohla, Allison and Gus Gogos[...]of furniture. We stayed at the Sacajawea Hotel in Three Forks the family moved back to Tyndall.[...]e could go to the new home at Clarkston. We lived in a small log house on the flat while Dad and a friend built a barn · Written in behalf of Frank Hajek who will soon be 87 years[...]owa to Montana about 1894. William homesteaded in the Horseshoe Hills near where the_ Beac?n Light is located on Strawberry Butte, and includes a big sprmg ~hat was a casuality in the 1925 earthquake. His p~ace was a~Jacent to a homestead belonging to Ross Prather his br[...] |
| Hupka children: L. toR. Carrie,Joe,Hattie,Annaa nd Mary in The home Joseph Hupka built, drilled for water th[...]failed. Drilled in bottom ofgulch to get water and carried it up[...]hill to the house. and forth. It was a strang land and we felt crowded after our nice home in South Dakota.[...]tel for 21 years. They had Mamma died suddenly in May of 1917. Joey was only four one daughter, Gloria. years old. Mamma was buried in the Fairview Cemetery at[...]ng of Tyndall, South Dakota and Three Forks. What a sad time it was for us.[...]raised six children. She died in 1975 at West Point, Nebraska. The house was built on the side of a hill in Pole Gulch. Unable to strike water, the well was[...]tended school there. He to carry it uphill so far in the winter. married Laura[...]Clark in 1941. He was route bread salesman for Eddy Bakery[...], several years, then bought the Logan Mercantile in 1950. He Joe Ruhureks, Eldor Olsens and the Schen[...]ed three chidlren. Joe and Clarkston became quite a settlement. died in 1960. We attended the Pole Gulch school. Our first teacher was I worked in merchandise stores in South Dakota, Nebraska Alta Slater from Emporia, Kansas. Later, her sister, Helen, and returned to Manhattan in 1937 to work for Mountain taught, then Beulah Scull and Louise Kellams. There was a States Telephone and Telegraph. I married Irvin W. Street in nice little house on the school property for the teacherage. We 1941 and moved to Bozeman. Irving was a World War I vete- borrowed books when we could fi[...]ivingston, then Street's lamps; but mostly it was a lonely time for us and a lot of hard Service Station on the corner of Babc[...]tana Flour Mills; re- When the drought started in 1918, Dad had to sell his live- tired, then worke[...]t the Bozeman Public Lib- stock. He kept one cow, a team of work horses and a saddle rary. When he died in 1966, I took the job and worked 15 years horse. A[...]ved to until the new library was built. We raised a great-niece, Mary Tabor, South Dakota to be near his mother. He did carpentry L. Harris (Moos) and a great-nephew, William J. Harris. Mary and opened a small lunch room. Mary, Joe and I helped. After a[...]h her grandmother, Hattie Street. his mother died in 1926, we moved to Yankton where he worked at the State Hospital in the shoe repair shop. He retired from there, but kept working in a Yankton shoe shop JOHN LINEBARGER FAMILY for several years thereafter. He died at age 89 in 1959 and was John R. Linebarger, wife and family of 2 sons, Johnnie and buried in Three Forks Fairview Cemetery according to his Ch[...]daughter not being named in the history. They settled and In addition to the families mentioned earlier, we also knew farmed in the Townsend area for awhile and then moved on to[...]Mary, Frank and married to Ruth Hedges, they have a daughter Floella who Anton Hajeck, Monroe Vita, L[...]ng and the Bolts has one son and 3 grandchildren. In 1910 the Bob Beckham and many others I can't reca[...]rking at the Sacajawea Hotel when and homesteaded in Pole Gulch, where they raised grain and she died of pneumonia in August, 1921. cattle. Hattie married Arthur T. Street, in 1920, living on a farm half way between Clarkston and Logan, later moving to Man- In 1912, Johnnie's parents, John R., wife and daught[...]near the rest of thur went to Ogden, Utah to work in a war defense plant and the family. died there a few months later in 1943. Hattie continued to In 1915 Alice married Archie Davis who worked at Trident, work as a cook at the ranch a few years, then moved to Boze- they have a son who lives at Vallejo California they l[...] |
| Trident during World War I, Archie passed away in March of 1974. Ella (Linebarger) Murrey died a[...]y had 2 daughters, Belva, now de- ceased and Mary A. (Linebarger) Stewart who lives at Port- land, Or[...]families have passed away except Alice who lives in Vallejo, California at age 82 and Floella (Sara- sin), Johnnie's daughter, who lives nearAlice. Mary A. daugh- ter of Charlie lives in Portland. My mothr is buried in Portland and my father in California. Some of the things I remember while living there in the Clarkston area is the fun we kids used to hav[...]led whichever the season and dance all night with a big feed at midnight. Also remember the W. Guy Cl[...],Edna (Mrs.John of good cold milk as she had such a good cellar, things kept so Gillespie), Georgie ([...]crops and eventually had to seek a living elsewhere as the Eldor Olsen was born a[...]ht. and Charlotte Olsen. He was raised by an aunt in Denver, Eldor and Birdie went to Logan, he to work in the round- Colo. He enlisted in the army from Denver and served during hou[...]1 unchroom as dishwasher the Spanish American War in the Philippine insurrection. and event~[...]stroms now live. They have improved the place a lot. Mother mother and sister Ollie were living.[...]and fj~_l?hed high shcool at Manhattan graduating in 1926. Enid, their first child was born Nov. 19, 1[...]quake of 1925 finished things as far as children. In the spring of 1909 they moved to the Horseshoe[...]lived other places after that, as other articles in the some land from the Linebargers 'a nd also some pasture land book show, north[...]road from the stone Enid and I had to get up at 4 a.m. to go gather the work horses house where they milked cows to make a living, tough going. for dad before we left for s[...]ed, the From there to Trident where Dad worked in the pack house horses had to graze on pature on t[...]e hotel, first as manager for Karl and Velma , In 1918/1919 we had a drought which lasted into the 1920's. Hov then on her own for about 13 years. It was so bad in the summers that you could look at the sun They bought a home in Logan from Phil Lang, where they without it bothering your eyes as it was just a big red ball due moved to in 1940. Mom retiring due to poor health but dad to[...]uch smoke. No one had any working on for a few more years.[...]e) Olsen. Dec. 1949 at a Butte hospital. Both are buried in the Logan[...]About our home in the Horseshoe Hills, it was a 4-roomed log house, 2 bedrooms a kitchen/dining room and a living[...]oom that was lined with oil-o-cloth on the walls. A shed was[...]off the kitchen, an entrance on both ends and a door opposite[...]the kitchen door that led into a cellar built of logs, covered[...]with dirt and was a cool as any refrieration system. Dad built a big cupboard out of screen in which was kept the milk, cream,[...]in. There were bins for vegetables, etc. and which k[...]In the summer I took butter, cottage cheese, and egg[...]market in Logan after driving a horse to Clarkston, flagging the A.M. stub which run then from Helena to Logan. I'd[...]the stub back in the evening.[...]penter ranch and seeing a branding iron that wasn't being[...] |
| [...]ould have his part but he would upstairs and a kitchen, living room and one bedroom down- have t[...]o President Harrison. He located him a Southern style verandah across the back. through[...]f, she recorded it and it Later Ross built a very ambitious water system. He laid a bas been in the family ever since, I, Edna, now owner, H-C. I[...]ed to Mrs. Eva Lena flow running water in the house plus other modern conveni- (Birdie) Ols[...]ty) ences to look forward to. There followed a duck pond located and transferred to me (Edna) Ju[...]coe Conklin Prather came to Montana from Kentucky in Ross was a blacksmith and he raised and trained, with about[...]and grain and Valley for different ranchers until in 1908 he met, courted and white face cattle. married Ruby Viola Harbison.[...]Ruby and Ross with 6 of their 7 Ruby was born in Lake City, Iowa and came to Montana in children born. All were sick including R[...]and fed. They were Ruby and Ross were married in the home of her mother at unable to atte[...]ed on the Flannery being the nurse, he in desperation over the tangles in ranch out of Belgrade. They lived there in a tent house on the Marguerite's hair, shaved[...]They survived many hardships but when in 1923 they had The following year they took a homestead in the Horseshoe had 2 years of crop failure,[...]ot Valley, Hills north of Logan. They built first a small log building in south of Missoula to work as a logger to provide for his family. which all of th[...]March 12, 1911 is now Mrs. Harry Gates and lives in house. · Bozeman. E[...], 1912 is now Mrs. Ted While logging in the Bitter Root he was involved in an Wendell and lives in Bozeman. Hattie Mae born September accident where a logging chain broke and hit him in the head. 22, 1914, married Art Thompson and is n[...]hen they could do no more he took his family live in Florida. to a ranch in Idaho. Here in about 6 months he died as a result 'r}lis first small house later became t[...]urn to the where. The last two children were born in the new house. Horsehoe Hills homestea[...]f good men by my side, how could I make and lives in Belgrade. Ida Bea born January 6, 1920 is now it alone?" Mrs. Bus Wroble and lives in Stevensville, Montana. Our family have many many returns to the Homestead in Ruby's brother, John Harbison, her step-father[...]the Horseshoe Hills. We seem to be tied by a very strong cord and Ross brought logs from Bear[...], shale, sagebrush and rat- build the family home in 1916. There was very little timber in tlesnakes. the Horseshoe Hills.[...]f the fields of waist high grain, It was quite a log cabin. Two stores high, built into the side[...]Valley in the spring of 1918. They came from Wagner, South[...]Dakota with a group of families who were looking for a better[...]bors in South Dakota. At one time, there were about 30[...]families living in the vicinity of Clarkston and surrounding[...]countryside in the foothills. The names of some of these[...] |
| [...]ocated directly across from the Rohla house, and a post office-grocery was The farmers developed the[...]was done with teams of located on the other side in those early days. Both of these[...]vator buildings are still standing today. It was a good location with in wagons drawn by horses. In addition to farming, August .its proximity to the[...]and in the late twenties, many of the families became di[...]ed farming. He also raised some cattle and leased a section of land in the hills east of Clarkston to run the cattle Farmer passed away in 1939 and his sisters moved to Manhat- tan.[...]on. This land had a natural spring so that there was water for[...]le. His livestock brand was ARX. August built a two-story house which still stands. It is now th[...]s Ranch. He developed hisThere were five children in the Rohla family. Ernest was 4[...]was land with fields of alfalfa and small grain, in addition to pasture. Also constructed were a barn, chicken house an infant. Marguerite was born in 1919, Christina in 1921, machine shed, granary, garage, corrals and other smalle; and Ted in 1923. These children attended a one-room school at buildings. He had brought equipment and several teams of Clarkston located only a short distance from their home - just[...]ofland. In addition to the school house, there was a barn for or running water. Each farm had its own[...]hich some of the children used to get to school. a pump to fill the stock tank. Later a windmill was erected. A rural telephone lin~ was also constructed which[...]ll standing today. Some of the many of the homes in the valley and the foothills. children atte[...]rbara Rohla, and the Rohla children. Schoolhouses in those days were a Ernest Rohla, Mrs. Smith.Front row: TedRohla, Hel[...]On June 27, 1925, a large earthquake struck the Clarkston[...]in the yard, with the earth shuddering intermittentl[...]when a bolt of lightning struck the barn while he was un[...]nessing a team of horses. He had come in from the hayfield as[...]in to help. They raised lambs and rabbits in the summer[...] |
| [...]chool. Barbara and Marguerite went to high school in Belgrade for 1 year, Three Forks for 1 year, and[...]. Barbara Rohla became the Clarkston postmistress in 1939 and continued in this capacity until 1959. Mail was dispatched and received everyday. She retired in 1959, sold the ranch, and moved to Three Forks. T[...]ried to Bud Lane. She lived there until her death in 1967. Christina and Bud later moved to Billings where Bud was engaged in construction until his death in 1971. Christina still resides in Billings. Her son, Bill, lives in Toston, Ron and Ed are both in Billings. Ernie Ii ved at Barstow, California[...]o daughters, Barbara and Marguerite, have resided in the state of Washington for many years. Barbara D[...]They have two daughters who are married and live in the Seattle area. Ted began employment with the Northern Pacific Railroad and ,except for three years in the Air Force during World War II, has remained w[...]e Lee have two sons, Dick and Bob, who are living in Fargo, North Ida and William Schenfield,[...]militia of the Union Army. A neighbor boy who went with him[...]One was seeing William H. Schenfield was born in 1864 in Ohio in a family a black man come to their home which was a rendezvous on the of eight children. His parents[...]lled" underground railroad, which the blacks used in to Kansas as a young man where he worked on farms.[...]with deep There he met Ida Fisher who was born in 1860 in Missouri, infected gashes made by a blacksnake beating. Grandmother during the Civil War. Her father was a Methodist Preacher - Fisher washed his back and annointed it with healing salve. or a circuit rider who rode horseback over a certian territory They gave him food and se[...]dark. with several churches to preach his sermons in . Ida remembered Lincoln's[...]the deep sor- They moved to Kansas when Ida was a baby or small child. row they felt. She[...]do where he worked on the D & R G Schenfield home in Lone Tree Gulch, ea;t of Clarkston. Railroad. In 1908 he was transferred to Montana to work on[...]the Northern Pacific. He was construction foreman in build-[...]They had a private car on the work train and ate in the dining car which was a great treat to the family. In 1909 W.H. took a section foreman job for the Northern[...]Pacific in Toston. This was where Elizabeth (Sis) started[...]school. Around late 1910, Bill filed on a 160 acres up in the Horseshoe Hills. He built the house in Lone Tree gulch. It was[...]still standing, especially the log cabin in 1973, when I,[...]took up a homestead next to Bill and built a house in the lower[...]many years and died in 1941.[...] |
| houses available Bon built a floor and side frames _for a large tent and that winter in Jan. their first son was born m the tent. It was[...]heir second son, Albin, was born on the Homestead in the log cabin that is still there. Dr. Whitehead[...]r that great event. These two boys have lived in Elyria, Ohio since babyhood. Their mother was an[...]ok the family back to Oh10. After the family, a gir 1was born later, was grown, Bon came back We[...]farmed until driven out by crop Ed Sawyer ~abi~s in north end of Clarkston Valley. They were failures in 1919 and had then moved to Washington where used as a store for the crew building the Northern Pacific[...]the family are gone now but fire. Sis who lives in Pasco, Washington. Bill passed a way in 1968. The first winter we were living on the homestead, brother one in the area left who could give more information on their Bon made a large two section sled (bobsled). He and sister o[...]reat fun coastmg down Some who remember a little about Mr. Stockton tell about Gumbo Hill[...]as. Later on after our schoolhouse was built, in the winter,[...]being used by the Stocktons for a chicken house, an area where events. The young l[...]o the anti-room. That's where causing him to have a fatal heart attack, May 9, 1942 at age 75 women[...]who was Gus Mr. Stockton was born Sept. 1867 in Henderson County Gogos, for help. Gus informed th[...]orn Nov. 29, took care of things for her. · 1863 in Wataga, Illinois. It's believed the Stocktons cam[...]on the ranch for several years follow- Montana in the early 1920's when they took over the W. Guy[...]g her husband's death leasing the ranch to Simes, a sheep- Clark Ranch (formerly the Sawyer Ranch).[...]n finally selling to Zales Ecton who later becam~ a[...]believed to be and where Mr. Stockton died. Bird in upper righthand corner where she died, June 30, 1952 at age 88 years. is a Magpie, first name of Clarkston.[...] |
| [...]e the portage, and the other to ply was published in a pamphlet by J. L. Campbell. Mr. Campbell between[...]the lower river boats, which may not had resided in Montana for a short time in 1864 and was a in stages oflow water, as was the case the past seas[...]the usual moorings at Fort Benton. Already a town has been The picture shows a church with a somewhat tall spire, a located at the Three Forks, which bears the name of the east military post, a steamboat at the wharf busily discharging her for[...]is rapidly becoming an important place. It cargo, a section on the right set aside for a university, and even was laid out in December, 1862, by a company from Bannack a residential district on the eastern bank of the r[...]on paper. Not wishing to say by any means this is a paper town. Oh~No! The brought there; also, 50 to[...]hither when game be- first lady who should become a resident of the place, 6 to the comes scarce in the settled portions of the territory to hunt, ne[...]s of donees and antelope are readily brought down in the city lmits. We -have received the fee, and ma[...]ut presume when they laid out head of navigation, in the heart of an agricultural country, the city, i[...]spread herself." a deeply philosophical cast of mind to look down th[...]the future a few years only, to behold a beautiful city towering ((Whether Gallatin will be able to sow her toats' remains to here, locked forever in the embrace of the surrounding hills. be seen but things certainly at the present are in a bad condi- tion, let it be recorded."[...]Gallatin City was one of the earliest settlements in Mon- tana. A site was selected in November 1862 at the Three Forks From ttldaho[...]ive Missourians formed the ((Galla- ous and yield a spontaneous growth of herbage, upon which tin Tow[...]ed briefly Brigham Young for the establishment of a Mormon Colony, at the gold fields at Grasshopper[...]Mis- and had it not been for the gold discoveries in this region, souri was navigable to the Three For[...]erritory of We are credibiy informed that parties in St. Louis are now Montana:[...] |
| [...]ose, and their successors, are hereby constituted a[...], plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity in this Territory, having jurisdiction in such cases. Said company is authorized to have and use a[...]Burris, recorded by them in the books of the Gallatin claim Sec. 1. That[...]n, Alfred Ray, said tract of land into a town, to be known as East Gallatin, N. W. Burris,[...]and to sell and transfer any portion thereof and in such man- Glick, Frank Watkins, Charles Davis,? A[...]may be as- Sec. 3. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to sociated wit[...]ke up more than three hundred hereby incorporated a body politic and incorporate, by the[...]y that such lands as are described in section two of this act, unless name shall be cap[...]and being impleaded, defending and being defended in all which may be done by purchase of lands adjoining said town courts of law and equity in this Territory, having jurisdiction site. in such cases; said company is authorized to have and use a Sec. 4. Said company shall have th[...]Montana Territory, or any That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to infringe act[...]Sec. 5 This act to take effect and be in force from and after Sec. 2. That the said co[...]Town, as platted and 6, 1865.) recorded in the claim club records of Gallatin County, by the[...]ewis, B. B. Burchet, Samuel McLean A few braved the blizzards and the cold in January 1863 to and others, now owned and occupie[...]property of part of said tract, Meredith. In 1862 Emily and her husband Frederick A. as they may see fit and proper.[...]Neb. to Grasshopper Creek. They built a house at Bannack. Sec. 3. They shall have th[...]ns. From Bannack and Gallatin City in 1862-63 Sec. 4. This shall take effect and be in force from and after A Letter by Emily R. Meredith its passage.[...]or Three Forks. The townsite was laid out by A. K. Stanton and Mr. Davis. There is a town laid out at the Three Forks of the Missouri They contracted the job for four sacks of flour plus a number of called Gallatin. We thought when we went there the settle- town lots. A. K. Stanton built the first structure in Gallatin ment would be large enough for safety~and it is undoubtedly City, using logs with a dirt floor and roof. Frank Dunbar who the best farming country in this neighborhood. Cattle sent arrived in Gallatin City in Nov. 1862, built the first house east there,[...]ing to J. D. snow never falls more than a few inches and seldom lays·[...] |
| more than a few days. Game is abundant; we had plenty of[...]reached the summer. Even the speculators in city property would find there we heard of the I[...]ave alluded to, and stronger attractions in prospecting and as early as there was after we h[...]awhile we became convinced that even a possibility of employment, the late comers started on farming in that vicinity would not be very safe, so we sold[...]omprised under two Others who came in 1863 were Messrs. Joseph Wilson, heads: firstly,[...]ar, ever saw the head of the Missouri, secondly, a few new experi- Al Nichols, Bill Parks, She[...]rrel, Wm. Wright, Jim and John Fer- Traveling in an ox wagon in January and sleeping in the ris, Frank and Hiram Stone, Mr. Gre[...]. same without undressing for thirteen nights at a time; camp- and Henry Myers, Mr. Banta and family and John Koselia. ing out in the snow and occasionally waking to find one's[...]g for two months without sixty log houses in Gallatin but most of them at the present are seeing a woman's face , and knowing there was not another unoccupied. They were built for the sake of retaining a foot- white woman within 100 miles: getting out o[...]n; all these are new sens- Francisco of a Northern Eldorado." tions.[...]the trip is much pleasanter Gallaher in 1865. This from his journal. ((Up the Missouri in than the summer's journey because, excepting a large boil on 1865" June 28, 1865, Wednesday. Started for Gallatin at 8 my face which came just as I started and lasted until I reached A.M. Crossed the Divide between Crow Creek and Gall[...]I felt afraid, but after that I felt Ii ving in log cabins. Gallatin is composed of a good many more serene just as people who have onc[...]houses but few inhabitants. Jim Gallaher runs a ferry across not so much in dread of infection.[...]e Gallatin, where the our house at Gallatin stood a little apart from the rest; after Missouri commences. we moved in there, Prince would hardly leave me at all. No In August, 1867 A. K. McLure writes in "Three thousand matter how often I changed my se[...]possible. He never acted so before or half a mile above, and the three unite a little below, where the since, but he is a very knowing dog. When we were traveling[...]t he strongly disapproved of all erected in one season, mainly by Missourians who be- my goi[...]ouri, but biting my dress and feet and lying down in the path. He never after the city was built and no boats came for a season, some- tried to prevent Mr. Meredith from[...]ght of the wagon too long, he would start back at a full were great falls in the river above Benton, which stopped the run to[...]e city, once so full of promise, fell away, until a that he does it for, for I have seen him, I don't[...]ve been times, come back as if he was running for a wager, and he taken up from time to t[...]e on never went farther back than the wagon I was in, and seldom ranches, and while a speculative city has disappeared because stopped[...]uits which help anybody to do anything that comes in his line. Prince has gladden the heart of[...]shattered, but today we fondly remember and such a knowing little thing that I should hate to part w[...]of March. Edward B. Neally, "A Year in Montana", August 1966: uBut Elsewhere, Mrs. Me[...]ats and the Missouri to their confluence reported a milder climate, owls." good pasturage and abundance of fuel and game in that reg- ion. They were sure that in this ideal spot . .. they had found the site of t[...]ity of Idaho ... To every settler who would erect a log house 16x20 ft-., a lot was given, to one who would build one twice that size, suitable for warehouse or store, a double lot was awarded." "Attracted by these reports and especially the one concern- ing pasturage . .. a party of six men and one woman, the wife of one o[...]ble lots were donated unconditionally. There were a number of good log cabins there already an[...] |
| Akins Hotel built in 1869 Walt and Leonard Feistner on {he roof Picture taken in the thirties. GALLATIN CI[...]of |
| r~•~~a"~Y'_( a~· laiOl.~~.i.lfA~ -~ )·" 1~[...]t ' {-~1!oJ/.#k~ - a,_..,.,_. 'T--- • -[...]/ ~ . . Mining Claim No. 3 recorded in Gallatin City, Gallatin Co., surveyor; J. H. Shober, district attorney; Philip Thorpe, A. F.[...]mas Cover resigned and W. M. Wright was appointed in[...]promoting the new town were securing a large number of |
| [...]sited .some pioneer., ll'ho lit'ed al the h<'adll'a/C'r., ancl stay!'d .,ome tune. /Jc, had reel hair a11cl 1rns t·C'r_,, /,right a11cl w•ntel'l. Before hi., departure he /[...] |
| [...]-..o~v a-a.a__ ~ ,~ _D-:-i-fii- - -[...]c. if the hay and flo.ur going to be worth? Are a few of the many not people will pay the expense of getting it in running order and infrequently interrogatories[...]and work needed, and business is thoroughly at a standstill. The mill is frozen, the hereafter, if[...]Jan. 21, 1872: ''On Monday evening last, quite a social party son River went out Thursday afternoo[...]tana Agricultural and Mechani- which was indeed a very creditable affair and was well at- cal Assoc[...]1872: Thomas P . Roberts uGallatin City stands in a plain A. Culver and his graceful lady and daughter from H[...]he forks (of the Missouri), its site indicated by a grist About 12 o'clock, the party partook of refreshments at the mill, two stores a ranch and a race course fenced in with the Hotel-de-Jarve, where the table groane[...]iting the season; where everything was 'did up' in apple pie order ' Cayuse" races, the ranchmen from the Gallatin Valley , and and uall went merry as a marriage bell" until the party dis- Bozeman, and the miners from the neighboring camps in the persed at 1 o'clock.[...]we found more life than we night and tum it into a dance and everybody enjoys them- had anticipated, and much improvement in buildings and selves, took place at Mr. Pease's[...]ed the whole county had turned out. pleted and in course of construction we noted those of Aikens[...]r at Gallatin City - Mr. Gal- & Bros. store room, a commodious building for the purpose; a lop[...]ory dwelling 24x30, the property of J. H. Gallop; a one May 3, 1872: A telegraph office was opened in the town of and a half story dwelling by L. I. Martin; a store house by G. D . Gallatin City.[...]Thomas; material on hand for a billiard hall by Miller & Ryan; a dwelling house for W. T . Harris; R. W. Hill will erect a May 19, 1872: Gallatin City has made arrangements so that building to be used as a law office. in about a week it will be in Telegraphic communication with the rest of the world. P . A. Largey, Esq., the manager of the 18[...] |
| [...]- Oct. 22 , 1885: Three Forks is referred to as a suburb of sted frames: Emma Carpenter; L[...]day, with Three Forks, however, did not become a Gallatin City sub- Friday's purse as high as $250. urb. It was the next little town to flourish in the Headwaters area.[...]Plans were immediately begun for the fair in 1873. This one[...]red to camp out, although The first annual fair in Gallatin City was held from Oct. 7 to the hotels could accommodate many more than last year. Oct. 12 in 1872. According to Elizabeth Dunbar's "The Gate-[...]end to bring ladies should arrange rooms by way," a fair had been held as early as 1866. In 1871 the letter, for the hotel keepers, "first come , first served" is a Eastern Montana Agricultural, Mineral and Mechani[...]tock sold at $25 per share , money to be used for a overflowing. Bozeman and Helena were well rep[...]airground and race track. According to Mr. Gallop in an There were a few people from Virginia City. The report stated[...]ajor Campbell's. old times, saloons doing a good business, and the horse talk - The Associati[...]xcellent meals and everybody had sold for taxes." In September over 50,000 board feet oflumber[...]When Colonel and Mrs. Black came rolling in to attend the teams. 800 cedar fence posts cost $[...]arrived. The Colonel and his setting them two and a half feet in the ground. The race track wife came in a fine carriage driven by a coachman. Following was graded for $145. The fair[...]ing the Black children. It was also driven by a coachman. ings had not yet been completed. Their fondest dreams for a "At the fair two young women, Miss Gin and Miss Campbell, fair in 1871 was not to be realized as the snows began to[...]ver until next year ... The grounds were a pretty sight riding side saddle on their beautiful spi- are conveniently located near the city, and enclosed in a neat rited horses." substantial fence. The track is one of the best in the territory." "Mrs. Reeve's applique quilt, that everybody admired, won All was in readiness Oct. 7, 1872~and the fair was held as the needlework awards. All in all the fair was a great success." scheduled. It proved to be a very successful fair. Blooded stock, The Th[...]By 1875 there was an indication that a feeble effort was Morse; Graded Cattle: George D.[...]ound. and Keaton; Thoroughbred Horses: L. P . and A. Cowan; The Avant Courier, Dec. 28, 1901 published a Delinquent Tax Graded Horses: James Aplin; Native[...]s, Tate; NE ¼, Sec. 21, Twp. 2N, r2e, 80a Costs .50 Total, $3.43. Field Products: Carson an[...]In 1982 the 80 acres that belonged to the Fair Assoc[...]within the boundaries of Gallatin County were in the form of[...]tion of "The Gallatin Ferry Company" to establish a ferry[...]thorized were $5 a vehicle and span of horses, $1 for a horse-[...]Ferry. The ferry had actually been established in 1863 by[...] |
| A. E. Mathews, 1868 sketch showing Gallatin City on[...]rTofftdoneabout1867 waspublishedinthe London News in 1870. The ferry shows up well.[...] |
| [...]were so happy over having a flouring mill in operation that they arranged for a 4th of July party:[...]«on the fourth of July, 1866, a celebration was held to[...]ommemorate the completion of the first flour mill in Gallatin[...]County. To add to the pleasures of the day, a dance was held and every body had a good time. People from many parts of[...]bell Hotel. When a big freight wagon stopped at the hotel[...]rig available, Mr. Thomas had painted it in Fourth of July[...]colors and brought his wife to the dance in grand style. The[...]were hauled to Virginia City as there was much In the spring of 1872 Judge Gallaher attempted the c[...]mand there for this flour because of its quality, a factor struction of a bridge but on July 4, 1872 the Avant Courier[...]afternoon as John L. Ford and In 1867, A. K. McClure of Philadelphia toured Montana another man were driving cattle over it." The ferry was sold in Territory, making speeches for the Republi[...]ell. An advertisement reads, ing in Gallatin City, he found the town consisted of thr[...]aher Ferry near Gallatin cabins and a flouring mill, and the population was all Democ- City, has been put in good repair and the prices reduced. The rat. Major Campbell, a · veteran citizen of the place, made roads leading to it are in excellent condition. It is said to be the McClure welcome in his home. Two of the Major's highly more direct r[...]Mrs. Frank J. Dunbar) and living in the neighborhood, while We are so fortunate that A. E. Mathews' pencil sketch, done another had just returned from the east and brightened the in 1868, <<The Three Forks Headwaters of the Missouri" in- cabin with her music and smiles. Tha[...]of the hitching post that stood rats with a lone-star Republican came for the speech-making.[...]«we paid a visit at or near Gallatin City and found it to be[...]apparatus and improvement is in use with smut machinery Ga[...]the Madison Mills at Gallatin City. Cook, a noted Montana Company, just above the mouth of the Gallatin River on the pioneer who arrived in the Territory in 1864, was a miner, west bank of the combined Madison and Jeff[...]ings. town grew up on the east bank of the river. In 1865 or '66, The Montanan of Virgini[...], carried an Andrew J. Davis, who was experienced in the milling business advertisement for the Madison Mills, announcing the mill's in Iowa, brought into the Gallatin Valley, machinery for the ability to make the finest flour in Montana: erection of a flouring mill at Gallatin City. Wade White was mi[...]MADISON MILLS arrived in the Territory in 1864, settled near Bozeman and[...]W. Cook, General Sup. erected the first saw mill in Gallatin County. He operated the[...]Will Make the Best Flour Madison River and in 1875, when more machinery was added, in Montana. the water ditch was extended at least a half mile upstream Citizens of Gallat[...]Fredericks celebrated above all others in Montana, are being improved probably about the time of completion because for a time it regardless of expense, and will be in the best Condition for the[...] |
| [...]petition for the market in the mining regions of the Territory.[...]This is confirmed by a story in The Missoulian of October 7,[...]nowledge the Madison Mills as the leader in the flouring[...]tention to the subject say that the difference is in[...]whiter flour than the varieties generally raised in this region.[...]varity of wheat, but because Thomas placed in operation in[...]in the Territory. The middlings purifier removed mor[...]sulting in faster grinding of the grain. Courtesy: Chuck Bradwell. In 1877, Thomas bought a ranch on Ross Creek in the[...]mill was completed in late 1878, and marked a decline in the Having employed as our head miller H. H . Moo[...]versally admitted to be the most efficient miller in the doned in 1882 or 1883 and all milling operations were cons[...]dated at the Empire Mills in the Springhill community.[...]ills are safely and substan- tially bridged. Roll in with your grain and receive the[...]ve Par INDIANS IN THE HEADWATERS AREA in the Market. Our a[...]Especially during the summer the area was used as a Before the year was out, there was another change in the thoroughfare from the western valley[...]as running day and night with region as a common hunting ground and avenue of travel. nearl[...]extending from the headwaters of the Missouri, In October of 1871, George D. Thomas who resided nea[...]y Mountains to the sources of village of Hamilton in the Gallatin Valley, purchased the the[...]declared the Three Forks area t•to be a common hunting business and knew the mill would h[...]re all the nations, tribes and improved machinery in order to produce a better grade of bands oflndians parti[...]gathering who was one of the leading millwrights in Montana Territory. fruit , grazing animals, curing meat and dressing robes." ewell remained a miller for a short time after the complet- Skirmishes[...]th white men and tribes tion of the improved mill in 1872. and the t[...]rman who used Plenty The Madison Mill produced a whiter flour than those in Coups as his theme in (The American" describes one of Plenty[...] |
| [...]back on the home of his Early news articles in the Avant Courier 1871, tell of In- ancestors taking with him his women, his children and his dians passing through. In some of Elizabeth Dunbar's writ- herds, expec[...]to the Bitter Root Valley the people were of In July 1871 a party oflndians passed through the Gallatin cour[...]Nixon, who was the first assisted the soldiers in making war on him, that they had to lose his li[...]les below Canyon House him while he was resting in fancied security. They attacked and four miles[...]y, July 24, 1871. These men were the gave them a complete thrashing, capturing their piece of arti[...]intense excitement and consternation pre- a good deal of stock. vailed." Mr. Matthew McGuirk, a resident of Gallatin City, in ((Among others killed was our old friend, W. S. Montague, a letter to the Editor of the Montanian says, "Our quiet city who was directly in their path. At present, their camp with was thrown into a state of terrible excitement this forenoon. thei[...]rses, is said to be on Henry's About 10 o'clock a small party oflndians came in plain sight ofLake, while the handful of Warriors[...]d - among them my favorite trotter, Silas Wright. A ((Of course the poor devils will be wiped out[...]ws it but they must challenge the out of sight. A little higher up they killed two men. Everything[...]that after giving Howard another fight, they In April 1872 fear of another raid was on everybody'[...]een about the Indians and many families, living in exposed posi- ordered to intercept them if poss[...]other the people around Gallatin City organized a company of de-[...]rsally conceded that the Crows are more dis- A meeting was held in Hamilton to organize for the protec- satisfied than ever, arid Col. Black told me a few days since, tion of the area. The following men were appointed to a com- that they had been so scandalously treated[...]certainly join the Nez Perces if they succeeded in forming a Street, East Gallatin; G. H. Campbell, Gallatin[...]the Indians to the It was at this time that a telegraph office was established at[...]h H. ((The Joseph that you see mentioned in the papers is not our Campbell, $35; Gurdon H. C[...]xon, $5615; Thorp, Pratt and Staton, $2740. Only a few claims were al- ''I don't know that y[...]are said to have been killed in the Big Hole fight. letter to his sister Fannie. Fannie, at that time, was in Illinois. "Dear Fannie, Yours of Aug. 11th, arrived yesterday having ((Akin has just come in from Pony and says that if is reported been delayed a little, I suppose, by the Indian blockade of the[...]things from Helen ever come to hand. The package in Boze- valley are moving to Virginia City fo[...]"Since I commenced writing this I have received a batch of else. They were shipped by Stage.[...]o to firm friends of the whites, have been driven in their despera- church as both the seat and knees[...]as full of holes as a sieve. (( Looking Glass, my dear friend, left I[...]'(Henry _S harman was sponsor and they say it was a strange for the Buffalo Country after havi[...] |
| [...]ail on uninterrupted, after several days travel & a your absense very much. He was entertained at Mrs[...]city of St. Louis. Thomas's. George D. is absent in the state but is expected In a day or two in my traveling on to Helena I shall cross on a home soon. The mill is already running on winter wheat. ferry boat the Missouri a few rods below its source. My sale was a disastrous failure, it cost me a good deal to 2. I look out on a plain where hardly a mile from the door get my stock up up and then th[...]ing so poor that I did not do much. After selling a few days ago. Last Monday at 10 A.M. in broad daylight, a band of horses, I adjourned the sale indefinitely[...]kills any beef. their spoils they came upon a young man riding his horse. I feed them whenever[...]Henry Klein of the firm of Gans and Klein came by in his 60 years who was quietly standing in his door way. The young buggy about 11 o'clock in the morning. He had come from man was killed a few hundred yards from where I write; the Cockril[...]ded him to go by the Ferry though he was in hot pursuit of the savages; & all persons are anx[...]down and after the result. There is a feeling of alarm in all the valley as being gone about an hour, retur[...], not far make anyone hear him. Where Weir was is a mystery. Crouch off. Women & children are gathered together in places - we says he hasn't been to his house for a month. I would hire have six women & eight children in this house. someone if the boat would pay the expense but it will not pay In God's mercy I am hoping that all will be well. Th[...]n of the treatment & management of the Indians is a perp- ((He is said to have suffered intensely.[...]hat our friend Mrs. Baker is married. Anderson is a like grizzly bears, else mocking us fo[...]Dan'l S. Tuttle doubt in the mind of the reader that the writer was in complete sympathy with the Indians.[...]The first Gallatin City schools were held in private homes. LEITER FROM BISHOP TU'ITLE, JU[...]ritory City II. Original in the Montana State College Museum (B 57-342, Miss Royce came in an emigrant train to Bozeman in the No. 4), gift of Mrs. R.R. Renne, from the pap[...]early summer of 1866. She was pursuaded to remain in Boze- Frank- B. Lewis.[...]ther pioneers who many will remember living about a Rev. G. H. Deshon mile from Gallatin City, to attend a ball and a double wedding Meriden, Ct.[...]ur S. S. for the continuance of their scholarship in our St. Howard Stone, 15; Ward L. Ston[...]y, 16; Martin's school, Salt Lake City, was rec'd in S. Lake when I Stephen Graaten, 13; Mar[...]. The tuition of Willie Rea, 9; Jennie A. Rea, their beneficiary is now paid up to April 1, 1872. By Dec. 14, 1871 in Gallatin City items, nThe importance of Thank[...]vitation to come to Meriden. I shall having a school in Gallatin City has long been felt. Conse- accept i[...]of quently the citizens came together and in a few moments two friends old & young that you thin[...]hundred dollars were subscriood for a Free School in the town Had I time I could write your scholars a long & interesting of Gallatin, to commence Jan. 1st. The services of a first class letter I think - for I sit in a log cabin where last night I held instructre[...]~nd out ofits two doors I look fifty dollars a month." upon these scenes - In March 21, 1872, "The select school taught by Miss[...]l 18, 1872, uThe residents of this town have sent a forms the Missouri. A few hundred yards yonder, about as far[...]perintendent of Public Instruction as I can throw a stone, begins the Missouri. HI cast a stick in & asking for a division of the present school district. S[...] |
| [...]ose of this month's school Mr. Scott has accepted a posi- tion as private teacher in one of the families residing at lower[...]The earliest church services were also held in the homes.[...]City to Gallatin City in 1867 and held Episcopalean services[...]rank Dunbar. Rev. Stateler, who came to this area in 1864, also conducted services in Gallatin City.[...]By Dec. 7, 1871 this article appeared in "Our Gallatin Cor- respondence", "A place of divine worship is badly needed just[...]w at this place ... Such an institution is needed in any[...]heard from some years ago in Australia." Avant Courier, Feb.[...]assist Rev. J.M. Spencer in the discharge of his duties. Rev.[...]Spencer was a Presbyterian minister.[...]There are no records of a church building at Gallatin City so Bishop Tuttle[...]in homes or a rented hall. dren must ride at least fourteen mil[...]OAD May 9, 1872, From Gallatin City: "There was a school meet- ing here last Thursday, when it was voted to erect a good There was great excitement and anticipation among the school house here, and while it was in the course of erection to pioneers of the Gall[...]e Northern Pacific move the old one here and have a school. The school will began construction of its lines in this end of the valley. As commence the first Mon[...]Laying the Northern Pacific tracks in 1883. House was known[...] |
| [...]ong cut and tunnel through Bozeman Pass was still in the[...]in February 1882 and not ending until December 1883.[...]was the course of the day until a Mr. Sloan, then the treasurer[...]engineer, to build a ditch and sluiceway to lead water from[...]A nozzle and hose, similar to those used for hydrau[...]hadn't become a common explosive at that time.[...]raising money to keep it going. In addition to raising $10,000,000 in New York, Villard visited financial markets in[...]of extending a railroad across Montana, Idaho and Washmg-[...]two lines from east and west met and a golden spike driven.[...]o be daunted, an elaborate celebration was staged in early as 1835 there had been men advocating a railroad to Bozeman, and they also stopp[...]small children. Quaw operated the Asa Whitney, a rich New York merchant, came within one grain elevator, the only large building in sight. There was no vote of persuading Congress, which decided in 1862 to choose a depot, only a blind siding. Grant's brief speech alluded to the[...]unfettered West". ahead with the northern route. A Joseph Perham from Maine When in Helena one of the foreign financiers wired his New promoted such a railroad, calling it the Peoples Pacific Rail- York brokers (without knowledge to the others in his party) to road Company, and actually had the route surveyed in 1853. place his stock in the Northern Pacific on the market, thereby Upon[...]for such an undertaking, Perham creating a minor panic that didn't stop until the railroad w[...]ney by selling shares at $100 each, but failed. in the hands of a receiver. In true American spirit this stun_- Not until a contract was made by Jay Cooke and Co., of[...]82 the Union Pacific (known as ern Pacific become a reality. By 1873 the road had expanded th[...]Duluth, Minnesota to Bismarck, North Dakota, and in Jefferson Canyon and had done some grading. In 1888 the the west from the Columbia to Tacoma in Washington. How- Northern Pacific began building a railroad through the can- ever, the Panic of 1873[...]yon. A large group of men, hired by the Union Pacific ca[...]nts took over the reins as the on the flat in the canyon just below Sacry's Ranch, threatening[...]with an equally armed force and the threat of a fight was President Thomas J. Oakes in 1881. The western end of the imminent u[...]railroad stretched from Tacoma to Pend d'Oreille in Idaho. several months of negotiation, an[...]ek) the Northern Pacific completing their work in 1889. Sept. 23, 1883. Another obstacle, in the the form of placer mining, took When the U[...]c acquired. the entire system of the place in the canyon. Miners had heard they could hit gold[...]ast, Robert going three feet below gravel in the canyon, but it didn't pan Harris and VP Thoma[...]out that way, the gold diggers having only a limited success. short line up the Yakima Valley from Pasco to Tacoma. A Northern Pacific filed a court injunction to prevent further highgrade switchback line across Stampede Pass in the Cas- placer mining which threatened to wash away their roadbed cades including a two mile long tunnel was completed in 1888. and tracks. The main line went through Helena, but a branch of 51 During the year of 1911 a new depot was to be built, at Three miles, known[...]na Union raiload linked up Garri- Forks, a temporary one erected with an agent in charge. In son and Butte. Also another line, known as the Gallatin line, October the depot was moved to a new location. On June 8 hooked up with the other, in 1889 starting from Logan and 1912 a special train hauled silk, imported from Japan, t[...]included 1260 bales valued at $565,000 and loaded in five been completed. baggage cars with a passenger coach for the crew. The special · In the spring of 1883, Belgrade had been reac[...] |
| [...]RAliGF. T \10 E4ST • By December 1914 a new automatic block system was in- I stalled in Logan, which simplified the handling of trains, a[...]....._ __,.i.,., Pacific, although in March 1970 it merged with the Great |
| [...]ting more work on it we had a nice cozy home. There were so[...]hurt with them, threw them into the river, but in some way[...]In speaking of the house, Mr. Alexander said there w[...]room that had portholes in it when they tore it down. This Will and Mary Ale[...]been in the family so many years but because it has more[...]istoric interest connected with it than any place in the state. The following article was in the Nov. 5, 1908 Butte Inter- It is right at the headwaters of the Missouri River, and just a Mountain ews.[...]'few yards from the house Kit Carson fought a battle with some "Word from one who knows" Indians. They were on a large bluff overhanging the river, and 'Mrs. W. D. Alexander Suggests a Monument to Sacajawea" as Kit and his men were below them they were at a great William F . Bell of Helena, librarian at[...]al disadvantage. He was badly wounded. I had a fine account ofit Society, who is in Butte today, has collected some interesting that I cut from a newspaper years ago, but in some way I have historical data about the first b[...]h lost it. will be added to the manuscripts in possession of the society. In everything I have ever read pertaining to the Lewis and Mr. Bell as first noted in this newspaper six weeks ago, Clark expedition, it is shown very plainly that when they selected a site near the old Lisa fort. While at Three Forks he came up the Missouri River they landed in this place, and it heard of the old cabin on the[...]building, and which marked another historic spot in the put up a monument they could not select a finer or more territory. With a view to learning the facts about the old cabin[...]igned Mrs. W. D. Alexander D. Alexander who lived in that section all of her life and who Mr[...]he knew the history of the place. Mr. Bell, while in Butte today , Cliff House. Mrs. Alexander passed away July 28, 1919. said that he had just received a reply from Mrs. Alexander which contained much of value to the historical records of the society. In part Mrs. Alexander wrote: T[...]GEORGE BEATIY As I was born and raised in that part of the territory, will be Taken from[...]ll you what little I know. I will have to go back a The following letter to the editor of the[...]forth more interesting stories of the early days in this about. My grandfather, Major J.B. Campbell,[...]James Gallaher, with their families, arrived here in the year "Now, Mr. Editor, let me give[...]nion. It 1863. Mr. Gallaher took up this place as a homestead, where is just fifty years ago[...]tin County. It my father building the first house in the town, with the idea was on the Joe Wil[...]ust have worked nearly two months helping him put in possible they moved the town across the river on a high dams, ditching, etc. and a few days after finishing the garden plateau. It w[...]his news came of the big gold strike in Alder Gulch (Virginia City) home. I have one of the stakes that was used in laying out the and I mounted my cayuse and made the trip in part of a day. I town. Mr. Gallaher turned the place into a stock ranch and run never went back to look[...]interest the ferry across the Missouri River for a good many years. He in a gold claim. But it was only a sixteenth interest so I sold it built this house[...]nd one and bought me two yoke of cattle and a wagon and went to room had been built the year before, in '63 and was considered hauling logs to Virginia City. at that time to be the first house in that part of the country. "In the fall Joe Wilson brought a big load of vegetables to The reaso.n that it had[...]Virginia City and on Wallace Street he handed me a waterme- decided to go further west, and sold the[...], the mice got Fannie Campbell. She ran sheep for a number of years. Then the balance of yo[...]the two-legged mice.' A stranger standing by said to me: 'I will At that time I was Mary, a daughter of F. J. Dunbar but a give you $2.50 in gold for the melon.' I told him money would year afterwards I became Mrs. Alexander. This house was in not buy it, and I took it up to[...] |
| fifteen people, one a Mrs. Olmstead and her husband, both of whom I met in 1868 in Des Moines, Iowa. I think this may be called Mont[...]f are all that I know to be living who were there in 1863. Geo. Beatty, Winston, Montana" The Joe Wilson Ranch mentioned in the above letter is now a part of the Frank J. Dunbar Ranch on the other si[...]er the time of raising the watermelon men- tioned in the accompanying story. From the same garden in which this melon was raised, Mr. Frank J. Dunbar, father of Herbert and Homer Dunbar of Old Town, hauled a load of potatoes to the city of Helena for which[...]early all of this $11,000 was spent by Mr. Dunbar in the purchase of groceries and supplies. At that time he paid $250 for a sack of sugar. This was in the fall of 1865. Joe Wilson was employed by Mr[...]Campbell, Fannie and -Anna. Major Campbell was a prominent figure in the early politics . of Gallatin City, the first[...]enerous endorsements for friends he lost heavily. In 1852 he Gallatin City was leased from J.B. Campbe[...]moved with his family to St. Charles, Missouri. in 1865. The first district court was held at the home of Major This is a letter written April 11, 1862 to his brother-in-law. James B. Campbell, Judge Tufts presiding. "I am waiting the return of my son-in-law (Mr. Gallaher) In Physique, Major Campbell was fully six feet tall,[...]eparatory to our leaving proportioned, remarkable in feats of agility and strength. He for Califo[...]of May, was fleet of foot, no man could beat him in a foot race or provided he can make suitable arrangements for an outfit. conquer him in a fight. Among his pleasures was that of the[...]internal and unnatural war. We proud possessor of a two hundred year old cremona. are[...]ed his place than California. early life in Moury County, Tennessee, his birth occurring[...]ow fifty, if I could see any Illinois. He married a beautiful and accomplished young lady, chance to make a living and educate my two young daughters, Sarah A. Kain from Carlyle in 1831. The Major soon became now 15 and 1[...]ate to leave them at the convent. Gurdon is still in Chicago. He became a very successful real estate operator in the post office in Chicago. I suppose he will remain there. that cit[...]osts offriends for whom he was ever ready to lend a helping hand. Through[...] |
| It is a sad reflection to think of leaving three of our d[...]rdly be able to stand it." In an unfinished letter dated March 5, 1875 to her <[...]k on July 20, 1863 and after temporarily stopping in a this fall. " Mrs. Campbell passed away[...]places, they located at the first Gallatin City. A sister, Rebecca Jackson at Galen, Illinois March 13, 1875. At quote from his obituary: c In the fall of 1863 he went to the old the time of[...]t Gallatin to Judge James Gallaher lived in Washington. City and lived there till the day of his death." Major Campbell and his wife, Sarah, built a home on the west bank of Rea Creek. It has been s[...]a, charm, beauty. It was said that when Fannie In 1865, he is listed as Collector when Jacob Nave paid his walked into a room it was as though a light had been turned taxes. The store license was issued to the Major in 1867. In on. People responded to this most popular[...]invoice from Robert H . Lemon, Jobber and Dealer in personality everyone would come to life. G[...]ajor Major Campbell. According to Jacob Carolus «In the spring of James and Sarah Kain Campbell. In the little village of 1871 (I) worked for Mrs. Campbell who was running a board- Chicago, brown-eyed Fannie, her d[...]ith Anna, who was two worked there for six weeks. In November 1871, J . B. Campbell years older. had just completed a new store. He too, was enthusiastic in The Campbell family moved to Missouri w[...]from the «Eastern Montana Ag- Charles. A receipt from the Seminary dated September 1, ricu[...]to carry on his ambiti ous were enrolled in music, piano and guitar, drawing and Gre- dreams[...]Mrs. Campbell, son Gurdon, and the Gallaher When A. K. McClure visited Gallatin City on a political tour family arrived in Gallatin City in 1863. Fannie and Annie in 1867, he stopped with the Campbells and spoke in high continued their education at the convent. In 1865, the girls praise of their hospitality. «Entertaining is, I presume, their joined their fami ly in Montana. While making their journey main reliance for a livelihood, but they do it with a fas- up the Missouri , their steamer sank at DeSoto. They were cination to which the East is a stranger. " (From Three obliged to wait a week for another boat. Later, this boat got on T[...]rough the Rocky Mountains). a sand bar, and while the men were searching for the channel, Rev. George Comfort rodehoseback in June, 1868, from Fort the Indians captured[...]they both have passed over the river". (Written in 1880) From Bishop Tuttle , Epsicopalian, a chaplain of the House of Representatives of the[...]first visit to Gallatin City, and held services in Major Campbell's cabin. At this time I first met Mrs. Campbell. A lady in every sense of the word, gentle of touch, sympathizing in soul, skilled in nursing, almost expert in medicine and surgery, she was an angel of mercy a[...]was kind and generous but bold and fiery , with a loving admiration for his wife that was really chivalr- ous devotion and reverence ." In 1874, Sarah Campbell journeyed to Chicago to recover her dower rights in the land owned by Major Campbell. From the Chica[...]te were enormous. At one time he offered for sale in England a parcel ofland which, it is calculated would now be worth $20,000 000. Mrs. Campbell claims her dower rights in ten acres and 400 lots in Chicago. The land on which the Inter-Ocean building is now situated is in the claim as well as the land on which th[...] |
| [...]evening after a very delightful trip of three days. The[...]and after a conversation of fifteen or twenty minutes, I bade[...]seated in the wagons. Go seven miles, camp for the night. S[...]coach. Oct. 2 - Reached Helena about 2:00 in the afternoon.[...]Oct. 5 - Started at 2 o'clock in the morning for Gallatin City.[...]Reached my destination about 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon.[...]mitting me to reach the end of my journey in safety. Mr. and[...]Akins and Susie kindly brought me over to Anna's in the Aunt Fannie Campbell Tlwrnburg and Uncle Ed T[...]During the time Fannie was gone, Samuel Weir, a good Campbell and Frank Dunbar rode fyom Gallatin[...]took care of the ferry. In 1890 she purchased 160 acres from[...]. Later, she sold her land holdings and bought In 1866 Fannie's piano was brought by steamer to Fort the Joe Wilson ranch. In 1897 she had a serious fire in her Benton. By 1870, Fannie was certified to teach in Montana, "a lady of good moral character and qualified to teach a common outbuildings, including the large historic stable in which the school", sq, by January, 1872, a ftee school was opened under first United States Court in Montana was held. the superintendance of Miss Fan[...]ctober 30, 1910 - The Thornburg-Campbell wedding: A subscribed which provided a salary of $50 a month. Avant wedding took place in Bozeman last Saturday that is of un- Courier - Ma[...]re Fannie Campbell, is progressing finely, and is a credit to our past three score years. The[...]Logan. In pioneer days she was known as one of the belles o[...]Gallatin County, once a belle of Helena Society, a fine musi- By 1873, Fannie had filed on a homestead adjoining the cian, a splendid conversationalist and one whose hand was[...]has lived in Gallatin County about twenty-seven years." By May[...]ed the well-known Gallaher Ferry from her brother-in-law. "Traveller's Attention" from El[...]e and Fannie lived on their ranch up the been put in excellent repair and the prices reduced. The road[...]l horses; it was her real love. leading to it are in excellent condition. It is said to be the most[...]passed away June 24, 1919. Elizur was killed by a train at and Madison and this is referred to as t[...]Chicago to settle the huge land holdings involved in the Major Campbell estate. She[...]don H. Campbell passed away there March 13, 1875. In December, 1876, Fannie High on the bluff in what was called the Hossfeld Hills are made the j[...]. It was two years, eight always be in the sun's rays. These inscriptions read: "James B[...]e before she would return to Gallatin City. While in the east, she loved ones sleep". The other:[...]and the location of the stage coach stop. mained. in Washington City three days seeing sights, visited[...]e, Agricultural Department and Patent in the then frontier town of Chicago. He was educated in Office all of which were exceedingly interesting to me. I should Illinois, worked at the post office in Chicago, and then accom- not omit my visit to Mt[...]io and panied his parents to Montana in 1863. Baltimore R.R. to Cincinnati and thence by the Chicago In 1865, Gurdon's name appears on the tax receipt of Jacob Lines." Fannie's brother Gurdon died in Bozeman, April 16, Nave. Gurdon is list[...]Collector. He was the first 1878, while she was in Chicago. county assessor in Gallatin County. Fannie came back to Montana l[...]of the first general merchandise stores opened in Montana, ,., she had to spend two days there.[...]owned by Gurdon Campbell and opened in 1864_in _Old Qalla-[...] |
| [...]lington Frederick, George Gerdis, Bob Lane. Sold in the store was everything from thimbles to Mustang[...]t is elected, by Gray. Also 2 pair socks included in above. $25.00" Feb. 13, Sak Flour Ex for Buffa[...]nt book is from May 21, 1875 to October 22, 1875. A third is from April 20, 1877 to Aug. 11, 1877. Among the names in this ledger are John Emerson, A. K. Stanton, J. A. Pease, C. Crouch, A. F. Nichols, James Burrill, James Shedd, Jarvis A[...]enour and many others. Gurdon wrote his mother a letter Dec. 27, 1873, from Galla- tin City, Mt. 1 Dear Mother. Having a few leisure moments. I do not know that I can spend them better than in writing to you. We are flooded again. A repetition of flood of winter of 68-69. The rooms have all had more or less water in them excepting the front room but none got so bad[...]cows, hogs and sheep to my barn yard. (I now have a good board fence around my barn and part of my lo[...]and keep you. As our family circle narrows and we a gentleman, scholar, and a man of fine natural sense." come nearer the shado[...]Gurdon." Gurdon's love of horses is reflected in the active interest he FRANK AND ANNA CAMPBELL DUNBAR took in the various community activities at Gallatin City[...]n~ar, born April 24, 1837, at Brecksville, Ohio 1 a horses were usually entered in the horse races. He was active son of John and Lucy (Bliss) Dunbar arrived with his brother in benefits for The Eastern Montana Agricultural and[...]ical Association." This is the organization which in Nov. 1862. Tom and Frank had arrived in August at Ban- sponsored the Gallatin City Fairs and built the race track. On nack. It was such a rowdy town. They preferred more pastoral Nov. 27, 1871, a raffle was being held at Gallatin City. The surroundings. They arrived just in time to help found the old[...]. Geo. Frank had received his education in Ohio. He then stayed Miller being the lucky party in a throw of 47 to 40. The next three years in Beloit, Wis., learning the plastering trade. He raffle in our town will be a choice pair of Brazilian turkeys. lived at Monana County, Iowa a short time, then travelled to That elegant horse "Gaiger", the property of Gurdon H. Pike's Peak in 1860. He and Thomas M. engaged in mining Campbell Esq., will be raffled on Monday t[...]Thomas M. Dunbar was born Mar. 17, 1830, in Brimfield, Time of day at Gallatin City was often spent in a leisurely Mass. When the first legislature of Gallatin County met fashion. The citizens would "take a stroll to the bazaar of the March 11, 1865 at the A. F. Nichols residence near Gallatin illustrious G[...]ot least City the County Commissioners were sworn in by Thomas cigars, elegant brands!" Gurdon's store[...]r for the first stocked so he hauled some to sell in Willow Creek, some to court, and presided over th[...]1878, Bozeman Courier: G. H. Campbell, In the May 8, 1874, Avant Courier Gallatin Gleanings[...]on hand, ports < Thomas Dunbar is erecting quite a cozy residence. It is has removed it to Bozeman where it will be opened out in the entirely too nice for a bachelor, and we would not feel at all building l[...]ide over have charge of the Bozeman store." Later in an article called it and share his joys and woes before the setting in of another uAt Gallatin Silver Mines'' this was t[...]t is expected hard winter." Thomas did not choose a bride, however. He that the store at Gallatin Cit[...]ay 12, 1913. mines. Henry Shannon assisted Gurdon in his store." Frank and Tom both ho[...]y. The Gurdon passed away at the LaClede Hotel in Bozeman, home ranch of the Frank Dunbar fa[...] |
| [...]The quickest way to get mail back to the States in 1864 was to have it carried to Virginia City or Bannack in order to[...]he'd leave a dozen letters or so that immigrants in covered[...]In 1865 when Major Campbell went to meet his daughte[...]d in school at St. Charles, Missouri. Now they came on[...]g in high grade shorthorn cattle. (About 1880 the Dunb[...]bought the Aiken Hotel in Gallatin City).[...]1962; Frank, born about 1877, married Helen Scott in 1900;[...]An:r;ia, born March 18, 1844 in Galena, Ill., passed away Dec. 5, Anna and Frank[...]12, at the home of her son, Herb Dunbar. Anna was a dig- nified upstanding lady, deeply involved in the Episcopalian Anna Campbell (Mrs. Frank Dunbar). faith. She was very interested in preserving the family his- tory. They were a devoted couple. Frank was active in com-[...]An exciting contest over the election of a School Trustee[...]month, in the second year of the second reign of Grover, th[...]Great, that a vast multitude assembled in the chief temple of the city, to choose a ruler to reign over them for a space of three[...]Some said, "Let us choose a ruler from over the sea, one who has been a wise man in his own country, and a great traveler[...]nd sea. We can learn much to our profit from such a governor. Such a man liveth in the great city that lieth to the[...]Others said, "Why wish ye for a strange ruler? Has not[...]well for a score of years? Why not again choose him for gove[...]youth and most of his hair, and we demand a younger man for a ruler."[...]warrior in the clan and whose fame has spread throughout the[...]kingdom, and cried in a loud voice: "By the beard of the prophet! A younger man ye shall not have! Chief Dunbar may[...]he ene~y, and this day shall prove it. Old age is a[...] |
| [...]answer me, which shall it be?' And immediately a great shout arose:' War!" ' War!"' Let it be war![...]ttish Clan of Dunbar. When quiet again reigned in the temple, and the wounded had been tenderly car[...]th to the eastward, arose, and having arose cried in a loud voice saying: '<The battle is not yet ove[...]ith this request. The champion again arose and in a voice of thunder cried, 'Fear not, oh my brether[...]r the space of half an hour, when lo! and behold! a magnificent chariot, drawn by six white horses ga[...]waving above them, accompanied by many attendants in livery and heralded by loud blasts of trumpets appeared NOT, and so the victory was declared in favor of the old chief who had served the tribe s[...]nd were enroute to Gallatin City, where their In the spring of 1969 we began excavating the remains of a parents, Major and Mrs. James B. Campbell,[...]e continued to excavate the Bertrand,we came upon a headed for Fort Benton, Montana Territory. Thousands of number of personal possessions in one box that was being pounds of supplies for th[...]shipped to the Campbell home. Inside the box was a school boots shoes, clothing, and building suppl[...]ked on the frame . The box As an archeologist in charge of the excavation, I spent a also contained fragments of dresses and other clothing and a number of hours in St. Louis archives on weekends, looking for B[...]we knew very little about Fannie at the time, she in the year 1865. After a time, I found the journal of William became[...]the archeologists. The chalk board H. Gallaher, a gentleman th~t had written an account of his[...]th the name Campbell on the trip up the Missouri in 1865 on the steamboat St. Johns. In exterior and the diary of William Gallaher[...]Campbell. Later we would learn that Gallaher was a brother of the girls's -brother-in-law, Jim Gallaher. Fannie and Anna had bee[...] |
| [...]arrived in Gallatin Valley in 1861 or 1862. They had travelled[...]in covered wagons during the final days of their tri[...]Vermont. Alpheous was born April 13, 1835 in Vermont.[...]pheous first settled around Bozeman. He developed a[...]and Salt Lake. He later homesteaded a ranch about 3 miles[...]tal in developing Gallatin City. Suzanna Ellison came wi[...]They arrived in Three Forks after traveling from Iowa to[...]ourtesy Photo by Susanne Bender In 1884 during a buggy trip up the Madison to visit Aunt[...]eace, Publications for the National Park Service. In 1969, when the remains of the Sammy Seaman on[...]emoved during that and Minnie. summer, and a museum has now been constructed at the site. Mr.[...]heous lost his eyesight due to cataracts. writing a book on the passengers, crew, and the voyage of t[...]Carpenter Ranch. Alpheous died on a ranch three miles south JUDGE JAM[...]Three Forks April 13, 1907. Mrs. Nichols was born in 1854 AND HELEN CAMPBELL GALLAHER and passed away in 1936. In Memory of Judge Gallaher, Avant Courier, Nov. 7,[...]eting for the last time. Mr. Gallaher was born in Rogersville, Tenn., in 1825, con- sequently he was about 66 years of age at the time of his death. He came to Montana in the summer of 1863, locating at Three Forks where he built and maintained a ferry - the only one across the combined waters o[...]on and Jefferson- for several years engaging also in stock raising to a consider- able extent, and where he permanently r[...]s fam- ily until he left for Washington Territory in 187 4 or 75. He was the first probate judge elected in and for Gallatin. He also served as a member of the Territorial Legislature in Virginia City. While operating his ferry at Three Forks, he commenced the construction of a substantial, and at that time expensive, bridge i[...]am was swept away by the breaking up of the river in the spring, resulting in quite a heavy loss, as he had no insurance on the structu[...]elen, the oldest daughter of Col. James Campbell, a well known oldtimer of Gallatin City. His ami- able and accomplished wife and quite a fine family of children survive him Mr. Gallaher's father was a distinguished Presbyterian di- vine, who for some time served as chaplin in Congress." James and Helen Gallaher settled in Waitsburg, Wash. in 1875. Their nine children were: James - un[...] |
| The four Nichols child ren: H orace (H oss) in u niform , M innie upper left Alpheaus Jr. , lowe[...]Helen Sharman went to work for the .P. Railroad in Livingston. He died in a |
| [...]mber, while inspecting the mill she was In 1862, F. L. and Hiram went West again to Oregon and caught in the machinery and became a cripple. In 1902 she Montana looking for favorable o[...]to Salt Lake where Fred attended the University. In iness and a place to establish a home. After finding the Madi- 1906 she returned to Montana, engaging in the mercantile son and Gallatin Valleys[...]d Hiram Stone, the Rumley Mrs. Sharmon suffered a paralytic stroke in 1917. She pas- and Skeels families, (includ[...]St. Louis by train and on the Mrs. Sharmon was a talented author. In 1902 her book <<The steamboat, «Twilight,"[...]na. The low Cave on the Yellowstone or Early Life in the Rockies" was water in the Missouri River prevented the steamboat from p[...]ily's meals on the one available stove. destroyed in the fire.[...]inconvenient living quarters and many anxieties in a strange,[...]Their daughter wrote that in spite of all the hardships, these This Stone f[...]mothers never complained or quarreled and met the in England. Fortunately tax lists, church records an[...]nch left for The F.L. Stone family lived in Helena for a few months America in 1635.[...]ght year old son, Frank, Jr., died. The family In America, they distinguished themselves as statesmen spent the winter at Unionville, a mining town near Helena, and leaders in public affairs. cooking for 30 miners. In April, 1866 they moved to Gallatin Franklin Le[...]d to himself as F. L. and this will City. be used in the following narrative. He was born March 17,[...]er, Emma, wrote about the school Mrs. Stone 1816, in Bridgeport, Vermont, the son of Leonard and Betsy[...]The home consisted of two cabins connected by a breeze- Hiram helped their father operate a mercantile business and way. The school was held in the kitchen which had a fireplace several sailing vessels on Lake Champlain. Here they ac- and a window. quired skills that were useful in the frontier country in Mon- The students were: Will and James Rea;[...]phew, Ward Stone; F . L. and Sarah Ann Barber, a teacher , were married and daughter Emma. Novembe[...]and sewed the chapters together so each child In 1849, he and his brother, Hiram , crossed the plains to could have a reader to study. She took a broken slate apart and California t o join the go[...]the pieces. five months time. They returned home in 1850. This was one of the first private schools in the county held in The family moved to Chicago and later to Onarg[...]sell to the miners which brought in some cash income. Frank lin L. and Sarah Ann Stone. Mr. Stone was the third In the fall , the family moved to the West Gallatin[...]hter, Julia, died March 29, 1868, at Canyon House in[...]She was buried in the cemetery on the hill west of Logan.[...]communication except a messenger on horseback, so medical[...]In 1876, they bought land one and one half miles eas[...]past their home in November 1883. There were so many bums[...]North to her son Dwight's home in order to avoid the unwel-[...] |
| come callers. My grandfather taught a country school near the Heeb Ranch in 1867 in a cabin that had no windows or floor. He served[...]nt of Schools for nine years - 1868 through 1876. A newspaper clipping said, "He liked to set thought[...]s records of schools are unusually complete. When a school lacked paper and blackboards, he would smo[...]ow the students how to work arithmetic prob- lems in the dirt floor with a stick." He wanted his children to have as much[...]possi- ble and sent his sons to Business College in Helena. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Hamilton. The family was active in the education, religious and recrea- tional life in the community. He died April 16, 1886 at the family home near Central Park. My grandmother had a large circle of friends. She was a most unselfish person, devoted to her family and[...]omen who took advantage of the Act to do business in her own name as Sole Trader in 1875. She and her husband were highly esteemed citizens. She died August 3, 1907 and was buried in the family lot at Meadow View Cemetery where her[...]eparing meals on the one stove availa- This is a history of my great uncle and aunt based on infor- ble. mation found in the Montana State University Library and There were 16 children in the party including Hiram and family records.[...]Hiram Howard Stone was born December 8, 1819, in years. Bridgeport, Vermont. He was Franklin L. St[...]cramped and helped his father and brother operate a mercantile business inconvenient living quarters,[...]on the lake. The boys acquired and many anxieties in a strange new world . skills that were useful later in the pioneer life in Montana. He Due to the low water in the Missouri River, the passengers graduated from[...]ow Island and complete the He moved to Chicago in 1844 to engage in the warehouse trip to Helena via Fort Benton by w[...]she was always referred to as «Emma". In spite of all the hardships endured, the families never She was born October 16, 1824 in Windham, Vermont. Her complained or quarreled but[...]Hiram and his brother, F. L., went to California in 1849 - a . of their lives. five month, three thousand mile[...]ook for gold and do Soon after their arrival in Helena, the Hiram Stone family some placer mining. Hiram suffered a sun stroke while work- moved to Gallatin City where they lived three years. ing in the gold fields and they had to return home. There is a legend in the family that Hiram helped build He operated a mercantile business and was land examiner some of the buildings in Gallatin City. He and his brother had for the Illinois Central Railroad in Onarga, Illinois. learned carpentry at Lake Champlain. In 1862-63, he and his brother made a trip to Oregon and Mary Hopping wrote in her journal that the Stone brothers Montana looking for a new location to establish a home and raised an acre of cabbage, some were very large. These sold for business. They decided to settle in Montana and returned a high price. She said, "vegetables sold for fabulous prices in home to move their families west.[...]d friends goodbye and left Onarga by train to In 1866, Hiram, Emma and daughter, Mary , wen[...] |
| [...]other early settler, were married March 15, 1866, in Gallatin City where they lived until 1872 when they moved to Bozeman. Perkins was a representative to the eleventh Territorial Legislature Assembly in 1878. He served as county sheriff, police magistrate and was associated in the real estate busi- ness with his father and Ma[...]ands near the junction of families lived there as a hotel and later it was used as a private the three rivers. residence. Many socia[...]there. When well advanced in age he married Emily, the widow of Mrs. Stone was said to be extremely popular, a charming Frank Akin. The house at Galla[...]h is still stand- and gracious hostess as well as a good manager. ing, now belon[...]Crow Agency for the winter where Hiram worked as a carpenter and Emma, as matron in a Mr. and Mrs. Stovenour raised h[...]who had been a teacher, was very active socially. Then they r[...]ere pursued by General Howard. They in the Herald office and up and down the street. On[...]jawea They returned to Bozeman where Hiram had a real estate Hotel. He was thrown from his buggy striking his head. John business and a lumber and shingle yard on Black Avenue.[...]llatin City. She band and two sons were guided on a pack trip by E. S. Topping was a very ardent worker in her church - the Methodist. who wrote about it in his Chronicles in 1883. Eventually she moved into the Masonic Home in Helena and Hiram died February 4, 1899.[...]son Howard married Bertha Gould and they settled in SAMUEL WEIR Bridger Canyon about 1886. A map of historical places shows Samuel Weir was born in New York State in 1820. He came a station, named Stone, on the road. The creek on his place is to Montana in 1863 from Pennsylvania. For a time, he worked still called «stone Creek".[...]at Alder Gulch, later going to Confederate Gulch. In 1866, he, In 1897 he moved his family (three children) to Butte in a wit_?. James Gallaher, owned and operated the ferry near Gal- covered wagon where he operated a coal business until his latin City. Si[...]ied Selena Jane Tinsley Feb- Campbell in the Madison Valley. His remains were shipped to r[...]s 87 years of age . farmed until moving to Oregon in 1924. Their two daughters, Rosa May and Ethel, were born in First row, left to right: Homer, Fran[...]JOHN AND EMILY STOVENOUR There once lived in Gallatin City a man whose jovial dispos- ition and irresistable a[...]of humor fitted him admirably for the position of a clown. John Stovenour, prior to his sojourn in the Rocky Mountains had, at an early age, joined[...]his journeys. Mr. Stovenour came to t his area in the early '60's and for a n umber of years fo llowed t he occupat ion of trapping. Game was plentiful and he did a thriving business in furs . Later he[...] |
| [...]My first memory of the Lane School was sitting in a covered Bellach. They would be coming at a break-neck speed with gypsy wagon with Burrell Sa[...]out camped there many years until they had cars. A little old man and have a little fun by holding the car so it couldn't move[...]our share of road where there were many trees and a water pump at the snowballs and rocks[...]d the Lane School is no exception. The first date a three mile round trip) to watch the big steam rig[...]used for parties and square dances. The was in 1883. The first trustees are listed as: R. W. Harwood windows were very low so we spent a lot of time watching 1890, Mike Lane 1890, W. A. Rolland 1888, T. F. Callaghan, cattle drives and[...]sus on record was study due to all the excitement in the road. taken in 1893 by John Murray, Mel Murray's grandfather. Most of the families drove_a horse and buggy or just ro~e There[...] |
| [...]1893 Mr. Riley; 1894 Miss Bertha A. Packer; 1895-96 Paul[...])school known then as Thompson District); 1897-98 A.[...]telman. Early in the 40's, after a few years of sending students[...]with whether they fit the child or not. A little fellow could sit[...]-conditioning. Often water had to be carried from a[...]r by ranch house and was soon tepid and tasteless in a pail[...]cold, especially for those children who sat a distance from the[...]four miles to school, sometimes in blizzard weather. Each child carried a cold sack lunch of sandwiches and cookies. We[...]school we had to go out and bring in the milk cows, then milk Lane School 1923: Back r[...]e and screen projectors - we realize we have come a long way. and Earl Lane.[...] |
| [...]doctor, Dr. Brewer, a very austere-looking individual, and the The l[...]uccess; to society; and to our country. The In order to graduate from the eighth grade of a country Lane School teachers made monumental contributions to the school in those early days, a student had to pass the county test lives of thei[...]for each subject. These tests were administered in Belgrade for to write legibly (who can forget the[...]er- west end of Gallatin County and it was a two-day process. The cises from those Palmer book[...]lways well prepared for arithmetic, to have pride in spelling words correctly, to ap- these tests[...]-racking examinations. raphy. These teachers made a lot of good things happen for the Thanks t[...]elp Penrod and Sam come alive when she would read a library a lot of young people to realize their share of the American book aloud to us each morning. She was a great dramatic Dream. reader. Miss Ron[...]old Lane cards. Lane School lost Miss Townsley to a job at the post office in Three Forks. Walter Smith was not only a gifted teacher but also one who would look for wa[...]nd His 15-minute conferences changed the lives of a few of his Iva A. Boyd. His mother's maiden name was Hahn. His gra[...]living on Gus Bellach's Railroad where he became a fireman, then an engineer. place one[...]dparents left there and went to Whitehall par~nts in the way he took care of his parents in the little where they were living when his mother died in 1928. They took him and raised him and in 1930 they ended up back at the house in Willow Creek. Mrs. Irene McRoberts and Mrs.[...]were at the Lane School, adversity since she was a widow and had a son with a severe 1930-33. The next 2½ years were at the school in Three Forks. asthma problem. Mrs. Buttleman taught her students the They moved to Helena late in 1935 shortly after the earth- importance of makin[...]afford to go to college and started working as a messenger for During the dark days of the Grea[...]i-. the 1st N at'l Bank upon graduation. Ater a couple of months ficent teachers brought joy into the lives of their students and he got a job with the State Unemployment Compensation parents in a variety of ways. This account will cite three. The Commission as a clerk, then in 1944 went to work for the first was the annual Ch[...]ht of the Bureau of Internal Revenue as a clerk. In 1947 he moved to program equalled Cinderella's ni[...]ancy ball. Max Portland, Oregon, and took a transfer to the Internal Revenue Herzig and Lloyd[...]pe seen today, but bed sheets attached to Agent in 1957. He retired in July 1979 afterover35 years with a wire which was stretched across the fron of the room. A the Internal Revenue Service. Christmas[...]room near the During his employment in Oregon he transferred to Med- "stage" area. ford in 1960, to Roseburg in 1963, and back to Portland in Every student - first graders through eight - was ex- 1969. It was in Roseburg that he married Ila E. Vincent who pected to memorize a Christmas poem and deliver it before all had[...]or both of them. They have no children. the folks in the audience. The students spent a few weeks during the period devoted to music, mas[...]ual They moved to their present home in April , 1980. They live Christmas songs to present for their probram. A short Christ- on the peninsula of a beautiful lake in Northern California, mas play highlighted the pro[...]west of Susanville. The closest town is Chester. a visit from Santa Claus. Those string sacks containing an Although they are in California, it is sparsely populated in apple, orange, and a generous helping of hard candy were the[...]prized presents indeed. As bad as conditions were in the coun- Rambling for the sake of nostalgia,[...]to Disneyland then. The Lanes were just a little farther from them. There today.[...]rd event of the school year that was awaited with a great deal of eager anticiaption was the annual s[...]County Health ranch. He attended schools in Willow Creek and was a[...] |
| graduate of Montana State College in 1922 where he received a B.S. Degree in Agriculture. John was very civic minded. He and h[...]e out- standing farmer award from Gallatin County in the 1970's. Virginia Tapscott was born April 29, 1904, and passed away in 1973. Virginia's parents were Mr. and Mrs. H. C.[...]ral Washington State Teachers' College and taught in Washington and Montana. She and John met while sh[...]tween Three Forks and Willow Creek. Viriginia was a col- umnist for the Three Forks Herald for many y[...]s, John, Meta Buttelman. man Ranch. They believed in the preservation of one's herit- age and the hist[...]business in 1871. He made a trip to California to get the horses[...]TELMAN AND continued in partnership with him for several years. Henry[...]gave him the training telman. His father was born in Germany and adopted agricul- and affection that molded his life. The Gerdes brothers at that ture as a vocation and intime went to Great Britain where f[...]k horses and the largest 20 years he was employed in a large sugar-producing plant. and most important operators in the business in their part of Eventually he returned to Germany where he died in 1879. He the state. They followed this busi[...]r lives, George married Meta Gerdes, who was born in Germany, and the dying in 1902 and Henry ·two years later. daughter of a farmer. '[...]which time he came to the June 12, 1876, in Canada to John Conrad, who was born in United States to join his brothers, who had preceded him to Luxemburg - a province of Alsace-Lorraine, and came to this cou[...]iving near Jersey City, New Jersey. Canada in 1873, settling in Ontario. He married Regina Zen- William found work as a clerk in a store for a time. His oldest der, who was born in Switzerland and later moved to the brother, Nicho[...]earlier. There were two daughters, Anna, remained in Germany and became the wife of Henry C[...]brother). William Buttelman continued to clerk in the store at Jersey City until the spring of 1886[...]w Creek. George Gerdes November 25, 1900, a graduate of Montana State College who came from Germany in 1850 and went to California and in · met an accidental death May 3, 1922. J[...]making his home near Three Forks 1902, a graduate of Montana State College in 1922 where he where he first engaged in mining and freighting and then took received a B.S. Degree in Agriculture. John passed away in up land and a homestead and went into the cattle and horse 1982. John married Virginia Tapscott, a native of Alaska who was educated in the State of Washington. Virginia was born in 1904 and passed away in 1973. John and Virginia were on the[...]is a graduate nurse who received her degree from Seatt[...]General Hospital in 1929. For many years she worked in the[...]Gallatin Valley and is now retired and lives in Willow Creek.[...]low Creek in 1928. They resided on a ranch near Willow Creek[...]took over the ranch business. He was active in public affairs and a great believer in a good education. He was a member of the School Board for 30 years. In 1916 he was appointed to fill[...]out an unexpired term as county commissioner in Gallatin[...]then was a member of the House of Representatives of the[...]Mont?_!!_a State Legislature and in 192a was- elected to the[...] |
| Montana Senate for a four-year term. Mr. Buttelman was a RICHARD HARWOOD, JR. Mason and belonged to Three Forks Lodge o. 72 and was a Richard Harwood Jr. was born September 26, 1853 in member of Algeria Temple, AAO MS of Helena. William H. Sturgeon, Missouri. He arrived in the Jefferson River Area by Buttelman passed away May 7, 1952. covered wagon in 1864. He married Rosa Stephens in Boze- Caroline Buttelman was active in civic affafrs and was man on December 20, 1897. They lived in a log cabin which is affiliated with the Order of E[...]Forks, raising wheat oats, hay and cattle. He was a County Assessor and a school teacher. Richard W. Harwood[...]tober 24, 1944 in Rapid City, South Dakota. WA[...]There were three children in the Richard Harwood family: Wayne L. Chase was born in 1896 in Moody County, South Ralph, born Dec. 14,[...]ll attended the Lane School through the purchased a ranch south of Three Forks on the Jefferson River[...]hey had good teachers, especially R. H. Johnston. in March of 1916. Ralph was very iterested in baseball - pitched in Three ·Wayne arrived in Montana via the Milwaukee Railroad For[...]of for the Cleveland Indians. He died in 1979. cattle, four horses and a few hogs. He came to run the ranch. Tom farmed with his father. He was a painter and sign His sister, Hazel and Gertrude, joined him that summer to painter. He worked in the shipyards in Washington during keep house, raise hay, grain and milk 40 cows. World War II. He died in 1951. Wayne married Della Harwood of Willow Creek. Della is living and resides in Rapid City, South Dakota. The BUmrner of 1919[...]outh Land of Alfalfa and Copper Dakota in November of 1919, with his wife and infant daugh-[...]r Montana Hazel Chase married Emmett Lane from a neighboring Let me die there when I'm old. ranch and remained in Montana.[...]se). Wayne went into the construction business in South Dakota[...]d; Robert, deceased. Wayne and his wife reside in Rapid City, South Dakota and visit Montana often.[...]in Montana. The first Lane to come to America and on[...]a Territory was Michael Lane. He was referrecd to in Richard Harwood Sr., came to America from England in all family conversations as Uncle Mike. Fred Lane, son of 1830 and later settled in Missouri during the troubled times of James Lan[...]America from Ireland - said that Uncle Mike was in trouble and five children: John, Alfred, Mary Ann[...]cle Mike got to Montana, They made the journey in a covered wagon, pulled by oxen, he figured he[...]le and milked cows along the may have been in the English Navy and that when his ship way. Theere was not room in a covered wagon for too many arrived in San Francisco he gave himself an <lunauthorized[...], County Galway, had to cut down trees and build a raft to float covered wagons Ireland, in the 1800's. It is not difficult to understand why[...]al months. When reachng Montana, they didn't stop in American because Ireland was enduring one[...]English. Patrick Lane, father of the and located in Radersburg. A few years later they decided they Original Seven, was born in 1822. He was 23 years old when passed better cou[...]t Radersburg. Alfred and lasted until 1847; in two years, 750,000 Irish died of hunger. George[...]near Willow Creek and Richard Jr. In addition to this calamity of nature which was in turn farmed the original Harwood place until 194[...]aucracy of the English, the land was to Bozeman. In 1943, he went to Rapid City to live with Della[...]s John Callahan and Buttle- living well in England and were in turn represented in Ireland mans.[...]by managers. These managers were often a cruel lot and every[...] |
| [...]nof inherit anything, and they could not even own a horse that was worth any more than five pounds (approximately $15.00 in American money). English ('justice" was sure, swift, and harsh. A favorite punishment of the English was to make a transport (an exile) out of a person and ship him off to Au-_ stralia. This was the case with Thomas Meagher of early Montana history. If a transport returned to Ireland or Eng- land and wa[...]summarily hang~d. It was virtually impossible for a transport to escape detection since the English always maintained a wide ring of informers. \ The Original Seven[...]titiously by the Irish be- hind hedges - did keep a thread oflearning alive among some Irish. Lit[...]en handed down from the Original Seven about life in Ireland and how they managed to get to Montana. I[...]to talk about the past because it was so bad and a memory best forgotten. It could be further presumed that their lack of learning as a result of the nefarious machinations of the En- g[...]s background that the Lanes left Ireland tr build a new life for themselves and their future families in America. The Lanes have been in America for 100-plus years Patrick Lane. now, and[...]ters: Lucy, Theresa, Isabell, May A., Bina, Anna L. and Mary Patrick Lane was the[...]roctor, Mamie Murray, Hattie Hershaw, Agnes Ii ve in the Three Forks area today. He was born in County McClaim, Lizzie Callaghan, Kathryn Walbert[...]ce, Galway, Ireland, December 25, 1822. He farmed in Ireland Lizzie Moreland, Mary Minder, Nellie Batt[...]His son Michael came to America first. He stayed in laghan, Elmer Murray, Cleo Moreland, John and George Bat- Boston about a year, then went to California and then on to tenf[...]Barbra, Mabelle, and Eve- Gallatin City, Montana in 1868. In July 1880, Michael sent for lyn Lane, Annie, Laur[...]Maggie Michael McDonnell) had already joined him in Montana in the Donahue; nephews: Martin and Tom Lane. 1870's[...]Mon- tana. (Michael Lane had married Sarah Kelley in California in 1877 and together they sent for her brother and s[...]inheritance, his family grandchildren that lived in the Three Forks area. His wife, having following that pursuit in Ireland, their native country, Salina Gerraughty Lane, preceded him in death 44 years for many generations. His life began in County Galway, before and he never remarried. The[...]His parents were Patrick and Silana (Ger- behind in this world: raughty) Lane. Mr. Lane was reared and educated in his Sons: Michael, Patrick, Thomas, James and Con of Three native country, and in 1865 he came to the United States and Forks and John of Gallway, Ireland; daughters: Mrs. Julia located in Boston. Two years later he started overlan[...] |
| [...]Con Lane was born in County Galway, Ireland in 1858. As a[...]young boy he worked the coal docks in Liverpool, England.[...]Mary McDonnell, he came to the Three Forks area in 1880 via[...]some other land in the valley from George , which is where Leo[...]and Ann Kelley in 1882. She was born in Bally Vaghun, County Gal-[...]way, Ireland in 1864. (She came to Montana because of the Callagh[...]Elk Horn to sell to the miners. This was usually a two-day trip. Lane, Buck Callaghan, Fern, Mable,[...]Our Sunday's usually started out with a trip to Old Town Utah was rea~hed and passe<l_Two[...]where the first Catholic Church was and then a picnic at the attacked by Indians, but the attack[...]Melissa Green Place, in Willow Creek , which meant a race serious results followed. After spending- eight months in with our mules[...]ana, and started in the area. We would be hanging on for dear life as[...]; and each of his four brothers has also taken up a ranch in the neighborhood. Michael was married March 18, 1[...]ran- cis and Edward. A MEMORY Written by Josephine Lane on a Sunday, January 13, 1905, while recovering from T[...]thways Others left us mourning here. And today in memories fancy I can picture one so dear. With her loving words of welcome And a loving smile to cheer. 'Tis true indeed and oft r[...]OF JOSEPHINE LAND AND LOUIS GRACE Josephine is a daughter of Sara and Michael Lane Francis[...] |
| [...]dad and John Lane (Country John) went to town for a load of grasshopper poison (when they were at the[...]t got poisoned. One fall while thrashing grain, a spark from the steam engine set the grain on fire[...]tire crop. Paul Pattee, who ran the grocery store in Old Twon gave Granddad and Grandma credit for an[...]C. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1932 and lived in the same place at the ranch for 51 years. John Lane married Mamie Beatty in 1913, Mike Lane mar- ried Grace Potter in 1911, Lizzie married John Moreland in 1909, May married Rowland Young in the 1920's and James C. never married. Con Lane[...]F MICHAEL FRANCIS LANE Michael F. Lane was born in 1884 on the Lane homestead southwest of Three For[...]ane School. When Mike was young he used to ride in roundups with Johnny and Charlie Murray, Willie a[...]n the south bench, Willie Harwood was run over by a horse stam- Michael and Grace Lane. pede; Johnny Murray rode to Dry Hollow to get a boot full of water to bring Willie around. The tr[...]undtrip and who knows what condition the boot was in. Mike homesteaded out at Shody Springs and also drove a his father , Con Lane, was injured he returned to[...]furnished the survey team He married Grace Potter in 1911. She was born in Potter, for the Milwaukee Railroad when it came into the valley. He Kansas, in 1888, and moved toMulhall,Oklahoma about 1890.· worked on a bridge gang for the Northern Pacific Railroad She taught school in Wen.a tchee, Washington and came to the with Tom Mongol[...]Forks area because her brother Frank was working in Ernest Roe who ran the butcher shop in Three Forks. When Trident.[...] |
| She·was a clerk at the Lane School District in Three Forks HISTORY OF EARL[...]when graduated from Three Forks High School in 1933. she died in August, 1933, at the age of 45. Michael died May[...]lmost died. The winter of 1919 started very early in the Potter Lane on July 27, 1913. I started schoo[...]into spring. We couldn't get hay, and what School in 1919, but it being such a bad winter I missed a lot of we could get was shipped in from Minnesota at $50 for slough school. My mother had been a teacher so she hleped me keep grass hay.[...]to poison them but only succeeded in killing birds and prairie I started high school at Three Forks in 1927 and this was my chickens. On June 22, 192[...]n earthquake and first experience away from home. In those days, transporation everyone was worri[...]children my age was the horse and buggy or riding a horse all went to the South Bench until we heard the dam had held. so I stayed in town with Uncle Jack and Aunt Mayme Lane. I Then in 1926, the Wise River dam broke and the Jefferson[...]ould River flooded wiping out all the crops in the lowland. The dry go home.[...]1933). The night the house burned down a visitor was there[...]named Louis Louich. He quickly started a bucket brigade from[...]d Earl Lane. Opal Lane Cunningham family. In 1934, I married Art Stephens and we moved to Big |
| [...]In 1942 I married Dale Cass of Harlowton while he was in[...]tana in 1946. We have two sons and a daughter. They[...]Bell Laboratories as a statistician. He married Shelly Forsyth[...]of GreatFalls, and they have a daughter and a son. (Our only[...]Forest Service in Range Management. Patti got her degree in teaching and taught three years and[...]She is teaching this year in Charlo. Dale was a Rural Mail Carrier out of Worden and retired Earl[...]Eugene M. Lane was born July 22, 1923 in Lane Settlement. I married Adeline (Lonnie) Miluck in 1940. She was born in He attended grade school at the Lane Schoolhouse and high Bismarck, North Dakota and attended schools in Mandan. school at Three Forks, and graduated in 1941. He was emp- She came to Montana in 1940. loyed by Northern Pacific Railway in 1941,joined the army in 1943 and returned from -overseas in Feb. 1946, when he re- I hired out on the Milwaukee Railroad in 193~ and t~ok the sumed working for the Nort[...]he same last train from Three Forks to Harlowtown in March 1980 as year. the Milwaukee closed o[...]In 1949 he married Betty Lou Tomcheck at Townsend, Mon- We have three children: Claudia Boyd who lives in Steam- tana. Their children are : Bradley who is married and living in boat Springs, Colorado and has four children: Alic~a, .Clay, Bozeman; Shelley (Mrs Thomas Kuenning) who is living in Curt and Aaron; Gordon; who is living in Roselle, Illmo1s has Great Falls and has one[...]nd is Terminal M~na~er for the and living in Casper, Wyoming and has one child, Kira; Milwauke[...]elena Shireen who is unmarried and living in Great Falls. has a son named Lane, Janice works for the State Depart[...]thers (Earl, Gene and Leo) all of Three Forks and a Lane, was born on January 16, 1929. He grew up an[...]ster Opal of Big Timber. I was born and raised on a ranch five[...] |
| [...]age of 18, he began his cattle buying career and in 1961 became a part owner of the Montana Livestock Auction Com- pany in Butte. Through the years, Leo acquired six homes- teads in addition to the home ranch and made them part of[...]ee Forks. He married Florence Smet of Anaconda in 1954. Florence's parents, Charles and Emily Prett[...]orge, and Chelsey Olson. Leo made his first bid in politics, and after a convincing win in the primary, he defeated the incumbant for the State Senatorial Seat in District 40. Alf[...]Minder in chair. First row, left to right: Mary , Betty McM[...]Forks Pioneers. He is currently an active member in Harold, Dorothy Shephard. Youngest son, James, wa[...]Lane in the area around Moylough, County Galway , Ireland[...]The names of the children in this family were: Michael, Pat-[...]August 15, Sabina Lane died and was buried in Ireland before the 1860. It has not been possible[...]ation. family emigrated to America. John remained in Ireland since[...]been lost. There are two Lanes in St . Patrick's parish,[...]Thomas and his father, Patrick, come to America in May or[...]the earnings of two brothers who worked in the shipyards in[...]Thomas worked for the established ranchers in the Three[...]earned a well deserved reputation as good and willing work[...]records show Ellen as being born in County Galway , Ireland (no name of a town or village). Another record says she was[...]born in Dublin, Ireland. It is known that she came to Ame[...]as a young girl and resided in New York for some seven years[...]ever told any details of her life in Ireland , New York, or what[...]not have any brothers or sisters or relatives in Montana. In Bozeman, at Holy Rosary Church, May 5, 189[...] |
| [...]898; George, July 10, 1900. One female child died in infancy and was buried near the home Thomas and E[...]the birth and death of this baby are unknown. In farming the 320 acres of his ranch, Thomas raised hay and the usual grain crops. He did run a few cattle which he branded with the TL brand. Ranching and farming in those days was a tough proposition at best since all the farm mach[...]November 25, 1916 at home. The cause of death was a paralytic stroke. Her funeral Mass was at Holy Fa[...]e. Thomas B. and Ellen Dempsey Lane are buried in the north section of Fairview Cemetery, Three For[...]years at Lane School was his stated dislike for a Mr. Johnson, Thomas and Ellen Dempsey Lane.[...]severe with his Emmett was born and raised on a ranch south of Three younger brother, G[...]ed the Lane School. High School in Bozeman. Emmett married Hazel Chase of Wentwor[...]dnesday, July 2, 1924, Elizabeth Finnegan stepped in January of 1917. They lived on rnaches in the down on the red bricks of th[...]Joseph, Tulare, California. Hazel has resided in Belgrade for many years. Emmett died in December, 1959 and many grandchildren and great g[...]the same ranch. He attended Lane School which was a log cabin located near the gate to the ranch pres[...]. He completed his schooling at the Lane School - a newer frame building which is now owned by[...] |
| Forks at the end of a 2-day, 2-night train ride from Chicago. next, for[...]ta; She was to enter the life of John C. Lane at a later date . and finally , for Oswald Strand, Man[...]begins with her birth on February 1, 1901; A grand event in t he lives of John and Elizabeth was the parents were John and Ann Moran Finnegan in Ballybeg, celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary in Bozeman on Ballhaunis, County Mayo , Ireland. Sh[...]John, Thomas, Owen, and Michael. South 8th Avenue in Bozeman. After her father died, Elizabeth decide[...]mber 7, 1956. His funeral Mass was celebrated by in 1921 and never saw her mother again. She did not[...]marriage on August 20, 1960, to William E. Daly, a widower relatives in Philadelphia and then on to Chicago to join[...]ife had eight children: Mary Elizabeth secured a job as a housekeeper ,cook and maid, (Theisen), Margaret (Foulkes), Alice (Davis), Agnes with a Horowitz family in Chicao. Mr. Horowitz was transfer- (Greiner), Ros[...]ed his family there , Fifty new grandchildren and a host of great grandchildren ·Elizabeth went alon[...]Electric, 2200 S. Cicero Av- Bill was a fruit farmer who in addition to raising peaches enue, Chicago, Illin[...]County, Michigan. In June, 1924, Elizabeth made plans to travel to Mon[...], Elizabeth, and Tom Finnegan traveled to Ireland in see her brother, Thomas (Tom), whom she had not[...]is is the reason she stepped aown from the train in Three Forks in July, 1924. Tom Finnegan met Bill[...]Willow Creek to his ranch on the west side alone in Michigan, Elizabeth decided to return to Montana in of the Jefferson River. The next day, riding a saddle horse for August, 1979. She lives (as of September 9, 1982) in a house the first time, she joined Tom in looking for stray cattle. once owned by James and[...]re her specialty and she has young Irish colleen in the days ahead and when she returned done upwards of 80 of them. to Chicago in late August, he followed not long after. John -worked in the packing houses in the Chicago Stockyards from October to December,[...]McNeela and John Joe Lane) Finnegan. (Ellen was a very close friend of Elizabeth's and Life[...]and his brother, George, continued to operate the a part of the Raymond Tocci property. ranch togeth[...]moved to Dillon, Montana and Arnold was enrolled in Rosary High School, Bozeman, in Sep- settled there. Four children were born to John and Elizabeth. tember 1940 for the necessary schooling in religion and Latin. Their names and birth ates a[...]ales to evening May 19, 1944. satisfy creditors. In the dark time of these depression years, After a two-month stint in the yard office of the Milwaukee Elizabeth helpe[...]Harlowton, Montana , Arnold left to try to enlist in the conquering of his love for alcohol. She was his staunch the Army in August, 1944. He was rejected for poor eyesight support and his success in life was due in large part to her. In only to be drafted in December 1944, after the Battle of the addition to ranching, John turned more and more to buying Bulge in Europe. Between August and December 1944, he and selling livestock. A heart attack in 1939 ended his days of started to feed 150 calves[...]buyer for Rice winter. When the calves were sold in the spring of 1945, the Brothers Commiss[...] |
| [...]Arnold, at Rosary High School, Buzeman, in September, 1942 sent back to the United States at[...]Schwab were first cousins.) Laura graduated from in September 1946 at Carroll College, Helena, Montana. In Rosary High School in May, 1946. August, 1948, he transferred to Holy C[...]oined Lorraine Menard at Elsie Dame, Indiana, and in 1949 transferred to the University of Tinsley's Beauty Shop to learn the beautician business. In Notre Dame to secure a degree in English. Graduation from early June, Lor[...].ciates Discount U .S. Marine Corp. Division in the South Pacific campaign of Corporation (automo[...]the winter of 1946-47. He then worked as a bulldozer operator ager. He left Associates on September 30, 1957 to work until on a construction project at Ennis, Montana. Laura and Larry May 1, 1959 as a salesman for the Fred Emich Ford dealership became the parents of John Raymond Menard on Thrusday , in Joliet, Illinois. The summer of 1959 was spent as a Culligan October 30, 1947 at the Bozeman Deaco[...]ed on November 11, 1947, when Larry teacher began in September, 1959 at Washington Junior High was killed in a jeep accident in the West Yellowstone area School, Joliet; seven y[...]ulty at Lock- while on an elk hunting trip with a friend. port West High School which is now known[...]th Laur's parents at Three High School because of a change in school district. He plans on Forks. In the summer of 1948, Laura went to work for Brooke retiring from teaching in June , 1992. Hartman[...]Lane, Bozeman. Lloyd worked with his father, Ray, in Montana were the maid of honor and best man.[...]gas station on East Main St., Bozeman. Lloyd has a Monday, December 7, 1953, Richard Kevin was born to sister, Barbara, and a brother, George . Lloyd and Laura were Ginny and[...]dearlerships as a salesman or service manager. He is now a Ginny's parents were, Bond and Mabel Young Mars[...]Frank, George , Laura and Lloyd are living in Great Falls, Montana (as of Lawrence , John, Bruc[...]deen , Chicago, IL. , 431 - 176th Court, Hammond, IN; 1219 Kelly, Joliet, IL. ; 1218 Kelly , Joliet, I[...]an, Montana. He received his highs school diploma in Laura was born at Three Forks Hospital o[...] |
| [...]their ranch at Three Forks. John worked in the cafeteria at the Malstrom Ari Force Base. Mar[...]in of Alabama who was stationed at winter quarter in March, 1971 with a Bachelor's Degree in Malmstrom Air Faroe Base. Wayde is on th[...]for the security of our missiles in the Great Falls area. Marla John's college days were followed by a tour of duty with the and Wayde were married in GreatFails on September 19, U.S. Army from Octobe[...]gust, 1973. He was 1981. They now have a family of four, with Wayde's three assigned to the adjutant general department of the Army in daughters, Sara, Ellen and Jenny. Germany as a chief investigator. It was John's job to check ou[...]listed men and officers of the base. While he was in Germany, he flew to Ireland to visit the[...]lizabeth Finnegan did some sightseeing and skiing in Switzerland and Austria. Lane Daly; Grands[...]life, John worked for Larry Lane) Merkel (a high school classmate) at the Round House (a ski Thomas (Tom) was the only child to be born at home, to John and sports store) in Bozeman. He worked for Larry from Au- and Elizabeth, on December 4, 1929. While still a student at gust, 1973 to February, 1981. Lane School in 1940, he contracted polio in his right arm and John became engaged to Nance[...]nor and was allowed to come home for good in March, 1941. Tom best man. Nance's parents are Je[...]re Tom graduated from Lane School in May 1943 and enrolled Ranch up the Madison. CUp the Madison" is the name used by as a freshman at Rosary High School, Bozeman, that Fall. He the people in the Three Forks area for the valley south of enjoyed a terrific high school career and earned a four-year Interstate 90 and along the Madison Riv[...], Bozeman, Tom followed his dad into the world of a him right along with her when she is helping with the cattle. livestock buyer and trader in the summer of 1948. His first John commuted to[...]He then joined Nance, Jess and Sis thus a successful career was launched. Tom mixed study and Kilgore, and MariLee Cope in the operation of the Kilgore livestock t[...]learning all about breeding and raising be a full time cattle buyer. He has one quarter of stu[...]finish for a degree from Montana State. Victoria (Vickie) M[...]er high school diploma Alberta, Canada. In July, 1959, Mary Ann Leverick of Kipp, from Rosary in May 1968. After high school graduation Vickie[...]ntroduced to his family as Tom's fiance. enrolled in the Kinman Business School, Spokane, Washing- Mary was working in Lethbridge, Alberta as a secretary in a ton. During her year in Spokane, Vickie met Sgt. Douglas health unit, and actually met Tom through a roommate with Brown who was stationed at Fairchil[...]Leverick. September 19, 1969. This marriage ended in divorce. Vickie is Fred was born in the Ukraine (now Ukrainian Soviet Socialist now married to Michael Rice and they are living in Great Republic) on June 25, 1887 and em[...]in 1908. He went on to Canada in 1909. Annie was born in Vickie has worked in the accounting department for a re- Czechoslovakia on September 23, 1908. Fred and Annie were staurant chain in Tustin, California; for the police department married in Canada on February 5, 1930 and raised their in ElCagjon, California, in the accounting office of Big Sky family on a grain farm at Kipp, Alberta. Their children were: Corporation, Big Sky, Montana, and is now working as a Helen Jane, born April 17, 1932; Ann[...]pril 16, 1940. the managers for the K-Mart store in Great Falls. Tom and Mary were[...]or and best man. High School where she graduated in May, 1973. In the 1950's, Tom and his brother, Robert, teamed u[...]ip. Robert did the farming and Carolina, who was in the U.S. Air Force and stationed at cat[...]eveloped the ranches they bought. April 25, 1975 in Great Falls. After Quintin's enlistment was When Tom's mother married Bill Daly in 1960 and moved to up, he and Marla moved to North Crolina. In an effort to find a Michigan, Tom and Mary moved into the o[...] |
| third set of Lane children to live in the home built by Thomas grandson of John Cor[...]B. and The homes of Tom and Robert were within a few feet of each Ellen Dempsey Lane; great-[...]son of Patrick other on the "home" ranch. Wanting a ranch of his own, Tom's and Sabina Garrity Lane) search ended in December, 1972 with the purchase of the[...]on the north side of the Forks, graduating in May, 1973 from Three Forks High Yellowstone River[...]enrolled at Montana State University at Bozeman in Sep- ROBERT DONALD LANE tember, 1973 to secure a bachelor's degree in plant and soil (Son of John Cornelius Lane and El[...]with the ranch work. He was awarded his degree in 1978. Lane)[...]April 24, 1982 at the Peach Lutheran Church-in Billings. Mrs. 8, 1931 and was baptized at Holy F[...]honor and best man. Cindy was born July 11, 1957 in Billings. (Roberts) and James J. Lane (of City Me[...]n and Joyce Schneidt Schlecht and Cindy's was but a few months old when his mother became very ill an[...]Cindy graduated from Billings Senior High School in tana. He was entrusted to the care of Michael F.[...]May, 1975 and from Montana State University in 1979 with a Potter Lane for a number of months. He was with Michael and degree in business management. She is presently working for[...]nez, thought of him as her First National Bank in Bozeman. brother and did not want to see him go home when Elizabeth Michael joined his father in the operation of the Table was well enough to car[...]raduation from Mon- Robert entered Lane School in 1937 and remained there tana State. He and Cindy are living in a new home which they through sixth grade in 1943. He graduated from Rosary Grade built near Three Forks. School, Bozeman, in 1945, and from Rosary High School in 1949. He studied for one year (1949-50) at Montana State College, Bozeman. He then decided to become a full time BINA LANE[...]e and his brother, Tom, operated their ranchlands in granddaughter of Patrick and Sabina Lane) partnership for a number of years.[...], as was the custom Robert met Carol Ann Toner in high school; Carol of those days, s[...]Forks Hospital graduated from Rosary High School in 1950 and then enrolled did not exist until 20 years later. in the Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing, Spokane, Bina married Willis Albro, a widower; on March 20, 1920 in Washington, in August, 1950. Carol graduated from Sacred[...]ard Examination for her regis- who had died in 1919. Willis and Florida had one daughter, tered nurse degree in the summer of 1953. Robert and Carol Rena[...]ead and Tom Lane were their ranch was in the Galen Springs area. In the late 1920's they maid of honor and best man. bought a ranch which is a mile west across the fields from the Carol's p[...]Their ranch is no longer owned by the now living in Helena, Montana. family. Since Robert's parents were living in the original home on Bina and Willis had e[...]es An- Forks mthe 1920's. It was transformed into a comfortable nabel, April 9, 1926; Agnes[...]Bina died on June 18, 1961 and is buried in the Mount Green November 8, 1954, baptized Novemb[...], 1957, baptized March 17, 1957; buried in the cemetery at Harrison, Montana. Brian Patrick,[...]24, apple and plum orchard. This orchard was a favorite summer- 1966. All four children were bap[...]was chosen to be president of and nephews in August. It took many, many currants to fill a that group several times. milk pail, but the tasty jelly on a piece of fresh, homemade[...]ranch. The cattle were pastured in the hills south of the ranch (Son of Rober[...] |
| [...]born on July 29, 1917, in Helena, Montana) on September 19,[...]and children live in Helena, Montana. Dan is the first name of[...]ol Ann's husband. They have two children and live in[...]Grade and High Schools. He is a veteran of World War II. He[...]worked for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in the smelter in Anaconda, Montana until 1980 when the smelter[...]was shut down. He is now working in Rapid City, South[...]in May, 1940. He is a veteran of World War II. Upon his return[...]to civilian life, he became a driver for Greyhound Bus Com-[...]ried in 1978; his wife's first name is Patricia and they live in[...]in May, 1942. On April 14, l944, she married Dean Po[...]completed flight training and won his wings as a fighter pilot.[...]and lived in Pogreba family home on Second Avenue East.[...]Dean worked for the Milwaukee Railroad for a few years.[...]rly. Larry was married; he and his first wife had a daughter,[...]Laurie. Larry is married again arid living in Estes Park, Willis and Bina Lane Albro, married M[...]rado. Karen was married; she and her husband have a Forks . daughter, Jana. Karen and Jana live in Vancouver, British[...]Columbia, Canada. Beverly is single and is a professional[...]e were after this land near eral bases in the United States and overseas. Dean was sent Thr[...]was the successful buyer. with a fighter wing to the Viet Nam War. In 1967, the Air Willis, when prevailed upon, woul[...]erriment. Two of his best songs missing in action until 1977 or 1978; the Air Force then were, ((Buffalo Gal" and a song with ((Red wing" in the title. He declared that Dean was officially dead. Dean had risen to the was in his glory when he could play a joke of any kind on rank of a full colonel and was not far from retirement. someone. In his later years, the telephone came to the ranche[...]rip at Three Forks was officially dedicated, Dean in the Willow Creek/ hree Forks valley. Willis and Tom Fin- Pogreba Field, in his honor in 1978 or 1979. negan (a neighbor across the Jefferson River) used to set[...]Frances Albro was a member of the Class of 1944 from setting alarms for 3:15 or 3:30 A.M. The usual greeting was, Willow Creek Hi[...]April 25, 1922) of Harrison, Montana, in Bozeman, Montana and get ready to go to work."[...]ian life, he went one of the quickest people with a word ofpriase. She did indeed into the trucki[...]. Sunday dinners by Bina are Jack lived in the house that is now serving as an office[...] |
| [...]atricia Ann Department of Agriculture as a federal meat inspector. His (Patsy), June 18, 195[...]8, 1961. assignments with the U.S.D.A. took him to Gordon and York, Penny was married to a Floyd Connor and they had a son, Nebraska. In 1971 he had open heart surgery at the Univer- Bre[...]Complex, Lincoln, Nebraska. By Ganette and living in Boardman, Oregon. They spent the 1976, Bill had left the U.S.D.A. on a disability pension. Bill month of September, 1982 on a bicycle tour of Ireland, Wales and Janis h[...]was married to Rob Lamb (born April born in October, 1966. 2, 1950) on December 4, 1978. She[...]is moved from York back to Gordon, an area living in Spokane, Washington and working as an accountant[...]to love. Bill's heart began to give him some for a real estate firm. Kelly Ann is living at home and works as more trouble. In March, 1980, he was hospitalized at a teacher's aide and school secretary for the local[...]ng grain instead of Montana. livestock in his truck.[...]Albro family at Willow Creek High School in May, 1953 when Willow Creek High School and graudated from there in May, he was given his diploma. Since th[...]low of Browning, Montana. Albro students in that building for 27 years. Jim earned a They were married at Holy Family Church, Three Forks, in bachelor's degree in English and Speech from Western Mon- August, 1948. There are six children in Arlene's and Earl's tana College, Dillon,[...]6, 1949; Dillon and they were married in the Catholic Church there in Charlene Ann, August 15, 1950; Diane Marie; Sheila; 1959. Jim taught at a. couple of schools in Montana before Michael; and Marie (Mimi). moving to and settling in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Jim has been a[...]at Cheyenne Central High School for over 15 years in Cherie Lee is married to Steve Rogers and they[...]me great trips to other high schools, principally in living in Italy as of August, 1982.[...]to Dan Kallsted and they have one Award by a civic group in Cheyenne in 1971. child - Kimberly Lane Kallsted. The Kallste[...]JoAnn have five children and they are:james Lyle, in Spokane, Washington.[...]esa Jo (Terri) born August, 1963; Elizabeth, born in 1968; Marie (Mimi) is that they were living at home and going to and Mark Andrew, born in 197 4. Jim, Tom and Theresa are all college.[...]e, Wyoming. Earl and Arlene have been teachers in the Montana schools. Elizabeth (Beth) is a high school freshman and Mark is pre- Earl has be[...]d their spouses, have at the time of publication, a area of Minnesota.[...]scendants, 60 still living. There are 11 children in Lawrence Albro graduated from Willow Creek Hig[...]great-grandchildren (the School, May, 1948. After a stint in the service, he married and sixth generation)[...]ce has been involved with highway construction as a heavy equipment operator for over 25 years. ·[...]States at the age of 14, in 1904, from Greece. He worked in in May, 1950. During his high school years, Bill pro[...]Pennsyvania. quite a ''hustler" in buying and selling livesotck and he was a shrewd trader. The Korean War was raging just as[...]employment with the finishing high sschool. After a tour of duty with the U.S. Milwaukee in Three Forks. In 1932, and then again in 1935-6 Army, he came home and started his college degree. He spent he ran a turkey farm on Brenneman's old ranch, across from his summers in the Ennis, Montana area working for John[...]o On Jan. 3, 1937 Gus and Ruth Young, a daughter of Tom owned all of, or a large share of Schlitz Brewing Company or a[...]M. (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) De- born in Butte in 1938. gree from Washington State University, Pul[...]amily, back again ton, and soon afterward set up a practice in Montana. raising 1500 turkeys on the[...]at Ennis, Montana and they were born in 1940 in the Ed and Hazel Thate home. married at the Catholic Church in Ennis on September 4, During the next few years, Gus was employed at the 1960. Bill suffered a crushing injury to his right arm in a very Chrome mines in Absarokee, the Red Lodge coal mines and ba[...] |
| [...]Tom Mongold was born in Pine Mountain, Georgia on[...]November in 1900. He said he believed his mother had named[...]him Gladdis Tompson after a famous southern historian. They[...]where his father was working in a coal mine. They came to[...]Willow Creek, Montana in March of the following year and lived in the Old Lodge Hall for about 6 months, then moved[...]onto the Old Tom Williams place for about a year, then to the[...]and sisters (and the only one born in Montana) was born on the[...]In approximately 1905, they moved from the Old Duke[...]South Bench in 1911, where his parents homesteaded and his Gus L[...]and the one in which Hap now lives. He never married and[...]nd never married), where they were engaged in farming and his family dearly loved.[...]Hap's schooling began in the Jefferson School (by the Bill Ruth presently lives with her eldest daughter Jody in Butte. Hagen place), grade school in Willow Creek and the Lane Jody married Leonard Fr[...]ol, and he graduated from Three Forks High School in Chris Ann, Todd and Scott. Sharon is married to Charles Snow 1917. In 1920, he attended the University of Montana in and lives in Laurel. Their children are Mark, Valerie, Vickie[...]armacy. After that he re- and Natalie. Bill lives in Laurel, is married to Linda Lorash, turned home and worked at the Trident Cement Plant over a has three children, Tammie, Dereka, andAmanda. Mary Lou period of 20 years as a blacksmith helper and on the crusher - also lives in Butte with her husban.a-Martin Dwyer and their while keeping on with[...]in Whetstone, South Carolina - Died February 1941 at[...]OF THE McGINNIS FAMILY in Three Forks, Montana. Members of the McGinnis[...]allen Billingsley Mongold - Born October 28, 1867 in father, Emily Manley McGinnis - mother, Kenneth F[...]ine Mountain, Georgia - Died July 4, 1950 at home in Three McGinnis - son, Leslie Manley McGinnis - so[...]Forks, Montana. We came to Three Forks in 1917. My father came first in the Brothers and sisters were: early spring[...]just Claude Cannon Mongold - Born 1893 in Pine Mountain, across the road from the Lane Scho[...]rest of us Georgia - Died 1943 (car accident) in Eugene, Oregon. when we arrived. We came after sc[...]ary Elizabeth Mongold Albro - Born Sept. 28, 1894 in Beach, California.[...]Wallhollow, South Carolina - Died Sept. 10, 1968 in Boze- We lived in the Lane School area for four years. My brother man, Montana. and I attended the Lane school. It was a one-room school with all grades in one room. I enjoyed going to that school and have[...]When the flu epidemic came through the community (in 1918 I believe) the whole family came down with it. We made it through without any serious trouble. In October of 1921, my mother contacted pneumonia an[...]Upon my father's return, he sold the farm and had a sale. We moved back to Long Beach where I attende[...]fine and John But- telman two or three times when in the area. It would be nice if the old Lane School building could be fixed up and used as a momenta to the olden days.[...] |
| [...]Jim received all of his education in Anaconda, Montana, Anna A. Mongold Elmose Conradson - Born October 11,[...], except the 8th grade and that year (1940 & 1900 in Pine Mountain, Georgia - - Lives in Anaconda, 1941) was spent at the Lane Sch[...]Forks. He graduated from Anaconda High School in 1946 and James Franklin (Fritz) Mongold - Born[...]rned to Anaconda when discharged and 1970 at home in Three Forks, Montana. wor[...]July 5, 1953. She was a registered nurse at St. Patricks Hospi- tal in Missoula, Montana at that time. They moved from[...]LY Anaconda to Three Forks in April 1954 to start ranching on James P. Elmose was born August 16, 1928 in Three Forks, the old Clark Maudlin place 1 mile south of town. In January Montana. He was born in the hospital which was later known 1959, Jim went to work for the GTA Elevator in Three Forks as the Page Rest Home. His parents were Morris Thomas and and in 1960 became the elevator manager in addition to Ann (Mongold) Elmose of Anaconda, Mon[...]er of the elevator and also the manager of the GT A Service Station in Three Forks. Jim and Joan E lmose[...]James Michael (Mike) - Born July 16, 1954 in Bozeman,[...]LouAnn Elizabeth (Pix) - Born January 25, 1959 in Boze-[...]Mike attended school in Three Forks and graduated from[...]Three Forks High School in 1972. He married Cathy Joan[...]Casey Michael - Born June 3, 1978 in Bozeman, Montana.[...]Joei Ann - Born November 22, 1980 in Bozeman, Montana.[...]of Three Forks. Mike is engaged in the ranching operating[...]grain on the South Bench. Pix attended school in Three Forks[...]and graduated from Three Forks High School in 1977. She is[...]Nelson Lucas (Luke) - Born July 12, 1980 in Bozeman,[...]John and Mary Murray came to Montana in the early 1870's[...] |
| [...]Charles Murray never married and engaged in ranching near[...]tana. They lived in Three Forks, Butte and Deer Lodge. Elmer[...]mployed by the Milwaukee Railroad at Three Forks. In Butte and Deer[...]Company. He was manager of the office in Deer Lodge. Their only child was Jack Murray. He is now a priest in the Catholic c[...]ek. They lived in Three Forks and operated the family ranch near[...]ee Railroad as a conductor. They had three children: Ellen, Gregor[...]Sara Reva married Ed DeBore of Chicago. They live in Helena.[...] |
| [...]ANA improvements in Logan. They built a five stall roundhouse, Logan is located in a narrow picturesque stretch of the replacing the one burned in 1912, enlarged the turntable pit to famous Gallat[...]of banks of the river with excellent farm fields in all directions. town. In the early day settlement it was a stage stop, known as On the north side o[...]pany erected one of Canyon House. It later became a division point for the North- the largest and best passenger depots in Gallatin County. It ern Pacific Railroad company whfch arrived in 1883 with a consisted of 2 waiting rooms, men's and women's. baggage line going by Helena and by 1889 had a line to Butte, both department and large central office quarters. Through a lines traveling in an arc meeting at Garrison again to further b[...]uipment and was heated from the Logan also was a thriving community in early years serving steam heating system located in the basement of the depot. a wide area. By 1913 Logan had up-to-date substanti[...]g ness houses and hotels. Dr. C. E. Whitehead had a wide prac- a community relying mostly on the railroad employer[...]ring town of Trident, and ness, Logan being a division point, and still supported by was the on[...]assenger trains, buses, such fences. Churches and a good school were established. as Gr[...]established an orchard. Another industry in Logan at the time was the rock crusher After year[...]Logan being a less expensive place to live in these times, A short distance west of Logan the Boomers, father and son there is still quite a few people living there, as it's not far to had the finest and largest truck garden in the northwest in market, Manhattan to the east and Three Fo[...]tomatoes and other senger locomotives and a box car of coal valued at $6,700, 5 kinds of vegetables in enormous amounts that required the stall[...]f. Boomer (father) had markets 8-1-1935 - A beacon light was installed on Strawberry to many towns and cities, that started a new local industry Butte north and east of Logan in the Horseshoe Hills. that earned a handsome profit. 1913 is the year the N[...] |
| [...]Logan, Montana began its history as a stage stop or rather a hotel and way-station on the stage rout[...]may have been the builder for there is a record of a Mrs. Shedd, a very capable lady in charge of a stage station called Canyon House. The Canyon House was a two-story log structure with a shingled roof. It's exact location is u[...]c Depot. One of its early owners was Thomas Dunn, a former resident of Gallatin City. The railroad was built through in 1883 and the stagecoaches and freight w[...]to operate, then Ca- nyon House became a residence. Logan became a busy town as ,,,-. the railroad expanded and a round house and maintenance li~ / shops[...]Many railroad employees made their homes in Logan and there were two hotels, seven[...]elementary school, two grocery stores, a meat market, a land to mind: (time period 1920-1950's). These are only a very few, office, lumber yard, two barb[...]of course that I can recall. stations, a blacksmith and other small shops; this all by 1919, Sharman (store) when a devastating fire destroyed much of the town. Unfo[...]an, from whom the railroad purchased its land. An in- Strachan (NPR) ~Gi:r-.r ter[...]and 6 passenger trains stopped each day in Logan. The crews Frost (NPR) and passengers required an average of 400 meals a day to be Lang (NPR) C Pef..A-"t'"',r- served in the Depot Lunch Room. The statement is made in the Lowe (NPR) article that "More passengers are handled in Logan than in Williams, Al (NPR) any city in the world for its size." The yards contained 12[...]tired) way have changed Logan to mainly a residential village. Bryant, Russell[...], Tim, Con (NPR) C & ~-o~·.:.n i<5 Logan in early 1900's.[...]Many other people received their mail in Logan but resided[...]e Madison (lower) Valley and on ranches and farms in the[...] |
| [...]street by the wind and within a few minutes t he freight depot,[...]which is in this block, also caught fire and was destroyed.[...]was soon attached by a train crew and the cars moved to the[...]~--~--..;;;:~ siding further west. The flames in the lumber soon spread to[...]e and Bird's Eye vi~; ~fL~gan (1913). Note school in lower left hand corner pointing out outside stair[...]hrough the yard, the passengers walking on the A disastrous fire which threatened the entire town[...]district Monday evening, destroying In the Flynn hotel were three families and nothing w[...]es, ~wo pool halls, barber Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Yeager, and the same is true of Mr. and shop, an ice house and eleven cars, nine of lum~er a.nd two of Mrs. Charles Adams. Mr. and Mrs.[...]evier carried about furniture. $3,000 on a stock valued at $12,000. In the McLees garage all of the cars were moved out with the The fire is said to have originated from a lighted cigarette exception of one car which had been jacked up awaiting re- butt carelessly thrown in the hay in the barn of Pat Flynn, in pairs, and could not be gotten out and a couple of motorcycles. the alley in the rear of the L. C. Bevier store of general[...]In the Gilhooley place, considerable damage was done to the merchandise. The smoke from the fire in the barn was disco-[...]ents because of the excited efforts of the people in trying to vered about 7:00 p.m. by Mrs. Dell McLe[...]ave them. The fire did not reach the building but in trying to Baumgarner, who immediately gave the al[...]is true of many of the other buildings in the block, all of the of the town was in flames. The south wind carried the fire[...]nd Manhattan were tan was made and they responded in time to aid in saving the notified and the fire departm[...]e aid. The men with their chemicals and dwellings in the rear of the blocks consumed.[...]ble for the saving of the Many of the families in the town moved their belongings remain[...]ir homes and for the remainder of the night slept in the open, fearing to return to their homes while the fire in the The lack of extinguishing apparatus in Logan makes the[...]of the flames and the high wind fanned them into a furnace too hot for even the saving of the conten[...]s. Efforts were made to save the papers and money in -the Bevier store which also the post office, whi[...]e old Tinsley butcher shop and t~ the Flynn hotel in which were several families. Then the McLees gara[...]. W. Allen's store. Mr.and Mrs. Allen and Mrs. W. A. Roland had apartments over the store and nothing[...]Cafe was burned, as was the Cash- man building, in which was Mrs. Myrtle Peake's cafe. When[...] |
| [...]I' ' ctor The Only Fint , lu · Hold In Logui, pc:cial Acc:ommo<ia•i[...]of Butte, Sec./Treas.; D. A. Morrison, General Manager and 0. |
| advent of diesel engines in 1954. Logan became stopping point game of baseball. A fine display of fireworks was shown in the of all passenger trains because of its uniqu[...]Helena. First depot on south side, ronized and a fine supper served by them in the Capital Hotel. then constructed on north si[...]Word has reached this community of the death of a Pioneer Feb. 3, 1963 a flood hit Logan flooding the half of town north Lady, Mrs. A. B. Rowland, she had been residing at Patton of the N.P. tracks, the tracks acting as a dike to hold the water Homes, in Portland, Oregon. Deceased was one of the pioneers north, caused by a heavy runoff from a chinook that covered of this country, coming here more than half a century ago. Her the state, temperature reaching into the 60's. It also damaged husband took up land in the Milligan canyon section soon a railroad bridge between Logan and Manhattan. At o[...]ch east of Logan the water was stopped by a natural ice barrier. being their homestead. Lat[...]The houses on the north side had water in them except for many years he conducted a general store.[...]three that were on higher ground or foundation. A home During the summer of 1919 the home and[...]the town of Logan. Since that time she had been a resident of the bridge backing the water into[...]anhattan and laid to rest to move out for a few days as well as most people on the north be[...]ings to higher places the Mrs. Alice Phenix, a long time Logan resident passed away citizens had to travel by boat or wade around in hip boots. at age 64 in the East Gallatin Sanitarium. She ran the hotel[...]rrested with John 27, 1882. She was survived by a daughter, Margaret Shockley Davis on the cha[...]t office at Logan on Dec. of San Francisco, and a son Lt. Sherman. 2, 1911, broke down and confessed his guilt, say a special[...]t. 23, 15 L. J. Griffin and Miss Ruth Wright amid a shower of rice, boarded train No. 4 for Bozeman where they Accompanying his confession is a statement which, if true, were married. They we[...]attan by means that the local officers have in custody one of the most a bunch of young people who kept up the rice shower. Miss desperate outlaws that ever operated in the west. Wright is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wright who live[...]ch west of Logan. Mr. Griffin came to Logan early in told him that he is the famous "Butch" Cassidy,[...]n Monday afternoon. That evening robbery in northern Montana, hold-ups, horse and cattle men and boyfriends gave Mr. Griffin a merry ride in a cart and thieving and numerous other breaches of law. The lad says a rousing chiravari. Mr. and Mrs. Griffin have rented rooms in that his companion threatened to kill him if he ever breathed a the house of Henry Burrell and begun housekeepi[...]post office at Monarch, Wyo. securing about $130 in cash and Some J aps living in a shack near the roundhouse discovered $100 in other property. They then came to Logan, where they a man making tracks from their shack, and on investigation performed a similar crime, securing loot to the amount of declared that the intruder had been trying to rob them. A $100. At Logan the clerk was sleeping wi[...]andkerchief containing certificates of deposit on a San Fran- safe which was robbed, though he kn[...]found on the ground. Another J ap said he had $40 in his The confession of Henderson, together[...]ey took after the stranger which were found in their possession, make a clear case who ran towards the tracks and was met[...]ederal officials. mediately proceeded to give him a sample of Japanese rough Every precaution is being taken to guard against any at- house, a lajiujitsu. As a result the stranger was badly used up. tempt to break jail. Davis is in a surly mood and refuses to[...]N (1905) The largest crowd that Logan has seen in many a day was ANOTHER HAPPENING IN LOG.Al~ entertained here the fourth. The celebration was a success in An interesting happening in the early 1900's was of an every feature, barrin[...]stained by eating house owned and operated by a woman name of Mag- Francis Tinsley of Willow Cre[...]have a vacation so she spoke to a couple that looked as though W. W. Rowland, Au[...]they could use some extra means, he being a section hand and were the committee and E. E. Ve[...]s of Boze..: ing still stands and is owned by a family name of Hunt, and man. During afternoon races and s~orts were given and a located on Main Street next to t[...] |
| NORTH OF LOGAN In the depression days, it was hard to make a living, some made a living anyway they could. One fellow living North of Logan on a small place, made his way for his family by raising some chickens, pigs and moonshining, he had the still in the cellar back of the house. The revenue officer[...]ouldn't catch him. They went one day, but without a search warrant, had to go get one. When they got[...]ad stalls for six engines. When I worked at Logan in 1917 I started as Engine Wiper, Showing improvement in passenger service, 1938, locomotive then Engine W[...]128 ft. long. Cr. Ron Nixon shifts, seven days a week). The engines usually kept at Logan at nig[...]as helpers when freight trains were too heavy for a single engine. The turntable in front of the roundhouse was propelled by hand pow[...]wasn't me.; A mally engine used to help boost trains over the d[...]ee. The Fire Knocker job was to clean the fires in all eastbound freight eingines, man the coal shut[...]tender if one was up there just after getting up a good sweat and I went flying ba[...]back before I could get back up on top. I went to A stub arriving from Butte. There was a crew kept just for[...]MP.t-. Ii' ,rq<{o cleaning them in the lay-over here, the engines were kept in 1st diesel in passenger service to enter Logan ~ ~ - the roundhouse when not in use. Note water tank in back and to left the coal dock. Cr. W. R .[...] |
| [...]depot housed a freight room (left), west end, two waiting rooms,[...]a men's and women's, a hall and room between which housed Group of young in front of Roundhouse. Cr.~Bud Merriman t[...]to the all night eating place and served the area a long time. Replaced Sand House, there's another hook rod over there, and let's get a depot that burned 8-8-1912. Cr. W.R. McGee this e[...]"Do you know a man who has been staying there?" Yes, he enlist, and when the war ended, I felt so bad about having such a good job that I quit, thinking that a needy veteran would ge~ gets his mail at this[...]es were uncoupled to be serviced at Logan, coach. In looking over the way bill we saw that she was bou[...]e. Next morning at about eight o'clock the formed a part of the fine Logan Depot.[...]and Clark. A HISTORY OF THE CANYON HOUSE[...]ail was changed and the Early reminiscences of a well known Gallatin County coach was gone, then the mari came in and asked ifthere was a Landmark and Queer Wedding between a handsome resolute minister living at Gallatin. We replied in the negative. Is woman and a recalcitrant young man. there a notary public? George D. Thomas is one, but he we[...]esterday. cently, was one of the oldest landmarks in this vicinity. It was built in '66 or '67 by Wright & Know, and was the most pretentious building in the neighborhood at the time. It had Mrs. Olive V[...]at an early day, and his niece Miss Julia Stone, a beautiful girl, died there while on a visit to her uncle's family. Mr. Davidson lived there for a time, and his wife, mother of Ed. and Castner Dav[...]t also died there. It was Enoch Hodson's home for a while and we have heard that the Indians used to[...]rge Budd first came to Montana he lived there for a year or two with his family. At that time William[...]d owned the place. Mr. Thomas Dunn lived there in 1877 and Joel Shedd, father of Mrs. Dunn died there. Mr. James Riches occupied the place for a while and kept hotel. It was also the home of a dark-eyed bride. In 1875 it was used as a stage station by Huntley and Clark, and a young fellow employed by them was batching there[...]from Helena, due about four o'clock, had on board a bright looking young woman and a little child about three or four years of[...] |
| Well is there ajustice of the peace? he asked in desperation. and Professor 0. F. Moore a[...]ive? departments with a degree of success that pleases and satisfies G[...]nd proceeded to the Doctors. ased a large number of new books, Principal Moore stating In about half an hour Mrs. Ketchum (bless her heart[...]400 volumes. being the dearest and sweetest woman in the world) came in, · Over the years there have been ma[...]at Logan her black eyes sparkling and her pretty face bright and ani- with R. H. Johnston serving the longest, 29 years. In checking mated. You must lock up the store and co[...]she records it seems the time taught in a hitch varied also, from 5 said, we are going to have a wedding and want you for a to 9 months some times less depe[...]ns. We were glad to go as weddings were scarce in those days. Some names on record b[...]tler, Kinney, Vance, Akesson, H. other apparently in anything but an affectionate mood. The[...]e time saying he was not prepared to take care of a ston, both Mr. & Mrs. Pfaff, Doroth[...]but time runs out to check the records. could get a start in the world.[...]ol came about because there was to be high With a resolute determined air the woman exclaimed:[...]hool, with one teacher That is getting to be just a little bit too old; it don't matter what for a[...]that settles the bus we rode was a panel with seats along each side, the first matte[...]ung on by the skin of your ance but stood up like a good little boy and vowed his vow. t[...]e Canyon House dropped down and had a little step on it to help step in, saving and we never saw either of them again. In a few days they had leaping in. The bus driver was one of the students, Francis left for parts unknown but it was a long time before the queer Sloan, lot o[...]shoved off on the wedding ceased to be talked of in Gallatin and Dr. Ketchum pavement in Manhattan, got pretty skinned up but we had did n[...]later Mr. Smith, one of the operators used it as a residence and only got his furniture out in time to move it from the flames. How the fire ori[...]n House was an early day stage station and hotel, a 2 story building, built on the order of Robbers Roost up the Ruby Valley near Sheridan. There was a barn to house stage horses made of cottonwood lumber. Another family that occupied the Canyon House was a fam- ily named James Shedd arriving in Gallatin City about 1871. They took up 160 acres in Canyon, farmed and ran Canyon House at one time.[...]copalian church in foreground built in 1907. A wood frame building 24 ft. by 54 ft., originally" called Logan school today, classes started in the fall of 1922. Back Canyon House, was changed[...]view, gym to the right. structure became a freight depot in 1890, location on south[...]..,--,,--._--~---....,._---:---., side of tracks. In 1891 a wood frame building was erected on the north side[...]e that school records were kept ·until 1900 when a new two story frame school house was built the pupils went to school in a little one-room school house in the south part of town, church was also held here. School commenced in the new building in 1901. The site was worth $50.00 and the builing $250.00. Stairs to the upper room were on the outside in back of building. A report in 1913; the Logan school district was in as good financial condition as any other district in Gallatin County,[...] |
| [...]Julia M015 ,~-A..< ·, •1[...]Helen WilsQn ;A......,.. {[...]ren Neilson, AN EARLY CHURCH IN LOGAN Gloria Clark, Carol Crowley, Richard Hartel[...]church standing next to the first school building in Jim Pickle, Larry Wilcox, Butch Damuth. Logan, was built in 1907 with contributions from residents of NOTE: Both Lyle Johnson and Jim Pickle were killed in Viet- the community and Episcopalian in denomination. There was nam. never a resident minister but ministers of other denomina[...]in need of repairs and no funds to do so, it was clo[...]After being closed for more than 30 years, in 1954 two two years. The gymnasium was great for s[...]fessional Women. They camped in the church, cleaned and school boundaries, founda[...]ve and should run. It seems Logan has always been in the middle, started an Adult Bible class. IN 1955 they conducted a vaca- sorta like the Hatfields and McCoys situati[...]anhattan or Three sionaries left after about a year and Ira Droge took over the Forks.[...]this school has been used for many In 1958, six families, the Tom Oiyes, Theo Shannons,[...]ls William Hardings, Henry Sorensons and Joe many a hot basketball game was played, both boys and gir[...]a for $50.00. Two teachers are still employed and a part-time teacher as of Then the task of ov[...]Montana landmarks provided the finances for a new roof and a[...]placed with a gas heater provided by Mrs. Hupka. The d1~ch ~o[...]was dedicated in Feb. 1964.[...]purchase a used one and Mrs. Roadarmel became musician .[...]The first wedding in the restored church was that of Mrs.[...]Ryan who both worked for the Forest Service in Boulder,[...] |
| [...]hop Carroll of Helena. The bishop was driven over in an auto from Bozeman where he had administered c[...]rival, the congregation and vis- itors marched up in processional order to the church. The bishop then[...]ent of Confirmation. After confirmation there was a banquet served to all contributors to the church and the united guests in the dining room of the Downing hotel. Appropriate[...]ishop was driven to Three Forks where he spoke to a large audience of citizens at the request of the[...]s and she has some of the man. Bishop Carroll was a noted educator, a fine speaker, a statues. man of prepossessing appearance and a prominent figure in On Aug. 29, 1966, the church burned[...]is now on the grounds of the Holy Parrish church in ley Jr. (he being a carpenter) with his crew built the church in Three Forks. 1908, had a beautiful interior and a seating capacity of 50 John Martin Jr.[...]J.P. Dowdall 1949/1952, and J.P. Ryan 1952/1968. In the later years services were held once a month alternating with Manhattan and Three Forks.[...]urch stood unused for several years, being closed in the early 1960's, but it was looked after, someti[...]n and other times by Mae Burdett. As time goes by a vacant building gets vandalized and that's what h[...]wanted from the church and she has several items in Bridge over Gallatin river. The local truc[...]ed by Robert Boomer. Dedication by Bishop Carroll in the back seat, Mike Crowley at wheel of car.[...]called Story Rock Co. It had capacity of 500 tons a day and ran[...] |
| [...]machine to sho w pictures · in the gym, for public as well as[...]gularies to get in. The opening was filled with cement blocks[...]now made in Three Forks. Logan after u;-fire July 31, 191[...]going out in the ffood of Feb . 3 , 1963. Cr. W.R. McGee |
| [...]BOTI FAMILY P.M. (Parson Moody) Abbott was born in Bowling Green, Ohio. When he was a young boy he had infantile paralysis, leaving one leg paralyzed and necessitating the use of a crutch[...]rom high school and began working his way west as a telegrapher. He met Katie Miller several t[...]ed the Al Smith campaign for presi- while working in Logan and they were married. They moved dent in Los Angeles County. He was delegrate to the Democ[...]ern Pacific Rail- tic convention at Chicago in 1932. He was a strong Jefferso- road. They bought the Miller Ranch and lived there for a few nian Democrat and was against the New Deal. P.M. passed years. P.M. had a niece, Hazel Cornell, who came to live with away in 1949 and Katie passed away _two years later. them[...]hooling. Hazel married William Jen- Found in newspaper items - P.M. at one time owned 1,080 kins. They had two sons, Murray and Frank Jenkins. A baby acres east of Three Forks. He was al[...]s. during the flu epidemic of 1918. P.M. became a Justice of the Peace in Three Forks and was[...]ree Forks money. He Frank Lewis Aldrich was born in 1858, in Stevenspoint, became Mayor of Three Forks and was[...]s the oldest son of Andrew Jackson Aldrich Senate in 1912. He served with Burton Wheeler and Thomasand Harriet Wilmont Aldrich. He had one sister, Olive, and a[...]coming U.S. Senators later. He became presi- dent in Los Angeles County. He was delegate to the Democr[...]children to school. Frank attended school in Stevenspoint. As a young man, Frank became interested in the railroad, which Katie and P.M. moved to Los[...]oming into its great era. He sold real estate for a short time and then became interested[...]west with the railroad, and learned how to be an in politics. He was on the democratic central commit[...]fMillerRanch1900 . L. toR.:KathrynHoy, Bertha ing in the Dakotas, he became acquainted with Calamity J[...]While working in the area, he met Jennie E. Burrell. Jennie[...]Burrell had homesteaded in 1864. Frank and Jennie were married in Gallatin City, which was[...]the county seat at that time, in 1885. They moved to Bozeman[...]had four sons, Warren H. Aldrich born in 1885, died in 1917;[...]Frank retired from the railroad in 1916. After his retire-[...]and lack of rain resulted in another unsuccessful attempt.[...] |
| [...]ranch, she secured a loan and bought the ranch from him in[...]ranch was sold in 1952 and Jennie passed away in 1956.[...]west too. He became a carpenter and worked in the Townsend[...]burg later, bought a mine and mined until his death in 1932.[...]the manager of the Logan Beanery. She lived in Logan until her death in 1940.[...]try April 8, 1914 in Garden City, Kansas - Nell's hometown[...]They arrived in the Headwaters area near Three Forks in 1920 coming by car and truck to a ranch 3 miles west of Logan, He then decided to lease some land in the Horse Shoe Hills between there and Thre[...]hey bought and dryland farm there until his death in 1930. ·sold livestock and[...]crops, leaving there His widow, Jennie, bought a large house in Logan. She after several years, to the Park Tail Ranch and were residing turned it into a rooming house for railroad workers. The build- there when the earthquake hit in 1925. ing burned down in 1927. The Beaches had one son born in Garden City, Kansas,[...]another son, Gerald, born in Colorado and a daughter Mildred born in Montana. In 1926 they adopted Hazel Martel, chang- Al heus (A[...]nd Jennie Aldrich. ing her name to Kathryn. In 1927 they moved back to Kansas[...]Kathryn is living in Coos Bay, Oregon, has a son Leroy who[...]never married and now living in Seattle. Mildred lives in Wichita, Kansas. She has a daughter living in Billings, Mon-[...]Jeanne has a daughter, Brooke, living in Missoula and going[...]Ralph passed away in 1948 in Garden City, Kansas and Nell passed away in 1971 in Garden City, Kansas. Ronald passed away in 1962, Gerald passed away in 1966, and Jeanne, the[...]youngest passed away in 1980.[...]When I graduated from high school in 1922 they sent me a[...]and then went to Bozeman in the fall. The following year I[...]work in Helena, then married and have lived in Helena since[...]name is Bernice Beach Kain. I have one son living in[...] |
| [...]ended the Logan grade Louis C. Bevier was born in Brookfield, Linn County, Mis- school, grad[...]ught Bevier, natives of New York. The father died in Missouri June school in Alaska two years, returned and taught school in 11, 1869.[...]County two years. Mrs. Bevier moved to Montana in 1872, when Louis was 2 She had a pleasing personality winning many friends and in years old, settling in Gallatin City where she engaged in 1914 was elected queen of Gallatin Coun[...]locality. Here she met and married Henry Sharman, a and was chosen queen of the state fair. prominent business man in the area. Seh married Louis Peters in Seattle, Washington June 26, Louie, (his frien[...]and spent most ofhis 1930 where they lived for a year then moving to Craig, Alaska. life in the Logan area, having come when Monta!}a was still a She passed away there at the birth of a daughter and is buried territory and (ton the frontier". He received his education in there in Craig. Gallatin County schools along with a cultured and refined Louie also had t[...]On Dec. 31, 1937 Mr. Bevier suffered a short heart attack at After his school days he worked as a clerk in his his ranch home. He is buried in Sunset Hills Cemetery at step-father's store unti[...]west of Logan, still Robert Boomer arrived in the Gallatin country in the late his postoffice address. At the same time of his move his mother 1870's by the lure of mining in the Trail Creek area between moved to a property owned by her in the Spring Hill area out of Bozeman and Livingston, but raised his family on a ranchjust Bozeman.[...]th at Logan .. Robert Boomer was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. He mar- Miss Smith was born in Toledo, Ohio, to Benjamin N. and ried Melissa DeArmond in Bozeman and moved to Logan. Maria (Rodgers) Smith. They moved to Montana in 1890, Three daughters and two sons grew up in Logan but all moved locating one mile east of Logan, where Mr. Smith became a west to the Pacific Coast and Seattle e[...]rower. Louie continued to oper- was born in 1891. ate the store in Logan until a fire in 1919 swept a business block there and destroyed his business as well as many others. Guy acquired a truck garden farm at the north end of the old[...]e Forks many as 300 head at times. He also raised a lot of hay. At one and Willow Creek as well as Logan with fresh vegetables. time he was in the meat buisness, but finally disposed of that[...]r mar- His politics were Republican and he was a member of the ried Hattie Jenkins. Nelli[...]lley Jenkins, now of Three Forks Helen married J. A. Peters of Craig, Alaska, later residing in is their brother. Bellingham, Washington.[...]id Daughter Dorothy was born on the ranch home in the Madi- born 1915 both born in the little white house by the bridge on[...] |
| [...]turkey and the same is nicely boiled in a mulligan also made[...]ungry. He therefore thinks that as the state pays a[...]bounty on the coyote it likewise should pay a bounty on the[...]hobo, and if the next legislature will pass a law to this effect he[...]Mr. Boyts was born Sept. 14, 1869 in Missouri. Mary Etta Myers, a daughter of Charlie and Sarah Myers, was born Sep[...]882 at Logan, Mt. Mr. and Mrs. Boyts were married in Guy's brother and sisters on the west coast. They both died 1905. there in 1926. They homesteaded in eastern Montana near Jordan on a dry Gerald and David returned from the coast a[...]ey moved to the Gallatin Valley, where growing up in the Toston, Townsend and Helena areas, marry- they lived in Logan and Manhattan. Mr. Boyts worked as a ing and raising their families there.[...]Bonnie and one son, away July 8, 1940 in Bozeman. Mrs. Boyts was afflicted with Robert, named after his great grandfather and now lives in . arthritis in 1912. She passed away Dec. 13, 1943 in Three Anacortes, Washington. Joyce lives in Helena and Bonnie in Forks. Dallas, Texas.[...]- ing son, Guy, named after his grandfather lived in Great Falls, dren are Ruth Audrey Nally, Tho[...]lives at Scotts Mills, Oregon. retired and lived in Helena.[...]s, Judy and Gaylene. four miles of Logan. This is a winter pasture - no snow more[...]necessary falls. This is one of the best pastures in the State of Montana, as it is clean bunch grass.[...]Railroad Co. time. Wish to sell this pasture all in one lump. Correspond when he was 17 years old, in Missoula at the Freight Office with R.H. Boomer,[...]lent vegetable ranch of R. H. Boomer working in the diet kitchen at the Northern Pacific Hospital[...]s. Mr. many to the United States settling in the Missoula Valley. He Boomer inte.pds to start his vegetable wagon in the immediate herded sheep, did some mining and worked in lumber camps future, and then we will all have good cabbage. In speaking of and it was at a lumber camp where he met his wife to be, his wonderful success in raising cabbage, Mr. Boomer says: "I Bertha Nettie Decker. She had come from Iowa to help a sister believe I will make a perfect success this year with my 20,000 and her husband cook at a lumber camp. They were eventually head of cabbag[...]s year that he has ever raised, and that's saying a Larry and Mae (Bertha) were married in Missoula June 15, good deal, as he has been very successful in vegetable raising. 1926. Larry was a transport driver for the Northern Pacific He bel[...]settle. Larry retired May 15, 1971. his success in vegetable raising. The Burdetts came to Logan Nov. 15, 1942. They had a Too Many Hobos[...]rry Jr., (13), Bob (11) and Joan (6). There is a surplus of hobos near Logan according to R. H. At that time Logan consisted of a Depot, lunchroom, a roun- Boomer, a gardener and chicken fancier who resides near[...]owers , coal docks, an Logan. Of course there is a reason for Mr. Boomer thinking as icehouse, a park, a grocery store, two bars, a service station, a he does, for he says nightly he is obliged to guard with a post office, two hotels, a school, two churches and residential shotgun his turkey roosts, and then sometimes he loses a homes about the same as now. Logan was primarily a railroad[...] |
| [...]the hotels were filled with railroad workers. In 1946 we bought the old Johnson Hotel on Front Str[...]ains for passengers traveling to Butte or Helena. In 1960 we remodeled the hotel into our home as it l[...]children numbering four now, Joe having been born in 1947, all graduated from Logan Grade School and M[...]aul married Audrey Richards of Manhattan and live in National City , Calif. They have 2 children a boy and a girl, and two grandchildren. Bob married Janet Creacy of Willow Creek. They have 3 boys and live in Manhattan. Joan married Homer Curtis. They have two boys and two girls and live in Mill Town, Montana. Joe lives in Ogden, Utah and is a video tape recorder. He never married.[...]ane , where tember 1924. he grew up and lived for a good part of his life. When of age he homesteaded in Pole Gulch then later selling to John George and Mabel had no children and I stayed with them a Linebarger.[...]le George was getting ready to go to work. He had a Henry and Helen Rice. They immediately went to th[...]T Ford , and at that time you wound them up with a Mabel had homesteaded in Broadwater County across the crank to start them. In cold weather you filled the radiator Missouri Riv[...]e motor. But this time it didn't work as he'd got a to the home ranch where they raised cattle, milke[...]rmed and worked at anything one could get to make a living. one." The other one he couid kick the coi[...]s only two shifts to make up the until losing out in the winter of 1948 and 1949 when he twenty-four hours, no union , and in the winter when the couldn't get to work. winters were a lot colder than now. The plant ran only in the In the summer on weekends, as things in the garden came winter, full time then, so they c[...]eggs, butter and a can of cream and go to Three Forks. We'd[...]$1.50 for 5 gallons of cream you could cut with a knife. We'd[...]make a few dimes.[...]the home ranch to hard times and helping pay off a note a so called friend skipped out on, in 1934 George and Mabel moved to a little place they had purchased in the Lower[...]In the winter of 1948 and 1949 they moved to Logan w[...]with about a foot of ice in the house to be cleared out in the[...]George passed away after a lingering illness of cancer at the[...]Bozeman Deaconess Hospital in 1962 and is buried in the[...]Mabel-stayed on the place until selling in 1964 and moving to a home she purchased in Three Forks where she still resides[...]Mabel was born Aug. 5, 1889, a daughter of Henry and[...]Bessie. There were twins that died in Michigan where Mr. and[...] |
| [...]from wth some of the children then. Mr. Rice had a ranch in Missouri at one time but being of a roving nature the family moved on West to California in a wagon train looking for greener grass. Mrs. Ric[...]then inland to Deer Lodge, Montana where she ran a restaurant for awhile. Mr. Rice passed away there in 1890 and the youngest child, Bessie was born there. The boys Bert, Elmo and Earl worked to help make a living. They moved from Deer Lodge to Anaconda, t[...]o Logan and where Mabel grew up. Mrs. Rice run a hotel in Logan for awhile and raised and sold canaries. She also ran a restaurant for awhile. Mrs. Rice is buried in Deer Lodge by her husband Henry. Although Mabel's grandfather Rice was a bond out boy he was a successful businessman when he grew up. He was mar- ried three times in his life. James Burell home built ofjued cottonwood logs in 1864. The[...]added recently. The door shown was originally a window, this JAMES BURRELL FAMILY[...]right was a dug well with a crib built up with a windless on it to Sometime in the middle 1800's three Burrell brothers left[...]mes, Joseph (Joe) · and George, the latter being a stone mason as well as a lumber at the top sometimes housed wild honey bee[...]be a nuisance at times. James (Jimlllle as he was kn[...]By the time they reached Virginia City there was a lot of but she was of French and German descent.[...]r more claims it seemed. Not not known but it was in 1864 and after their marriage they likin[...]y traveled on to about 2½ miles west headed west in a wagon train, leaving from Dubuque Iowa, of now Logan where they settled and built a home of logs, guided by Jim Bridger and using ox[...]dz and put together with square for Virginia City in Montana to the gold fields, as most of those nails as some of the other log buildings were, and there were in the train were, and arrived there during the summer. They several. planned to get a barrel of gold and return east, but never A cabin for one, with a milk house attached on the north, the returned even for a visit. bachelor son living in the other part. There was also a large[...]urrell, wife of James . Came by ox very cool in the summer, warm in the winter which always team when a bri_de in 1864, train _g_uide Jim Bridger. held a lot of goodies such as a big keg of sauerkraut, mince[...]es and wild fruits and apples from their orchard. In[...]The family made a living by farming, raising stock, mining[...]p. Ma Burrell, as the Mrs. was called, along with a neighbor[...]lady, Mrs. Miller, were mid-wives to many a baby in the[...]Garden Gulch and built a cabin there.[...]y first settled there was Indian raids. If warned in[...]The Ranch was in the open and hard for Indians to sneak up[...]going at Logan. Jimmie passed away in 1900 of a stroke while[...]traveling and needing something to eat and a place for th night, also a rest for their horses. In winters there was always[...]many around, some came to stay and help for a plac to at and[...]sleep, always something happening. Ther was a long dining[...] |
| all the grandchildren, as well as people, it was a treat to go to 1944 Earl D. Day was born at Tow[...]named the day. Henry Burrell had a place north of the home place on the[...]Pacific local that ran between Logan and owned a rooming house in Logan. He married a woman he got Helena, and retiring in 1940. He died at home where Edna had through He[...]here some of her people lived. Charlie was a 32nd degree Mason. Edna still resides at their[...]d there. The rest of the family are all home in Logan. buried in the Logan Cemetery. Gene married Donna Mainwaring and lives in Logan. They Frances and George remained on th[...]children. Charles married Betty Jorgenson, lives in ances never married. In the spring when thawing and every- Logan and has 2 children. Jerry married Donna Prue lives in thing muddy, he'd keep a team up and harnessed as there was Logan and has 2 children. Audrey married Leonard Crisco, a big mud hole in front of the ranch on the road to Three Forks lives in Modesto, Calif., has 3 children. Earl married Cheryl and he made quite a few dollars pulling cars out, day or night. Buchholtz, lives in El Pasco, Texas has 1 child and is a nuc- In the winters he would trap and fish. In the summer he leaur specialist. wor[...]f the Campbell boys are service men, four serving in the Crowley brothers as well as other sheepmen in the Ringling navy and one, Earl, in the Army. area. While in this area he took violently ill and got home, he[...]o his good saddle horse. He died that same summer in WILL CARPENTER HISTORY 1925[...]William Carpenter was born Dec. 17, 1861 in Black Earth, Jennie married Frank (Dad) Aldri[...]Johnson, Birdie married Jim Dunn first to which a baby girl to Virginia and later to Helen[...]d Mabel Rice . All While growing up in this area, Will and his brother George . their histories appear elsewhere in this book. -played for dance[...]child born in the Boulder Valley of parents who were pioneers 1882 in Indianapolis Indiana. Name of parents not known.[...]married Edna Stinett, Colo. arriving in Virginia City July 4, 1864. Edward and Ellen bor[...]a to Samuel and Ryan were married in Virginia City and immediately started Martha (Ga[...]Boulder Valley the same day and Ed cooking Ellen a "The devil owed him a debt and paid off in sons-in-law." Edna's jackrabbit stew for their wedding feast. They settled there in sisters, Marie Ireland, deceased, Alene Gray, deceased, Utha the Valley, raised a large family, ranched and lived their lives Anne[...]ily came to Montana by train on the North- played in the band for dances. ern Pacific Railroad in April of 1914; first to Billings then to an uncle who was gold mining in the area near Hassel, Mon- tana wher~ they were hoping to get rich. They lived in the Al Wright place. They lived there during the[...]ood she went to work for Mrs. Olsen at the hotel in Trident, a cement manufacturing town, which was a place just for men to room and board that worked[...]ing this with tears streaming from our eyes when a boarder, Ray Webber, said, "There's nothing to t[...]er went to work at the Northern Pacifc lunchroom in Logan and roomed at the Johnson Hotel on Main Str[...]he was always called by all who knew him. He was a railroader. When Charlie and Edna were first married they lived in Livingston where 3 of their 6 children were born[...]rles and Jerry. They moved to the Headwaters area in 1935 and to Logan, buying a hotel near the Gallatin River from a Mrs. (Ma) Phoenix and Edna kept roomers until 1944. -It was at Logan that Audrey and Chester were born and in[...] |
| [...]After the Carpenter marriaged they Ii ved in Deep Creek out[...]a[...]August 13, 1889 they moved to a ranch near Logan, Montana, a ranch sold to them by Mary's parents, part of the[...]to them as a wedding present. To this marriage three sons and[...]atoes and became known as the Potato King. He had a[...]road for their dining cars, a specialty - big baked potato. For[...]this reason the railroad put a siding on their track across from[...]ent areas. They had a dairy of sixty milk cows, provided milk[...]so for thirty-five years. ried. Mary was educated in grade school in the valley, high Mrs. Carpenter passed away in 1929 and is buried in the school at St. Vincent's Academy in Helena and college in Salt little church yard cemetery near the ho[...]in the Boulder Valley and where many of her relative[...]Jr. age 22 and Nellie Ryan buried. age 26, a brother and sister, were coming from the Boulder[...]ck Dam had broken and caused an increase of water in health after a few years he decided to join his children in the Jefferson River. They were attempting to ford[...]two weeks later, three miles from where they went in; penter spent his last years with his oldest daughter, Emma Nellie's was found in a slough five weeks after going in, 12 Bacon, and at the age of 88 he passed away in a San Diego miles below Great Falls, June 6, 1894.[...]daughter lives in Encinitas, Calif. _Oldest daughter of the Carpenters, Emma. In the summer of 1877 a party of nine people, some relatives[...]of the Carpenters decided to make a trip through Yellowstone Park. There was A. J . Arnold, J. A. Oldham, Mr. Dingee of Helena, a cook by the name of Myers, Frank Carpenter, two[...]and a Mr. Charles Mann, all of Radersburg.[...]party were in the park at the same time. The Indians captured[...]went through a harrowing experience getting to a doctor. The[...]son Junction House in the Park.[...]ford, was born October 5, 1951 in Bozeman, Montana. His[...]high school in 1970. In December of 1970, he enlisted in the U .S. Army for three years and served in Vietnam from August 1971 to April[...]1972. While in Vietnam, Paul worked as a machinist at Long[...] |
| [...]Evelyn (Kennedy) Brainard was born April 28, 1951 in Boze- man, Montana. Her grandparents were Joe and[...]Donna. Vickie is married to Bob Rafferty, has a boy Lance, and tana. After high school graduation in 1969, Gayle attended a daughter Malisa and lives in Helena. Donna is married to Eastern Montana Colle[...]ngs, Montana for two years Jim Johnson, has a boy Justin, and a daughter Heather and and then attended Montana State University, graduating in they live at McAlister. Donna has a beauty salon at Ennis. June of 1973 with a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Educa- Lloyd has worked for many[...]ing with Bert Dyke he hired out to Emmett O'Leary in Paul and Gayle were married July 16, 1971. The[...]ex Simpson from Manhattan to the Three Forks area in the spring of 1973 who visited the O'Learys o[...]the service, he served in the Air Force , as tail gunner, in the After coming to Three Forks they lived on the Steingruber South Pacific in the Marshall Islands and was there for 2 years Ra[...]d 9 months. After that ordeal he said, "If he had a farm in miles east of Three forks on old Highway No. 10. Texas and a home in hell, he'd sell the farm and go home", Paul an[...]mily enjoys their horses, cows, rabbits and dogs. In addition to their animals they like swimming, cam[...]son ofElic and Dora (Shelton) Coleman who raised a family of 2 sons and 4 daughters, Lloyd and Dwayn[...]cis. Lloyd relates that as far as getting work in the Taylor, Burwell area was concerned you couldn't buy a job at that time, so in 1939 he, his brother Dwayne and Mike Boag, who wa[...]ut to Bert Dyke of the Holland settlement working in the hay field. On Aug. 28, 1937 Lloyd married[...]folks later came to Montana where Henry worked as a laborer for differ- ent people and differe[...] |
| [...]from the Masonic Hall. Later Madison valley ranch in the winter and 16 mile area in the went to the main school house. It wa·s a two story large white summers. He at one time wor[...]e Railroad building near the N .P. tracks. In 1918 when the present school as an electrician.[...]gan. being poured, the whole school placed in a long large copper He then went on a place near McAlister out of Ennis for 4 box nickels, pennies and dimes and it was placed in the corner years, from there to a place south of Whitehall for 10 years. stone an[...]was demolished I have The Colemans then moved to a ranch north of Whitehall for a often wondered what became of the box of mone[...]as engine hostler. While living here Lloyd had a heart attack for which he had My stepmother passed away in 1926, my father in 1928. several bypasses and now is now enjoying go[...]e and Doris moved to the Cumming ranch In 1928 I went to work in the Milwaukee shops as a carman south of Cameron and Corral Creek where Ll[...]Lodge. Doris passed away May 1981 and is buried in the Ennis My father and mother both be[...]on on their My father was born at Earlham, Iowa in 1865 - my mother ranch on theMadison. was b[...]ood Dodge City, Kansas, March 20, 1879, In 1927 I and Tad Gillingham was bumming a ride on the maiden name Jessie Luella Owens.[...]to Castle Mountain, Mon- Logan. We were in a box car across from the river bridge. I saw tana[...]ell. Father hired out on the Milwaukee railroad in 1909, we We have been married for fifty years, to this happy couple moved to Three Forks in May of 1910 and lived in a one room was born 2 boys and a girl. Ralph Edward, Eugene Charles cabin next to[...]and Elaine Louise Cook. The daughter passed away in 1962.[...]h my Uncle Casey Boyd at Townsend. who had a blacksmith shop in Old Town in its hey days.[...]guardian. In 1929 my brother-in-law and I bought a few head As my mother had T.B. my father sent h[...]the former truck gardens out of Logan, Washington in 1912, I was 3 years old, my sister Martha was[...]m there to the Whitehead four. Mother passed away in Sept. 1913 at Spokane. Mrs. Mary farm on the road to Trident. In the fore part of May, my Perry, an old friend of the family brought us to our father, brother-in-law with his family moved to Oregon. I moved my arriving in Three Forks in Nov. 1916. Father married a Butte cows to Charlie Burrell's ranch. In 1931 I bought a ranch at woman in 1919, she was the best mother we ever had. Pony, Montana. I started to school at age 6 in Three Forks. It was a small My family and I lived at Logan from 19[...]Co. and worked at the coal dock until retirement in[...]wife still works there and I moved back to Logan in 1975,[...]In 1915 they moved to a ranch in Cottonwood Canyon north[...]who resides in Logan.[...] |
| [...]TO BILLIE DAVIS William (Billie) Davis died of a bullet wound he received while helping to search, in the railroad yards at Logan, for suspected robbers that were supposed to have pulled a robbery in the depot area. It was at night, of course , and the companion with Billie had a flashlight and turned the light on some men and o[...]as taken to Three Forks first then transferred to a Bozeman hospital. With no modern knowledge of medicine and drugs, he soon passed away, this was in May 1928. He left many friends. Mr. Davis was about 54 years of age, a native of Hillsboro, Ill. coming west when he was only fifteen years of age. He lived in South Dakota three years afterwards coming to Mon[...]Mae and Maude Deschamps. and locating at Dillon. In 1909, Mr. Davis came to Manhattan and later moved[...]t and married Clinton Rude , March 18, Davis died in May 1918 and a child died in November 1909. 1916. They were joined in matrimony by the Pastor of the Both were buried in Bozeman.[...]Ezgar administration. At one time he was engaged in- Casper Clinton Rude was born in Jasper County, Ill., April business in Manhattan. 21 , 1883 a son of James Rude and Rozenah (Marshall) Rude. Billie was a man well liked by his associates, and loyal to his His early life had been spent in Canada and Montana working friends . Mr. Davis left a sister, Mrs. Quilliam and two on ranches. He came to Three Forks in 1915. ne~liews of Logan and a brother, Charles T. Davis of St. Louis. To[...]Rude left home and never re- Many years later a person helping search for the robbers, turned, leaving Maude to care for a young son alone. (Many who was a witness to the shooting said Billie had been deliber- years lat er Clinton was in Edmonton, Canada.) ately shot by a hired killer. The robbery was a put up job. The Maude went to work for the[...]orth of railroad yards were generally filled with a lot of railroad cars. Three Forks managed by A[...]everal saloons (bars) and during Here as a cook and housekeeper she stayed til 1921 when she[...]lie had been moved to Logan to be near a school. In Logan she was emp- working for one of these saloons and had decided to start a loyed by the Nort hern Pacific Lunch Room as a waitress. place of his own and due to his popularity would have drawn a Here she met Alfred John Ranger a telegraph operator at majority of the trade. He would have opened his place in a few the depot. Maude married A. J. Ranger Aug. 22 , 1922. days. A case of a witness afraid to become involved and afraid Alfred John Ranger was born in Sandwich, Ill. , Nov. 6, 1878. for his own life he said. By a youthful marriage he had three children who were born A moonshine still of one of the saloon keepers and that the in Illinois - Burton, Deck and Winifred. A divorce ended this revenue officers couldn't find[...]d walked over many marriage. His trail as a «Boomer" covered many railroads a time, was found by a fellow camped at the site when moving bef[...]laged and fed with water, piped underground, by a spring a distance up the hill. This corral was located no[...]Little Falls, Minnesota in 1909 and the next year to Logan. A[...]SCHAMPS She had been a school teacher and he a railroad section fore- Ada Maude DesChamps was born near Mansfield, Ark., man. In both Bozeman and Logan he was a warehouse fore- Feb. 18, 1891, a daughter of Sinkler Capers DesChamps and man. Then Logan was a thriving railroad junction for the Mary Ernaline[...]Northern Pacific line divided there to to school in Mansfield. When she was 19 years old in the go to Helena and Butte. Several local passeng[...]ister, Mae, trains originated there. The town had a large depot, coal and brother, Louis, who were go[...]undhouse and railroad switching yard. Housing, as in near Three Forks. Not old enough herself to homes[...]utcher shop. They were then Her first few years in Three Forks were spent in helping on able to purchase a small two-room cabin and later a six-room the claims and in doing domestic work around town. Steady house, wh[...]as found at the Sacajawea Hotel and Restaur- died in 1943 and Julius in 1962. ant as a waitress. Fellow employees here were her sister Mae , Besides family, their main interests in the community were Harry Eto and May Larso[...] |
| [...]Victor earned a degree in chemistry from Montana State Col-[...]lege, served in the Army Signal Corps in World War II, is still working in Great Falls, where he lives with his wife, Betty.[...]A family history would not be complete without ment[...]Quillans and Flynns. A single friend was a well-known and[...]years and who retired and lived in Logan until her death, Mrs.[...]VanEpps. Also should be mentioned a man well-known and[...]as a resident in the town jail, which had long been unoccupied.[...]arrested. Many of the town children assisted him in his Isabel and Victor.[...]unknown in those days), by selling him empty bottles they had Catholic church at Logan, which was a mission church of recycled - not unknown even then. As we all know, many Three Forks. Julius was a school board member at Logan for other friends are inadvertently omitted in a history such as 16 years and board chairman for s[...]his through memory loss. was also very interested in baseball and was treasurer for the Logan team, wh[...]nis and Butte. Anna taught religion at the church in Logan for the · HISTORY OF HEINIE ELBERT children in t~e mission area.[...]Chattsworth, Illinois, There were five children in the family. Twins, Carl and came to Winnett, Montana in 1912 to homestead. He started Cecelia, were born in 1909. Cecelia died a year later as a result out with four head of oxen: Buck, Brendel, Baldie and Red. It of a whooping cough epidemic. Philip was born in 1911, Isabel was at Winnett he met and married Eva Fleury, born May in 1914 and Victor in 1920. Frank Plettl, Anna's youngest 1901 near Winnett. brother, was also a family member, as he had been orphaned. After hig[...]oundhouse. Later Eva and Heinie Elbert. he became a railroad fireman and moved to Livingston. Carl ma[...]ut Lorraine (now deceased), was the only one born in Logan. They moved to Anaconda where Agnes still lives. Carl died in 1960. Philip graduated from Montana State Col- lege and received a doctorate degree from the University of Chicago. He was employed as a research chemist and is now retired, living in Wisconsin with his wife, Lee. They have six children. Isabel became a registered nurse, enjoyed a nursing career, and raised a family of three in Helena. She is retired, living with her hu[...] |
| [...]away in November 1959. Heinie moved to Jefferson City,[...]daughter-in-law, Lester and Millie Elbert". Heinie passed[...]away in January 1967.[...]lives with her husband in Helena.[...]he Ellison family came from Iowa by covered wagon in[...]Bid was born in Iowa, the other fwo on Montana. Bid never[...]. Evalena married Frank Larson and lived her life in[...]Charles, my father, married Pearl Gowing, a widow with[...]Brother died of pneumonia in May of 1923. ·[...]spent a few years at Thompson Falls and returned to the[...]Gallatin in 1906. They set up a framed tent as a cafe and to R.: Lester (Slug), Heinie, Betty a[...]er several years he sold the homestead and worked in the Later Charles became deputy sheriff of Three Forks, had a oil fields at Cat Creek. draying business in partnership with Wallace Burrell, and In 1927 he moved to Oilmont, working in the oilfields until was also distributor for Continental Oil and Hamms Beer. starting a butcher shop; later buying a grocery store and The family moved in 1915 to a farm at Recap where along combining the two businesses. In 1941 Heinie sold out, mov- with farming, C[...]Forks where and we rode the stub to Trident in the morning to school and he bought the Plaza Bar from Lottie Salki. In 1943 or 1944, the back the same way in the evening. Plaza was sold to Ted Murphy and Hei[...]er going by horseback with his violin to play Bar in Logan, Montana. for a dance at some school house in the area, there were Heinie's Place in Logan became «THE place to go". There several - Harbison, Pole Gulch and Garden Gulch. In those was music every Saturday night by Mel Blazi[...]kids brother, Bus. Bus, who was blind, worked as a mechanic in grew up we all played some instrument,[...]l over the country. Heinie knew everyone who came in. Ifhe couldn't put a name In January 1919, mother's daughter Viola died of the flu, on the person, a few moments conversing and he soon knew. after giving birth to a daughter, Ethel. The folks took her and Heinie tr[...]ad one Ethel it was necessary to give the new one a[...]el, Baldie and Red. The Elberts sold their home in Three Forks and lived in Logan several years. There was so much water in front of the[...] |
| [...]In 1930 or '31 they moved to Missoula and those were[...]times getting only a promise to pay, that often was only a promise. Mother cooked for a fraternity house. They also lived in a large house where they rented out rooms.[...]moved to a small farm in the Bitterroot where they were really[...]lived two years after they came to town. He died in[...]Earl Frost was born on Feb. 8, 1875 in Cook County,[...]came to the Gallatin Valley with his parents in 1883. They settled in Salesville and were there several years before mo[...]es and Frank and his father made their home in the Gallatin Gate- William (Brother) Ellison son of Charlie's. way area for a number of years. They logged, helped build the[...]d farmed some, and there his father, who was born in nickname and because she was a fussy baby my dad said, 1844 passed away in 1892, and was buried in the Gateway "We'll call her Fuss" and that's what[...]Earl married Rosabelle Cheek Border in 1902 in Bozeman. The people who I remember that lived in the Recap area She had 3 children by a former marriage. They were Mabel, were Mallorys,[...]y. While we were at Recap the folks homesteaded in the Horse- His son Nathan was born in 1906. Nathan was married to shoe Hills, possibly[...]s during school vacations there over the years. In the spring of 1919 we moved from the ranch at Rec[...]Johnson and Malins. From there we went to school in Logan by horse and buggy. We moved several times in the next few years but never far. The folks had a cafe in Logan for awhile. Dad worked with his team for Montana Power when they put in a line near Logan, also continued working for them[...]crew near Big Timber. Charles and his dray team in Three Forks with partner Wallace |
| [...]Claire and Bonnie. They spent most of their lives in Helena where Nathan was a mechanic. He passed away in 1981. Earl and his wife adopted Helen Williams, who was the daughter of his step-daughter Stella, in 1916. Earl ran a sawmill in Bridger Canyon and later did some farming on the north bench in the early 1900's. After he gave up the farming in the 1930's, he moved to Manhattan and became a carpenter. He went to work at Tri- dent as such. His wife passed away in 1942 in Logan where they had moved. Just before his retirement in 1943 he had the misfortune of having a serious accident involving an electric saw and his right hand. His hand was saved but was in a deformed position. This did not keep him from fol[...]saw to the hand and did carpenter work for others in the Logan area. He also kept himself busy by lending a hand to his friends during the farming season. He spent long hours running a tractor. If a mechanical problem arose he would get off from the machine and have it fixed in a short time with whatever tools were available. He[...]e roofing at age 82. He left Logan when he was in his late 80's and spent his last few years with his son in Helena passing away in 1965 at the age of 90. He is buried at Sunset Mem[...]considered the pioneer merchant of Logan. He was a resident and in business for 22 years and work and final[...]ildren attending through via freight train in the spring of 1934 having heard that the[...]to get on the payroll a few days after arriving. He started[...]being a granddaughter of James and Ma Burrell and John's[...]dad coming to the Pony area in the early 1890's where he had[...]so only a few men were needed to operate and take care of[...]orders as this was in the depression. John and two friends ,[...]ife) and son Leo. grade school here. He conducted a large general supply house which included practic[...]d from dry goods to hardware items, even included a soda fountain where you could get a super ice cream soda for 10 cents. EDNA[...]Allie (North) Gillespie. He had two brothers and a |
| Toots Martin and Lester (Speed) Lewis found a cabin in the degree below· range in January and February. Some of the Horseshoe Hills[...]y tell where the fence posts were along the lane. In the nearly every weekend, John on the skiis, the[...]we got flooded from the The snow was deep, so was a tough trip but they needed a few Gallatin river, the milk stools were just barely high enough to supplies and some fun, to a dance, a movie or just to make set out of the water[...]house and John's the cement plant started to run a little more steady and both brother and wife[...]The first 80 acres from Clayton and Bill Hale. a sufvey crew on rebuilding the Madison dyke also putting in The second lot was 90 acres from Louie Bavier and the Sher- a gas line and in 1955 he went back to work at the cement man famil[...]plant until retiring in 1969. In 1971 he had a total hip opera- During haying time they camped on the place along with tion at Rochester, Minn., a knee operation later in Bozeman the mosquitoes, and could they ever bite. Used horses to do the and a heart attack in 1975. He passed away Feb. 10,1981 and haying, the mowing, raking, bringing the hay in with a bull is buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens out of Bozeman. rake and onto a big net and then swinging it onto the stack by means of a big pole and pulled around by the team. THE SAXTON AND HARDING FAMILIES In 1939 they bought a house from Dr. Whithead of Boze- Madeline Saxton arrived in Logan via train to visit parents man for $50.00. It was located across the river from their for the summer in June of 1927. ranch and they hired a fellow named Guy Miller to move it Her mother was Rose Saxton, manager of the N.P. lun- with a man named Wesley Cloyd. They crossed the Gallatin[...]ach- ranch site and breaking down again and mired in the mud. It ing position in Wisconsin the last of August. was there until a notice was in the newspaper "house for rent The next sum[...]to Logan and met Wilfred on Carpenter Lane", put in by the county commissioners. (Bill) Harding who was in the garage business in Logan. They After hiring Sherlock Knaves of Three Forks and the ground were married in Aug. 1928. being frozen solid the house was finally moved in and placed That fall they returned to Minn[...]e house was put into liveable shape Logan to stay in March 1932. during the winter and in the spring of 1940 the month of April Bill drove a bus for the N .P. Transport for many years, many we moved in.[...]we traded some land we owned across the A son, Richard, was born in Logan on Sept. 12, 1932. He now Gallatin, east of them for 70 acres of Florence Swarner's land lives in Denver and works at "Gates". Richard has a wife and joining their ranch on the west. This was one time used as a three children Dean, Dale and Deanna. race track[...]. Marcus Another son, Robert, was born in Livingston Sept. 25, 1943. Daly of Butte used to[...]over to train them The family moved back to Logan in March 1944. Bill had a bus on this track. Later Edna's uncle George Bur[...]road so they'd have right of way to their place in appreciation of a place to winter his cattle when Robert now lives in Helena. He has a wife and one son, the flood and ice was out in the winter of 48/ 49. Charles, a[...]partment. We got started in sheep with bum lambs and we milked cows and raised a few cattle. The cattle were pastured on Cub Rose Saxton died in October 1954 and Charles Saxton died Dimock's place in Garden Gulch in the summer and at home in in October 1963. the winter. As pasture got hard t[...]d so Bill and Madeline Harding still reside in Logan. the cattle could be kept at home. On Oct. 16, 1944 a son was born to us at the Townsend[...]nington Toney, daughter of Manhattan High School in 1962 and Montana State Univer- Mr. and Mrs. John Pennington of Townsend, Montana were sity in 1966. He served in the army in Thailand. Upon return- married in August of 1952 in Bozeman, Montana. They moved ing he entered law school at the University in Missoula and to Logan shortly after being married[...]Northern. Mr. Hays went to work for the railroad in April of Helena where they rside and have a daughter, Erin Colleen. 1949. In the winter of 1948 and 1949 the Madison dyke brok[...]ing the ranch. Gail Toney, Mrs. Hays' children by a preyious marriage were Due to the ice and bad weather John couldn't get to work at born in Townsend, Montana, and Wendy Hays was born in Trident so he lost his job. The ice got so bad we had to move to Bozeman while they were living in Logan. They then moved to Logan with my dad. Joh[...]urrell (he having to West End on the Bozeman Hill in 1956 and then back to Logan move from his ranch on the Madison to Logan for the same in 1961 making their home there ever since. reason)[...]arpenter Gary Toney and his family live in Townsend, Montana. Gail lane to the ranch and ca[...]to Logan at (Toney) Bagaoison and her family live in Missoula, Montana. night and the weather was cold that winter, in the 30 and 40 Wendy (Hays) Evans and her family live in Missoula, Mon-[...] |
| [...]31 and 32, which all belonged to Jesse Green. In 1914 Earl Hester came from Missouri to Three Forks, In 1945, when Clarence was to begin high school, the family Montana. He worked first in the Milligan Canyon area, then bought the Ray Edw[...]ill place, the original house to farm for himself in the Horseshoe Hills. being[...]arl married Ree Hale on July 20, 1931, and bought a stump[...]n old cabin that had been built by Frank Kirkalde in 1864, 28, 1935, and Stanley Russel on Sept. 12, 1936. the first building in the Central Park area, was still standing The family moved back to Montana in April of 1939 to a in 1_952, with the dirt roof covered by a shingle roof, both farm on Cottonwood near Logan, and their daughter Norma havmg caved in. The frame house built by Vard Cockrill is Lou was born in Logan on Dec. 13, 1940. In those days it was still standing and is the home[...]ldren to attend school, as The Hesters built a new house and other buildings in the the roads were poorly maintained and would no[...]m near the road, with the whole family lar travel in the wintertime. When the snow depth would working on them. reach five or six inches in town it might reach eighteen inches Clarence[...]ley, Clarence, Alice Lois Ann married William A. Chaney and they have two and Earl Hester.[...]hers, Nicole and Melanie. Bill and Lois also have a[...]a son named Adam James.[...]they now have a daughter named Melissa.[...] |
| [...]HE GEORGE HOTRUM FAMILY George Hotrum was born in Oct. 1864 in Eastern Canada. He worked in his younger years for the Canadian Pacific and e[...]s still railroading and finally reached Missoula in the early 1900's to start working for the Northe[...]ilroad, working up to conductor. It was while in Missoula that he met and later married Kathryn Georgerty in 1904. They moved to the Headwaters Area in 1913 to settle in Logan, the third house back of the Catholic church on the hill. The family lived in Logan until 1929 when they moved to Whitehall a[...]- ally do, is move on. Their Logan home is still in use and is ·where Sam Johnson lives. George and Kathryn Hotrum had 4 children: Mary born in 1905 and now deceased, George born Oct. 10, 1907[...]children. Leona has passed away and George lives in Whitehall. Cyrus married Carolyn McGlynn and they have no children and also l"eside in Whitehall.[...]Emery and Helen Clark. They lived in Manhattan for awhile. In June of 1950 the Logan Mercantile was purchased b[...]an David. Joe and Helen went through grade school in Logan, Strachan and Kathryn Hotrum.[...]years in Logan and then the family moved to Bozeman where[...]On February 13, 1960 Joe Hupka died from a massive coro- away in 1970. To this union 4 children were born: Monty who nary heart attack, and is buried in the Manhattan Cemetery. is married and living in Calif. and has four children; Jane At the time of his death, he was postmaster in Logan along (Duncan) Grady living in Missoula and has two childre?; with owning and op[...]. Laura and chil- Irene (Duncan) Erdy who lives in Bozeman and has two ch1l- dren continued to operate the store and postoffice and then in . dren and David not married and lives in Seattle and works for 1965 the family moved to Bozeman. Joe and Myles live south IBM Kathryn later married a banker, George Henry of Dillon of Bozeman, in partnership with Hupka Excavating. Both are but now deceased. Kathryn still makes her home in Dillon. married and Joe has two sons, Jody and Shad. Helen and her Mr. Hotrum passed away in 1955 at Missoula and his wife, husband are living in Billings. Kathryn, passed away at Dillon in 1958 but both are buried at Whitehall.[...]tly, was born July 1, 1854 at Joe Hupka born in 1913 the son of Joseph F. and Josephine Marshall County, West Virgnia. In 1870 at age 16 years he (Bartos) Hupka. His gra[...]ved with the family to Illinois and later engaged in farming States from Bohemia, now called Czechoslovakia, arrived in in the western part of Illinois. He later located in Nebraska, 1863 and lived in Cleveland, Ohio before moving on to Yank- then Denver, Colo. where he remained a short time then going ton County, South Dakota,[...]oshone County, Idaho. He served as deputy sheriff in home there. Idaho. He was married there in 1886.[...] |
| In 1893 he and his wife (Cynthia) moved to Anaconda, Montana and then located at Butte. In 1901 they moved to a ranch located near Gallatin City, residing there for a number of years and raising horses. Later on they purchased a ranch on the lower Madison residing there until 1[...]tile busi- ness. Mr. Jenny was well thought of in the community, was in- terested in ci vie affairs and ready to assist in all progressive work. He served as trustee of schools in Three Forks for a number of years and was associated with the Labor National Bank as director. He was a staunch Democrat, devoted husband, kind friend an[...]friends by his sudden death as well as his wife, a son, W. H. Jenny and a daughter by a former marriage who resided in Illinois. He was 81 years old at passing.[...]ON FAMILY Al Johnson was born ori Oct. 2, 1903 in Camas, Washington to Oscar and Iona Johnson. He b[...]hool education. He attended Montana State College in Bozeman and got a two year degree in agriculture. On Sept. 16, 1940 he married Marie Kuhnes. She was born on Aug. 2, 1910 in Rockwell City, Iowa to Val and Anna Kuhnes. At a very young age her folks moved to Ringling, Montana where her father leased two sections of land and a house and barn from Jim Ringling, one of the foun[...]Lyle Johnson, killed in Vietnam, Oct. 5, 1967. Al and Marie ranched ne[...]were born. On Aug. 16, 1942 they work too. In 1954 he married a long time friend, Susan Der- were blessed with a son named Lyle Albert. On Jan. 19, 1945 a man and had a home again but in July of 1958 tragedy struck daughter joined the f[...]na Marie . the family again. While on a trip to Canada Al took sick and Both children were born in Townsend, Montana. died in Calgary, Alberta. In 1947 Al bought a small acreage from Emmett O'Leary In 1959 Lyle went to live with relatives in Wilsall, Mont. near the Trident turn off and close to his work as he had a job and finish school. Anna went to Mooseheart, Ill. to a Moose with Ideal Cement Co.[...]n went back to her home state of North Dakota. In March 1948 misfortune hit the family as Marie pas[...]Anna married Jack Paddock Jan. 28, 1967 in St. Anthony,[...]r Florence, Anna and Lyle Johnson, children ofAl (in upper right corner). Mont.[...]Lyle was a 1960 graduate of Wilsall High School and at-[...]sity, graduating together in 1964.[...]training at Quantico, Va. and was commissioned a second[...]tenant on Dec. 17 of that year. After assignments in Florida and North Carolina and a Mediterranean cruise as-[...]signment, he returned to Montana in May 1967 to visit rela-[...]Capt. Johnson arrived in Vietnam on June 28, 1967 and was[...]pany commander of his company and while on a road sweep a[...]wounds on Oct. 5, 1967. He had been selected for a captaincy in[...] |
| Lyle was buried with graveside honors in Shorthill Cemet- road work. They later moved to Bozeman where he worked on ery, a little cemetery of his choice, located on a hillside in the different trucking jobs until 1951 he went[...]ana. road work again retiring in 197 4 after working 24 years total[...]for the county. They still reside in the Bozeman area.[...]four grand- Dewey Johnson was born July 3, 1912 in Cashe County, children. Dewey Jr. lives in Bozeman, Beverly lives at Rol- Utah, son of Dan a[...]s out of Manhattan. Montana with his parents when a child to the Beach place, at Dewey and[...]t time, on the Carpenter Lane. He attended school in niversary in 1982. Logan. On July 13, 1932 Dewey married Flore[...]Billings when she Dan Johnson was born in 1889 in Cashe County, Utah. In was 13 years old and where her father went to work for Yel- 1917 Dan and Louise Vance were married in Butte. lowstone County until about 1925 when they[...]When the Johnson eventually came to Montana, in 1925 Forks. This was where Dewey and Florence met[...]four of their children and four of Louise's by a former mar-[...]Dan leased a place, then known as the Beach place, of 300[...]and Florence lived on the Beach place for about a year then moved to Manhattan where The[...]eman, later moving to San Francisco wher Dan died in[...]died in 1979, Marvin in World War II.[...]Sam Johnson was born Jan. 3, 1884 in Ringbu, Norway son[...]and Carrie Johnson and with the family, including a[...]annie , migrated to the United States and settled in Greenwood , Wis. Sam was 1½ years old. A brother, Chris was born in Wisconsin.[...]worked in lumber camps of Washington and Oregon living in[...]He and his two friends arrived by gondola car in Logan Aug.[...]loaded on arrival , now-a-days they'd probably have been rol-[...] |
| having seen a bar sign across the way decided to get a beer while the train took on coal and water (stea[...]e Logan had six bars, three stores, three hotels, a meat market, lumberyard, barber shop, livery stab[...]ith shop, shoe shop, the dry goods store that had a soda fountain in it and there was a full time marshal and a resi- dent doctor. While at the bar he and his[...]home to Wisconsin. Sam worked on other ranches in the area and in 1909, after the 4th of July , he hired out to Elm[...]the camp supplied with groceries. This survey was in the eastern part of the state for the government[...]ar as where Fort Peck Dam is now. When winter set in they came back to Logan, then when[...]lmo went back to where he left off, later sending a letter for Sam to come back on the same job which he Mae died at Townsend in 1952 and is buried in the Logan finally did until fall . He then returned to the Logan area, Cemetery. Sam is a member of the Eagles Lodge of Bozeman getting bet[...]ae Burrell and helping on and still lives in his home on the hill, drives his car and fishes t[...]LE WORKING Lena Burrell. She and Sam were married in May 1912 and FOR SAM JOHNSON went farming Northwest of Three Forks on a place they had I worked for Sam when h[...]n both sides of the Missouri River near Clarkston in Sam did well farming until the late 1900's and[...]Olsen farms, and his own and rented land in Broadwater grow, not even weeds.[...]Missouri River. Sam and Mae moved to the hotel in Trident in the early One of many experiences I remember was, he having bought a 1930's where they both worked for Mrs. Olsen, Sam[...]ing. He wanted to go from the west side to bought a small place from John Powers on the east side of[...]les north of Logan, when Mrs. E. Three Forks, a long trip, so he decided to cross the river back of E. Olsen left the hotel and moved to Logan in 1940. Sam and Clarkston. He removed the magneto off the tractor, hitched a Mae moved to their place and Sam drove to Trident[...]me steering the tractor and he They later bought a home in Logan, he driving to work from riding one[...]ing went fine but there. Sam retired from Trident in 1954 as the 100th retiree. for a short pause when his horse stumbled and fell , do[...]across. This was in the fall of the year so the river wasn't as with potluck, either in Three Forks at the Town Club or in[...]al. Logan at the Land of Magic, most of the times in Logan, to celebrate his birthday. He reached his 99th in 1983. One fall before Sam had a combine, he bought a thrashing[...]and thrashed it, Sam can recall when there was a grain elevator and a good same as combmg now. stockyard in Logan from which a lot of grain and livestock was[...]a paddle between the knees to help steer and the horses in the[...]header boxes, two box-wagons to a header, a team to each and[...]a header, the driver and one driver each to a wagon plus the[...]nothing ever bothers or excites him. One time a team ran off with a new ice box in the wagon. He wasn't worried. He said[...]"Old Prince has to run away once a year. He'll stop prett;[...] |
| [...]children and two grandchildren. Carol lives in Harlowton. Shortly after the tum of the century a young man, Reginald Her husband has the lau[...]s one school bus Halliday Johnston, left his home in Canada and came to Mon- and works at a Ford garage. They have three children living tana to start a teaching career that spanned over 43 years. His (they lost a daughter when she was 13) and three grandchil- fi[...]er and older Myrtle's husband retired in Jan. 1981 as postmaster in than he was so discipline could have been a problem but he Townsend and she works at the hospital there. They have started a football team and used this method to give his pu[...]k. He met his future wife, Emma Caroline Hoyt, in 1912 and THOMAS JUDGE AND NORA (FLYNN) FAMILY after a five year courtship they eloped on Aug. 30, 1917. In t~e Thomas Judge was born in County Sligo, Ireland and settled meantime he tau[...]in St. Cloud, Minnesota. His two sisters were Mrs. B[...]Leary and Mrs. Mary ~on~an .. They were bot~ born.in[...].County Sligo, Ireland and lived m Minnesota for a bnef penod the ground and she lost all her clothe[...]fts. She also taught school son, N. Dakota in 1881. Mr. Judge also had a brother Maurice in Three Forks. in Ireland. R.H., as his friends called him, began his teaching career in Nora Flynn's parents also came from Ireland and they set- Logan in 1917 and it was to last for 29 y~ars. E~~a taught tled in St. Cloud, Minn. Nora Flynn had five brothers, John, two years in Logan after they were marned, qUittmg before[...]ren were fortunate enough to have their father as a Thomas Judge and Nora Flynn were married in the section teacher for the four upper grades.[...]on the railroad as a Section Foreman for many years, from Mr. Johnston built his home in Logan and he and his wife Minnesota to H[...]here. where he and his wife bought a hotel. She died at Logan on Some of the highli[...]eaching career there were the Oct. 19, 1898, a victim of typhoid fever and is buried at St. receipt of a silver cup for founding the track meet in Gallatin Martin, Minn. The whole family had typhoid fever at that county. During the time Logan had a two year high school; his time. girls' basketball team took first in the st!te; h~s annual Thomas and Nor[...]dward born Christmas programs that were put on to a standmg-room- June 30, 1886, died Nov. 11, 1944. He spent some time in the only" crowd each year with people coming from[...]ude of his pupils as they went on to school, for a solid background of the James Frances born[...]married Mimie Murray. He was a brakeman on the Northern[...]tcham and Olive. depot, and two summers he spent in Alaska working for the fish canneries. Mrs. Johnston taught a couple of years at the Mollie B. born Fe[...]Judge , Their children and grandchildren (17 in all) had many wedding photo. happy times with them at Logan, and their memory still lives on in all of our hearts. Hal (son) lives in Denver and is a television technician, has three children and four grandchildren. Jean lives in Ogden, Utah. Her husband is a retired army colonel. They have three Reg[...] |
| [...]the garden was doing. He had a good garden. Uncle's cow had[...]to find her before he could milk her in the evening. I don't[...]played for a dance at the Logan School. She played the violin[...]Uncle Martin nearly always bought each of us a pair of[...]There was a big fire in July of 1919 in Logan. I can re-[...]to help fight the fire. The Flynn Hotel and about a block[...]to the ground. That was the married Joseph Galle a native of Austria and Section Fore-[...]after thirty-eight years of service. He was also a keeper of bees and they lived in Manhattan (1912-1945). They corner. The Olsen[...]had four children: Eleanor and Joe were both born in Logan. The others were Dorothy and Henry. Mollie[...]trom was born May 21, 1908 near Winston, scene of a forest fire at St. Regis, Montana and suffered se[...]up years were spent on a ·farm that is now covered by Canyon Delia M. ([...]Ferry Lake. He attended schools at Beaver Creek, a country Mont. She lived in Missoula where she worked as a telephone school, Townsend, Helena and Manhattan.[...]oper- operator. There were no children. She died in 1929. ated a cafe and hotel in Manhattan that was almost de- After the death of their mother, Nora and the five children molished in the 1925 earthquake. A roof was added to what were farmed out with relatives for a time; they also spent some was left and is now George Cooper's auto repair. time in a convent. In June of 1928 he hired out on the bridge gang with[...]e Elizabeth (Garrity) managed the hotel and lived in was laid off due to the great depression. In June of 1937 he Logan many years. Pat Flynn and h[...]lso again started working for the railroad but as a telegraph operated a saloon in Logan. Martin never married. operator. In August of 1940 Delbert came to Logan as the third[...]had four children: Eleanor (Ella) trick operator, a position he held for nine years. At that time Whi[...]ur children; Tessie -died at age 23 and Logan was a bustling railroad town, especially during the war never married; Jessie was an electrical engineer on a locomo- tive out of Sioux City. He worked at the rock crusher in Logan during the summers and attended college the[...]2 and never married. Katherine (Topsy) Turner was a musician and directed "Topsy's Orchestra," and played the violin. She had two chil- dren. When I was a youngster, about eight years old, we lived in Manhattan. My mother would put me and my sister D[...]n. They called it the Helena Stub. We didn't need a pass as Mother knew the conductor. We would ride[...]back of the Northern Pacific depot. We would stay a few days and then come home the same way. We slept in the upstairs hall way and early in the mornings would come down to follow Unc[...] |
| [...]two children - Dusty and Heather. Dale is a Signal Maintainer[...]My father, Jack Landers came from Ireland. He was a twin[...]migrate to the United States, coming in the 1800's. He worked in the east and southern part of the States until fi[...]ing in the Helena and Winston, Montana area where he wen[...]While attending dances in this area he met and married[...]Burrell in 1899. To this marriage six children were born:[...]Sarah was from a family of eight children (story in this book). They first lived in the Madison Valley where their first son[...], was born. As all know, railroad men move around a lot[...]when first starting out so our family lived in several places.[...]After Gallatin City we rp.oved to Three Forks in the section[...]years old. years. It had two hotels, a store, post office, service station and While living in Norris, Sadie ran a hotel that served meals two saloons.[...]w up and went to school. By this time Jack called a beanery was separated from the depot by a covered had worked up to foreman.[...]came from miles around to at at the beanery after a passed away in 1943 and Dorothy not long afterwards from a night out. Daily passenger service was available[...]ail, the day of good mail service. Logan also had a born in Logan. He married Della Whallie of Shelby. They h[...]ht depot and houses two girls and adopted a girl and a boy. He passed away in 1970 for some of the railroad employees. Most of the people in Logan in Marysville, Wash. Clyde, born in Logan, married Caroline worked in some capacity for the railroad, then came the die[...]had one girl, they had three kids. She died in Oregon. 1970. trains no longer needed to stop to take on coal and water. First Evelyn (Betty), born in Logan. She married Frank Aldnch Jr. the roundhous[...]frieght depot, water towers and they had a son, Eddie. Betty divorced Frank and is now were[...]ure, the only employee left. He ended his service in Nov. 1973 as the agent in Trident. The depot after being unused for several[...]nt who lived near Big Timber. She spent 1½ years in Kansas City the rest of her growing up years in Montana with 15 years on a farm near Belgrade. The Northern Pacific Railroad had a track called the low line that meandered through[...]were pulled by coal engines. It cut the Dent farm in about half. Doris attended schools near Living[...]terman School and Belgrade, graduating from there in 1939. She attended Dillon Normal for one year. On[...]941 Delbert Karlstrom and Doris Dent were married in Bozeman. They are still living in the house where they started their lives together[...]Dale. Bonnie is married to Bill Goforth and lives in Alexan-[...] |
| [...]generous. He raised a big garden every year as well as 300[...]He worked with a good many people. Working for a railroad one meets a lot of people. Some of the longest and remembered[...]y graduated from nurses training at St. Patrick's in Missoula in 1937 and was married in Philipsburg June 1938 to married to Don Hart, lives in Everrett, Wash. Cecil married Ernest Mazza who was born and raised in Montana, interested Ruth Miller of Bozeman and lives in Marysville, Wash. I am in mining and working. in floatation mills of manganese, now married to Bud[...]silver and gold and doing barbering as a side line. Mary married Billy Heaston. They had one daughter, They had three boys and a girl, Sherman Philip, who has Martha, who married[...]ve children 1 two has passed away and Sadie lives in Laurel where they had step-children, Doris[...]Dorothy's boys, Cal and Tom are interested in mining and Johnnie married Eunice Heim. They had two children, a work at the Black Pine mine in Philipsburg. At this time girl, Carol, and a son, John Gary. Nadiene is living in Peru, her husband being a mechanic for a Jack Landers passed away in 1944 at the Northern Pacific mining company there. Hospital in Missoula. Sade died at her home in Logan in 1946. Dorothy is also a great grandmother of five from the oldest Tom died July 3, 1943 in Logan. Johnnie passed away in May son. The granddaughter Misty has one child and a grandson is of 1950 and Mary passed away in 1977. expecting to be a father in January. A[...]y Sherman Lang graduated from Manhattan High in 1935 then from the School of Mines in Butte. From there he enlisted PHIL LANG FAMILY in the Air Force and was in the Japanese conflict. When[...]married Ina Hollander of East Helena. He Philip A. Lang was born Feb. 2, 1884 in Minnesota and was was a mining engineer at Colstrip in 1946, went to Canada for married to Alha E. Sirle[...]the U.S. and worked at Sheridan, Wyoming for was a telegrapher for the Northern Pacific Railroad Com[...]and died in Jan. 1976 at age 57, his wife died Aug. 23, 1981 of The family came by train to Montana living in Livingston, cancer at age 61. They had two da[...]idan, Logan and Three Forks and while living here a son, Sherman, Wyoming and a nurses's aid at the Vets Hospital and Carla was born July 19, 1917. Phil finally settled in Logan, renting who married a Canadian geologist and travels the world exp- for ahile then building a home in 1927 on the hill, as the loring for oil. The[...]hnston to Boid Lehman Sr. was born March 1885 in Bloomfield, Iowa. come teach in Logan. They raised a wonderful family there. He married Clara Shaw who[...]il 27, 1885 and Phil was honest, intelligent, had a sense of humor and was raised in the Bloomfield area. They were married Apr[...] |
| [...]to Montana but they came by train and homesteaded in the Missoula area, living there for some time. They left that area because there was a crazy mountain man who stopped at their ranch all[...]nyon, north of Logan. The years were good and for a time so were the crops, so (Dad) Lehman built a big home in Manhattan. The Lehman's had six children: Vera[...]ears. He moved to Manhattan before retiring, to a small ranch near Manhattan and drove to work from[...]y) Malin, wife of Joseph. He spent .his last days in a rest home in Bozeman. Mrs. Lehman preceeded him in death passing away Nov. 9, when Joseph wa[...]Joseph left Texas with about $200 in his pocket when he was[...]about 20 years old and went to the Bay area in California for a HANS AND BRITA (HALVERSON) LARSON HISTORY[...]rted to work for the Northern Pacific Railroad. in the Maiden Canyon Area near Lewistown. Brita Ha[...]of 16. Joseph M. Malin probably took a train from California to[...]riving about 1887 and then by They were married in 1907. Mr. Larson was transferred to stage[...]se drawn conveyance to Maiden many small sections in Montana. The last as section Foreman where he worked the Spotted Horse Mine for about three in Butte where he died in 1941. Mrs. Larson died in Anaconda years. He left the mine when it was sold and went to the in 1969. They had three children: Agnes, Gerda and C[...]allatin Valley to look for property, homesteading in the Hans and family lived in Logan for a number_ of years Logan area in about 1890. where their children went to school.[...]s ofland north of the Gallatin Logan and who died in 1959. Their children are: Lorraine, Rive[...]the beacon Anaconda, deceased 1980; Richard lives in Wyoming; Betty north of Manhattan. Ann,[...]rowley daughter of James Crow- Gerda, deceased in Seattle in 1972, su~ving chi~dpm - ley, who had come to the Logan area in about 1882 with her Jerry in Hawaii; Howard of Seattle; David of Washm~on;[...]about 3/4 of a section south of Logan down toward the Buffalo Charlie and Alma Tibbs of Three Forks were mar1;1ed in Jump. 1934. Charlie taught school for e[...]t Brockway and Edgar, Montana. Then began work as a the homestead: Clare was the first born in about 1902 but died chemist for The Anaconda Comp[...]as the second child born October as chief chemist in 1978. He is also a Past Master of the 19, 1904. She later married Ernest Monforton, son of Remi Masonic Lodge in Anaconda.[...]Pat Young of Man- widowed now and living in Bozeman. Joseph Crowley Malin hattan, son of Grace and Brig Young. They live in Juneau, the third child was born August[...]rgo of Calif., Sally of Calif. and Bozeman in 1910. Joseph is currently living in Malta Mon- Rick of Anaconda.[...]Y The Malin Ranch in the Logan area was mainly a sheep Joseph was born July 31, 1866 at[...] |
| [...]and finally to Lloyd Meador of Logan in 1943. He worked on[...]the railroad and had two children by a former marriage, Vir-[...]he cared for her invalid mother for several years in Logan and after her mother's death in 1942, Stella was always ready Katie and Joseph Ma[...]o practical nursing when someone was ill. She had a stroke in 1955 and passed away at the Richard's rest home in 1957. The ranch brand was registered as the Lazy N .K. It was a fairly successful ranch. The Malins were a family oriented people , very honest in their dealings, were of the Roman R[...]CKITRICK HISTORY Catholic religion and Republican in politics. There were ap- Ruth was born Oct. 1[...]nge (Rudd) Hatch of Tetonia, Idaho. rights , also a family dispute eventually arose between Will[...]therine Malin) and Joseph Malin over They married in Butte, Montana June 1946. His parents were water[...]r) McKitrick. The Malin family went to Billings in 1910 where Joseph After their marriage th[...]ess until 1916 when they returned McKitrick being a salesman in many lines, wholesale, clo- to the ranch at Logan. After WWI President Hoover asked thing but mainly in insurance. They were living in Dubois, Joseph to grow wheat on the ranch. Althou[...]ement, Malin attempted to do what his gov- In 1956 the McKitricks, their five children and Ruth[...]to the bank through the Jefferson Canyon they had a flat tire on the in 1922 in payment of a loan. The family moved to the half trailer. It was dark and raining so they spent the night in the section of land that belonged to C.M. Wilson. There they canyon in a tent which they could get to as it was carried on[...]uth, Sandra and Catherine (Crowley) Malin died in Bozeman in August of David - 1965. 1947. Joseph McAdow Malin died in Bozeman in about 1953. STELLA MEADOR |
| [...]attan area until March of 1960 when they moved to a place near Three Forks they bought from Mrs. Susa[...]says it was 20 degrees below zero when they moved in and she told Maurice it was her last move and she[...]here. The McKitrick children are Melvin who is a barber at Ennis. He's known in that area as Clipper. He is married and has three[...]nsend. Sandra is married and has two children, a daughter Tony and son John, and lives at Townsend. Bob has a son Mathew. Bob is a truck driver with no set address. Jess is married and has a daughter Joey. He lives at Lebo- nan, Ore.[...]cQuil- Mr. McKitrick died Sept. 24, 1969 after a lingering illness. lan. Note old Ford roadster. After Maurice's death Ruth worked in the potato field, start- ing at 60 cents an hour[...]our when she hanging around the depot set up such a noise over his attire went to work at the Trailer[...]Belgrade working there that he traded his clothes in immediately for cowboy dress for 1½ years until marrying again. When she was a kid in complete with chaps. His first job was in Bozeman for Ryan Idaho she worked in the potato fields for 1 ½ cents a basket, Fruit Co., then he heard that Louis Bevier, the merchant in earning $12.50 for a falls work. With her earnings she bought Logan needed a man and so he came to Logan. He worked for a camp cot and two blankets so she'd have her own b[...]t World War broke out and then enlisted came from a large family and she enjoyed sleeping alone. in the Army. He served in the Army Medical Corps and was discharged in 1919 in Fort Worth, Texas,just at the time the[...]big oil ((boom" was beginning. After a time ((adventuring" in HISTORY OF THE MCQUILLAN FAMILY[...]nal baseball Joseph Arthur Mc Quillan came west in 1911 from Worches- in Canada, he came back to Logan and became a partner in ter, Massachusetts where he had worked in a large depart- another grocery and general merchan[...]Logan thing department. He was 24 years old, born in Manchester, Mercantile shortly thereafter and also postmaster, a position New Hampshire, Sept. 29, 1887. His Uncle[...]held for over 30 years. The Logan Mercantile was a «gen- already a resident of Bozeman. A master carpenter Scahill eral store" and carried[...]children's mansions and other prominent buildings in Boze- and buckets, stovepipe fittings , hoes, rakes and shovels hung man. Joseph's brother James was also in Bozeman, brought from the ceiling. And in the center was the town meeting west as a trainer of the fancy carriage horses of the Story[...]and argue club". Joseph loved Montana and was a wonderful teller of stories Joseph, or " Little Mac" as everyone in the Gallatin knew about the early days. One of hi[...]d to play baseball. On July 6, 1927 he and Lenore in Bozeman in 1911. He stepped off the train wearing the Rose W[...]. Mary 's fashionable Eastern clothes of the day, a derby, spats on his Catholic Church in Logan. Lenore (Nonie) was the daughter shoes, and[...]for many years. Nonie was manager of t he Joseph A. Family, L. to R ., Lenore Rose (Waters) , Kathryn Telphone Office in Manhattan for several years prior to her Ann, Joseph Arthur Jr. and Joseph A . (Little Mac) Sr. marriage. lenore (Nonie) is a true Montana native, born: March 22, 1900 in Anaconda where her father had come from·[...]Iowa to "seek his fortune. " The family lived for a time on a · gold claim at Danielsville which is now a mining ghost town ..[...]to Bozeman where he opened a meat market. Nonie attended[...]all eight grades in the Bozeman schools before the family ·[...]ing in Ennis with her daughter Mrs. Jack (Madeline) Scul[...]Jr. in 1928 and Kathryn Ann in 1935. Bothattended grade school in Logan and high school in Manhattan (from which[...]Nonie had also graduated in 1918). Joseph Jr. (Joe) spent two years in the Army , (one in Korea), and upon discharg at-[...]tended Montana State oll g in Bozeman graduating in[...] |
| Mechanical Engineering in 1951. Joe now lives with his wife Martha and son Joey in Pacifica, California. Joe has his own firm of Mechanical Engineering and a law firm both in San Francisco. He obtained a degree in law in San Francisco in 1967 after several years of night law school whil[...]ashington Univ. School of Dentistry, graduat- ing in 1959. She specialized in Pedodontics (Children's Dentis- try) in Seattle at Univ. of Washington finishing in 1963. That same year she married Jack L. Moore, (native of Cut Bank, Mont.), also a dentist, and they now live in Missoula where they both practice Pedodontics. They have two daughters and a son - Camella Jo, Sydney June, and Roy Esker. Nonie went to college in St. Louis while Ann was in dental school. She attended Washington University School of Fine Arts and graduated in painting at the age of 60 years. Nonie , now 82 years old lives with Ann in Missoula. "Little Mac" July 28, 1912 at[...]Wrights toured beautiful Yellowstone Park in five covered riarch, James Miller, born 1828 in Kentucky and Mary Jane wagons. The Millers bought a ranch on the old road between Romine Miller, born 1840 in Mattoon, Illinois, with their old Three[...], Clara, the ranch. They enjoyed the new life in the west and their good Taylor, Bertha, Katie and[...]George rode on the weddings;Martha Miller, a teacher, married Willis Smith, a freight train with the furniture and livestock; James and railroad employee and lived in Livingston. Their children Mary, six daughters an[...]ts of fried chicken, home ceased. Clara, a teacher, returned to Illinois and married John ca[...]The train was heated by iron stoves Dora , a rancher. His sister owned the Dora Photo Studios[...]re James, Robert and John, all de- They arrived in Bozeman where James had a daughter by a ceased. Taylor married Emil Kohler a rancher from Alsace- former marriage, Ellen Miller married to Charles Hoy, a Lorraine in Europe . They moved to Southern California where[...]Miller married P .M. Abbott in 1902; both are deceased.[...]teacher was Florence Dunbar. August 27, 1895 was a memor-[...]The Wrights purchased a ranch on the Madison River below[...]the Logan Cemetery. After moving to the ranch a baby girl,[...]North Hollywood, California in 1935 and lived their remain-[...]Harry Wright married Dora Reynolds and lived in Butte.[...]children; Gordon is married and lives in Stockton; Helen lives in Federal Way, Wash. near her son, Thomas Donich an[...]Edith Wright married George Dunn, a rancher and native of[...]Three Forks. They moved to Los Angeles in 1916 for George's[...]mained in Los Angeles with their daugh~er, Laura. La[...] |
| [...]isure World, Laguna Hills, Ca. Both Edith and son-in-law, Frank, have passed away. Fern Wright married Mac Lane a native of Montana. Their ranch was near Willow Cr[...]tehall, who has one son; Erma Lane Holloway lives in Whitehall; Evelyn Lane Hunter lives in Livingston and has a son and daughter; Russell Lane and his family live in the state of Washington. Felix Wright passed aw[...]e of eight. Ruth Wright married Leslie Griffin, a grocer. They lived in Ringling and Butte before moving to North Hollywo[...]ndchildren. Lena Wright married Herbert Barnes, a barber. They lived in Trident and Miles City before moving to North Hol[...]on makes her home with their son, William Barnes, a retired school teacher and his wife, Azalee, in Sylmar, California. Lena has three grandchildren[...]mates are picked by their parents. In 1914, Tom and Taka's P. J. MORSE, TH[...]ated on Flower Street next to were held in their honor, and the wedding date was set. On Lottie Olsen's home in Logan. He was in business in Anaconda January 14, 1915, they were married. In Japan the wedding is when Lottie had a laundry business there. He later came to[...]for the immediate family. The second day is a large feast After the war ended he came to Lo[...]mplete celebration. Tom and Taka were both reared in the shop which was entered by an outside stairwa[...]ery stables which was handy Tom had been in the United States and returned to Japan to at ti[...]liked their beer so they used to get together for a mug Tom and Taka Oiye on their 50th wedding anniversary. practically everyday in the summer and have their visit as they'd been friends for years, (Lottie had a back porch which was shaded in the afternoon.) This is all I can remember about Mr. -Morse as I was just a little girl at this time . He was a nice old fellow and was well liked. I believe Lo[...]e time he worked for my Dad when Dad was farming in the Clarkston area. His name was Al Simth and he[...]ch was convenient for him as he spent the winter in jail at Bozeman but any time one was in Bozeman you'd see Al on the street and he had free meals and a place to sleep with no expense to him for the wi[...]had drank your booze instead of hiding the stuff in the wood- pile they wouldn't have found it."[...]TOM OIYE FAMILY HISTORY The custom in Japan is for the parents to arrange the wed- din[...]people don't go out with the opposite sex, fall in love, and get married like they do here in America. Their[...] |
| [...]her bid them farewell from Yokahama. They arrived in Seattle by boat on April 1 where Tom had a job. They lived in Seattle for six years, and during this time, their daughter Peggy was born in 1918, and in 1920, Anita was born. While in Seattle, Tom went into business with three other men in .a slaughter house making fertilizer to ship back to Japan. They bought Indian ponies from Montana to be used in their fertilizer. Tom was in this business for one year, then sold his share and moved to Montana settling in Basin Creek, Mont. Tom did placer gold mining fo[...]ved to Basin. Their son, . George, was born here in 1922. Tom left his family .in Basin and came to Trident to work at the cement p[...]months, the plant closed down. They then moved to a small community about eight miles above Marysvill[...]ss. After two winters here the mine shut down, so in 1924, they moved to Helena. Tommy went to work at the round house in Helena for the Northern Pacific. In 1925, their son, Ben was born. In 1926, Tom was offered a permanent job at Trident, so in September, they moved to Trident. Their four children attended school at Trident and Three Forks. In 1938, they bought their place at Logan, formerly, owned by Boomers and Raymonds, and oper- . ated a truck garden until 1962. The Oiyes have had m[...]ddest of all, was the loss of their daugher Anita in 1953, who passed away after suffering for five mo[...]me as they lived on the banks of the Gallatin and in the spring during high water the river gets pretty high and in 1963 they did have to leave for awhile. In 1953, Tom and Taka became Christians, and the strong belief and faith in the Lord has been a source of strength since. Tom passed away in 1976 and is buried at Manhattan Cemetery. Taka, after a time, moved to California to live by her daughte[...]born May 20, 1894 and his occupation is listed as a[...]om Killarney, County 80 acres which still remains in the O'Leary family. of Cork, Ireland. They had ni[...]Emmett married Eva (Sis) Brown March 7, 1916 in Living- ston, Montana. They ranched in Park County until 1935 when Sis and Emmett O'Lear[...]er L. to R. they moved to Manhattan, Montana. and in 1940 moved to Dori and WandaBoyts, holding L. toR. toR.KarenandKevin Three Forks. In 1943 he built a house on some property he Anderson. -[...]Later when material was available he had a house raising[...]party, jacked the house up and put a foundation under it.[...]to a hit and run driver). Evelyn has three gran[...] |
| [...]Minn. by train to Big Timber, They had a son, Ted, by a former marriage born April 24, 1944, Mont. in 1885 and from there to Martinsdale, Mont. to work[...]ls and three boys, one one daughter and lives in Helena. Susan is married to Tim of the girls bein[...]DeWald, has no children and lives in LaGrand, Ore. and is[...]supervisor· over the kitchen in a rest home there. STEWART (SWEDE) OLIN Mrs. Olin went to work in 1964 for Page's Rest Home in[...]nd was there 15 years. Swede was born Oct. 1902 in Sweden. His father wished him to be in the ministery and he studied it for three years b[...]still lives at her wasn't what he wished to be so a rich uncle provided the fare so · home in Logan. he could migrate to the United States, finally landing in Chicago in the midst of the depression in 1920. LOTTIE OLSEN HISTORY He worked for two years in dairies and lumber camps, Augusta Fredricka Charlotte Arnsmans was born in Frank- mostly in North Dakota and Montana, finally reaching Butte lin, Missouri April 24, 1852. The Arnsmans were a family of after walking, riding rails and sleeping on park benches. A German heritage who spoke only German in the home. priest there took Swede and some other fellows in and they Lottie (as she was nicknamed)[...]nfiscated all the family's posses- ception Church in Butte. They can still be seen there.[...]ugh- when some soldiers came to Mrs. Arnsman with a message ter of William and Hilda Veague who had s[...]her dying at age 34 years, the youngest being two a certain amount of money he would be returned home[...]e 12 began caring for they came for the money. As a young girl of about 9 years of her alone besides[...]andmother lived to be 93 age , Lottie experienced a memorable occasion. She was years old.[...]Lottie married Jense Peter Olsen on May 24, 1872 in St. Louis, Mo. He was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark.[...]Augusta Charlotte Olsen. Note plank in background. This[...]ed, "4nna, Sally (Mrs. Olin) and Susan. It was in Deer Lodge where Swede and Rosanna met, both |
| [...]ailroad Company built the new depot His trade was a finishing carpenter and fine wood carving.[...]turned her home into a maternity home and for several years and two daug[...]y lived. Peter Olsen came to Logan in the early 1900's to visit his[...]buried there. Eldor was on a hunting trip at the time of his came to live with[...]h but knew about it as he awakened when his dad's face brother for the accident which had handicapped hi[...]appeared to him at 2 a.m. He learned later that that was the Peter's gui[...]He influenced Peter to give up his trade and buy a saloon business with him. Lottie Lottie returned to St. Louis in 1904 to visit her remaining did not share Peter's[...]tend the World's Fair there. raising her children in their new living quarters which were · Her home in Logan was located next to Park Morse's black- abo[...]the street from the Northern Pacinc Lottie was a "strong-willed", "independent" lady with a Roundhouse on Flower Street. She al ways[...]d to her red hair. (She would wooden barrels in a row to catch rain water, the soft water was have made a good E.R.A. member) . She gave Peter an ul- used for washing clothes and bathing. She also had a good well timatum - within a certain time he was to have a house for and due to the well and barrels ofrain water, a bucket brigade her and his family - Hans was not[...]im! He did not take her seriously so did not find a the fire of July 31, 1919 destroyed so much of[...]wo girls and Each year for many years, for a few days in the early fall, a took a train to Anaconda, Montana where a friend of hers had familiar sight in the back yard of the Olsen home was an moved. Eldor stayed in Colorado and was raised by an aunt, open-pit fire burning. A very big black iron kettle hung over Maggie Larsen. This was in about 1885. The friend in the fire. Lottie was stirring a steaming substance with a long Anaconda had a special hand laundry where they did just[...]en's white starched shirts with separate collars. A certain still another purpose. She was maki[...]was needed to starch them just right and they had a laundry soap. good business.[...]Lottie passed away at her home after a lingering illness in Lottie and the two girls came to Logan around 1889 where Nov. 1940. She is buried in Sunset Hills Cemetery at Boze- she began operating a boarding_ho_use for railroad men. After[...] |
| [...]came on to the headwaters area and bought a farm that Char- Charley Parker was born Oct. 13[...]of, the Capps place, formerly owned by Brena- ing a son Frank and Lucy (Garrett) Parker. Frank was fr[...]of Three Forks. Murray, Iowa originally and from a family of 11 or 12 children, To this marriage two children were born - Frank born in leaving at an early age when an older brother had returned Nov. 1946 and Beth born in May 1948. They also had two home for a visit and took Frank and Homer, another brother, children of Blondie's by a former marriage, Terry and Helen with him to Crip[...]en he left. The older Manning. brother was killed in Nevada, he being president of a union. Charley ranched in the area and eventually worked at Ideal The other two eventually arrived in Sheridan, Wyoming Cement Plant at Trident and doing horseshoeing on the side, a where Frank stayed and later met and married his future trade he had learned by experience in the army and taking a wife.[...]ur children, two boys and two Charley has a knack handling stock and proof is he broke a girls, Charley being one of them. Charley grew up in the steer (Stereo) belonging to Pete Vandolah, to drive and drove Sheridan area and enlisted in the Army from there. He served · him with a burro (Sally) belonging to him and driving them in in the army for five years, most of the time in the 110th many a parade around the country. horseshoeing division[...]Charley is a member of the Masonic Lodge. He's honest, spent in Italy near the Austrian border.[...]generous and has a great sense of humor and loves a good time. January 1946 at Hardin, Montana Char[...]from Trident now and runs a few head of cows and he and Ruth do a little cowboying helping others.[...]Our father John Powers was born August 20, 1899 in Ross-[...]Powers was in the mining industry and died when our dad was[...]My dad being the oldest went to work in the mines in Butte[...]to support his mother, three sisters and brother. In 1919 he[...]went to work for the Northern Pacific Railroad as a car[...]It was while working in Logan he met and married Enid 0 .[...]team. Olsen. They were married Dec. 1, 1921 in Helena, Mont. They[...]children Camilla, Birdie and James. They were In 1947 Charley purchased an army truck and with a trailer divorced in 1928. While married to our mother they lived in and the family belongings headed for Montana with the inten- Three Forks and Logan. While living in Logan we lived by the tion of homesteading in the Greybull area which the govern- river in the old Johnson house. Later dad bought a house upon ment had opened up for that purpose fo[...]now owned by Mildred Ellison. (Blondie) had lived in that area and not caring for it, they Dad was never mtich of a hand at driving. I recall being told[...]lah riding with Charley. _____ Charley's team in parade at Pony, Montana, August 8, 1979,[...] |
| [...]house. There was a passenger train that ran to Butte and back[...]Some of the people dad worked with in Logan were Bill[...]Cubby Bear and the others I can't recall. In May or June of[...]glehart, Deer Park, W a. and Mrs. Jack (Lola) McDonald, Deer[...]area. My father was John Powers who worked as a yard clerk[...]for the Northern Pacific Railroad Co., working in Logan for 14 years and in Butte until his death in 1954. Enid (Olsen)[...]Powers was my mother, born and raised in the Logan and[...]Clarkston areas. Mother worked as a hostess on the dining cars on a train which ran from Livingston to Gardiner takin[...]Jim all attended school in Logan finishing in Butte.[...]A. J. Ranger came to the Three Forks area in 1917 working as a telegraph operator for the Northern Pacific Railr[...]her), Camilla (Hovan), married Bertha Graves also a telegraph operator in 1918 and and James (Jim) Powers. Upper right corn[...]Lola to this union two children were born: Robert A. Ranger in Faye.[...]eman, Nov. 29, 1919 and Florence H., May 12, 1921 in[...]s. I know from experi- They continued to live in Logan where Donald E. Ranger ence in later years he wasn't much better at driving a car. He was born April 14, 1923 at Manhattan. always seemed to hit something like a telephone pole dead · The summer of 1924 they moved to Laurel, Mont. In Laurel center. a daughter Mary Frances was born Jan. 6, 1926 Orvil[...]Maude had become one daughter Lola Faye. We lived in Logan until 1935. - afflicted with arthritis, which by 1932 would confine her to a I think the years we lived in Logan were some.of the best I remember, even though it was during the depression they A. J. Ranger. were good years in lots of ways. No one had much but what they had t[...]er. Dad didn't work for two years on the railroad in this period. He tried running a saloon and dealing cards but neither one was his game. The N orthem Pacific Railroad had a coal dock in Logan at that time and many a winter night I made a coal dock tum with dad so we would have something[...]company on these trips as most everyone else was in the same fix. We raised a big garden and everyone worked in it and everything that could be was canned. Our g[...]ts and uncles on Mom's side of the family kept us in meat and school clothes so we were better off th[...]even if things were tough. The first job he had in a couple of years was as timekeeper when they buil[...]mming pool. Dad was fishing one day and got into a nest of Yellow Jackets and needless to say who w[...]never fished again. During the time we lived in Logan there was a store, Post[...] |
| [...]rene Roadarmel, Kathleen Roadarmel. Third row: In May of 1940 they moved to Harlowton, Mont., where[...]l, Donald joined the Anny and Mary moved to raise a family after her marriage to George Wight.[...]Parks Maude was to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair, with Children: a small dog for company, anxiously awaiting the vis[...]Francis Mr. Ranger continued to work, retiring in 1950 and moving Child: back to Laurel and Park City. In 1956 he moved to Boise, Id. to 1( Mele[...]of the children are living, except Dick who died in the to farm in 1934. They moved to the former Stanton Ranch 1920's: Burton and Winifred in Ill. , Robert in Boise, Id. , Flor- located on the Gallatin River three miles west of Logan, on ence Leader in N. Y., Donald in Billings, and Mary Lofing in Carpenter Drive. Jack Roadarmel Jr. and his wife reside there Lavina, Mont., Orville Rude in Park City, Mont., as well as now in the original house of his grandparents. The ranch[...]n began when Thomas Earl H. Roadarmel was born in Danville, Pennsylvania on M. Ross of A[...]a after the turn of the were married in 1918. century to see his uncle, Freeman Wilhour, who was a gold Elsie Bates Ross was born September 20 , 1895 in Bozeman assayer in Pony, Mont. Earl then took up two homesteads in to Walter S. Bates and Jennie Sidell Ba[...]he married Martha Ward had been married in Bozeman in September of 1890. Mr. Bates in 1919, a Harrison school teacher. He was fanning a dryland was of English origin. The first[...]y being Clement Bates who came from Kent, England in To this marriage was born: the ship "Elizabeth" in 1635. Walter Bates was born in Char- 1( William E. Roadarmel , 1-24-20, married[...](Austin) 2( Robert L. Roadarmel, 1-18-21, killed in W.W.11 Bates, natives of Rhode Island. He came to Montana in 1884. A 3( Jack 0 . Roadarmel , 8-21-22, married Irene L[...], married Raeleen Kel- Walter Bates was a noted Montana Assayer, a member of the strup[...]Mrs. Elsie Bates lived in Logan until her death in February of 2( Heather A. Roadarmel, 8-13-79[...]Thomas M. Ross was born in Green Lake , Michigan in 1891 3( Ross W. Roadarmel, 8-11-56[...]from Iowa. Thomas Ross lived a short time around Belgrade in 4( Alan S. Roadarmel, 7-11-58, married Teresa[...]d Kathleen Hagen Railway roundhouse in Logan. Mr. Thomas Ross was killed in Children: a traffic accident between ~ogan and Manhattan in December[...] |
| [...](Johnson) Harris, in St. Louis, Mo. June was the mother of Children[...]Buck:o.er, her first husband, was killed in a truck accident. Nancy), Caroline Thayer (children - Claudette and Robert) , a A daughter, Arvilla Fay Rude, was born Dec. 2, 1943[...]h, and four sons: Martin continued to live in Laurel til 1951 when they moved to Park (children[...]John and stepson King Walker) , Donald In 1967 C. F. had moved its tank operation to Billin[...]. where he worked til retiring in April of 1979. Currently residing in Montana are; Mr. and Mrs. Thayer June and Orville live in Park City ·where their daughter and John R. Ross[...]rvilla (Rude) McCollom lives, while James· lives in Billings, Belgrade, Mrs. Carolene Hayen of Logan[...]OLE SABO FAMILY Montana, a son of Clinton Rude and Ada Maude (DesChamps) Ole Sabo was a section foreman for the Northern Pacific Rude. Clinton Rude left home in March 1917 to look at some Railroad at d[...]from land and never returned, leaving Maude with a son to raise Great Falls, Mont. to Greyc[...]Sabo, daughter Agnes, and son John moved from In the spring of 1917 she went to work on the Broadw[...]when she years. moved to Logan to be near a school. They raised a boy, Francis, who took their name and his Logan was an awesome place for a small boy; a r iver, a sister took another name of a different family . railroad and a blacksmith shop, all off limits to a small fry . A Agnes worked at the Northern Pacific lunchroom for sev- ((butter paddle" wielded by a mother and two aunts as well as a eral years and son John on the section. grandmother, provided a shocking bit of education. This was[...]inished grade school and two years of high school in in addition to two years of school in the old school house at the[...]Logan and two years of high school in Manhattan, graduating east end of Main Street whe[...]in 1926. He then went on to finish his education at[...]sity of Minnesota, graduating in 1933 as a doctor. He started Maude married A. J. Ranger August 4, 1922. The summer of on his own in Three Forks and later moved to Bozeman where 1924[...]tayed until retiring. Orville completed school in Laurel. He joined the C.C.C.'s He and his wife are still at home in Bozeman. They have a and was stationed at Olney, Montana, Company 955 , in 1934. daughter Sally who lives . in California, two sons, Tom an Later a time was spent at Fort Peck working on the spillway. attorney who with his family reside in Bozeman and Richard, From 1937 til 1939 he hauled produce for Ike Brady of Boze- a surgeon who also resides in Bozeman. man and J. T. Hale of Laurel.[...]is recalls the good times he and the young people in[...]skating and going to dances in the winter but he worked on the section in the summer to get his education.[...]1900 in Butte. He was raised in the family home in Logan by[...]was terrified offeathers. Grandma Olsen had a feather duster[...]threaten to - transformed him into a model child.[...]ears old and Going to work for Bice Truck Lines in 1940 as a driver and went from door to door announcing he had a baby sister, much mechanic in 1947 he was made shop foreman. When Bice Tank to his Mother's embarrassment. He treated her as a sister and Lines sold to Consolidated Freightways[...]vision, was always like an older brother in our home. in 1956, he was hired by them as a Shop Superintendant for Harry attended grade school in Logan. He lived in Butte the Montana Division. After 1976 Consolidat[...]their Montana interests and he worked for them as a school he returned to Logan where[...]life working for the Northern Pacific at depots in Logan, February 2,1943 he married June (Harris)[...]Trident and Manhattan. He also clerked in the Trident groc- was born, June 26, 1923 a daughter of Everett Harris and Ann[...] |
| [...]e. October 23, 1943 he married Ferne Ridgeway in Bozeman. until 1900 when he died of pneumonia, just six weeks before |
| Mr. Shannon was a member of the Old Timers Cowboy Association. He loved rodeos and was a good cowboy on his own. He and his wife ,[...]known among his friends) passed away at age 91 in Bozeman leaving two sisters to survive him, Margu[...]th (Babe) . Mayer of Helena. He had been preceded in death by his wife, Louise and four sisters. Mr. Shannon is buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens at Bozeman. ABRIBFONSAMSHARMAN |
| 19, 1859. As a young man he went to Little Rock, Arkansas,[...]ed by their son , daughter and spou ses, was held in M. Bielby on February 5, 1886. She was born August 4, 1871 in March 1961. A host offriends and relatives came to help them Wi[...]his violin playing at settled at the Milk Ranch, a stage station, about fifty-two square da[...]was neces- hard work making these groups a success. Mr. Snow was a sary for Arthur to be a "pony rider", delivering mail, and fift[...]nie took over the kitchen duties with the help of a Chinese a fifty-eight year member of the Eastern St ar Chapter in cook.[...]future generations. near Quartz, Montana, in turn trying his hand at farming, It is with a great sense of pride and humility that I am worki[...]way which he continued to do until his retirement in people, my parents, Howard F. and Ber[...]at Logan, Mont. brother Howard A. Snow and family , as well as my own. Howard F. Snow and M. Bertha Leonard were married in[...]Henry Sorenson and I were married in Bozeman Jan. 22, Two children were born to thi[...]lison of 1919. He was section foreman at a small railroad station Logan, Mont. and Howard A. Snow of Klamath Falls, Oregon. called[...]d to the gronnd. with railroad people, they lived in several places between Butte and Helena on the west to Mandan, No. Dakota on the We moved into a one-room storage building for a short time , east. They were stationed near Terry, Mont. for twenty-one then we had a chance to move to a section house at Muir. This years and when that station was closed, due to the diesel en- was_a station where passenger trains stopped and you co[...]al years. The next move was to Wilsall , Montana, a in January 1966. Mildred moved to Logan, Montana whe[...]hern Pacific Railroad from Livingston. she bought a home and still resides. In 1968 she married Alvin Henry was foreman there for about a year. Ellison of Manhattan, Mont. He passed away in 1972. She has While living in Wilsall our daughter was born in Oct. 1925. two stepsons - Dale of Manhattan and J[...]afterwards so we moved to Livingston for a few months where After a hitch in the Navy during World War II, Howard A. Henry worked as relief foreman for those on sick leave or came back to Montana and attended M.S.U. in Bozeman. He vacation. He finally got a chance for steady work in Whitehall had married Marjorie Poepping in June 1945, whose father so we moved and stayed there until our daughter was ready to was also a Signal Maintainer for the Northern Pacific Rail-[...]out of Whitehall. way. Howard taught high school in Moccasin and Columbus, Mont. moving to Clatskanie, Ore. in 1961. After teaching Roadmaster J . L[...]ved to Klamath Falls, Ore. where Sorenson a gift from fellow employees at his recent retirement they still reside. Howard retired from teaching in December party at Logan for 52 years of[...]and track supervisor, W . A . Tecca, Feb. 1966. They have two adopted chil[...]andchildren, Michael and Kendra Bell. All reside in Klamath Falls. Howard F. and Bertha Snow first came to Logan in 1923 and Mildred attended school there for one year. In 1924 they were transferred to Laurel, Mont. then to Elton, a wide place in the road nineteen miles east of Livingston. Afte[...]gan, Allard (east of Glendive) then Bozeman again in January 1942, and back to Logan in the summer of 1942. This was their last move and at that time they bought a home in Logan, where Mrs. Snow still resides. Mr. Snow suffered a stroke in January 1970; shortly after returning from Orego[...]nd, where all had spent the holidays with Howard A. and family. He passed away in Sept. 1972 after over sixty-one years of[...] |
| [...]The missing barns, now in use on the John Gillespie Ranch on[...]water, and they built a cistern to catch drainwater and hauled[...]t water by drilling and went to 400 feet but only a[...]ng water from them so Ed gave Bumgartner $100 for a right-of-way and right to dig a well in the same coulee in which his well was dug. With the help of a man he dug a well[...]supplies water for the Ralph Green Ranch. Needed a lot of[...]water then for the horses that did the work in the fields. With the disappointment in drilling for water there fol- Audry Sorenson, dau[...]lived there for five or six years finally renting a house in Logan for a few In the fall of 1916, Ed bought a Model T Ford from an agent, years. The depot agen[...]Jim Strachan. He moved to trials of owning a horseless carriage but when later asked Bozeman, living a few years more. We lived in Logan 36 years. about the trials he said he'[...]When Henry retired some of the railroad men gave a party After the disappointments as named before, the rains came for him at our house. It was also a sort of farewell party in the 20's and crops were good again but June 27, 1[...]thquake. By this time and on low prices, 30 cents a where Henry passed away in March of 1970. Our <laugher bushel for wheat and maybe $1.00 a day if you were lucky to lives in Longmont, is married and has three grandchildren. get a job, the depression was on and along with a 10-year Her name is Mrs. Pat Cole. drought. I remarried in April of 1971 and my name is Emma Drage[...]nd any longer so bought the Boomer now and I live in Bozeman.[...]Creek Cattle Assn. for 18 years in the Tobacco Root Mts. under THE E[...]to William B. and Lucy (Nave) They had a son born Oct. 13, 1912. Tinsley. Both of their parents were born in Kentucky, later Ed once visited the hom[...]long to make the place Virginia City. Ed B.joined a wagon train at St. Joe, Missouri, look nice. It stands as a landmark of past memories and cared the train con[...]es, and came overland. They met and married there in 1867. Ed was are in use in the valley. from a family of four boys and four girls, he being the[...]T TREMBATH HISTORY worked for the Green brothers. In 1908 and 1909 during the Margaret Brown Trembath was born in Doublin, Ireland in homestead fever they filed on a homestead in the Horseshoe 1884. She moved to Boston, Mass. when only 16 years of age. Hills north of Logan and in 1911 bought another fourth sec- She remain[...]r several years when she tion west of them making a half section. They built a home of came to Butte, Montana.[...] |
| [...]Norma married Alfred Tennant, lives in Leslie, Michigan,[...]Alex, Norma (Tennant) Wake and a former teacher, Miss She visited the McKinnon R[...]utte. They moved to the Madison Valley and rented a farm close to the McKinnon farm but later bought a farm close to Logan, Mont. where they farmed for[...]s of Kalispell, Montana. They made many friends in the Logan area. Mrs. Trembath passed away in 1949. Mr. Trembath con- tinued to live on the ranch until his death in 1957. ROLLAND WAKE FAMILY HISTORY |
| [...]citement when a car did go by. Front row, L. to R.: Helen, Jerry[...]Mother had started working at the lunchroom in Logan, so I Harry Strachan.[...]a short time as the new brick school on the hill was finished Wash., David who is in the service in Greece, Mike in Alaska that fall and put into immediate use.[...]well and missed a lot of school, so when Christmas vacation Jerry lived in Lansing, Mich. and served in Australia arrived my tonsils were remove[...]orld Wa-,; II) had one child, Leanne Wake, living in Port mended I stay out for the remainder of[...]ts and give her some 'Home Brew'."· Imagine such a Mabel (Wake) Gmazel lives in Grand Rapids, Mich. and has suggestion toda[...]w where Mom got the beer, but six children: Leroy in Snoqualimie, Wash., Donald of Sno- remembe[...]Farming in 1925 was apparently more encouraging, be-[...]ch., Alden of Eaton Rapids, Mich., Elsie Ehora is a missio- earthquake occurred and dried up all sources of water, so, it nary in the Phillipines, Gerri Lee Dunning lives in Eaton was move again. This time to a place west of Logan and back to Rapids, Mich. and[...]school; there by means of a horse and buggy with sisters Edna Helene (Wake) Toggart has one child living in Orleans, Ind. and Lena. Later Dad rented a place a mile east of Logan and Mrs. Wake was an aunt t[...]entator and also instigator of Big Sky for a little girl· in the fourth and fifth grades it was really Resort in Gallatin Canyon south of Bozeman. miserable in the winter time.[...]Economics again called for a change. This time to Trident GEORGIE[...]Birdie" Burrell Olsen; all of whose histories are in ;t-:. this book. I was born at the Burrell homestead June 26, 1916 with Dr. E. C. Whitehead in attendance. I have a vivid mem- ory of six years later, when he removed my tonsils in his office in Bozeman. Dad had taken me that morning from Logan[...]g it ready to be taken for trade at Parnacott and Sterling's grocery in Three Forks. Another is of family picnics[...] |
| [...]he bus to Three Forks for high school, graduating in 1934. That fall I went to Butte Business College. Upon return- ing home for summer vacation in 1935 I met George Wel- lhouser who was a lodger at the hotel. It didn't take us long to de[...]town of Craig, north of Helena is named, arrived in 1864. Henry Wellhouser came to Ft. Shaw, Montana with the U.S. Infantry in 1866. Upon being discharged three years later he homesteaded near Cascade. In 1881 he journeyed back to New Jersey where he mar[...]eturned to the Cascade farm. The family still has a sewing machine Sarah purchased from a dressmaker in St. Louis on the way to Montana. Both grandfather[...]il the fall of 1936, then returned to Trident for a short Kathryn (Topsy) (Flynn) Toner, sister-in-law of Dr. Chas. time. We then moved to Logan and[...]Whitehead. Her band played for many dances in and around George enlisted in the Air Force. We operated the California Logan in the 1920's. Company service station and bulk plan[...]ent Cement Co. were George eventually established a plumbing and electrical bus- taken to Butte for surgery. He used many modes of transporta- iness and in later years added motorcycle sales and parts and[...]workers, also caboose did repair work. He retired in 1977. behind an engine. He had the first car and hired a driver so he I went to work the first week in January of 1950 for Leonard could sleep whil[...]Sometimes he stayed several days waiting for a baby to until retiring April 28, 1978. arrive. He once delivered a 2 lb. baby. The baby was placed in a Since then we have enjoyed some traveling in our warm lined shoe box and placed .in a warm oven. The little one motorhome and just taking our ease at home in Manhattan. was fed with an eye dropper. She grew up to be a BIG GIRL.[...]. Dr. Whitehead married Eleanor Flynn in Nov. 1916 at[...]HOMER WHITE FAMILY HISTORY School Omaha, Neb. in 1910. After graduating he came to St.Homer White was born Oct. 18, 1903 in Bozeman, Mont. to[...]Tom and Nellie (Short) White. James Hospital in Butte, Montana where he was first surgeon residen[...]Homer was raised on a ranch in Bridger Canyon. His folks[...]hitehead. In 1928 Homer worked on the road in the West Gallatin[...]Canyon. He drove four head of horses on a Fresno. It was here[...]he met Tex Simpson who had taken a job as the night wrangler[...]our daughters , Camilla (White) Babcock who lives in Butte, Mont. Jeanne (White) Norbeck who lives in Escondido ,[...]The family left Bridger Canyon in 1942 and leased the Homer Dunbar Ranch in the lower Madison River Valley[...]The Whites were divorced in 1947 after which Homer made[...]his home with Tex Simpson in Logan.[...]for a large ranch in Arizona for several years and al o ran a pack string in the Sierra N evadas in Calif. for a couple of ' summers. He rode for the 320 ranch in Gallatin Canyon and[...]Homer was also a rodeo rider in his younger years, riding in[...] |
| [...]e Park and Sedan. leaving her work in a Boston dry goods store. In the fall of 1932 Homer and Tex Simpson were partners in Her pleas to remain behind were rejected by her father who a Wild Horse round up for the U.S. Government in the moun- said, "I'll leave no lodestone behind!" tains north of Townsend, Mont. They were paid $4.00 a head The family of five traveled from Bo[...], for the wild horses delivered at the stockyards in east Helena then boarded a riverboat which brought them up the Missouri on t[...]oking for Ward S. Williams' family's first home in Montana Territoy the project.[...]Highway No. Both Homer and Tex were interested in the Three Forks 10. Picture taken Oct. 1981 . People to right - Glen (Mrs. A. E.) Saddle Club and the Three Forks Rodeo Associ[...]eldt, great-granddaughter of Ward S. Williams and a son helped with the rodeo for several years. One[...]and family. It was homesteaded and built in the 1870's by Alpheus won 1st and 2nd prizes. Nichols, his history in book. Homer was married to Arlene Dingman in 1947. They had two children Linda (White) Daniels[...]think he had an enemy. He was fatally injured in a highway accident and died March 10, 1970. His daughers still own the little house in Logan where he and Tex Simpson spent so many wint[...]litiamen, came to the Gallatin Valley from Boston in 1879. They were accompanied by their three[...] |
| to Fort Benton in Montana Territory. From there they rode in wagons to the home Ward had selected on a previous trip. Their two-story log house, locate[...]Annie taught school at Logan, and it was there at a com- munity dance that she met a cowboy named David Breneman. He had headed west after his discharge fro~ the Union Army and worked on a ranch at Pony. Annie filed a homestead claim near the Madison River about seve[...]On November 15, 1881 she and David were mar- ried in Helena and returned to the homestead. Four of the[...]orn, Arthur, lived only 11 months, and was buried in a hilltop cemetery near (across U.S. 10) the Willia[...]s remains were moved to the Sunset Hills Cemetery in Bozeman in 1918. Alice and Eva both married and left the Gallatin Valley. In Water wheel that was ocated on Gallatin Riv_er at[...]ard and Flavilla bought land north of Rocks about a mile north of Logan. Used for irrigation. Bozeman, and they lived out their lives in the Bozeman area. Ward S. Williams died in 1906 at the age of 77, and Flavilla died in 1907, at age 76. In 1889 David Breneman bought land in the Pass Creek area north of Bozeman, and he, An[...]en all grew up and went to Bozeman schools. Then in 1918 their son Duburg and his wife Rilla died within the same week from the flu. In 1920 David, Annie, two of the orphaned grandchil[...]ie moved to Anaconda where Annie Jr. taught math in the high school for 29 years. D~vid passed away in 1932, the next-to-the-last living Civil War veteran in Anaconda, at 88 years of age. Annie was 86 when she died in 1943. Both are buried in the Sunset Hills Cemetery in Bozeman. Logan Town Baseball Team 1923. L to R[...]Outfield,· George |
| [...]MBARD not one person in our Swarts family has had the desire to Lombard had a very small store owned by John Tullock. I re[...], LOMBARD school in Three Forks. Harriet married Emil Czehura and[...]banks of the Missouri River and at the they live in Butte, Montana.[...]its founding but depended mainly on two uppermost in mind, meeting the passenger trams connected[...]The town was named for A.G. Lombard, civil engineer for the · How could[...]ghting of the first Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1925 Lombard experienced an automobile driven ove[...]and town with two trans-continental railroads and a coal mine the effects ofit were felt for about 50 miles. Lombard, because supported a good many tax dollars for road building, but we[...]uake, was shut off from the rest of the world for a had no roads into Lombard until approximately for[...]My memories of Lombard are pleasant ones; a happy home the railroad tracks. The ground swells were fearsome. I'll with caring parents and a sister, and the scenery we had about never forget[...]d their depots. Missouri River cutting through a gap in the mountains and Althoug:h every build[...] |
| [...]down in the bottom of the canyon! It was lots prettier do[...]railroad here more'n twenty years ago; and right in here - you can see it's a leetle steep, pullin!, my engineer used[...]there and ketch a whole mess of trout. Say! But they was[...]times! Railroadin' ain't what it was in them days! Now-a-days[...]Mrs. Peter M. Myers, Aboard a Milwaukee train[...]ed there two weeks as no trains were running. ers in early spring and summer. Our state flower, the Bitter- The hotel was operated by a Chinaman named Billie Kee. A root, bloomed profusely on one. hill across the M[...]el and told us to get ready as the from our home. In winter we had ice skating and coasting - train was leaving in three hours. and in the summer we could go swimming and picnicking.[...]s. My Mountain climbing was enjoyable, especially in the spring youngest sister was three months old s[...]oved and even some of the There was George Evans, a mining operator; Tom O'Neal, a railroad tracks are gone. The automobile road into Lombard is gambler and Pat Bahey, a sheepherder, and also some other still passable b[...]k Mashino The weather was very nice and warm in Lombard and the[...]ilroad ran up the Sixteen Mile Canyon. We came to a station called Summit in a regular blizzard and could go no farther.[...]equipment they have now days. We were seven days in one[...]The railroad was built by a Mr. Harlow. When we left[...]We had enough to eat as they had a cook car along but our[...]opened the car and got a wash basin full of snow and set it on[...]n would be going East and one West For a good many years after Lombard was settled in as a if traveling the same way as the Milwaukee crosses the town, the only way in and out of there was by train, horseback N.P.R.R.[...]and East, while the N.P. or walk. It is true once in a while a drunk would drive down the goes on West to the co[...]track but would have to be taken out on a flat car. In about 1929 the town finally got a road (story elsewhere). FROM "THE COMING OF[...]Mile Canyon and all who going the same direction in the narrow canyon south of Lom- loved canyons got[...]llman. An bard, they are going the same direction in railroad lingo, the elderly man had preceded us a[...]nute you strike it," said the elderly I saw a circus in Lombard, believe it or not, a small one got man quickly, "there ain't no other air in all the world like it, it stranded there for a short time. How the word got around jest lifts ye[...]ld be real bad if about it I don't know but quite a few people were to see it. They he lived out here in Montana~ 1 After a time he spoke again, pitched the tent over the N.[...]had some ponies, elephants and monkeys. The once in awhile it's jest downright wicked but land! it ai[...]orm as they were busy eating the grass along this in an apologetic tone, as if he feared he had done the river the track. A movie, <'The Wreck of Old 97", was made at[...] |
| [...]The story of the Jawbone Railroad is a fascinating story of[...]Richard T . Harlow in a story from the Harlowton Times,[...]known as the ttJawbone" in the summer of 1890. I was living in[...]na. There was great excitement all over the state in those days in mining circles. Someone had discovered silver and[...]lead in the Castle Mountains. The Cumberland mine had a[...]mall smelter. The coke for the smelter was hauled in wagons[...]Pacific and a cry arose from the two thousand men who got ing i[...]their mail at Castle for a railroad, Helena was wide awake and Lombard was[...]dSit heard the call". A Chinese by the name of 'Nilliam 'Fey ran the hotel in Mr. Harlow managed with his partners Moore and Whitney Lombard for a time. He was married to a white worp~n Alice to start the constructio[...]°-'7 but later divorced. Ni ~ ~,d~ f-ises to pay in freight when the road was completed. Ranchers In Sept. of 1927, a fire thought to have started from sparks who coop~rated claimed that the land was paid for in full, that scattered by a N.P. locomotive, destroyed the general store, c?1[...]ho were store also contained the post office, and in all, the total loss not so well satisfied. was approximately $10,000. ~ ~A~K~CM..l~~ l'A.. tf{'l.fld 3 e,h,tttte.._ ""t'f[...]AN WHO DROVE INTO LOMBARD One day in the quiet little town of Lombard, at the intersec- tion of the Northern Pacific and Milwaukee railroads in the Missouri river canyon, the people welcomed their first auto- mobile after forty years without a motor or horse propelled vehicle. Pearl Herndon,[...]ord dis- tributor of Bozeman, drove into the town in a new Ford as a demonstration to the commissioners of Broadwater county that a road was feasible into this vehicleless town. Moreover trying to sell motor cars in the little railroad town would be ttuphill" business without a road, Herndon knew. The de- monstration served its purpose and now Lombard has a road. Herndon drove in from the backway, down a steep hill where the only vehicle to enter that way had been a wagon which had to be ttrough-locked" and held back with ropes. One or two others in cars, had driven in, when a little high, down Ja wbone Roundhouse a[...]tJtlY/ by loading the car on a flat car, the same way the wagon was[...]yed but they blocked the wheels to give the motor a rest. Pearl was one hour were all redeemed at face value. going into the town, in three places sliding all fr. u! · · ·eels, and In the spring of 1894 money was again r aised to pay ex- one and a half hours going back. penses. A bleached jaw bone was fastened to a post near the The result of Herndon's trip, th[...]s painted uNo More". From tha missioners surveyed a road practically along ( t; way he 1[...]ith W.W. Lombard as chief construc- roadless town in the Rockies, and the only one without a tion engineer. The roadbed follow[...]and South Shortly after completion of the road a lot of Model A Fords forks and from that point it foll[...]r stood on the streets of Lombard. The 1929 Model A Roadster wer no tunnels nor cuts d[...]ade the FIRST trip into Lombard was later sold to a A quote from Mr. Harlow: tiw had a frightful tim getting Miss Ford, a teacher in the Anceny school near Manhattan,[...] |
| [...]plies. We finally got the train through and in some means[...]ling ore to Helena. Our road was finished and for a[...]snow melted in April and came down 16 Mile Creek in a great[...]Martinsdale, then Harlowton and finally, in the fall of 1903, to[...]was constantly in need of financial assistance. The Butte[...]Miner, Nov. 1, 1903 in an article entitled ''Railroad Com-[...]uction was made possible, not by money Box canyon in s-ixteen mile is less than 1 /2 mile long. When t[...]R.R. Co. was building through the canyon it took a jawbone." team and wagon to travel 60 mi[...]quote from Mr. Harlow, "I got a telegram from a Northern[...]fficial telling me his company was about to issue a which is scarcely one-half mile long. We had trou[...]and their distances from thing with which we came in contact. The want of more money Lombard.[...]re no towns on the line but was always staring us in the face." that afternoon I drew up a schedule and located towns, plenty Finally in the fall of 1897 we got as far as Leadboro. On th[...]for Lombard loaded with passengers. It was caught in the ladies were visiting my house. We calle[...]river at Lombard before Snowbound on the Jawbone in the early 1900's. it[...] |
| [...]Lo°J-..l'l • :lo.r;a,-,[...]Map of Montana ( Jawbone) R.R. flood track in many places as it followed the bottom of the cany[...]orthern Pacific for construction funds, bonds and a freight agreement.[...]io ru,1<! .111.t 1 nthJlll! 011,l p1tr 1~· in n•, 111i at~8 • ~ hcn•ina the nd ~ ontrH tnr h. ~ n~n·et.t ~o tak, •[...]ards, the 4.-"t' ,uf"! or :t"l~l~U .. , a11(i 1h,1[...]"! washouts, the wrecks, etc. Aa. I 111111 if thea Nttftmt~ ar· ""' p,, ,,I h~·[...].,r 1 , .,~, fur ,•,1< h 1111111 h. ,, p,,rt of a m,m1h thnt we may lw rmph•~ r.1. •n•I th.11 m n we And that was about a week ago and He hasn't reached there[...]e, the fact we can't EARTHQUAKE IN SIXTEEN MILE CANYON deny A well written article in the August 1925 issue of THE Was running pretty r[...]ern end of Deer For somewhere out along the line, in a snow bank she is stuck. Park to dam up Sixteen Mile Creek and form a lake "from The Jawbone is a rambler that rambles everywhere[...]ks on the The way it gets to Lewistown would make a Christian swear. tracks between Lombard and Three Forks and in some places[...] |
| Earthquake of June 27, 1925 in Sixteen Mile Canyon, blocking Digging out creek bottom for Shoo-fiy, note creek back up in a Milwaukee R.R. passenger train between two tunnel[...]yon. Much damage sengers or train crews traveling in the two sections of No. 15. occurred in many places along the road between Three Forks Th[...]ng for the tunnel on west end of slide, shoo-fiy (a track Assistant Master Car B[...]through opening, to riding as a passenger in the first section, gave a "graphic right was the part that fell on tracks.[...]reached a point three quarters of a mile west of Barr9n when[...]they experienced what was thought to be a "sun kin)( under[...]and a cascade of rocks flowing over the tracks and boun[...]time when the earth heaved upward, accompanied by a[...]With the aid of a detachment of soldiers riding in the first[...]ection the train crew was able to locate and move a hand car[...]train and over rocks to work their way to Eustis in[...]wrecking crews, an auto-delivery car and a steam locomotive[...]were employed did the two sections finally arrive in Three[...]mention to Mr. Greer and Mr. Earling in charge of the wreck-[...]ing c ews, as well as Conductor Sterling, Engineer Flynn,[...]he couldn't recall by name. A constant service without stop-[...]ing took place from 6:19 p.m. June, 27th, to 7:10 a.m. June[...]No. 8 began, with the decision to build a shoo-fly in a 16 degree[...]tum around the spur of the mountain. It required a carload of[...] |
| [...]early 300 men were employed to work day and night in hip deep water and over the rocky barrier caused by the quake. A steam engine, upon completion of laying the track[...]h not furnished with electric equipment. Note: A penciled notation on the cover of the magazine stated it took four months before the damaged -portion in Sixteen Mile Canyon was open for traffic.[...]ATER DISTRICT NO. 18 The schoolhouse was built in 1916 by A. J. LaBeck on land donated by him. The school room was 31 by 31 with a hard- wood floor, store rooms and 2 entrance halls. There was a full basement with furnace and 2 indoor toilets with cesspools. The teacherage had two rooms at first. Later a living room was added. On the outside there was a barn and 2 outhouses. The school was located about 1½ miles from Stanley Spur, a flag stop on the N.P. Railroad.[...]A lean LaBeck, Forrest LaBeck, Elvin Hale. Front Ro[...]Darryl LaBeck. , school yard by the creek, a large tile set in, the pipe put in, the tile tapped and sealed and dirt filled back in leaving just the pipe exposed for the pump. The l[...]ght at the Harbison school. old well was open and a horse had fallen in, and pump was Next teacher was Miss M[...]lowed by Dana gone from the second well, but when a pebble was dropped in, LaBeck (Mrs. A.J.), Ethel LaBeck was' school clerk for many wate[...]W.L. Stockton, a school board member, thought the children[...]by the stub in the evening to be met by parents to get them[...]held in the front room of the teacherage. The Mallots had[...]their log home, used it for a classroom. The teacher was Mrs.[...]In about 1926/27 Gladys Reinelt taught one pupil, Ho[...]when cold weather came she had school in her room at the[...]p from Lombard to attend school with Mrs. Stewart in 1917. Lester Page fol-[...] |
| [...]den Gulch teacher. place in Pole Gulch, along with Hollis and Lola Hale. She[...]Elvin Hale. A teacher, Ellie Roseberry, followed Evelyn and[...]this time that District No. 18 was again put back in[...]in buildings on a place west of Manhattan. A building was purchased from the Milwaukee Railroa[...]a school at Lombard about 1911. It was large enough[...]school was held in the front part and the back rooms were[...]In early May 1879, Ed Gardner and wife, Flora, of[...]Graham, Missouri, started out for a new life in Montana. They[...]ares, to carry the family and supplies to load on a steamer[...]After a rest and getting supplies, they went overl[...] |
| [...]s younger son, Wilbur Cuthbert from heavy travel. In places, they had to put on an extra team ([...]rld War II, he began ~t night they would pitch a tent to keep dry, as it was the farming the land. He then bought land in the Horseshoe Hills ramy season. They finally arr[...]mock and Lois Lorraine Ed Gardner soon started a real estate and insurance busi- Haas were united in marriage. They lived on the homestead of ness. Ch[...]years. While making Joe began doing janitor work in the Commercial Bank later their home[...]raising Dimock arrived at the hospital in Bozeman, Montana. For four cattle. They headed fo[...]Bench and on July 17, 1947, she was joined by a brother, opening in the canyon, the grass was high and a beautiful Ellwyn Cuthbert Dimock. Arr[...]little family to their newly acquired home on a ranch near White Cloud", He inquired where he cou[...]k family. She was named Bramer's cattle looked in good shape so Charley borrowed Glenda D[...]ol. Ellwyn and Les whl,ch he used 'til he retired in 1921. Dimock continue to operate the ranch at Trident and in the[...]s earlier After the hard winter of 1883 caused a terrible loss of cattle sold to the Price fam[...]University at Bozeman and graduated with a degree in secon- the first of May. Each morning the cook wa[...]ry education. She went on to teach home economics in after breakfast to a place where the boys would be at dinner[...]ermopolis, Wyoming before time. When they came to a river, they emptied the water retur[...]e cattle had to swim. They were united in marriage. This union was blessed with two reached[...]being born on July 20, cattle to Chicago and got a very good price. 1966 and ruling the roost until he was joined by a brother, On the way back, Charley took the tra[...]Charles McElwee moved his family to many places in Mon- and brought her to Montana. They raised six[...]tana, Wyoming, and Idaho, while he worked for a tree trim- girls - Mary, Helen and Bessie, and th[...]' to live. The Baker family lived in Sixteen Mile Canyon for twenty On D[...]l years before it was surveyed. They were granted a homestead resting place and was followed in death by her husband Cub and a desert claim. When the Northern Pacific Railway c[...]k on March 9, 1971. Charles McElwee followed them in through they were granted every odd section. In later years, death on November 14, 1977.[...]ontinue to help operate the ranch, so bringing to a ing from the east, hoping to make fortunes.[...]story of the Dimock family. Dryland farming was a losing game, because of drought and hail. One by[...]y available acre and planted wheat. in Garden Gulch in June of 1910, about two weeks after their Sometimes he would get a crop and more often disaster struck daughter, Ree was born. She was born June 17, 1910 in Boze- before harvest. Wheat sold at that time for 27 cents a bushel. man, Mont. in a nursing home. Their son, Elvin Cecil was two Labor was cheap. Often men would feed cattle in the winter for years old at the time, he was born in Willow Creek, May 10, their board, as jobs were s[...]sold out and retired to California. Anna died of a Later on the Hales had two more children, Hollis Lee, who heart attack in 1926. Charley died in 1934. was born Sept. 13[...]1923. Both were born in Bozeman in a nursing home. ' THE DIM[...]Mrs. Hale was born Aug. 14, 1881 in Willow Creek 1 her The family of Nettie Jane (Si[...]ley and Lucy Ann (Nave) Tinsley, Three Forks area in the year of 1908. She, her daughter, Lola who were pioneers in the Willow Creek area. They were from Annie Dimoc[...]stock from the Fort Mr. Hale was born in Livingston Co., Mo. Feb. 8, 1877, his[...] |
| [...]Ernest, Lucy Mae. Orchard on Ernest Hale place in Garden Gulch, in Horseshoe Front row, L . to R .: Lola, R ee and H[...]ir homestead to Lester Sanford and moved to Irene A. was born in Livingston Co, Mo ., however, her parents Sea[...]he was twenty-one and onto the house in back, also added a porch on the front. When Lucy and he was married in Willow Creek April 7, 1904. They Lester's[...]ern beans. tead in Garden Gulch, they lived in a tent. It was a very wild area , Lucy became quite nervous when m[...]t at night. Mr. Hale (Ernest) as he was stead in 1937 and moved to 16 Mile Creek, onto the old Sharp better known as, built a two room home , a large barn, shop, place. A couple of years later fire swept across Garden Gulch chicken house and a cow barn, all of logs. He planted an an[...]te and black currants and sand cherries. He built a dam in the creek and ran a ditch from it to water a large The Hales lived on 16 Mile Creek[...]garden and the orchard and the water came out of a spout by when they moved to Manhattan. Lat[...]d to Central the house where it was handy for use in the home . Then the Park. Mrs. Hale died J[...]itch continued on down the hill and came out into a large 1958, both in the Bozeman Deaconess Hospital in Bozeman, tank in the corral for watering the stock. It was a very_conve- and are buried in the Willow Creek Cemetery. nient set up until the earthquake in 1925 caused the creek to Elvin Hale marri[...]live in Arkansas. Their children are Mildred Ree and Malc[...]July 20, 1931 and they live near Ernest Hale home in Garden Gulch . Ma[...]Hollis was married to Eileen.Fanning in Australia Aug. 25, 1945 and their home is in Oregon. Their children are Monty[...]home is in Alaska. They have two children Bruce Allen and[...]flowers that grew there. In the spring the hillsides were co-[...]There were many people who homesteaded in Garden Gulch and a large schoolhouse was built where Elvin an[...] |
| [...]Garden Gulch got their mail at Lombard, which was a small town where the Milwaukee and' Northern Paci[...]rs and their families lived there, also there was a small grocery store along with the post office. It was three and a half miles from the Hale homestead to Lombard, th[...]iam Cecil Hale, brother of James Ernest, was born in Missouri, near Chillicathe, the son of William Burke Hale, Jr. and Irene (Gaben) Hale. He came to Montana in 1910 and homesteaded in Upper Garden Gulch where he built a frame house, log barn and other buildings. He mar[...]Billie and family, proprietor of Hotel in Lombard when Jaw-[...]The promoters of the Railroad were having a time raising money so paid their help a lot of time with script. Kee took it[...]for pay on room and board and accumulated a lot of it. He also[...]made wise investments and ran a clean hotel and served good[...]He sent to China for a woman of aristocratic stand-[...]the hotel business in Lombard had no future and as he had[...]General Store at Lombard. Pike. Later he raised a crop of dry land beans on the McDonald[...]BILLIE KEE FAMILY Billie Kee came to Helena as a boy and worked as a servant in Senator and Mrs. Thomas Carter's home. He appeared to be a bright and ambitious individual so the Senator he[...]real fast and was soon as well informed as anyone in politics and business. He was thrifty as all Chinese and had soon accumulated enough money to go in business for himself so started a hotel in Lombard where the 11 Montana Railroad", or[...] |
| [...]l turmoil, he Arthur Ramsden was married in So. Tacoma, Wash. and was ready to fulfill his dr[...]has 6 children, some located in Montana the rest scattered When the Milwaukee[...]the west. full value and as Billie must have had a trunk full , he came out Charlie Malott, a relative cam.; and homesteaded a place a very wealthy man giving him the opportunity to fu[...]River. Some When he first arrived there he was in sympathy with the other things he recalls was riding the Horseshoe Hills for government in power but the government that followed was cattle, exploring, peeking in abandoned mines, hunting in the against Billie's beliefs. It was learned that he was found guilty fall , fishing both in the river and in 16 Mile Creek which was of treason in a revolution and was beheaded.[...]of playing with the Kee boys as they came to play in her sandbox and on her swings in her back- RALPH and LUCY PIKE yard. She and the Kees being the only children in town old George Shay came to the Galla[...]ut 4 years old then. Civil War and settled in the Spring Hill area. Two years later The Kee c[...]of their children The Kee family was well liked in the community and were were Lucy, who m[...]nd her husband, Ralph also A.R.MALOTT bought[...]homesteads of Arthur (Ramsden) Malott was born in 1908 in Tacoma, Washington, son of Lee Malott and came to[...]1 parents in 1909 by Northern Pacific Railroad settling in the A Headwaters area near Lombard , homesteading at th[...]cy Pike, pet bird perched on h~r finger. Mr. Pike in photo at[...]house. A picnic in the early 1900's. L. to R . Ernest Hale, L[...] |
| [...]turned to the family farm in Iowa until 1929 when they moved[...]Dode worked as seamstress for the stars in Hollywood, while[...]behind. In 1936 they moved to Columbia, Missouri, so that[...]offered a position. From there they went to Lexington, Ken-[...]ter spent three years as a WAVE officer in Washington, D.C.[...]ornia, and finally went with her back to the farm in Iowa.[...]Irving, Texas, in 1960, and ''Grammy" went with them. From L. toR.F[...]there she moved with them to Pearland, Texas in 1965, where Della Gilchrist, Grace Gilchrist, Rut[...]Since 1953 she had been more or less confined to a wheel Wright. chair, because of a fall resulting in a broken hip. In 1963 she[...]le and Jack Clary, mak- This injury began a series of illnesses which progressively ing Jack'[...]and was brought back home to to the Clary house, a living room and bedroom. Pearl[...]re for her at home. However, their place they had a good water right from springs and creek despit[...]y at approxi- raised Hamiltonian horses. They had a sorrel stallion named mately 4:30 on the fo[...]that Aunt Dot, as she was called by the children in the A member of the First Baptist Church, "Grammy Dode" neighborhood, drove to a buggy, but was so energetic that she lived a full, good life of service to others and to her daughter would borrow a boy or girl to open gates.[...]standing aid of Ralph and Lucy also speculated in other things and bought Niday Funeral Home,[...]he final chapter of her long, interest- Ranch now a boys ranch.[...]r Ralph's death she stayed on at the Ranch living in the house and renting the land, for a short time. She th~n moved to GEORGE W. SANFORD Bozeman, working at times as a practical nurse:-She bought a George W. Sanford, son of Rev. Charles W.[...]n February 8, 1881, at Dry care of many children. In her last years she lived with her Creek, Ga[...]Western Conference in California. There, young George grew This plac[...]Lolita, and a brother, Lester. DORA ALICE SANFO[...]From 1902 to 1904 he was employed as a surveying engineer Born August 6, 1877, in her family's farm home at Carlisle, and brakeman for the new Southern Pacific Railroad out of Iowa, Dora A. Sanford was the youngest of seven children. Her Ogden, Utah. He resigned in December of 1904 to take father, William H. Hartman, a prominent pioneer of Warren another job as surveyor and brakeman for the Oregon County, was engaged in mercantile and farming pursuits, and Shorel[...]isiting her older married sister, Nevada, in 1905, that he met and fell in love with Dora Alice May Carty, in Winnemucca, Nevada.[...]George W. Carty, owner of the Busch Hotel in Winnemucca, teaded 655 acres of Montana ranch lan[...]lroad workers and travelers made their 1914 when a daughter, Shirley, was born, and the little family headquarters when in the area. moved to Three Forks, Montana.[...]and with George's desire to re- Tragedy struck in May, 1924whenDode'shusband, George, turn to his birthplace in the Rockies, he and ((Dode' (as sh was kil[...] |
| home on a homestead in Roy Gulch, not far from Lombard. 655[...]he time, again went to railroading to make a living for his little family. was a one-room affair, about 10'x12', consisting of a From 1917 until 1924, George, "Dode", and daughter, Shirley, curtained-off sleeping area and a combination living, dining- were residents[...]unity. room, and kitchen. Water was obtained from a nearby ever George routinely advanced from Freight Brakeman to Con- flowing spring, and a large rain barrel added to the water duc[...]for the shorter division trip the homesteaders as a money crop at that time , and George, from Deer Lodge, Montana, to Harlowton, Montana. He was a together with his neighboring ranchers, friends,[...].P.O. Elks Lodge No. training horses, and raising a few head of cattle to supplement 463 , in Bozeman, Montana, and the local Rod & Gun Club, in their livelihood.[...]upon to make the best catch and to bring in the most game. supplies and a bit of relaxation, was reached over a rocky wagon trail to the ''point ofrocks" where h[...]he yards at Harlowton. George had worked that run in sides of the cliffs and the Missouri River bank.[...]uctor enough to be carried by hand or tied behind a saddle could be and was in line for a requested "furlough" when he returned to purchase[...]climbed up to its top. When he failed to report in after the train and heavy purchases had to be mad[...]question in the minds of his family and all who knew him of[...]really happened?" because George was known to be a time in the hills, so when George and "Dode" found that t[...], his wifo, "Dode", and daughter, George, driving a half-broke team , took them in a spring-seat Shirley, were in Iowa, waiting for George to join them on his wagon over the trail to a rooming house at Logan, a thriving "furlough" , but on May 10, 1924, George W. Sanford was railroad town. There, after about a week's stay, "Dode" gave buried in the Hartman family plot in Harford, Iowa, and birth to their daughter, Shirl[...]in Street until 1926, when The homestead house in Roy Gulch became too small, and they went to Montana for "Dode" to finish some of the business by a stroke of good fortune , George and "Dode" were a[...]the properties and to visit with many of move to a much larger place, known as the McDonald house,in the old friends , neighbors, and relative[...]against them, Paul Andrew Swarts was born in 1889 in Johnstown, Pa. however, and finally , after a disastrous hail storm destroyed son of William[...]ford and Grandpa William raised his family on a large wheat farm. _George Sanford.[...]There were fiv~ sons and one daughter in this family .[...]ing farmers and worked for a short time on the Milwaukee[...]During W.W. II, he enlisted in the army and was raised to[...]the rank of Sergeant of the receiving ward in the Fort Lewis Hospital, located in Tacoma, Washington.[...]Lombard as bride and groom in Aug. 1921. Dad continued[...] |
| [...]Paul Andrew Swarts changed his name early in his railroad[...]initials spelled a word often the writer of the message was[...]their sting. I remember his using a rubber band to fasten his[...]us (metal type pencil used to write train orders) in his[...]Dad bought a small ranch about four miles east of Lombard,[...]located close to Cardinal, a spot on the Milwaukee Railroad.[...]While working at Lombard in the earlier years of their[...]marriage, Dad had a couple good dairy milk cows, and he earned a few extra dollars from other Lombard residents se[...]ted the required John H. Tullock operated a general merchandise store, and number of days nec[...]tire him at age 70. (The was postmaster in Lombard for many years. He was born in N.P.R.R. had closed the Lombard position).[...]illings, Mont. She was the man and Livingston in 1891 and worked as a boiler-makP'" for youngest daughter of Alfred Wic[...]Wick. Both parents were from Norway. They married in Minnesota and moved to blllings, later to Fishtai[...]ontana. Mother spent nearly all her school life in Billings. She was employed as a telephone operator, and it was while she was in Columbus she met Dad and married him. During W.[...]Lila is married to Kenneth Biggs, and they live in Town- send, Mont. Lila is a retired schoolteacher, and Ken is a retired Burlington Northern Agent Telegrapher. Th[...]aughters. ldabelle never married. She enlisted in the Navy in W.W. II and is now a retired Burlington Northern telegrapher living in Portland, Ore. Mickey is married to Howard Luhr. She too served in the Navy in W.W. II, returned home and worked for the N.P.R.R[...]and moved to Mataline Falls, Wash. Her husband is a retired maintenance foreman from a dam in that area. They live on homestead land his[...] |
| [...]head of Garden Gulch. the Northern Pacific. For a period of that time he ran a helper |
| [...]Park is only some ten miles away. The Three Forks A description and a proposal for an improved highway has also been designated as a National Historic Landmark. (Prepared in November, 1968)[...]arks by way of Butte, The Madison Buffalo Jump, a spectacular prehistoric ar- Helena and G[...]vailable to the drove great herds of buffalo over a sheer cliff 30 to 50 feet in traveling public. As it is developed and advert[...], exit large numbers of visitors since it is a unique attraction. on Interstate 90. The Buffalo[...]EXPLORATION exit by a narrow, winding graveled highway which needs A scientific survey of the site was made in the summer of improvement before we invite the tr[...]Montana. Another survey and excavation was made in the A STATE PARK summer[...]he University. The Madison Jump is contained on a 640 acre tract secured Ancient hearth site[...]d and the original stones by the State of Montana in 1967. Acquisition was made possi- left in place. On the steep hill side, just below the cliff over ble by the enactment of a statute by the 3.9 th Legislative which the buffalo were driven, an excavation some ten feet Assembly in 1965 authorizing the trading of school lands for square revealed a solid mat of overlapping intertwined buffalo area[...]ots. This dramatic display will be developed into a state park under the direction of the Parks protected by a plastic cover and with the hearth sites an[...] |
| [...]"Characteristically a line of stone piles extends back from[...]area, a cross-section of which is exposed by a recent gully. To[...]a local rancher, an old Flathead Indian told him sm[...]<<Two test pits were made in the bone deposits ... Acco~ing[...]·to Malouf, <. , . a core knife made of basalt was found at the[...]depths in the deposits. In these two pits there were three bone[...]down some twenty inches. Here the bones were in rather good Looking east from observation point,[...]tondition. Between 30 and 36 inches a second bone layer was 19{50.[...]too fragile to recover. At the 50 inch level was a thin 1969 foot paths over the site, marked with[...]teeth and more bone fragments and to construct a picnic area at the edge of the Jump site.[...]ch were badly burned. Bones ex- JUMPS A MONTANA PHENOMENON tended to 65 inches in depth where another sterile layer was For an unknown reason, buffalo jumps center in Montana. encountered and testing was d[...]AGE OF THE JUMP River north of Calgary in southern Alberta, to the southern <<A study of the poin~s on the slope indicates th8:t[...]104th parallel, the eastern boundary of Montana. A few minor ·Middle Period in the Great Plains pre-historic sequence (be- sites have been located in the Dakotas. ginning about 1500 B.C.). Certainly a number of these are DESCRIPTION O[...]period which immediately succeeds Early Man In the summer of 1962, "A Survey of Buffalo Jumps in the in Montana. Northern Plains," was made by Dr. Wesl[...]direction of from the base of the cliff, in the narrow flats are located single· the Natio[...]and occational pot sherds .. ~ several° tion. In making his report he used extensively the descrip[...]were of three shapes: trian- made by Dr. Malouf in 1958. Dr. Hurt's statement contained g[...]deposits and the varieties of "Significance: In the size of its bone deposits, its highly[...]show an occupation that extends over as a long a time period is a major archaeological site. The Jump is situated in an area as any jump that has yet been described in the literature." of high bluffs formed by limes[...]ble, being 7 miles south of Logan, Montana, on a gravel road recently as 1700. Large numb[...]rchaeologist of Beigrade. These artifacts are now in the pos- <<Dr. Carling Malouf gives this des[...]nty, and can be made available for main jump is a cliff at least 30 feet high, making a huge study and display at the Madison[...]f the cliff As the Jump is developed into a· park and recreation site,_ some 150 feet, _b[...]200 feet across. Along the stream bed as a regional .natural history center. The trunks of h[...]d erected their tipis. rified trees exist in numbers in the park site, and near by. <<To the north o[...]vine cuts deeply to These are act"ually in the stage beyond petrification, are divide the[...]llions ofy~ars Jump characteristically contains a grazing area which ex- oid, are aiso to be found in the immediate vicinity. In nearby tends eastward several miles, and from this promontory a clay beds are remains, particularly[...]pliocene camel, also millions of years old. Only a few miles . Continental pivide, can be obtai~E:d. ~astward, al?- equal v_i~¥{ away is a bed of the rare trilobite, the first of th[...] |
| ing a wide range of from 125 to 1 million years. Countl[...]ood) up to ·bottom land wet and al~ali. However, in later years drain 80 million years old. In a museum display of even modest 1ditches have been dug in an attempt to reclaim that portion of proportions[...];3uffalo the land which is alkali. Jump will make a memorable display which will cause the[...]future _roads have been improved, but could stand a lot more work. generations.[...]one Modest funds are available year by year in the budget of the time; the date of its demise is not known but a clipping from an Parks and Recreation Division fo[...]BACUS-STARR NUPTUALS hood of securing ev:en a moderately well built and surfaced (Mr.[...]e good will can be built -up of Hyde were married in this city (Three Forks) last Thursday by advertising an attraction without providing a suitable and afternoon by the Rev. J.C. Patterson[...]ooperation of the State· with the couple sitting in the buggy in front of the parsonage Highway Department and the County, a suitable road for as the groom was so crippled wi[...]m that it was . present purposes can be built for a low cost. By meshing funds inconvenient to leave[...]state and federal govern- Hyde and also conducts a general store. The bride is an estim- : ments costs can be readily met. The construction of a standard able lady of that community where their[...]is an urgent need 1performed by the ~v. Patterson in this state.) in the development of an important attraction of nat[...]A glance through the minutes of the Lyceum shows th[...]Brown, the valley for this book. He passed away in December of 1980, Herbert Jones, L. C. Young, J.P[...], tha~. my effo~s will provide our readers with a glimpse of the Moms Stokes, Ed James. 1892: Jack[...]our search through the old newspap- Crowleys or a re~ative ~( a Crowley live~_on all the places from ers tell us[...]at one time BADLY HURT IN A RUNAWAY Robert Crowley moved from the valley in 1977, being the last On June 18, 1911, Asa Hutchinson, a well-known boy of the Crowley to have lived her[...]chinson went to get Miss Maud Tice to take her to a erations. The Darlinton and Tinder families have lived here picnic. Miss Tice had gotten in the buggy _and Asa was still on since the late[...]ox family has been here the ground with the lines in his hand, when the horses started since 1907.[...]to run and a wheel ran over one of Asa's legs breaking both[...]en the ankle and knee. He arose and tried to take a are listed below: Hotzell, Zuelke, Christiansen[...]ne of the reins and managed to pull the team into a place, Mac Love, McDonnell, Wilcox and C. Willi[...]and then jumped, after the horses had run two and a are some being built on the 20 acre land subdivision sold in the half miles. 1960's by the Fish and Game at[...]Dr. Whitehead, of Logan is attending him. moved in: Smith, Block place, VanDyke, Jack Karp, Doak, Tinder, Richardson, Jorgenson, and the C. A. headquarters as In closing, there are may good people, good land and a fine heritage that we are proud of in our valley. well as the Eros place.[...]to raise cattle, hay and grain to be sold or used in the TICE'S HOT SPRINGS area. Much petrified rock can be found in this area. OPEN FOR FOURTH Several ditches were constructed in the late 1880's..They Tice's Hot Springs in the Madison Valley will be ready for are[...] |
| who has a lease on the property and has for the last few we[...]remodeling and pumping out the plunge to have it in first style, the crowd getting their plates[...]line were served with bread, butter, pickles and a slice of This bathing resort is located along[...]to miles up the valley and was taken over about a month ago by rush along, fill their plates and move on out under the trees in 1Mr. Smith.[...]shade and eat, and allow others to be served and in this County grading crews are working on the[...]of. this week and it is expected that it will be in excellent condi- Immediately after the lun[...]ncer, introduced the Reverend E. E. Loft, who A baseball diamond has been graded near the plunge, and it set out in a clear and concise manner the exact object of the is hoped to schedule some games there later in the season. pleasant gathering, just a get-together meeting said the[...]speaker was a man from the Agricultural College at Bozeman. th[...]first event was a 50-yard dash for boys under 16. Fred Currie Independence Day was celebrated ina[...]nd the arrangements The next event was a 50-yard dash for girls under 16. Cath- ·made for a good time by all, were ample . Fully 150 people w[...]Wilma present. The ''inner man" was satisfied by a large and elegant took second. lunch served on tables in the yard, picnic style. The program The next on the program was a women's nail driving con- arranged was as follo[...]s" test, the contestants standing along a long pole and when they and the "Leans" which was won by the "Fats" after a hard all got to driving it would make you think of one of those struggle, by a score of seven to three. Mike McDonnell um- machine guns in operation. Mrs. Aldrich of Logan proved pired t[...]adison Valley and Henry Murry of Three head with a ball. U .G. Downing may class himself with the fa[...]rn and dancing was George H. Wilcox, who owns a nice ranch up the Madison, . the next thing on th[...]the one known as the Chas. Steven's place, was in the city celebrations and we certainly hope tha[...]Wednesday and left with the Herald a sample ofapples raised Thanks are due to Mr. Ti[...]what can be produced in this country under proper care and[...]of many years of productiv- IN MADISON VALLEY ity. Business men of Three Forks join bands in get-to-getber Mr. Wilcox has most oflas[...]meeting them on their own and from the condition in which they have passed through the ground at a barbecue early part of the winter, they ought to bring him a top market Three Forks Chamber of Commerce an[...]at they could get Mr. Wilcox has great faith in this county as a fruit section, :together by staging a huge barbecue at the Tice Ranch up the based on h[...]nce was splendid, being some- . farmer could have a payiJ:!g 9rchard if they would _study frui~ where in the neighborhood of 500 present. A beef was roasted culture and devote a little time to the subject, and the mer- in the open _b y an experien~ed man, the serving was in charge chant would make an effort to create a market for home of C. Hens_ley, Jimmie Lane, Fred Lane, E. VanHorson and A. produce.[...] |
| While attempting to cross the Madison River at a well Mr. John Ingram, secretary of the Pioneers' Society, gives known ford. George Wilcox had a narrow escape from being. the Courier a[...]irst of its kind, so far as he can recall. It was in the fall of 1865 discing ·and had not been able[...]try but 1864 was too his return home. It was late in the evening and Mrs. Wilcox hard and dispiriting a year for there to be much cause for was talking t[...]ere until the cross that night. Mr. Wilcox got on a saddle horse and crossed summer and fall of[...]main stream to an island, and he started to cross a slough that evening, out of the 20 guests: M[...]aughter on the island when his horse stepped into a deep channel, Viola, Mrs. Allen, Miss M[...]ts still are, or were until recently, living over in the they did not succeed in getting him off until morning. Prick[...]s over on the Madison. The music was furnished by a Ja[...]violinist named Foote, from Kansas, who was later in great[...]propriate to call him a "fiddler", for that was about all he did[...]ies as times were too young, and work would begin in the fields. The beautiful hard, and t[...]shud- of the number. der. There would be a flash of lightening across the horizon followed b[...]ame There were no organs or pianos in this part of this country closer, a sheet of Fghtening followed by an instant crack o[...]e's might cart be terrifying. The rain would come in more pretentious. When Mr. Ingram was there in 1864, there torrents, gushing and flooding in the run-off, In an hour's time was a boa~ding hou~ kept by~ Capt._Rogers, from Missouri, the sun could be out and blades of grass were standing a little -who had an organ and two or three pre[...]It was the most popular hotel in the town. At other times the rain would thicken[...]now drifted, little hills and valleys appeared on a flat surface. Chickens, hogs and stock in the barns, open and covered corrals had to be fed[...]After the storm the sun would turn the world into a white Logan - Elmo Rice worked on this road, others not known. fairylike frost ·a nd the whirling snow would obscure land became st[...]Crowley, Earl Frost, Ed Scanlan (white· assumed a portly outline. Small trees and shrubs had bowed[...]owl_ey (back to cam-: under the snow, waiting for a breeze to release them so they era), Bill Tinder[...]a (Green) Mouch Graham FIRST DANCE IN THE VALLEY |
| [...]mail from Logan to Hyde in the early 1900' s.[...] |
| [...]Johnny Sloan home in foreground; buildings to the left are the[...] |
| [...]Harris, 21. Mrs. Don McKinnon (A rliss)... Mr. and Mrs. William Rae - Rae Creek na[...]mandel was the ladywith the . idea. It was mainly a cl uh designed to let the-1-adies on the valley get together twice a month, to relax, visit, and have a small snack before going back to household chor[...]Road on the east. The dues were set at 25 cents a month and have remained the same over the[...] |
| [...]"y,, l, 01111! lt:t\<' llt't'II in \ ' ir~i 11 ':l \fr 'rl(~e· ·~ "-f"J[...]'iLy " id tt", ll i1111i>s~.,; 'lw a~ n g,:,r-• 11,'!.1 · to .,,.,. in T) 111 :w wh o 111 -lp,·d[...]a gr:d., ,wra p tl u•rt• wa" wit h th· 1 oo~•- git wha1 ·~ ••0 111i:i·• lo l,in,. · •[...]}, 11~ fri<·ntl an I ('<>• worl,a, '1'h o111a-, 'f it'<'. I !top,• yo u ' r,· Q;c f[...]ti,,, l,a t I,• fin d ,-Jpar••d a ,·:1~, \ ·ilso11 A1 ,I tl11 •11 you thr1•w n,P <lo" 11 ~v h:,1 ,[...]'' A ud Jlinni · y, it \\ onld h,•,·[...]tomraal,~'- fo, in ~hould,•r o ,-houlde1· The• ,-ra ::l-; in m: acl1i1i'~ h •art.[...]mon wNJl h of ,:dla·in.[...]'' A nd Hq:-orr:i! Jl111 1,i •.~-, C:all:.llll Ev,'ry hh ip will find a harbor, •n•ry[...]:;di: • t:Jk,· :1 or~ on for a whirl. Ann Jorgenson , Sis Kilgore, Alice Love, R[...]t•;,•pry l "/ cat, f irul a s wr·t• he ur t ""'[...]ApJ,h' Tn·•· lu,p <'dor, th in, ll ig-lt Rhrq ,.[...]1,., h1• w11,I «it·• Jl'. a l011, \\:.ty go,[...]an S, 111:~1,), In 1940 the Upper Madison School building was no lon[...]1 0. long 11n.\ l11 L i,lhg (1)11. being used for a school. The district had been abandoned. The[...]t·. Women's Club kept the school from going into aa iy au,! ,'.,:, II. fr_v-[...]t J.,, 111 ul 1 •,.-cou 0 . un•l Three Forks in 1950, the Club was given the use of the build-[...]lo ra,11• ) loud· T . plt ·a~,• tnki> 11oti<·c,. ing for community affairs.[...]GNirg,• D:trl1uglou wit h :t . ud, ffi r.t- A yearly Harvest Supper was held, as was a Christmas 11ry ~ti. 'l'l••·ri• y,· <·an Ill ,, it ir, a· 1,l:ti11 way look iu his. (')l'~ ,. i[...]l,lu · k uud \\ I itP a« y ivl'i· d.f. It l\·11~ Lou![...]ren of the valley. Many dances were held by in Glari!l' Jl 1d L it1L'~ th:, \V j (<,(,11 1'111· 1•,li to1 w a lking t! l' flou1 . ayi:i'-', the Women's Club; Carey Darlinton was there to call a square 1·ou1, ." 1,a l,iu l011w]<1>,l into ft NH'k,--.1 '' 01, .Ja, 11, l l1 u ,·en 't got f:'i lwr a,i dance or a mixer dance. Later a Halloween party was added to ha :in,l, thi11 f u rtJ,.,, , it ~11;, · ha ft,,[...](f,•(Jr1.r .. \ ' lntttn•u ,, a""( h!•:1J'd Io t t 1 :u;11 k, the activities. T[...]r meetings there and an h: ltL' oll"" i11g a t oru<'ys: l! urr,• Rul•[...]dtt• J 1•s11,, l !1 ,, Over the years a handicapped boy has been remembered on[...]i,,«-1' |
| [...]i --L.a;:'r-L--'LJUL----,._[...] |
| [...]this school and in later years taught there also. We quote: ((In the year of 1887, the parents of this part of the[...]((That year and the next year a three month summer term[...] |
| [...]"Of course we carried our lunches and also a jug of water for was taught by Miss Jennie Rice .These two terms were held in drinking. In those years my sister and I rode an old Indian a small frame building which was a granary, about one-fourth pony that had[...]. My sister, Sally Hoellein, Indians. When a tribe of Indians came through the valley, as att[...]they often did, and camped for several days about a half mile "In 1889, the present building, with Steve Hutchinson[...]mell them carpenter, was built on an acre ofland in the N.E . corner of his and became so frightn[...]to date with windows on the South "In 1893, we had for our teacher, Mr. Earl Douglas, a man and two in the East and a kerosene bracket lamp and shade at with[...]rooms. us many extra subjects not given in grade schools. His salary There were, I think, a[...]was $35.00 and 'Boarding around' - mostly ,a round our home. boys was punished, the teacher sometimes made him sit with a "Mr. Douglas was a geologist and taught this school as a girl, much to the embarrassment of both.[...]oard and room, which was called 'boarding around' in the horse, he did this prospecting on foot. As this area had been a homes of the students. The parents furnis[...] |
| [...]o •ck State $25.80, the total amount to finance a school year - was t o chfldho[...]"I learned that the first school census was filed in 1893 for Upper . fad!son School[...]s the time of the nation-wide railroad strike and a your aY.e. Lay it aside tor the even- real panic, not a depression. There was no money - but we[...]un- ~rnd: put your- dignity in your pock- try looking for work. They were not ho[...]uglas, Third: prepare to be a good sport took a four horse load of eggs to Helena and brought home a .and enter into the spirit[...]d most freight trip made from the valley and took a week's time. Jrnp,ortant o[...]at the · "This school_building, then as now, was a community center. Upper MacVwu School Nov mber We had a minister, who travelled by bicycle, and held serv[...]0 P. M. ,vcar your and we also h~d Sunday School in the building. s[...]q ucsted to wear bungalow aprons We had a violinist, Henry Perks, who lived on the ranch no[...], men to wear of Steve McDonnells. Everyone took a lunch and made a night cnlin1ry clothing. The[...]f upp '. r will be s 'l'V d at 11: 30. A ble for the teachers salary.[...]llatin Tice and my brother Henry entered school. In 1904, Tom Tice . • >~:1ty G[...]to . whlc!,1 ev r rural school In Uic graduate from that school. In the fall of 1904 the lady who was[...]. All teaching resigned and I began my career as a 'County School :.···U J! e.::<l is the right spirit and aa month and I boarded at home. It was not bad for a beginner. This gave me the unique privilege of a[...]r the win- first term and teaching my first term in the same building. n .::s c;,[...]taken by bus to that school - the Madison Valley Woman's Club 1918-1919 Rose McDonnell took over - and the little old one room school house is still a 1919-1920 Ruby Reynolds valued and[...] |
| [...]WARR A NTY D EED.[...]IHlu·u•~ -ef(j,!.!f/:4:-er.A.&? <' .[...]" porl, n ·JT,1\.ESSF.TJ(, 'T1v,t the MM /Ja rt,.a,;_ of flw Jfr,t po rl , in ntul. fiJr Iii~ ('O,u/1ltrnllo11 u/ R[...]/,., 1'a11 1I putil Ohr rtt-tf1;t &C'lurto/ I• litrtl,V[...].;~::t~j.:'.r:!.':t_:J/};_:;: ''.:9 "';:' ,u,'i." In"" County1,"•'~-'."th•,.~ of .1/oot«;-, : ;'[...]om Cleveland, Ohio came out and bought the Adams' in-[...]llein, McLees, . |
| [...]started on the buildings at Francis in 1938. Andy Plett built[...]r's House for Dean Francis' residence when he was in[...]· In the 1940's the Cook House was the building close[...]garage. Individual rooms were in one end ofit for the foremen[...]e John, George and Jim Conner. Jess Kilgore lived in[...]along with the hired help. In the middle 1940's the present[...]House was built and the former one was remodeled in to[...]ch to November they were pastured at Francis. In 1937 Jim Conner began working for th~ Climbing Ar[...]left, Jess Kilgore assumed the duties as Man- in the worst of weather. In 1948 and 1949 the roads were ager. About 1937 Jo[...]at Francis about 1938. There was nothing but a cactus patch when the buildings Feed lot on the Madison, 1980. were started at the West Side in 1937. Construction was Climbing Arrow cattle drive in the Horseshoes.[...] |
| [...]spring to Francis and ·back to the Madison in the fall. It takes bank to cross, George and the[...]oss the ice on the four days, as it is about a 55 mile drive . river but Jim drove across. He re[...]n the other side , he decided that even if it was a the Hudson Place until calving time. long way[...]A feedlot was built on the Madison to handle 1200 h[...]550 heifer calves for replacement and sell the In 1957 the Conner brothers and Kilgores left the·ranch as it rest in May. changed hands and was under new management o[...]Some of you will also remember my telling in the previous . and Grain Enterprise. paper about a stone formation that, for the lack of accurate[...]Jim Conners information, was called a "Thunder Bird". This interesting[...]arrangement of rocks outlining the form of a man is on the top of a high hill overlooking the Madison River almost du[...]of Bozeman. Buck Anderson purchased the C. A. Ranch from Dick Fran- By way of review, this man has a head 5 by 6 feet with arms cis in 1961. Buck Anderson, wife Marsha and three childr[...]Kathy and Page came from San Rafael, California. In pointing out. 1962 they had a boy, Frank Anderson.[...]o work for Buck and they were here until 197 4. In 1957 Harold Shipton and family , wife , Martha an[...]er Jackie, Patty and Jean worked for Charlie Kyd. In 1961 presented to the Bozeman Quest[...]Keith and Alice Gottlob and children came to work in 1962 . In 1966 June and Evelyn Ewan and children joined the[...]he ranch. Ken and Vivian Martin and daughter came in 1968. In 1971 Everett and Eve Messing and two children came .to work. In 1982 we still have Buck Anderson and friend in barley field -1968.[...] |
| Over the years, a low growing juniper bush has grown up rick blown over in the wind storm. Help the Oil Corporation within t[...]Rodeos were also held here with nothing more than a chute such plant at the top of this barren hill.[...]and the the wide open spaces. Sometimes a rider would be forced to stones placed around it later. walk a mile or so for his next ride. About ten feet from the base of the figure there is a large This rig ~as also used in Ringling, Montana in 1928. mound or pile of rocks nine feet in diameter with the stones being about the size of[...]MADISON RIVER INDIAN VILLAGE SITE River in Canada, near Choteau and Havre in northern Mon- tana, Wyoming, and I believe Colora[...]n River, opposite the mouth of Cherry Creek shown in Miss Harriette Cushman has told me that Mrs. J[...]k- Relatively few artifacts have been found in recent years- a few feet tribe.[...]ions of this job, Napi would lie down to rest and in so doing would change himself to stone, first select- ing the top of a high hill overlooking a large valley for his resting place. Once his rest[...]OIL RIG Standard of California set up a drilling rig in the '30's on the Lower Madison. They made an effo[...]es south of U.S. Highway 10 on the lower road. A floor was built with about a four foot fence around it. This structure was use[...]s Gallatonians from Three Forks. Dave Andrews had a hamburger stand and of course there was moonshine Tipi Rings. available. It is said that a disgruntled share holder had the guy wires cut so that the rig blew over in the next wind storm. May 30, 1956 about ten persons from the Bozeman History A plea in an old newspaper dated July 6, 1933 advertised a Group, Montana Institute of the Arts,[...]more are indistinct. A few days later, Louis True , director of 0 il Ri[...]nd Merrill Burlingame of the History Depart. took a[...]settled at Steven's Point, Wisconsin in 1849. He got ajob in the mill as head sawyer. In 1851 they moved to Liberty Corner[...]and took up a farm where their daughter Mary was born.[...]s were hard and he heard of gold being discovered in California so decided to go in the spring of 1852. He stayed 2½[...]In 1859 h decid d to try California again wh r h min[...]for a while and th n r nted a large farm at arson vall ,[...] |
| Nevada. When he heard that civil war had broken out in 1861, he became worried about his family so he[...]doing quite well until the summer of 1863 when a man came to their place and they got to talking about mining in California and he got the golden fever. He sold · everything and on April 11, 1864 he and family joined a wagon train and headed for the gold fields of[...]He was the first Superintendent of Public Schools in Galla- tin County and the first squire of Gallatin City. He also taught school for several years in District 7. He was electionjudge for Precinct No. 1 Gallatin County. Meetings were held in the J. B. Campbell Building, which was used as a courthouse in 1865. Some years later he became restless[...]e, so he left his wife Lydia, who was living on a farm with her daughter and son-in-law. He packed one horse and rode another. He was never heard of afterward but .in later years his grandson, Carl Hopping and gr~nddaughter, 'Eva Faris saw a picture in the Sunset Magazine m 1929 of an old time mining operation in California and they thought they- recognized hi[...]1822-0ctober 4, 1892 Lydia was born in the town of Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York[...]fe of Jacob 0. Hopping. ville, Cataraugus County in the same state. From there they moved to Pennsyl[...]The wagon train decided to stop in Montana and they finally In 1847 she was married to Stephen Allen. In 1849 she and reached their journey's en[...]rson Rivers come together to form the sin. There a daughter, Mary Elisha was born June 23, 1851.[...]River. Gallatin City was known later as Three In 1864 they crossed the plains in a covered wagon. The Forks. They arrive[...]r, Long Island, New York horses. They settled on a farm in the Madison Valley, which is and had come west to mine gold. He had done qui~~ _w ell at in Gallatin County, Montana near the confluence of the Madi- -Virginia City, Montana and bought a 500 acre farm and a 1 son, Gallatin and Jefferson Rivers wh[...]hole life to others. At times her home resembled a hospital and when ~omeone wa_s ill,[...]ry 20, away it was said, "The whole country lost a mother". Few 1873. Allen and Evan died in infancy. women had died so universally loved.[...]They built the first frame house in the Madison Valley and Dorothy (Faris) Holtan, her great-granddaughter, 1982 moved in 1872. Mary was very competent and a courageous pioneer woman. She was a fine seamstress and an excellent[...]ALLEN home from a debating society meeting at the school on Feb-[...]arm and she and her son moved Mary was born on a farm on what was called Indian land, to Butte and bought a rooming house which was not very which was east[...]to Lydia (Grat- successful. Carl worked in the mines. tan) Allen and Steven Allen. Her fath[...]ce at Lena, her daughter, passed away in 1916 so Mary came to Liberty Corners and bought a farm in Pleasant Valley not far[...]keep house for her family that was living in the Horseshoe away, but liked it better at Liber[...]returned. Hills, out of Logan. After a time they moved to Missoula, On April 11, 1864 when Mary was 13 their family joined a Montana and in about six years her son-in-law DeForest Mer- wagon train of twelve and head[...]p while there, so journey. The journal she wrote in later years can be found in her daughter Eva came and took her home t[...]care for her. In 1929 the family moved to Port Orford, Oreg[...] |
| [...]the first day of June 1864. The mine was not a rich one for fined to a wheel chair and passed away there in 1932. those times, and wages were $6 a[...]each. After Hopping sold his interest in the mine he moved to[...]Three Forks where he invested in 53 yearlings at $44 each, JACOB OSB[...]a (Lena), Evangeline (Eva), Carl, Allen and cated in the public schools of Burlington, Iowa and the Cl[...]At the age of 18 he commenced to learn In 1880 he became interested in mining and prospecting the moulder's trade at the[...], but owing to the failure of the firm, did not a heart attack, February 26, 1894, when walking hom[...]the schoolhouse where he had attended a debating society In the spring of 1860 he went to Pikes Peak and with Douty meeting. He was also a poet and wrote some very good verses ... and son and Samuel Sprague started a sawmill at the mouth of[...]Holton the South Boulder Canyon. Here he engaged in the 1umber business for one year, then sold his interest in the mill to Douty, after which he went to the Gre[...]pping was one of the pioneers who settled near In 1863 he crossed the plains to Montana - at that time Three Forks in 1864. At that time she was the thirteen-year- cal[...]Lydia Allen who settled on the 1863. He had $100 in greenbacks, which were of no value at Madi[...]Three Forks. Stephen Allen that time. He offered a hotel keeper $2 for a dinner and was helped lay out Gallatin Count[...]first Superintendent of Schools in the county. The Allen house He made an arrangement with D. A. Andrews that he would still stands .near[...]was fifteen located some claims, and after paying a ridiculously high price and bore four children: Lydia (Lena), Evangeline, Carl and for a pick, shovel and sluice boxes, found the claims w[...]. Our·mother Lydia pay. He traded the claims for a shoulder of bacon and went to was born May 20, 1869 in the first frame house built in the Alder where he found that Andrews had located[...]afterward called grandfather had built a typically Dutchman's house, a fair Junction City. The miners had organized a district named iSized oblong with a large false chimnev at each end. The Junction and[...]ng site. Incidentally Grandpa spent very flat and a survey informed the party that a drainage ditch his fortune trying to develop a copper mine a few miles north of would have to be cut through 2[...]opping family raised three which was covered with a dense growth of alders and willows. childre[...]drews to represent the mine, while they wrestled a grub stake. Hutchinson and Dorothy and ~oy Faris. The winter was a fine one, wages were good, and by building cabins on contract, putting on mud roofs in Virginia City and digging cellars, they so[...] |
| [...]They have two had seven youngsters, Pearl, born in 1897, DeForest O. born in sons, Pete (19) and Casey (15). 1900, Nathaniel in 1902, Junius in 1905, Jennie in 1907, Montana and Lauren (Digger) live in Winston, Oregon, Jacob in 1910 and Mildred in 1913. where[...]regon Outdoors Pearl married William B. Hale in 1916 and they had two Magazine.[...]DeForest L. Merriman, our father died at Missoula in 1954. , ago leaving two daughters. Norman Hale, a prominent ar- · We children of De[...]ena Merriman are proud of ··chited with offices in Mission San Jose and Dublin, 'Califor- the fact that both of our parents were born in Montana chil- nia, married Sylvia Tobler and th[...]1869 and died November 10, 1916. and a granddaughter, Shelby. DeForest 0. married Lucile Warren in May 1921 and they recently celebrated their six[...]LINE (EVA) HOPPING three boys Carl , who now is a physicist employed at Boeing's May 6, 1871-February 2, 1960 in Seattle, Harley who lost his life in an auto and sled accident when he was sixteen.[...]d down his life to ~va was born on a ranch in the Lower Madison Valley, save his partrol while serving in the army in the Korean con- bemg the second of five[...]opping. flict. Silver Stars and Purple Hearts c_a nnot fill the void left by a departed son. Earl had married Beverly Martin and[...]n she was quite young she and her sister, Lena, a daughter Elaine who is now Mrs. Thomas Zeigler an[...]red down through the meadow toward .the river and a moun- They have a farm supply business at Donnelly, Idaho.[...]rl said, "No! daughter Flora Campbell both live in Tacoma and have He'll surely g[...]lin' ," so they families. Nathaniel passed away in August 1968. all held han[...]me. · Junius died without issue in Tujunga, California in 1974. Eva grew up there and married Fred Hutchinson, who lived His wife still lives in Tujunga. on a farm not far away. They had a son, Earl George, born[...]October 27, 1891. They lived in Basin, Montana for a time but In 1931 Jennie (Jean) married William Retzer in San Lean- were divorced after a number of years, and she went to Butte dro, California. William was a native of Washington State, and stayed with her mother and brother for a time. Then she born in 1902. Jennie and William Retzer's two sons Willia[...]They junior and Charles are both prominent men in their com- loaded a wagon at Bozeman, Montana with provisions to last a munities. William married Charlotte Elston of San Luis year a_nd slowly made their way to his ranch near Tensle[...]arl and two girls Kathryn and Kristen. William is a Real identify his stock. They had a log house and the kitchen part Estate broker and has a large walnut farm near Chico, Calif. had a sod roof. The young Retzers are active in schoolwork, 4-H clubs and sports including swim teams, soccer and baseball. They are a · Eva lost one baby when her horse shi[...]was born. healthy , happy family. William A. Retzer senior died suddenly in 1969 and Jean In 1911 they moved back to Montana and bought a farm lives alone in Chico ,where she is active in Horticultural club near Central Park wher[...]harles, married Carol September 24, 1912. In 1918, they sold the farm and bought a Lance of Buffalo, New York while they were both serving in small house in Manhattan, but the barn and pasture was not the Air Corps. Carol is a registered nurse and Charles is a Fire adequate for the cattle in the winter. He pastured the stock in Marshall in Medford, Oregon. They have two teenage children the Horseshoe Hills in the summer; so they bought a 36 acre Charles Jr. and Kimberley who are both[...]fter six years they lost the farm, very active in their school programs.[...]home, which was in an estate. Jacob (known as Jack) Merriman married Marie Distafano in San Francisco where he managed the California Electric . In the fall ,of 1929 her son Earl moved the family, which · Company store and Marie was manager of a Dollar Store. mcluded Eva smothe[...]when his ship, t he U.S.S. Zellers was hit by a Kamikazi plane Eva's brother Carl was bea[...]now known as ''Montana" , married In 1938 she moved to Eugene, Or~gon with Carl, Dorothy Jessee Ponting in 1932. The couple had two children, Glenn and a nephew Junius Merriman. Dorothy married not long Gayland born in 1932 and Sharon Gail, 1934. Glenn married[...]ntinued to make . an English girl when serving in t he Air Force during the her home with Dorothy and family until she passed away in K~rean conflict. He made his home in England, raising five 1960. · children there and dying there in 1977. Sharon married Eva was a very kind patient and understanding person and Robert O'Renick in 1951, lived for several years in Missouri, was loved by all who knew her.[...]dren by O'Renick. All are grown now and living in Oregon. Sharon is now Mrs. Fred Belz and is a real estate salesperson in Eugene. Montana later married Lauren J. Cos[...]ctober 6, 1952 one <laugher, Judith Raye, born in 1941. Judi teaches school in He was the son of Eva (Hopping) an[...] |
| he was a baby and they lived there for a ime but he gre up on edge of town and a there for ix years. A hard winter came his grandparent farm in the adison Valley . Later he went along and hay for the tock was $40 a ton which broke him to Canada and joined the Royal Canadian Police Force. After a and he lo t he place. He moved the famil into[...]f years he returned to the Valley and udied to be a paren home as the had pa ed away and the es[...]r t World War and did drive ambulance and worked in the mines in Butte for a he was scarcel able to keep up he taxes. H[...]t here until hi death. He enli d in the service in the First Wo Id ar and wa ationed in France. When the war wa over he returned to[...]Born September 8, 1908 enli ted in the U. . Air Force and wa sta ioned at Kelly Fiel[...]. ( ometime known a Squire Allen) 1864 pioneers of the He etumed to Montana in 1926 and worked for the Yellow- adi on[...]opping and the daughter of Harriet tourist asons a a mechanic and also worked in various Evangeline (Eva) Hopping and Charles Blakesley Faris. garages in the winters. I wa born on the OK Ranch in a log house, near Tensleys, In the fall of 1929 he moved hi mother, grandmother,[...]Oregon where hi Uncle Carl Montana and bought a ranch near Central Park. My brother •Hopping was beach mining. He helped with the mining in the Roy Garrard wa born there September 24[...]we moved to Manhattan. I started He met Faye in Missoula, Montana and they were married .[...]er was Frances They had no children, but she had a son by a former marriage. (Gib on) Burch and Lona Meece. I finished grade and high They were divorced after a few years, then he pent some time chool at Manhattan and worked as relief telephone operator in the San Francisco Bay area in California where hi younger while attending school for a time and then clerked at McCrac- brother lived.[...]since 1938. In the fall of 1929 I moved to Port Orford , Oregon with my Earl passed away at the age of 60 and i buried in the mother grandmother brother and my half brother Earl Veteran's Cemetery in Portland, Oregon. Hutch[...]spent the first three year in Port Orford until my grand-[...]d about 75 yards up the hill from their Creek on a farm to Lucinda (Lucy) and Hiram Faris. He was[...]am mining partner, Gene Pierce had passed away in the mean- (Bill).[...]when old enough he began work Eugene, Oregon in the fall of 1938, where we had friends and a for other farmers and stockmen, so he began to accumulate better chance to make a Ii ving. These had been the tough •some tock and a little money. His sister Delia Horton and[...]yoming, when he de- After arriving in Eugene, my cousin, Junius Merriman and cided to buy a ranch near them and go into the cattle business. I operated a service station and cleaned the upholstery of car[...]not come into use at Butte Montana. They loaded a wagon at Bozeman, Mot- yet. I also did maid work at a motel nearby and felt fortunate nana with provisions to last a year and drove to his ranch near to get work. I[...]A sh~rt time after arriving in Eugene, I met my husband to They had a log house and the kitchen part had a od roof. It be, Harris Berdeen Holton and we were married in the fall of was not unusual to find a snake in the house . 1939. They los[...]y mother also lived with us until she passed away in was born.[...]960 at the age of 88. The cattle and sheep men in that part of the country vied for The next[...]tle could not exist where sheep were ated a small boarding and rooming house where we lived w[...]ed the sheep camp. o Harris and I bought a place in the River Road district where One heepman was sh[...]r Dee was born July 20, 1943. We tlemen were put in jail awaiting trail. He and another man sold that property after three years and built a house and sold turned states evidence and were let go but this put his life in it. Then we bought a large old house in the University area jeopardy o he sold the farm in 1911 and moved back to Mon- and went into the rental business in 1947 where we lived for tana and bought a ranch near Central Park. A on Roy Gar- 25 years. During that time[...]ties. By 1972 Harris' health was failing so we In 1918 he sold the farm and bought a small house in old our home and bought a home and acreage on the out kirts Manahttan but there wa n t a uitable place for the cattle in of town which had been in the family since 1946. Harris passed the winter so after two years he bough a 36 acre place on the awa in 1977.[...] |
| [...]Herbert Babcock was born in Eort ?, (something), Indiana Roy is the son of Eva H. and Charles B. Faris, born on a farm on April 18, 1875, the son of Amanda He[...]na. He lived there until 1918 when ye·a rs of age he was taken by the John F. Babcock family of the family moved to Manhattan. They lived in town for two Three Rivers, Michigan and lived with them until coming to years, then moved to a farm on the edge of town where they Montana in 1903. He made his home with the Darlinton fam- li[...]tended ily most of the time since, until a few years ago, when he grade school and part of h[...]he farm home where he was living at the time of In 1929 he moved to Port Orford, Oregon with the fam[...]and was an outdoor and finished high school there in 1932. He took a correspon- enthusiast, loving all kinds of sports and greatly enjoyed dence course in diesel mechanics.[...]true to _his friends. He was working at the Elmo A. had one daughter Launita. He worked as a mechanic for a Rice ranch prunmg trees, when he fell about 30 feet fro1? a time, then went into the orchard business near Aptos, Califor- tree a nd su~ered a fra~tur~d shoul~e7, ~everal broken nbs, nia but sold after a time and went into pure breed cattle[...]possible mtern~l mJunes. He was taken to raising in Idaho. He sold out after a number of years and the Boze~an Hospital where_ he died about? hours later. He bought a pear orchard at Lower Lake, California where he is was consc10us up to a few mmutes before his death. at present 1981.[...]bruary 20, 1873-December 3, 1940 He was born on a fram in the Lower Madison Valley, Mon- tana to Mary E. an[...]his father to the west, he also became interested in mining and pursued it more or less through life.[...]nd they moved to Butte, Motnana where Carl worked in the mines for a time, which was very dangerous and unhealthful. Later he met and married Alice Biggs who had a daughter Addy, by a former marriage. They took up a former marriage. They took up a homestead in the Horseshoe Hills which is north of Logan, but[...]ly sold " and moved to Logan, where he worked in a butcher shop. They also tried their hand at the r[...]siness. They were divorced later on and he worked in a poolhall there for a time. Then he decided to go to Washington to work in the logging business so he and his mother landed in Enemclaw, where she kept house for him until she[...]He is survived by a brother of Lansing, Michigan, an aunt in . Carl decided to go to Oregon then, and he me[...]gold,just His father and mother preceded him in death. He died March south of Cape Balco, and invited Carl to come and stay with 14 in about 1937 and was buried in Bozeman on March 17. him. They did quite well, so[...]H.H.H. consisted of his mother, sister, a niece and two nephews. This was in the fall of 1929, the collapse of the stock marke[...]ATES there for nine years. His mother passed away in 1932 and also Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bates lived in the Madison River farm his partner a few years later.[...]ld operate the mine as there was only his sister, a nephew, and other buildings have been torn down. Junius Merriman and a niece, (myself) Dorothy Faris.[...]rew Bates We decided to move to Eugene, Oregon in the fall of 1938 as were married Sept. 10, 1883 in Des Moines, Iowa by Rev. we had friends there and a better chance to make a living. We Frisbie. · operated a service station for a time, then I met and married She was bor[...]me with us April 13, 1946. He was born in Jamestown, Pa. Oct. 1, 1856 until he passed away of a heart attack in 1940. and died Feb. 24, 1936. He was a very kind person and known for his wit and after They came to Montana in 1911 by train in homestead car dinner stories.[...]Dorothy (Faris) Holton in this train car. (All children born in Iowa)[...] |
| [...]Amsterdam. When they came to Montana they had. a daugh-[...]Avery's son, Ronald, farms this place in 1982.[...]Dec. 31 1909 - 1. Alberta (Hallberg) who lives in Helena[...]ince her marriage to Walter Hallberg in 1931.[...]1931 - Burch and famil in Arizona (3 children)[...]1932 - Frank and family in Helena (3 children)[...]1935 - Pete and family in Helena (6 children)[...]1937 - Jean (Anderson) in Oregon (4 children)[...]1939 then moved to Amsterdam - married Grace Kamp in[...]on in 1974. Children adopted by Ronald Bates - Debbie a[...]1941 - Virgil , wife Louise (Arnold) and familly in Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bates and grandchildren Jim Car[...]Dec. 23 1912- 3. Leo died in June 13 1930 at 17 yearsofage. 1. Earl Ivan bo[...]ct. 21 , 1914- Rubye (Mrs. George Cooper) married in 1937, hattan. lived in Amsterdam before moving to Manhattan in 1947. 2. Burch Reason born Feb. 26, 1886, died[...]Dec. 29 , 1941 - Carol (Houser Sutton) in Bozeman. 3. Myrlin Verne, born June 9, 1889 die[...]1944 - Stuart Cooper married Sandy Davis - lives in Boise, Idaho.[...]an. 9, 1965 And Barbara (Heiskell) in Manhattan with 2 daughters: Bozeman Hospital[...]the oldest, Alberta was born in Iowa. 6. Ralph El worth born ov. 15, 1896 died[...]3. Myrlin - married Idealia Meece in Manhattan - they Yakima, Washington lived in Red Lodge son born there, then lived in Boise, ldaho, 7. Chester Roy, born Jan. 1, 1899[...]in 1969 and she almost 10 years later. They had one[...]Myrlin Jr. who was lost in 2nd World War about 1943 near 8. aude Ellen[...]4. Paul- married Alma Holgate, 1917, on a variety of farms south of Manhattan until 1925 when they moved to the Madi- in Gallatin Co. She died ov. 15, 1933, she was the m[...]it was there they celebrated their golden wedding in four children: 1933.[...]1917 - Evelyn (Bleeker) Andrus- lives in Alaska (3 children) Mrs. Bate spent most of the last eight (8) years of her life in a wheelchair. She was an excellent cook and even in her 80's 1919 - Betty (Mrs. Floyd Ras[...]1921-Paul Jr. (Bud) married Agnes Roe, lived in Bozeman bed the yewly dressed chickens with a vegetable brush.) 1923 - Billie Lee (Mrs. Ed Fonk) died in 1973 (4 children) Mr. Bates helped in the field work - but spent most of his Paul later farmed in Clarkston area for several years 1940 time in acre of his beautiful garden and lovely flower ;[...]ison place vegetable and Mrs. Bates proce ed them in her copper boiler until retirement, firs[...]randchildren and Falls Veterans Home. in 19 2 there are 1 2 de cendents.[...]ea) 1. Earl - never married - farmed and lived in Clarkston 1917. They farmed in Gallatin County for a number of years area after leaving the adison lat[...]until moving to Yakima, Washington in 1934. They had 10 where he died. children, mo t live in Washington and Oregon. Ralph a a 2. Burch - married Floyd S. Scollard - rch 17, 1909 - in maintenance man in Libby Packing Plant. Iowa - he wa born in Iowa pril 23 1883.[...]1918 - Dudley over one of he Scollard ranche in 1910 - 1 ½ mile we t of 19[...] |
| [...]Francis, died 1947 1924- Melvin Ray (All born in Gallatin County from 1917 to 1933) 1926 - Har l[...]- Jo Ann (Lake) Rosa Lee (Marples) born in Yakima 7. Chester - married Pauline Elrod in Helena in 1934. They lived in Helena most of their married life. Five sons: 1[...]Tom 1939 - Gerald Chet, as he was called, was a business agent for Labor's Union. 8. Maude - married Merle Carpenter (who was a car- penter) 1923. They lived in Livingston before moving to Helena in 1926. Children: 1925 - Betty Jean (Mrs. Charles[...]Bates Carpenter, Auburn, Washington Merle died in Helena, October 1977. born in 1875, who married first Herman Bull and second Ly[...]Grace Bates Davis; John, born in 1878, who married Anna Johson; Kate, -[...]born in 1880, who married Edward McDonnell; Daisy, born in[...]William B. Black passed away in 1896. Sarah taught school WILLIAM B. AND SARAH A. BLACK and had a Post Office in her home. She passed away in 1904. William B. Black was born in Missouri in 1837. His wife, Following is an account of the Black Ranch found in a local Sarah A., was also born in 1848 in Missouri and they came to ! paper written by Annabelle Phillips. Montana in the early 1870's from Missouri . He was a brother "After crossing the old toll b[...]r an- of Colonel Leander M. Balck, who was active in early Bozeman cestors of present Gallatin Valley residents traveled on history, having come here in 1871. straight[...]y now Gallatin Gateway. were Mamie , born in 1870, who married Eugene Tinder; Wil- On Cherry Creek, in those days, was Havana, which, before liam R. , born in 1876, who married Sara C. Hyde; Georgia, it, too, became a ghost town, boasted a population of more than[...]an ore crushing plant at Home of W. B . and Sarah A . Black , at "Black Corssing'' 1 . Havana to work the silver from mines in the area. Sarah Black, 2. Daisy (Black) Davis, 3[...]change horses or eat a meal. Some took lodging for the night.[...]Crossing, a natural fording place, was located.[...] |
| [...]FAMILY Dale L. Campbell was born Oct. 7, 1937 in Grant's Pass, Oregon. His parents are Gaylord Da[...]Lou and brother, Charles Eugene, were both born in Colorado. Dale married Sedoanya G. Wade (born July 31, 1938, Cortez, Colorado) on Sept. 21, 1956 in Aztec, New Mexico. Her parents were Adrian B. Wa[...]ossie's came from Ok- lahoma. They were married in .Cortez, Colorado, and moved to Durango, Colorad[...]ez where Sedoanya and W. Martin were born. In May of 1956, Dale had come to Three Forks, Montan[...]e employed by the ranch had grown up with Gaylord in Upper Madison Road now called The Buf[...]work at the ranch. They left there in June of 1969 and Dale went to work for the . Dale returned to Colorado in Sept. and married Sedoanya Wytana Ran[...]k to Montana. He had They left there in August of 1970 and moved to Logan, Mt., already procured her a job as cook at the Tice House. As she and Dale went to work for the talc plant in Three Forks. only knew how to cook salad and de[...]In Jan. of 1973, they moved back to the Madison Vall[...]eir first daugh- ter, Dalene Wynn, who was born in Bozeman, Nov. 15, 1957. Their new house was the first house in the valley that was In August of that year, Dale became very ill and they returned built in Bozeman and hauled to it's present site. to Dur[...], Darlette Glynn, who was born August _12, 1960. In Jan. 1963, they left Colorado for Montana where Dale again went to work for the C. A. Ranch. They lived in the WILLIAM R. CHRISTIANSEN McLees house on the C. A. until June and then moved to the Gran[...]ice house, which was the main cookhouse for the C.A. Ranch. and from this union came: Dan, Min[...]They stayed Ella and Zoe. there for a year and then moved back to the McLees house. They left the C. A. in July of 1968 and moved to Sheridan, William E. Christiansen and Elka Clara Christiansen with Mt. In Oct. of the same year, they moved to the W[...] |
| My father, William Eugene, was born in 1880 and married my mother, Elka Clara Arnold, who was born in 1890 in Germany, an only child. And I, William Robert, an only child, was born in Ma- quoketa, Iowa, in 1910.· My father was a blacksmith and horseshoer by trade and worked in a foundry. He studied to be a minister. He drove for a doctor arid absorbed much information regarding the medi- cal profession from this experience in the 12 years that he worked for the doctor. When[...]have their ailments treated, like broken bones. In 1908, he came to the south part of Montana to a place called Graham and worked for the Pete Franklin cow ranch. In 1910, my mother returned to Iowa, where I was born. My father started a church in 1915 or 16, Methodist, in a school house in Graham. He filed on a homestead on the Little Pow- der River in 1911. I was married in 1932 to Ruby Smith, whose father was Frank J. Sm[...]ive Stockweather. The minister came to the house in Broadus. Ten years of depression predicted by Grant Kerchevel - ·w alk-Oponie - a white man raised by the Indians, who worked for the Cross Ranch, followed. In 1935, I worked for W .P.A. building roads. In the meantime, my father drilled water wells in Powder River area, and while drilling for Clarence White, discovered that there was oil in his water well. In 1936, my father and I worked on the dam on Bell Creek. In 1937, we left the Powder River Country and started looking for work, moving west. We got to Bozeman in the latter part of July. We inquired in many places for work and were finally told to ask[...]and his family moved to Montana, coming here in their 1926 my dad. My wife went to work for Don in the fall.[...]Chevy, from Marvel, Colorado. Mrs. Conners had a sister,, Aftr working for Don for a year, we heard of a way to get rich Mrs. Gilpins, whose husband was a blacksmith in Livingston. - go to Billings and work in the sugarbeet factory. No jobs Mr. Gilpin ·fashioned a pair of false teeth for himself out of : were ava[...]· - idea. We got a job pulling beets in the field. Came back to theAlfred worked for several ranches in the Gallatin Valley. In Madison, worked again for Don a year, then went to work for 1937, he moved to the Three Forks area and went to work for Frank Sloan as a cowboy for five years. the C[...]the old Bellach place on the Jefferson. My father In 1939, he met and married Grace Pfohl, who was born in and mother also moved there with us and my father went to 1913 and raised in Park County. She attended schools in Tom work for the Highway in 1945 and 1946. He was killed on Dec.Miner Basin and Livingston, Montana. Her parents were 30, 1948, a truck backed over him. M[...]Ruby and I moved then to the old Crowley place in 1952 and Helen who married George Baustadt; Paul[...]d at 8 have remained there since. My mother died in 1957. years old; Marjorie who married Cl[...]ed; Charles H. who married Katherine passed away in 1980. Maxs[...]2nd Sky Loja. He has a skin care center in San Mateo.[...]Brett. They live in Saint Helen's, Oregon. He works for Inter-[...]onner and Jenny (LaRue) Conner were the In 1961, they moved to Three Forks from Willow Creek[...]ce and Harriet. Alfred was the second child, born in 1910, in Farmington, New Mexico. In 1928, he[...] |
| JAME CROWLEY, JR. Born: Jan. 2, 1867 in Portland, Maine Dit>d: June 12, 1934- killed in an aut.omobile acdden near 29 Palms, California.[...]er, John Crowley, with the orthemPacific Railroad in 1882. He wa only 15 years of age, but was hired t[...]and started ranching on the lower adison Valley. In years to come as the children mar- ried, they all[...]xception of James proved up on farms of their own in the Valley. There were 9 chidlren in the Crowley, Sr. family . James, Jr. was the midd[...]lap. James Jr. worked as a carpenter and building contractor in and around the Madison Valley. He either worked or con- tracted work on the Sacajawea Hotel in Three Forks and the Margaret, Mae and Henr[...]mother, also contracted the Laura Crowley was a photographer and took many pictures dread[...]get an anti-toxin into of the town of Three Forks in the early days. orris in time to save her life. Many children and people in this area died in this epidemic. The Crowleys built he Catholic Church in Logan. The entire[...]Lucille, Alma, and Ben now live in Butte and John lives in Laura Belle Wiley was the daughter of William P[...]and Eliza Merlatt Wiley, who were early settlers in Califor- M[...]Inn just out of Norris. She attended high school in Bozeman and lived with JAMES[...]nother aunt, Belle. Her Aunt Belle was married to a retired James Crowley, a native of County Clare, Ireland, where he Colonel[...]n on February 2, 1818. He died at Logan, Montana, in On June 7, 1895, she married James Crowley Jr.[...]he was seventeen years old, James Crowley resided in and around the Madison Valley. lived in his native county, but left it to enlist in the British Army and fought in British India all through the Sepoy rebell- Of[...]received a medal for carrying off two wounded officers from[...]heavy fire. This medal has three clasps, at mine in Madison ~ount1.[...]the seige of Lucknow and at Koikonda, India, and in .all spent twenty years in that country and then returned to Ire-[...]land, was mai:rled in County Clare, after which he and his wife[...]came to the United States, arriving here in 1859, and for five[...]years thereafter he was engaged in working in the rolling mill[...]his long service in the British Army. He moved to Cleveland,[...]Ohio, and continued working in rolling mills until 1869, when he bought a farm at Grafton, Ohio. Oil was later discovered o[...]realizing a comfortable fortune. In 1876, he went to Knox County, Missouri and bought a[...]on which he lived for five years then sold it at a profit, and in 1882 came to Montana and was a rancher in the Logan district until his death. He was a democra and a Roman[...] |
| [...]Invitation to 100 Bi_rthday Party in Logan - 1918 Catholic, and staunch in his support of his political and religi-[...]was born in Ireland, in the same county as he, and she died at[...]John J., who is a rancher at Saint Peter's Miss1on, Cascade[...]County, Montana, was born in Ireland; Patrick, who was born |
| [...]J. CROWLEY John rowley was born March 17, 1856, in Ireland, the son of James and Maria Crowley. He came with his parents in 1862 totbe SA. They lived in Portland, Maine and later, on farms in Ohio and •issouri. They arrived in ontana from Missouri about 18 0 and lived on the[...]the stakes which marked its boundaries. He was a contractor for Railroad construction work and helped build the tunnel in Rocky Canyon. He took up a homestead on the Lower Madison which is known as[...]for the Anaconda Copper Co. After that he took up a second homestead half mile north of the original[...]cattle and grain. He planted an apple ditch in foreground, built in 1897. orchard which produced a good crop of apples until the late 1970's. A large windbreak was also planted along the bound- more than a whiskey bottle to determine the grade of the arie[...]five children. They John Crowley's name appears in the minutes of the Lyceum, were Marcus, John Leo, Joseph and Mary. Mary and Joseph 1888-1901, in many of their offices and it is believed that he still live. Joseph became a priest and is now in a rest home in was often the editor of the little newspaper called t he Howler, Texas. Mary lives in Great Falls. as were other members of the society[...]Wake in Three Forks, on Sept. 21, 1929.[...]land to make a home for Leo and Eleanor. They lived there for[...]who married Stanley Hopkin of Roundup. They live in Port[...] |
| [...]iel, Teresa and Katherine. David married while in Greece in the service in the Navy. Her name was Kaliope Markakis. They have three children: James, Kristine and Juliana, and live in South Africa, near Dar es Salaam. John Patric[...]ildren. Leo and Eleanor left the Lower Madison in 1948 and moved to Central Montana, where Leo worked on ranches there. He passed away Oct. 24, 1965, on a visit to the Lower Madison. Eleanor worked as a cook for many years for the school system in Two Dot. Leo loved horses, liked to fish and hu[...]wley homestead ranch on the Lower Madison Valley in Montana. He was born on election day and his father named him ttMarcus", for Marcus -Daly, a prominent politition and t'copper king" of the er[...]Schooling was casual and irregular in the days of the one-[...]There was only one high school in Gallatin County. It was located in Bozeman, which was thirty miles from home and[...]enrolled in Mount St. Charles, a boarding school in Helena. He[...]In 1917, John Crowley leased the Madison Valley home[...]Ursalines also operated a boarding school for Indian and white[...]tionette Boucher, of Malta, Montana, who assisted in the[...]ter's Mission. Marcus was pushed down the aisle ·in a[...]a bucking horse rolled over backwards on Mar[...] |
| Marcus ived all of hi life in on ana except for three year that he and his family pent re iding in Chilco, Idaho. He maintained a breeding herd of registered Appaloosa horse from 1942 until 1969. They were raised on a ranch near Roundup, ontana, and old throughout the western United tate and California. In 1968, Marcus and Antoinette celebrated: their golden wedding anniversary in Roundup Montana. Attending the celebration were t[...]one great-grandchild. Writing verse was always a favorite pastime for Marcus, but it wasn't until his retirement that he had the time to indulge his talent. A collection of his verses were compiled into a book by a daughter, Kathleen Gebhardt, and the illustra ions were done by a nephew, Ted Crowley. The book of verse was named[...]encountered by pioneer cowboys of that period. In March, 1971, he entered a contest to write lyrics for a melody composed by Bill Long of Billings Montana. Hi lyrics were chosen at the Strings Festival held in Columbus Montana, and became known as The Montana Waltz.' Marcus was featured in a radio broadcast celebrating the Montana Bi-Centennial in 1976. The stories r1!lated the ex- periences of the cowboys in Montana in the early 1900's. Marcus told a humorous anecdote about a cattle drive from the homestead ran!!h to Manhattan when he was a young boy. Marcus Crowley passed away on June[...]f M. H. and Hannah. Michael H. Crowley was born in Grafton, Ohio, on February 3. Hannah (Mali[...]ttended (1900-1901), died 1908. schools in Edina Knox County, Missouri for two years and[...]n about 1919. completed the eighth grade. He took a course in the Bozeman Academy and attended Montana Agricultural College at 1903. In February of 1910, M. H. married Miss Stella Col- Bozeman, leaving there in 1891. Returning to his father's eman, a daughter of Michael and Margaret (Corcoran) Col- ranch on the Madison, he worked there until 1900. In that eman. Mr. Coleman was born in County Clare, Ireland·, in year, he and his brother, W. E. Crowley, bought a ranch of600 1850 and died at Miles City, Montana, in 1913, having come to acres near Logan and were managers of the Three Forks Land Montana in 1879. He was employed by the N.P.R.R. Co. Mr. Company until 1910. From 1910 to 1915, they had a real Coleman's wife was born in Kentucky in 1851 and died in estate business at Logan. In May of that year, they bought Livignston in 1901. Mrs. Crowley attended Butte Business several ranches in the Missouri Valley. They fanned several College. sections ofland and had a 12,000 acre sheep ranch near Ringl- Mr. an[...]Oct. 17, 1912 and Robert, who was born July 12, In May of 1915, they opened up a real estate, loan and 1916. insurance business with offices in Townsend Hotel Building. From the home place and by renting land on the Madison in Later they closed it out to devote their attentio[...], they raised certified seed potatoes. They built a large industry. potato cellar in Logan, across from Logan Schoolhouse on R.R. Michael belonged tot.he Knights of Columbus with a Thrid siding. From here they sold to othe[...]f E. and Woodmen of They were advised by a professor at the College to use heat the World.[...]the diseases, but this did not work. - In 1900, Mr. Crowley married Hannah Malin, a daughter of In 1923 the brothers moved to Bozeman from where they Walter A. and Farnetta (McAdow) Malin. She died in Logan in conducted their ranching buisnes . In 1931, the depression 1908 having borne her[...] |
| they lost the Ringling Ranch to the bank. In 1936, they split ried Lena Mae Rice , who wa[...]. H . Crowley lived on the ranch until his death in 1953. George and Charles. During the Klondike Gold Rush in His wife, Stella, and son, Bob, remained on the r[...]avelled there. However, he was known to have died in 1974. Son, Bob, remained on the ranch until Nov. 1977, had a saloon in Logan at one time and in 1918, he was in · when he sold out and moved to Manhattan, where[...]also homesteaded the present Jack Tinder place in the early Farnetta married W. H. Nelson. They reside in Clearlake, 1900's. Calif. Their children, Louise and John live in California and While he was in Alaska, possibly at Skagway, he was work- Arizona[...]ing as a guard when the notorious Soapy Smith was in the Margaret married W. C. Dale. She died· in 1970. Their son, area. Richard C. Dale, resides in Carmichael, Calif.[...]Robert (Bob) Crowley A friend notes: Bob provided many opportunities for the young people in[...]this area to obtain the experience of working on a ranch. With[...]ey was born ip Grafton, Ohio, on March 17, him as a teacher of the necessary chores that had to be do[...]Gallatin County, Montana and took a business course at the PATRICK[...]Bend, Indiana. He was Mariah Crowley. He was born in Greenich, Scotland, June 16, the junior m[...]d W. E. Crowley. 1862,where;his parents lived for a year before coming to the Their interest b[...]l. His political and religious con- United States in 1862. He came with his parents to Montana[...]ere the same as his brother. He belonged to Boze- in 1880 and to the Madison Valley in 1882, after the family man Council, Knights of Columbus, in which he was a Fourth had spent some years in the Eastern part of the United States. Degree Knight and also belonged to the Elks Lodge. In 1894, in Livingston, Montana, on November 27 , he mar- During World War I, both brothers took a very active part in Pat Crowley, Gladys (Crowley) Miller stan[...] |
| [...]the misfortune of being run o er b the ha baler in 1967. he[...]wa hospitalized for 6 week . Bill uffer d a rake in 1973 and in 1976 hey old their ranch. The mo ed to Bozeman an[...]Bill passed a a in 1977.[...]and ettled in Ohio. My great grandfather, Carey Allen Dar-[...]linton wa born in Marion Ohio in 1796. He married Eliza Holme in Marion in 1820 and two children were born, a girl[...]born in 1848.[...]age 16 joined a wagon train that was leaving for Virginia City,[...]ontana Territory in 1864. The train had a military escort[...]with little trouble reached Virginia City in October of that[...]ere were approximately twenty-five hundred people in W. E. Crowley as a young man. Virginia City and with no chance for a claim they started on[...]illiam E. Crowley wa one of the four trip o built a cabin on Prickley Pear Creek and spent the minute[...]hen pring came there were no claims at Last lived in Broadwater County and had them thoroughly or- Cha[...]e work was ac- from Townsend where they taked out a claim. They sold the compli hed in as i ting the Administration in carrying out its claim and moved to a small place at the mouth of Crow Creek project .[...]William E. Crowley was married to Mary Donaghy in 1910. for local markets. She was born in Ogden, Utah and their children are as follows: My grandfather joined a group of miners that were headed William D. -[...]B. 1913 - ( Al Christensen mills in this country. The ore had to be crushed and carri[...]by pack train and he ran a supply train from Bozeman to[...]ke City. After leaving Cooke City he went to work in East Raymond - B. 1918 - ( Ruth - - -[...]ed Oct. 1972 They were married in 1878. Grandfather then moved to Their on Willi[...]Mary Jane Crowley on p . 29, 1937 at brides home in Three Forks; Ilene (Grace) Ehler and Robert Crowl[...]ley Jr. B. May 6, 1942 - ( Ellen urray 1. Tere a 2. ngela 3. John David Carole Jane B. Oc[...]2. Erin Janelle One grand on Tony Howard died in a car accident at 18 ea of age. Mary Jane w the clerk for Di tric 1 Logan chool for hirty ear . In 196 the Id the h p and wen into th[...] |
| [...]William Patterson. Jefferson City and he bought a freight wagon and a six-horse They moved into a little log cabin on the ranch in May of |
| [...]he age of 9 years, her mother died bought a cattle ranch on t he upper Boulder Valley where h[...]he lived until she wa mar- age. ried in 1926. Elizabeth died eptember 1935. Ralph and Eli[...]CHRIS D. AND DE ISE A. (DROGITIS) DAVEY[...]Chris D. Davey was born February 26, 1955, in Springfield, Everett Darlinton married Ilah Fas[...]henectad ew union. He started school in Tucson, Arizona, and completed York. Ronald Darli[...]Karen ---. Their children: high school in Springfield, Ohio. He hen attended Berklee Luther[...]h 1950 2. Valerie Ann Secor born ·arch in May of 1977. 26 1953.[...]Drogitis who both pas ed. away in 1973. Denise was born in Valerie Ann Secor married Jim Aughney. Their ch[...]Her parents lived and worked in Willow Creek at the time she Children of Gordon[...]rn. Her parents moved from Willow Creek to Norris in Vaught:. 1. orman Rodger Darlinton 2. Steven Alla[...]high school at the Harrison schools in Harrison, Montana.[...]lings Business College in Bijlings, Montana, and then went to[...]work for the B.L.M. Tire Company in Billings. She then moved MY MOT[...]ther Jes e), David and William helped to organize a wagon train at Riceville , Iowa in the spring of 1864 to journey west to Virginia Ci[...]great grandfather' family were on their way with a train that sometimes reached a mile in length. The train was constantly bothered by Indians and at one time was cut off from water for a period of time . They crossed the Yellowstone Riv[...]g the Indians away. They reached Virginia City in early August 1864 and found twenty-five hundred miners in Alder Gulch with no chance to stake a claim. Fred was born in Virginia City on October 16th of the same year. One of the first white children to be born in Virginia City. The next spring the brothers mov[...]s Avon and took out twenty-eight thousand dollars in gold by August. They returned to Virginia City an[...]Chris and Denise Dauey . snows occurred in the Coeur d'Alene Mountains and they had to trade[...]and horses to get through the mountains arriving in Redding on Christmas Day.[...]Denise married Chris Davey in Bozeman, Montana on Au- After spending the win[...]thofThree Forks. on to Jefferson City and started a saw mill on Prickley Pear Creek for home and mines in Jefferson, Corbin, Wicks and Clancy for th[...] |
| [...]18, quantities of grain. He is also interested in the raising of 1839, amid the classic and histori[...]tle, keeping from 200 to 300 head, the father was a forester for the Duke of Braunfels, in whose Herefords being his favorite bre[...]ried January 27, 1877, to Mrs. Olive C. Hirz also a native of Prussia. Mr. Dell was educated in the Merriman, ·a descendant of an old Vermont family of promi- scho~ls of his native land, finishing with a special course in a nence and wealth in that state. Mr. and Mrs. Dell have two first-class gymnasium. In 1855, at the age of sixteen, he im- children, namely: Frankie A., now the wife of Samuel H. migrated to America, locating in Michigan, where he re- Sharman, of Ogden, Utah, and De Lano F. They have a very mained six years, engaged in clerking. In 1861 he went to desirable residence, t[...]he necessary equipment for its purposes, clerking a part of the time, but most ofit in mining with fair and in an advanced state of cultivation. The proprietor is a success. The next seven years he passed in Nevada, occupied progressive man and one who has justly won the respect of all in quartz mining, and then went to Idaho for the winter. In the his neighbors and the community generally. He takes a lively summer of 1871 he came to Montana, and locating in Jefferson interest in public affairs, and has rendered good service to his county was vigorously engaged in mining for about a year, and people in the office of county commissioner, which he filled then bought an interest in a prosperous butcher business, with great credit for five years. He was also a county commis- which continued until 1882 with very good returns, mean- sioner in Jefferson County before he moved to Gallatin. In while carrying on some mining operations. In the year last addition to this office h[...]miles supervisor for many years. He is a Mason, and takes great up the Madison, to which he has added by purcha~e until he interest in the affairs of the order. has now about 1,000 acres, a large part of which is under[...]Homer, born in 187~, ~as the youngest son of Frank and[...]ter of Tom and Sarah Dunn. Homer and Ida lived on a[...]lived in the Tom Dunn residence at Old Twon. After it burn[...]they lived in Three Forks. In the 1940's Homer lived up the[...]in Three Forks, with the exception of-a few years which were[...]spent in California. She graduated with the class o[...] |
| [...]. Mr. and Mr.s Dunbar's son was Russell who lives in est and dependable and was a loyal friend. His dearest pas- Las Vegas. Homer l[...]ses. He asked very little from life - passed away in 1963. She resides at Hillcrest Retirement[...], 1909, at Clayton, N. Harry Everson was a son of Mrs. A. K. Stanton of Bozeman. Mexico, to William and M[...]rank J. 1982, at Bozeman, Montana and was buried in the Woosley Dunbar. Fannie was born Nov.[...]the farm home near Cemetery, on the family ranch in the Sedan Area. Gallatin City. She[...]ishop Tuttle and con- One brother preceded him in death with three remaining. firmed in the Episcopal Church by Bishop Brewer. They are[...]the rest of the family of William They resided in a home on the Madison about 15 miles from _and Magg[...]until North Bench. He came to the Madison in 1881, owning the Don's death in 1958, at which time, he went to work for Ray[...]James Gilleland Jr. was born in County Tyrone, Ireland on[...]glish) Gilleland. James Sr. was engaged in Agriculture until[...] |
| his death in 1852. He was twice married and was the father of[...]child of the second marriage. James Jr. remained in Ireland until he was seventeen. In 1866 he left home and started for America. In 1875 he came to Helena , Montana, thence to the t[...]or some time and then spent some time looking for a permanent loca- tion. He finally located on his p[...]He finally sold out the horse busmess and engaged in raising Hereford cattle, and grazed as high as 2,000 head at a time. His ranch comprised 1,600 acres, 320 acres[...]hay being the principle crop raised. He remained a bachelor and retired to Logan, Montana where he r[...]ry 24, 1928. They both graduated from high school in Big Timber. Keith served two years in the army , mostly in Germany and they were married in Big Timber on November 19, 1950. They worked on t[...]for 5 years and Alice cooked for the ranch help. A daughter, Janice, was bornonDecember7 , 1951 and a son, Jeff, on July 28, 1953. They then moved to Belgrade where they were in partnership with George Cook in the dairy business. A son, Jayson, was born on September 3, 1958 and th[...]reen, married Dec. 6, 1893. here on July 5, 1960. In May 1962, they moved to the Climbing Arrow Ranch,[...]ace above the school house. On November 28, 1962, a son, Mules, with their questioning ea[...]nded Three Forks school seemed to delight in harassing anyone with a bridle. They and were active in sports and all other school activities. Jan[...]the 28 mile round and Julie are married and live in Hawaii. Jan has two girls trip to Willow Creek in one day. Their slender legs and small and Julie, one boy. Jeff lives in Cut Bank and works for the hoofs seemed to fly over the road. Every stop had a hitching John Deere Company. Jayson is married and lives in Simms, post and watering trough. The an[...]n Ranches. Jon attends the Vo-Tech from a feed bag hanging from their heads. in Helena.[...]t claim, homestead and purchase. They specialized in fine horses and beef cattle. As long as their[...]tle with theirs, returning them to the home ranch in the fall. This was a 14 mile trip for mail and suppllies. They raised[...]ality of their "Double Rafter" branded cattle. A man's horses were his pride,joy and transportatio[...]riving horses for their brother Joseph, who lived in Colorado, raised racing horses and some no[...] |
| [...]re married at the home of Thomas and Jennie Reese in Bozeman, Manta. She was the daughter of William B[...]ave Tinsley, who were among the earliest settlers in Willow Creek. Charles had his finest team and a new buggy to take his bride to their home on the[...]they sped along past Old Chimney Rock that topped a hill and looked down where the large, white frame house stood in front of the growing cottonwood grove. This was t[...]s soon to be surrounded with flower gar- dens and a vegetable garden at one side. This ranch raised[...]n for their own stock. When inspecting the crops, a picnic lunch was taken along. Uncle Adnrew led th[...]began to fail, he stopped riding horseback. With a mare pulling the sulky he would hold me snugly be[...]other hand. Off we would go looking for breaks in the fences and check- ing on our stock. Early in 1906 our family left the ranch and Papa's partner[...]endence, Missouri about 1914. Uncle Dood was with a bank at the time of his death, April 1, 1928. Mel[...]By-Teria (Green) Mauck, Graham In 1900 Miss Branch, a teacher from the South, arrived in Montana too late to be hired for that shcool year. In exchange for room and board she tutored five-year[...]four children born to Charles and Quiteria Green. A brother school teachers and attended their school[...]was born 1895, another brother died at birth and a holidays and vacation. He did not like ranching a[...]sister, Margaret Lucy, born in 1905, lived one week. interested. in raising or growing things. If gi yen a twenty minute job he would disappear and come bac[...]rmed. The and inventiveness were to pay off later in life. adults wisely remained on t[...]ueen Bee. The adults had said so often, Lester, a printer by trade, kept exploring other fields and[...]start d the problems and prestige of introducing a new product.[...]e b es came pouring out we stood ther Following a divorce , Pat became a nurse, retiring from the searching for[...] |
| ing from being surprised, frightened and befuddled, each in- I was offered a job on the Ration Board, I accepted. A one of a sisted the other had not been shaken.[...]ests. conflicting diagnoses and months in the hospital, he died Jan. Food was one of the first things a hostess would think about. 6, 1952. Mother, Te[...]itic wheelchair patient and re- sters were given a stick with a hook on the end, and sent out to mained with me until a year before her death, Oct. 22, 1948. catch roost[...]sting results, and wiley They are buried in the family plot in Lakeview Cemetery, roosters f!1ade us earn our di[...]0, 1900, were married June 5, 1971. She apartment in the University District, conveniently near the[...]Seattle First National Bank and he as University in Seattle.[...]fic Northwest Bell Company, Seat- Vic was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada on Sept. 1, tle, Washington. 1889. He became a naturalized citizen. Les was always interested in electronics and organized the · Many young Ca[...]igned their National Radio Club while in North Central High school, Spokane, Guard members[...]ped to Broadcasting Station. the front lines in France, with the 70th Battalion. Their ex- Being a devoted yachtsman, Les returned to predicted log periences were rugged and costly in lives and health. He racing continuing[...]forest. Telegraph Co., he was an engineer and in charge of the Statis- tical Department. · We were on a cruise in Canada when, on Sept. 1, 1939, word of Germany's[...]d and Cana-The Hamletts came to the United States in the early 1800's, . dians knew they were a part of it. Though the U.S. wasn't settling first in Maine. In the 1850's they were in the first involved as of then, life's tempo chang[...]Mercantile Co. at Custer. He worked pare. Classes in survival were held and I was teaching four[...]about four years, then decided to start ranching in First Aid Classes a week. Washington , D.C. warned the West[...]My mother, Ruth Ann McKeever, was born in Ohio, Feb- ruary 2, 1893 came to Montana in 1913 with ~er family to Victor S. Mauck, 1st husb[...], 1919; T eria homestead. My parents were married in 1915 and I was born Green .[...]George Sinton. We arrived in January 1936 in one of the[...]In 1938 my father leased the John Sloan Place on the[...]in the valley. It certainly speeded up the haying op[...]There were several of us in the same age group; the Rice[...]in a lot of dances together.[...]I met my wife, Joy Bull, at a dance in the local school house.[...]aunt. The Blacks operated a stage station and ferry on the Madison in the 1870's. '[...] |
| [...]Being snowed in during the winters of the 30's was pretty[...]they did in later years. We. would usually tough it out until[...]were only there a few months when I enlisted in the Army Air[...]Upon my discharge in 1947, we lived in Harrison until we moved to Cascade. We bought a ranch west of Great Falls[...]youngest son, Jeff, lost his life in a gun acciedent in 1974. My father died in 1959. My mother lives in Great Falls. She is now[...]In 1960, Ernest and Ursula bought the old Nottingham[...]ranch for the purpose of having a place when they retired.[...] |
| [...]ed States to work for the Great · they moved out in the valley to stay. Nor[...]ied Elizabeth Cakell of Iowa. Ernest was born in Butte, Montana, his father came from Eleanor's father followed in his father's footsteps and worked Nottingham, England and his mother was born in Kemmer, on the Great Northern, later cal[...]for 50 years. Ernest followed in his father's footsteps working for the Elea[...]olidation. Ernest worked 22 to Butte to work in the mines. years for the Great Northern and after the cut in the work On returning from the Viet Nam W[...]inal Association. Highway Department. He worked in the lab and on precon- His parents gave him an acre of ground, and Jay and struction and in 1967 was transferred to the Three Forks El[...]son, Todd and Justin. Ernest served two years in World War Two in the South[...]o the highways and skyways as Ursula was born in Grass Valley, California to John and their[...]Ursula Hankin land. Ursula's father worked in the Gold Mines of California and in 1915 moved to Butte to work in the copper mines. Ernest and Ursula were married in Butte. They have one[...]lived in the Sixteen Mile Area in 1933. Dave was born Sept.[...]44, at Helena, MT. He had one brother, Knute, and a JAY R. HANKIN[...]half sister, Hildee. He attended grade school in Lennep, MT Jay Hankin was born in Butte. He received his education until 19[...]ng the Viet Nam War. Jay married Eleanor Oehrle in Butte, where they resided until 1968 and then mov[...]r permanent home. Eleanor was born and educated in Butte, and graduated from Butte High School. Eleanor's grandfather on her father's side was born in Ger- Jay Hankin Fami[...] |
| [...]Bette was born in Montana and spent most of her young life in the Three Forks area. She was the daughter of Arc[...]Pearl (Hanson) White. She attended school in Three Forks and she and Norman were married in 1941. They moved to th~[...](M) Beverly Figgins, have 2 children. He is in the trucking business in Manhattan. Thomas Charles, born 1951, (M)[...]pany in Three Forks. Susan Marie born 1953, (M) Charles[...]Case, have 2 children. He works as a welder in White Sulphur[...]In 1971, Dave and Pat had a son Norman D., who lived to the[...]age of 3 years, passing away in 1974. A daughter, Jo Ellen P. was born in 1976.[...]WILLIAM A. HOELLEIN William A. Hoellein, born ·in 1851 and known as Andreas[...]Wilhelm Hoellein when in Germany, served in the German army in 1871, according to Bavarian records. He married[...]Anna Marie Elise Rottman, born in 1859, in Rodach, Bavaria,[...]78. On Jan. 1, 1880, Rosalie Louise was born, and in[...]wife and child. They joined him in Sept. 1880. Williarp. again[...]left alone for Gallatin City, Montana, in 1881, where he was a flour miller, working with his brother-in-law, Fred Hoffman. school from 1958 to 1962. He a[...]n until When Elise and Rosalie came, it was a difficult trip by narrow 1970.[...]h to Helena, where he met them. He met his wife in 1969 while she was working for the State (Rosa[...]l. They were Cook and Dietz Davis.) married in Bozeman in 1970. They moved to the Love Ranch Oth[...]and Elise were Frieda, Jan. on the Lower Madison in a trailer not far from her parents. 7, 1884 in Gallatin City, and Henry William, Oct. 15, 1888 o[...]DauQ.,_hter of W. A. Hoellein_ __ Hereim trailer near Mac Love[...] |
| [...], Ore. She passed away Nov. 19, 1972, buried at In 1885 they moved to a log cabin on a homestead (160) acres LaGrande, Ore. in the Madison Valley. The children attended school for a William Hotzel and Roberta's children: C[...]they began, but Marcie. Michel was killed in a car wreck near Butte, Montana soon learned, and the parents also learned from the books in early 1970's. Joseph Edward is married, lives in Spokane, brought home. As time went on, they had[...]ashington. No children. William George (Billy) is in the school. The schoolhouse was also used for Sunday School, and Navy, is married and is stationed in the Philippine Islands. No sometimes a missionary would come on a bicycle. This was a children. Roberta just finished high school[...]ord. college in Havre this fall. The children were grown when t[...]nd Leonard David Doyle children: Leon, mar- ranch in 1918, moving into a house they had Andrew Peterson ried wife Barbara. Children: Debbie and Cherie (by her first build in Willow Creek, directly across from the school. It[...]Live at LaG- remained the family home until sold in 1972, and still stands rande, Ore. George married, has a daughter, Jessica, and lives today. in American Falls, Idaho. William A. Hoellein died Dec. 13, 1921, and wife Elise died[...]llips, married Laura Ann Pierce, June 11, 1958 at in March, 1932.[...]ence Steven, Dec. 15 19--. All were born in Bozeman, Montana.[...]William lives near Havre, Montana; owns a small acreage[...]AMILY George Wesley Hotze!, born March 6, 1902 in Kearney, Betty Rose passed away Nov. 1[...]2, tion. lived around Livingston, Montana and was a rancher and Jeanette lives near Three[...]rd Hepner, June 4, 1981 at Lewiston, Idaho. He is a of William Lawrende McAllister and Ida Maude Keou[...]a; Denicia Ann Smith, born Feb. 2, 1960, Moved in June, 1933, to the Three Forks, Willow Creek Boze[...]Diane married Richard Max Witt, area, also lived in Logan and Manhattan before settling near Soldier'[...]tana,June 2, 1972. They Three Forks, 3 miles east in 1939. Moved over with a team and have 2 children, Wiliam Max, born May 29[...]by) and Wendy Elizabeth, born Creek. Started work in August, 1933 at the Ideal Cement June 21, 1978 at[...]at Rapid City, South Plant and worked there (was a miller), until he had to retire in Dakota. Claude L., Jr., married March 29, 1982 to[...]s, Montana. Rosaline Kay married Dennis He had a ranch of about 120 acres until 1950, when he Alle[...]80, born Bozeman, MT; Denicia Ann married Ben- In 1960, his home was bought out by the Interstate H[...]through but his other home still is ranch, raised a few cattle. He worked with Ray Lau, Richard there[...]d 3 chil: 1977 at his home near Three Forks, with a heart attack and is dren when they got married, Cherie, Michel and Joseph buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens near Bozeman, Montana. Th[...]is buried at George and Roberta Lillian. They got a divorce in the 70's and Sunset Memorial Gardens near[...] |
| [...]E HYDE Due to the encouragement of Ace Stanton, a brother of Phoebe Hyde, Phoebe and Herbert Hyde m[...]ydes came by immigrant train to the Lower Madison in 1881, where they settled on land later to be known as Hyde, Montana. Phoebe (Stanton) Hyde was born in 1837. Being a native of Pennsylvania, she later moved to Michig[...]0 years. She married Herbert Hyde, who was born in 1846 and they were the parents of 3 children: Sara C., Laura, and Louie. Sara C. was born in 1878 and married William R. Black in 1898 of[...] |
| [...]outh up the valley The first winter was a very rigorous one and entailed a loss near "Black Ford." Sara and William R. had e[...]aura married Booth Holker, who for many years was a type to be baffled or discouraged by so-called ill-luck, and they depot agent in Toston, Montana. They had 2 girls and 1 boy.[...]to put forth their best efforts and have attained a One girl, Ruth died at a young age. success worthy in the name. In 1888 they purchased a tract of Sara C. and Laura attended school in Bozeman when it land located twelve[...]to this they have since added until they now have a[...]ouie Hyde married Helen Stone, born 1878, who was a give special attention to raising ca[...]roughbred stock, and their herd has reached years in the Gallatin County schools. They had no children[...]gate of 600 head at various times. and Helen died in 1950. A portion of the ranch is covered by an effective system of Phoebe and Herbert had a store and Post Office at Hyde, irrigati[...]hich was used until approximately 1907. As stated in the quantities of hay annually, the av[...]had for thirteen years approved methods in the conducting' of their business, and will be di[...]enjoy the confidence and regard in the community where they office were located appr[...]In politics Mr. Jacoby is independent, but takes an[...]in whatever makes for the advancement· and material[...]Phoebe taught school at Hyde also. Mr. Hyde died in 1910. honors or emoluments of public office. Fraternally he is a Phoebe lived many more years and passed away at the age of member of Logan Lodge No. 64, A.O.u.w_., at Logan. 1'he post.. 94 in 1932 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William R.[...]cated twenty-two miles south of their ranch. was a member of the Orofino Chapter, Daughters of Ameri[...]to Mrs. Frances Hutchinson, who was born in Ohio, being the[...]with whom she came to Montana in 1876. Their attractive home is a center of genial hospitality and they have a wide MARTIN JACOBY circle of friends in the community. It is always gratifying to note[...]integrity of character. Among the younger States in early 1800's from Norway. They decided to change class of_men who have ~ttained 3: very appreciable success in their names. My Grandfather kept the name of Jorgen Montana is Mr. Jacoby, a native of the state of Missouri, hav- Jorgenson and became a representative in South Dakota ing been born in Gentry county, on· January 30, 1861, of legislature. So, I have many relatives whose names I do not sterling German lineage. His parents, John and Frederica know. My Grandfather settled in Vermillion, S. Dakota, and (Barbuer) Jacoby, were both born in Germany, and the pater- was a farmer. He had three children, one of which, was my n~l grandfather of our subject was the owner of a large vin- Dad, George D. Jorgenson, born in 1880, died Nov. 1953. He eyard. John Jacoby came to America in 1848 and located in the married my mother, Agnes A. Sobeck, who was born in 1885 state of Indiana, where he remained four yea[...]y, S. Dakota. They had six children- up his abode in Gentry county, Mo. , where he engaged in Margaret Hoffman, Venita Stoll, Perle McMurray, G[...]uits, maintaining his home on the original Vernon A. and Mark J. farmstead for forty-eight years, until the time of his death at I attended schools in S. Dakota and left there in 1935, the age of seventy-three years, his demise occurring in because of the hard times and because I got hungry and needed January 1901. He was a soldier in the Union army during the a job. war of the Rebellion, having been discharged on account of I had an uncle in Oakland, California, who ran a bar. I disability contracted while in the service. He was a man of worked for him for two years and then went[...]rs. of all who knew him. His wife is still living in Missouri on the old homestead.[...]I met Ann Miller, who was born in Montpelier, Idaho, to[...]. Others were Edward, John and Lucille. We met at in his native county, early becoming inured to the duties of the Oakland. We were married in 1938 in Reno, Nevada. homestead farm and having such educational advantages as were afforded in the public schools. He remained on the farm, Hearing about the good hunting in Montana and of a ranch devoting his attention to stockraising, until the spring of for sale on the Lower Madison, from a good frien.<l: of }\n~s, 1883, when he started for Montana and located in Gallatin Ellen Pugh, I decided to check out this-information and came county, where he engaged in ranching until the fall of 1885, by train to Logan, Motnana in 1944. Got a room at Campbell's whe~ he entered into pa[...] |
| [...]Holland or Netherlands in the early 1900's. They came into[...]New York and then settled in Michigan for a short time. John[...]Karp then came to Montana and settled in Amsterdam where[...]he worked for the county, farmed and built houses in Boze- man. John Vanderby lived for a while in Rapelje near Colum-[...]and farm in the Holland Settlement and Ralph Balkema[...]stayed in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He trucked celery to chicago[...]Jack was born in Bozeman to Jake Karp and Nelle (Van-[...]derby) Karp. His family lived in Harrison for a number of[...]n the Al Ypma farm near Harrison Lake. They lived in .Manhattan a couple of years in the house now owned by[...]·Saturdays after school and in the summer along with his early[...]morning paper routes. Then when in high school he worked for[...]Jack then moved back to Montana in 1965 and worked for[...]d to California to get my wife and three children in 1945. Glen Dale Jorgenson, born 1939, married 1st[...]as to _raise sheep, but after losing one third of a herd to coyotes, I took a truckoad to Bozeman and met Don Rizer. On the spo[...]to him and then went into the cattle business. In approximately 197 4, Seutter installed a pumping system on my land to irrigate a large crop of potatoes over the bluff from my place, He ran a 16 inch pipe 700 feet up the hill to irrigate approximately 1000 acres of potatoes. As a part of the deal, I was given the right to irrigate 120 acres. I installed a sprinkler system and raised fine alfalfa hay ther[...]ealth became bad, I sold the ranch to my son Jack in 1976. During my years on the ranch, I have served[...]school board and also on the landfill board, and a few years on the Soil Convservation Board. I have never desired to leave this place so have a home near my son and give a helping hand when I can.[...] |
| Ken Ypma building houses. In 1967, he married Bertha Hut- William ((Will" McDeed was born in Livingston, Mt. tinga, daughter of Jelke Huttinga[...]a November 29, 1884, the son of James A. McDeed and Sara Ann Huttinga. Her father worked for Henry Broekema farming in Spray. He grew up on Montana farms in the early twenties, the Holland Settlement. Then[...]er of Fredrick H. Stock and Julia Mae Allen, born in mother live there, where he his now hauling logs[...]August 6, 1883. hauls gravel. Her mother has been a bus driver for Manhattan They settled on a small fa:pn in the Lower Madison Valley, Christian School for t[...]located on Rae Creek. There they worked a large garden, run a After high school Bertha went to the Professi[...]and raised turkeys and chilckens. They Institute in Minneapolis to be a dental assistant. She then remained on the f[...]ies when they sold out worked for Dr. John Smith in Laurel and Dr. Norman Kenck and moved to Bozeman, where Will died on November 20, in Bozeman.[...]hen moved to After they were married Jack got a job testing for the DHIA Walla Walla, Washington where she remarried and lived out in Bozeman. Through th~t he met Lawrence Moore. When[...]the place, apparently lost' how they got started in the dairy business. When their five from som[...]bought the Crowley place from Carmen having a white belly band and had a voracious appetite and O'Donnell. They built the dairy barn and are in the process of was especially fond of baking po[...]o enable him to look ship their milk to Darigold in Boz~man. into the kitchen from a high window, this without slipping Jack and B[...]and walk around as if it were a foot path. Will taught him to Bertha Karp bring in the cows in the evening and upon command he would[...]Don W. Fraser I have enclosed a brief bit of information of the William McDeeds w[...], who died. She from Bozeman to Logan. A few months later on July 14, 1914 married a Bert May of Butte and they were divorced shortly, they were m_a rried at the Holy Rosary Church in Bozeman. no children. She then married McDeed who[...]ey was the daughter of Susan Lay and John married in Washington to an Edwards. Cudney. She was born in 1891 at Salesville, now Gallatin My cousin Tom Hart of Melrose lived on the farm as a boy Gateway. The Lays and the Cudneys were[...]r worked for Dr. Blair. She went His mother lived in Bozeman but he lived on the farm with his )n calls when needed and delivered many babies in the area. aunt.[...] |
| [...]family listed. Bottom row: L to R: John Pabe4 son-in-law; Missy Shel4 daughter; Linda Pabe4 Dick Thoms[...]and they named me Helen Bill Jenny built a house on the south end of Main Street in Rose. My father decided that he should get his ow[...]y sister, Fernetta Marie was born on He went in business with Mac Mcquillen in the grocery June 30, 1917.[...] |
| finished when we were to move in, so we had to move 3 times and moved t[...]. They are now living at Mait- We first moved in the little house across the bridge of the land, Florida and are putting in a TV Cable known as Evans Gallatin River south of Logan, then to the old Logan ranch, Cabel Vision in Maitland and Orlando. Barry married Linda just s[...]ssell where they are building the Quigmire in Maitland in 1982 and is working for his father. Logan Truck[...]ley ranch at the foot Dwaine and Lisa are in college. of Moss Pass, then to the Jenny Ranch.[...]Floy Sharon married Wendall Cross in Bozeman in 1959. We farmed, raised hay and cattle. My si[...]le They have 2 children Terri Lyn was born in Bozeman. She is a was born the next June 21, 1919. civil engineer in Virginia. Kenith Hugh born in Atlanta, Rose McDonnell taught school in the little schoolhouse at Georgia. He is in College in Alabama. Wendall is a research the end of Crowley Lane toward the river. She lived with us chemist at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Floy Sharon is a statisti- and rode a horse to school unless it was too cold then she drove cian at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. our buggy with old Fanny.[...]h 31, 1961. Logan and bussed the kids to school. A new school was just Randall was born[...]ere for 27 years. The Madison kids were picked up in an old Eileen married Greg Garcia in Bozeman and had 3 children: car drivey by Fatty[...]to school as Gregory, born May 7, 1976. In 1982 Eileen married Rich they had high school in Logan for the first few years. Drabek in Orlando, Florida. His .;wife passed away 2 years The earthquake in 1925 did considerable damage to the[...]Oct. 18, 1961. Both boys are in the Navy. Rich retired in the When the earthquake struck, huge boulders the size of a Navy and is now working at the Post O[...]Michael married Irene Mulveny in Nov. 1981 in Scotia, We had the second car on the Madison.[...]s car was never located. They a~e raising fruit and vegetables on a small farm in One morning, shortly after this, my father opened the shed Scotia, California. door and stood in shock. At this time all cars were black, and our car was a beautiful bright red. Sometime in the night FERNETTA McDONNELL HAAS neighbors had sneaked in and painted our car. Fernetta married Raymond Haas in Three Forks. Ray was a . · My father came to the house ai:id. rang one[...]ephone. Each of the 13 farms on the telephone had a Bonnie born March 25, 1935. She married Tom Hollings in special ring. Ours was 2 long rings and 1 short.[...]. We never knew married Dave Brents in California. They have 3 children. who painted ou[...]George married to Jan Brown in Sidney, Montana. Mar- Because of ill health,[...]we garetta married Jim Mauger. They live in Billings and Mary moved to Logan in 1928. Lue married Ron Cain. They also live in Billings. Dave and Donna now live in Belgrade.[...]) THOMSON live in Whitefish. They have one son, Dave, who lives in I married Alton Thomson and moved to the Thomso[...]Robert born Sept. 23, 1944. He :married Mary Rod- in 1936. We raised grain, hay, milked cows ~mi iater had b~f ricus in California. They have one son also named Robert b[...]elgium horses. in 1965. Robert is a computer analyst. We had 5 children. Richard Al[...]3, Lila married Rannie Ankerich in April 1968. They lived in 1937. Floy Sharon born Jan. 28, 1940. Linda Rose born Dec. Helena for many yea_rs, now in Spokane, where Rannie is an 23, 1945. Helen Eilee[...]Fernetta and· Ray lived in Three Forks for many :vears and My mother, Edna, married Sam Fields in 1935. They farmed then -moved to Townsend. Ray passed away in 1969. Femetta . on the Boulder for a few years and then moved to Oklahoma[...]daughter Donna. She passed away in Nov. of 1981. Sam passed away there and Mother[...]a. She lived with us for 10 years until her death in 1956. Dick joined the navy for 3 years. He marr[...]PAULINE McDONNELL ANDREW Marco in Linn, Mass. on April 13, 1958. Dwayne was born in Lin on Feb. 14, 1959. Pauline married Boyd Andrew in Salmon, Idaho. John Thomas was born in Salmon on Jan. 29, 1950. They moved to They mov[...]e Barry Dean was born Bozeman-for a short time and then moved to Honolulu, where on A[...]s chef at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Boyd was born in Dick worked for Cable TV and was working in Helena when Honolulu, then they move[...]Lisa was born on Jan. 30, 1963. Dick put cable TV in Denver aged the commissary at Wake Is[...]ntana when John was ready for school. They bought a where they built Mid West Cable. They came back to Belgrade restaurant in Boulder and ran that until Pauline died in-1968.[...] |
| Boyd married Laura Lee Tretton in Boulder. They have 2 children. Hide Machelle bo[...]d Michael born Nov. 1978. Boyd and Laura Lee live in Helena where Boyd works for Montana Power and Lau[...]for wage control for the State. John also lives in Helena where he cooks at Jorgenson Restaurant.[...]ILY OF JOHN MCDONNELL John McDonnell was born in Balnai, county Tipperary, Ireland Feb. 26, 1833[...]afterwards their father emigrated to Azn:erica. In 1851 he wasjoined by his wife and their three son[...]as, Michael) and their three duaghters (two died ,a nd Mary married John Cutler of Winterset, Iowa).[...]another two years until the death of his father, in New York. He then moved to New Jersey and lived with a relative working on a farm in the summer and attending school in the winter. He then moved to Polk Co. Iowa and lived in Des Moines and farmed on leased land until 1864. On April 5, 1864 he married Harriet Stuff, a native of eastern Maryland. She was the daughter[...]Harriet joined a wagon train and crossed the plains to Mon-[...]team consisted of horses and the wagon train was in[...]atening their lives and harassing them generally. A party[...]were later joined by others including a scout named Bridger.[...] |
| [...]in 1899. Both he and his wife are members in the Sons and .[...]Harriet McDonnell. He was born July 22, 1872 in the midst of a Nez Perces Indian raid on the Gallatin Valley. Th[...]came on a raid, killed several white men and left with a[...]educated in the district schools of Gallatin Co. and Bozeman[...]his father and older brother William in the cattle business.[...]with a herd of 500 Shorthorn and Hereford cattle.[...]of Wm. and S. A. Black. They had two sons, Vernon and[...]Robert Emmett McDonnell was born on a farm in Gallatin[...]nell. Bottom: High School. He taught school in Three Forks and the Madi- Herbert Hoover, James White. Surveying squad, Stanford son Valley. In 1892 he entered Stanford University to study Uni[...]engineering. He earned his way through college as a[...]aper reporter, photographer, surveyor and cook on a He agreed to bring them into the Gallatin Valle[...]ow was quite large , steamship Australia on a cruise to Japan in 1894. however, the Indians did attack and took sixteen horses. The In his graduating class from Stanford was Herbert Hoover settlers pursued them, had a battle in which there were some who became the 31st Pr[...]ss formed the busi- The McDonnell's remained in Virginia City for three weeks ness partnership of Burns & McDonnell, a construction firm of and then took up some land[...]Kansas City. The firm grew steadily, reaching a peak during on the Lower Madison River (west of[...]had one veloped 320 acres. They were successful in business and de- son Robert H. who became m[...]April 1, for their children. Their old home was in the area of West 1948, the Kansas City Star devoted a half page to "this Galla- Babcock and Sixth Ave[...]nty man" under the caption, ''He Has Helped Build A ANNIE L..MCDONNELL Nation In 50 Years of Engineering". Annie L. McDonnell[...]l. She was one of the first white children born in this area. Because of her blond hair and light[...]erraughty. The first .o f the family to ganized a possee and went after her. She was recovered un-[...]loped appendicitus and died at the early age in 1868 was Michael Lane. Next came Pat, Con and Mar[...]es, Tom and Julia came wiht their father, Patrick in 1880. WILLIAM LOFrUS MCDONNELL[...]land. The family emigrated to New York in the early 1850's. picturesque scenery and grow[...]wealth of the Michael secured his education in the schools of New York and Lower Madison Vall[...]shed him his elementary education supplemented by a brother, Nicholas, the owner of the Union Iron Works in Des Bozeman College and Englehorn Business College in Helena. Moines, Iowa. He married Catherine Waterman, daughter of C. H. In 1868, Michael came to Montana, meeting his brothe[...]hn, and wife, who had come earlier. Upon arriving in Erval, Anna Cecelia, Catherine Aline and Willia[...]yment at his trade, but about nine man. He has a farm of 320 acres one and a half miles west of months later, the propriet[...]ithout paying . Bozeman. All under irrigation and in an advanced condition of the wages due him. He then entered the employ of A. M. Holter improvement. He also had an excellen[...]es. The farm and its products Creek for about a year, when he came to the Madison Valley,[...] |
| [...]Rose Ethel, and Charles Earl.. Following is a brief of each of purchasing a herd of cattle and continuing in the stock busi- them: ness for four years. He the[...]nterests and Emmett McDonnell (4-27-1882) died in the scarlet fever turned his attention to mining,[...]Nellie) McDonnell (1883-1960) married tin County. In 1880, he purchased ranch property from his George Battenfelder. He was a produce grower and owner of a brother, John. Later, he added to the original tract until he livery stable and mercantile in Three Forks. He also served as had about 1400 acr[...]dison River. The main crop was hay and high grade In 1919, the family emigrated north into the bush country of Shorthorn cattle. On one occasion, he provided a man with 100 Canada about 100 miles northwest of[...]vidual They took up land there and eventually had a post office and disappeared with the entire herd. Michael maintained a lively general store at Camp Creek, Alberta. John and his wife, interest in the community. He served as school trustee for Ro[...]right: Mrs. Michael (Mary living most of his life in the Logan area. He served in the army Lane) McDonnell, Michael McDonnell, Mary Ellen McDon- in World War I. Hank was a respected cattleman and rancher nell. Standing left to right: Julia (McDonnell) Bryson, Lucy in the Gallatin Valley. (McDonnell) Schwab, Charles[...]Back row, left to Lizzie, as she was called, was a spirited housekeeper for John right: Henry McDon[...]eth (Liz- McDonnell and also for Emmett McDonnell in St. Louis,. Mo. z½_) M_cJ}.!!_nneJl, Emmett McDo[...]r she was the housekeeper for the Catholic parish in[...]first couple married in the new Catholic Church in Logan. Bill[...]Manhattan area where Bill worked in the Waters Meat Mar-[...]ket many years. He had a great wit and good snese of humor.[...] |
| Rose Ethel McDonnell (1897-19 ·- ) -a ttended Sacred Heart Academy in Missoula and State Normal College in Dillon. She taught school a few years in Gallatin Valley and at Two Dot, Mont. She married John Robertson from a pioneer family there. They maintained a sheep and cattle ranch on the Mus- selshell River in Wheatland County. Their children are Frank, John,[...]ook Store. She married John E. Schwab (1890-1967) in Bozeman on November 29, 1922. John was born and raised in Mt. Angel, Oregon, and came to White Sulphur Springs, Mont., with his parents in 1915. He moved to Bozeman in 1918 to work for the Montana Flour Mill where he[...]ent. The Schwabs were very active all their lives in the . Bozeman community and Rosary Catholic Churc[...]seph, "_N., Rose Mary and Theresa. John now lives in Portland, Oregon and has six children - John III, Steve, Dave, Barbara, Mike, and Molly. Joe is living in Bozeman, has six children - Joe , Jr., Dan, Carol[...]and Robert, and nine grandchildren. Theresa lives in Great Falls- has 10 children - Michael, Rita, Ron[...]grandchildren. Charles Earl (1899-1967) served in the Army in both World War I and World War IL He settled in Oklahoma City, Ok- Stephen F. McDonnell, Jr. and Jacklyn "Jackie" (Best) lahoma -a fter discharge from the service in 1945, married McDonnell Alethea Oliver who had taught school in Gallatin County. Chuck was active in the Elks Lodge in Bozeman where he father came to Montana in 1868. Michael McDonnell was born made his home for many years and in the American Legion Sept. 29, 1849 in county Tipperary Ireland. He and his family and Knights of Columbus, in both Bozmena and Oklahoma. first came[...]stablished MICHAEL McDONNELL FAMILY In July 1975 a baby boy, John Ryan, was born to Stephen[...]ions of the same family to live on the same ranch in the Lower John Ryan & Kel[...] |
| [...]" bought Shor- thorn cattle to stock this ranch. In 1881 Mike married Mary Lane, also an Irish immig[...]grandfather. He, like his father before him, was a cat- tleman, only he raised Herefords. On Au[...]cattle came Rambouillet sheep. After service in the Army, Steve Jr., returned to the ranch to ma[...]Jack- lyn Best and they too Ii ved on this ranch in the Madison Valley. To them was born an only son, Stephen Paul. This little boy learned to ride a horse, chase cows and irrigate these same old ac[...]nd Jackie changed the cow herd to Black Angus·. In 1970 the cow herd was changed again, this time t[...]s now seen just about all the cattle breeds. In June 1972 Stephen Paul married Helen Anne Othiem.[...]e parents of young John R. and Kellie Anne, born in 1976. They also make their home on the beloved l[...]the Little Big Horn. This couple left their home in Ireland and crossed an ocean of water and a sea of grass to come to Montana and make their h[...]changed to meet the specialization that occurred in agriculture. The ranch is now a partnership which includes Steve and Helen Anne. Again this land is providing a livelihood to another generation. One cannot help but wonder what ·changes will be made in the lifetime of young John and Kellie. Either we have tremendous pride in our heritage , or we have never had enough money to hire a moving van. Only a rancher can truly understand what this means.[...]nell HISTORY OF DONALD McKINNON'S FAMILY |
| continued to operate the ranch until 1958, when he died of a Arthur, Earl Benjamin, Mable Evelyn (Mr[...]and Bessie. Mable still lives in Three Forks. She celebrated Due to problems of[...]Helen moved to Logan, where she ran a hotel. Both Henry and Margaret and Arnold Tayl[...]Robert and Shirley, and resided most of the time in Bozeman. Elmo A. Rice (July 29, 1879-April 18, 1964), the third s[...]Orland, California. and Lyle Rae, and also lived in · Bozeman. Unfortunately, He followed a number of occupations, beginning his adult Donald Manry died quite early in life from kidney failure. Ann career at the Northern Pacific Roundhouse in Logan in 1898. and James Bowles lived several years in Bozeman and later in Then, from 1899 to 1901, he was an assi[...]underground surveying at Anaconda Copper Mines in Butte. Needless to say, Dugal and Rachel McKinnon had no easy In 1902, he contracted for the Government Public Land Sur- life, buying a ranch and raising a family. vey, a position he held until 1911. In 1912 and 1913, he homesteaded on a rarich in Rosebud County, south of Forsyth, Later in the winter of 1948-1949, Donald and his Vyife spe[...]would be able to save the government. In 1917, he returned to the Lower Madison Val- cattl[...]izzard that kept up for ley and purchased a ranch where he and his wife, Ella Mae two months[...]Darlinton Rice, lived until their deaths. were:a lifesaver, as you could not get out of the yard without a tractor.[...]Margaret Taylor 1958) was born and raised in the Lower Madison Valley at the[...]Madison Valley from Boulder, Montana in 1883. The story of the Headwaters area Rice family _actually starts in Homer, Michigan, where Henry Martin Rice and his wife . In addition to Ella Mae, they had four sons: George[...]ey Allen and Ralph Edwin. Ralph's son, Gor- . as a photographer, the family moved a great deal and the don .L uther Darl[...]ives at the 7-D Ranch. eleven children were born in four separate states. Of the , Elmo and Ella Mae Rice were married March 1, 1911, in eleven children, eight survived: Justin Robert,[...]na, Montana. Afte·r their marriage they moved to a Crowley), Helen Louise (Mrs. George Potter), Albert H., Elmo homestead in Rosebud County, South of Forsyth where they[...]lived until returning to the Lower Madison Valley in 1917.[...]worked at the Safeway store in Bozeman until he was trans-[...]Lauren A. Rice attended Montana State University and[...]in October, 1978. During World War II, he was a Sergeant in the U.S. Army and saw duty in the Pacific Theatre. He mar-[...]ried Elsie Thomas, of Bozeman on April 15, 1943, in Bozeman.[...]versity in 1941, worked briefly for Montana Power Company.[...]In March, 1942, however, he went to work for General[...]Ordnance Laboratory in Washington, D.C., attaining the[...]turned to General Electric in Schenectady and worked in the[...]While stationed in Washington, D.C., Leland met Betty~[...]rooks Moore (July 1, 1923), and they were married in Austin,[...]Leland and Bettye now live in Ballwin, Missouri, and Leland[...]works for General Electric in St. Louis, MO.[...]in Austin and is employed as an architect in Dallas.[...] |
| graduated form the University of Missouri-Columbia with a B.S. in Elementary Education in 1975 and married Brian D. Faison on May 24, of th[...]Athletic Director at Illionis State Uni- versity in Normal, Illinois. Brian and Donna have one son: J[...]Rice BILL AND ELIZA ROBERTS |
| [...]id fisherman, hunter, and loved camping and also a small band of sheep. The children always had a out. Most of the men who worked under him thought a great horse to ride, a nice swimming hole in Rae Creek, and also one deal of him, and became h[...]tch. _T hey all learned to son said of him: "It's a terrible shame that so much knowledge swim, but[...]lowed to go to the river becau·se the should die in one man's death." Both Bill and Eliza were very[...]earned their spending well liked by all, and had a multitude of friends that kept in money by picking chok:ech~ies and selling them.[...]syrup, and wine. passed away in 1970, Eliza and Bill Jr. in 1981. (There were Eliza raised a large garden and filled the old root cellar to fo[...]ghter Veva Alice was born December 30, the brim. In the winter the meit would cut ice and store it in 1920 and died January 30, 1921.) the ice house. An:rta Grace often helped in the fields mowing[...]his ranch all through the depression. Ben find it a very difficult task and quite hard to find something to Adams took bankruptcy, and the property was in the hands of write about me. · a bank during the depression years. The only way Bi[...]I was born to George and Valore Schwoob in July of 1935. make ends meet and make it pay eno[...]did not hurt My real Father passed away in 1958 but my Step-father, anyone, and the family[...]George Wilcox, has been the greatest father a person could '[...]Conditions did finally improve and there came a time when again hired help could be afforded. Eliza cooked for all these IN 1949 we moved to-Three Forks, permanently and I didn't men, heated water to wash dishes in the wash tub, and heated move away until 1958. Three Forks will always be my home water to rinse them in the wash boiler. Then one day Bill town. attached a water barrel to the back of the cook stove, and the I have one sister, Loma Parker,.who lives in Willow Creek. water could be heated by the kitchen range. Eliza would stir A brother, Larry Wilcox , who lives in Three Forks and a up a cake in a dish pan and bake it on a sheet that completely brother, Barry Wilcox, who lives in Havre. My Mom and Dad, filled the oven. All food[...]. In 1966 I married Jimmy Rogers and his five children. He Anna Grace graduated from Three Forks High School in· had four daughters and one son, I had two daughters. Then May 1937, and married Lester Joseph Lewis in June. They there were seven; that's sure alot of[...]to Trident, Montana. Eliza then had to hire help in the wash. kitchen.[...]gineer for the Montana Power Company and Only a few months after this marriage, Bill was notified[...]- prettiest, most handsome, clever and smart kids in the coun- mother Roberts had roomers and boarder[...]ing try. Needless to say, family gettogethers are a real panic. college and she needed help. On Easter Sunday in 1938. In 1972, Jimmy and I moved to Colstrip, MT. and like[...]of Margie Rogers. feeligs were quite traumatic. In the Senior year of high school, Juanita married[...]new- lyweds they returned to the Madison Valley in 1940 to work at the Tice Place with Red and Eunice Kane. Bill was a self-educated man. He was very conscious of his[...]8th grade education but at his retirement he had a Qesk job with General Electric Co. in the Hanford Project in Richland, Washington. He read a lot and he was a very hard worker; thought nothing of working extra hours without pay. He.believed in a job well done no matter what it took to do it. He was a stern father and if the children needed it[...] |
| [...]ed Elizabeth Henry, came nest so everyday is like a honeymoon. from Ir[...]ish, Australian and Jimmy and I bought our home in Colstrip and have been Canadian government and settled in Detroit, Michigan, remodeling it for over ten years. We belong t-0 a little theatre where Ed Scanlon, Sr. was born in 1877. Ed Scanlon, Sr. group which takes up alot o[...]time. We both enjoy married Henritte June Gillet in Dry Creek in 1905. She was traveling, basketball games and foo[...]rank and Margaret (Maggie) Gillet. She had , take a three week camping trip every fall and that is th[...]Ed Scanlan, Sr. and his wife took up a homestead on Camp graphy. Also have had some pret[...]trips. Creek, south of Manhattan, in 1905. They became the parents A little more about me. I dislike women's clubs, ha[...]mals, early mornings, the ocean, flowers, hearing a nest Haas. They haven't any children. child laugh[...]rma Bombeck and Oral Roberts. I enjoy dressing up in the Alvin Port. They have one son. latest fashions but can usually be found in old sneakers and a Arthur Thomas, born on the homestead, ma[...]been fighting the battle of obesity Wood. He died in 1976. They had two children, one boy, Tom, for ni[...]nry, born on the homestead, married Grace I am a freelance writer and photographer. When my ship ·Ricci. They have three children. comes in , if I'm not at the airport, I will have fresh-cu[...]James Alfred, born on the Lower Madison in 1928, married in every room of my house all year around. I will hi[...]Bess Nelson. They had three children. He died in 1977. to do my typing and clean my house. This is my favorite part, I will dirve a 1929 Mercedes Benz Gazelle, red, of course. The family lived in the Camp Creek area until the children[...]e ready to attend high school. They then moved to a farm I always enjoy comin~ home, to Three Fork[...]tan. Heritage History book that will be published in 1983. In 1928, they moved to 'the Lower Madison on what wa[...]farm, raising grain and a few cattle. He passed away in 1946 and Henritte passed· away in 1940; both parents with heart[...]Frances Edward and Marjorie Haas were married in 1933. ED AND MARJORIE SCANLAN[...]Anna Haas was a practical nurse and midwife. She delivered There were many Irish immigrants in the early part of the[...]many made their way to the western part of killed in 1939 in Los Angeles and Anp.a Haas passed away in the United States. Three Forks in 1940. Marjorie had one sister and four[...]when Ed went to work at Trident. They lived in Three Forks. In 1952, they worked for Fred Lane at "Fred's Place". In 1953,[...]Cafe by Ed and Marj. In 1978, Marj passed away and their·[...]is a contractor. They have three children - Rodger, Ja[...]Charlie Scheytt was born in Gallatin County at Springhill,[...]at Maudlow, Montana in the buisness of ranching, raising[...] |
| [...]Three Forks (Block Place on Madison) was used for a few years for wintering the cattle of Charles and[...]L. Niven WILLIAM LANDES SEAVY |
| [...]All of the Seeman children attended high school in Manhattan and Fred spent his senior year at Thre[...]and sold what they did not use. There was always a large garden and orchard. Frieda canned large am[...]ck to the buffalo jump and hunted for arrowheads. In the summer, they went on horseback rides, fished in the Madison, went on pic- nics, and had marshmal[...]ng the winters, Fred trapped. Hank Morrison, a former stage coach driver, was a ditch walke:r and stayed with the Seemans durin[...]said the bunkhouse on the ranch had been used as a stage station on the run from Bozeman to_ Virginia City. Ludwig was killed in an accident with runaway horses on August 16, 19[...]e is still ((Aunt Frieda." She still lives in Manhattan and receives much joy and love from h[...]eat-grandchildren. Fred and his wife, Peg, live in Kalamath Falls, Oregon; Ann (Mrs. Harry Brainard) lives on a ranch east of Manhattan; Myrtle (Mrs. Hugh Clinton) and Gordon and his wife, Joyce, live in Manahttan. Eileen (Mrs. Bob Jones) lives in Bend, Oregon. Frieda has 12 grandchildren and 1[...]west of the Madison Buffalo Jump. They moved here in the spring of 1926 and resided there until the spring of 1934. Mr. Sime was born in Iowa (1886) and came to Montana in 1902, where he homesteaded in McCone County (Circle, Mon- tana). He married Martha Roald on December 7, 1907 in Glendive, Montana. He ran sheep, mainly, while he was on the Lower Madison; however, he raised a small amount of grain, also. One daughter and t[...]man, Montana. Arthur R. Sime married Irene Wahl in 1929. They reside in Kennewick, Washington. They have one son, also residing in Kennewick, Wn.[...] |
| Ralph R. Sime married Audrey Blackwood in 1938 and resides on a ranch Southwest of Bozeman. They have two sons also residing in the same area. A. G. Sime was very interested in Indian artifacts and assisted Charlie Kinsie in screening many of the Kinsie arrowhead collections now in the courthouse in Bozeman. He was also very interested in Paleontology and spent some time with people from[...]s. Mr. and Mrs. Sime spent their later years on a ranch in the Gallatin Gateway area, until Mr. Sime's death in 1975. Mrs. Sime, then moved to town near Esther, where she resided until her death in 1980.[...]ND ETHEL SIMPSON The Simpson family originated in Scotland and the grand- father migrated to Minnesota in the early days. He had a large family, one of which was Eugene. Eugene married Ada West, born 1884, in about 1900. To this union were born Lester, 1902,[...]thel, 1904, and Darrell, born 1906. All were born in Black Hammer, Minnesota. When Darrell was two years old, his father homesteaded in Western North Dakota and the children went to the[...]They moved to Penroy, Montana, and left there in 1920, went back to Ten Strike, Minnesota. Darrell worked for J. H. Carmichael in Augusta, Mont. in 1929, and Ethel taught school at Penroy for three years. In 1936 they moved to Belgrade and then bought the Old Crowley homestead on the Lower Madison in 1937. Darrell worked for the Valley Garden Ran[...]e ranch on the Madison Sloan, June 30, 1891. in 1941. Eugene, the father, became seriously ill and passed away in 1944and is buried in the Three Forks Cemetery. They Esther Sloan[...]Wytana for two years, 1958-1960. Then for the C. A. Ranches for seven years. Ethel kept house for him. After that, Darrell worked for the Indian Service in the Flathead Reservation in Pablo, Montana, as a ditchrider for four years. Then transferred to He[...]for 10 years. They retired to Townsend, Montana, in 1975, where they still reside.[...]was born to Asa Sloan and Mary Ann Douglas Sloan in Clinton County, Missouri on May 29, 1858. Asa Sloan's occupation was a cabinet maker. When Johnny (his nickname) was sev[...]tana, arriving July 10, 1865, later they settled in Boulder, Montana, where they farmed and raised ca[...]ening while haying. John Bernard Sloan grew up in the Boulder, Mont. area and in 1890 he settled in the Madison Valley, seven miles south of Logan, Mont., where he owned and operated a large cattle ranch. He met and later m[...] |
| also lived in the Madison Valley with her parents. They mar-[...]loan Farmer, wed Don Farmer, Thousand Oaks, ried in the Bozeman Hotel lobby on June 30, 1891 and trav[...]ive by horse and surrey (which Margaret said had a fringe on the children. top) to Bozeman[...]Mrs. Sloan (Margaret Elizabeth Crowley) also had a colorful children. background. She was th[...]caipa, Calif. (two children) and Crowley fought in the battle in India, under the reign of the Pamela Sloan[...]lee, four chil- ' Victorian Cross for his service in the battle: They later came dren - Faith Pa[...]s, Calif.; to the United States, settling first in Cleveland, Ohio, and Doris Jane Barker, H[...]raised their family of eight children, John, born in England, and Pat, Mike, Will, Jim, and daughter[...]E LAFFE'ITE SMITH Margaret, Mae and Ellen, born in U.S.A.[...]Minnesota, son of Margaret came to California in 1950 and resides with us Claude Eli a[...]tana at White Sulphur Springs to work in the woods, July years, here in California. She is buried in the Holy Cross 1951, but the snow was too deep so came on to Willow Creek Cemetery in Los Angeles. and started to work on a rahch there. There are other stories in my memory, such as Mr. sloan Later[...]rk Feb., 1952 at the Ideal Cement being away on a cattle buying trip and outlaws coming to the Plant at Trident, Mont. in the quarry. ranch and Mrs. Sloan, a young mother, alone with a baby, had to cook for them and provide a night's lodging for them, later On Marc[...]tzel, at finding out it was "Billy the Kid" and a member of his group. Bozeman, Montana, daughter of George Wesley and Lillian Also, Mr. Sloan, when a youth in the Boulder area, was out Maude McAlli[...]Forks, Montana. riding his horse and came upon a body hanging from a tree Later, he started hauling pul[...]ranch John owned near Logan and raised A.M. and get home about 9 or 10 P.M. each evening. their family of seven children there. One child died in infancy. While working hauling pulp wood, a daughter, Diane John Bernard Sloan, known af[...]at Townsend, Montana. his friends and neighbors in a wide area, was a most respec- In 1955, he owned and worked in his own saw mill near ted citizen and loved by all in the community. He was an Townsend, Montana, and worked in the woods and on Jan. 27, excellent square dance caller and was in great demand as such 1955, a son named Claude L., Jr., (Butch) was born at Tow[...]led by all the neighbors) often com- In 1957 he was working in the woods and hauling logs and plained she never danced as much as she wanted. with her lived in White Sulphur Springs, he started to work at the saw husband because he was in demand as a caller. They used to mill as head sawyer. attend what was known as the Lyceum in Three Forks, where On June 22, 195[...]ughter Rosalind Kay, was born they participated in extemporaneous speaking-lectures, etc.- at Townsend, Montana. a friendly form of get-togethers and recreation for the com- In 1959 we moved back to Three Forks and bought a small munity. John Bernard Sloan was a super horseman. His wife ,place one mi[...]1960, the later told of how she had her "heart in her throat" as she fourth child, a girl named Denicia Ann was born at Bozeman, wat[...]d jump the woodpile and some Mont. In March of 1960, the interstate came through and we[...]had to sell our place, so we bougbt a trailer house and moved it He resided on the[...]rced him to retire out on the Lower Madison. In 1964 he bought some land and in 1932. He later lived with his daughter, Ethel Sloan Doak in settled there while working on construction as a mechanic and Cascade, Mont. and died in the Columbus Hospital in Great heavy equipment operator. In Feb. 1972, he then bought a Falls, Mont., Jan. 21, 1933 and is buried in a Bozeman Cemet- semi truck and reefer van and started his own business as ery. He was also a member of Montana Pioneer Society:[...] |
| [...]Nov. 19, 1978 at Three Forks, Montana. They have a daughter, Amber Marie , born January 27 , 1979 at Bozeman, Mont. a nd a son Dennis Allen, Jr. born Feb. 21, 1980 at Bozem[...]Our old home is not there anymore. Claude was a hard working man, honest and had many friends on[...]n as "Tiny" . While working on construction as a mechanic near Conrad, Montana, he hurt his back while working but would not take a week off, so he drove from home to work, got out[...]lk, but would crawl throught the mud and rain for a week to the machinery and work. He has four gr[...]y have their own busi- ness there. Claude, Jr. is a truck driver, also now he is working at the saw mill in Judith Gap, Mont. Rosalind lives in Three Forks, Mont. and her husband works at Cherr[...]cia lives near Three Forks now. When Claude was a young boy, just before he completed the 8th grade, he got rheumatic fever and was in bed for two years. The doctors told his parents he would never walk again and he decided he would , with a lot of work and pain, he did after two years. His parents sold their farm in Minnesota and they moved to California to a warmer climate for him, as the doctors told them[...]d with. He was Scout Master for the Boy Scouts in Three Forks for several years and his helpers wer[...]Montana , next to George and Lillian away in December, 1936. Funeral services were held at the[...]Community Church in Logan. Casket bearers were Steve[...]John Johnson and William Crouch. DAVID A. AND FLORENCE DUNBAR SW ARNER Mrs. Swarner lived in Logan for several years. She passed Florence was the daughter of Frank J . and Anna Dunbar. away in 1961. ·[...]dparents home, Major and Sarah This is a poem found amongst her possessions: Campbell on J[...]ne los' his light, grade school at Gallatin City. In the early 90's she attended[...]eems lak to me de day's jes twice as long college in California. From a San Jose newspaper clipping: "A[...]Since You Went Away. in the San Jose Academy. The aroma of fragrant flowe[...]d to the delight of the Seems lak to me a tear stays in my eye, company. Among those present were Mrs. F[...]t ev'rything wants you. closed last Friday, after a successful term taught by Miss Since You Went Away. Florence Dunbar (bless her heart). There was a time when, in Since my mother went away. the near future[...]bar Nicodemus. But it was the old, old story of ((A city chap with oily locks, got away with Jerusha Jane" and I still make my own coffee, and fry my own bacon in my solitary den." No hint ELL[...]n boys. Mrs. Sweeney was born July 9, 1865 in Cleveland, Ohio, the Florence did not marry unt[...]and Mrs. James J. Crowley. She moved to the David A. Swarner, a Madison Valley rancher. Gallatin Valley with her parents in 1889. In 1902 at Trail Dave Swarner was born. April 30, 1849 in Summerset Creek B.C. she married John J. Sweeney. They were the county, Penn., a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Swarner. He came parents of? children. Myrtle and Walter appear in an old to Montana in 1884 and was one of the early day stockmen and pi[...]ner owned the old After her husband's death in 1922, she spent time with her[...] |
| [...]Hattie Tice, wife of Tom Tice II. passed away in Bozeman in October of 1941.[...]Wilson and helped in a cattle drive to the north. His compan-[...]he learned well . One of the early families in the Madison Valley was the Tice[...]Lake City before sunrise and through Ogden and in 1735, left his home in East Elmira, New York in 1870 with a Brigham City, crossing the Bear River in Utah. They went ' · little money.borrowed from a[...]and Camas Creek. They crossed Missouri River on a steamboat. Then by train, he went from the summit[...]Omaha through Cheyenne to Salt Lake City. After a nineteen east", probably Lemhi Pass, passing Bann[...]the cowboy to be a day-to-day chore of moving cattle with[...]orses andprovidingthem with food and water, truly a fairly[...]in mining and prospectig for six years and then buil[...]ily which arrived in 1632, was nine years old when she and her[...]mother and brother left their home in Valparaiso, Indiana to[...]join her father, Nathaniel Merriman in Montana in 1865. They boarded a river steamer on the Missouri at St. Louis for a[...]went to Jefferson City, a mining camp between Helena and[...]Butte and ran a stage station and hotel. It was Emma's duty to[...]s sixteen, she was sent to St. Vincent's Academy, a school[...]Tom and Emma met and were married in Helena on July 9,[...]1876. Their first business venture was to invest in a few cows[...] |
| [...]ved to the Lower Madison near Gallatin City, then in 1880', they h(?mesteaded a ranch about ten miles south of Logan near the Mad[...]ogan on August 12, 1887. Except for her schooling in Bozeman, she lived with her. parents until her ma[...]cted. Maud was married to John Jefferson Romine in 1918 and moved to Manhattan, where they built a home on 40 acres and raised three children. They also raised wheat and turkeys on a section of dry land in the Elk Creek area. After a divorce, she 1. Ina (Bellas) Tinder; 2. Bud Tinder; 3. Helen Tinder; 4. moved in 1933 to San Jose, California where she lived unti[...]7, and they carried on the family cattle business in the Madison No. 2 and No. 3 a,:e chtldr~n of Mr. and. Mrs. Tom Tinder. Valley.[...]for 20 on Sundays, she said, and many times sev- in May of 1922. They and their children are buried in the eral more plates had to be ~dded. She enjoyed working there family plot in Bozeman.[...].seem hard.' · · · Source: "The Tice Families in America", 194 7, by J . S. Elston "Progressive Me[...]mories of Later when rubber inner tubes were in use, a game consist- · Maud Tice Sage, as told to her[...]In the summer of 1925, an electrical storm came up a[...]Mr. Tinder rode out in the field to tell his son and other men to ·[...]son Tinder was the 4th of 5 children born to come in, he was struck by lightn~ng and killed,_as well as _t~e Walter Mason Tinder and Sarah A. Ladshaw in 1865 in. horse he was riding. The bolt had struck him in the head and Federicksburg, Orange gcounty, Vir[...]s body through the saddle and to the back- tana in 1887 and married Mamie Black, daughter of William bone of the horse, leaving a hole about the size ofa lead pencil. B. Black, a pioneer who came to Montana in 1871, the wedding He was buried in Bozeman on August 16; a multitude of taking place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Swan in friends attending the funeral. Bozeman, Mrs. Sw[...]ide. Mrs. Tinder's father, William B. Black was a brother of the late Colonel L.[...]o the Bozeman area, M. Black, who was prominent in the early business life of'[...]n. William B. Black brought his family to Montana in . there until her death in March of 1934.[...]Marie Tinder 1874 and a few years later, they located on a homestead near the Madison River west of Bozema[...]JACK TINDER FAMILY Mr. Tinder located on a homestead on the same road, one[...]nd W. B. Tinder. He arrived March 11, 1919. His in farming and cattle raising. There were six children born to folks lived on a farm in Little Bear Canyon, where he was this union.[...]Egelson; and ·creek school. ·He rode horseback a few miles to get there. Roy Phillips, born 1905[...]father and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Frost, in Manhat- Mr. Tinder was a much loved man with a family of five boys tan. and one girl arid many[...]ns visiting from time to time,. In 1929, a second son , William Pete, was born. After severa[...]years of drought and depression, the family moved in 1935 ·t o corralled and each rider's skills te[...]mily shortly _ Logan. Here Jack was able to catch a bus to Manahttan where[...] |
| [...]their furniture and set a fire in the apartment just in back of theirs. Seattle had a very efficient fire department. The fire[...]In 1946, they moved back to Montana to the home of J[...]W. B. Tinder passed away in Oct. 1946.[...]Their daughter, Jackie Jeanne, was born in Bozeman in[...]947, the same year that electricity was installed in their home. They lived in the little three room house, milked cows[...]and raised a few head of cattle.Here Marie learned to milk a cow and drive a car.[...]enough to make a living so in 1950-1951 Jack went to work at[...]the Round House in Logan for the Northern Pacific Railroad.[...]In 1954, Jack again went to work for Ideal Cement in Tri-[...]1963, when the men were laid off in the winter. About this[...]time, Kaiser was building a large cement plant at Montana[...]for awhile. Then in 1968, he 'started driving back and forth[...]own to him. After one year of college, he took a job at the cement plant at Roger Mason married[...]wo girls: Misti Dawn born 1974 and Mandi Rae born in for the Milwaukee Railroad on the work crew. Paul Simmert 1977. He works for Kenyon Noble Ready-Mix. was in charge of the work crew. Later he started as a brake- Jackie Jeanne married Grant Balla[...]they have one daughter, Christina Marie born in 1969 and one In 1941, he married Marie Westerman, daughter of Earl J . son, Bradley Grant born in 1973. Jackie works for Dr. Edward Westerman and E[...]piaries. tana. She was staying with an aunt, Mrs. A. Gorsky, in Three Forks and had finished school in Spokane. She was working for the AAA in Bozeman, Montana, as a comptometer. ·w.[...]Mabel F. Border in 1917. ton with an ultimate goal of Alaska.[...]They lived in Little Bear Canyon for awhile and then moved A son, Roger Mason, was born in December of 1944 in to Anceny Station in 1921 or 1922. They moved to the old Providence Hospital in Seattle. Tinder home place in the winter of 1925, after his father Jack obtained work in Seattle, Washington in war related Eugene, had been killed by lightning.[...]le they and they were unable to keep the place so in 1935, they bought lived in Seattle, they lived in War Housing which was re- what was known as the P[...]unpainted apartment houses with three apartments in back of[...]of two children, Jack Mason, born each and three in front. They were heated with wood and coal[...]9. stoves, had tiny kitchens with one bedroom and a bathroom. They were situated on a very steep hill with Ea t Lake at the W. B. Tinder was a much admired, hardworking man help- bottom. While[...]re, they had some very colorful ful neighbor, and a man who enjoyed life very much with a neighbors, one being "Cat Lady Mary". Each mornin[...]wit and quick temper. Lady Mary" would come home in a heavy dark coat and hat Mabel was[...]garbage that she had (Check) Border. She was born in Bozeman in 1892. Pete B·or- gotten from the garbage[...] |
| [...]·nearly all of whom settled in and around Bozeman. John[...]George never married, Lizzie married a man by the name of[...]Logan. One brother, Ivan, died in infancy, 1889.[...]working at the old Willson Store in Bozeman.[...]Between 1907 and 1914, she traveled and worked in[...]traveled to Alaska in about 1911 or 1912 and spent some time there. In 1914 or 1915, she went to work in the Trident store[...]postoffice. Later she traveled to Denver and took a beauty[...]course and returned to Bozeman where she had a shop and[...]in 1946 and young Bill Tinder enlisted in the Navy and mar-· ried Petty Brownell in 1950 in Reno, Nevada. They have two[...]Bill has made the Navy his career, retiring_as a Lt. Colonel in[...]in 1948 and worked for the J.C. Penney Company as a sales- Left to right: Jack Mason Tinder, William Black Tinder, lady in the dry goods department. She stayed in Butte until Mable (Border) Tinder. Taken about 19[...]1950, then moving to Helena where she became a florist at the[...]ng William Pete Tinder, son ofW. B. Tinder. Taken in Hawaii in a cousin of Mabel's husband, Bill. She worked there[...]sister, Stella, became ill in 1954. Mabel returned to Logan in[...]Home in Manhattan and Mable moved to Manhattan in 1956. She worked often as a florist at the Langhors Florist Shop[...]Darlinton Manor and in 1978, she became unable to care for[...]She was a member of the Eastern Star and Nile. She was[...]Walter Mason Tinder was born in 1829 in Virginia, the son[...]Thomas and Nancy (Mason) Tinder. He married Sara A. Latschaw who was born in Pennsylvania. She was the daugh-[...]most of their lives in Missouri. They came to Montana in 1904 for the funeral of their[...]youngest son, Thomas Joni than, who was a jeweler in Boze-[...]Finding them still at the table and not in the field, he re-[...]Laura Shelton, who later married A. McClothlin.[...] |
| [...]Sara was a chunky, 140-145, 5'5", Pennsylvania Dutch and[...]George R. Wilcox, Jr. was born 10-1-1919, in the old family[...]e Mason T inder. I started school in 1925 at Logan, MT. The school buses in Taken about 1917.[...]those days were crude. The first bus I rode in, as I recall, was a[...]roll up or down to fit the weather. In the winter, my mother would heat a sad iron and wrap it in paper to hold in my lap to[...]bus was a Reo Speed Wagon, with a homemade body and[...]rode in was driven by Shadon. I recall when I was in high[...]school, 1933 to 1937, that Shad was a real cranky driver, anytime you pulled a prank, he kicked you off the bus. I had[...]the experience of walking home a good many times. In the winter of 1927, the Madison River gorged and[...]out the levee. This particular evening, we were in the living[...]water coming through the boards in the floor. We moved what[...]x, first wife, 1940. 1. Anna Lee Morrow, 2. Sarah A. Tinder, wife of W.M Tinder, 3. Rebecca Heavner,[...]er, 5. Mr. Morro w. Five children were born in Virginia where they were cared |
| [...]and Manhattan High School four years, graduating in the spring of 1937. In the year of 1940, in April, I was married to Maxine Nave, a local Three Forks girl, in Red Lodge, MT. I worked at various jobs, living in Miles City, Glendive,[...]. Wilcox, Edna P . Wilcox, Ralph M. Wilcox. Taken in _ A son, Larry G. was born in Butte, MT on Feb. 5, 1943. We front of t[...]Three Forks later on that year. I went to work as a brakeman for the Milwaukee Railroad. A son Barry J . was born in Bozeman, MT on April 18, 1945. In the year ·of 1900, they moved to Bozmen, MT. Edna's We moved back to the ranch where I was born in the spring sister, Lena and family had moved to Bozeman, MT a few of 1946. In the meantime , my wife, Maxine , contracted[...]st. The Madison River went on the rampage again in the winter George's first job in Montana was a ditch rider. They ffved of 1948 and 1949, finally flooding us out in January of 1949. in a tent that summer (1900) near Salesville, MT, now[...]rkhind Brewery. He also worked for Nelson Story I in his fences , etc.[...]Valore Schwoob. She had While living in Bozeman, MT, two sons were born.- Ralph M. two da[...]orie and Lorna. in 1904 and Earl J. in 1906. In the fall of 1952, I went to work for the Montana Power Co. In 1907, they bought a small ranch.in the Lower Madison I retired from this job on Oct.[...]y bins with sod roofs. Some of these were in bad shape and were had seven children and live in Colstrip, MT at the present. Our son Larry, married Linda Flaten, and have two children and live in Three Forks, MT Our daughter Loma, married Darby[...]cox, 5.- Parker. They have two daughters and live in Willow Creek, Grandpa Harris, 6. Harri[...]0. George Darlinton. Threshing children, and live in Havre, MT. crew about 1909. · We have a total of 13 grandchildren and 8 great- grandchildren at the present in 1981.[...]. WILCOX George H. Wilcox was born June 8, 1880 in Shelby Co., Mo. , his twin brother died at birth.[...]brothers and four sisters. His father passed away in 1884. His older brother helped raise the family. Their mother lost her eyesight a few years later. He had to go to work at an early age. George went to work for James H. Wood in the 1890's. This is when he became acquainted with his future wife, Edna M. Wood. She was born in Shelby Co., Mo., Oct. 28, 1881. TheyweremarriedonDec. 6, 1899, in Bethel, Mo.[...] |
| tom down. The last of which were tom down in the early 1930's. The reason these old cabins are mentioned here was that a government map, dated 1875, of this area, showing[...]nd surrounding area, rivers, etc. This map showed a trapper settlement called (Beaver) on the Madison River in about the vicinity of the Wilcox Ranch. We often wondered if this was the settlement. In the early 1900's, Ralph and Earl Wilcox found an 1850 U .S. half dollar around the site and in the 1950's, George, Jr. found a quarter dated 1839. Perhaps this was.the site of[...]t (Beaver). Edna P. was born at the ranch home in 1909. George and Edna made a good living raising vegetabl~s and selling dairy products in the new town of Three Forks, which was booming wi[...]my father telling Ralph E. Wilcox. Taken in Italy 1945, World War II. me that in 1918, wheat sold for $3.50 per bushel; bread was 5 cents a loaf. Strange to say, today wheat is $3.50 per bu[...]Valley, from Three Forks, on and bread is $1.04 a loaf. a very snowy day in March of 1948. Ralph had alw~ys wanted In October of 1919, they purchased a Willys Overland Tour- to live on the Mad[...]e, during ing car, $1400. This was the third car in Madison Valley. _h is youth, at his Gr[...]of all the trouble he and his Uncle George had In October of1919, George, Jr. vi.;:as born at the r[...]s, they would be sent' to the willow patch to cut a rained from the time the snow melted in the spring until it[...]and return with it, where started snowing again in the late fall At one period of six[...]e. Ralph and Katie weeks, it never got above -20 in the daytimes and several[...]lived neighbors for many years in ':fhree Forks, in the early nights it was -50, the coldest being -[...]1930's. They·were both born and raised in Three Forks. Katie They had a town house in Three Forks in which they lived in remembers one day, when they were about 1[...]hayloft door of the Carlsons barn, and landing on a School, which was located just across the road f[...]planned, as Ralph missed the Hankin Ranch home. In the 1930's, Will Crowley bought and h[...]of himself, and went crawling moved it and made a residence of it, which is now the Jack[...]Madison Road south of Logan, MT. · In Dec. 1943, Ralph was in the Air Force in Tucson, Ariz., ~rge H._Wil~ox passed away at the ranch home in Nov. and sent an engagement ring h[...]is wife, Edna, moved to Three Forks and purchase~ a Katie's finger , at Christmas time. He had to borrow money small home in which she lived her remaining years, passmg from three soldiers to have enough to be able to buy a small 'away in August, 1958. engagement ring. Ralph was commissioned a second lieuten- George R. Wilcox ant in May of '44. He arrived home on leave, and on June[...]1944, he and Katie were united in marriage, in Bozeman, MT,[...]lcox. Archie McDonald (a Three Forks classmate) as he was leaving[...]- to" ....... for the war in Europe, he was later killed in action. On New[...].Year's Day 1945, Ralph left from Florida, in his B-25, and flew[...]sions, while he was stationed there . Katie lived in Deer Lodge,[...]with her parents, till Ralph returned home. While in Deer[...]In Aug. of 1945, Ralph returned home , and was ac-[...]living in Three Forks, their second daughter, Susan Marie ,[...]In March of 1948, we bought the old Leo Crowley Ranc[...]the Madison. Things were different l'ving in the country no[...]water, power, and an outdoor toilet house . In Jan. 8, 1949, our[...]roads on the Madison had been drifted in for two weeks at a[...] |
| [...]he next day, Bessie Sorensen, of Three Forks, was in the hospital at this time, so she saw Katie throu[...]es, she finally reached Ralph, to tell him he had a baby son. The storm had gotten so bad, Ralph coul[...]e with the truck, so he had to walk several miles in the deep snow. This was the worst winter in our 34 years on the Valley. Katie's Mother, Maud[...]hat winter because of ill health. She passed away in Oct. 14, 1949. She was a very special person in so many ways. June 9, 1953 another son joined the Wilcox family, two sons and two daughters, this made a very Dad's first job was a ditch rider on the canal which came out complete[...]Gallatin Gateway. This canal in later years was extended into Judy Kay was born in Deer Lodge, MT March 20, 1945, the Ho[...]uly 1, only summer job. That fall he worked a short time at Ler- 1966; Troy Michael, born March 19, 1969; Shauna Christine, khinds Brewery until a replacement came. From there he born May 30, 1974[...]nued work- Susan Marie was born Sept. 17, 1946 in Townsend, MT and ing there till he purchased a ranch in the Lower Madison is married to Allen Watson. They have two children, Kathy Valley ~nd moved there in the spring of 1907. Dad tells a story Marie, born April 16, 1963, the same day as[...]Nov. 23, 1964. was a pature and hay field close to the mill, and altho[...]Jan. 8, 1949 at Townsend , and is Storey was a wealthy man he came by horse and buggy twice a married to Cheryl Knowles. They have three daught[...]day to milk his cow. Someone had told him Dad was a good hay Deborah Kay, born Nov. 15, 1971; Rhonda[...]rn July 29, 1974, and one son Ralph E. ing a stack when Mr. Storey drove up in his bug'gy. It was late III, born Oct. i2, 1980.[...]rd for many years until he went out on his own as a carpenter in the Three Forks area. We sold the little house we raised all the children in , in 1978, and we built a larger house on the 160 acres we still own on the[...]these children and 11 grandchildren. Ralph is a Past Master of the Masonic Lodge. He was the DeM[...]of Commerce, Three Forks Historical Scoeity and a member of the United Methodist Chruch. Katie[...]. Auxiliary, Three Fprks Historical Society, and a member of the Methodist Church.[...]Katie Wilcox MEMORIES OF GROWING UP IN THE LOWER MADI- |
| in the afternoon and he was going to milk his cow. He stopped out in front of our house, in a field to practice. After a couple and Dad being proud of his work asked him[...]days of this he decided ·to take the family for a ride out in the looks of the stack, "I don't like it" he replied, "Why don't you country roads. We took about a ten mile round trip ride and like it?" Dad asked. Mr. Storey then replied, In other years[...]not want drive into the garage. He went in one end and out the other, to go, so I would chase her in the buggy, the other hay stacks scatterin[...]He then smiled and said, entered high school in Bozeman and lived with my Grand- "You are doing a good job." father Wood. He passed away in March, 1920 so that fall I' I was born in Bozeman, Montana Feb. 19, 1904, my brother enrolled my second year of high school in Three Forks. Earl was born in Bozeman Nov. 11, 1906. I was three years old[...]made by train. One of our trips each season was a day trip to Valley.[...]all on Thursday evening, Twin Bridges Friday, In the early years we shopped in Logan mostly. That was Sheridan Saturday, and back home on Sunday. Bozeman, before a fire destroyed two thirds of Main Street. There w[...]saloons. We came to the O Id Town of Three Forks a few bad in winter. There were no A, B, C class schools at that time, times a year. One day when we were in Old Town people were and the district[...]be. There were two tents that housed the in t he old Yellowstone Garage. The first gym was bu[...]ree years I graduated from high school in 1923, and married Vera Van old but remember it v[...]rom our work for the Montana State Highway in 1930, I retired in 1967 house, located in the center of the valley on what is now known[...]all grades, My Father passed away in 1949 and my Mother in 1958. I about twenty children attended that school. I attended this am a member of the Masonic Lqdge of Three Forks. I hav[...]g, hunting, I remember the wonderful fishing in Rae Creek which ran golfing and making[...]have passed far down the midldle of the valley. A few of the neighbor boys and too quickly, a few ups and downs, but I have enjoyed every Ear[...]ute of it. take potatoes, salt and pepper, make a fire on a small island,[...]he fire on sticks. These fish were brook trout. In those days there were no trout in the Madison River, which was back of our ranch[...]pring wagon which had two I was born in 1916 in the old Milwaukee Hospital in Three seats He would drive out on a riffle in the river so we could fish Forks, Montana. fr[...]s about my parents, due to the fact that having a nice day. during my childhood, I grew up not ever knowing a mother or a In the year before the dyke was built on the east si[...]ther. Madison River, it usually jammed with ice in the winter and My father, Melville Homer DeCovey, was born in Monroe, flooded some of the valley. In 1917 we were flooded out of our Canada, August 2, 1894. Mother, Ethel Wade DeCovey, was home in February and couldn't return until the last of April born in Piedmont, Montana, January 3rd, 1897. The water[...]er the cooking surface of the Father was a chef in a cafe in Three Forks. Mother was a stove. The house was a two story house and the lower rooms waitress in the same cafe. From what I found out in later had to be completely redone.[...]ranch now owned by They were married in the Presbyterian Church in Three Glen Jorgenson was Mrs. Thornberg. Her maiden name was Forks by Reverend G. W. Thomas in 1915. The church was Fanny Campbell, daughter o[...]. I remember her playing the piano for us. It was a Baby comer. Grand and shipped up the Missouri River to Fort Benton and In 1918, Mother contacted the flu and a lung ailment. They then hauled overland to Hele[...]n City. took her to Phoenix, Arizona to a sanitarium. Due to financial One of the high[...]Street at that nothing. So Father hired a colored maid to nurse and care for time. Some stores had wooden walks in front of their place, Mother and he went to Ranger, Texas, and worked in th~ oil and some had porches. The horses had be[...]Mother's health became worse and she passed away in with lots of Red, White and Blue rings. The bug[...]with bunting and lots of small flags . A terrible storm hit Ranger, Texas and all form of[...]st everyone brought their lunch so there would be a big tion was cut off. Not being able t[...]. She was Dad purchased his first automobile in 1916, a 4-cylinder buried in Fish C~ek Cemetery out of Whitehall. Father was Overland. He had never driven a car before so after a few informed right after that,[...] |
| [...]At age 6, I started school in Three Forks Elementary. I[...]was doing quite well in school till age 12. Due to a spinal injury and rheumatic fever, I developed a paralysis in the complete ·[...]mately 4-5 months a school term. I graduated from the 8th[...]ll Schwoob in Glendive, Montana. He was from Cody, Wyoming.[...]ek, MT. In 1934, I still had a feeling that my father was still alive. I[...]had been told that he had died when I was just a little girl. So[...]Persons. I wrote to almost every state in the union with no results. After 31 years, in 1965, I wrote a personal plea to John[...]tigation. I received a personal reply stating that he had lo- cated my father in Mountai_n View, Calif. where he owned and[...]highlight in my life. My marriage was terminated in 1948 from George Schwoob. In 1950, I married George Raymond Wilcox, he was widowed in 1949, being sole parent of two boys, Larry George[...]ontana. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. DeCovey, 1915. In 1951, I legally adopted the two boys, thus becomi[...]Madison. My girls have a wonderful father. They were raised[...]house where he was born still stands, but we live in the frame[...]Charles V. Williams was born in Livingston, Montana, Feb.[...]24, to Don and Rosa Williams. He attended schools in Le[...] |
| [...]w, left, to right: Don, Rosa, Dennis. High School in 1943. He came to the Madison Valley in 1941, with his father and mother, who did custom[...]ur children were Ranch. Charles worked for the C .A. Ranch for two years, doing born there. They w[...]arried to ranch work, which included some time as a chuck wagon cook - Duwain Littleton and have two children. One girl passed also broke a few horses - some to ride and some to drive. away at an early age. James Dennis was born in 1919, married Charles left the C.A. Ranch in 1946 and entered the Navy. He Louise Freelan[...]rved 22 months. He was stationed most of the time in Vir- We moved to Bozeman in 1924 and Charles Vogel was born. ginia and was discharged in February of 1948. He went mto He is marri[...]one of the Our youngest daughter was born in 1928 and is married to Madison schoolhouse dances. She had been visiting a sister William Figgins and they have three children. who lived in the area. Charles married Roberta Pugh of Malta,[...]The children attended school in Bozeman and we continued Montana, on Oct. 12, 1948 in Lake Port, California. To them[...]il- haying operation and Rose was hired as a cook. We worked for dren, Shane and Janene. 'J'hey reside in Dillon. this outfit until we bou[...]l- mately 6 miles south of Logan, Montana, in 1946, where we dren - Tucker, Joshua and Kaile. They live in Three Forks. §till live. Lester Charles married Julie Meirhofer. They live in San We are active in the business of running the ranch. I still Mateo,[...]ide horseback to help round up my cattle and work in the hay Lloyd Jay married Andrea Clifford. They[...]nding with her grandchildren and other rela- navy in March of 1979 and is stationed at San Diego, Califor- tives who do not live in Montana. nia.[...]iams celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary in 1980 ..[...]DON AND ROSE WILLIAMS The iife of a cowboy held much fascination for me as a young CHARLES MARTIN WILSON man[...]MARY ELIZABETH CROWLEY Ohio, where I was born in May of 1895. My parents were Mary El[...]d two sisters, Florence and ley. She lived in Cleveland until she came to Montana in th\; Effie, in our family. My mother was a niece of Nelson Storey of spring of 1883 to the[...]e At the age of 19 years I struck out to become a cowboy by was married in 1886 at Missoula to Charles M. Wilson. boarding the Northern Pacific train for Montana, as I had a Charles Martin Wilson was born in Norway in 1852 and sister Mrs. Albert Whitney (Effie) living in Central Park, came to this country at a young age. He worked on the rail- where I could stay. The train's regular stop was in Belgrade, road. After his marriage in 1886 to Mary Elizabeth Crowley, but it let me off at Central Park. they lived in the State of Washington until the turn of the After a couple years of looking the country over, I met a[...]to the Madison Valley. He died married Rosa Vogel in 1916 in Livingston. She was the daugh- November 3, 1[...]rs, Later, Mary Elizabeth Wilson lived in Bozeman for four Fred, Rudolph, Dave, Char[...] |
| [...]son, was born in Montana August 28, 1915, attended school in[...]High School, and enlisted in the Navy where he served four years. In 1948, he married Mary Rita Zehnder at Louisville,[...]Ky. They have four children, Charles A., Jr., Kathleen, Linda[...]live in Denver, Colorado.[...]ame the bride of Robert "Bob" Crowley and Charles A . "Chuck" Wilson. Robert Windle in Billings. She had come to Montana from[...]Robert was a fireman in Billings at the time of their mar-[...]riage. They lived in Billings for a time, moving to Pompey's[...]Pillar and later to Manhattan in 1931. They moved to the[...]Lower Madison where they farmed until her death in 1937.[...]moved to California, where he retired. Robert had a brother, Roy, who Ii ved in California.[...]Jack Zuelke was born and raised in Alberton, Montana, the[...]graduated from high school in 1940, and joined the Air Force. He was then a Signal Maintainer for the C.M.S.P.&.P. Rail-[...]Audrey Kincheloe was born. and raised in Melstone, Mon-[...]Jack and Audrey were married in Superior, Montana in[...]50 on Sept. 1.6. Their oldest son Arthur was born in Round-[...]Their oldest daughter, Patricia, was born there in June 9, 1952 and Shirley in November 30, 1953. In October of 1954 they moved back to Montana where[...]was employed by the Milwaukee Railroad as a lineman. Sec-[...] |
| [...]g, 4-H animals and all kinds of things kids do on a[...]John L. Taylor was born in 1879 at Hendersonville, North[...]arriving in the Gallatin Valley he went to work for Senator[...]Hoffman. He also drove a stage at the Yellowstone Park. He[...]was the inventor of a sicklehead for mowers and binders and[...]In the early 1900's he invented the Taylor portable[...]Derrick and moved to Chicago where he had a manufacturing plant, also one in Canada and Portland. In 1905 he married[...]Mabel Conrow, daughter of Sam and Anne Conrow, a pioneer family of Gallatin Valley. In 1907 a daughter, Phyllis, was born to the Taylors in Chicago. After having typhoid fever[...]hn and Art Zuelka. north of Belgrade. In 1914, another daughter, Carolyn, join-[...]John Taylor was well known in Gallatin, Madison and Park ond son John was born in Missoula November 13, 1954. They Co. as a cattle and hog buyer for many years in the 20's. In moved to Avery, Idaho in 1955 and to Three Forks in 1957. Art 1930, Mr. Taylor was one of the founders of Silver Gate, a started the first grade in 1957. northeast entrance town to the Yellowstone Park. A few They bought the place on the Madison from[...]s. In 1947, Mr. Taylor had a severe sdtroke and although he Jack bought the Three Rivers In and Bowling Alley from . recovered to a great degree he was not as active as before and John and Roger Paskavan, which he ran for a few years. Jack spent his last years living at Mrs. Lilly 's Rooming House in and Audrey were divorced in 1965. Three Forks - a town a locality he was particularly fond of. Audrey was married to Robert Young. He died in 1970, May He was killed Sept. 21, 1959 by a train as he crossed the 5th.[...]ter finishing school Art Zuelke spent three years in the favorite horse. Navy, when he returned he attended college in Bozeman. He Mr. Taylor's daughter, Carolyn,[...]1977. At the present time Art is attending school in Bozeman. Patricia graduated from high school in 1970. She enlisted in the Army Women's Band. She was one of the first w[...]ontana, Wyom- ing and Idaho. She attended college in Bozeman for a year, and went to California to work for a year. She then moved back to Missoula, where her[...]rr was born March 10, 1977. Patricia graduated in elementary education from Missoula and is present[...]Fort McClean Alabama. Shirley Zuelke graduated in 1973. She attended cooking school in Billings, Montana and Vo-Tech School in Missoula. She worked at Lolo Hot Springs out of M[...]dget Zuelke was born February 10, 1978. They live in Three Forks at the present time. John attended a Vet school in Billings after he graduated from high school in 1974. He also worked on the section and at Big Sky. John is engaged in ranching living on the Fair- weather place near Logan, tryfng hard like everybody else to make a living in the e depressed times.[...] |
| [...]69. A. J. Shanholtzer[...] |
| [...]crooked, steep and Three Forks, Montana. Included in it is what was known as rocky canyons; Mil[...]Holler", as it was first called, involves a negro who supposedly About 1909, young men and[...]lived near the head of the canyon near a spring. Freight trains steads in the area. They married and soon there was a need for using oxen and mule teams hauled loads[...]he The Eureka School was built by Karl Conklin in approxi- way to various settlements. The negro used the water from the mately the center of the area in 1915. Before that, school was spring in gardening during the summers. His fresh vegetables held in Belle Gastineau's homestead cabin. About three and a were a delight to the freighters and stage passengers pa[...]Seven miles southwest of Eureka was Cavern School in Card- found dead in his cabin. At once, that spot became a landmark well Basin, Wheatland School was seven m[...]have seen the negro or known anyone who did. But a Milligan Canyon and stream bed that overfl,owed d[...]short distance from the old stage route near a creek bed are the and cloudbursts.[...]tumbledown remains of an old cabin. About a hundred yards from the ruins is a leveled area that looks as if it might have[...]level area, is a shallow ditch that may have carried water to[...]Montana in 1864. He built a cabin and sheds at the northwest[...]Cardwell Basin was named for a pioneer Montana family,[...]Westwood, Ontario, Canada in 1872. His name became at-[...]dered by fences. In the spring, cowboys engaged in a big[...]singing until they retired to their bed rolls. In the morning, after a hearty breakfast, they headed out again. This con[...]lt fences around their acres to keep their horses in[...] |
| [...]In spite of disasters such as drought, grasshoppers, hail _a nd[...]came in buggies, wagons, horseback and later in cars. They[...]When cloudbursts occurred in summer or chinooks in the[...]s toward Milligan Canyon and joined there to m~ke a[...]The water then formed a tributary flowing into the Jefferson[...]They had a baseball team named the "Turkey Reds" and[...]zed about 1914 and won the distinction of being <<a[...]at bat or in the field." All homesteaders needed were teams[...]Community picnics were held in various places, the favorite drills, binders and wagons. A milk cow was a great help, too.[...]ause of the trees, green grass and An owner of a threshing machine pulled onto the fields to water. thresh the grain. He furnished a crew which included a The homesteaders built roads and the[...]man, an engineer and, on the early steam outfits, a which connected with central in Three Forks. Their line was water hauler and some[...]s to haul bundles to the separator, four pitchers in the where an oyster stew was also enjoyed. Shares were bought in field to pitch the bundles onto the wagons and tw[...]wagons to haul the threshed grain to the granary. A In 1921, a new road to help out the Yellowstone Trail be- co[...]rom Cardwell came up the new Yellowstone Trail In later years, smaller machines were used and neighbors in cars to help Mr. and Mrs. Philip Ahl of Cavern, M[...]hought to be the first time the road had pitchers in the field to help load, one or two grain haulers, a boasted so many travelers and that it would be a good adver- separator man and an engineer. The ma[...]d tisement for the Yellowstone Trail. by a gas tractor. In 1917, Nigger Hollow demonstrated its patriotism by re- On years when the wheat was too short to cut with a binder, gistering thirty-eight for World War I Service. Many served a header was required to cut the heads off in the field. It was on juries in Boulder, the County seat of Jefferson County. much like a binder but the grain was run into a header box, Cardwell Basin made a record during a Liberty Loan drive. An loose and hauled to a level spot where it was piled to be average of a $50.00 bond was taken for every man, woman and threshed later. A header used six horses which were hitched c[...]er. behind the machine. The machine was guided by a "crazy In the winters, men went to the Jefferson River slough to cut wheel" at the back where a man stood who drove the horses[...]blocks of ice which they brought home and packed in sawdust and controlled the machine. A header box was a little like a in vacant buildings for iceboxes and to make ice cream in the hayrack, but low on one side so it could be p[...]oose gram as 1t summers. was cut. It was quite a feat to keep that box underneath the In 1925 , a group went through the Lewis and Clark elevator. One had to be a pretty good "skinner'' to keep six Caverns,[...]where they were suppo ed to be. At Ahl's in Cardwell Basin and walked down to the cave en- ti[...]while three went trance. Ray Critchfield, a guide came from Whitehall on a forward. The stacks of grain were placed so the f[...]ht . The stack could pitch into the separator and a man or two with price was a dollar each or a total of $15.00. grain wagons could haul the thre[...]om granaries down Milligan Canyon to the elevator in Wil- On November 1 1922 a rural mail route wa e tabli hed low Creek or over[...]dwell post office. It brought the mail thr e time a Year later, combine made harvesting easier and[...]il from Nov mb r 1, 1922 till March 31 1923. hogs a well as grain.[...]cond carrier, Paul Dillon d liver d th mail in 1924.[...] |
| [...]My Aunt and cousins were a happy-go-lucky lot and being[...]and a roof over her head. There was plenty of food, tho[...]ment was the absence of a saddle horse which was my way of[...]life at that time. A good saddle horse could get a kid away from a lot of work in those days and I al ways managed later to be the[...]t that time to be with me all day and, therefore, a - - Farm and grazing lan[...]ndians and new place and wasted no time in doing so. Dad and Uncle Fred buffalo as evidenced[...]the tepee though there was an old. cookstove in the house, there was rings and the buffalo skulls[...]t day. This didn't bother us as we were just been a game paradise. Many burned rocks of old camp fire[...]re placed on the bottom of the skins to hold them in place. In furniture. Livestock always had to be taken c[...]doorway was toward the north, proof that this was a the chickens a little while to get used to their new quarters bu[...]watering places and others are high on the hills in scrub his gun and walked up into the hills l[...]meat for long. I stayed at home with mom a couple days and Springs in Cardwell Basin was probably used 1,)y Blackfeet,[...]e buffalo The Eureka School was a mile or so over the hill and, of hunting on the p[...]the middle of the area, possible. It was a one-room schoolhouse with a big furnace at coming west from Three Forks over[...]fights with the girls and a great deal of teasing. I learned[...]his and found out that I had the ability It was a quiet November day that is remembered by me as I to learn and become a respected member of the group. We dig back into m[...]of over 45 years. The journey played a lot of hide and go seek and ran races on top of the seemed long in that old rickety truck with only an old milk cow fences at recess. This fence had a board on the top ofit about 4 and a few chickens in a box. The first trip we took only the inch[...]dad, little brother and I. Yes, we were quite a feat to race on top of it and not get knocked off. going to a new place we heard of, having lost the old one in the One of the teachers who really impressed me was a Miss Great Depression. I can remember sitting on[...]the North" and take turns reciting poetry we make a new beginning and a different start. He was going to a learned to entertain ourselves. dryland fa[...]one. Mother sang and hummed At noon in the winter time, we would take the backs from hym[...]ere varnished, and go slide down the hill keep us in an adventuresom~ mood. Yes, we were great adven- behind the schoolhouse. It was a wild experience because you[...] |
| [...]from ranches or been lured away tant got pulled in with the guilty ... such as forgetting about[...]ould hear that little brass bell jingle for about a quarter the untamed mustangs with whom they roamed. of a mile but we would pretend we couldn't hear it and[...]dings about us. Eventually, we had to A bunch of hogs were to seal the doom of these wild[...]dled herds. and the whole group had to stay in at recess and noon for a It happened that, in 1916, Frances X. Frechette and G:fe~ solid week[...]ted to sit. It didn't Lineman were operating a hog raising business in the vicinity · bother me too much as I enjoyed studying and reading and the of Basin in Jefferson County. They were feeding between 1000[...]$4.00 a hundred. One more exciting thing about school[...]he com had been home. I only had an old plug for a couple of years and was good. But it wa[...]I fancied myself as some kind bitten. of a Kentucky Derby winner and was al ways hoping for a So Frechette and Lineman decided to look for other feed. faster horse. I was like a tick on that horse and very seldom They[...]r the wild horses. stopped and looked at me with a look as if to say, "You dummy, what .are you doi[...]word. They'd pay $5.00 per head and later, I was in seventh heaven when dad got me a little pony, which we called Nancy. She was my p[...]take all they could get. my brother always had a horse, I don't think he was as fond of Right off they were in business. The hills rang with the them as I was[...]anyway. Mother felt I was meat proved a bad diet. The hogs became infected with An- safer on a horse than on the ground. One time my cousins had thrax, a disease that proves fatal if not checked. a little black pony that wouldn't stand still when[...].cooked the meafbefore feeding it. gate, through a plowed field, I saw my chance and raced her up[...]re disastrous ones for the wild wards, there was a generous bag of candy for every child in the horse herds of Nigger Hollow. community[...]Catch pens were constructed in the heart of the wild horse ' I really didn't worry much about money in those days and domain. Into these corr[...]hogs grew fatter . These meatfed porkers sold, in tum, for as aminations at the County Seat and we scored first and second ·high as 21 cents a pound and their owners grew fatter from a in the state.[...]house. Some of the brought from 32 and a half to 50 cents a pound. Manes were older people played cards and the younger ones played games. worth $1.25 a pound and tails went for 80 cents per pound. The[...]r again be the same Thus it was that a bunch of hogs and their two ambitious because of[...]Highway going through the middle of it opened up a of the Nigger Hollow and Milligan Canyon c[...]'l'his wasn't the ·e nd of the wild horses. In the early 1930'E[...]HOLLOW wild horses in the hills south of the Milligan Canyon Are[...] |
| [...]reason for the diversity in addresses is the fact that, in the CAVERN DISTRICT NO. 24[...]ning, the Hubbard and Cavern people were combined in steaders arrived in Cardwell Basin.[...]Mildred Watson the school for six months for a salary of $60.00. The contract ·was signed by Ja[...]eight and eleven and one eighteen year old. In September 1913, Nancy Creighton signed a contract to teach the school for seven months for $60.00 a month. This contract was signed by James Ahl and[...]er, on October 7, 1913, Mamie Borcherding signed a contract to teach the school for seven months fo[...]d by James Ahl and E. Woodward. Five pupils were in attendance. From September 6, 1914 to March 2[...]There were eight pupils. The trustees were James A. Ahl, Riley Cheeseman and George Lyon. The Count[...]. Trostle, Clara Ahl and Jessie Critchfield. In 1931, there was no school. Some pupils were taken to Cardwell, Montana and some were boarded in Whitehall, Montana. In 1933, Cavern School was annexed to Districts No.[...]ne and Ivy High". Teachers were Mrs. Ella Conklin in 1919 and Emma Woodward, Kenneth and Nellie Ahl, Charles C. and Mabel Dringle in 1920. Ahl, Frank and Eva M. Berry, William and L[...]and Muriel Penn. Warren, Kenneth A. Pitts, Virgil W. Pitts, Orville W. Man-[...]lard, David E. Claire and Roscoe A. Townsend.[...]Edith A hl Cl[...]The Eureka School was built by K. P. Conklin in 1915. A[...]drove to school. Before that, a term of school was taught in[...] |
| The first term in the new schoolhouse was taught by Ella Conklin wi[...]ls attending. There were as many as thirty pupils in other years. The teacher served as janitor, pla[...]as instruc- tor. ~janitor, she was challenged by a pot belly stove with a heavy tin jacket. The tin jacket was a good place to hang wet clothing. A nightly chore was removing ashes and clinkers, th[...]fire which required skill and hard work. Carrying in coal from the little matching coal shed w~s no easy task; neither was pumping water from the well with a hand pump. The second teacher Laurie Ballard, t[...]erms and, after marrying Wesle~ Rampy and raising a family, continued teaching until she retired in 1965. . . Unlike many rural[...]loakrooms nearly large enough for classrooms, was a pleasant community center.[...]ence and knowle~ge mother took me in the one-horse buggy and took my younger within it[...]ong so she'd have them for company on the Schools in Three Forks, Cardwell, Willow Creek, Boulder,[...]p. When we got there, we found Mrs. Gilbert: with a Whitehall, Harrison, Manhattan, Belgrade and Boze[...]e Imogene Schoolhouse was modernized. It then had a floor furnace, and last being Carol, the new-born baby. There was also a restrooms, drinking fountain, movie projector, el[...]er Shirley and, of course , Mr. W. J. Gilbert for a furnished teacherage. A telephone was added. a total of thirteen members of the Gilbert household and At a 50th reunion in 1965, over two hundred former now I made fourteen. I was there only a few weeks before teachers, students and their families joined in the celebration moving to the Joe Darsch hom[...]consolidated with School was held in a small bunk house not far from the Three Forks.[...]Gilbert home and a small coal and wood heater was used to[...]red Watson heat it. The stove was set upon a cement block and one day one[...]t, Dirk Sikkenga, Mrs. Burghone, above a whisper but got messages across with ease even by Mrs. Don Emigh, A. A. Pyfer and Lola A. Pyfer. Teachers were phone or to call her husband from the barn. They had a teen- Anna Hazelton, Jennie D. Johnson, Ruth I. Mead, Linda age son, Walter and a daughter, Barbara, who was in the McCall, Muriel Williams, Mrs. Maude Minier a[...]we, Barbara and I, sometimes were given a ride but usually In October 1916, the Milligan School received an award, a _ walked the mile or so to school. The Sikke[...]anguage work. Second pnzes were for the In mid-winter the Johnston family moved back into the best work in Arithmetic, the best collection oflndustrial work[...]we had to and the best collection of maps; also a first premium from the have school in the schoolhouse which was two or three miles Sta[...]and Jewel the three girls and Vivian a boy. Now Barbara and[...]the teachers, reports: children drove a team. After graduating from the High School a[...]on weekends whenever possible and kept my Mont. in June 1921, I got a Teacher's Permit and started saddle horse at my boarding place during the week. applying for a school. I was accepted by the Milligan school board and made plans to start teaching in the Fall. School closed in March so I went home and prepared to go to[...]Muriel Williams Jensen threshers in the community, was through with the job an[...] |
| [...]h of Belgrade, held Church Ser- vices each Sunday in the Eureka School House. Now, area residents g[...]Pherson Ahl, and Dad, James Ahl, were both raised in southern Indiana, but left there when they were y[...]uri. Dad went to Louisiana and Texas to work for a lumber com- pany. He was a traveler and eventually followed the lumber compa[...]I think he was lucky. How would he have survived a win~er in Nome where the standard winter temperature is .always below zero and there's a continual 45 mile-an-hour wind off the Bering Sea? ·. Mama and Dad were married in Moscow, Idaho in 1900, I think. Dad was running a sawmill in southwestern Washing- ton near the little town of[...]nd Daisy McPherson Ahl Robertson, had homesteaded in the Cardwell .Basin in Mon- tana, as had Aunt Ivy, later Mrs. Woodward.[...]talked my folks into trying the same venture, for in Eventually we got a school house and there were a number 1907, they moved to Montana. We all landed in Willow Creek, of children to attend. Our district[...]t was where Uncle Lee was headquartered, and Aunt in enough people to pay school taxes. It eventually[...]Woodward. I can't remember much two factions with a school on both the north end and the south about[...]George irrigating ditches were wonderful to walk in. Down one of Cheeseman, his two sons, Riley and Vern, a daughter, Bessie, them came floating a dried human foot which see.med to me and another daughter and son-in-law, Lilly and Jim Daniels. quite interesting, but some grown-up hastily tossed it out in Also there was a homesteader there when we came, Johnny the brush.[...]s and soon the Critchfields were there, taking up a homestead to owned it for years. the south of us.[...]ans went or when. The . There were no roads, only a pack trail and no mail service. Daniels family had a little gjrl about four and a little boy Until they could get established, the[...]ut two. One afternoon, when the father was coming in with Forks, Willow Creek or Logan for groceries and have them put a load of wood on his wagon, the little boy ran out[...]rial. No one ever the School Superintendent about a school district and permis- heard of an undertaker in those days. Neighbors always did sion to put a road across other people's land. Dad and Uncle th[...]When I was.in the sixth grade, another family came, the W. Our first school was in an empty cabin, with just my sister, J. Mack fami[...]Mama had already taught us to read, write and was in high school somewhere else. They homesteaded Roun[...]that Edith, being the oldest, could one term. be in the second_grade_,b~t as I was younger, I'd_~ in the firs~. Good_years and bad came alon[...] |
| [...]Noble was the tallest, being six foot six inches. a post office. It was named ((Cavern" for the nearb[...]His brother James (Jim) was already settled in Cardwell he was Post Master. A Star Route carried the mail sack to and Basi[...]and took up homesteads in that area. James and Daisy Ahl had three children. Edith was born in Noble's niece writes of him t(he was great for always having Lewiston, Idaho, Clara in Anatone, Washington and Edna on some kin[...]ument to play, sometimes several at the homestead in Cardwell Basin. Clara married Ernest a time for he was quite musical. He could draw wonderful Eriksen and-lives in Florida. Edith married Buck Foran and pictures of people and animals. He had a good disposition and three children were born to[...]and sons are Jack and David. He was in the Army in World War I; after his discharge he Edna is deceased. George and the boys still live in the North married Bessie Cheeseman Williams on August 21, 1919, in Boulder Valley.[...]from Greybull, Wyo. about a mile and a half northeast of Clarkston. As the hard times took their toll, one by one, the families In 1921 they moved to Washington then on to Oakland, left. Now there is no one left at all in Cardwell Basin. ((As it California, eventually settling in the Watsonville area. Two was in the beginning, so it shall be in the end." daughters were born in California, Alvira in 1923 and Roberta Clara Eriksen in 1925.[...]Their first trip back to Montana was in 1948 and they found NOB[...]mazing thing was the highway Noble Ahl was born in Browntown, Indiana, May 28, 1891, throug[...]d (Pruden) many paved roads. Ahl. They were a family of tall young men, all six foot and Noble died November 1962 in Watsonville. Bessie also died in Watsonville, in April 1970. f3.~Jsie and Noble Ahl[...]Philip Ahl was born March 20, 1851, in Germany. Sarah[...]Winnifred Pruden Ahl was born November 11, 1852, in In-[...] |
| [...]ree years old when brought to this country there. In 1907, her mother passed away and was buried in the by his family, who emigrated from Germany.[...]w cemetery south of Manhattan, Montana. finally in southern Indiana and became farmers. Alice homesteaded in the Shoddy Springs area near the Sarah Winni[...]Grover, and her sister, immigrants who settled in the hilly country of southern In- Frances. After her marriage to Pat Alexander, sh[...]to find people to teach their children, moved to a place west of Three Forks where Tinjums now live.[...]o stay together held by the Pat Alexander died in August 1919. Funeral services were common bond[...]ir young people conducted at the Methodist Church in Three Forks. Rev. Finch had no chance to learn t[...]ad to .of Nigger Hollow officiated. He was buried in the Meadow work long hours to make a living. View cemetery south of Manhattan, Montana. They were married in 1871 and made their home in south- In 1926, Alice moved to what was known as the Louie[...]il 1915 when Mama took thirties when she moved to a place south of Trident, Montana us to Indiana t[...]now. She ranched there until 1948 well (she died in 1916); they were living in the little town of when she moved to Three Forks. She passed away there in Rockford, Indiana, and that was the first time[...]ucted at the Conner-Twichel Grandad had such a nice sunny disposition, everything was Morturary in Three Forks, Montana. Rev. H.B. Ricketts of the funny to him. He also had a quick temper, but his anger only Federated Church officiated. She was buried beside her hus- lasted a minute then he'd slap his leg and laugh and laugh[...]d at Uncle Kenneth's and they stayed with us for a little and finally they moved into a log cabin on the Fred Ahl homestead at the conf[...]d raised potatoes. They were living there when he in the Milligan Canyon area in 1912. He was born April 18, died in 1923. After that Grandma came to live with us. She 1886 to James S. and Mary Tribble Ballard in the Dry Creek died in December of 1940.[...]h of Belgrade, Montana. He received his education in Philip and Winnifred Ahl had ten children - two daughters a rural school of that area. He later sold his homestead to J.A. and eight sons. Four of the sons came to Monta[...]Clara Eriksen there. He was also a member of the Turkey Red Baseball .[...]school. She was born in North Dakota, daughter of John and Patrick Alexander was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in Dorothea Muller Johnson, near Churches Ferry nort[...]were were married November 18, 1915 and operated a ranch west of pioneers in that area. Jennie attended the State Normal Col-[...]. lege in Dillon, Montana. Alice Watson was a daughter of John Harrison and Ellen They[...]Laurie J. Watson. She was born January 24, 1869 in Somerset, Ken- Yecha of San Jose, California. She[...]Vickie tucky and came to Montana with her family in 1901. They Hendricks and Sue Ellen Shearer, both of San Jose. lived in the Dry Creek area across the road from th[...] |
| Ruth A. Pettyjohn of Kalispell who has two sons, Robin o[...]iane Fetveit of Kalispell. Andrea Ballard lives in Bozeman. The social life of the Milligan community centered mostly in the Eureka school. Business meetings, oyster suppers, a Literary Society, and also Sunday School and church services were held there. They also sponsored a resident pastor for a short period of time. Rev. Finch, a Baptist minister from Kentucky, spent a few months there, but the rigors of winter were too much for them so they went back to a warmer clime. Grover and his family moved to the Gallatin Valley in April, 1931. He continued farming and later did c[...]ary 27, 1957. Mrs. Ballard returned to teaching in 1945 at the Little Bear school southeast of Gallatin Gateway, Montana for one year. In 1946 she accepted the Amsterdam school where she taught for fifteen years, retiring in 1963. During these years she attended summer sess[...]en at the Gallatin Gateway school with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Laurie Rampy. She now resides in Bozeman, Montana with her daughter, Andrea. Grover's father, James S. Ballard, was born in Augusta, Maine, September 11, 1847. He came to Montana in 1868 or 1869. He worked in several mines at Silver Star, Red Bluff, Phillipsburg, and Radersburg. He settled in the I>ry Crek area and married Mary Tribble in Gallatin City. She came to Mon- tana as a child of six, coming by wagon train from Missouri[...]d, son of Belle an<;l George D. Ballard. was born in 1815 in Virginia. Her parents came to Virginia in 1762.[...]shot wounds. He was The Ballard family ancestry in America dates back to pre- buried in the South Boulder Cemetery. revolutionary times.[...]and Angie had two sons, Forrest, Jr. and Samuel. A Boston, Massachusetts, is not known. The History[...]her died. Diary of Martha Moore Ballard, contains a record of a deed[...]FRED B. BALLARD In presence of us Fred Ballard was born in Helena, Montana August 14, Jarvis Ballard[...]Jennie Ballard married in the East Gallatin Baptist Church north of Bel-[...]Gertie was born in Bristol, Tennessee on January 23, 1884.[...]tehall, Montana, Smith Duncan, born March 6, 188i in Tennessee. She went August 7, 1923, the third son[...]er parents and sisters, Ethel and Myrtle, to Iowa in Gastineau Ballard.[...]They moved by covered wagon to Belgrade, Montana in He graduated from the eighth grade at the Eurek[...]A son, Horace Eugene, was born to Fred and Gertie Feb.' 19, In 1943, he married Angie Bosivich of Gardiner, who was 1904 in Belgrade. On June 4, 1907, a daughter, Bonnie B. was working in Three Forks. They lived at the Edith Foran ranch[...]ertie moved to Nigger Hollow, west of Three For a few years, Forrest did seasonal maintenance and Forks, Montana, and filed on a homestead about 1911. In development work at what is presently the[...] |
| [...]a homestead adjoining that of his nephew George D.[...]accompanied by the Masons to the N .P. Depot in Three Forks[...]and shipped to Philipsburg for interment. He was a member[...]Four children survived him: James A. (Scully) of Philips-[...]Sometime in the later 1930's, this cabin was moved to the[...]South Boulder area and a great niece of George Byron's, Billie Bonnie B[...]and her husband Edwin Armstrong, lived in it for a time. Belle Ballard also lived in it for a while after the marriage of her Bend, Ore. Fred died July 14, 1940 in Detroit, Ore. son, Dudley. On S[...]llard dren born to them were: Fredrick E. Ballard in Salem, Ore. July 15, 1930, James W. Ballard in Helena, Montana July 10, GEORGE D. BALLARD 1932, Bonnie Belle Ballard in Whitehall, Montana, Nov. 1934, George D[...]rn at Dry Creek, September 18, Claude 0 . Ballard in Willow Creek, Montana Dec. 7, 1936, 188[...]s S. and Mary Tribble Ballard. Jacklyn E. Ballard in Willow Creek March 29, 1938, Kenneth During his early 20's, he worked as a painter and wall paper 0. Ballard in Willow Creek Dec. 7, 1940 and Cheryl Ann hanger for a few years. In the fall of 1904, at the age of 23, Ballard in Willow Creek Dec. 3, 1941. George was in Walla Walla, Washington, where he had been Eugene died in 1967.[...]spent Bonnie and Claude M. Miller were married in Ryderwood, from September 1 through November 14 in the Walla Walla Washington January 12, 1929. He was born Sept. 1901 in Gold Hospital. His total bill was $196.25, which included special Beach, Ore. A son, Gordon R. , was born to them. Claude died[...]not include the doctor's charges). Oct. 17, 1957 in Portland, Ore. Bonnie still lives in Portland, Compare that with today's (1982) pr[...]and his brother, Will, came to Nigger Hollow with a About the good old days at the little Red School House in band of sheep they were herding for Everson, who had a place Nigger Hollow, named Eureka; I, of course , was a real Tom on the Madison. George took a homestead in Sec. 26 2N. 2W in Boy - played all sports with the boys, broad jump[...], was right along with us. I did take first place in running at the George and Belle Ga~tineau B_all[...]riend was Johnnie Shipman. I thought I was really in love in the seventh grade. I also think of the sleigh r[...]GE BYRON BALLARD George Byron Ballard was born in Augusta, Maine, Sep- tember 18 1842, the son of James Ballard and Mary (McIn- tire) Ball~rd. He arrived in Virginia City, Montana in the spring of 1864 and engaged in mining for a number of years. George Byron married Lavina J[...]itton) at Keatingville, Montana, May 10, 1874. In 1877, Mr. Ballard moved with his wife and family[...]e was foreman of the Old Hope Mine. His wife died in 1908. In 1909 he went to Butte and made his home wi[...] |
| [...]lard, and brother-in-law, Alonzo Gastineau, went around car-[...]he sick. Many died. Brigg was extremely ill, with a[...]hospital in Three Forks. Dr. Rhodes gave him aspirin and this[...]given aspirin to relieve a fever. Later, Dr. Rhodes went to[...]Butte and made quite a name for himself, according to his[...]Ballard, Jr. He was their first child to be born in Nigger Juanita, Mary, Belle, George D.[...]rived at because the homestead was In 1921, George had his first chickens raised for marketing "proved up" in 1912 and the government allowed five years to[...]Jilplete the required improvements. Will filed on a home- The family moved to Renova, south of Whitehall, in the fall stead the same time George did. His plac[...]of 1923 and came back to the Buster Morse place in Nigger his brother's, also in Sec. 26. Hollow in 1927. George had acquired 15 Jersey milk cows and George and Lillie Belle Gastineau were married in Bel- quite a few chickens. grade, May 15, 1912. Belle came fro[...]l and with two hail storms, he be with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Alonzo Gastineau, before the we[...]ime birth of Effie's first child. (Keith was born in July of1910). The and the family moved to the Jay Wall place and later to the Roi year 1911, Belle took a homestead adjoining that of her Ball[...]the youngest child of JamesP. company took a percent of the crop until the place was paid for. R. and Rachel McCallister Baron Gastineau, who had a family The other children were all born in Whitehall. Forrest Stan- of 14 children. She atte[...]923; Gussie, June 14, 1925; and Walter school for a number of years. As she was the youngest child at[...]graduated from the Eureka grade school. relatives in times of ubirthin", serious illness and death.[...]ted at George's homestead. While there, was a deputy assessor for a while and Justice of the Peace. Belle prepared a meal using the sage hens the Ballards had George and Belle sold to sons Dudley and Jack in 1947. With !tilled. After the two Gastineaus left[...]rned to the their son, Tom, they moved to a small acreage at Victor, others and remarked, '(s[...]lked cows and George owned two harness horses, a trotter and a pacer, kept chickens, selling milk and[...]metime before 1919. He George died in Victor in 1952. He was buried in the South also had a small band of sheep, a few cattle, and raised Boulder Cemete[...]in "Uncle By's" cabin at the home ofherdaughter, Bil[...]s she lived most with her daughters Gussie He had a cook car where the men were fed. In order to operate and Juanita. Belle died January 28, 1973, in Helena. She was the steam engine which furnished[...]threshing buried beside her husband in the South Boulder Cemetery. machine, George obtained a State of Montana Traction Son, Forrest, preceded them in death in 1950. Engineer's License. The first one of these was issued Sep- tember 17, 1920, the last in 1926.[...]George sponsored the Turkey Red baseball team for a number of years. It didn't seem to make much difference whether a man could drive a team or not, so long as he could[...]Rol and Brigg; and two parents' homestead in Nigger Hollow. He was the fourth child[...] |
| [...]grade in Three Forks after the Eureka Grade School consoli[...]Ballard children did well in school and other activities as the[...]scholastically. The boys especially excelled in math, drama,[...]1979). They live in Federal Way, Washington. Georgie mar-[...]ried Sam Martinsen January 17, 1981. They live in Ashland,[...]George D. and Lillie Belle (Gastineau) Ballard. in Montana. These hogs have won their share of atten[...]The whole family has been active in the First Baptist He joined the Navy in January of 1942, serving in the Church of Three Forks since its beg[...]uropean and Pacific theaters of World War II. All in all, he as a local school board trustee for about 18 years. He is also on served in five invasions. He was aboard the cruiser USS[...]rd After receiving his discharge from the Navy in November of 1945, Dudley bought part of his parents' ranch in 1947. After making improvements on the original h[...]K BALLARD into the house his dad and mother lived in when they were Jack Ballard was born J[...]Belle Gastineau Ballard, on his parent's was made in 1963. At this time one of the livingroom windows homestead in Nigger Hollow. He grew up there and attended cost[...]Jack joined the Navy in November 1942. While serving in Dudley married Lois Storrud December 17, 1954,[...]South Pacific during World War II, he was wounded in home of Rev. Pershing Hess in Manhattan. Lois was born May action on March 20, 1945. He was discharged from the Navy 8, 1925, in Walsh County, North Dakota, the daughter of[...]On February 4, 1946, he married Gladys E. Shook in Miles from St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing at Fargo in 1946. City, Montana. She worked in North Dakota, Nebraska, and California before[...]nt's ranch that year coming to Butte. Lois worked in Butte at what is now St. and continued[...]954 when they sold out to James Hospital as nurse in charge of the afternoon shift for George D. Ballard, Jr. and purchased a ranch in the South the Obstetrical Department.[...]well, Montana. Dud and Lois were introduced on a blind date arranged by Children born to Jack and Gladys while living in Nigger Dud's friend and neighbor, Dale Visser, an[...]orn Nov. 22, 1946 - Rosalee Johnson, who was also a nurse at the hospital. Barbara Lee bo[...]Ballards have seven children: David (May 13, 1949 in The twins, John and Bill, attended the rural Eureka School California), Teresa (December 10, 1955 in Butte), Georgie for two years. Jack continued to ranch on the South Boulder (January 23, 1958 in Townsend), LeRoy (February 4, 1959 in until 1967 when he sold the ranch and went to work for the Townsend), Jonathan (October 30, 1960 in Townsend), Jack Forest Service. (December 20, 1962 in Butte), and Martha (April 10, 1967 in At the present time, Jack and Gladys live in Whitehall, Bozeman).[...]ha is named after Mrs. Martha Moore Ballard, who, in They have eight grandchildren and all five children and their 1785 - at the age of 50 - began a diary concerning her family families live around Whitehall and Dillon, Montana. and work as a midwife in Augusta, Maine. Her husband,[...]contains, much of Mrs. Ballard's diary is inclued in JAMES S. BALLARD The History of Augusta by Charles Nash, published in 1904. James S. Ballard was born October 11, 1847, in Augusta, The children - except Jonathan, Jack[...]nes to ever attend kindergarten at this In 1868, he started west, was employed in a mercantile school. Jonathan started first grade the year the local children establishment in Iowa, and in April, 1869, he set out for[...] |
| [...]cember 28, 1930 and was buried in the Dry Creek· Cemetery.[...]25, 1887. He lived there and in Belgrade with his family until James S. Balla[...]d |
| he was about twenty-six years old when he homesteaded in GEORGE RAYMOND (RAY) BRENNER Nigg[...]is brothers, Carl and Rolly, to Mon- His sister-in-law, Belle Gastineau Ballard, who lived near, tana from Kansas in 1913. He worked for numerous farmers, said it see[...]ample" her brothers. He was with the Marines in World War I. After the culinary accomplishments,[...]for .our chores so we could spend periods of time in Ray was married to Eva Ballard in 1921. Eva was Edith Belgrade knowing the livestoc[...]Hollow in 1917. They lived on Rol Ballard's homestead, Ro[...]e to the Livingstone roundup with James In 1926, Eva and Ray moved to the George Ballard hom[...]g motorists and brought to the Deaconess Hospital in In 1937, they moved to the Gallatin Gateway area up[...]- Bear Creek where they lived until Ray died in 1976. Eva land died July 6th.[...]the Dry Creek Baptist Church and lived there in a trailer house until her death in 1980. north of Belgrade. Interment was in the Dry Creek cemetery. Ray and Eva had fi[...]Alverson whose parents live in Gallatin Gateway. They have[...]attends school in Gallatin Gateway. WILLIAM BALL[...]Richard (Dick) Brenner married Judith A. Patton, whose (SANDY)[...]grandfather, Albert Fairwell Fisher, was born in Virginia William was born at Radersburg, March 14, 1876, the eldest City, Montana in 1876 and grandmother, Anna Caroline child of Jame[...]le Ballard. Fisher, was born in Miles City, Montana in 1887. Dick and He filed on a homestead (directly west of his brother's) the Judy built a house on the farm property that Eva and Ray same[...]on his. (1907?) purchased in 1937 up Little Bear Creek. They have three Abo[...]ontana. children: Lynnanne, who is employed in Wyoming; Patton When he brought his bride to his homestead in Nigger Hollow, Richard, who is employed at th[...]school at Gallatin Gateway. northwest of her son-in-law and lived there in a little cabin. Georgie Rae Brenner married O.B. Badgley, who is a The mountain back of her place was named "Mother's Moun- tain", as those in the area at the time called her <<Mother Geo[...]Ballard's homestead - 1919 In the spring of 1921, they lost their holdings to t[...]and from there to Silver- ton where they operated a boarding house. William died in 1949 and Clara died a few years later. They had no children.[...]l Brenner was the first of the Brenners to settle in Montana, namely, Nigger Hollow, which is in the vicinity of Milligan Canyon west of Three Forks. He came from Kansas to Billings, Montana in 1908, then moved to the Gallatin Valley where he worked for the Brainards. In about 1911, he homesteaded in Nigger Hollow on land now owned by the Tribble family. On January 3, 1917, he and Edith North, a popular young school teacher, were married in Butte, Montana by Rev. G. W. Thomas. After a honeymoon in Salt Lake City, they lived at the groom's ranch h[...]ont. and Robert Brenner of Virginia. Edith died in 1957 and Carl in 1978.[...] |
| [...]Montana from Kansas. He arrived in Nigger Hollow, west of Three Forks, in 1915. He worked for area farmers , namely his[...]tin Valley, Paul continued farming in Nigger Hollow until[...]43 when he bought and moved to the Flaherty ranch in the[...]Paul married Edith Ahl Foran in 1949. He then had three[...]Wyoming and Larry Foran who lives in the North Boulder[...]Paul died in 1970. He had served two terms as Representa-[...]tive in the Montana State Legislature in the 1960's. Edith died in 1981.[...]Genevieve Murp!iy, He served in the army in World War I. brother of Erma Badgley Brenner. The[...]Don Brenner married Jean Reiser and they live in Belgrade. They have five children. Mike is a lawyer and lives in Detroit, Michigan. Steve is employed in Bozeman, Montana. Sally married Bob Yadon and lives in Manhattan, Montana. They have two children, Jackulyn and Robert Michael. Mary Sue lives in Missoula where she is attending the University of Montana. Marie married Scott Westphal. They have a baby son.[...]Rolly died in Spokane in 1977. Some of the Turkey Red baseball team - L to[...]LLEW Marilyn and her husband, Karl Sharon, live in Darby, Mon- Roy Buckallew is the son of E[...]en: Wade, who is married and has He was born in Missoula and grew up in Stevensville, Mon- two daughters and a son who lives in Bozeman. Denise and her tana where his parents have a ranch. He attended the Lone husband, Randy Hill,[...]in construction work.[...]in Helena, Montana where they met while both[...] |
| [...]ghter of Lester and Edith Shanholtzer. Lester was a lifelong resident of Nigger Hollow and son of A.M. and Edith Shanholtzer. Sharon attended the Eur[...]k High School. Sharon and Roy lived for awhile in Missoula County, Mon- tana and Old Town near Thre[...]Bertha Crouse, homesteader Shanholtzer, in Nigger Hollow. After the death of Sharon's parents, they built a new home where she grew up, a few miles Her one hundred sixty acres was located in Nigger Hollow. away.[...]onda and Dustin. claim. Her home was a one room cabin. To get back to Spring- Their firs[...]he was met by Roy has worked at the Talc Plant in Three Forks for several family. Occasionally[...]ly employed there. They also farm and A brother, Walter Crouse, had a homestead next to hers. He raise livestock.[...]had a married sister, Minnie, Mrs. Dick Wall, who lived[...]Bertha Edith Crouse was born September 2, 1889 in the The teacher, Miss Hanks, lived near on her homestead where Springhill community in Gallatin County in Montana. She she held school. Bertha[...]ertha they of eight children. She attended school in Springhill and Boze- got sick. She got word[...]e of the boys until they were well again. From a postcard dated December 19, 1910, Bertha wrote to[...]ome now for the winter. I go to they were gone. A few days later when they came back, Dick my homes[...]s". Other cards didn't see the rifle in its usual place. He asked Bertha where it referred to her going on a homestead claim. One card dated was. She[...]htened of snakes as she was, any snake, let alone a were kidding about your homestead, but it seems a[...]e walked over the hills to the neighbors you were in earnest. If you raise many jack rabbits on your she carried a 4-10 shotgun. In another card from her brother, place let me know and I will be down right away for a hunt." Arthur Crouse, he told her t[...] |
| [...]Bertha and Gus Carlson lived on their farm in Springhill for many years. She was a long time worker in the neighborhood[...]In 1940 she sold her 160 acre homestead in Nigger Hollow[...]Cheeseman 1830-1916 were both born in Pennsylvania as was[...]four of their children. The fifth was born in 1861 in Illinois, where they lived for a short time enroute to Iowa. The other[...]four were born in Glenwood, Iowa. Riley was in the Civil War[...]well again, dying at the age of 56. Jane received a $12.00[...]George W. was born in Pennsylvania, January 26, 185ff, Bertha and Gus Carlson died in California in June 1924. He was five years old when[...]too bad. Terry (1861-1903) in Councel Bluffs, Iowa. They lived in Neb- She got cards from many members of the family and friends. raska, he was a farmer and also had a sawmill. Her Mother wrote urging her to try to get home to Springhill for the holiday. One card was a picture of a young lady chop- Margaret and George W. Chees[...]got your garden made? Is Walter helping Dick put in his crop? Is Lucille taking care of Minnie? Don't you wish you had trees and a wood pile like this? Mother." She also got cards from Gus Carlson who she married on March 12, 1915, in Springhill at the Crouse home. They lived on a farm Gus bought in Springhill very near to her childhood home. They[...]G.R. Gus R. Carlson was born February 4, 1876 in Sweden. He came to the United States and to Montana in 1892. He became a United States citizen in 1899. He worked a few years before buying a farm. He bought the farm in the Springhill commun- ity where he lived the rest of his life. He was a farmer and a businessman, having an interest in the Sweet Company, a feed and grain company. He was active in the Presbyterian Church which he joined in 1934 having been a member of the Lutheran Church until then. He was active in several organi- zations among which was the Woodm[...]mes Bebb and Margaret Neil. Carl Carlson lives in Phoenix, Arizona. His and his wife's children are[...]ndy and Roxie. G. R. Carlson and his wife live in Seattle, Washington. Their children are Vi[...] |
| [...]were made and they were all on their way Lillie A. - March 7, 1888-November 4, 1934 again. They arrived in Willow Creek July 4, 1889. The com- Etta Gertru[...]unity was celebrating Montana officially becoming a state Vesta Alvira (Bessie) - September 19, 189[...]1962 Peterson had previously been in Willow Creek and knew most[...]of the people. In the early spring of 1889 George and Maggie and th[...]ther and relatives. It was agreed they would meet in Miles[...]Sappington and Highway No. 287. The house City on a specified date. If they didn't show up by that ti[...]was a beautiful stone building and was quite a landmark for Petersons were to go on because they[...]The big flat stones were gotten from the hillside a found land where the relatives lived.[...]d follow it by Their last four children were born in the Stateler house, the the feathers scattered along. The boys would kill the wildfirst one in 1890, the second turned out to be twins. chickens[...]would sit on the tailgate of the George took up a homestead in the Valley west of the wagons picking the chicken[...]03, on 147.81 George did come on West and broke a wheel just outside of.[...]g note - he Miles City. He knew the Petersons had a spare wheel and onbuilt a sawbuck by burying the t o legs in the ground. This the chance they might still be t[...]sawbuck was still standing in September 1979. The cattle started to look for them. Bill Peterson told that they hadused it as a rubbing post and had it polished to a glass-like decided they should travel on and were[...]They also lived in Sappington running the hotel and ran the Children[...]Bessie said the first school she attended was in Sandcreek, this was when they lived in the Sappington Hotel. Sandcreek had been a thriving mining area with houses up and down the[...]When Riley was a little boy he was a sickly child. Someone[...]the bridge supports. The train came to a screeching halt and[...]ound. The engineer told them what they needed was a[...]Another incident was when a train set a grass fire, the four[...]y beg to get to go watch it. However, they played in[...]his hands in getting the fire out. Her only injury was being[...]in her underwear, shoes and stockings. In 1899 Maggie and the giris went to Glenwood, Iowa,[...]a campfire and scalded her hand. It was while they[...]is where Maggie died in 1903. At one time the family stayed in the Frank Williams home-[...]lived on the Duke place which is now a part of the Finn ranch[...] |
| and farm buildings in this area. gust 11[...]e stayed with Melissa Green while going to school in 1916. the schoolhouse one mile south of Willow Creek. The school They had two children - Roy born in December 1911, and building was later made into a home where the Burt Thomp- Melva born in 1915. When Melva was a little girl she had a pet son family lived.[...]Besides living on the homestead they also lived in Clarkston biggest most lucious strawberries this[...]amily and apple boxes. Later they moved to a small farm out of Bow, from there on to Oakland,[...]Riley died May 28, 1949, at Bow and Laura died in 1968. She[...]erson was living north of Seattle. Melva died in the 1960s.[...]IVER CHEESEMAN Riley Oliver Cheeseman was born in Vernon County, Neb- VERNIE[...]of Bessie and son of George and Maggie Cheeseman, in a covered wagon in 1889. George and Maggie Cheeseman, was born September 19, They arrived in Willow Creek on July 4th and soon moved to 1891, in Jefferson County, address Sappington, (see George[...]His early years were spent in the Sappington area. After his He married Rosie[...]death they lived near Willow Creek and also lived in ter of James William (Bill) and Harriet Ellen (Parker) Hale. Cardwell Basin. Laura was born February 1893 in Madison County, mail ad- dress was Sappington.[...]of Hiram Hankinson. They lived in Willow Creek and Card- They lived on Riley's homestead in the Cardwell Basin area, well Basin. Their thre[...]on the homestead was Au- George, were born in Willow Creek. In the early 1920s they moved to Oakland, California[...]n a few years this marriage was dissolved. Ruby lived there a[...]he farmed. In telling about farming there he said ''you plant[...]His first trip back to Montana was in 1950 when he and Jim Daniels returned for a visit with Walter Williams and family,[...]Vernie died in the fall of 1962 in Watsonville, California,[...] |
| can, a sister of Rex and Dennis Duncan, who also homesteaded in the area. Byron and Ethel had two sons, Arad and Charles. Charles lived in Whitehall, Montana and died in 1937. Arad lived in California. Byron's wife, Ethel, died in 1926 or 1927. Byron sold his property at auction and sold the ranch. He continued to live in the area for several years, later going to Califo[...]nety years old when he passed away and was buried in a Bozeman, Montana cemetery.[...]ford and Virginia Hager were married while he was in the service and when he came home, Virginia was about to have a baby. We then moved to Henry Hager's farm in Nigger Hollow. We were just renting then, but enj[...]spring, Donald was born and we had the trials of a colicy baby and a great deal of inexperience. However, I would bund[...]bor, Hank Raffety, was good to us lmd let us milk a couple of cows just for the pasture. We struggled alo~g and in 1948, our second baby, Karen, was born. She was e[...]ing got dark, the wind came and then the hail and in 15 minutes, our whole year's work was flat!! We d[...]Bill grew up here along with three brothers; R.E.A. and were overjoyed to have 7 lights on the Christmas Henry, John and Ernest and a sister, Minnie. tree.[...]857, being one Our third child, Paul, was born in October, 1951 and was an of ten children bor[...]f North Carolina. Lawson Cloninger homemade boats in the barnyard when we had spring runoff moved to Missouri after his marriage and engaged in agricul- and to go to the brooder house with me a[...]e little ture and teaching school. He was a man of prominence having chicks.[...]ict judge and assessor of the county. Daniel P. In the fall was al ways our joyful time when the crops were in Cloninger received his early education in the public schools, and the feeling of preparatio[...]e invigorating environment of the farm was always a big thing for the men but this fall we found our· and under the influences of a cultured and refined home. In mother, Lydia, was very ill with cancer. Along in the spring, 1891, he sold his personal effe[...]ed to Three Forks and interests and in that year came to Montana. He first located on Charley and I moved from Nigger Hollow to the place in the Coley ranch on the West Gallatin[...]then purchased the Brady ranch, located in Cedar View, seven Lydia were born. They lived the[...]could be said about the ranch, but space In politics he exercised his franchise in support of the princi- being limited, I will only[...]On Christmas day, 1878, he married Talitha A. Lueallen, though times were sometimes difficult, they also taught us the who was born in Madison county, Missouri, the daughter of joy of[...]nd William Jefferson <<Bill" Cloninger was born in southeast- zealous workers in the Baptist church and were held in the ern Missouri near Fredricktown on December 11, 1880. In highest esteem in the community. 1888 Bill's father, Daniel Pinkney[...]approxi- - son of Dry Creek and they lived in Bozeman where Bill en-[...] |
| [...]Rob Cowan, a brother of Tom Cowan and Penolope Cowan,[...]had a homestead in the area south of the Cedar Mountain[...]omestead house built by William Cloninger gaged in carpenter work. In 1909, they moved to Three Fo:;ks, |
| [...]second, Mrs. Nettie Wall, and lived in Whitehall until his moved to Coeur D'Alene, Idaho[...]death; Jessie Clare, born in 1906, married Dick Martin of They were good neig[...]Harrison, where she still lives. Jessie was a school teacher and[...]Marjorie Dean born in 1917, married Ralph Ren and second The Critchfield family came to America from Wales in the Victor Rupple and is now living in Harrison; Audry Regina 17th century, the generations moving west until Calvin and born in 1919, married Ralph Thomas. Their children are Mar- Anna "Bowman" Critchfield settled near Brownstown, In- jie Lou Kent of Ennis and Gayle Thom[...]of Harrison. They had 4 them on January 31, 1882. In Bert's youth, the family moved children, D[...]on asking her to come Moving to Harrison in 1939, Bert bought a house and and marry him. Clare was born May 30, 1882 at Brownstown, worked at mines in the area. In 1942-43 the Critchfields and the daughter of Jose[...]rwin Bert and Clare were married August 24, 1903. In later years, Mines. Bert as engineer, Clare as cook and Ralph as a miner. Clare would joke with Bert, saying, ((I ha[...]'s reply, «1 wrote 5 letters to now working as a carpenter and Clare often went as cook different[...]l over the country for her cooking. Two of th~ In 1907 the Critchfields moved to Cavern, Montana an[...]d Clark Caverns. Bert the gymnasium in Harrison. Bert retired, taking the job of worked at Limespur in the Jefferson Canyon as an engineer care[...]ng there. Moving to 19, 1978. Whitehall in 1920, Clare ran the Liberty Cafe while Bert was[...]Four children were born: Albert ((Raymond" born in 1904,[...]CHFIELD married first Dorthy Patrick and they had a son, Albert Howard was a nephew of Bert Critchfield and Juanita was Leonard, of Idaho. Raymond was a miner, working at the[...]er of Bert Carleton of Hubbard. Bert Carleton was a Boaz, the Mayflower, the Clipper and others. He m[...]and Juanita lived in Cardwell basin for a while. After leaving ~_ur_!_o_n and Clara Critchfield ---~~-a[...]this area Howard was killed in a train wreck, while working.[...]Juanita is no longer living. There is a Howard Critchfield that[...]in some way to Howard and Juanita.[...]Wilfred Dale was born March 17, 1850 in Staffordshire,[...] |
| 1856 in Staffordshire, England. Wilfred and Anna were mar[...]ad fifteen children. Wilfred died ovember 4, 1935 in Gallatin County, Montana and Anna died October 17, 1940 in Gallatin County. Caleb Dale married Henrietta Doyle about 1949 in the Latter Day Church when it was on orth 7th Ave. in Boze- man, Montana. They had a place near the Shoddy Springs in the Milligan Canyon Area. They moved to the orth Bench north ofThree Forks where he rented a place. In 1921 or 1922, they moved to the West Gallatin River west of Belgrade, Montana where Caleb farmed and ran a dairy about ten years. Emma and family lived with him there. When he left there, he worked in various places. After living around Bozeman fo[...]buried at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Henrietta died a few years later and was buried in Albany. It seemed that Caleb took all the stray relatives in. Bill Dale was staying with him on the bench near[...]th Aunt Emma's girls. Caleb took us to the dances in Manhattan, Montana on Saturday nights. He bought the girls a piano and gave me the old parlor organ that he bo[...]Minnie Lincoln JAMES A. DANIELS |
| [...]Forks Creamery and Owen operated a radiator repair busi- Owen Keith Davis was born[...]au Davis on clerk at the Sacajawea Hotel for a number of years. He died on September 28, 1905. W[...]hirley is married to Russell G. Wheeler and lives in Port- and Howard. The family farmed in Kentucky until the spring land, Oregon. Child[...]al, Leslie Edward, and of 1918 when they moved to Sterling, Idaho. They home- Phillip Morgan. steaded in this area. Doris is married to Frank Holzer and lives in Billings, Owen worked for various neighboring f[...]en delivered milk for his uncle, Alonzo Gastineau in Boze-[...]Gary married Patricia Lackman and also lives in Billings. man. After that, he worked for Bill Tribble in Nigger Hollow[...]rey Allen, and Susanne Rene. and later worked for A.J. (Jet) Shanholtzer. Owen was a nephew of Mrs. George (Bell) Ballard who lived in the area. Delmar Reed married Florence White and lives in Key[...]Doris Holzer Thompson. Tamsy was a daughter of Herman and Hattie Thompson, born on S[...]9. Owen and Tamsy were married on April 18, 1931, in Livingston, Montana. At the time of their marriage, Tamsy was teaching school in the SAM DENHAM mining to[...]he Dry Creek area near Belgrade elementary school in Nigger Hollow and graduated from Wil- and homesteaded in Nigger Hollow in the early teens. He had low Creek High School. Fo[...]a about 1879. They located near Belgrade . bought a farm near Willow Creek. Children born to Owen and[...]Miss Lucy Denham of the Belgrade Community and In 1959, Owen and Tamsy sold their farm and moved to[...]re were seven grand- Three Forks. Tamsy worked as a bookkeeper at the Three children and twel[...]Sam lived on his homestead several years. One day a man[...]Dennis G. Duncan was born in Swan, Iowa on December 18,-[...]father, Sam, was born November 12, 1860, in Tennessee. On[...]in Tennessee, July 15, 1865. Her mother, Grandma Smi[...]nessee to Iowa in 1884. In 1896, they moved by covered wagon[...]dren. Daughter, Helen, was born in Montana.[...]the home of the groom's parents on West Lamme in Bozeman.[...]Tim Ford and two children. The bride wore a beautiful gown of[...]white brocaded silk and carried a bouquet of white roses. The groom wore a becoming suit of blue serge. The young couple[...]left the next day for their homestead in Nigger Hollow where[...] |
| [...]her. Also, when Cora was a girl, she said that one of their[...]they scooped up an old hen and sewed her up in the ticking, not[...]Putting up ice in great blocks, stored in sawdust, for the[...]iceboxes before electricity was available was a yearly task, as[...]tchering nine or ten hogs, rendering out the lard in[...]utilized in everyday cooking.[...]and died in 1946 and Albert Silman born November 29, 1919[...]and now lives in Yarnell, Arizona. In 1931, the Duncans moved eight miles north of Belg[...]ennis worked for Misco Mills until his retirement in 1950. In 1963, Denrus and Cora celebrated their 50th weddi[...]Deaconess in Bozeman.[...]November 1975 to live with her son and daughter-in-law, Dennis and Cora Duncan Albert and Millie Duncan. She remained in their home until 1978 when she moved to a convalescent center where she died[...]December 4, 1981. Her funeral and burial was in Bozeman, Cora was born October 24, 1890, in Cyer, Missouri and came Montana, December 10,[...]ents, Albert Silman Cole and Rilla Llewellyn Cole in the early 1900's, settling on a ranch on Dry Three granddaughters survived th[...]on Dry Creek school and sort of grew up together. A story they (Lila) both of Pony, Montana. The[...]eady Lynette Green, Jason and Cheri Waller and a step-grandson, decided to marry Cora and offered[...]Rex Duncan was born in Swan, Iowa, February 16, 1891, to[...]November 12, 1860, in Tennessee. On March 6, 1881, he mar-[...]ried Udora Adeline Smith who was born in Tennessee July 15,[...]nessee to Iowa in 1884. In 1896, they moved by covered wagon[...]dren. Helen was born in Montana.[...]Rex and Zena Tribble were married in August 1916. Zena was born in August 1890, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George[...]Zena filed on a homestead near the Eureka School in Nigger[...]her homestead until he obtained some land and in the Fall of 1916 built a new home. A daughter Geraldine, was born[...]while they lived in the two-room homestead cabin.[...] |
| [...]Harold Dean Alexander married Lori Evenson in Spokane.[...]Lori have a son, Ian Andreas, born June 8, 1982.[...]Rex Martin served in World War II in the European Theater[...]and the Korean Conflict. In 1946 he married Lilah Cline. To[...]and they have a son, Wade. Wally attended Montana State[...]and they have a son, Aaron. Ann and Bryan graduated from[...]with the Scott Mission in Kenora, Ontario and are housepar-[...]Rex Martin retired in 1974 from the Bozeman Police De-[...]when he took a position at Montana State University in Traf-[...]'s parents, Walter and Charlotte Cline, also have a home[...]niversary in August 1982.[...]February 16, 1914 in Nigger Hollow west of Three Forks. He[...]e eldest of three sons. He received his schooling in the At the new location in the area, a well was drilled and while Eureka school until[...]Creek, eight miles north of Belgrade, Montaria, in 1931. In Rex, Zena and Geraldine lived in the pump house which is still 1933, he married Evelyne Beam who was born in Bozeman, standing there. In it, Zena cooked for the carpenters. This was M[...]as Beam and Daisy (Sarah) during the flu epidemic in 1918 and her brother, Martin Trib- Bliler Be[...]hools until 1925 · ble , died. The new house had a basement, living room, dining when she moved[...]y to Willow Creek room, kitchen, two bedrooms and a bathroom (no plumbing). and graduated from the Willow Creek high school. While they lived in the homestead cabin, Laurie Ballard Th[...]o Zales and Evelyne; Shirley stayed with them for a while when teaching at the Eureka Lou who resides in Bozeman,· Sandra lee who is married to School. She slept on a couch in the tiny kitchen. After they Russell Green[...]veral Eureka teachers boarded Lynette, in Pony and Sharon Lila who resides in Pony with her with them.[...]Sam and Adeline had two daughters who also lived in Nig- Being married in the difficult depression times was a real ger Hollow. Gertie married Fred Ballard and[...]ex and Zena moved to Dry Creek, north of Belgrade in the Dennis Duncan's 50th Anniversary.[...]g the house vacant. Jay Wall and his mother lived in it for a short time. Isa and Earl Cleveland started to buy[...]bought it from the Hagers and still live there. A son, Rex Martin, was born July 23, 1922. Geraldine and Rex Martin Duncan graduated from high school in Manhat- tan, Montana. Geraldine married Harold[...]hem were born Kay, who graduated from high school in Great Falls, Mon- tana; Shirley Jo, who went to school in Great Falls and Spokane and is a Special Education worker in Portland, Oregon, and Harold Dean who graduated from the eighth grade in Great Falls and high school in Spokane. Shirley and Harold graduated from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington. Kay married Holly Bree[...] |
| [...]want to roll any dice so he came over hopes, was a disaster; from 100 acres we headed a total of 60 and sat down beside Morris an[...]lay with you?" and Don said, we had prospects for a beautiful crop and the hail wiped it out. "You know, I bet I could punch you right in the nose,", and This experience had a happy ending, however; the hail adjus- B[...]s said, 'Tve seen fellows bet high as 35 cents on a ter gave us a 100 percent loss but it was early enough in the bet like that and quit a loser." So he hit Morris and Morris slid season t[...]Don was down there on one knee punching him in the top of until after the final harvest to colle[...]re expensive, for those days, we budgeted in my lap on the davenport. He got loose from me and[...]d over where the After many years, we moved to a ranch on the East Gallatin lamp was sitti[...]o the other river, from there to St. Ignatius for a year, back to the Manhat- Brenner had a hold of Buster Morris over on the other side of tan area for one year and then lived in Bozeman until Zales' the room. Nobody saw Buster but he was getting his knife out death in December, 1973. He had worked for the Gallatin[...]ning across the room after Buster Morris. sity as a clerk-typist until her retirement in 1976 and has Buster put his head down and grabbed Don around the waist since made her home in Pony, Montana. and jabbed that knife into him. He gave it a yank and it[...]of his hand. It fell on the floor and Brenner In later years we spent many happy hours rock hunting, picked it up and put it in his pocket. fishing, boating and camping and I pr[...]rk about run out. He was running across a plowed field. We went out 1900. In about 1910, they came from Butte, Montana to Nig-[...]They stayed several years and made many friends . In and went out there and talked to him. H[...]I kill fact, I thought for several years she was a relative. They him?" and we said, "Naw[...]I went in the bedroom and told his wife about it and she sa[...]t." Don Emigh was one of the early homesteaders in the area. So Stanley Rose went home[...]gun and came back He came from North Dakota when a very young man and and then they went back over there. They had Don loaded in a worked for James and Cordelia Lewis on their plac[...]ame back, they said they didn't shoot because was a miner and worked in the Butte mines during the winters they[...]hitting somebody else. and came back to the ranch in the summers. It was m- Butte They to[...]right. who died shortly after birth. In later years, Don raised horses They wante[...]the doctor bill. Buster and mules. He passed away in 1958 and is buried in the Willow Morris said, "*****, I can't e[...]James Rouse A NIGGER HOLLOW INCIDENT[...]James Rouse Iowa a year or two before World War I and bought Alice |
| [...]d ten miles east of the Cold Springs post office, in[...]efferson county on Friday, Feb. 21, 1919 at 10:30 a.m.[...]1 - 3 in. Studebaker wagon 1 - buggy[...]1 - 14 in. walking plow[...]re some woven wire Nell. He attended schools in Walkerville and lived ·o n the 2 saddles ho[...]s brother, Ted, ran 1 - incubator and brooder a dairy there and delivered milk in Butte. 1-3/4 h.p. Fairbanks Morse gas engine In 1928 he married Edith Ahl of Cavern. She was born[...]Household Goods: came to the Cardwell Basin area in 1907 and settled there. She 1 - Schmann Piano 1- New Home Sewing Machine attended schools in Willow Creek and Boulder and graduated 1 -[...]- child's crib from Jefferson County High School in Boulder. She also at- 1 - kitchen range[...]rail Springs, Cold Springs, and the Eureka School in Nigger 6 - dining chairs 12 - pair[...]and 1 - Axminster rug (9 by 12) then moved to a ranch near Whitehall for a time. As the Every[...]pression worsened they did many things as working a mine Hot lunch for all at[...]dit will be given until Nov. 1, 1919, on to ranch in the early forties.[...]unt He became ill and they went to Arizona for a year and then for cash. No property to be removed[...]for. back to Twin Bridges where Buck and Ted ran a garage for a Frank Collins, Auctioneer[...]ll where he passed away A. J. Hoffer, Clerk November 11, 1946. A farewell reception and .dancing party was hosted[...]eek), Jeanine Jones of Casper, Room of the school in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John Forkenbrock Wyoming, a[...]who left for Missoula where they engaged in the undertaking Edith taught school in Whitehall for several years after business. There[...]music Buck's death and then married Paul Brenner in the summer of was furnished by Mr. Waddell and Mr[...]lace with Paul and ranched there. Paul was active in politics and served in the Montana House of Representatives so Edith was busy in the many activities in which a politician's wife takes part. Paul BILL T. FREDERICKS passed away in 1970. Bill T. Fredericks was a Kentuckian who came to Montana She continued to live at the ranch until her death in 1981. in the late nineteens and worked for A. J. Gastineau in Nigger Louise Steingruber Hollow and others a few years. He returned to Kentucky and[...]died of typhoid fever when he was a young man.[...] |
| ALONZO GASTINEAU AB a youth Joseph Alonzo Gastineau moved to Montana from Somerset, Ky. In 1908 he married Effie Tribble from Dry Creek who had been the schoolmarm at the Dry Creek school. A double ceremony included Effie's sister, Brackie,[...]idence near Manhattan, the newly-weds homesteaded in Jefferson County (in ((Nigger Holler," a name derived from an early black settler). Effie was the first woman to homestead in that area. Three Gastineau children were born in the original two room cabin: Keith, Aline (myself[...]. Land Banks were evi- dently an historical first in the extension of credit to farmers. My idea of the Farm Bureau was a meeting at the school house, listening to a county agent, followed by singing from sheets han[...]bt some sweet day. (or) We'll ride in tin lizzies some day. Any lecturer or campaigner appearing in Three Forks or Effie Tribble and Alonzo[...]lied to polit- and his associates researching a cut worm threatening wheat ical parties and cand[...]what it rep- washtubs filled with oil and a lantern attached above which resented.[...]was surrounded by a baffle to trap moths, and a big screen fly The next President was Warren G. Harding, ''a dark horse ." trap to catch live specimens wh[...]or purple and released. They counted eggs under a magnifying together with the flag and daily gave[...]glass and dug down wheat rows counting worms in a given to them. It was years before I could under[...]cher announced that Calvin arthegonia" (a challenge to pronounce , but it had a nice ring to Coolidge was now our president. At[...]s young saddle pony got remember that roads were a major issue. into a sack of poisoned grain and died. World War I was raging in Europe, but food I didn't like I have a hazy memory of the building of the school house.[...]would settle things quickly. I was very proud of a picture , little red school in District 26, ttEureka." I believe Mrs. Con- taken in uniform, that my Uncle Bill Tribble sent me. I re[...]women's shoes $15 and Ballard. She was a fine coach, and winning the county track flour $5 a sack (or was it sugar?). During the harvest season meet in Boulder was the goal. Students from the first thr[...]ssible sabotage by the eighth grades were in constant training, during recesses, to I.W.W. (I[...]The doughboys came home, bringing with them the in- were not too uniform, but did provid[...]a epidemic. It killed one out of every 67 persons in the big day, came the most unlikely upset in history. The school U.S. Mother and I were critically ill, but the only death in the that nobody had heard of walked off with top score. family was my uncle Martin Tribble. A series of drought years The school became[...]by Reverend Finch. There was even a Baptist convention.[...] |
| Delegates stayed in the homes of the congregation. We sure learned t[...]lly. One of the Christian philosophies instilled in us by our Dad was «Love thy neighbor." Students performed in Friday night programs. During W.W. I. we sang (([...]Day programs, Christmas parties, box suppers, and a play directed and acted by adults from the neigh[...]profitable. The Gastineaus left their homestead in 1924. They bought and ·operated a dairy in Bozeman. After the children grew up, most of the[...]o and Effie finished their years, both living to a ripe old age.[...]1885. Lula Sophia Williamson Gil- bert was born in Adams County, Iowa, August 7, 1888 to WilliamGilb[...], Carol and Glen. Andrew moved his family to a farm near the Gilbert family In front: Ralph and children, Bobby and Billy. in South Dakota in 1903. Bill soon found Lu very special but Fathe[...]er Glen was the only one of the ten children born in a hospital. He was built and decorated in the Williamson parlor for the was born in the Three Forks Hospital. occasion. Lula's sist[...]yards of white silk and lace by hand. In 1934, the family moved to the Chidester place in Nigger Hollow. In 1936 they moved to Three Forks and in 1943, to The young couple lived on a nearby farm for a time. Ralph Seattle, Washington where Bill worked in the ship yards and Norville was born there October 12, 1908. While Ralph was Lulu worked in the ship yards cafeteria in Bremerton. still tiny, Bill homesteaded in western South Dakota. He sold his homestead rights to his brother-in-law, George William- Later, they made their home in Walla Walla, Washington son, and moved his fami[...]ere on the homestead, August 22, Bill died in Helena, Montana November 25, 1964. Lulu died 1910. In Mitchell, Bill and his brother, Glen, operated a in Washington March 6, 1973. They are buired in the Willow machine shop. Bill moved his family[...]4, 1913, Ella Erdine, July 7, man went to school in Wi'now Creek. Bill took them and they 1915, Dwa[...]after school. He met them some- March 21, 1918 in Brookings. where along the way. This was a hassle so they changed to the In the Spring of 1918, Bill went to Bozeman, Montana to Milligan School near the Shorty Johnson place. In the Fall of work as a mechanic in a Ford Garage for L. K. Pence. Later he 1924, the Gilberts were the only family left in the district and had his own shop and during this time he met Mr. Lund. Lulu Ralph was in High School so the children attended the Willow brought the family to Bozeman in August 1918. While the Creek schools several years. Emogene, Carol and Glen at- family lived in Bozeman, Arthur John was born April 12, 1919 tend[...]1. Chidester place. In the Spring of 1920, Bill and a friend, Luther Shirley, When they lived on[...], Lulu was clerk and Bill rented three sections in the Milligan Canyon area and planted trustee of the Milligan School District. They helped organize a wheat. When school closed, the family moved to an old log Sunday School at the Eureka School. house with a dirt roof on one of these sections. During the The Fourth of July was a special day and the family always harvest, Bill and Luther exchanged work with Charley took a huge picnic lunch to Bozeman Hot Springs, Potosi[...]n ice house was dug into the bank near the house. In the In the Spring of 1921, Mr. Lund worked out an agreem[...]o Butte, Montana was over Reno Hill from place. In addition, they rented sections 23 and 27 and the[...]ek and past our ranch. These were gumbo roads and in wet the water rights to the Davis place which f[...]ranch to get help. Bill always got a team of horses and pulled After Mr. Lund died of a heart attack in 1928, Bill and Lulu ·their car out. bou[...] |
| times and most of the time the creek was just a small stream or dry. But a great deal of country drained into it and it could be a roaring torrent and very dangerous. One time Bill and several of the children walked down to the creek after a heavy shower to see how the cattle were doing. Bi[...]d on up the creek while the other children played in the sand. They heard their Dad yelling and saw him motioning them to go home. He could see a big wall of water rushing down the stream bed. Ha[...]l out quickly. Another spring had been dug out of a bank. This was Ralph's and Norman's swimming hole[...]and ate cherries. Carol was born at the ranch in the midst of harvest season. Grandma Gilbert came[...]and son, Greydon house. Some of the children rode in the wagon down the hill and the others followed o[...]Silver, to work but he would do then worked in the Three Forks Golden Rule Store and the anything for the kids. He was so tall a ladder was placed Gallatin Valley Milling Co. in Belgrade and raised her young against him for mounting. He didn't mind when a number of son. In August 1924, she and Greydon moved to Huntington kids sat on his back at one time. Sometimes a rope was tied in a Park, California where Greydon continued his[...]Silver's back, swing out on Frances worked in the Los Angeles School System until she the rope[...]cks, geese, Greydon met Waldine Gregg in San Fernando High School. turkeys and chickens ca[...]ate out of his hand. This They were married in October, 1939. made butchering time difficult.[...]After Greydon retired he and Waldine moved to a little farm Jay, Art, Glen and Carol's husband, Arvy Pyle were in the near Grants Pass, Oregon, where Waldi[...]spent his time Hall Gilmer, are buried in the cemetery at Moore, Montana. south of Alaska along the Asian coast. Glen enlisted early in Greydon now lives in the town of Grants Pass, Oregon. the Spring before the war ended. Arvy Pyle was in the Pacific[...]me unwounded. Gould Lavell, Ella's hus- band, was in the European area as a gunner with an armored division. He was reported missing twice in the Fall of 1944. EDWIN AND CARRIE GRA[...]nd came home without an Ed Gravatt was born in Nebraska on March 4, 1888. He injury. Kenneth Eller, Iris's husband, was in the infantry as a came to Three Forks, Montana in 1912. He worked as a bar- cook in the south Pacific. He returned uninjured. tender and was a very good exterior and interior painter and[...]Carrie was born to Will and Alvina Russell in the Red River[...]er parents and sisters, Laura the Sacajawea Hotel in Three Forks, Montana, April 5, 1912. and Tressie and brother Willie. Carrie went to grade school in Lester was the son of William and Nannie Gilmer[...]Durham School near Menard, Montana. When the was a blacksmith in Belgrade, Montana. William Gilmer family moved to[...]atsons came to Montana from Somerset, Ken- worked in a hospital there several years and then went to Sal[...]Lake City, where she was a nurse in a hospital. In 1911, she Frances filed on a homestead near Shoddy Springs west of moved to Three Forks, Montana, bought a home near the Three Forks, joining the homesteads of her father, John H. Sacajawea Hotel and started a hospital in her home. Her Watson, her brother, Grover Watson,[...]e Watson. nephew, Harry Brainard, stayed with her in 1913-1914 and A son, Greydon, was born to Lester and Frances in 1915 attended school in Three Forks. while they live on the homestead.[...]fter Carrie's marriage to Ed Gravatt, they bought a sec-[...] |
| [...]Carrie died in Billings, Montana, in June, 1950.[...]Ed married Luthean (Tine) Sorrels. They lived in Billings[...]Luthean still lives and works in Billings.[...]Laub Hager from Minneapolis, moved from a farm in Boze- man in 1933 with children Virginia and Paul and bought l[...]in Nigger Hollow from the Milwaukee Land Company. Mr[...]26. My impressions of Nigger Hollow are mostly as a Hager children: Virginia and Paul school child in the country school - Eureka. It was the center of[...]once a month, church. tion of land in Nigger Hollow from Dan Moore. They built a house, barn and granary. Here they farmed and did a lot of Most of our neighbors were helpful people but some were entertaining, in spite of obstacles such as muddy roads. Ac- more helpful than others. This was in time of sickness or cording to the June, 1914 Three Forks Herald, Mrs. M. A. trouble and some would exchange work wi[...]with Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Our school was a very close knit and interesting place to be. Grav[...]ried to negotiate the There were all 8 grades in the same room and each child muddy roads Saturday in time to enjoy the evening at the learned from the other. Anyone who decided to be a prankster pleasant fireside of the Gravatt home,[...]usually got sent to the cloak room or had to stay in after school destination until the early hours of Sunday morning, return- and help with hauling in coal or sweeping the floor with ing to the city M[...]compound. Most kids are in a riproaring hurry to get home and In February of 1919, the Gravatts became the owner of a so we would race our horses most every nig[...]run around on top of a 4 (oot high board fence at recess to see[...]who could stay on top the longest. In May, 1919, Mrs. M.A. Smith and daughter, Miss Agnes, Mr. and Mrs. Ed[...]Other games were hide and seek and kick the can. In the witnessed the flying circus at Butte, Montana[...]the Shanholtzer hill. There was a fence and a road at the Mrs. W. D. Brainard and sons, Harr[...]stop. Sunday with the boys' aunt, Mrs. Ed Gravatt in Nigger Hol- low. June, 1919, Mr. and Mrs. Ed G[...]lly enter- Edwin and Carrie Gravatt tained a number of friends at a delicious dinner at their home in Nigger Hollow in honor of the returned soldier boys in the neighborhood. In the evening, they all partook of the pleasure of a dance in the granary. Those from Three Forks enjoying the Gravatt's hospitality were: Mr. and Mrs. Kvalnes, Mrs. M. A. Smith and daughter Agnes, Miss Margaret Young an[...]l, William Dale and others. Stanley Rose was also a guest. One hog butchering day, a fire was built near the granary to heat water in a vat for scalding. After the men went to the house[...]blazing. It was destroyed. The Gravatts owned a fine saddle horse named Stranger. Carrie was a blessing in many homes as she rode Stranger to care for the s[...]e or four months. When they left the ranch to run a hotel in Manhattan, Montana, they took Stranger to Carrie's sister and brother- in-law, Laura and Will Brainard, in the Gallatin Valley, where he was retired and died. Carrie and Ed lived next in Nevada and California. In 1947, Ed supervised the interior decorating of the JC Penney Store in Sparks, Nevada. From there, he was sent to[...] |
| Once in a while the whole bunch would "skip" and go down in Mark Edward in 1957, Jeffry Dean in 1959 and Joann Varie in the field too far to hear the school bell. Then w[...]1960. couldn't hear it so we all had to "stay in" for 2 weeks. We made The winter of 1958-59 was a severe one with serious illnes- a pact to work on our assignments so we could get our reward. ses afflicting the family. As a result of the difficulty of reach- The teacher would read library books to us on cold winter ing a doctor, Joyce, with community support, petitioned[...]ic Association to allow the telephone company to a teacher named Miss Nielsen. I couldn't get enough[...]t their lines on the REA poles. They did this and in 1958, the except for urithmetic", which had no charm for me. A great community had dependable telephone lines. deal of competition existed in those days, as many had a The children attended Eureka, the country school, just one parent or relative who was a "school marm", and they ex- half a mile from their ranch home. Bill Janacao was the[...]student to graduate from Eureka grade school in 1965. This would study extra with the kerosene l[...]of Eureka School. chores and many times read with a flashlight under the covers. A big picnic was held under a tent and many of the students Keith Thompson and I made first and -second highest in the and teachers returned for the celeb[...]As the Janacaro children reached High School age, a deci- guess our teachers taught us something. Whe[...]his decision was facilitated by Joyce be"= 'l was a regular country hick. Our life centered around ho[...]Virginia Clifford Within the first year in Whitehall, the Janacatos bought a[...]One of the residents in Whitehall said that it was the only Joyce Tribb[...]her husband Victor Janacaro building in town big enough for the family . In order to prove were the last couple to be married in the old Holy Family the truth of this statement, two more children were added to Catholic Church in Three Forks, Montana August 21 , 1950. the family: Julie Ann, born in 1969 and Angela in 1971. Joyce They moved to Fort Collins, Colorado[...]years before Julie was born. Victor was Colorado A & M. At the end of the school year, they moved to employed as a teamster, driving trucks in the Berkley Pit in Kansas City, Missouri where their son, William Jo[...]Three Forks, had been fixed up for her in the Janacaro's home a couple of Montana to start farming with Joyce's f[...]eath and still resides there. Victor was raised in Kansas City, Missouri with two[...]Joyce J anacaro brothers and a sister. His mother and father , Mary and Fred, had moved to America from Italy at a very early age . Victor[...]RAYMOND JOHNSON served in World War II in the 6th Armored Division. He took part in the Battle of the Bulge and served eighteen month[...]hnson was born to Carl Alexander and Ann overseas in Europe. He and Joyce met on a blind date while Gustafa Berg Johnson on December 24, 1882, in Oslo, Nor- she was attending St. Mary College in Leavenworth, Kansas. way. Raymond's fat[...]e United States to establish Joyce graduated with a degree in Home Economics Education a home. The family came over to join him when Raymond was in 1950.[...]years old. Their father Mary Catherine was born in 1954, Victor Norman in 1955, was killed two or three years later while working on a train. The boys were put in an Episcopal Orphanage in Baltimore. Joyce and Victor Janacaro[...]When Raymond was old enough to work, he was put in the[...]home of Mrs. Gresham. He later got work as a motorman on a[...]became a chauffeur for a family in South Norfolk.[...]ymond and Laura Powell were married July 22, 1908 in Harrington, Delaware. He was a bridge tender for awhile. In[...]They filed a claim on the North Bench out of Three Forks in[...]. Thompson had so much patience with us. They had a lot[...] |
| home a lot. Cora Duncan made the best divinity and Denni[...]other heated rocks and Mother and Dad took us all in a big sled to "Shorty" Johnston's for an evening of[...]with the horse and buggy. Many times we got stuck in a snow drift and Rex Duncan came and took us to his[...]urned off to go to Herm Thompson's. We learned a lot under the teaching of Laurie Ballard. We all[...]zers were good to us school kids. Happy times! In 1920, the family moved to Deer Lodge, Montana, where Raymond worked for the Milwaukee Railroad. In 1930, they moved to Rockport, Washington, to farm[...]rs. After he retired, Raymond worked long days in his yard and garden. Laura did also. He commented often that nobody could find a weed in his garden. I am sure they couldn't. During hi[...]took care of Raymond at home after several stays in the hospital, taking such good care of him. He died in March, 1978, at the age of 95. Mother, Mrs. La[...]two knee replacements and does not have the pain in them now. Five children were born to Raymond and Laura: Alyce in Norfolk, Virginia, Beryl, Ray, and Ann in Three Forks and Luther and Mary Wall LaRue Joyce in Deer Lodge, Montana.[...]Ben and Peachie Manning LaRue In my visit to the Three Forks area in 1980, I met some precious friends who were so gra[...]heir home, Mildred and Carroll Watson. I had such a nice reunion with Eula, Eunice, Frieda and Velma[...]in. Mrs. Johnson still lives on the home place in Washington. Her daughter Beryl, lives with her. A[...]RUE Harvey and Nannie Durham LaRue were married in Boze- man, Montana. Harvey was born in Missouri and Nannie was the daughter of Sanford a[...]ncy, Ethel, Ben, Linnie and Luella. Nannie died in 1902 and Harvey moved back to the Gallatin Valley. He and his family lived a half mile west of the Dry Creek school north of Belgrade. Harvey and his son, Ben, farmed together for a year or so. At one time Harvey had a store in the area of Central Park. Harvey and his daughter, Luella, moved to Nigger Hollow west of Three Forks in 1911. Luther had filed on a homestead at Nigger Hollow and he and his brother, Ben, farmed there together. Luella attended school in the Belle Gastineau cabin[...] |
| [...]We had a large acreage. Two homesteads which were 160[...]acres each and a section of 640 acres. I have never known how[...]sheep. Some of the land lay in the foothills and mountains. We[...]d dry land wheat on what was cultivated. Starting in[...]worms and grasshoppers. We lost the place in 1922 to an[...]y father broke saddle horses for other people for a[...]Gravatt, from a neighboring farm , was a mid-wife. She took[...]Owen was born in the Three Forks hospital. Luther, Luella and Ben LaRue In 1922 we rented the Frank Minier farm on the north[...]Boulder. in Nigger Hollow before the Eureka school was built in 1915. In the spring of 1923 we moved back to Nigger Hollow[...]Orville, and I either rode horseback or drove a single horse to a Luther married Mary Wall and bought the Everson[...]s name because it was said that the Boulder river in an area nicknamed nstony Lonesome". the boys all chewed tobacco and spit out through the holes in Luella married Clarence Visser. After living ne[...]for awhile they bought the Charlie Thompson place in erty ranch. There was a post office in the Flaherty' s ranch Nigger Hollow. Children bor[...]arch 5, 1980. Luella, her mail there for a number of years. children and their families live in Las Vegas, Nevada. While on the h[...]acher place that our Linnie married John Landon in 1912. Their children were: Rosalind who died in 1937, Meron, who lives at Libby, Mon- ne[...]ing. Stanley Rose tana and John Wesley, who lives in Louisiana. was a single man from Virginia. He was out plowing when[...]working with. He got them all unhitched except a big black[...]horses tangled the mare up in the plow. She was crippled very I, Harold Manning, was born in Pawnee, Oklahoma, May badly. Stanley[...]ildren on Toothacker farm: Owen, Luella, Orville, in 1913. My mother, Ethel, and I stayed in Oklahoma until the Gladys and Harold. summer[...]about fifteen miles distance. My father had built a two room log house , a barn and an outhouse. I remember having four work horses, a saddle horse and a, Jersey milk cow. There wasn't any school close enough when I was six years old. When I was seven in 1919, Mrs. Karl Conklin, a neighbor- ing farmer's wife, was the teacher at a[...]d Manning. Cecille Warren and Johnny Shipman were in the 9th grade. The next year the school district built a new school house[...] |
| in the barn. When he regained consciousness he got o[...]ne mile to our place. The horse never had the bit in his mouth. I met Stanley as he rode into our yard[...]off his horse at my feet. We kept him with us for a few days and then some friend of his from the Hollow came with a lumber wagon with a bed in it and hauled him away. He was a very sick man and I don't think he ever fully rec[...]acher place. Mrs. Ed Gravatt was the mid-wife. In the fall of 1923 we left Nigger Hollow forever, m[...]Orville, who went by the name of Bud, passed away in Seattle in 1976. My sister, Lou, also passed away in 1978. They are both buried in Seattle. Both of them died of cancer. My mother, Ethel, passed away in 1942 and is buried in Bozeman. Gladys is a long time resident of Three Forks and is now Mrs. Walter Klahr. My brother, Owen (Smokey), is a longtime resident of Tracy, California. I have been in Anaconda for 41 years, moving here from Bozeman in 1941. I forgot to mention that we were endowed[...]BOB MILLIGAN Bob Milligan, a bachelor, came to Montana in 1864. He built a cabin and some sheds at the northwest end of the[...]to be known as "Milligan Canyon." Bob specialized in Terry and Genevieve Watson Murphy Herefo[...]ney at all the race tracks where Bob entered him. In the spring, Bob would take a string of race horses, including Croppie, and a few "Broom Tails" and make the race circuit durin[...]en Bob returned, he would have greenbacks stuffed in his bedroll and his pockets full. He spent the wi[...]one again. He did little racing at home, but once in awhile the local people would trick him into shor[...]ppie was kicked by some other horses and suffered a broken leg. Croppie had to be disposed of and was[...]Springs." The horse was named Croppie because as a colt his ears had been frozen and sluffed off, ma[...]st of his race horses, which he had lost interest in after Croppie's death. Bob Milligan never recovered from the winter set back and died in poverty. Today, the place he lived on is known as[...]liams THE TERRY MURPHY FAMILY |
| U.S.A. Terrance (Terry) Murphy was born and raised in the tournament. After graduating from MSU in 1969, Nolan orthern Ireland, but always as a youth, he had a keen desire worked as a Seasonal Park Ranger in Yellowstone Park and to see America. So eventually, as a teenager, he left his home helped out on the farm in the off seasons. Along with farming, and loved on[...]r the new world. As it turned Terry developed a desire for public life and served in three out, America liked Terry and Terry liked America and he sessions of the State Legislature - in the House of Representa- never did return to Ireland to live. (Almost thirty years later, tives in 1971 and as State Senator in 1975 and 1977. In the '77 however, he did fly home to visit his mot[...]Senate. relatives there.) He lived and worked for a time in Canada and On April 7, 197 4, olan was married to Sandra Yadon in the Eastern and Central U.S. before he found his[...]e born on January 29, 1967. They lived for a short time in Mae Watson, whose story appears elsewhere in this book. Gardiner, Monatna and for s[...]at the Murphy home Genevieve was teaching school in Basin at that time. On place in igger Hollow. They now make their home at the February 7, 1942, Terry and Genevieve were married in Deer Herman Thompson ranch in Nigger Hollow, which ranch they Lodge, Montana. They lived for a time in Butte, Montana, purchased in 1979. where Terry worked in the mines. Later, they farmed in the On May 28, 1977, Terry L. was married to Mary Beth Loma, Montana area and then lived for a short time on a ranch Meyer, the daughter of Fred and Joyce Meyer of Townsend, at Silver Star, Montana. In the spring of 1948, they purchased Montana. They lived for a time on Terry's ranch at Shoddy the Paul Brenner ranch in Nigger Hollow and settled there. Springs, the dear old place where his mother lived as a little The ranch included the Will Ballard homestead and the Sam girl and which he had purchased in 1969. This rarnch included Denham place. Their fi[...]Terry and damage and their first winter there was a never-to-be forgot- Beth have a mobile home at Shoddy, the old house ofrailroad t[...]gatherings. Since 1979, Terry and Beth have lived in fourteen happy years there. They attended school[...], also, and Nolan manages the farming on the died in the Bozeman hospital on October 24, 1962 after a three three Murphy farms at present. year ill[...]rm as best they could and Genevieve still A thrilling experience for all the family took place in the fall lives at the home place. She and her fam[...]r's old members of the Cardwell Community Church, a country home and to make the acqua[...]nd he The eldest son, Terry Lawrence, was born in the Murray enjoyed a wonderful vacation on the Emerald Isle. Hospital in Butte on December 5, 1942. Nolan James was born[...]Genevieve Murphy in Dr. Hill's Hospital in Whitehall on January 12, 1947. Both boys are grad[...]e graduates of Willow Creek High School. Nolan is a graduate of Montana State University in Bozeman as well. ARNOLD AN[...]MICK Terry managed the farm while Nolan was still a high school Arnold Alfred Nimmick and Joyce Cicily Georgina Curtis student. In March, 1964, the Willow Creek boys basketball met in Great Falls, Montana, where Amie was visiting his team participated in the State Calss C Tournament in Helena, sister and looking for work in 1939. He came from Fingal, Montana and Nolan was named the most valuable player in North Dakota where his parents, Reinho[...]Reinhold was born in Russia on February 24, 1875. Anna[...]was born in Germany December, 1879, and rowated to the[...]state of Iowa in 1901. In 1902, they moved t<i'Fingal, orth[...]Joyce Curtis lived in Great Falls with her parents, Fred and[...]th parents were from England where Joyce was born in[...]in each location.[...]Amie worked at the Texaco Station in Great Falls. He registered for the draft in 1940 and trained in Washington,[...] |
| [...]he four children attended the Eureka rural school a short[...]Lori was Valedictorian of hers. They did 4-H work in Cardwell and Farmers Union work in the community.[...]animals that live in the area. The children rode horses and[...]among their many pets were an owl and a raccoon named[...]d's life. He ran to catch Arnie as he was pulling a manure[...]Steingruber and was a Willow Creek High School graduate.[...]Don and Gayle live in Dallas, Texas with their three sons,[...]Brian, Brent and Barry. Don is manager of a Mobile Home[...]Bob attended Montana State University in Bozeman and Vo-Tech in Helena, Montana , where he met and married 1941[...]rom Fort Benning, Gwen Adams. They built a home in the Helena Valley, where after which they were se[...]Casa Blanca, The Invasion of Cicily, Eng- is a sawyer for U.S. Plywood. land, the Invasion of No[...]worked for a Travel Agency in Denver, Colorado. She con- When Arnie returned[...]as other coun- the Fair Grounds where Arnie built a house and sons, Donald tries. Later she worked at the Fairmont Hotel in Denver, Curtis and Robert Arnold were born. In 1950, the family where she met many cel[...]called into the service again 24, 1980, in Denver. They now live in St. Georges, Bermuda, during the Korean Wa! and J[...]Division. They have one son, Nicholas John, just a few months as he wasn't sent overseas. Carol Sue and born April 19, 1982. They have purchased land in the Bridger Lori Jean were born in Conrad. Ski Area where they plan to live and develop subdivisions. In 1955, they bought a small ranch near Big Sandy, Mon- Lori attended Montana State University in Bozeman, Mon- tana where they lived five years before buying the ranch in the tana and graduated from the University of Montana in Mis- Milligan Canyon Area west of Three Forks, Montana from soula, Montana. She lived in Denver, Colorado for a while Henry Hager, on which they now live. This was originally the where she was a Travel Agent. In 1981, she moved to Three home of the Rex Duncan f[...]immicks named it the Forks, where she and a High School classmate, Val Aughney,[...]opened The Village Mercantile, a clothing store. She is buying Children of Arnold and Joy ce Nimmick: Robert, Lori, Carol a home in Three Forks, formerly owned by Oma Wren. and Dona[...]Joyce's mother, Sue Curtis, lived in Great Falls after her husband died in 1958. Then she kept house for herself at the[...]Bryant Hotel in Three Forks until she was 87 years old. She[...]In 1972, Joyce spent six weeks in England, where she was[...]entertained by cousins in Weymouth, Hastings, St. Leonards[...]and castles, saw a stage show, Windsor Castle and the chang-[...]was built in the fifteenth century and had a spiral staircase to[...]the rooms above. It had been a coach stop at one time. In 1964, several cousins from England visited[...] |
| [...]Powell, son of Mary and William Powell, was born in Harrington, Delaware, on April 24, 1854. George[...], Maryland. Both were school teachers. They lived in Harring- ton until 1900 when they moved to Pokomoke, Maryland. After a few years they moved to Norfolk, Virginia. Ancesters of both came from the British Isles - George's in 1617 at Jamestown and Alice's in 1681. George and Alice had seven children: Arli[...]Young died in early 1910 in Three Forks. George and Alice Powell Lorone filed a claim in Nigger Holler and they lived there[...]seven years. In 1917, they moved to Deer Lodge where Lorone[...]worked on the railroad. died when he was a baby and Jessie when she was 20 years old,[...]In 1921, they moved to Los Angeles, where Lorone wor[...]as an electrician for a Movie Company until his death in 1948. now. Hattie died in 1962. George and Alice came to Montana in 1910 and filed a claim George and his wife, Elsie, live in Apple Valley, California. on land in Nigger Holler where he built a home and lived[...]ily moved to Willow Creek, where they lived about a year. In 1919, they moved to Deer Lodge. George worked in the office of the Superintendent of the Milwaukee[...]HENRY AND EUNICE RAFFETY In 1930, they moved to Rockport, Washington to live[...]905 to E. J . and Ella Mae Raffety and was raised in George died in March of 1933 and Alice in October, 1954. the surrounding area. He[...]8, 1935. Eunice was born July 1, 1916 and raised in the They were a wonderful couple. She was a petite person who Milligan Canyon area. l[...]aid, tI would love to have lived forever". He was a dear, kind man.[...]Lorone Powell was born to George and Alice Powell in 1878 for himself. He bought a few horses now and then and broke in Harrington, Delaware. them to work to do his farming. In 1900, Lorone married t Tots" Reed in Harrington. They Lila was born to our[...]r. and Mrs. Herman Thompson. On After Tots died in Harrington in 1904, Lorone came to Three October 29, 1937[...]ked for the C. M. and St. Paul Rail- were in school, Jeannine came on January 21, 1944. Another road. In 1907, he went to Virginia and Married Hatt[...] |
| Henry bought our first tractor in the Spring of 1945. The Holler. In 1930 they moved to a farm southwest of Bozeman, drought years had subs[...]eighteen years they farmed various We al ways had a few chickens and a few milk cows. During the farms in the Gallatin Valley. Poor health forced Wes and Second World War years we raised a garden, watering it from Laurie to retire and they moved into Bozeman in 1948. After a our well. prolonged illness, Wes Rampy died in May, 1959. Mrs. Rampy Through the years we had always discussed looking for a still resides in Bozeman. place nearer High School as we didn't wa[...], Cot- after the death of his wife. Henry saw him in Manhattan one tonwood, and Gallatin Gateway w[...]tom combining and told him years, retiring in 1963. During these teaching years she at- we'd be[...]iliar with the place tana. After retiring, for a few years, she and her sister-in-law, from going to High School in Willow Creek. Mrs. Jennie Ba[...]night and Henry could not combine the next t in Gateway. day so we went to see Mr. Hollein Septem[...]were born to Wes and Laurie - Nell Sue, gave him a down payment that day and left Milligan Canyon[...]ary 14, 1896 to James S. and Mary Tribble Ballard in the tana; Ross and Douglas of California. Dry Creek area. She received her education in Dry Creek and Wesley L. Rampy Jr. of Twin Bridges, Montana has one son, in 1917 graduated from Belgrade High School. Shortly[...]he began her teaching career at the Eureka school in the of Trotters, North Dakota. Milligan community[...]Medford, Oregon and Marlin of Johnson City, while in Belgrade she met and married Wesley Lee Rampy in Tennessee; one daughter, Judy of Vancouver, Washington. May, 1922. Wesley or "Wes" was born in northeastern Mis- Rosanne R. Coy of Tr[...]d came to Montana before World War I and enlisted in Sidney, Montana; Barry and Wesley of Troy; one da[...]Beth of Troy . After their marriage they farmed a homestead in Nigger Edgar F. Rampy oflssaquah, Wash[...], Shelly, all oflssaquah. Laurie Ballard Rampy in Turkey R ed baseball uniform .[...]Frank N. Ray was born in Missouri, March 18, 1884. He[...]Frank received a patent from the government for 160 acres in Nigger Hollow December 14, 1913. Date of record w[...]steader in the area to fence his land.[...]Cora was born in Kansas and came to Montana with her[...]In 1919, Frank, Cora and the girls moved to Anaconda[...]in mining. Finally they moved to Manhattan, Montana[...]Frank died September 2, 1952 and was buried in the Dry[...]Cora died in 1966.[...] |
| [...]Evelyn married Joe Visser in 1927. He died in 1929. She[...]died November 11, 1980. Evelyn continues to live in their home in Manhattan, Montana.[...]Jay L. Ray was born in Missouri July 6, 1882. He came to[...]Frank , Jay Jesse and H enry. Frank and Cora Ray in Pony, Montana.[...] |
| [...]Thomas Saisbury and Grace Artell were married in Al-[...]berta, Canada, December 11, 1907. Thomas was born in On-[...]tario, Canada, April 3, 1877. Grace was born in Gallatin[...]homas and Grace returned to the Foster Creek area in[...]homestead in Nigger Hollow. They then sold their homestead[...]grade , and Lois Saisbury Krisman who lives in Seattle,[...]Thomas died in 1928 and Grace died in 1975.[...]Hans Sater came to the United States from Norway a few[...]years before World War I. He came to Montanajust in time to Jay Ray's homestead as it looks today.[...]took up a homestead a few miles west of Three Forks. He Jay proved up on a homestead adjoining those of his worked for homesteaders including Grover Watson and Pat brothers in Nigger Hollow in 1914. He mortgaged his homes- Alexander at Shoddy Springs. After Pat Alexander's death, he tead to A. W. DeGroot in Three Forks, Montana on March 27 , worked for Pat[...]The mortgage was satisfied years. He passed away in a Soldiers' Home in Wyoming. June 12, 1917.[...]in Crawford County, Kansas, He was educated in Kansas and JESSE RAY attended college in Grand Island, Nebraska. Jesse Ray was born in Missouri and came to Belgrade, On December 4, 1907, he married Ida Edith Compton in Montana with his parents, brothers, Frank and Jay, and a Neosho County, Kansas. She was the daughter of Jenny Gil- sister. He proved up on his homestead in Nigger Hollow March lispie and William C[...]They lived on a small diversified farm where children born Lis[...]e Eugene, August 14, 1917. Jesse and Lissie had a daughter, Jessie. G[...]work Jesse was killed on Reno Hill when hauling a load of grain was done with horses. They[...]chickens. Lissie was killed in a car accident much later. Evelyn Rea vener Edith and A . M. Shanholtzer STANLEY R[...]e to Montana from Virginia around 1910 |
| [...]w, the lines crossed. It was then that rings came in[...]om t wo or more lines until it was repaired. Once a year there was a telephone meeting and oyster supper at the school[...]Grain was usually hauled to the elevator in Willow Creek -[...]ths. It was loaded into wagons the night Sons of A. M. and Edith Shanholtzer: Lester, Raymond and before in order to get an early start in the morning. It was _E ugene Shanholtzer. loaded by hand with a scoop shovel and unloaded the same[...]joyed hunting deer. Between which was molded with a one pound mold and wrapped in the three of them , they would bring home a deer or two each butter paper. The butter and cre[...]fall . them with ropes to a certain depth into a dug well. Once a When the boys grew up , they bought farms in the area. week she delivered eggs and butter door[...]married Edith Douglas, November 26, 1948 and ers in Pittsburg, seven miles from home. There were no cars lived on the farm until his death in 1975. then. She used a horse and buggy.[...]married Hilda Marshall , December 8, 1942. He In November, 1918, Mr. and Mrs. Shanholtzer with the t wojoined t he army in 1942 and served in Germany during World youngest children, came to M[...]War II. They lived on the farm a few years before selling it to contracted influen[...]his brother, Raymond. He now works in the Veterans Hospital the area.[...]married Marjorie Hobson, November 26, 1943 bought a section of land adjoining Jet's homestead. They re-and lived on his farm until his death in 1980. turned to Kansas and prepared for a farm sale in the Spring.[...], 1936. They lived on After the sale, they loaded a freight car with household furni - ture, some machnery, hedge posts and a Saxon automobile. a farm near Wilsall, Montana. The family came on th[...]hanholtzer was active until his death. He died of a They ate well on the train from a lunch box prepared by heart attack at his ho[...]y hauled from the threshing machine to grain bins in wagons Josephine Bennet Shanholtzer, was born May 3, 1886, in and shoveled by hand into the bins. All of the ne[...]other cook for the threshing crew. Every home had a coal and wood stove. It made the house hot in summer and helped to heat the house in winter. Much of the food was grown at home . Vegetable gardens provided fresh vegetables in the summer and some were can- ned for winter. Pig[...]ured with salt for summer use. The fat was cooked in a large iron kettle over an open fire outside and r[...]ning the grinder. Beef was butchered on the farm. In winter, it was kept hanging in an unheated building and was canned for summer use . Every fall, Mannon took wheat to a flour mill in Harrison and exchanged it for a year's supply of flour. Edith baked bread once or twice a week. She churned cream and made all of[...] |
| Jet Shanholtzer's blacksmith shop in Wil lo w Creek , Montana - J et and partner, Bob[...]r S hanholtzer. Gerard , Kansas, He married Cora A. Cutler, the daughter of Chidester place, nearby[...]life of the com- |
| [...]in 1869, and several of their children followed in 1897. They[...]They lived around Bozeman, Montana first and then in Nigger[...]llow where Grandfather proved up on his homestead in[...]believe, David, who came in 1897. Born in Montana were Wilbert, who was killed in a hunting accident in 1916; Jennie,[...]ie, Ralph, Evalyn, Bon- parents, two brothers and a sister in 1919. Raymond nie (Suzie) and Berna[...]the Eureka rural school and attended High School in Manhattan and Belgrade, Mon- · David died in his mid-twenties, unmarried. tana, after which he engaged in farming with his father and John Jr. and[...]four children; Harry, Tom, Kathleen and Clyde In 1942, Raymond and Majorie Hobson were married in Chambers. Hamilton, Montana.[...]offspring of John and Marjorie Hobson was born in Osakis, Minnesota and came Threacy still living is Tom , who lives in Paulden, Arizona. to Montana with her parents, Ra[...]I was the only one of the family born in Nigger Hollow in attended grade school in Chinook, Montana and High School 1930. The Christmas I remember there was in 1933 when my in Victor, Montana. She then graduated from Western[...]orseback to Whitehall and brought my tana College in Dillon, Montana before teaching the Eureka brother, Harry, and me a chocolate Santa Claus. grade school in the Milligan Canyon Area for a year and a half. The family moved back to Bozeman in 1935. Later she graduated from Montana State University in Boze- My mother, Phoebe, went on the ro[...]ther until she Raymond and Marjorie established a home on the original passed away in 1946. My two uncles, John and Tom, also took home[...]o the rodeo circuit. Uncle Pack's boy, Eddie, was a rodeo they made many improvements and engaged in farming and announcer and bareback rid[...]Lloyd Townsend, Jr. is retired and living in the Hot Springs the Harrison, Montana High School[...]area near Bozeman, Montana. His brother, Earl, is in San Business College in Billings, Montana. Fra[...]of some renown. Marjorie returned to teaching in Harrison and taught there Two of Aunt Lizz[...]Ted retired from twelve years before she accepted a teaching position in Three the N.P. Railroad and Mildred lives in Willow Creek, Mon- Forks, Montana where she is st[...]ncle Pack's children still living there are Suzie in After a long illness, Raymond died in the Bozeman Deaco- Whitehall, Montana and Bernie in Anaconda. ness Hospital September 23, 1980. Marjorie continued to live My brother, Harry, lives in Tucson, Arizona and is working on the ranch and to teach in Three Forks. in the movies. Dorothy married William Deneke III of Bozeman. For a Brother Tom has his own trucking business in Idaho. while they lived on the Green Ranch near the Madison River. Later, they built a new home near Manhattan, Montana Kathleen, my sister, is married to a Service man and lives in where they continued ranching and their daughters[...]en I, Clyde Chambers, was born November 11 , 1930 in William Deneke died August 14, 1981 and Doroth[...]ve on the ranch. was in attendance. I remember the bad winters w had and[...]helped raise and stayed with m until his death in 1957. Tom[...]y grandfather, John Elexl:!nder Shipman, was born in School, Emerson Jr. High and Gallatin o[...]1n 1946 or 1947, I began to rod o and turn d Pro in 1948. M and my grandmother, Threacy Brock Shipman, who was born mother was a saddle bronc rid r from 1928 to 1940. Ir t[...] |
| from rodeo in 1965. Three of our six children, Larry, Robin and December 22 , 1895. She and my father were married in Leslie followed the rodeo circuit and still work[...]ontana. At that time, Dad was breaking horses for a Larry rode bareback and bulls, went to State Finals and got a living. scholarship in rodeo to Miles City Community College. Robin[...]y have two sons, Orvil Dean and Richard Lee. lege in Dillon, Montana. Leslie ropes, barrel races and pole They live in Libby, Montana. bends and is now attending Montan[...]o make the rodeo team. Robin went to State Finals in pole Ernest Heilman and they live in Three Forks. They have two bending twice and Leslie went one year in pole bending. sons, Douglas, who Ii ves in Brooklyn, New York, and Edward. Our daughter, Teri Vial, lives in Bozeman. Linda McLaskey Edward and his wife, Nancy, have two daughters, Sheila and lives in Phoenix, Arizona and Juanda Peralta lives in Big Shawna. They live in Livingston, Montana. Sandy, Montana.[...]Cora was born December 27, 1919. She lives in Idaho Falls I married Carol Pinkerton who was born in Bozeman. Her and has five children, Bill, Chuck, Dale, Sandy, and Nancy. Great Grandfather was a Captain in the Union Army during Nina May was bor[...]s S. Grant Pinkerton. They came to buried in the Willow Creek Cemetery. Montana by wagon train[...]Dad farmed while we were on the Lund place in Nigger of furniture which arrived in Montana on that same wagon Hollow and dur[...]llie . Carol is the daughter of Otto and used as a schoolhouse. It was called t•The Milligan School". I Helga Lappi Pinkerton who came to Montana in 1928 to work don't know how many others besides Frances and the William in the Yellowstone Park during the summer break from[...]my mother Grant, Colleen Rose, and Dan. All live in the Gallatin Valley looking for me and finding[...]cept for the oldest brother, Kenneth, who resides in Escon- dido, California.[...]bottom had never been reached. It was a round pool of water[...]with trees all around it. It was a real enticement for three little[...]girls to sit on the bank and dangle our feet in that nice cold My father, Dick Sikkenga, came to the United States about water on a hot afternoon; that is, until our mother found us 1908. He was born in Holland, June 27 , 1887. He came from doing that. I will always remember the spanking we got with a Holland either on a work ship or as a sailor. The ship landed in willow branch she broke off the tree to emphasize her point. I New York and he decided to stay in the United States. He don't remember ever doing that again. migrated west. He had a sister and brother-in-law, Mr. ~nd Mrs. John Karp, living in Montana. Both are deceased. Dick The Gil[...]there was a flash flood. A big wall of water came rushing down homesteaded a place north of Three Forks, Montana, where he[...]the creek taking everything in its way. Some of the Gilbert was a neighbor to John Smith, who also had a homestead. children were playing in the creek below us and how my There were several[...]f the way. They My mother, Erma Slate, was born in Bucanaan, Michigan, did, just in time.[...]Another time while we lived there, there was a grass fire Sikkenga families: Kenneth and Billy,[...]of a pile on what had been grass. Mother moved it with[...]were a lot of them. They loved to lay in our sand box. My dad put in a crop of peas but the grasshoppers cleaned him out[...]moved from there to the Stoddard place. It was a real nice[...]riest was my mother's sister. My uncle would have a big[...]Verwolf farm south of Manhattan. It had a big apple orchard.[...]Ann, Joe and Lenore. They all live in Fallon, Nevada.[...] |
| [...]Pat is married to Demis DuMont. They live on a ranch at couldn't stand up. There was a boiler of water on the cook stove Charlo, Montana. He is a game warden. They have five chil- and the water s[...]and seven grandchildren. the basement walls caved in. Harry was also born on that Bruce married Josie Suarez and has a business in Glendive, place February 4, 1926. He and his wife, Rilla, live in Spokane, Montana. They have three daughters and[...]ewis was born May 11, 1928. He and his wife lived in ancy married Dan Shepard. They live on a ranch out of Portland, Oregon. They had five chil[...]ldren and four grandchildren. 1981, and is buried in the Fairview Cemetery, Three Forks, Annette married Dave Cappetta and Ii ves in Downey, Montana. California. She works in a factory and he has a delivery busi- We moved to St. Maries, Idaho in April, 1929. We had a ness. They have four boys and one grandc[...]as Barbara married Charles Cramer. They live in Columbia far as St. Regis, Montana but the road over Lookout Pass was Falls where he is in the logging business. They have two closed becaus[...]y Sandy married Phil Scheffel and they live in Victor, Mon- dad went back to St. Regis after the[...]tana. They have three boys. He is foreman of a meat packing work while in St. Maries: railroading, logging, or whatever he[...]Ralph Curtis married Mardell Synder. They live in Ronan, Laura was born in St. Maries, March 7, 1930. She later Montana and have six children. He has a grocery store. moved to Montana and was married t[...], who is Earl is unmarried and lives in Butte where he builds picnic deceased. She has three children, Sharon, Emily, and Michael. tables in a workshop. She is presently living in Spokane, Washington. Cliff is married to Shanna Summers and lives in Jeffrey Richard was born March 22 , 1932. He moved to Montana City, Wyoming where he works in the Geology Department of and is married to Renee Billings of Harrison, Montana. Their a Uranium mine. They have two boys. children are Vi[...]nd David. They Wayne is single and lives in Paramount, California where moved to California in 1962 and are living in Beuna Park. he works in the bookkeeping and ordering department of a Kenneth was born in St. Maries, December 30, 1940. He parts house. lives in Gallatin Gateway with is wife , the former Betty[...]Fred Steingruber was born in 1870 in Germany to Christian ing, he went into the Real E[...]1878. They settled in North Dakota and lived there until 1910 My mother died May 21 , 1975. Both are buried in the Fair- when they moved to Camp Creek near[...]Carmen Heilman Barbara. In 1916 Fred came to Willow Creek and made his[...]Marie Hager was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1921 with her parents, Earhard and Marie Hager.[...]I, and Gretchen. Max and Gretchen attended school in married June 23, 1934. Seven children were born to them: Pat, Willow Creek for a time. At that time their mother and father Niles,[...]ndy, Ralph Curtis and Cliff. They lived in a house on the Fred Steingruber place. When they li[...]Fred and Marie were married in 1924 and lived at his ranch In 1947, they moved from Nigger Hollow to Hamilton, Mon- in the Milligan Canyon. He raised Angus cattle and then went tana where they engaged in ranching and moved to Ronan in into sheep during the hard times. They h[...]John, Walter, Herbert and Jeanette. In 1936 Fred died but In 1955, they adopted four children, Annette, Barbar[...]turned it over to her three sons in 1948. They are still in a Walt worked for a livestock shipping yard out of Ronan for par[...]Marie married Emil Kuchling in the late 1940's who had a Mary worked as a nurse for seven years and then started small son, Waldo. They moved to a ranch at Gallatin Gateway working as a bookkeeper. She retired as Clerk of the School and are now retired and living in Bozeman. Board in Charlo in 1976. John Steingruber lives on the home ranch in the house built Mary and Walt travel and have spent two winters in Quartz by his father. John was born in that house as were Walt, Herb Site, Arizona.[...]and Jeanette. Herb lives in Three Forks and drives back and Their son, Niles, is married to Dama Durrant and lives in forth each day. Walter and his family live near the ranch. Hudson, Wyoming. He is Superintendent of a mine in Phil- Jeanette lives in California. lipsburg, Montana. They have four children and one grand- Early in the 1900's Fred's sisters, Barbara and Marie, too[...]homesteads near his ranch and Ii ved there in the summer-[...] |
| time. In the wintertime they taught in rural schools all over born to this union. On[...]Montana. His parents also lived there wth him for a time. Young. They had no children. Orville Murle was born March Barbara used to tell a story of her homestead days. One time 6, 1914[...]ise Charallboise at Helena, Montana. she went for a walk and left the house door open and when she[...]Lee and Frederick Lyle Thomp- came back there was a rattlesnake in on the floor. When asked son. what she did, s[...]before moving to Milligan Canyon area in 1916 and renting a Louise[...]urle graduated from High gruber on the home ranch in Milligan Canyon. He grew up School. the[...]Herman Thompson, Burt's youngest brother, was a rancher army in May of 1945. He went overseas to Korea and wasn't in the Eureka District and was doing well raising wh[...]y his returned to the States. After spending time in a military luck in the same area. Another brother, Charles E. Thomps[...]artnership with his moved to the Eureka area a few years later. A sister, Ida, Mrs. brothers, John and Herb, to ope[...]He has Frank (Shorty) Johnston, also lived in the Milligan District. been in business there ever since.[...]en attended the Milligan Louise Foran was born in Butte to Lawrence and Edith School. I remember our first year there. I was the only one in Foran. She attended schools in Butte until returning to the the fourth grade so the teacher, Miss .Hazelton, put me in the Cardwell Basin area with her parents in the early 1940's. Her third grade class with[...]ather became ill and they moved around for awhile in an Willmore, Hollis Miller and Beatrice[...]s were real upset at my having to spend two years in one High School. She worked as a secretary for severl years and grade as I[...]ontana to work. my December birthday. In 1966 Walter and Louise were married at Idaho Falls, To me the school was a grand place. It was so different from Idaho. They[...]and Julie. instead of my own. In the school library, there was a set of Ranch life is not dull. One humorous th[...]e" books which were, I thought, just for was when a huge mother pig would get the urge to roam and[...]ay, I am constantly came to visit when they lived in a small but nice house on the reminded of facts[...]les from the school and we always have come right in the house. To get her home all that needed wa[...]Murle, our little brother who to be done was get in the car and call her and she would follow wasn'[...]binder was never put in the fields. THE BURTON THOMPSON FAMILY[...]our girls' hair, getting Murle (Babe) settling on a ranch north of Belgrade in 1862. dressed for school and then putting the kitchen in order. My Winnie E. White, wife of R. Burton Th[...]sweeping the floor aI}d feeding February 27, 1883 in Missouri and came to Bozeman, Mon- the[...]ve the car to get two blocks to school. Cleveland in Willow Creek on April 14, 1923. They had no[...]stayed at the Johnston home. Then they drove a one horse and John Scott Thompson. Scott died Jul[...]mes of competition, like spelling matches , races in December 16, 1908 married George Wise at Bozeman in 1938. mathematics and all were req[...] |
| lunches with each other. In the winter we often took potatoes, At grain[...]ng them on top of the big stove and covering with a heavy wagons, brought them as far as our place[...]so happy. There was work to be done, about 4 a.m. to start to town. Four to eight horses were hi[...]r young, did his or her share. The only to a wagon. entertainment was family gatherings, somet[...]e to cut ice. Dad and rams or neighbors visiting. In the winters there were neigh- Uncle Herm Tho[...]at the homes. All the members of each In winter, Saturday night dances were held in the homes. family would go. Not many had cars so[...]ought by the ladies food. Coffee was made in wash boilers. The kids came as there and such won[...]s and cakes were served with wasn't such a thing as a babysitter. When they got tired, they lots of hot[...]ll got together for picnics. Every music, usually a fiddler. The dancing went on for hours while Fourth of July was a big day. All went someplace to celebrate the very[...]h everyone went to Willow Older youngsters joined in the fun. Creek. Bal[...]and sack racing were I'm glad that I have lived in this century and seen both bad enjoyed. There was a Japanese uwork train" on the railroad. and good t[...]nor we them. Their little ones all, happiness is a way of living. loo[...]Our school, Eureka, served as a church. A minister came My pa.r ents, Charlie and Rose M[...]arried December 21, 1911. Their first home was on a home- and facts and on "Children's Day" th[...]and sang stead Rose filed on near Ennis, Montana in the Madison Val- songs. ley. They left ther[...]birth of most of the little ones in the area. Sometimes a doctor A daughter, Clara Genevieve, was born to them at th[...]ttle tike arrived. home of her grandfather, Dale. A son, Buford McKinley was One winter ni[...]quirements. On the half section, Dad was to erect a the adults came. The baby died. Mom and Lizzy prepared the house of not less than six rooms, a barn and other buildings baby for burial which was in Willow Creek. costing $1,500.00 and complete them in six months. Dad, Avey Mr. and Mrs. Sikken[...]and Mom's brother, George Dale, built the house; a a pump organ and harmonica. He made a frame which rested full basement, four rooms and a bath downstairs and two on her shoulders and held a harmonica close to her mouth so bedrooms upstairs. Dad had hot and cold water in the house by she could play both organ and harmonica. He played the putting a huge barrel in an upstairs bedroom. A pitcher pump violin. pumped water into the barrel. He fixed two pipes in the firebox My dad played the harmonica and violin by ear. One day, a on the stove so hot and cold water could run thro[...]iting from New Hampshire and was We always had a big pile of wood to use with coal for fuel. with Dad when he bought a harmonica. Someone asked how Dad hauled wood, cut[...]d for it. Dad said, uFour bits." Eff said, ttHe's a liar. was Buford's and my job to rick it. We ricked the wood in a I saw him give that man fifty cents." large[...]Europe, brought souvenirs back. He gave me a kupie doll[...]Mom churned and sold butter and eggs. Dad planted a big Burton, Charles, Ed, and Fred.[...]invited the Milligan School teacher and pupils to a party. In the cloak rooms, we put our clothes on backwards[...]After a Christmas vacation, the tree had been put[...] |
| [...]elma married Clarence Knowles and they have lived in the the buggy. The horse lunged. I lost one rein[...]f half of the gate . I braced my feet and lived in Anaconda during the Second World War. Freda mar- pulled on the rein. We missed a deep gully , made a sharp curve ried Floyd Schmitt and they have spent must of their married and crossed a narrow bridge before we reached Mrs. Wall's life near Three Forks. They lived a short time in Milligan yard and took off a gate post. I was thrown from the buggy and Canyon area until they lost their first-born, a little girl , by a the step of the buggy rested on my stomach. The h[...]nake bite. Keith married Frances Chisholm and for a his harness and headed for home . The teacher and[...]ozeman and other localities. coming, he jumped on a horse and came, lifted the buggy and He[...]e Willow Creek and had made plans to build a home there, but and the one at the school. she suffered a severe heart attack and a few months later, Clyde was born in Nigger Hollow November 1924, a twin. September 15, 1946, a stroke , so those plans were never com- The mate died. A ballot was brought and Mom voted in bed. pleted. Her death came on March 1,[...]ome place, raising grain, cattle Gallatin Valley; a sad move for me and Dad. The dry years and and sometimes a few hogs. In the fall of 1974, he sold the old closing the bank in Willow Creek necessitated the move . Dad ho[...]e had stayed. live in .the house until Spring. He became ill in January with My father left us in 1969. Mother is living and in good the flu and was hospitalized in Bozeman for a few days. By the health at 92 years.[...]and in July, he was taken back to the hospital. He spent[...]last year of his life in the Extended Care Facility at the HERMA[...]n at Chestnut, Montana on May 8, 1889. They lived in the Bozeman-Belgrade area where Tamsy and Eula were born. In the Spring of 1912, they homesteaded in the Milligan KEITH AND' FRANCES THOMPSON Canyon area, living in a little two room log cabin unt il their Keith Orvis Thompson was born at the family home in the new house was completed in 1916. Eunice , Velma, Freda and Milligan[...]March 3, 1926, son of Herman and Keith were born in the Milligan Canyon area. H[...]the eighth grade and then attended High School in Three Tamsy and Eula attended High School in Willow Creek, Mrs. Forks and Bozeman, Mo[...]married Frances Chisholm and went to High School in Willow Creek, Montana, Mrs. Conklin went[...]r to Bozeman where The Herman Thompsons bought a Shetland mare for the he spent a year selling insurance. They returned to the Mil-[...]Area and ranched until 1957. They returned to In the fall of 1923, Herman moved Hattie and the gir[...]eith worked at the Trident Cement Plant Whitehall in order for Tamsy to attend High School. A little until 1960. They moved to Anaconda w[...]ildren, Tina daughter, Emily, was stillborn there in December. A measles and Timothy, where Keith worked at[...]em. Tamsy developed bronchitis and was on a ranch in the vicinity of Willow Creek, Montana. After failing fast. Dr. Blair in Bozeman said a change of climate was this, he worked at vario[...]bs around Montana. essential for her recovery; so in August 1924, the family They moved to Havre, Montana where he worked at a service moved to Anaheim, California. There was n[...]to be station. At one time the family lived in Miles City, Montana. found there and with a large family to support, they moved In August 1971, they moved to Bozeman where they lived back to Montana in march 1925 to the homestead west of u[...]Frances Chisholm was born May 9, 1927 in Renton, during these few months in California. Washingto[...]f Dan and Christina Chisholm. Herman's brother in Ennis kept the ponies while the family Her mother died when Frances was three years old and was in California. Because the ponies were used to being Frances spent the next seven years in an orphanage in Re- ridden by only girls, they didn't like boys.[...]for riding, one pony, especially, would was a sheep herder and she lived with various families in that try to bite them until it heard their voices. Then, when Keith area while attending schools in Harrison, Ennis, and Virginia joined the family in 1926, the ponies did learn to tolerate boys City, Montana. a little better. In 1960, Frances went to Minneapolis, Minnesota to attend Tamsy and Eula attended Normal College in Dillon, Mon- a school for the blind, returning to Bozeman in 1961. For the tana and taught school before their[...]t seventeen years, she operated concession stands in Miles ried Owen Davis and they lived in the Milligan Canyon area City, Havre and Bozeman, Montana. for sixteen years before moving to a ranch near Willow Creek. On April 2, 1978, Frances married Harold Atkins in Las Eula married Albert (Bud) Hersey and they lived in the Vegas, Nevada and moved to Helena[...]s. Eunice married worked with her husband in his business until her death Henry. Raffety and they, too, lived in the Milligan Canyon November 1980. area f[...]low Creek. Daughter, Tina, was born in Bozeman May 25, 1948 and[...] |
| lived at the ranch until 1953. She then spent a year in Three in the family. At the time of this writing, Zena Tri[...]only surviving member of this family. Martin died in She returned to the ranch in 1954 and attended the Eureka 1918 during[...]en they moved back to Three serving overseas in Belgium in the 316th Ammunition Train Forks, then to Anaconda and finally , in 1960, back to the in World War I. Bill died in Bozeman, November 6, 1973 and is Milligan Canyon Area to finish the seventh grade at t he buried in Three Forks. Eureka School. Over the next six y[...]Tribble married Katherine Cotter from Anaconda. in Trident, Bozeman, Miles City and Dillon, Montana until Katherine was a native of Park county and lived in the Jar- graduating from high school in Broadus, Montana in 1966. dine area until 1906. Her father and mother were Timothy Tina married Dennis Richards in 1967 and after he finished and Mary Sweeney Cotter. Katherine graduated from Dillon airlines school in Kansas City , Missouri , they moved to[...]marck, North Canton and three years in the Maudlow area before her mar- Dakota and Missoula, Montana where he was stationed as a riage. They were married May 16, 1918 in the &asary Church Transportation Agent with Nor[...]l's cousin, and his Tina returned to Broadus in 1972 and has worked in the brother, Martin. Bill was home on a farm furlough from Camp area as a meat cutter, manager of a Supper Club and is pres- Lewis, Washington and within two weeks after their mar- ently working for a local doctor as a Laboratory Technician. riage, Bill was shipped overseas. After a year he returned and She has four children: Shawn (15), Ron (11), and Vikki (10), they lived in the Dry Creek area and ranched part time in Richards and Amos Williams (4).[...]Son, Timothy Lawrence, was born November 25, 1950 in events for Bill and Kate . They bought the Chidester ranch in Bozeman, Montana. He attended High School in Havre, Mon- Nigger Hollow and adopted a baby daughter, Katherine tal).a where he lived till 1969 when he moved to Broadus[...]oyce. Three years later they moved three miles to a ranch Montana and worked in the Bell Creek and Ranch Creek Oil that had been homesteaded by Bill's brother-in-law, Alonzo Fields. He was drafted into the Army in February 1970 and Gastineau. They lived o[...]0 when he was shipped to Viet Nam where he served in the years before branching ~out into cattle[...]The grain crops were wheat, oats and barley. In the early returned to Bozeman where his parents lived. In September days the oats were used for hay and harvested with a binder 1973, Tim moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and[...]and truck locally for the Home Lumber Company. In February eventually put into stacks of hay to be fed out to livestock in 1982, he was made Yard Foreman for that compan[...]sion years of the 30's, Bill currently employed in that position. He is an elder in the worked on a road crew, along with most of the men in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints[...]ad. He was Tim is single and plans to remain in the Las Vegas area . instrumental in establishing the old Farmers Home-Owned[...]RANDOLPH TRIBBLE In 1940, their second child, Larry Norman, was adopt[...]out of Belgrade, Montana. There were in 1951 and worked there with the Tribbles and Larry[...]Dirk and Gertrude Visser were born in Holland but were not[...]married in 1891 and Dirk became a United States citizen in[...]Two sons were born to Dirk and Gertrude Visser in Mas- sachusetts; Joe in 1893 and Clarence in 1896. The family moved to Manhattan in 1906 where Dirk built a[...]Clarence planted are still growing in the yard. Clarence and[...]Joe attended school in Manhattan. The family moved to the[...]homestead near Shoddy Springs in Nigger Hollow where the[...] |
| [...]trude Visser. so the Vissers and W atsons strung a line on the wire fence to |
| fourteen dollars a head; 450 lb. calves sold for $3.50 a hundred. daugher of Henry and Anna Millhouse Cr[...]l stayed with Minnie's Wayne Kraxberger and lives in Las Vegas. sister, Ber[...]e College of Great Falls before entering the in her home. Miss Hanks had a homestead near Bertha's Service. After graduating[...]Hill briefly and moved to them. Dale now resides in Las Vegas where he is Deputy the Townsend area in about 1914 where the children were Assessor of Clark County. He married Peggy Feldman in raised and went to school. 1973.[...]and his mother, Esther Wall, bought the home- In 1967, Clarence married Hazel Sleeman of Whitehall and stead and horses. they resided in the Lloyd Murphy home in Three Forks until Minnie died October 1922 at Townsend and Richard died his death March 5, 1980 in the Deaconess Hospital in Boze- June 1959 in Bozeman, Montana. man.[...]TRAVEL IN THE 1800's ESTHER WALL[...]them, so it was hard to leave them. Jay served in the army during World War I. Lucy was the baby, not two years old. I took her in my arms Mary and Luther LaRue were married in 1916 and lived in and kissed her good-bye, she just clung to me, I can almost feel the home in the area that Luther bought after selling his her[...]visit Henry's Esther and Jay continued to live in the Milligan Canyon sister, Mary Scheytt and fami[...]Area until her daughter took her to live with her in Idaho. then on to St. Louis, but on our way down[...]ed to Three Forks where he was at the time of his a station, I do not remember the name and brought a nine death.[...]Henry Wall to Montana to her parents. She was a great comfort and helped[...]PRATT WALL leaving for a week. I wanted to go back to Clarksville for a few[...]the The people who owned the boat were out on a pleasur trip.[...]I pieced a quilt, made two sheets and two pillow ca es, all[...]It was a very nice boat and they named it Osceola an India[...]name. We had our meals three times a day and our bunk room,[...]that was what they called it, just a small plac one bed above[...]the other, no room for a chair. But we had a large dining room to sit in which was very nice and they had a piano too.[...]Mrs. Flowers, the Captain's wife , was a wonderful player[...]and inger and sometimes we would all join in.[...]The day before we wer in th Indian country, th[...]B nton. I did not hav ny idea w would have such a long[...] |
| The river was quite low in some places. We were three and a It was about the first of November when we[...]half days on one sand bar and lots of times just a few hours. I Dillon and it was 15 degrees below z[...]places. Believe me, when trip home. We drove only in the middle o;the day so did not get we got on tho[...]hunt for old clothes and very far. We bundled up in the bottom of the covered wagon to get out there[...]urn home and after that I never was We stopped a lot at wood camps to put on wood. At one place homesick as before. In 1890, Bertha and I went back. She was there was a woman standing at a cabin, so some of us went and a year old and we went on the train from Bozeman. talked with her. She asked us to come in and see a five day old My last trip was in 1900. I took Lester with me. baby. She said we we[...]on, Minnie Crouse Wall and ceola. We all gave her a little money for the baby. Th~y looked Walter Cro[...]fore they set out on the first journey. We saw a lot of Indians and wild animals and they were wi4I, did not get much of a chance to get a good look at them. We certainly were a happy bunch when we got to Fort CARROLL 0. WATSON Benton. We got in early enough that day to start on our[...]homeward journey. We were eight days coming home in a Watson, was born at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and covered wagon; slept in the wagon and did our cooking on Mrs. George D. T[...]eal good great aunt, Cordelia Lewis, emerged from a _bedroom that about it. Of course we did a lot of bragging about what good morning, she said[...]on them and washed dishes, no little." He weighed in at 6 lb. 12 oz. He grew to be 6 foot tall and not dishes, tin cups and plates. We had a lot of fun and it 200 pounds. seemed good to be o[...]the mountains. He said, ((Oh, no, we are two and a half grew up at Shoddy Springs, where his brother[...]June 24, 1877 and a half miles north of the Eureka School. They lived three In 1880, the 15th of June, I decided to go back to C[...]Shoddy Springs before mov- to make my dear folks a visit for I did not think I could stand it any lo[...]Henry took Mrs. Matthew and the children and me in the covered wagon to Fort Benton where we took th[...]they left their teams and wagons and walked home. A week later they went back and got them as they needed their horses; did not have any too many in those days. We had a very pleasant boat trip, only one bad scare. We were all out in the open getting weighed and it was quite warm. I had Fred in my arms and he fell over and looked so pale I thought he was gone, but there was a doctor on the boat. He said Fred would be all rig[...]s girls had Fred most of the time, but Lizzie was a nuisance. No one could take her or do anything fo[...]all, Illinois about the first of July, then hired a man to take us to Clarksville. I had planned t[...]ome. I was glad Henry came for me as there was a train accident and I needed his help with the two children. The people in the seat ahead ofus were hurt and one boy[...] |
| ing in 1915 to the Shoddy Springs home. From there he an[...]k or went by orthwest Air College in Spokane after which she worked for horse and bugg[...]three years. On January 15, 1960 she Carroll was in the 4th grade, the family lived in Three Forks, married Monte Parker, on of F[...]orks. They have At Shoddy Springs, Grover made a swimmif!g hole using three sons, Ski[...]happy hours were Parker. spent swimming in the summer and skating on the acres of[...]Mildred Watson wamp land in the winters. When he was old enough, Carroll helped his father farm. He was ten years old when he plowed a twenty acre field with GROVER CLEVELAND WATSON three horses and a sulky plow. Grover C. Watson was born in Somerset, Kentucky Feb. 17, In the fall of 1924, the family moved to the former home of 1885. He came to Montana in 1901 with his parents, John the Alonzo Gastineau family , a half mile from the Eureka Harrison and Ellen Watson, and his sisters. They settled in School. Carroll graduated from the eighth grade t[...]he bus. stayed in Old Town. He was unhappy with Montana and said Carroll was always fond of horses and did a lot of riding over when he became twenty-one[...]ays. Kentucky. But he met Brackie Mae , a lovely <laugher of the G. His uncle said that Car[...]bble family , and changed his mind. horse to ride a mile and a half. In 1908, Grover and Brackie Tribble were married in Boze- In the late twenties and early thirties, there were still wild man in a double wedding ceremony that included Brackie's horses in the area and one of the biggest thrills in Carroll's life sister, Effie, and Alonzo Gastin[...], look- Brackie attended ormal School in Dillon, Montana a short ing for 'slicks", their name for unbranded horses. They cap- time and began a term teaching in an upper Dry Creek school tured several. Carroll caught and broke a special gray stallion but married before fi[...]hirty-two years old and They lived for a time in the Dry Creek area , then moved to a got so gentle that Carroll's children and others[...]ee Forks, later known as the Sloan place. on him. In the thirties they started killing horses for dog food , After a year or two they homesteaded close to Shoddy Spri[...]22 , 1937, Carroll and Mildred Berry were married in Deer Lodge, Montana by Rev. Reagan. Mildred was t[...]hter ofLoumus and Alma Martin Berry. She was born in Princeton, Minnesota and moved with her family to[...]arroll and Mildred lived on the Pete Dawson ranch in the orth Boulder Valley for five years. While there, a daughter, Lenita Patricia, was born at the Murray Hospital in Butte, Nearest neighbors were George and Edna Daw[...]f 1942 on the Little Pipestone west of Whitehall. A son Carroll Martin, was born September 7 1942 in Dr. Hill's Hospital in Whitehall. The family of four spent the winter of 1942-43 in Butte, Montana where Carroll was on the Military Police force guarding the mines. In the spring, they moved to the Edwin Gravatt place in Nigger Hollow, which was owned by his uncle , Wil[...]to the Eureka School about three miles away . In 1949 they rented the Luther LaRue place and eventually bought it. In 1961 they acquired the Grover Watson ranch where they still live after retiring in 197 4. At this time , Martin came home from Kalispell, Montana where he worked in a supermarket as a meat cutter and took over the farming and range[...]High School at- tended Northern Montana College in Havre Montana and the Rocky Mountain School of Meat Cutting in Denver Colorado. On July 9, 1977, Marti[...] |
| [...]he house built there by Tom Young and his father in 1905. The building, which was built of rail- road bridge timbers, is still standing in good condition. They lived there until 1924, when[...]vacated home of the Alonzo Gastineau family about a half mile from the Eureka School. Grover bought Brackie a piano before moving to Shoddy Springs and for man[...]sang for church services at the Eureka School. In 1930, Grover and his son, Carroll, put up hay at Mrs. Pike's place in Garden Gulch north of Manhattan near Lom- bard. Mrs. Pike had gone to stay in Bozeman so they batched in her lovely house . The surroundings were beautiful with trees, a creek and mountains back of the house. They took a[...]ing machine , rake and pitch fo r ks with them on a Em igh . hayrack. A team, Pigeon and Queen, and a saddle horse, Moonshine, traveled the fifty mile[...]Stabilizaiton and Conservation Service (ASCS) for a number of years. To this union were born four[...]prings home, October 19, 1915. Genevieve was born in the Three Forks Hospital , April 26 , 1918 and Ma[...]hoddy Springs, June 2, 1921 , with Carrie Gravatt in attendance.[...]ll , John and Genevieve walked, rode horseback or in a buggy the two and half miles to Eureka[...]here. Carroll went to the Three Forks school when in the fourth grade and attended High School there.[...]JOHN D. WATSON FAMILY from High School in Cardwell , Montana. Genevieve J[...]years. Mary Mary Ellen there, and two and a half miles south of there Ellen graduated from th[...]igh School. where his family moved in 1924. He attended rural Eureka Carroll and Mildred Berry were married in 1937 and have School where he graduated fro[...]n Island and John and Esta Sallee were married in 1940. Their children lived with the Arthur S[...]graduated from Cardwell High School in 1933. After gradua- Genevieve and Terry Murphy were married in 1941. Their tion, he lived on the family[...]er of Mary Ellen and Keith Jensen were married in 1939. To them1 Orville and Stella Sallee, wer[...]tson tended Willow Creek Schools and graduated in 1938. Before[...]her marriage~she worked at the Sacajawea Inn in Three Forks[...]attended the Townsend Beauty School in Billings, Montana. Andy Waters homesteaded west[...]farmed and Esta up next to the_mountains. He did a lot of prospecting. The taught at the rura[...]still be seen. He sold his place to 1942-1943. In 1953 they moved to Three Forks, Montana.[...] |
| [...]1955 in Bozeman, Montana.[...]Darleen graduated from Three Forks High School in 1958 and attended Montana State College in Bozeman for one year.[...]She worked for the Billings Gazette in Billings, Montana and[...]for the telephone compnay in Three Forks prior to her mar-[...]He gradauted from Whitehall High School in 1981 and is[...]Montana, and will be a Junior at Whitehall High School.[...]Darleen drove a Whitehall school bus for 4 years and in[...]Allen graduated from Three Forks High School in 1963. He[...]n Valley were married November 9, 1962. They live in[...]on her father's birthday, April 16, 1963 in Bozeman, Montana,[...]and graduated from Powell County High School in 1981. She works as a nurse's aide at Powell County Memorial Hospital[...]in Deer Lodge. Rick was born November 23, 1964 in Bozeman, Montana and will be a Junior at Powell County High School.[...]Gravel in Deer Lodge, where he is now employed. Susan was[...]employed by Anthony's Department Store in Deer Lodge until Esta and John D. Watson - 25th a[...]Diana graduated from Three Forks High School in 1973 and Two children were born to them during their years on the Bozeman Vo-Tech in 1974. She lives in Helena, Montana, ranch. Darleen was born August 11, 1941, in Whitehall, Mon- where she is employed as an A[...]the State tana and Allen was born April 16, 1945 in Whitehall, Mon- Department of Health and En[...]s John managed the city dray service and drove a Three Forks Hospital. Funeral services were held July 8, 1978 at the First school bus for 23 years. He was a Three Forks volunteer Baptist Church of T[...]Cemetery. the fire department. He also served as a city alderman for Esta still resides in Three Forks and is employed at the Etc. several y[...]ll types of craft Esta worked at Johnston Drug in Three Forks for several work. years. In 1968, she and John purchased the Gambles Store in[...]tson, Kathy John Harrison Watson was born in Kentucky, May 8, 1836. Watson,DarleenAllen, Esta[...]and Rick Watson. Ellen was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky on February[...]a member of that church for about six years after w[...]er membership to the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Pulaski County. She remained a member of this church for[...]Twelve children were born to John and Ellen in Kentucky:[...] |
| [...]1973. John and Ellen came to Belgrade, Montana in 1901 with all their children except for Cyrenius[...]o married George William Gastineau and re- mained in Kentucky. They lived in the Dry Creek area where Grover and Frances atten[...]with the Baptist Church at Dry Creek and remained a member of that church until her death on May 8, 1909. Her funeral was in charge of undertaker Safely of Boze- man . It was[...]conducted by Rev . Hardy of Livingston , Montana, a dear friend of the fam- ily . He was assisted by Rev. Hoyt of Manhattan, Montana. Interment was in the Manhattan Cemetery where a son, An- drew Jackson was buried in 1907.[...]Three Forks Herald, John H . Watson returned from a six month's trip , most of the time being spent at his old home in Somerset, Kentucky . He visited friends and relatives in Iowa , North Carolina, Texas , Kansas and Missouri. In January 1918, he had a very successful sale and made plans to live with[...]arrison Watson died August 5, 1921 and was buried in the Manhattan Cemetery.[...]born September 7, 1942 at Doctor Hill's Hospital in Whitehall , Montana. He lived with his parents an[...]a, on the ranch of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Berry, west of Cameron Martin and Jilli[...]Martin attended Northern Montana College in Havre , Mon- they moved to the ranch in Nigger Hollow formerly owned by tana and Rocky Mountain School of Meat Cutting in Denver, Edwin and Carrie Gravatt. In 1949, he moved with his family Colorado, after which he worked as a meat cutter in super- to the former Luther LaRue ranch. markets in Kalispell , Montana for seven years. Martin often rode his horse to the Eureka School where he In March 197 4, Martin came home to run the ranch af[...]aduated from the Wil- father's retirement. In May, 1975 he remodeled the LaRue low Creek High School. In 1961, he moved with his family to house an[...]herrill Lagerstedt were times he worked at the GT A elevator and the Kanta Block married in the Lone Mountain Soldiers Chapel in the Gallatin Plant in Three Forks.[...] |
| [...]and Shandra Logerstedt of My father bought a large water tank and it was placed upon Three Forks. After graduating from the Three Forks schools, a tower. Our well was a good one and we kept the tank full of she was employed by Dr. E. E. Bertagnolli in his Three Forks water to use to irrigate our garden. The well pump had a office. pump-jack for a gas engine . This garden kept us alive during In the summer of 1980, Martin and Sherrill had a slaughter- our stay in Nigger Holler. Then World War I came and every- ing and meat processing plant built near their home and, in thing went from bad to worse. We gave up everything to September, began a successful meat processing business in Jefferson County and moved back to the Ga[...]many thousands of dollars in debt. Later on I could have Their two children[...]E. C. AND IVY WOODWARD Bill Weaver was not a homesteader but he lived in the Eugene Charles Woodward was born[...]illigan Canyon area for many years. He worked for A. J. low Creek to A. J. and Nancy L. Woodward. He grew to man- Gastin[...]years and for Dennis Duncan. He was hood in Willow Creek and attended Montana State College. caught in a blizzard while hunting elk near Jardine and froze Gene was a merchant and rancher. He died April 1, 1940. his[...]Brown- had to be amputated. After that, he lived in Manhattan until stown , Indiana, to Joseph a[...]came a school teacher and taught one year at Asotin,[...]and Ivy were married April 6, 1906, and lived on a CARROLL WILLMORE[...]Willow Creek for two years before moving to the In the area of one-half to one mile of Shoddy Spring Creek, Cardwell Basin area where they each had a homestead. Here my father, Carroll Willmore, homesteaded a one-hundred- they raised six children:[...]who is deceased. I remember living in a two room house. This was about 1909 Gene w[...]s. The post to 1913. The place was fenced and had a well for water, and meeting all the legal requirements to "prove up" on a home- Ivy and Eugene Wood w[...]e then moved back up into the Gallatin Valley for a time of approximately three years or until 1916.[...]crops and my father wanted to farm his own land. In about 1916 he bought another one-hundred-sixty ac[...]south of his homestead. There wasn't much to live in, only a one-roomed shanty. Then my father and an uncle mo[...]om the homestead over to the new place. There was a spring and plenty of stock water on this place. W[...]ore. The number to each family ranged from one to a half-dozen, which made up a pretty large school. We went to church at the E[...]n Sundays. The minister's name was Brother Finch, a Baptist . It was about a ten mile drive to church and it had to be real ba[...]The going everywhere we went was with horses and a buggy or wagon. My father and I worked like the dickens getting sage brush off the ground in preparation to seeding the crop. In that day we used all the horses we had hooked to a sulky plow (not more than six) to pull the sage brush out of the ground. We used a dump hay rake to windrow the brush so we could bu[...]crops never came for us and all the time we lived in Nigger Holl r we hardly got our seed back.[...] |
| office was in their home and continued until it's close in 1936. Because of the long hard winters they we[...]I was quite small my grandfather helped me build a one-horse cart. The first person I took for a ride was Aunt Ivy and we hadn't gone too far when[...]gle, caught by Carroll Watson from the wild bunch in[...]1935. Shoddy Springs House built by Tom Young in 1905.[...]- Fall 1920. Bertha Crouse 's homestead cabin in the Milligan Canyon |
| [...]F THE NORTH BENCH and a mile north of the present Pete Vandolah Ranch. The We are including in the North Bench, the area from Barron Frank[...]Mockel dated with the Three Forks district in 1916. Eric Anderson ranch and west past the Lee H[...]horse-drawn school bus from this district. It had a the area known as Stoney Loney in the Cooney Park area. coal stove in it. During the winter, Charlie Martin would rise These homesteaders did most of their shopping in Three early and build the fire in the bus. He was paid 10 cents per Forks. Although[...]any of the 160 The Wheatland School, built in 1916, was attended by the acre homesteads. It was[...]Diest and the Hahns. It was often used as a church for Sunday As settlers became more numer[...]pied log cabins were used at during the week. A community hall was later erected. This first.[...]e trustees at the Wheatland School Haskell Ranch. A quit claim deed was signed May 15, 1911 by[...]ard H. Diest. Ella Wise was clerk. Currier, a single man, deeding an acre of ground to trustees[...]the school board at the Wheatland District No. 18 in Broadwater County. The trustees of the Sc[...]me were Grant Smith, Samuel Haughtaling, A. B. Riddle, Lloyd Ranous, Grover Scollard, W. Cro[...]g this school were the Haskell boys Boyd was a Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt. Wheatland and t[...]nrow children. Mrs. Ruth Jenkins closed in 1932. In 1932-33 the pupils attended school in Boul- remembers the Gustine brothers playing for[...]ith The Happy Valley School was built in 1917. Children who Methodist Church youth groups[...]eorge Priest children - Loretta, with Three Forks in 1916. Pau[...]elen The Valley View School was organized about a mile west and Nathan Frost; the R[...] |
| [...]- The Grant Smith School 1913-14. Wyatt Haskell in back row,[...]ilding was moved to the Radersburg area. Teachers in the Happy Valley School sometimes did not stay too long. In a short period of time all The organ from the[...]earthly shore, The Wilson School was built about a mile south of McIntire. Was dispensed across the counter William McIntire opened a store at his farm in November, Of the quaint old country st[...]ens, flour, feed and produce and farm implements. A Gathered to discuss the crops, post offic[...]scontinued And the children's hoarded pennies in 1917.[...]emory brings the gray-haired owner I have shopped in London, Paris,[...]In the dim old country store. Boston, Denver, and[...]On the antiquated scales, As it did in days of yore. And the village waited weekly When I bought a stick of candy[...] |
| [...]ran from there to Three Forks and handled a few passengers,[...]one time, a stagecoach stop); Rettig; Ditz Davis; Nettie Di-[...]mock and her sons; A.M.G. Otto; the Sloan brothers; Joe Han-[...]kinson; Campbell; Mr. and Mrs. Nave (settled in the 1880's);[...]From Lyle Wise: "The antelope were in abundance in the early 1900's. They were a part ofmy life as I was growing up.[...]More recent owners, who aren't included in histories, are: Hung the slate that held the s[...]mp; Leonard and Paul Doran; Dale Forkvord; Don In the good old country store.[...]inesses close to the 1-90 Interchange are the K.O.A. And the butter and molasses[...]hey seemed. Steer In Supper Club. Oh! the world would be the better,[...]'Rattlesnake Rattlers'. This poem was written by a Rattle- Like the dear old country store. snake Rattler in 1910: Heinie Mockel, Ed Bellach and Lyle Wise[...]We'll cheer up. names of farmers and homesteaders in the North Bench area. And don't look so gl[...]r crop Midwest and were sold on the Homestead Act in 1910. This We'll certainly have some fun[...]hey were given three Just tell your friends in the east, boys, years in which they were to improve; building homes, barns[...]1968 and the present time. There are eight homes in man. These conditions existed for all of those pe[...]nded up on open There are two other homes in this area along the Jefferson range".[...]that are not included in this group. These were the first two Some of t[...]Families or individuals who have lived in Jefferson Acres Creek School); Bob and Frank Mars[...]Des- BARRON AND EUSTIS: Barron was a siding on the Mil- Champ; Rogers; Hadley Morrison[...]Parr. They had three of those and established in 1915 and closed in 1974. Tom Lile and his immense equipment: plows,[...]y and the Fisk and Drogitis families lived there. A school ery. On a hillside nearby there was lettering made ofrocks[...]ch No. 1); Rice; Oliver Cromwell Plunkett (he was a little English gentleman on the remittance idea from Britain; later became a stage mailman from his CO[...]Plunkett's Lake. He Mary E. Hopping wrote in the Sept. 1, 1916 edition of the[...] |
| [...]A. W. Paul and George Lea began working a silver mine,[...]original shaft in the Green Eagle continued to yield good ore to[...]a de~th of 35 feet where again the ore petered out, plus a[...]nother shaft called the Burlington. They also dug a drift in a slanting angle in the Green Eagle to a depth of 65' where[...]man:y bank failures , their wealth was safer in the ground.[...]an expanding description of the A1~.telope , but Barrett and Shaw forced the Antelope into litig- mines worked in an area six miles north of Three Forks. The at10n. In 1884 Bennett attempted to get financial backers in first mine, known as the Green Eagle , was discov[...]am, Judge Gallaher, Mr. Tate and other mining men in Quit~ some time later G. W. and Jack T[...]orced them to quit. Later their Seaman who traced a 1000 foot lead. In a gulch north of the claims were subject to[...]ventually the two shaft they had sank, they found a boulder of copper quartz Thorne brothers[...]and Carl measuring six feet high and twenty feet in circumference. Samples chipped off this boulder were assayed at 300 in gold S. Hopping reclaimed the Green Eagle and Burlington. For a per ton. third interest in the mines Thomas Dunn of Three Forks[...]eaman was the only one experien.ced sites. in mining, and he erred in that he thought the ore could be followed from the surface as was done in Utah. But in Mon- Thomas S. Spivey of c ·i ncinnati gave them $5000 with a tana the lead must reach permanent water where th[...]more if mines paid out. He withdrew his interest in portion of the ore will come in, due to leachiiig. Consequently a the mines and refused to furnish any more capit[...]was sunk on top of the hill above the boulder to a depth of failed to produce as much ore as he thought necessary. In 1905 20 feet where the ore petered out.[...]formed the Three Forks Mining This work began in 1880 when J. 0. Hopping bed.ll)e in- Co. in the month of December 1906. terested in the Copper City mines. After several other fruit-[...]oulder The other mines, still operating in 1916, had also changed and dig an ore chute thirt[...]located by grade ore, causing much excitement. As a result of this discov- Tyler McLees, the silver mine, from which $5000 in silver ore ery more claims were staked out for mi[...]Parks, was sold to an English Company operating in Three Copper City in the early 1900's. The Dunbar Mine.[...]FORKS HERALD, wrote an article in 1975 which compared[...]winters when it lies dormant until a springtime of new inves-[...]Remittance Company, sold its interest in the iron mine to the[...]dered constructing a smelter at Three Forks to handle the ores[...]newed activity in the mines by the Mendos Mining Co. A[...]ore _through a chemical process, but finally abandoned thefr[...]tod~y Copper City, scarred by a number of budding at-[...]tempts, hes dormant, awaiting the spring of a more successful[...] |
| rebirth of activity." In this year of lSci::S, with gold still worth over[...]s, son of Charles E. Adams; born August 28_, 1878 in Independence, Iowa, died October, 1946 in San Jose, California. First ranch Earl Adams lived on in the North Bench area. Ethel L. Gustine, wife of Earl Adams, born in Roches- ter, Minnesota, died August, 1929 in East Helena, Montana. went back to Rochester, Min[...]Son - Avery Archer Adams, born September 15, 1904 in and worked for a grain elevator. Rochester, Minnesota, died January, 1978 in Bozeman, Mon- Earl left the ranch in 1919 and worked for the Milwaukee tana.[...]Railroad as stationary engineer in Miles City. Then he worked Son - Francis Earl Adams, born February 26, 1906 in at the Trident cement plant as a mechanic. In 1921 he went to Rochester, Minnesota, died April 28, 1974 in Ruidoso, New East Helena and worked as stationary[...]gh- Son - Percy Fay Adams, born March 29, 1907 in Rochester, ter. He was struck by a hit-and-run driver and died October, Minnesota.[...]Son - Kenneth Epharum Adams, born March 28, 1908 in Earl helped move the original Sacaja[...]om Old Rochester, Minnesota, died October 4, 1908 in Rochester, Town Three Forks to its' present locat[...]ghter - Valda Marie Adams, born September 1, 1909 in the front part of the hotel as it presently stand[...]s wife, Three Forks, Montana, died March 16, 1914 in Three Forks, Fannie, had a permanent three-room suite in the Northeast Montana.[...]ere , Son - Roy Lee Adams, born April 27, 1911 in Three Forks, only had it for when she came to visit. Montana, died June 11, 1913 in Three Forks, Montana. An interesti[...]Daughter - Beatrice Adams, born January 6, 1915 in Three lived there we hauled our water for stock and home use four Forks, Montana, died in 1980 in Chino Valley, Arizona. miles from Spring Creek. We drilled a well approximately 130[...]ere watching when the drill bit Earl Adams, as a young man, worked in New York harbor broke through a cavern. The cavern was deep enough that on a tug boat. Later helped his father in the flour mills in when the driller let the bit down it must have tipped over. I South Dakota. In 1909 he came to Three Forks, Montana and don't re[...]ver getting the bit out. From this drill lived on a section of railroad land that J. Q. Adams was hole came a very cold updraft in the daytime and at night the promoting for the Ch[...]tion 10-T 3N, RIE. Received an old ice chest, cut a hole in the bottom and set it over the well patent number[...]ld chum the butter, then put Gustine, homesteaded in the same area. These homesteads buttermilk in the cooler. We made a large sign "cool butter- were on the North Bench approximately half way between milk, 5 cents a glass". The Yellowstone Glacier buses would Three[...]was ripe. I recall one time when Dad was binding a wheat field and I thought maybe I should write about a family that took up Mother told me to take Dad out a drink of water. I thought I homesteading[...]The wheat was hundred sixty acres each and built a house on the three . The much taller than I and I got lost for a couple of hours, had some very bad years and also some very good years, in rambling around until I came out at the edge of the field again. 1919, they had a fairly good year crop. They sold the ¾ of a Got another pants warmer. section land for a fairly good price and bought a small irri-[...]on the lower Madison Valley. I think maybe 160 In those days the farmers burned all the stubble and[...]the moldboard plows. The results put nothing back in the soil and decisions, and generally bad ones, went out and bought a large continued plowing left a hard pan so moisture could not go herd of cattle, something over 100 head. On the cattle drive , deep in the soil and it just played out. Then along came cut bringing them home, met a very successful man by the nam worms one year, gr[...]erd, most of the homesteaders left. Earl also had a steam engine and Jim would take them off of his h[...]em home, and they broke the Block family as w had a than we did. Her father and brother, Lee, did carpenter work very hard winter in 1920 and hay got to be fifty dollars p r ton and built many houses in Three Forks. They, all but Harry , on th sid track in Logan or Thre Forks from North Dakota -[...] |
| slough grass hay that there was no food value in, and a cow Brown. He married Martha Elizabeth Suverly in 1881 in would starve to death on it. So the spring of 1920, the Blocks Knox City , Mo. loaded a box car with their household goods and what they After losing 4 of their 9 children in North Dakota, the wanted to take with them, including a team of horses, and set family with the five[...]the youngest John out for Three Lakes, Washington in Snohomish County. Bill <<Jack'; Edward being about 6 months old, headed for the West had a job working for the Three Lakes logging and Sawmi[...]the oldest girl Harriet «Hattie" lumber to build a house and started to pay for the land and Clementine, age 16, was in charge of the wagon with the lumber on contract, paying a part of his check each month. household t[...]other wagon with the family and they arrived in Gallatin as I have been around him a lot and I will say when it comes to Gateway (Salesville) in July 1898. hard work every day , I just never saw[...]6; Iva Edna, born 1894, clear of stumps today and a very beautiful place to live and I . married Os[...]family included the mother of all of Jewett boys in «Jack" Edward , born 1898, not married , died[...]gh School. So the Block family are Bench. In fact so many moves motivated my grandmother to ex[...]Les West gether in anticipation of being tied up for a further move. In the fall of 1909 there was little time to build a home , so a EDWARD THEODORE COOK FAMILY - 1858 large area was dug from a hill and was known as a «dug out". Edward Theodore Cook was born in 1858 in Quincy, Ill. , the They spent the winter there. It was later used as a cellar for oldest of eight children born to James[...]to have the distinction of having a hardwood floor. Back row (standing), Edith Cook W[...]from the new land in preparation for the crop to be put in. Several good crops were harvested , but in the drought years[...]the homestead was given.up and the family moved in to a little[...]E.T. Cook passed away in 1923 and «Grandmother Cook" moved to a home where the Three Forks Veterinary is located[...]now. She later moved in with her daughter Iva Gorsky and she[...]passed away in Cedar Falls, Washington at the age of 82,[...]transferred in 1942. She is buried at Three Forks along with[...]and his mother. He had been a railroad man for several years.[...]He always maintained his interest in the railroads and stayed in the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers and Firemen[...]life. He filed on a homestaed of 160 acres soon after his arrival,[...]as his sisters did also. In 1914, he went to Arkansas and[...]In an early letter written by dad to his sweetheart in Arkan-[...]sas, he describes the land as bench land, a valley between two[...]ed with buffalo grass and other grasses, very dry in[...] |
| [...]Montana in August of 1910 accompanying her brother Louis[...]Louis DesChamps ' children, Cyrus and Jessie, on a bleak Three Forks. They spent the next[...]Three Forks. property building a house, barn, granary, fencing and plant-[...]ing crops. brush on that area. He put in a small orchard and I've often Homesteadin[...]d 80 miles for elk, bear and found work as a waitress at the Sacajawea Hotel and doing mountai[...]Northern Pacific Lunch Room in Logan, Mt. as a waitress and My father and mother first had a homestead out of Three later at the Florence Crittonden Home in Helena, Mt. Forks, and later leased other farms in the area. I remember By now it had beco[...]erlines, the Baker place, the given up for a more secure future as most homesteaders found Lon[...]use there weren't enough "While working in Helena, she met and married Dan Polo- students an[...]ain son, March 4, 1922. Dan Poloson was born in Porumbac, a country school. The little country school I first[...]mania, Oct. 26 , 1894 and came to this country as a young five students. One memory of the school was of a little girl man. At the time of their marri[...]Herron Ranch near Wolf Creek, Montana" smoke-out a gopher from his hole with tumbleweeds and dry[...]orn: Marie (3-3-23), Fred (3-31-24), Fay Later in Three Forks I remember principals of the school[...]right and Mr. Alred, I believe. In 1930 Dan in partnership with Fred Harris bought a large I have a picture taken by Mr. Olsen of a little group of ranch near Lone Pine, Mt.[...]The Haffner, my brother and sister and myself and a beautiful children grew up and left home[...]hey are buried at Lone Pine, Montana. was drowned in Puget Sound while swimming with friends[...]Ernistine at Red Wing Minn. and Fay There was a family named Wise living out in the country Haynes at Ronan.[...]Orvill . Rud too, also a family named Mr. and Mrs. George Priest whom we kept in touch with for several years after they moved to[...]March 17 1858, a daughter of Samu 1 Holl man and Mar[...]n Hamlin (1862) born b for Samu 1 Holl - 8, 1889, a daughter of Sinkler Capers DesChamps and Mary man volunt r d for rvice in th Union Army in Augu t of Ernaline (Holleman) De Champs. S[...] |
| [...]homestead near Three Forks in 1910 and in the summer of 1911 she joined them in Montana. In the summer of 1911 she homesteaded north of Three[...]on her homestead working as a cook and housekeeper on area[...]She traded her homestead for a house in Three Forks in[...]1920 and lived there and with her daughters in Logan until[...]In 1923 she moved to live with her daughter Maude in[...]p her care for her children after her marriage to A. J. Ranger. In 1924 she moved with them to Laurel, Montana.[...]uring the winter of 1930-31 she died. Thus ending a[...]of a family of 10 children and it was her lot to help[...]She married Enright in 1899 and to this marriage one[...]son was born, Harry Enright, in 1900. This marriage was of Mary[...]ort duration and she returned to the family home. In 1911[...]She helped on the homesteads of her children and a baby to care for the livestock and do the mother and sister and brother. Ranch work for her was a cook farming while the war raged on around them. When there was and Harry as a ranch hand was more suitable , and she worked a lull in the fighting the Carpet Baggers would move in to rob on ranches in the area and as a cook in cafes. and pillage the settlers. Mollie was employed as a cook at the Northern Pacific Samuel Holleman was mustered out of the service in Au- Lunch Room in Logan where she met W. H. Cudney in the gust of 1865 and eight more children were bor[...]920s. Mollie and W. H. (Bill) Cudney were married in Morley (1866) , Rebecca Elizabeth (1867) , Willia[...]eorge Washington Bill Cudney was a native Montanan who at the time of his (1874), Me[...]ed with the birth of marriage they operated a small dairy farm a mile or so east of LoganGarfield . Samuel Hollema[...]Logan for several years. Later they operated a small cafe at Ark.[...]married Sinkler Capers Des- Champs July 23, 1876 in Sebastain County, Arkansas. Harry E[...]r Capers DesChamps was born at Fort Sumpter, S.C. in 1851. He came to Arkansas with his father and mot[...]mps via way of Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma with a wagon drawn by oxen. They settled in the area of Mansfield, Ark. Sinkler and his fathe[...]ie (1894) and James and Capers who died young. In 1894 Sinkler Capers DeChamps died leaving[...] |
| In 1926 they moved to Dryden, Washington and in the years In about the winter of 1929 or 1930 we lived on a dry land following the war they retired to Spokan[...]was about ten miles to town, each Mollie died in 1961 and Bill a few years later. Both are way, to school. Mom (Lola) drove us in ab_o~t a 1918 Model T buried in Spokane, Wa.[...]wish I had it now). After she stuck 1t m the snow a few[...]decid~d to Mollie's boy, Harry Enright, lived in the Three Forks area hire a teacher for all the kids in that district for the wmter serving in the Navy during World War 1 and working on the[...]till 1926. He moved to Wash!. and worked in the district and I think the school board (my father, Arthur in the timber until his death in about 1950. Harry married and A. , and mother and Mr. and Mrs. Don Ameigh) were also the had one boy Leland Enright born in 1937. only residents in the school district. I remember my mother[...]Rescue to send for in those days; you made it on your own!) My grand[...]Benton, Montana, to the North Bench to homestead in the (he was five and I was seven). We[...]ook so Anne Dimock was about sixteen and filed on a homestead of hard that the nail heads mo[...]acres eve~ though she must have stretched her age a bit. We could not get down the stairs without help. We must have Her brother, who was crippled in a childhood accident and been near the center of the quake as springs dried up, well walked with a cane (but rode well) was barely twenty-one and performance was changed, etc. Cuthbert (known by all in the Three Forks area as 'Cub' or 'Cubby') was onl[...]old. After serving in World War II, I (Clark) returned to East[...]nd by World War II the Dimocks were running quite a few cattle and horses - 'mostly I suspect, on other peop1e ' s un- As president of the C.P.A. firm of Galusha, Higgins and fenced homesteads -[...]call her; she wouldn't let tana Society of C.P.A.'s, chairman of the Montana Chamber of her childr[...]andma Sis'. I was pretty good-sized before C.P.A.'s. We also built the firm to six offices in two states and I realized that everyone didn't have a 'Grandma Sis'.) was to thirty-fifth largest in the United States. offered a huge price, by those days, for her unbroken horse[...]out for more. They didn't give her more. I think a good a partner in Small, Hatch, Doubek and Pyfer in Helena. E~ch many of them died in the next winter as they raised no hay and are[...]. in 1973 and the youngest, William J . is with Mountain Bell; he Cub married late in life and has four surviving children. His is si[...]o have run horses off the open range with Sharryl in the saddle with him, when she was only four or JAKE AND MARGARET DOUMA five. Cub never owned a pair of cowboy boots, so far as I know,[...]e was recognized as one of the best 'pick-up men' in the[...]They local rodeos. He never rode bucking horses in rodeos, but he spent a few months in Manhattan and then bought the place broke the tou[...]estead". My sister Harriet, was born m phone Line in 1911. 192[...]Earl Frost, also a man named Tom Mackel, if I am correct.[...]Place about a mile east on the old road between Old Town and[...]Loga~. Pyfers, who live there now, have a complete abstract[...]n the property. Here the folks started to develop a herd of[...]In 1925 we moved to Willow Creek for 1 ½ years. In[...]Seattle . The roads were bad in those years and some of the[...]Dad worked for a dairyman in Seattle. In the spring he leased a small farm , bought a few cows, and went into the[...]dairy business. Prices were high in '29 and it was not very long[...]the depression came and it turned out to be quite a[...] |
| struggle. We sold out in 1946; my dad passed away in April quitoes and the rattlesnakes and bull snakes and black widow 1946. Mother passed away in 1963. She was 78 or 79. spiders. S[...]king out for us, otherwise one of Harriet lives in Marysville near Everett and has been a us would surely have been bitten there w[...]our years ago. He was an auto Forks in what was called a 'school bus' but it was a three- mechanic. I tried many things since 1946.[...]quarter ton Ford panel truck; no windows except in the rear driving a truck. I retired in September 1980 after 31 years as a doors. The 'seats' were wooden benches down each side and Union Teamster. I live in Everett. was it dusty in dry weather and cold in winter! We were stuck Henry Douma many times in either snow or mud, depending on the season.[...]We boarded out in Three Forks during real bad weather and[...]Sam Drogitis was born on the Idland of Zakanthos, in the old Those of us riding the bus were th[...]s Drogitis kids. Mr. Fisk and Mr. Lyle America on a boat, by shoveling coal into the steam boiler. I[...]One time, the bus flipped over on its side on a corner in loose right to bed. He arrived in America sometime in 1915. gravel ... we all got off with just a few scratches and bumps[...]one good scare. One other time, we were marooned in a Mary was born in Chester, West Virginia on May 14, 1905. snow bank in a real old time blizzard. Mr. Richardson, the bus She came to Montana in 1915 with her family, who settled in driver, tried in vain to get us out but in the process, burned the the Olaf area, a homestead area north of Two Dot, Montana.[...]he Sam and Mary were married November 18, 1925 in Harlow- ran the engine to keep the heat[...]of those big fluffy muffs and the Milwaukee Road. In 1935, they moved to Eustis - a Mil- she would pass it around to the youn[...]River from Trident on the opposite bank. Sam was a ing. We were about three or four miles fro[...]were Seven children were born to Sam and Mary; in order of age, except that we had left Three[...]ssed. Were we glad to see them! There wasn't room in Mr. Mae born June 17, 1928 at Harlowton; Sophia M[...]rn July 7, 1935 at warm house and food were a welcome sight that night! That Ringling; Marjorie[...]l open and the bus repaired, but it was a welcome absence from survive, except for John Dee, who died in an automobile acci- school. As I recall, the last mile into Eustis went down a dent January 1, 1955 at age 23, near Two Dot.[...]ld have to walk the mile out because the old were in the restaurant business back east, New York, we road would be washed out. think. They were also in the confectionary business in Butte, The railroad had an ice house in Eustis and once a year, a but seems they went broke in both ventures. Sam worked for a boxcar full of big ice blocks would be brought in. The section short time on the Great Northern Railroad in northern Mon- men would clean out all the[...]and tana before coming to the Milwaukee Railroad in 1924. He repack it with the new blocks[...]ad an ice box retired from the Milwaukee Railroad in 1960. for refrigeration, an[...]the mos- melted ice water and bring new ice in. Coal was also brought in by the carload. As strange as it seems, with all[...]ity so near, there was no electricity in the section house. We Sam and Mary Drogitis.[...]when they did put electricity· in the house.[...]oldest sister helped him a great deal, as did Mr. Fisk, teaching[...]him names, dates, etc. He went to Townsend in front of ajudge[...]proudest moments when he became a U.S. citizen. When he .[...]Drogit, which is what we kids were known by in school in[...]The family moved from Eustis to Two Dot in 1942. Uncle[...]ing at Lombard in August 1951. Mary passed away in the Harlowton Hospital in October, 1973 at age 68 and Sam pas-[...]sed away in Harrison at my home in November 1973 at age 78.[...] |
| [...]ll buried at Harlowton, while Uncle Dan is buried in Three Forks.[...]cis and Arline Finnegan were both born and raised in Chicago, Ill. Francis worked on the Chicago Fire Department for 30 years, and he and his wife retired to a home on the Jefferson River, outside of Three Forks, Montana, in November 1975. They have four children. Robert is[...]r children, Jennifer, Brian, Katie and Meg. He is a librarian and teacher and lives in Mudelein, Ill. Francine (Peni) is a head nurse and coordinator at Evans- fon Hospital, in Evanston, Ill. She also lives in Evanston. Greg is married to Kathy Taylor. They h[...]r of Education at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Ill. They live in Chicago. Pamela, although she has her teaching degree, prefers working for a financial investment company in Denver, Colo. Francis is a nephew of Tom Finnegan (deceased) and Elizabeth[...]Turnbough, Mary and Frank Hahn. active in the Historical Society and Museum. Francis has taught classes in Advanced First Aid, Standard First Aid and C.P.R[...]nary Resusicitation) since coming to In the fall of 1915 they moved to the Cole boy's pla[...]Arline Finnegan in Three Forks. They put in a crop of fall grain, which winter-[...]lease his place. His place had a creek running through it and Frederick was the[...]n family to homestead they could irrigate a garden. John also offered eleven year old north o[...]Rattlesnake Creek. His Aunt Barb, Ralph a job handling a certain horse; he would pay $1.25 a with Jon and Molly Grounds, had already come to M[...]aysif he could do it, otherwise he would only get a dollar. As Fred was still a youngster, he worked for Jim and Jack Ra[...]he older brother, Arthur, was working out and met a little Ephram Hahn came next and took land ove[...]arrie, passed away school. They were married in June 191 7. Her name was Hazel in 1913 and they took her in a team and wagon to Manhattan Carruthers (her father was depot agent in Dillon and raised for burial. (The dust was about[...]1915, Ephram gave Bell Gash (later Mrs. In 1919, Velmer married Otto Rettig, a man who came from A. M. G. Otto) one room of his house to teach the c[...]eo all went there. Eph went back to White in Manhattan. In 1914 he homesteaded north of Three Missouri in the spring of 1916.[...]orse so many Frank was born February 14, 1876, in Missouri. He married jumps or lopes to find the corners of the homestead. Otto Mary Kaiser in 1895. The Hahn's and their five children, fought in Germany in World War I. He was one of the few in Arthur, Velmer, Iva, Ralph and Edith came by train in the the 91st division that got out alive. He and Velmer were winter of 1913, stopping in Denver for a short time. They came married in the Wheatland school when he returned. Her wed- first to the George Rauser cabin. Frank filed on a homestead ding march was played on the organ that remained in her and while getting the logs out for their hous[...]ee children Chambers' homestead. Mr. Chambers was a telegrapher from Blanche, Bill and Ame[...]red Hahn telegraphy after they $54.00 a ton for swamp grass, foxtail and ice shipped from strung a wire between his and Fred's homestead. Frank did[...]fed it with lots of salt. The snow got about two in the depot together one day and the agent had step[...]feet deep and stayed all winter. Velma now lives in Bozeman. When the agent returned, Fred told him the message that had Otto died in 1979. come through.[...]Iva Hahn worked for Henry R ttig's Laundry in Thre They lived in their homestead house one winter and had to[...]r and the Sacajawea Hot 1. She haul all the water in barrels on a wagon, from George Ra user's later married Ra[...]parents took him in to rai . Ralph Boyd wa kill d by a rain[...] |
| in Butte. Ralph Hahn and his wife, Elizabeth had[...]Anita, Louis, Douglas, R. J. and Nyla. They live in Ronan, Montana. Edith (Hahn) and Rupert Wolfe[...]hirley, Lawrence and Virginia. Rupert passed away in 1971. Edith lives in Helena, Montana. Dorothy, the youngest of the Hahn children, was born in June 1916 on the Cok place north of Three Forks.[...]ool. Dorothy has one son, Raymond Lindsey, living in Berlin, Germany. Ray's father was killed in Sunburst, Montana some years ago. Dorothy lives in Helena. Edith W[...]nt family came to Three Forks from Dubuque , Iowa in 1908-09. The first hardware store in Three Forks was the Reynolds and Hunt General Hardware which opened it's doors in 1908. In early 1909 the firm of Reynolds and Hunt was superceded by a new concern, to be known as the Three Forks Hardw[...]Hunt of Dubuque, Iowa who had recently arrived. In an article about the hardware store in the Three Forks Herald dated February 18, 1909, it reads in part, "W. H. Hunt, the new member of the firm , is a man of sound business judgment, and his acquisiti[...]nks of the mercantile interests of Three Forks is a most valuable one." Eva Russell, about 1912 (Mrs. Charles Hunt). At this time a contract had been let for the erection of a one story concrete structure , 25' x 60', on the lot immediately interest in the hardware business but it is known that Father, adjoining the original store and an arch was cut in the divid- Grandfather and Ben Reynolds had homesteads north of ing wall in order to form one large building. These two struc- Three Forks in the Crow Creek Valley. Dad was awarded his tures[...]and modernized. 151 acres in October of the same year. However, they were[...]joining that of Mr. Reynolds is being put in order for a crop.[...]About 1912 a young school teacher from Cleveland, Ohio[...]n the scene. Miss Eva Russell taught classes both in[...]he Spring Creek School and the Crow Creek School. In those days it was not uncommon for a teacher to board and room with a family in the school area. One of the families Miss[...]went t.o check on her claim. She had a homestead in the Nigger[...]awarded ain tl:e 4th or 5th grade. Mr. Sherlock Nave o[...] |
| Townsend, also was a student of Miss Russell while in the Spring Creek school and recalls Miss Russell giving his brother a "good whipping". It was at the Mockels that C[...]ther and Mother were married Sep- tember 18, 1915 in Boulder, Jefferson County. No doubt this was the[...]From this marriage four children were born, three in Montana. Maynard Henry was born June 29, 1916 in Three Forks, Ann Jackson, born January 11, 1919 in Butte and Alan Russell, born March 16, 1920 in Phillipsburg. Eleanor Nell was born October 17, 1921 in Ione, Washington. In the fall of 1919 William and Lura Jane Hunt moved from their homestead to Three Forks lived in the R. Bowman house on Third Avenue. This is the[...]e Forks Herald of October 9, 1919 comes this item in part, "Mr. Hunt can be found most any time by his[...]Dec. 29, 1922. We moved to Western Kansas on A cousin of mine from Ripon, Wisconsin sent me an entry a ranch. from her mother's diary dated August 14, 1[...]e Forks at 1:40 p.m. Charlie (my . father) met us in auto and took us out 15 miles. In eve took a We went through the depression and the dust bowl days so ride." (Auto rides were quite a treat). On following days she we decided to[...]y 29, 1939. wrote, <'went after ice with Charlie. In P.M. Nell, (Nell Hunt Walter went to work for John Deere, he was a good mechanic. Jensen) Peter, (Peter Jensen) Edwa[...]n the first combine that came to Gallatin supper. In eve started to Florence's (Florence Thomas in Valley to get the bugs out of it. He se[...]Aunt Lou, (Lura Hunt) Mama and I went to Nell's. In P.M. rode up in the hills with Then when the airport came in, he was foreman for Jack Peter and Edward ... in eve Charlie took us up to White[...]ce's ... came back to Aunt Lou's." On August 23: "In Then we moved to Willow Creek and farme[...]dinner for 13. About 2:00, started for In 1947 we moved to Three Forks and lived in town for a Boulder R. about 18 miles. Had two blowouts and a puncture, year. We had the Second Hand Store and sold new and used but a good time." ·[...]out there for many years. Walter passed away in 1962. In and early fall raised havoc with the ranchers in those early 1963, I moved in to Three Forks in November. I have lived days of farming. Then they[...]PHILIP MOCKEL from his ranch and homestead in the Warm Springs Creek Prior to Philip Mockel's arrival in the United States his area near Plunketts Lake a[...]The Philip Mackel Ranch "A Garden of Eden'. ''Pend Oreille" as we referred to it sometime in the summer of 1920.[...]TON Walter Johnston was born September 14, 1900 in Comstock, Nebraska, to Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Johnsto[...]nsas. Virginia Johnston was born March 31, 1904 in Sullivan, Kentucky to Mr. and Mrs. Ila Bruce. She[...]ur schooling. I worked for Bell Telelphone Co. as a switch board operator. Walter went to telegraphy school in Topeka, Kansas and was sent to South[...] |
| in 1885 purchased a ranch from J. W. Sherlock in Crow Creek teaches in the Havre School System. Maxine was deceased in Valley. Philip had one brother, Henry, and a sister, Dora, 1949. (Mrs. N. 0. Bowman). Until 1929 these members of the family In 1945 Sherlock moved back to the family farm to re[...]Alberta (Dance) Philip was born June 19, 1874 in Langenheim, Germany Boeh. To this coupl[...]current residents of Gallatin County and have a business in work. After Philip's death in September 1929 his youngest Bozeman. son, Clifford, and a nephew, David N. Bowman, operated the Sherlock was a loving father to his step-daughter, Geral- ranch until it was sold in 1950 to Woodrow Hensley. dine. She[...], Walter, born 1902 and Bart. While helping a friend get out wood, Sherlock was and died in 1923. Henry, called Heinie, was born 1904 and is accidently killed in 1980. now living in Bozeman. He at one time was co-owner of the[...]re for men's clothing. Albert, born 1909, ranched in his younger days until he moved to Helena where h[...]SAM NORMAN, OTIS RICHARDSON FAMILIES lives in Fresno, California. In 1902 Sam and Mollie Norman and their seven childr[...]cians, Conrad and Philip left their home in Rencelier, Indiana and traveled to Tacoma, perfor[...]large ships to come into the harbor. From played in dance bands after he graduated from the Whitehall[...]lly conducting his own band until it rained a lot and there was a lot of mud. They lived around 1948. Both Albert a[...]drums. . the Spokane area for a number of years. During this time two[...]Willow Creek in 1915 and during that same year they moved Chil[...]ckel: Marcia (Mrs. John to their homestead in Kuny Park. This was dry land area and S. Cox) Pla[...]Barring- water was very scarce, so Sam dug a cistern and rocked it in so ton, Ill.[...]: John P. Mockel, East this time there wasn't a school house in the area and the Helena, Mont; Monte Jean (Mrs. Lawrence Bridgewater) East children attended school in the Otto Rettig and the Townsend Helena; Marian ([...]s, Portland, Oregon; Betty (Mrs. One story in the family tells of the time Sam drilled a water Charles Folson) Clancy, Mont.[...]ee Forks pioneer residents was born and raised on a dry land farm on the North Bench in Broadwater County on July 26, 1898. Errendel F. Nave, Sherlock's father, was a soldier from Missouri in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After[...]souri to Montana. He had many skirmishes with the In- dians. He also oper"ted a freight line during the Gold Rush days in 1864 from .r'ort Benton to Bozeman, Montana. He married Hester Isabelle (Sherlock) in 1894. Her family had immigrated from Ireland to New Zealand, then sailed from there in a wooden ship to California in 1878. This trip took them 51 days. In 1878 the Sherlock family drove a band of 4000 sheep from the Sacramento Valley in California to the Crow Creek Valley in Broadwater County. After arriving they sold the sheep which were $7.56 each in California for $3.50 in Montana, so the story was told. At about age 1[...]ent to supplement the family income by working as a mechanic and part-time taxi driver at the Henslee Garage in Three Forks. Mechanics, farming, and operating me[...]To them was born one daughter, Maxine. Melva died in 1928. Maxine was raised in Three Forks, and married George Wilcox, Jr. To th[...]ry. Larry and his wife, Linda, reside and operate a business in Three Forks. Barry[...] |
| [...]Leta married G€orge Hall in 1936. Jane married Phillip[...]Kountz and resides in Whitehall. Bob enlisted in the Navy November 12, 1942, he was a machinist and served on landing[...]nto Omaha Beach on D Day June 6, 1944. Bob served in the[...]Officer in 1945, and received his discharge November 12,[...]11, 1950. They lived in Butte where their two sons were born -[...]In March 1956 Bob and his family moved to Three Fork[...]where he established a gasoline business. From 1956 until[...]is business was located beside the Sacajawea Inn. In[...]Milwaukee lot sale in 1908. Old timers tell that at one time a[...]~ - .- In 1973 Bob and Phyllis built the Travel Shoppe at t[...]distributing well and discovered an oil substance in the clay. A short while business. later the Norman's sold t[...]okane where they spent their 13, 1981. He is in the gasoline business in Three Forks. remaining years. Sam and Mollie were parents of nine chil- Rob is in the sheet metal trade. His work takes him to dren[...]various parts of the country, but his home is in Bozeman. Susie and Sadie.[...]T. 0. C. PLUNKETI' Mt. Sterling, Illinois to Wheeling, Missouri in 1915. Otis worked on a ranch there and their second son Eddie was born.[...]Plunkett came to the Three Forks area about 1905. In 1916 the family came to Three Forks via the Milwaukee He located north of town, near McIntyre, leasing a farm in Railroad. They were met by Otis, Aunt Cynthia Gerrish. that vicinity on which was a large lake, formed by natural Cynthia had a homestead on the North Bench and the family springs. Here Mr. Plunkett indulged in his favorite pastime, lived there while Otis worked for her. In 1917 the Richardson's hunting and fishing. He stocked the lake with game birds and filed on their homestead in the Lower Trail Springs area. fish. He arranged e[...]During this time Olive and Lloyd were born,Olive in Boulder turned east with tales of a paradise of hunting and fishing and Lloyd on the[...]tended grade near Three Forks, and they cherished a memory of the western school at the Happy Valley[...]lake became known as Plunkett's Lake. In 1919, Mr. Plunkett[...]moved to Three Forks, where he operated a tire repair and Elizabeth always had a large garden full of vegetables and vulcanizing e[...]n, but Elizabeth always hoed her garden A Spring Creek news column in a 1913 newspaper gives this very early in the morning taking full advantage of the dew[...]Day. The following is from a Helena paper and will explain Leta tells this[...]n this eventful day. with the Dave Whittet family in Three Forks and attending high school. She and Te[...]ttig decided to go ttSt. Patrick's Day in the city was a rather quiet and une- home for the Christmas holi[...]of Erin to get well to walk. They started at 9:00 a.m. By noon they had come to warmed up in their celebrations. A few fights were recorded on the TeSelles house so they stopped in to get warm, Mrs. TeSel- the police blotter , but[...]ade bread, of the day, let the offenders off with a mild lecture. butter and syrup. The girls arrive[...]lunkett, brother ofth son married Russell Norman in Whitehall in 1923. Russell famous lord of that name, who is on[...]unger Lord border, from there he went on to work in the timber. Russell Plunkett resides at Toston, in Broadwater County, and con- was killed on Orcas Island, Washington in 1930, when a don- ducts a fish hatchery and experiment station on hi large[...]e exploded. Leta and her two children - Bob, born in beautiful farm. Spokane in 1924 and Jane, born in 1926 - returned to Three Upon his arrival in Helena, Lord Plunkett started in to Forks in 1933 where Leta was employed as a beautician in celebrate the Wearin' o' the Green, in a manner b fitting an Mrs. Bates shop. A short time later Leta and her children eminent Irish lord. Aft r accumulating a large and beautiful moved to Whitehall wh[...] |
| [...]main street of the capital city while he rendered in his best Chauncey Olcott manner, "The Wearin'.,.o[...]rish Rose" , and lcrndred Irish ballads. After a few trips up and down the street the celebration[...]to cease or there would be another Irish jubilee in the city bastile. It was surely an injustice to[...]atrick's Day celebration of Lord Plunkett came to a rude close. - Lord Plunkett was well known in Helena as he resided there Bartlett Thomas[...]t to right: when he first came to Montana. He was a member of the Edward and Stewart. Fr[...], Henry, and Florence. Mr. Plunkett passed away in the Milwaukee Hospital in Three Forks, March 1, 1928. Pallbearers were Ed Lane, E. C. Three Forks for a number of years, and served in the U.S. Chryst, T. J. Young, Ed Smith, Harry Sal[...]ship stopped in Hong Kong. Bart finished out his assignment[...]in '._I'uguegarao and joined his family in a few months. A few years earlier Florence's parents, William Hen[...]ed to Three Forks from Potosi, Wisconsin, I am a son of Angelo Sustello who homesteaded on the North where they had operated a mercantile business for many Bench north of town in 1906. We moved in to town from 1916 years. Three other children came to this part of Montana until leaving in 1930 for the west coast.[...]lie and Maynard, who had come The following is a summary of the members to date: Angelo west to wo[...]ng Peter Jensen, and they homesteaded near Toston in the Crow in Eugene, Oregon; Phillip (son) living in Bigfork, Montana; Creek Valley. Stephen (son) living in Portland, Oregon; Helen (daughter) Life in the bustling town of Three Forks was exciting, what living in Honolulu, Hawaii, Henry (son) deceased 1935, Thre[...]acific, the land boom, and the many activities of a new,[...]Street in the morning, followed by the main show in the big BART AND FLORENCE THOMAS FAMILY tent in the afternoon. Another event which comes to mind was Bart Thomas was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1880 and while attending a basketball game on the second floor of a building, a year old moved with his parents to their former f[...]e spectators seated around the edges of the floor in British Hollow, near Potosi, Wisconsin. He grew up in this folding chairs. area, graduating from high school in Potosi, after which he William Henry Hunt, together with a partner by the name attended Platteville Normal School at nearby Platteville. At of Ben Reynolds, operated a hardware store in Three Forks at the close of the Spanish-American[...]ort "Thomas" and set sail for the Philippines. He in Three Forks. taught in the high school ofTuguegarao, Cagayan Province in Bart Thomas and William Hunt were ardent[...]n he returned to the the surrounding streams came in for lots of attention. The States. He taught school in Chippewa Falls, Wisonsin for a Madison River and its newly formed lakes were some favo- year. In the meantime, his high schooi sweetheart, Fiorence rites. Perhaps the best fishing of all, though, was found in a Hunt, who was born and raised in Potosi, had graduated from little stream named Sixteen Mile creek, a tributary of the Platteville Normal and taught s[...]re rates the Big Belts and the Bridger Mountains. A picture of both taught school at the above mentioned Tuguegarao. Two the Eagle's Nest tunnel and trestle in Sixteen Mile Canyon boys were born to the couple in this town, Edward William in was featured in the advertisement of the Milwaukee 1906 and Stewart James in 1908. Railroad in the National Geographic Magazine for a number In 1909 the family decided to return to the States. Florence of years. Three Forks was a division point for the Milwaukee. and the two boys returned first, accompanied by a young· It became the custom for ardent fishermen[...]named Jacinto to care for the boys. Jacinto lived in - Bart Thomas included, to board the Milwaukee in Three Forks _[...] |
| in the morning. The engineer, who would be a friend of the fishermen, would leave them off at their favorite spots along Sixteen Mile Creek, usually in the canyon a mile or so below Sixteen Station. They would fish all day, and then in late afternoon would flag down a westbound train for the return trip to Three Forks. What a setup! Sixteen Mile remains a . favorite stream of the writer to this day, and[...]re with his sons and grandchildren. This all ties in with Three Forks, which has a warm spot in the heart of the writer. While living in Three Forks Bart Thomas was engaged in the real estate business which was flourishing at[...]tead rush. Two other sons were born to the couple in Three Forks: Richard Bartlett in 1910, and Henry in 1912. Richard lives with his wife, Esther, in Seattle. Henry died in Philipsburg, Montana in 1981, leaving his widow, Wilma. Edward lives with[...]r near Hobson, Montana. His wife, Catherine, died in August, 1981. In 1913 Bart and Florence moved to a homestead in the Crow Creek Valley near Radersburg. Edward and[...]ool about two and one half miles from their home. In October of1915 the family moved to Butte where Ba[...]nother son, George Walter, was born to the couple in Butte in February 1916. George lives with his wife, Dory, in Seattle. During the summer of 1923 the Thomas[...]ontana, the position he held until his retirement in 1953. During the last twenty years at the Uni- ve[...]the Department of Foreign Lan- guages. Bart died in Missoula in 1955 and Florence in 1976.[...]Claims were discovered later. These brothers got a shaft down Fred and Cora Thomas, Bart and Flore[...]laim 37 feet the first year. moved to Three Forks in 1912 with their families. Fred and Jack Thorne was a carpenter and George was a stationary Bart came by cattle train from Wisconsin, with their belong- engineer. They worked the claims in the winter months and ings, the wives and families coming later by train. followed their trades in the summer. Both Fred and Bart were real estate agents while living in Young Bill learned the carpenter's trade but[...]rks. Later after two years they both went farming in herd horses and do driving for the Yellowstone[...]When Bill came to visit his folks in 1889 he was offered a half interest in his father's half if he would help develop the[...]orn to Fred and Cora August 15, 1912. We now live in the Bitterroot, after Jack, the father, died in 1902. Bill and his uncle worked living in California. I also have a brother who lives in the mines together until 1924 when Uncle George passed Stevensville. Fred passed away in 1958 and Cora in 1978. One away. of Fred's sons was killed in an airplane crash over Korea. Uncle George was a Spiritualist, and for over forty years[...]He was born in Scott County, Iowa, Jan. 18, 1858. He came[...]west to Wyoming in 1874, living there two years, then spent a THE THORNE FAMILY year each in Nevada nd Boise, Idaho. He came to Bozeman in William Thorne was born in Davenport, Iowa November 5, 1878, went on the Hart Mountain stampede in the summer of 1869. Bill is the son of Jack and Lena (Baker) Thorne Daven- '78, wintering in Bozeman in '79. In the spring of'79 he went to port, Iowa. The paren[...]ms, then moving to Copper City. moved to Colorado in 1876, and to Montana in 1879 settling He was the discoverer of the Stella[...]s at Copper City. Jack's brother, George, also In 1929 the Montana Exploration Company leased the lived in this little settlement.[...]laims from William Thorne. Bill continued to live in Jack and George discovered the Star Claim in the spring of his small but comfortable cabin, the nearest neighbor being 1883 and in the fall discovered the "Ida May" and the[...] |
| [...]en it get unbearable I get out and go someplace." In 1929 he was con- sidering getting a 1930 Ford so he could go when the inspira- tion c[...]nd Mattie Vau- ght, was born February 11, 1908 on a homestead near Menard, Montana. He attended school at Central Park two years before his mother died in 1915. After Mattie's death, Joe moved back to Kentucky with the children to be near his parents. In 1927, Merrill went to Pontiac, Mich~gan and worked in a factory making Pontiac cars. In 1931 , he came to Montana to visit an uncle near Belgrade. He got a job and decided to stay in Montana. It was March of 1934 that he met Alma[...]Earl Craver, Alma They were married May 16, 1936 in the Methodist church in Shanholtzer and Merrill Vaught. Bozeman, Montana. Al.ma M~~Efhi nholtzer was born in Pittsburg, Kansas Nov. in Broadwater County six miles northwest of Three Forks. 2, 1909. She came with her parents to Montana in March 1919. This was on the bus route to Three Forks. The land was open They lived in the Nigger Hollow area. She finished 8th grade ra[...]School near their home and graduated to decide on a homesite and find water. Mr. Van Dyke from from Willow Creek High School in 1928 . In 1933, she Bozeman drilled the well and hit good water at 103 feet. With graduated from Montana State College in Bozeman witha B.S. some hired help and many family members volunteering, the degree in Home Economics. She taught in the Dry Creek and place was fenced. They dug a basement the size of the house. Pass Creek school[...]to the new location. were married. They lived on a rented farm on Elk Creek By the last of November the family was living in the new northeast of Wilsall, Montana until 1941. This was a wheat home. farm . They also raised chickens and[...]37. Marilyn Frances Wesley drowned while swimming in the Jefferson River. He was born Aug. 17,1938.[...]had just finished his ju,nior year in high school. They moved to a small farm in Jefferson County 15 miles Marilyn graduated from Three Forks High School in 1956. northwest of Three Forks in Feb. 1941. Here they raised wheat She attended Mo[...]osters sold for Merrill continued to farm in Jefferson and Broadwater fryers. When the pullets were ready to lay in the fall , the year Counties. They raised chicken[...]In May 1976, Norman Darlinton, oldest son of Gordon[...]me to help his grandparents on the farm. Home Ee. in the high school there for four years.[...]during the summer months and attended Montana In the fall of1949, Merrill and Alma bought a section ofland State University in Bozeman. It was there that he met Eileen[...]Aune, a student from Dutton, Montana. They were married[...]and thought they would like to live in Missouri; there he met[...]1882, in Moundville, Missouri. Viola was born on March 12,[...]1863, in Elston, Missouri, where all their children were b[...]As the children grew up and married they went in different[...]directions to seek new places to make a new life for themselves[...] |
| [...]Wise, Laurence Wesley Wise and Irven C. Wise. In the spring of 1912 Forest Elmer Wise and his wife, Lola Edna Klontz Wise, arrived in Three Forks Montana by Mil- waukee Train from Dee[...]ril 7, 1909. They came to Montana and homesteaded in what was known as the North Bench. The homestead[...]e Boulder Road, west of the Wheatland Schoolhouse in Section 23. Two of the buildings are still on the homestead, but the house was moved in to what is known now as the Merrill Vaught Ranch, and is being lived in by them. Forest and wife came to Montana to make a new start on new land and to farm and raise cattl[...]fficult. So much had to be done, such as building a home, and building and getting equipment to farm[...]h the $500.00 he had saved he bought four horses, a walking plow, a wagon and groceries, and set to work on land that was covered with sagebrush and a beautiful spring. Forest was a very religious person and believed that man had t[...]o make the many acres of sagebrush their home and a place to raise their family. On February 25, 1916, a baby son was born to Forest and Lola, and they named him Lyle Elmer. He grew into a healthy youngster and life went on as usual until[...]- 1925. the flu, as it was in epidemic stages. She passed away on March 21, 1919, leaving behind a lonely husband and a very small little boy. She was buried in the Three Forks Cemetery couver, Washington. Marjorie was born on December 6, 1916, in the Wise plot with her niece who was Irven and Blanche in Lucene , Oklahoma. Lyle and Marjorie lived in Oregon, Wise's baby daughter. Irven Wise's family homesteaded in the where he worked on ranches and in the fruit orchards. To Lyle same area as Forest and his family. There was no money for a and Marjorie were born four children: Ric[...]February 3, Manhattan and dug out of the hillside a piece of picture rock, 1942, at Gresham, Or[...]and tana was calling Lyle, so we returned in March of 1942 to the death, and set it in cement and it still remains there today, as u[...]k for Jess Kilgore and the Climb- good as it was in 1919. ing Arrow Ranch. Richard started to school in Logan, riding After Lola's death, Forest's si[...]n May 13, 1944, our third child, Roger Don, make a home for Lyle and his father. As the years went b[...]at year we moved to Newberg, Oregon, Lyle working in the Montana and the homestead. They worked very h[...]Geese raised on homestead in 1917. Water hauled in truck. On October 25, 1922, a daughter was born in the Three Forks Hospital, and they named her Doro[...]time Lyie was six years old and doing chores, had a dog and a horse to ride. He started to school in the Wheatland Schoolhouse. The family only lived[...]ly hung on as long as possible, and finally moved in 1930 to Manhattan to the Parker place, and later moved to the Green Ranch. Lyle and Dorothy went to school in Manhattan where they struggled during the depres- sion, and in 1936 Forest and Etta and Dorothy moved to Newberg[...]9, and both were buried at Dundee. Lyle stayed in Montana and worked on several ranches and on a visit to Newberg, Oregon in 1939 he met Marjorie Viola Paddock, and th[...] |
| [...]Oregon, Richard going by bus to Dundee to school. In 1946 we moved back to Montana, working on a ranch in the Gallatin Valley, Richard riding the bus to Be[...]work and went to work for the County Bridge Crew in Manhattan and broke his back. After a year of back problems he went to the Mayo Clinic[...]dian; by this time Richard, Karen and Roger were in school. Ruth Myers taught all of our children. Du[...]Marjorie went to work at the City Dry Clean- ers in Bozeman, and in 1956, Lyle and family moved to Three Forks and bought the dry cleaners and worked hard and had a going business. Richard graduated from Belgrade High School in 1956 and went into the Marines; Karen graduated in 1960 from Three Forks High. Roger graduated in 1962 from Three Forks High and Gene graduated in June 1965 from Bozeman Senior High. Richard returned home from the service after being in Korea, and married Alice Louise Maxwell on Octobe[...]29, 1962; Jeffrey John Smith, who came to Montana in 1904, with his trusty Kent Wise, November 11, 196[...]amsey team. Wise, April 19, 1968. They now reside in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Karen Ann Wise and Karen[...]lings Business College and later found positions in the busi- ness world. On August 3, 1961, she marr[...]ary 22, 1965; both born at the Deaconess Hospital in Bozeman, Montana. Karen is now Karen Williams. The family lives in Helena at this time. Roger Dan Wise started to MS[...]and on November 25, 1966, Roger Don, Jr. was born in Great Falls, Montana, and four years later, on February 4, 1970, Rochelle Dawn was born in Helena, Montana. At this time they are living in Post Falls, Idaho. Irving Eugene Wise (Gene) grad[...]llach homestead 12 miles S.W. of Radersburg. High in 1965, and went into the Army in June of 1965, and trained as a medical technician and served in Viet Nam. After The Norman Homestead at Stoney Lo[...]ne son was born, Travis Eugene Wise. He is living in Great Falls. By this time Lyle had gone to Bozema[...]the New Bozeman Senior High. We sold the cleaners in Three Forks after eight successful years, and I went to work at the One Hour Martinizing Cleaners in Boze- man, and was there for 10 years, and Lyle w[...]acked up and moved on to bigger and better things in Helena, Montana in 1972. We owned and operated Mr. Wise Dry C[...] |
| [...]tion for Old Town, Three Forks, had its origin in a settlement which the Bozeman, Virginia and H[...]up around the toll station for the bridges built in the '(royally received and handsomely rega[...]gers for Bozeman found it convenient to remain "In 1864 James Shedd built the first bridges across t[...]travelling public; the bridges and roads are kept in good dollars in toll from the stage coaches, mule and oxen trains repair; the bar is always supplied with a good assortment of and teams. Coin was scarce in those days so gold dust was used Hquors, wines, cigars, etc'." An item in the March 14, Avant almost exclusively." From Mrs[...]mes - Bridgeville, the Bridges, Madi- . In November 1871, James Shedd's parents and many mem[...]ettled by James T. Shedd bridge building. A large hall was moved over from Sterling - and wife, who it is claimed by old settlers, built up the village the lower part to be used as a billiard saloon, the upper story of the swamp and[...]" tisement read "a grand ball and supper will be given at the[...] |
| [...]1, Hunter. That same month there was a rapid transfer of prop- 1882, a townsite had been surveyed by the proprietors, Paul erty to John R. Toole, then James B. Haggin, and in February and Hanley, on the survey of the Utah an[...]1892 to Anaconda Mining Company. There was a great deal of A news item from the Avant Courier headed Bridgeville, speculation now in the various newspapers. Jan. 1896, The M.T., Nov[...]ported "Sites for Anaconda Refinery". "It is much in appearance, by the erection of several new buildi[...]omething of the same nature at Three hope to have a booming little city. Leading officials of the Uta[...]road are heard on the divide begin also a new town, whch it is said, will be known either a[...]hased, nearly seven Gallatin valley .. .. We will in the future see steamboats square miles, will be ample room for a refinery, a ranch for plying on the Missouri which, with the Northern Pacific and Marcus Daly and a townsite." the Utah & Northern, will give us a commercial advantage 1890: There was excitement in many cities over the selec- over other points."[...]eople When Paul and Hanley recorded their plat in the Book of in Three Forks who dared to dream that their city wo[...](as we refer chosen. The writer of an article in "The Butte Intermountain " to it) for, the first[...]d 5-22-1890, thought Three Forks was going just a bit too fa~. Madison House was totally destroyed by fire in December The refinery might be built[...]as not chosen. large new hotel. "The structure is a large frame, two and a half Dec. 5, 1891:" "Anaconda Company gran[...]. Some contracts already let." house is furnished in good style; as many as 240 meals per day[...]les By June 1883, Paul and Hanley own and keep in repair in a will be received in a few days. Mr. Thomas Dunn will put up distance of[...]t to repay the cost Jan. 1893: "Three Forks a Mystery: Anaconda never has the owners have been[...]company has built many miles of track in this county the past name of John A. Chater & Co. , have invested not less than[...]trains running into Butte fifty-thousand dollars in property , which includes the Paul early next year. Three Forks, until recent years, a deserted and Hanley Hotel and the bridges over th[...]me liveliness. ferson. We may reasonably look for a townsite boom which will astonish old-timers in that locality." A vacation of Paul and Hanley's town plat was filed and a new plat of Three Forks surveyed and recorded Jul[...]E LETIERS Many interesting articles have appeared in newspapers about From John H. Toole, Missoula 1 MT, has come a collection of the sojourn of the Remittance people in our area. "Three Forks letters by John R. To[...]n had Reformatory for have been reposing in a trunk in Bellingham, Wash. for al- Scions"~ "English Colony for Reformation of 'Wild Sons' once most a century. They have just recently come to light. J[...]rticle, '~Montana's Original Dude Ranch." This is a quote time these letters were written. from Lyle's article: "Agents in England for these enterprising He was born in Maine in 1850 and came to Montana in 1882. Englishmen, contacted the wealthy nobility whose sons were In 1886 he ran for the Territorial Legislature and D[...]of tempering these taking shares with Daly in mining deals and in performing 'hot youths'. The cost would be only a few hundred pounds. contracts for Daly.[...]o the Three Forks colony, where five terms in the Legislature and one in the Constitutional a large hotel, post office, bank, store, two saloons and a racing Convention in 1889. stable were operated by the English promoters. Wild times When Marcus Daly died in 1900, John R. Toole moved to were held at the ori[...]Big Blackfoot Milling The Englishmen involved in the majority of the land trans- Co., the ti[...]g arm of Anaconda. · actions were: John A. Chater, Frederic C. Amcotts, Evard When Mr. Toole died in 1916, his widow, Anna, burned Heneage and Duncan[...]t offear that unpleasant facts might be disclosed in connec- 1889 most of the property had been[...] |
| [...]r up the mystery of the Marcus Daly land holdings in Three Forks. An excerpt from the May 22, 1889 let[...]July 29, 1889: My Dear Wife: I want to send you a few lines before the train goes out to tell you t[...]laid or checked suit of clothes of mine, put them in a satchel and ship by express to me here. Care "Gra[...]k I will have brought the Three Forks business to a satisfactory conclusion, and have the papers all[...]t year, and to go ahead by all means and build me a house in Anaconda ... Three Forks will, I think, be a beautiful place trees will grow without irrigatio[...]h different kinds of trees, and how we would have a public square with trees. Almost anything will grow there and if the programme is carried out in a few years it will be the Mrs. Billie Randall, a belle of pioneer days. most beautiful place in Montana, much more so than Anaconda. I asked him[...]. Since my last letter, I have actually been to a ball! We drove the outside land but he said not t[...]ded to are English people, consisting of a young married couple, her send Dock down to look[...]k here our English society. and start in on his old capital quest again. It was so pleasant and grassy down in Three Forks that I just wanted to stay[...]on as I get back here the lobbying com- in the dining room of the hotel. I wore my red day d[...]ow if we had not better offer this fellow or that a thousand or we found the room full of people, the women dressed up in all three thousand dollars for his vote. I despis[...]f costumes - the belles of the ball, two sisters, in red hope that it will be settled tomorrow or next[...]get to Three Forks until half men, some in black coats, some in brown coats, and some in no past two last night, and we got up at half past five, so as to have coats at all. Such a queer-looking lot! time to go and see things and get back in time to catch the We had made up our[...]1ves, and as we were a party of ten or twelve, we could manage[...]soula, MT very well. The band consisted of a fiddle and a banjo, and[...]same tune all the way through. The players sat on a[...]raised platform, and on the same place stood a little man. FROM "A LADY'S RANCH LIFE IN MONTANA" looking full of importance, in dress clothes and white kid[...]all gloves, waving a stick. He proved to be the Master of Cere-[...]Nov. 23rd monies. "Every man has a number marked on his ticket, from Last week Je[...]or whatever the number of men may be. Only Forks "a ranche belonging to some English friends", to buy[...]he ladies." horses for the Eastern market. It was a ride of about 12 miles. I soon discovere[...]dance. Get your partners." things. Three Forks is a nice place, and the house very com- Y[...]nd all, assem- nity!) - otherwise only a favored few would get any dancing, bled to inspect the "strangers". The only female in the room and all the re t would be left out in the cold. Then the sets were immediately undertoo[...]he ceremony being effected they were to do in each figur - for instance 11 Swing your by a general hand-shaking, with the accompanyin[...] |
| return to your places." Every now and then he uttered a a[...]st be an old Indian battle-cry, known noblemen in the old country. They were joined from sounding l[...]roof and were shipped out to America to cool off a Most of the dances were squares, but they had a few waltzes. little. There were several among[...]eing that the men Harry C. Chater, started a scheme whereby he w~s to purch- put both hands around the girl's waist, clasping them behind, ase a ranch in the Madison Valley, build a few log cabins and first of all carefully spreading a silk handkerchief on her back then return to En[...]s to send to prevent his hands soiling her dress. A most delicate and them to his "reformatory[...]ican method of farming, and at the same time have a girl put one hand on each of her partner's should[...]tle common sense licked into them. He did succeed in get- of each dance the M.C. sang out, ttAll Promenade". Whereupon ting a few out at the rate of 50 pounds per head, but it is they all marched round the room arm-in-arm, generally in doubtful that they reformed to any great extent. solemn silence. In fact, from the absence of conversation and[...]rifles, and while they could they were performing a religious ceremony. Do not the En- not hit the side of a house with a rifle, they were nearly all glish, but also all E[...]ds dancing, at them, about 10 or 15, bought a good, healthy porker from any rate.[...]ntil and turned him loose. Each was armed with a rifle. When the they were all settled, and then we went down and found a pig had got a good start, they ran after it firing as fast as t[...]coffee and tea. All of this was nicely cooked by a Chinaman. Forks and the Englishmen after hi[...]e place was the root cellar. There they went beat a retreat, as, he said, these dances generally dege[...]shers had got tired of their sport. The pig, into a bear fight and frequently a man fight, towards morning; strange to relate, not being touched by a single bullet. so we quielty departed, rather pleasantly surprised at a ball in At other times, the colony would have a general gathering the Rockies.[...]one would suggest they ttwake up the IN THOSE DAYS OF LONG AGO[...]orks Was there would be a fusilade that would wake the soundest In Possession of The British sleeper in the town and almost raise the dead. If anybody wishes to hear a good story or two about Three Forks when it was the hub of the Universe and in possession of Once M. T. Barney built an ice boat, the first of its kind in the British, let them interview Dan McElwee or Ch[...]he river up, and for several miles, it was simply a sheet of ice. The writer of this story intervie[...]e crew of the ice boat started down the flat with a since, and this is the substance of the story he[...]om all accounts, the party must have been travel- a few flourishes, but we do not care to put them into print at ling at the rate of a mile a minute, when a four-wire barbed the present time:[...]ed up ahead. ttA bloody fence!" yelled Barney, In 1884, an English company composed of John A. Chater, "we'll 'ave our blooming 'eads[...]they looked as though they had been having a bout with several years ago in Missouri, about 600 or 700 acres of land Fitzsimmons, while the boat was a complete wreck. for $18,000. The company also acq[...]he total They could ride, too, and many a bucking horse was ridden of their landed possessions to about 7,000 acres in all. with an English saddle. Billy Ran[...]Forks when an outlaw was brought in and he was dared to ride The company intended[...]ely into the cattle it. All of the cowboys in the country were afraid of the animal, and horse[...]at vincinity not keep any great herd of stock, so in the spring of 1885, the still remember it, fo[...]loped blooming 'igh, sold their cattle to parties in Canada. The real estate how- but I liked 'im pretty well." ever, which remained in the possession of the comp~y for some time, was f[...]s was strictly English, and then the old town was a pretty Rivers, he wouldn't trouble to find the br[...]_ply swim across, even in the middle of winter. One of their[...] |
| number, Charles Green, was drowned in the spring of 1887 Fort Benton and con[...]e cramps". between Helena and Bozeman. In 1883 until 1892 he was in One John Carey, started in the cattle business on his own the liquor business at Three Forks, as well as operating as a account up the Madison Valley, but when the first[...]d was unable to buy any from out of Bozeman. In 1899 he sold the ranch and purchased his neighbor[...]trymen that (tthe d ... cows would have to In addition to ranching, Charles owned a livery in Bozeman, eat willows or die," as the hay had all gone, so he had come to engaged in railroad contracting (1902-1909), was elected tow[...]county commissioner for six years, beginning in 1910, and All the gang have scattered. Several are in South Africa, belonged to several lodges in Bozeman. some are dead and one or two are residing in the east and have He married Lucille B. Monroe, May 1, 1883, soon after she finally made a stake. Three Forks has been a dead town since arrived in Willow Creek to teach school. Lucille was born th[...]aghan, who was their November 12, 1860, in Pottsville, Pennsylvania and moved counselor in all trouble, has had to go back to building rail-[...]Kansas. Charles roads, but, ~ven now, is _known in the western part of the and Lucille had f[...]July 16, 1932 and Lucille passed away in January, 1934. At[...]mer of Billings), Mr. Barker crossed the plains in the early 1860's and often Eugene of Helena, Lawrence of Chicago, Leo of Bozeman, and making a couple of trips with the pioneers of his day, he[...]. discovered the rich "Clipper" Mine at Pony. For a number of years he followed trapping, and conducted a cattle ranch "up _[...]We were born in Willow Creek. My grandmother was Mrs.[...]r was Martha Jane Hall West. When our father died in[...]his dairy. My husband came from Holland in 1912 to work at[...]the dairy and that is how I met him. We married in 1914 and __ The Jessie Barker cabin on the Ba[...]d to the Old Town area |
| daughter. Three of our sons live here in Olympia, one son live~ in Aberdeen and our daughter lives in Seattle.[...]ndpa Dunbar was the first permanent white settler in Gallatin City. Herbert was the oldest son of t[...]ly history, Fannie was the first white child born in the new town of Gallatin, and was named for her m[...]known early pioneer. Akins in 1880 in Gallatin City, and the family moved there, It must have been quite an event to have a son, after the and the children attended sch[...]zed by Reverend Daniel parents enrolled him in a young men's school in Salt Lake S. Tuttle, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Montana Territ- City. Later he was a student at Montana State College in its ory, who received that post in 1867. He came to Gallatin City early days, an[...]My mother, Emma Elizabeth Dunn, was born on a ranch Great-Grandparents, Major and Mrs. James B.[...]Byron and Thelma Dunbar. What a good time in history it must have been for children to grow up. Progress was there in the making, but enough of Pioneer customs prevail[...]encamp- ment at the Headwaters. My father told me a nightly, bedtime story of the Indians, which went[...]little brother Homer to swim, by pushing him into a deep pool! Herbert and Emma Eli[...] |
| [...]Dunn. Her father and mother were early pioneers. In the Montana Pioneers, and a member of the state legislature for family were William, James, Elizabeth, Ida and George Dunn. one term in the early twenties. He was a charter member of After several moves, they came to what is now the Old Town of Bagdad Shrine in Butte, and belonged to the Masonic Chap- Three Forks, where Grandpa Dunn built a comfortable home ters in Bozeman and Three Forks. He was civic-minded; and for his family. I can remember a picture of him sitting in a . was chairman of the School Board, when the new[...]were children. Our home was open to and enjoying a happy family life, my mother and her sister, frie[...]to the Territory, and my mother learned to handle a of many happy times. team of eight horses and a wagon. My mother died in February of 1955, and my father in She and Aunt Ida were very ladylike, too. They papered the November 1962. My brother Byron died in April 1968. whole house each spring, sewed all their own dresses, and We children had a good life, with lots of cousins nearby, played th[...]ir father brought them I am proud to be a member of this pioneer family , which has on one[...]ing trips. It must have been like Christmas lived in this area since 186 2. when he arrived with loaded wagons. My mother attended the college in Bozeman shortly after it was founded, and helped[...]he college·. colors. Among her relics 1 found a program for the Thanksgiving Ball, which was held at the Shedd Hotel in Old Town, (later to THOMAS MCGINNIS DUNN AND become part of the new Sacajawea, in Three Forks.) Each year SARAH MELISSA SHEDD HALL DUNN a different girl was chosen as Queen of the Ball, a[...]the Dunn's and Dunbar's knew of Montana but a trail blazer of California, Oregon and Idaho. each other well. At any rate, my mother and father fell in love, He was born Oct. 31, 1837 at Washingto[...]Co. , as did Ida Dunn and Homer Dunbar. They had a beautiful Ohio. When the lure of gold and daring adventure set the tide double wedding ceremony in the Episcopal Church in Boze- of immigration toward the Pacific[...]the western Eldorado, going to San Fancisco in 1859, via New brother Frank and Helen Dunbar, and[...]he Golden Gate" was Father and mother moved to a ranch in Milligan Canyon. wrecked, many passengers drowning. Mr. Dunn was among There is a hill, Mont Bardun, named for them, near where[...]om the old Commeri- He freighted and mined in California and Oregon and cal Bank in Bozeman, and bought a band of sheep. His erected the first stamp mill in Boise Basin, Idaho, in 1863. He brothers, Frank and Homer, ran sheep wit[...]blazed the Oregon trail into Montana and it was a common prospered for a number of years.[...]as he went My father always said, "if you own a piece of land, you will along and wanted them.[...]ugh he went untamable for him to 'hitch in"'. Frequently he made six or broke several times in his life, he always came back, because eight[...]est, wildest bronchos and drove he had such faith in our country, especially Montana. He ac- the[...]and Thomas M. Dunn. ers of the Copper City mines in early part of the century, located a few miles north of town. My parents built their home in Old Town in 1910 and lived many years to enjoy it. They were active people, interested in many things, especially Montana history, and moth[...]nd papers. My husband, Al Multz, and I are living in the home since 1958. I am the last of the fourth generation to be a resident of this area. My oldest son, Sherman Keyser and his wife, Jessie live in Northridge, Ca. Their two daughters, Cynthia and Kim also live in Northridge. Their son, Kent, lives in Washington. Another son, Kerry, lives in Ennis, Montana. He was married to Marilyn Heim. S[...], Kay, is married to Allan Russell. Their home is in Bigfork. Their four children are Renee, Ra[...] |
| [...]the University of Montana in Missoula.[...]ment Compensation Commission in Helena when it began in[...]drafted into the army, and in 1942 was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, in the U.S. Army Air Force. Served in India for two and a half years as a company commander, and then as a[...]Staff Officer. He was separated from the service in[...]The following five years he was a traveling salesman on the[...]West Coast; and then in western Montana from 1951 until[...]In 1956, he and the former Thelma Dunbar were marrie[...]and lived in Butte for two years, after which he became as-[...]mas Dunn barn at Old To wn . Painting by Nell Co. in Three Forks. He retired at the end of 1969. Thoma[...]Al is active in several local organizations, and for three[...]years was a member of the Gallatin County Bicentennial In 1865 he went to Idaho and pulled in the first quartz mill Committee and state America[...]centennial Commit- to Bannack. He spent some time in livery and mining business tee as Vice-Chairman. in Sterling and Red Bluff and in 1868 discovered the famous "Black Friday" mine at[...]amed "The Iron Al and Thelma are Ii ving in the Herbert Dunbar home in Clad". After this, Mr. Dunn finally came to live in the count ry Old Town, since 1958. which he regarded as his own - the Gallatin Valley. In 1877 he[...]the mine at Copper City. Mr. Dunn was married in 1872 to auburn haired Sarah Melissa Shedd Hall. S[...]US ADOLPH OLSON FAMILIES Carolina Sept. 13, 1842, a daughter of Joel H. and Eiizabeth Julius[...]om Hova, Sweden. They were mar- Samuel was killed in the Civil War leaving Sarah with three ried in Minnesota and lived in Wynona and Rushford. They children, Jane, Ephraim[...]with her parents and other family they lived for a number of years. members to help her brother Jame[...]hree Forks from Canada February 6, 1926, building in 1872. ·[...]th six children: William, working near Lombard on a rockslide for the Milwaukee Rail- James, Elizabet[...]to a house on Front Street. Gerta was one of the first cooks at Thomas and Sarah eventually settled in Old Town. Here in[...]to his grandchildren and scores of visitors. Many a March 23rd, 1931, Julius married Edith M[...]like an arrow were married the 19th of May, 1909 in Butte, Montana. He on some errand of mercy, often riding continuously 50 or 100 worked as a teamster, a miner, and in a feed store. They moved miles to find a doctor. Of these things he seldom told but he to Worden (near Billings) for a short time, then back to Butte. used to tell with high glee of how he rode between d~rk and In the spring of 1919 they moved to Will Fisher's homestead daylight from Radersburg to Helena and back to get a news- near Norris, on the west side of the Madiso[...]eloped arthritis and they were forced to sell out in 1941. He Dec. 23, 1915. "He is buried at the Loga[...]died in December of 1941. Kate stayed on in Three Forks for a where overlooking the air valley he loved, he sle[...]sleep peacefully and well." "For them that sleep in Jesus shall God bring with Him, and over such the[...]in 1958. Julius started the service station where T. A. Jenkins .garage is now located. He ran a wrecking yard for a number of[...]ool for 18 years and ALBIN A. MULTZ worked in various cafes. They also ranched. Al was born and raised in East Helena, the youngest of six They had[...]hildren, Vicky, Darby, Stacy, Montana from Europe in the early 1890's, and lived the rest of Dan, Gina[...]ean works on highway construction, so their lives in East Helena. they moved around a couple of years, then settled back in Old Al attended grade sschool in East Helena, high school in Town. Their youngest son was the first baby to be born in Old[...] |
| Town in forty some years. He was born in the house his great grandfather once owned. Jud[...]children, Dave, Ginny, and Leah. They also lived a number of different places before moving back to Old Town. Hank is a City Mar- shall in Three Forks. In 1926 there were two Olsons living in Old Town, in 1982 there are eleven of the Olson family living in Old Town.[...]F DAVID D. PA'ITEE Among the earliest merchants in Old Town-Three Forks, was David D. Pattee. David was born in Canada in 1836. At an early age he moved with his parents, to Vermont. In 1864 he purchased a team in St. Paul and joined a wagon train bound for Montana. They came west und[...]ey arrived at Last Chance, October 9, 1864. After a short rest, Mr. Near the Catholic Church in Old Town in 1892. Charley and Pattee made a trip to Frenchtown, Montana and brought back[...]tee. Paul by horse, Weasel, and Charley with dog, a load of flour, which he sold at $28 per sack. He was in Shep. Virginia City, Helena, Blackfoot C[...]odge, mining, prospecting and merchandising; made a trip to his Canadian home and then in 1871 he bought a ranch and a herd In the early 1880's, David and Nancy moved their you[...]the first stores in Old Town. This was an ideal place to raise a David had married Nancy A. Hanley, <laugher of Michael growing family and Paul D,a vid told Paul Jr. many exciting and Catherine Han[...]ber 28, 1872, at Upper Wil- tales oflife in this area. Paul Jr. shares some of these recollec[...]ere born to them: John Edward, tions on a tape: "My father moved to Three Forks at a very born 187 4 and died 1941, never married; Mary Elizabeth, born young age and his father opened up a grocery store. My father 1875, married Joseph Nash in Bozeman, died 1937 (Ten chil- spoke of ma[...]born ot this union. Robert and Donald still live in bars, Callaghans, Crouches, Buttelmans and M[...]967, the stories my father told was of a little bluckskin pony named never married; Paul David, born 1882 in Pony, died 1953, Weasel. My father rode it out into the hills, Weasel heard a married Mary Kiefer; (five children were born to[...]and Dad would have to walk home. He also told a story of one and Paul Jr. still live in Bozeman). day after[...]up. When the priest tried to pick him up he took a bite out of . .[...]the seat of his pants. He also spoke a lot about a man named Schmitty. I presume he was a bachelor. He spent lots of time[...]tient he wouldn't wait for Dad to catch a fish, so Dad just spent[...]all the wild ducks Schmitty would bring in to my father's[...]d about spending Sunday afternoons on the sloughs in[...]story about a cattle drive with Billy Buttelman. He spent the[...]whole day out in the cold wind. He came in frozen and tired[...]him behind the pot-bellied stove, mixed him up a hot toddy,[...]ide for days. He also told of the floods they had in the[...]Carpenter. I also remember him telling a story of some young couple going to a dance one night with a team and buggy.[...]they went to cross in the dark, they plunged off into ad ep hole[...] |
| [...]s of interest, but I gathered Three Forks must be a very friendly community. In all of Dad's life he spoke very highly of all the[...]here. I did have the opportunity, when I was just a young boy, to meet many of those older people. We took a trip to Three Forks in our old 1918 Model T Ford which was quite a trip in those days. We visited the Bill Buttelmans', a beautiful cou- ple, Herb Dunbar and Mr. Crouch. I've always had a very warm spot in my heart for Three Forks. In later years when I sold tires, I did business with a lot of the next generation." David Pattee, the[...]ad about two miles from Bozeman. He pas- sed away in 1909, Nancy Agnes passed away in 1912.[...]re the two men who platted Three Forks (Old Town) in 1882. Asher Paul was born in New York State in 1839. At the age often he moved to a farm at Delavan, Wis. In 1861 he moved to Eau Claire and was united in wedlock to Mary C. Hanley Jan. 17, 1864. They ado[...]dren. Olive Shouse. In 1866 Mr. Paul crossed the plains to Montana with[...]ed for five months. He located at Willow Creek on a farm . After ten years he tried his fortune in the Their daughter, Gladys Gayle, was bo[...]12, mines for two years, living at Pony , keeping a stable and at Knox City , Missouri. The family traveled back to Knox City hauling quartz. In 1878 he opened a public house in the old log when their son, James Robert II, was born. His birthdate was cabin that stood near the hotel in Three Forks. He also had April 21 , 1918. interests in the Copper City Mines. James and Olive bought a house at Old Town and lived Michael Hanley was born in Limerick , Ireland in 1839. He there until his death January 18[...]he was April 26, 1961. three , settling in Maine. The family then moved to Wisconsin. Their daughter, Gladys Gayle , married Willet W. Jackson In 1860 Michael thought the country west better suited his of Sterling, Montana, August 16, 1930, at the Presbyterian tastes. He journeyed to Colorado for a year, returned to Wis- Church in Bozeman. They lived a short time in Pony, Montana consin, and in 1867 came up the Missouri settling in Willow and then moved to Norris where the[...]r 8, 1975. Gayle still lives on the ranch. They In 1878 Mr. Hanley, in company with Asher Paul, began had si[...]g the hotel and store at the Shedd's Bridge site. In died June 1958, Carl Douglas born January[...]died 1880 James T. and Elizabeth C. Shedd signed a deed to A. W. August 4, 1973, Jay Timothy born Sept[...]anley. The hotel called the Madison House in Spokane, Washington, Judy Yvonne born September 23, burned in December, 1881. In 1882, the same year Three 1939, she lives in Ketchikan, Alaska, Monty Duane born Forks was pla[...]w Creek, Mon- location. This hotel was later sold in 1884 to the English. tana. Mr. Hanley married Margaret Callaghan in Feb., 1875. She James Robert Shouse II married Dorothy Hale and they had passed away in 1877. He later married Catherine Callaghan. a son, James Robert III born in May of 1939, he lives in Mr. Hanley passed away in 1884. Billings. A daughter, Regina was born in July of 1944 and lives in West Virginia. Robert James Shouse II died in June of[...]James Robert Shouse I was born February 28, 1881 in Mis- souri. He married Olive White in 1905 at Knox City, Missouri. Olive was born in Missouri , November 12, 1889.[...]ive moved from Knox City, Missouri , to Mon- tana in 1912. A daughter was born to them in Missouri and Born April 21, 1918, in Knox City, Missouri, to James was six weeks old w[...]obert Shouse and Olive Mitty White Shouse. He has a sister northwest of Three Forks, Montana, on different ranches Gayle who resides in Norris, Montana. He married Dorothy while James w[...]At the time of his death, he was married to man. In his later years he worked at Trident at the cemen[...]Bob or Red, as some called him, lived in Three Forks for the[...] |
| [...]Edith has two daughters from a previous marriage; Sandy[...]John Stockburger came to Montana in 1904 from Bouton Iowa. John was born in 1898 to Jonas and Catherine Stock-[...]burger. The family moved to Montana in the fall of 1904. My[...]and father and eleven children boarded the train in[...]owa for the trip to Montana." I remember stopping in Omaha,[...]around in full ceremonial dress. A sight to see for a 6-year-old rest of his life after coming to Three Forks as a small child. At boy." After arriving at Toston,[...]. for 1½ years. Then they homesteaded on Company in Trident. Years earlier he had worked for the[...]ies can be told of that job. Once, while crossing a in Montana. railroad track, a train hit him, cutting the bed of the truck off My father was a shoemaker and this trade was a source of right behind the cab. Another time, he picked up a hitch-hiker income when he helped repair the shoes of the workers in the and tossed him in the back of the truck with the dead animals.[...]at the When he let the guy out, he was more than a little mad. time we homesteaded. The family also helped furnish fresh Bob raised a few cows and always kept a couple of horses and beef and vegetables to the men living in the work camps along some mules around. He was th[...]uy who would loan the railroad. It was a hard life and the family all worked in this anything he had. He once loaned one of his mules to a moun- endeavor. tain man not knowing if h[...]epression was hard on the family so they moved to a and see the country. dairy farm at Three Forks in 1932. They farmed this ranch for Bob served in the Navy during World War II aboard the USS 12 years and then moved to Old ';fown in the spring of 1944. Yorktown. He was an ea[...] |
| [...]ery that was owned by Carl Gilmore. The store was in the building now occupied by Skip Milner's barber[...]delivered to the creamery between 7 and 8 o'clock in the morning. During the years of World War II there was a lot of rationing of sugar, coffee, meat, vegetabl[...]around the home, church and the radio. We raised a large vegetable garden and canned our own vegetab[...]Ideal Cement Co. at Trident until he passed away in 1963. Emma married Robert Allen in 1948 and they lived in Three Forks all their married life. Robert passed away in July of 1980 and Emma passed away in Dec. of 1981. Margaret married William Kundy and they reside in Three · Forks. Dorothy married Ray Durham and they live in Colstrip, Montana. Alice married Richard Stewart and they live in Rock Springs, Wyo. Donald married Mary Gooselaw and they live in Three Forks. John Jr. lives at Old Town near T[...]n celebrated their "Golden Wedding An- niversary" in 1977. A large group of friends and relatives helped them celebrate this event. · Martha passed away in November of 1981. John now lives with his son, Jo[...]ng, born March 16, 1860, at Louisville, Missouri, a~d Laura Belle Copenhaver, born September 13, 1863[...]Missouri, were married at Bowling Green, Missouri in 1881.[...] |
| [...]July 10, 1915 at Three General George Washington in the Revolutionary War. They Forks. Their children were Floyd Albert, born May 4, 1916, came to Montana in 1891, locating first in Livingston for deceased; and Audrey Laura, born J[...]ea where they California, where her parents owned a department store. had a ranch west of town. Cleve and Connie Berg had the early drugstore in Three Forks Then, they moved to what is known as "Old Town", a boom- on Main Street, and the post office was located there. ing community where Mr. Young engaged in the mercantile The Young children oft[...]ay from Old Town to Logan on the many sloughs and in great demand as "Fiddlers" for many dances and so[...]artin born August 23, 1885, died De- A goodly number of grandchildren and great-grandchi[...]ed constable for the Three Forks District. He was a staunch Democrat, and was very active in politics all his life. He was a member of the Three Forks Masonic Lodge, and Mrs.[...]on the celebrated Three Forks team, and worked as a brakeman for the Chicago, Milwaukee Railroad until retirement. His children received their schooling in Three Forks. On May 5, 1947, Tom married Veta Sil[...]he was an active and devout Catholic, and popular in the city. Eva married Harry Levi Gustine on Se[...]here Harry worked for Gary Hay & Grain Company as a bookkeeper, and for the Gallatin County The Young and Callaghan boys in front of the hotel at Old Clerk and Recorder, lat[...]ed Harry John Gillingham of Oak Park, Il- linois, in September, 1911, in Helena. He invested in dry-land wheat land on the bench, and in early Montana Oil Stocks. Crop failure due to dro[...]. Harry and Russie owned one of the first cars in the area. He built a bowling alley, billiard and pool parlor, on Main Street, and had a thriving business which was destroyed by fire. He[...]sketball on the team. Russie married Leo Eroes in January, 1928. He was the foreman of the electric[...]Harlowtown for the Milwaukee Railroad. They owned a cattle ranch on the Lower Madison which Ru[...] |
| [...]Dairy barn by Old'Town, now Highway Cloverleaf in Old Town. Beyond is the old bank building and hot[...]. ' The Fred Hafner family in Old Tow-n. 1913-14 truck may be Republic chain-[...]on the right. Panorama of Old Town Three Forks in __ |
| [...]pump lubricated for a 24 hour run. The Crago Water Lifter Co. To the[...]railroad station called Sappington. It was named in honor of Sappington died. Henry Hiter S[...]be At one time the to~ of Sappington included a depot, a h<?tel !buried at Sappington. built by Mr. Piper, a store, a post office, a livery stable, school The school burned down in 1925 or 1926 and for awhile the arid a number of dwellings. The Milwaukee and Northern[...]t this point. Sappington was made Later a bus route was started and among the first drivers up of railroaders, miners and farmers. The town was a stage were, William Bergren of Willow[...]ppington. Roy Harrington served as postmaster for a time In the early 1930's the Lime quarry at Sappington wa[...]was used to one time. The post office started out in the Northern Pacific refine sugar made from sugar beets. In its prime the quarry depot, then moved to a set of boxcars and then moved to the e[...]aining of the old town are the ranch ton, Montana in 1916. The board of directors for this company house that Henry Hiter Sappington built in 1894 and two were: F. H . Crago, the inventor, Mr[...]ish power to lift the water to any desired height in order to irrigate the adjacent lands. This could[...]there SAPPINGTON was a running stream with sufficient force to propel the levers The Sappington ranch was being operated by a partnership which operated the pumps. One of thes[...]oy Har- led on the Jefferson River for irrigating a portion of the John rington. Lyon Ranch at[...]Somebody convinced them that the grass in the Upper Gal- hour or 57,000 gallons a day. The upkeep ~n one of these[...] |
| [...]time went by. It tolled for Roy Harrington in 1958. Charley Sappington was next to go in the fall of 1959.[...]help of hired managers. Late in 1962 the operating responsi-[...]Maude Sappington, who was the sort of person a 1,000 page[...]fiction, contracted a fatal illness and passed away September[...]and it continued to function as it had in the past.[...]d Roy began dealing for land. They obtained quite a number and Monte became sort of concerned a[...]h sides of Highway 191 near the their cattle in the Gallatin pasture as their land butted up Wes[...]at of Big Sky. This concern was forthwith elimi- a few thousand acres up the West Fork and Mud Creek[...]land and other proper- which all augmented with a lease of several thousands of acres ties whic[...]est Service. About 1919, they bought Humpy in the Upper Gallatin. All except the big ranch hous[...]laying east of Highway 191. 'bine at least a half section of good grass land on the east side[...]ility ·o f the Gallatin River and it already had a cabin on it. for a number of years ofmy wife, Bessie, who was also a niece This little cabin was used as living quarters at first but a of Charley and Maude Sappington. foot bridge[...]affectionately and it and construction began on a large permanent log home. This sadly at the[...]magnificent four bedroom home was still standing in 1979 but Hemingway were here, he would real[...]periods but mostly went along with an easy swing. In the faint sound of a clapper against the metal side of a bell. the spring the cows and calves were brought up from the main Change? Of a certainty. Progress? Who's to know. ranch and left to fatten in summer on the pasture range. In the Bud Clark fall, usually in October, the cows, bulls and hefty calves were o[...]road on the Sand This annual drive was an event in these parts. Many pseudo Creek Hill. cow[...]is property. It was built by John better part of a week, was discontinued in 1967 since modern[...]Lyon, George Cheeseman and George Waterman, a brother- trucking facilities and heavy traffic m[...]in-law of Ida Lyon. The school was built in the summer of[...]store in Whitehall.[...]there were more school children in the little valley. The school[...]train than to hire a teacher. The four children of Ed and[...]like a school bus, stopped in front of each house. Nora also[...] |
| [...]hildren of Ernest and Gertie Hankinson also lived in the valley at a later date and rode the train. The children attended school in Willow Creek.[...]HARRY BELL Harry Bell came to Sappington as a Milwaukee Railroad employee. He homesteaded acros[...]dren: Julian, Florence and Catherine. Harry was a railroad tower operator. He controlled the tracks[...]s crossed. There were what they called 'frogs' on a rail of each track about three hundred feet each[...]ack for the train. This was done with · controls in the tower. The purpose of the 'frog' was to prevent a collision should two trains arrive at the same ti[...]Nora Peterson A.B.(BERT)CARLETON |
| [...]William Deasey came to the United States as a teenager from Ireland. He was a stowaway on a freighter. He married[...]Maud. Mrs. Deasey died in childbirth after which William put[...]the girls in the orphange at Twin Bridges, Montana. Joel a[...]overed wagon. Their youngest son, Frank, was born in Min- |
| [...]the Diamond S Ranch near Boulder, Montana. He was a United States Marshall at Virginia City, Montana. He was shot in the legs by an outlaw, was crippled for life and walked with the aid of a cane plus a crutch. His daughter, Maud, married Charlie Sappington in 1910. and lived on the Sappington ranch until her death in 1968.[...]SUSAN HUBBARD Susan (Hall) Hubbard was born in 1830 in Kingston, Penn- sylvania; her family moved to near Green Bay, WisCO!}Sin. Her husband, William, was born in 1827 near Syracuse, New York. His family also mov[...]Connec- ticut. Susan and William were married in 1849 and lived in Wis- consin until about 1865. Their five children[...]Indian Territory. They lived there for some time. In 1876 they joined a small wagon train that was going to Oregon. They[...]married John W. Lyon. Susan continued to live in their home for about ten years after William died in 1894 then lived with her son Frank; finally comin[...]Ward, they had raised Joe. Susan and Joe lived on a small farm near Cardwell. After Joe was married she spent most of her time with Ida and John Lyon in the Jefferson Canyon. In her later years she lived with Joe and Florrie Ward in Willow Creek. She was the first person to get[...]cky and Judy Jackson. train at the boxcar station in the Jefferson Canyon so the trainmen decided to n[...]rris, Montana through One of her little habits in early days was smoking a corncob[...]ended High School at Harrison, Mon- pipe. However in later years she was opposed to smoking.[...]tana and graduated in 1964. He spent two years in the U.S. Susan died in 1917 and was buried in the Willow Creek Army at Okinawa. He ma[...]Willow Creek and graduated from High School in 1963. Micky Ward Jackson was born to M. Willet and Gladys Mick and Judy have three children a son, Cody Dean, born Gayle Shouse Jackson on September 9, 1946 at Townsend, July 25 , 1965, a daughter, Angela Rochelle, born June 6, 1969[...]In 1971, Mick and Judy became partners in the Sappington[...]her brother and sister-in-law Monte and Patricia Parker.[...]Charles Lower was born in 1885 to Edward J. and Ann[...]Charles grew up in that area and served an apprenticeship to[...]become a locomotive engineer on the Canadian Pacific rail-[...]working in Winnipeg at th tim . She wa born and raised in[...]while her mother was born and raised in Missouri.[...] |
| In 1913, Charles and Luella had their first offsprin[...]rdie Parker of Willow Creek. They had two sons W. In 1914, they moved to the United States. Luella had two who both live in Montana and Birdie still lives in Willow brothers, Fred and Rolland, residing in Three Forks, Montana Creek. Halliday passed away in 1978. Clinton married Vina and with their glowing[...]hey had two daughters who quite naturally settled in this area. both live in the Seattle, Washington area. Vina passed away[...]nown as Charlie by all who knew him, felt in 1976. Clinton has since remarried and resides in Clarkston, that farming offered the best opportunity for making a living Washington. Bert married Peggy McC[...]of the canyon. At that time it resides in Richmond, Virginia. Both Bert and Peggy are de- was called "the West Place". He also filed on a homestead on ceased; Bert in 1963 and Peg shortly thereafter. Bill married adj[...]have two sons and one was about 800 feet wide and a mile long going up the canyon; a daughter who reside in Colorado and California. Bill and Jane natural ho[...]presently make their home in Trident, Montana. Don Lee[...]erry Robinson of McAllister, Montana. They had A couple of neighbors, the Peterson brothers, had a thresh- two sons and two daughters, all living in Montana. Don Lee ing outfit, so in the fall of the year, Charlie would run the passed away in 1971. Jerry has remarried and makes her engine. T[...]over the valley with this outfit. This home in Ennis, Montana. more or less helped pay the accum[...]James Lower ing on the "West Place" became a total disaster for Charlie when the country turne[...]CHARLES FRANCIS LYON One bright spot in this tenure was the arrival of another Charles Francis Lyon was born February 13, 1888, in Idaho son, Halliday, who was born in 1915. Charlie decided he had Territory.[...]ed to Three Forks Whitehall, Montana in 1907. She was born in June 1890. Her where he found employment on the M[...]ence, had come to Montana from Ohio. While living in Three Forks a third son, Clinton, was born Charles and Florence had one son, Robert. (1917). In 1918, Charlie moved his family from Three Forks t[...]his parent's fann. Their cabin was oflogs with a sod roof. The - family lived there until his reti[...]child's bed to keep him dry. It was such a wet year that water portation. If you wanted a fast way to get to Willow Creek, you ran do[...]d leased and operated the your car. This involved a two mile hike. The alternate was to gypsu[...]week for six or eight months of the year. train. In an emergency, a motor car or "speeder' could be found Cav[...]Children from Morrison cave. He built a waterwheel for a piece of property he Limespur, Alacazar and Sappi[...]1920 to 1924. Several years prior to this period, a schoolhouse the Lewis and Clark Cave road.[...]both basketball teams. In the late '20's, a bridge was built across the Jefferson River to co[...]to After High School, Bob managed a ranch Charlie leased Montana No. 287 highway unde[...]Montana and in the early thirties they moved their little[...]ia. After the war, they moved to At this time, a bus contract was let resulting in the demise of Bellingham, Washington where Bob[...]Willow Creek and with an oiled For a number of years Florence and Charlie had talked t[...]Walter Williams about taking one of his girls for a campanion[...]Creek school board. Besides ranching in the Jefferson Canyon and at Harrison,[...]he did logging and mining in the Southern Cross area and at Luella passed away in 1940 and Charlie in 1957. Lima, Montana. All si[...]reek high school graduates Florence died in Butte in 1928 and was buried in the Pony and married, raising families of their o[...]ried Made- Cemetery. Charlie died at Lima in 1960 and was buried in the lyn Doore of Three Forks and had two daughters and a son. Pony Cemetery. One daughter lives in California and the other in the state of[...]ngton. The son is deceased but his family resides in Arizona near the residence of Jim and Mad[...] |
| GEORGE LYON George Lyon was born in Idaho Territory. He worked with his father, John Lyon, on his many contracts. George was a blacksmith. He moved to the Jefferson Canyon an[...]. He and his wife, Ida, had one son, Arthur, born in Madison County near Mammoth. Three children were born on the homestead: Jesse, Cecelia and Jean. In 1919, they moved to Southern Cross eventually set[...]is homestead to Jay Huller. George and Ida died in Philipsburg and are buried in the Philipsburg cemetery. Their two sons, Arthur[...]hn W. Jr. and Ida Lyon. West Virginia, the son of A. J. Lyon and Elizabeth Rogerson Lyon. His father was a Methodist minister who had served Indian Territory. About 1876, the Hubbards joined a small with the Union forces as a chaplain all during the war between wagon train and headed for Idaho Territory. They settled in the States.[...]hen know as the Teton Basin. John came west as a member of a survey crew which was Their first baby[...], Bear Lake John nearby on horseback. In crossing a swift river the cur- County, Idaho Territory, on[...]wagon box away. John was able to tember 20, 1863 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, daughter of Wil- rop[...]stream. Ida liam and Susan Hubbard. When she was a small girl the jumped into the water in order to hold the team; she became so family move[...]Francis, and Elizabeth Ann, all born in Idaho Territory;[...]James N . and John W. Jr. were born in Silverbow County,[...]Mammoth in Madison County. Susan died in infancy and was[...]and lives in Seattle, Washington.[...]ohn was lured to Montana by the stories of 1 gold in them thar hills.' In about 1890 they settled at the Eighteen Mile[...]Mammoth in Madison County was a busy gold mining area[...]gain the lure of gold prompted them to move there in[...]nd. The two older boys, George and Charley, still in their[...]the sugar factory to be built in Whitehall and had one contract[...]son County to a farm three to four miles west of Sappington[...]along the Jefferson River, where Ida took up a homestead. They built a large two-story log house and barn. The house[...]each had a son. They also moved to the Jefferson Canyon and[...]John and Charlie leased a gypsum quarry in the Jefferson[...] |
| [...]chool was one-half mile east of the Lyon home. In 1918 they traded their farm which now consisted of about two thousand acres , to Tim Egan for a store at Southern Cross, Montana, another mining[...]s search for gold and owned several mining claims in the area. John died at their home in 1933. Ida died in 1938, both were buried in Anaconda. By a previous marriage Ida had a son, F. E. (Joe) Ward who was a long time resident of Willow Creek.[...]UPHEMA JANE SAPPINGTON MILLER Ruphema was born in a four room log cabin about one and a half miles east of what is now Sappington, Montan[...]s fir st two years of education were at home with a governess. She then went to school three years F[...]In 1910 Ruphema married Floyd Harold McCall at Butte[...]Montana. Born to them on March 14, 1912 was a daughter,[...]Helen H. McCall, and on Octooer 10, 1917 a son, William |
| [...]y and Sale Stable quilly along the river bottoms. In the hay-fragrant fields, the to meet trains at th[...]ady for the bountiful harvest. New Sappington was a terminal for loading out farm products, · paper went on the shelves. Fresh sand in the carrot bins. A cattle and raw ore. The railroad ran through the Morris prop- clean barrel for kraut stood in one corner and another for the erty as well as th[...]nd squash and the last biscuits, and I have quite a famous name as a fine biscuit of the cucumbers and cabbage and par[...]r. I'll never forget your father. He was clean as a woman find quantities of vegetables on our back p[...]room for it. Our garden was so she forgot me for a moment or so." I'll never forget how he'd plentiful this year.' work in the hot sun - it is hotter in the Antelope valley in the "December came along with crisp cold weather and time summer than it ever was in Missouri - all day long from was right for Charlie and the hired man to butcher a calf and a sunrise to sunset. Weeding, cultivating, irrigating and prun- pig. A hind quarter of the calf and a half of the pig went to our ing, and your mother there beside him most of the time. In the neighbors. We had a big grinder for the boarding house so we twilight[...]hey would leave for their cabin, he'd always made a great quantity of ground beef and also of pork ga[...]and fir logs were working gardeners, they loaded a couple of bushel baskets and brought from the nea[...]ses headed for the Sappington place. Well, it was a great treat for had several small mountains of sw[...], the big kitchen. Talk about garden stuffi First in June there'd the four of us sat around the great[...]n onions and radishes and crisp leaf lettuce. And a house. And the warmth of the room and the smell o[...]nd carrots and beets and turnips. Before the with a deep sense of comfort. summer was over we'd had i[...]«we're going to have a late mild winter," Fred told us. ''It's tomatoes and squash - all this and we never turned a spade.[...]all the The days were beaufiful - like a premature spring. At the wholesalers of groceries in Butte. times when the clouds did gather in the high white peaks and - 'Well, ~e'd unload th[...]the timber looked black, you could feel the snow in the air. The[...]mountains would become shrouded in a frosty froth and we'd and then we'd all go insid[...]e think, «well , here it comes!" But it was just a winter frolic. was a great one to write everything down. We'd talk a while Because the next morning would dawn clear a[...]ill would have brown fields and For The Wagon," "In The Good Old Summer Time", "Loves foothills. But what a comfort to sit and wait for the white drifts Old Sweet Song", "In The Gloaming", "My Old Kentucky and icy blasts, k[...]own by the river." them all. Your mama had quite a nice voice and liked to sing.[...]cia M. Morris Your father sang, too, but more as a matter of fact. "Well, we sang until we were[...]ye lived and worked around could see the pebbles in the dirt road. And the big mountains Willow Creek[...]ar as day. In 1937, Faye married Helen H. McCall at Livingston[...]out the busiest time of the year. tana. He served in the U.S. Army in 1945. H len was born to There was always so much[...]ghtful and thank- Butte. She had two daught rs by a former marriage B tty ful. A quiet peacefullness seemed to spread over[...] |
| [...]Sappington ranch. When Helen was just a kid she would come[...]from the summer pasture in the Gallatin Canyon. In the early[...]for a little while beings they were pretty close to it.[...]stayed a little longer than they intended to so they were in quite a hurry trying to catch the herd before anyone miss[...]them. They crossed a creek at a pretty good pace and tipped the[...]they weren't very popular around camp for a spell. They still[...]In 1958, Maude Sappington passed away and the Parker[...]and daughter-in-law, Monte and Pat Parker.[...]born at home in Willow Creek, Montana and was delivered by[...]Dr. Bradbury for the charge of $35.00. He lived in Willow[...]when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He served four years and[...]spent a great deal of time in Japan and so:r:ne in Ha,waii. He was discharged in 1959 and r-e turried to Willow Creek where[...]d Monte Parker Faye and Helen Parker \ ·were a son, Monte Wayne , May 4, 1938 and a daughter, Judy Rene , May 22 , 1945. The Park[...]eek where Faye and Lew O'Dell owned and operated a mechanic shop and he and Hal Lower, his brother-in-law, were partners in a well drilling outfit. Daughter, Betty, marrie[...]1955. Rodney Paul was born May 22 , 1957 and died in August of 1968. Bruce Evan, July 21 , 1959. Mart[...]Mathew, October 29 , 1964. Peggy married Ralph A. Frame, January 1, 1955. Their children are: Lin[...]the Sapping- - ton ranch at Sappington, Montana in October of 1962. They managed the ranch f[...] |
| [...]Watson. She was born at the Murray Hospital in Butte, Mon-[...]na, March 17, 1938. She lived with her parents on a ranch in[...]the North Boulder Valley and finally on a ranch west of Three[...]H1gh School in 1955 while staying with her grandparents, Mr.[...]and Mrs. A. Berry. After graduating, she worked for Batchel-[...]ders Creamery in Three Forks for a year. She then attended[...]Northwest Air College in Spokane, Washington and worked[...]for West Coast Airlines in Seattle, Wash. for almost three[...]years before returning to Montana in 1959. Monte and Pat lived in Willow Creek for two years after[...]1962, both in the Townsend Hospital. In 1962, Faye and Helen Parker and their daugher, Ju[...]ppington Ranch to manage it for Maude Sappington. In[...]Patricia in the Townsend Hospital.[...]Skip, Wes and Cliff attended school in Willow Creek and participated in basketball and track. Monte Parker family: Top Ro[...]ne and CliffKelly. Skip graduated in 1979 and ~ent the summer and fall of Bottom Row -[...]at year working for the Bureau of Land Management in[...]and is living there now . . hejoin~d his fa!h~_~_in_his ~ho_p doin_g w~ld~n_g and repair work. Wes graduated from High School in 1981 and was married On January 15, 1960, Monte and Lenita Patricia Watson in August of that year to Kara Laubach of Gardiner, Montana. were married in the Methodist Church in Three Forks, Mon- Wes and Kara live[...]works. They have a son, Matthew Allen. Patricia (Pat) Parker is the daughter of Carroll and Mildred Cliff is a freshman in the Willow Creek High School. He[...]works on the ranch in the summers. All three boys enjoy[...]mining. Man in Montana has generally either tilled the soil ,[...]or dug beneath its surface in order to make a living. The state[...]terally forced into existence by those who toiled in the[...]A small, almost forgotten settlement astride the Ga[...]nearby in the fields.[...]Yellowstone Trail and the Jefferson River, in a steep and[...]ere were few long-term commercial establishments. A[...]resident named C. H . Sherwood operated a small store that[...]postmaster until the office was discontinued in 1902. There[...]were two "hotels," operat d by Mrs. A. Miller and J . C. Falk-[...]man , along with a rooming house. Saloon owner Johnnie Con-[...] |
| [...]Much of the material in this article, especially names and[...]1879, in a log cabin about one and a half miles east of where[...]State College in Bozeman, Montana. In 1910, Charles Henry Sappington married Matilda The Sand Creek S chool about 1900. A one roo'm cabin, located Maude Deasey at Bil[...]Pearis, died in childbirth. Maude and her sister, Pearls, were nors also operated a small livery stable. His main competition the only living children of the Deaseys and they were put in[...]in Bridges. was from Ella Carls who also operated a bar in one room of the boarding house . A son, John Henry, was born to Charles and Maude Sa[...]pington in 1902. In 1904, John Henry was killed in a flash At its peak, the population reached about 125 souls. A flood. school existed for a short time , but was soon consolidated with the one at Stringtown, to the south in Madison County. M. J. In 1928, Charles and Maude, along with Roy Smith Har- Parsley worked his mine in the coulee alongside Preston rington ,[...]Delmar, Iowa to Sapping- headed by Thomas Gregg, a Butte doctor. The Chili and Good ton, Montana as a telegraph operator for the Milwaukee Rail- Friday mines commenced operation in 1892 following the road. Charles, Maude and Roy were partners in the ranch · initial discovery by Parsley. They w[...]Butte until 1958 when Roy died. Charles died in August of 1959. Badger Mining Company under the l[...]de continued to live on the ranch until her death in Sep- Browning. The Whippoorwill mine , in the gulch that inter- tember of 1968. sects Sand Creek coulee from the east, operated a ten stamp[...]with its mining operation. Butte Badger also had a ten stamp mill for processing ore.[...]MAUDE SAPPINGTON The last recorded mining in the gulch occurred in the late 1[...]ly, was one person Sherwood's store was mainly a hand-to-mouth affair and who never met a stranger and how she loved to cook! Cooking most[...]ck was just about the most important thing in her life and she Roberts' store at Stringtown, or[...]Years ago, when she and Charley lived in their Gallatin with a milk route that also offered butter, eggs and pork, along with garden vegetables and hay and grain, in season. Flour Charlie Sappington and his[...]ception was the Hans Nelson family. They remained in the gulch while farming the hills to the east and[...]ation of the old boarding house can still be seen in the gulch, along with various, scattered remnants of the mines and stamp mills. The collapsed remains of a farm house still exists at the south end o[...] |
| [...]flag down a car on the pretext her clock had stopped and[...]people, she would invite them in and prepare a sumptuous[...]happy when a meeting was held at Maude's home. Members[...]would receive a full course meal that would have the tables[...]Henry Sappington was born January 21, 1846 in Sapping-[...]originally came from England and settled in Maryland before[...]the Revolutionary War where they left a record as prominent figures in American history and affairs. Henry served in the[...]In 1869, Henry came west with four other Missouri me[...]Montana. Henry remained in the Big Hole country until 1871.[...]Montana, named in his honor.[...]There was only one other settler there, a Methodist Minis-[...]Ruphema was born in Calhoun, Harrison County, Iowa,[...]September 9, 1859, a daughter of Isaac and Martha Stocdon[...]Van Camp. They came to Montana in 1864 and were pioneers Maude and Charlie Sappington at cabin in Gallatin Canyon. of Bannock City. Isaac specialized in stock raising and fine horses. He was a Republican and Episcopalian. Ruphema at- Canyon r[...]nique ways of rectifying the situation. being a pupil in the first school established in the Territory of[...]In 1875, Ruphema and Henry were married in Dillon, Mon-[...]They became the parents of: Tyre Issac who became a Tyr~ Sappington and wife, Charlie and Maude Sappington. member of the police force in Great Falls, Montana; Charles[...]Henry who married Maude Deasey and became a farmer and[...]Dawson, a farmer in Stevensville, Mont.; Frances Pearl who[...]Floyd McCall , a car inspector for the Northern Pacific Rail-[...]road in Butte, Montana. She later married Albert M[...] |
| [...]Ruphema Jane VanCamp Sappington died in June 1928 in Soap Lake, Washington as a result of the car in which she was riding being hit by a train.[...]Ed Torrence was a brother of Florence (Mrs: Charles) Lyon.[...]He was also born at Renova and his father was a native of[...]und. He returned here after serving several years in the Army in World War I. Home built by Harry H. Sappingto[...]re were great possibilities |
| A DAY IN OCTOBER bowed he[...]gave thanks to the Lord for his It was Saturday in the last week of October. The milking g[...]nished and the back porch woodbin was full. Poker Face,[...]if they weren't bruised, we were told. It was a pleasant journey in the early morning. But it seemed like a long twenty-four miles to the Rundel ranch. The b[...]we looked down on the little farm house squatted in the ravine below. At the bottom of the hill, father unhitched the team and led them to the stream. Poke~ Face and I looked anxiously at the open doorway. The s[...]at Willow Creek in Nov. 1928. Plaque on the motor 10305, The hill[...]nakes! So trols from Sappington to Avery in 1923. ,RV/VI or./ we hung around the doorst[...]een tomato preserves, so they said they would set a jar of it in the wagon seat to take home. Poker Face started to tell that just yesterday, Mama had made a big kettle of it. But a look of warning from father's cool blue eyes stopped him just in time. The dinner and the talking was a leisurely process. It took about two hours. After[...]e autumn seemed like an unhurried time. There was a laziness all about. Crickets trilled quietly in the soft warm air. Dogs and cats slept on the gro[...]ft the dishes "set" and rested on the front porch a Maude and Charlie Sappington, and Roy Harrington in the spell listening to the two men.[...]k some baskets and started for the orchard. Poker Face and I helped a great deal. Cattle trail by way of the Madi[...]pastures. for nibbles so soon after having such a fine meal. Before long there were plenty o[...] |
| [...]Three Forks had planned well. Charles Ellison as a restaurant; and the third was used to All was in readiness for the lot sale - Sept. 17, 1908. The[...]ere Three Forks now stands, on that date, was but a grassy and Z. L. Bowen was in full charge of the material for the plot studded[...]waukee depot. The day dawned windy and rainy. A Milwaukee excursion There were some tar paper sha[...]empsey fed the construction arrived from Roundup in the early afternoon. Earlier the crews. Office bu[...]int Lynn Lumber Northern Pacific had brought, at a special rate, a trainload of Companies were also under construction. Occasionally a mos- lot seekers, letting them off at the Northe[...]ouid alight causing lurid remarks from the depot a mile east of the new town site. tenderfeet. I In the words of P.S. Dorsey, "We have a very vivid recollec- The original plan was to hold the sale on Main Street, in the tion of our first introduction to the new Th[...]drizzling rain continued to fall, alighted from a Northern Pacific train on the morning of Sept. so[...]tents on the railroad land north of darkness put a stop to the sale, bidding was lively and l[...] |
| [...]There would be two other newspapers published in Three Those who remained established themselve[...]''Three Forks Town Hotel until they could "erect a tent or build a tar papered News" was started in 1911, Fergie Ballard, editor. In the shack."[...]((Pink Reporter". In 1935 Orison Bryant took his listeners way back to[...]ic, The Milwaukee Road and the Galla- first store in town. It was a tent house and they carried every- tin Valley branch all provided transportation facilities. E. A. thing to eat. From bananas to bacon , the stock was complete. Tennis in 1910 attempted to build another branch called "The Their greatest trouble however, arose with a lack of a perma- Three Forks, Helena and Madison Vall[...]ands (later Fred's Place) . They stayed there for a day or and then to Helena. Building of the grad[...]rs but never completed. had begun erecting a building on the lot. They simply moved Twice people in this area attempted to establish a new to the next lot but again were forced to move. They growled a county taking small portions of Jefferson,[...]ut on the street where it remained unmolested for a time. this Wilson County with Three Forks th[...]ing could unsuccessful attempt was made in 1918, this time being called be heard. By June 17, 1909 Three Forks boasted of 800 in- Pershing County. In 1944 the Three Forks Soil Conservation habitants[...]two District used these same boundaries with a few minor transcontinental railroads; cement fac[...]ds; hotel; six rooming houses; eight kilowatt. A discount of 25 percent would be given on a[...] |
| In 1910 Mrs. Peter Myers in "The Coming of the White Men" Have become memories only, journeyed back over the Divide from Butte in a touring car. Of the vivid long ago. The automobile stalled outside of Three Forks. "It was a new The benches once infested experience to spend a few days in one of these young and With wolfs and[...]r shining jagged outlines showing There's a new and growing city clear against a matchless sky."[...]amiliar with the names of these mountain In the valley of t he Missouri, ranges: The Bridger[...]rning to the music of the hammer, and the sawing, a ceaseless refrain in Three Forks - and to feel the faith and hope of h[...]urrell Proprietors; Pioneer M ercantile, There's a valley in Montana, Jo[...]d, Whose summits rise beyond the foothills As a picture - beautiful to behold. There the three forks of the Missouri Flow in shadows of the peaks, Where speckled trout and greyling Flit and gambol in the creeks. Where the red man trained his arrows 'Ere his victim could retreat To the crags in the mountains, Where the three rivers meet. Wh[...]'s breeze. Where an Indian girl led to shelter A sturdy wandering band; To shades of the willows[...]0 . L. B ryant in the first store in Three Forks-Bryant inside the On the river's g[...]The Milwaukee Depot - 1908. In the valley of the mountains, Where three river[...]re the smoothest, The bottoms green and neat; In the valley of Montana, Where the three[...] |
| [...]The Railroad Yards in Three Forks - 1908. The Clark Lumber C[...] |
| [...]shops, roundhouse and the water tank. Henry Peck in front of the oilhouse |
| [...]New coal dock built in 1912, 98' high.[...] |
| [...]Three Forks boasted one ofthe few covered bridges in~ontana, that of the Milwaukee Road across[...] |
| [...]became the Labor National in 1923. The Masonic Lodge was[...]the successful bidder in 1931 when it went into a receiver-[...]t of Three Forks March 25, 1980. Barney Buzdikian in door. Crew: Joe Peccia, Jim Duncan, Earl Lane. Ed[...]Cozy Theatre, first theatre in Three Forks. Later named the First Nationa[...] |
| The team in the old baseball pa-,.k near the new grade scJwo( Even rodeos were held here. The Ruby Theatre was open in time for the 1912 4th of July |
| [...]e, ~as the s~~ne of ~any social activities. Built in 1912.[...]"girls" left town in 1917.[...] |
| [...]ar and Main. Later The 4th of July parade in 1913. moved to Date Street when drug store was bu[...]ore. A good view from the north end of Main Street. Walter Sevals had one of four cigar factories in Three Forks, |
| [...]tching Post on Date beside Menapace Store. School inin 1915.[...]beautiful arch greeted the tourists as they came in on the[...] |
| [...]Herald in 1927 it was still housed here. Niels Olson, the photographer, caught the earthquake in action Buckey's first wrecker. The earthquake and then a violent wind storm did all this |
| [...]The Jaw Bone Restaurant on left. Freight Depot in center. First library building purchased in 1928. New library was Sherlock Nave moves the Undertaker's Parlor, July 28, 1937. TheJ. F. Wegner Hotel completed in March 1909. Later run by[...]let Lilly. Five drivers and 24 horses hauling in the huge turbine for the |
| [...]waukee Railroad in 1908. With the encouragement of J. Q. Adams, a proprietor of the Milwaukee Land Company, it was[...]originally incorporated in December 1909.[...]ment was formed to govern the town. Elected Mayor in[...]R. W. Thomas, and C. A. Ellison served as aldermen repres-[...]the two wards. Among the first orders of business in[...]In ·1910 a committee of aldermen composed of Bryant,[...]committee with the addition ofR. W. Thomas was in charge of Three Forks' first girls basketball team. securing a site for a cemetery. During that time it was resol-[...]limit the number of saloons to six and they were in-[...]all taxable property in the town to be used for general ad-[...]A notice of Registration to Vote in the town election was set for April 4, 1910. A mayor and four aldermen, two from each of[...]successful candidates served a two year term. At this time a[...]At the electionjn 1910 a new mayor was elected, J. W. Ross,[...]Bryant, and C. A. Ellison. At this time a permit was issued to Dad Ballard's Kozy Kandy Kit[...]usta Ben and Carrie Reynolds and Jim Noyes coming in from the Smith, completed construction of the Par[...]daugher, Edith Smith, married T. A. Fairhurst, a trainman on[...]the Chicago Milwaukee and Pudget Sound Railroad. In 1938[...]hired as town Marshal at $75.00 a month. Since the commun-[...]ity was becoming urbanized, a fire engine was purchased which was a "Waterous No. 6 class B four cylinder" that pulled a cart behind with 1000 feet of 2½ inch hose. It w[...]bought at a price of$2300.00. F. A. Dickson was the first Chief[...] |
| be in order to create a third ward. The polling places were described as follows: the first ward to be in the downstairs lobby of the schoolhouse, the second precinct to vote at the jail and the third to be in a "tent near the corner of California Ave. and First Street in Buttelman addition." It was determined by the cou[...]ers and Gillingham was the Registry Agent. It was in the period of time that a Catholic Priest by the name of Father E. P. Gueymard was instrumental in establishing the present "Fairview Cemet- ery." T[...]engines are now housed. The city also maintained a stable at this site. It housed a team of horses used in the task of maintaining the streets. L. R. Haas w[...]amster. About 1913 the city council considered a municipal water works and sewer system and made p[...]f C. E. Chryst, Orison Bryant. expressed interest in the project. When 0. L. Bryant resigned as mayor, Ralph Robertson was On Jan. 5, 1911 a meeting was held to organize a volunteer elected by the council to replace him.[...]Fire Dept. J.M. Dennis was elected Fire Chief. In Feb. 1911, a the project of providing Sewer and Water for the Town of citizen's committee organized a bucket brigade to assist the Three Forks. Bonds w[...]week the City Council voted to purchase lots 1 In 1915 John Dolan the City Marshall was shot and killed at and 2 in Block 24 opposite the First National Bank for gen[...]eral city purposes such as a shed for the fire engine. The lots The town at[...]or $500 - $250 14 acres ofland for the city dump. A light was wired by R.H. cash and $250 in 6 months with 6 percent interest. Brackney over t[...]hase such clothing for the fire department as for a reservoir and a 15 foot strip to connect with the city dee[...]yors: William Parnacott was appointed act~ In October 1912, new fire signals had been agreed on[...]C. ~- Adws; 1_927J>r. _John I)jmo.~; 1929, 1931, A. E. Work- long whistle for practice and me[...]ied June 1, 1938; rernaind~_r of term D. In Jan. -1913 it was ordered by the Council to pay the team A. Robinson; 1939 Tom Fairhurst Sr.; 1941 Dr. L. L.[...]erms) Dr. Larry Laird; 1977 Claude Rice, resigned in 1979. Jack Heebner served remainder of the term;[...]d and compiled by ·T om Fairhurst' Lo«ge in 1939. THE THREE FORKS VOLUNTEER[...]government had not yet been organized. It |
| [...]ill stood where the elevator now stands at the In October, 1913 the City Fathers made some changes in the north end of town. Fire Equipment. 7[...]Pool Hall, also a room occupied by Bud Bowman as a pl um bing On July 22, 1914 the Three Forks Vo[...]shop and Rush Culbertson's paint shop; a one story frame given a certificate of membership in the Montana State building built in 1908 used by Beck Hardware and later Wm. Firemen'[...]anizing; adjoining this was the Eck and Ander- In 1916 the fire whistle was sounded by courtesy of[...]oon and the Mint Cafe, the Allen building used as a of the C. 0. D. Laundry. He sounded the alarm with his private garage. Adjoining this was a building used by Mrs. laundry whistle, the regular fire whistle being out of commis- Bates as a beauty parlor. This building was not destroyed. T[...]on Main. When the roundhouse was discontinued a 200 lb. electric The last largest fire was in 1973 when the Western Hotel firebell was erected[...]he central telephone exchange. This was installed in Feb. 1917. In October 1917 we have a modern Fire Department. "The city now owns a new Auto Fire Truck - a Name machine is POST OFFICE constructed on a Ford Chassis with a roomy seat for the Fire When it was certain that the Milwaukee Railroad would Chief and a passenger. It carries a 15 gallon chemical tank and pass through Three Forks, a postmaster, William Young, was a 150 ft. chemical hose handily arranged in a heavy wire tank, reappointed at Old Town, in April 1907. By July 1908 W. L. built especially[...]Irvine had been appointed postmaster. to pull as a trailer the hose reel for use of city water. The truck Over in New Town, Three Forks, Mannie Bryant and Joe is painted white - will present a metropolitan appearance." Menapace est[...]hite Swan. ing first from a tent. On Oct. 5, 1908 they installed a box for In 1925 the Department purchased a Chevrolet 1 ton truck outgoing mail an[...]which was later sold to Lester Williams for $50. In 1933 from Old Town to New Town who[...]ld Town nated labor Three Forks expected to have a modern fire ((hose so W. L. Irvine reque[...]r equipment. For the ((This occasioned a stir at Trident whose residents sought first time Three Forks will have a modern efficient fire- the privilege[...]fighting equipment, capable of coping with even a major even demanding that this rec[...]By 1936 ((Volunteer Firemen want new Truck." In 1939 Mr. "But Mr. Irvine by quick action and real diplomacy removed and Mrs. Wm. Kramer, Mr. a.nd Mrs. W. K. Sterling and the post office and with it the name. Thus did Postmaster William McLees made a journey to pick up an American Irvine accomplish a very neat trick for the new town of Three LaFran[...]is was used until 1953. At that time they ordered a Tales handed down reveal that Mr. Irvine , Tom Young, new Ford Fire Truck. In 1961 and 1968 two trucks, a Chev- Mike Lane and other enthusiastic Three Forks Boosters steal- rolet and a Dodge, were purchased for the Rural Fire Districts. thily made the move in the dead of the night, even nailing the Another fire truck was purchased in 1970, a Ford. sign to the south side of the Mercantile Store . The Pioneer A Fireman's Ball was held shortly after the organiz[...]. the Volunteer Fire Department. This has become a yearly Manny Bryant was assista[...]They have contributed to both Mr. H. A. Paddock was appointed postmaster in 1915 and in Girls' and Boys' State delegates and other worth[...]ardware , the house foreman, First Chief, Claude Sterling, Ed Chryst, Golden Rule, the Three Forks Drug Co. and the post office. A George West, Bill Kremer, Bus Cramer, Holmes Bat[...]t-Lynn William Fraser was appointed in 1924 and the post office Lumber yard, in 1913 was thought to have been caused by a was moved to the east side of the street again. The building tramp sleeping in the stable near the hotel. The other two[...]it Mr. Mestad was appointed postmaster in 1933, then James was only possible to bring one[...]the Price. Dave Andrew was appointed in 1942. Orvill Black was[...] |
| [...]master just before the appointment of Earl McLees in 1961. By January 1961 the present post office was com- pleted and in operation. Mrs. Verna Clark was acting post- mist[...]SCHOOL It became apparent in the fall of 1908 that some sort of schooling must[...]s and Mr. H.F. Erb as clerk, school was commenced in District No. 24, of Gallatin County, Chil- dren attended school at Old Town the first year. At a March 4, 1909 special election, it was determined[...]the old school building at Old Town and purchase a suitable site in the New. In Sept. of 1909 the decision was made to renovate a build- ing about in the vicinity of the present Frank Hart residence[...]ing was owned by W. J. Walsh and had been used as a rooming house. By Sept. 16 the building had been[...]building was rented for $400,janitor School built in present baseball park - in u~e from 1910-1917. service for the year was $210. After use as the school this building became a laundry. On June 10, 1910 public bids for building a new school were being solicited. The new school w[...]h year another year of high school was added, and in 1915 the first graduation was held for _ Margaret[...]Scott and John Schmidt at the Methodist Church. In 1914 over 200 students were enrolled. The first a[...]wo years. Valley View and the Grant Smith schools in Broadwater County were consolidated with Three Forks in 1916. It became necessary at this time to build a larger school.[...]e 1916 Brick School and the gymnasium constructed in[...]A modern brick building was erected on Second Ave. east at a[...]its destruction in 1978.[...]pleted in 1953. The new gymnasium was added in 1969 and finally the new grade school in 1977.[...]1919-20 A. D. Hall and Jane Melton; 1920-26 R. E. Al[...] |
| [...]THREE FORKS AREA Aviation came to Three Forks in the early 1920's when barnstormers touring throug[...]e sightseeing flights to passengers. They were a surplus commodity of the Great War: out-of- work[...]the restless years following that war they found a unique and satisfying way to survive as itinerant showmen of the air. In the early years of aviation, any level pasture ad[...]dge of the community. The airfield was started in the 1920's and on October 15, 1935, Northwest Air[...]Town received the follow~ ·USAF Col. Dean A. Pogreba with F-105 Aircraft, 1964. ing telegram[...]urning. Please terminate agreement used as a weather station, a beacon moved from the abandoned effective today.[...]ng care from all the local flying enthusiasts. In the early 1940's, the town, recognizing the need for a On Saturday, May 22, 1971, the town turne[...]dedicate the airport to Lt. Col. Dean A. Pogreba of the Air started working toward acquir[...]Force, who, at the time, was listed as missing in action in Spearheading the drive were Howard Jeglum and Joh[...]. on a mission to knock out missile sites in the Hanoi area. In 1942, the Three Forks Flying Club was formally or- Dean Pogreba, a 1940 graduate of the Three Forks High ganized wit[...], Jess Kilgore , School, was employed as a conductor on the Rocky Mountain Ray Bacon, Peck B[...]worked on runs out of Three Forks. He enlisted in the Air McLees, Ervin Keene and Bud Fisher. Force during World War II, and as a pilot, flew the hump over The club purchased a 65 hp Taylorcrft ai.r plane and avia- China,[...]returned to Three Forks and railroading, Then in 1944-45, lands were purchased from Willis Albro[...]h Page on the southern boundaries of the town and a permanent airport established for the community.[...]Dedication of Three Forks Airport to Col. Dean A. Pogreba . The Gallatin County Airport Board bec[...]om Gallatin Field where it had been Barnstorming in 1915. Passenger Ray Matter near hospital.[...] |
| [...]M. Fogle, De- aircraft. Following it, he remained in the Air Force. His milit- nnis .J. Mike, Glen[...]ramp, David Whittet, ·Thomas Sprague, William A. Fairhurst, former mayor of Three Forks, was[...]ing chairman of the airport dedication, which was a gesture Lehmann, Albert Rechsteiner, Frank[...]community of honoring all those men held prisoner in Haffner, Allen Pinkney, Ernest Muetz, J[...]in and Beverly, attended the ceremony along witli a son, Steel, Charles McPherson, Archie M[...]Fairhurst, who had been taught to fly by Pogreba in 1949, Edward Kavanaugh. later became a Marine pilot and flew with VMF451, during Those who were killed or missing in World War II were: Pvt. the Korean War. Fairhurst[...]ck Parr - MIA Navy; PFC Robert Roadarmel - killed in tana Air National Guard and Major Gadd of the U.S[...]s, who Crewman missing over Tokyo; Lt. A. E. McDonald - killed in had served with Pogreba, attended the dedication[...]William Les- Those killed or missing in Korea: no one listed in the news- sley, of Bozeman, read a letter from President Nixon, in which, papers. he praised Col. Pogreba and e[...]for all those Those killed or missing in Viet Nam: Lt. Col. Dean Americans who, at the tim[...]; Jimmy Pickle, April 15, 1968, shot at Col. Dean A. Pogreba, USAF killed in action. Wei, Vietnam, di[...]ty of Three Forks as well as ari airfield, and is a symbol of the dedication of[...]The following is a copy of the postcard from Louise Kunze these Unit[...]sent to relatives in Seattle, Wa. after the earthquake.[...]June 30, 1925 Those who gave their lives in World War I were: Dan Dear Folks, Thomas, Marine Corps, killed in action Sept. 14, 1918; Dr. C. We have been ha[...]few days. All brick V. Reed, Medical Corps, died in England Oct. 19, 1918; Truer buildings are near[...]when first shock Johnson, Infantry Corps, killed in action Sept. 27, 1918. came - thot I had gone crazy. Just got back in house and second[...]s F. Aldrich, David P. Elmore, Ed- several weeks. A tunnel just above where I taught caved in ward W. Kavanaugh, Earl Stanley Hester, Elias C.[...]mes C. Lane, G. W. Smith, Richard Stevens, Ernest A. are on edge. The house rocked so I couldn't even[...]buildings damaged the most in Three Forks were the[...]Frick). People tried to sleep on their lawns, or in the city parks.[...] |
| [...]g the spring of 1979, Amoco Minerals Corporation, a[...]has plans in progress to increase the production capacity of t[...]largest milling facilities in the world.[...]In the early days of a small, but growing community, a drug store played a most important part. Dr. Stoyer, of Three Forks,[...]realized this and built a building with a pharmacy in mind and Northern Pacific's North Coast Ltd. pass[...]lant was determined it would be used only for a drug store. So in (Cyprus Ind.) June 14. 1969 - Courtesy of Ron V. Nixon. January of 1909, a Mr. Kreker, of the Gallatin Drug Co., of[...]ted where the Montana the talc plant was owned by a company known as Sierra Talc Power Co. is today. with headquarters located in Los Angeles, California. Twenty-four y[...], from Minnesota, At the time, Sierra Talc had a plant in Los Angeles, Califor- was hired as manager in March of 1909. Mr. Brickson was nia and in Grand Island, Nebraska, with the main ore body[...]drug store until November 17, 1910, when loc~ted in California. Markets in the western United States he decided it was too demanding of his time , so he opened a and the promise of good talc deposits brought the[...]in Exploration Department to the Montana area. As a res~l! of Street. Mr. Erickson's widow, Mamie, was living in Pony, their efforts in Montana, the company purchased the mmmg Montana at the time of this 'writing. rights and land of a mine located south of Ennis and w~ich is C. A. (Conrad) Berg, a native of Chicago, came to Three known today as t[...]On December 4, When production of mining began in 1952, the ore was 1913 Berg and Cleve Young purchased the Three Forks Drug placed in trucks and sent to Norris; from there, the railro[...]. He moved, with them, from Missouri to Old Town. A Due to the poor economics of shipping from the mine to the brother, Tom and a sister Russie , lived in the Three Forks area milling facilities located in Nebraska and California, and a also. continuing growing market in the western United States, the Con Berg moved to Great Falls in about 1925 and became company decided to look for a suitable site located near the proprietor of the Rainbow Pharmacy there, later selling and mine to build a milling facility. Many areas were considered; was employed by Higgs Drug Store. While in Three Forks, he however, it was found that the Three Forks area had the best sang in a number of the local church choirs. Berg died at an potential, mainly because it had a main line railroad siding, early age, in Great Falls, of influenza. He was survived by his availability of natural gas necessary for grinding, and a good wife, Marie Elvira, formerly of Chicago, and[...]Trident - Jack, Robert and Donald. was currently in full production). W[...]anned for above) built the City Drug Store in 1910. He was born April future expansion. Under the name "Sierra Talc", the plant began producing a refined product here in Three Forks d_uring W. E . Y oung (Doc) built the City Drug S tore in 1910. March, 1961, with a production capacity of 15,000 ton per year. Early 1963, a second milling facility was added thereby doubling their production capacity; this expansion also in- cluded additional warehouse space. August of[...]during the years of 1965 through January , 1974. In January of 1974, the company was renamed Cyprus Industrial Minerals Com- pany. Along with a new name (Cyprus Industrial Minerals Co.) the company invested a two million dollar expansion that modernized the[...]s added to ex1stmg markets and became competitive in new areas; hence , today th refined products from this plant are used in paper, ceramics, rubber, paint, fertilizer[...] |
| [...]A. G. Johnston and his staff at the Johnston Drug.[...]The A. F. Robertson Jewelry and Watch Co. of Harlowton[...]called it Robertson Drug and Jewelry. A. F. Robertson's son[...]Reuben, operated the jewelry store in the north side of the The New Front on the City D[...]drug store in the south side of said building. There was a modern soda fountain in the rear of the drug store. Sam B.[...]Dorn~.berger of Chicago, graduate pharmacist, was in charge of 12, 1854 at Marysville, Prince Edward Island, Canada. His the pharmacy. A complete line of patent medicines and newest scho[...]Uniyersity of Michigan at Ann designs in stationery, soaps, rubber goods, perfumery, talcum Arbor, in 1882, where he studied medicine. He practiced powders and toilet waters was offered. Also a complete line of medicine for a number of years in Brittain, North Dakota. He cigars to su[...]Ralph Robertson was mayor of married Mary Conway in 1893 at Onekma, Michigan. The Three Forks in 1915 and again in 1917. family moved from Brittain to Cripple Creek, Colorado and in 1903 moved to Marysville, Idaho for seven years b[...]Robertson Drug and Jewelry went into receivership in ing to Three Forks in 1910.[...]businessman. His cus- Dreibelbis Drug in Butte. Mr. Dreibelbis made the final bid of tomers started calling him 1 Doc' because of their faith in his[...]rug On June 27, 1925 the City Drug was damaged in a severe and Jewelry store, as a druggist, on December 11, 1924. On ear~hquake. Th[...]from Three _Forks. 1 Doc' Young died, of a heart attack, at the age of eighty-three Al[...]Doc', came to Three Forks in April, 1929. He operated the one-time sheriff of[...]store for Dreibelbis Drug Company of Butte. In 1940 Al vices were held in the Federated Church, the Rev. Ronald[...]nd William Coffin. Surviving was his widow, Mary, a Conrad, Montana in their first drug store. Later he had a daughter Margaret and two sons, Harold, of Three[...]Mary Morgan Webb. They lived for a while in St. Paul, Min-[...]nesota, where he was employed at a pharmacy. From there he ~-~-Adams and B. S. Ad[...]· moved to Manhattan, Montana and worked in the Talbot bmldmg at the east corner of Main and[...]For many years the Johnston Drug was a landmark in the ~rea. In 1933 Al became a Greyhound Bus Lines agent, operat-[...]i~g ?ut ?fthe Jo~nston Drug, open 24 hours a day. It had the This was the ~ob~SO!£ D_~ug in 1918. d1~tmct10[...]ms~all~d m 1~39 and was described at length in a front page[...]years later, the marble from it was installed in the new[...]During the years when no doctor was located in the area[...]tended medical school intending to become a doctor but after suffering a shoulder injury playing football, ch~nged[...] |
| tana of heart failure, a problem of many years. Besides his HISTORY OF KANTA-PRODUCTS, INC. widow, Mary, he left a step-daughter, Lucille and two grand- daughters,[...]The Block Plant was started in June 1946 under the name of[...]the City Drug Store after the Norman Irving in the old Yellowstone Garage Building. death of his father, W. E. Young, in the thirties. He bought into the Bungalow Drug in Bozeman, Montana· and his son After[...]l, the plant was taken over by George and Kathryn in 1952. Harold received his education in pharmacy at the University of Montana in Missoula. On May 15, 1941, James Burcham took[...]even years at Ranks Drug Store. Mr. Bur- cham was a graduate of Montana School of Pharmacy in 1931. On July 18 and 19 of 1941, Burcham held a big 'Open House' sale at his Rexall Drug. Then on April 22, 1942, he passed away at the Deaconess Hospital in Bozeman after less than a year in business. Elias S. Ayers moved to Three Forks in July of 1942 and took over the Rexall Drug, owned[...]ug again. Leslie Max Olson came to Three Forks in 1952 to work for Mary Johnston at the Johnston Dr[...]aceutical education at South Dakota State College in Brookings. Formerly, he had worked in stores in South Dakota and in Baker and Livingston, Montana. In 1954, the Olsons' purchased the store from Mrs. J[...]nta Block Plant. after the death of Mrs. Johnston in 1971, by her granddaugh- ter, Charlotte and husba[...]rug Store was taken over by Bob and Edythe DeBoer in August of 1959. The DeBoers operated the pioneer[...]and moving from Three Forks. They are now located in Battle Creek, Michigan. The new owners of the[...]anager. He graduated from North Dakota University in 1975 with a degree in pharmacy. Knutson moved to Three Forks with his w[...]til 1980 when he bought out Les Olson's inventory in the John- ston Drug. He then moved from the City[...]nt - Lynn Conner at the con- Marrinan was born in 1951 at Missoula, Montana. His par- trols.[...]arrinan were ranchers of that area. He grew up on a ranch in western Sanders county, attending George's brother, Tom, joined the firm in 1960, at which high school in Hot Springs and later graduating from the[...]cts Inc. University of Montana School of Pharmacy in 1975. He was with George as president, Tom, vice-president and Kathryn as registered in Montana and Wyoming.[...]er. Previous employment included the Osco Drug in Casper, The present location (south[...]nt was store manager for Walgreens' Company Store in Sterling, built to expand shale to be used as a new aggregate for the Illinois.[...]manufacturing of blocks. In 1970, a new automated block Pat's major goals are to ma[...]tas to people of the Three Forks area, interested in the profession of make blocks with greater efficiency and high-speed produc- pharmacy, receive in-store training, both in store manage- tion. ment and pharmacy pra[...]70 and into The new Bi-Rite store has taken on a more modern look, the 1980's with the manufacturing of more varieties of block with a larger array of goods and is the only drug store in Three septic tanks and landscap stone. The mark[...]b en increas d to a 300 mile radi u .[...] |
| [...]electric power was put in use West of Harlowton. The town of Three For[...]were used between Minneapolis Valley Railroad, a branch line of the Milwaukee Road running a[...]Rocky Mountain Division was number 10 200 a two unit job. ning a rail line from Helena, Montana to the Yellowstone[...]They never built into Helena, but they did build a line as While we were glad to see these large p[...]uction began April 1906, and after about In 1916 the EPl Passenger Motors were put into service. three years of hard work and a lot of money, they drove the last They were gea[...]09. be used on Passenger trains. In 1949 they added units to the Through freight[...]was begun on July 10, 1910, one daily making a three unit EF3, four unit EF 4. The electric swit[...]d, because they Electrification was completed in 1917. The steam power on were built for Ru[...]ivision was slowly being phased out. A Baldwin built Class S2 Northern Type 201 and 240[...]was the Milwaukee and Puget Sound Depot. This was in 1908. In 1919 the company bought some Westinghouse passenger Shortly after this a big roundhouse was built to take care of motors which did a good job for years. the power, and a large crew was hired to work in the yards and When the Diesel took over, the company got rid of all other around the shops. A large board room and sleeping quarters p[...]The old board room was moved off the Company land a number of years ago to become the Lewis and Clar[...]THE TELEPHONE IN THREE FORKS Now that we have come this far, I think we should know In 1893, a toll line was established between Helena and som[...]Livingston. It was around this time that a toll station was used between Minneapolis, Minne[...]talled ·n the Old Town of Three Forks, which was a thriving This was a Class K steam engine. An oil burner was Class IC.[...]y businesses to take care of their The Class C7, a consolidation, was the most powerful engine[...]n oil instead of coal. Oil burner Pacific No. 851 a low under the name of W. E. Young, Agent. H[...]eeler to move heavy tonnage. Class F3 Pacific was a very bered as owner of the Young and Cop[...]newer passenger cars. in 1908 to establish the new town of Three Forks in its present[...]Plans for the first telephone exchange in the present town of switching jobs. They had L2[...]er 1923 the road had around five tion of a toll line to Three Forks from the Butte exchange. By hundred Mikados in service between Tacoma and Chicago. t[...]first telephone The Malletts, Class Nl, were a saturated engine, while the company was orga[...]N2's were superheated. The saturated engine was a little hard G. W. Stoyer; Vice-Pres. - Dr. H[...]e which is the present location of the Class A4's Atlantic No. 3135 was used mostly on passenger[...]wton, Montana after the advent of with a hand-crank which you cranked to get Centra[...] |
| [...]Marie A . Dore, Ola Mathis and Mae Lane, Chief[...]entire switchboard lit up like a Christmas tree as the entire[...]n had to know the location of the fire. It became a race[...]could get to the fire first. This became a nightmare for the[...]replaced Walt Hangas in 1961. When Mrs Tibbs retired in[...]ke - Telephone Office on Cedar. served in that position until 1963 when the telelphone syst[...]ial and ended the services of the local operators in[...]Three Forks. the caller lifted the receiver a switch in the telephone office lit In 1961 another office was constructed in Three Forks in a lamp on the switchboard. Central plugged a cord into the which telephone equipment would be located to aid Three proper jack and flipped a switch, enabling her to talk to the Forks telephone subscribers in the new dialing system which caller. When Central[...]ossible to dial seven-digit numbers. request into a funnel-type mouthpiece and she placed a cord On Aug. 4, 1968 direct distant dialing was established in into the called number and rang. A few years later, the crank Three Forks an[...]r models were designed. Three Forks had a total of 57 telelphones as of May 25, 1912 In May 1910, the Montana Independent Telephone Co. in- compared to 894 as of Sept. 30, 1978. stalled a modern cable plant. Some of the operators employe[...]Many memories and tales cpuld be told of the life in Three during these times were Miss Buchacker, Con[...]related by the poem which appeared in the Manhattan-Record Blanche Morrow. in May 28, 1914 as follows: By 1912, the Independ[...]to 12 E. Cedar The telephone girl sits in her chair (behind the Bi-Rite Drug Store) under t[...], Mueller. Mrs. Mamie Tibbs became chief operator in 1920 and She hears the excuses each fellow employs. served in that position until her retirement in 1953. Frances She knows every woman who has a dark past Gaffke was the night operator. She recalls in her memoirs that She knows every man wh[...]ld tell all she knows, was called by switching on a red light located on a pole above It would turn all our friend[...]over town. Service and It would raise a wind that would soon b a gale , trouble calls for the telephone company were taken care of by a Engulf us in trouble and land us in jail.[...] |
| She could let go a story which gaining in force property and other churc[...], Missis- She could get all the churches mixed up in a fight , sippi underwrote a loan for the additional needed. The build- And[...]rrowing night; ing was begun in April, 1964 and dedicated the following In fact she could keep the whole town in a stew October. If she would tell the tenth part that she knew. In December, 1964 the parsonage was purchased. Also in Now, doesn't it make your brain and head whirl December, 1964 a mission was started at Whitehall. This is To th[...]God continued to bless the church and in October, 1966[...]nd again many churches and individuals contri- In July, 1962 Don and Joan Johnston were saved and b[...]end , Montana. Immediately they became interested in be- not have been possible without the support of four groups: the ginning a Baptist church in Three Forks. They soon learned of churches and individuals in other parts of the country, the another couple also interested in beginning a Baptist church, Home Mission Board, the fait[...]of the Townsend church, IN THE THREE FORKS AREA preaching. In the spring of 1840, on March 27 , Father DeSmet,[...]ip across the 1962 they organized themselves into a Baptist church. Owen plains to Montana. On June 30 they were met at the Green Cooper, a layman from Mississippi , brought the message and[...]John- their long lost Father." They found a large encampment of ston, Farrell and Nancy Rose[...]eastern line of Idaho. Father DeSmet baptized a few Indians Conner, Virginia Johnston, and W. R.[...]n Aug. 21, camping at the Rev. Parrot resigned in February, 1963 and a layman, Ira Middle Stream (Madison), where[...]revival camp to go hunting. On August 27 with a guard of 30 warriors meeting in the VFW Hall . Rev. N. F. Greer of Quitman,[...]ist. Louis. In June 1963 the church called their present pastor,[...], Home Mission Board and churches and individuals in the Radersburg, Three Forks, Bozeman[...]s area were Fathers Menetrey, P . Barcel'o, J. In October, 1963 a Building Fund was started. The Pachuta Guid[...]ippi sent funds to buy pendency to have a chapel. It was erected by Father Guidi. The[...]site was donated by a corporation of non-Catholics, who also First Bapt[...]donated $200 toward the building of a church. The chapel was[...] |
| [...]who worshipped there. A building committee composed of[...]Wiggens began soliciting funds for a new building. This was[...]When Rev. James P. Dowdall was appointed in May of 1949[...]James Barry, were completed in the latter part of the sixties.[...]Father Gueymard in 1912 was succeeded by Rev. J. X.[...]ames P. Dowdall; New Holy Family Church dedicated in 1951. 1952 Rev. James T[...]5 Father John B. Kirsh; 1977 Dr. William Tracy, a kindly physician residing at Three Rev. Patrick Brown; 1979 Rev. Barnard Koenig. Forks, though not a Catholic, served on the building commit-[...]Women, continue their work of until 1888 by Rev. A. R. Coopman. When he was appointed to ca[...]me part of his field. ners. Rev. Lambaere in August 1891 was the next to serve Three Forks.[...]deeded from Bishop John The following is a brief history of the Church of Jesus Christ Bapti[...]tana. The land was described as follows: situated in the Town commonly called the Mormon Church,[...]e Three Forks Branch tana, Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in Block 18. was started by a few members of the Church whom originally Also recorded in Vol. 25 of Deeds is a letter from Pope Pi us X came into the Gallatin County from Utah and Idaho. At first a to John P. Carroll, appointing him as the new Bishop of few members met in their various homes both in Three Forks Helena after the death of Bishop Bron[...]t Rome, St. Peters, on the 12th day of Sept. 1904 in the second family groups were : Don Scoffield[...]d The Parish of the Holy Family was established in 1908, with Lillian, John Denning, William H[...]and others. On October 8, 1953 an application for a new meet- included Chestnut, Belgrade, Logan and Willow Creek. By ing house in Three Forks was approved by the first Presidency[...]at a figure of $40,000.00 total cost. Sixty percent of[...]Church will be moved to Block 7, Lots 7, 8, 9, 10 in general funds. Forty percent ($16,000.00) t[...]d Mr. Marvin Brooke were the first couple married in the parish on June 1, 1909. Under the energetic leadership of Father Gueymard a rect- ory was erected which is still in use today. The 1910 Manhat- tan Press "Father Gue[...]Wherever he happens to be stopping, his house is a mark for the hungry and dusty traveler, and no ma[...]e he got his drinking." Father Gueymard organized a night school in 1909. He was also the Secretary for the Chamber of Commerce when they organized in 1908. In 1912 Father Gueymard became Colonization Ag nt in the Smith River Valley. By the thirties[...] |
| [...]ed of $6,000.00 to cover the costs of including a relief society room and kitchen in the meeting house; of this amount $3,600.00 or[...]e Three Forks from Dunbar· Ranches and planted a crop of grain; from the proceeds of this crop t[...]the present building was dedicated. Elder Sterling W. Sill from the First Presidency dedicated the building. In attendance also were: President Edgar T. Hender[...]debush, Michael Strickling, the two men and in 1917 the first divine service was conducted Gwy[...]oy McCaulley. in the town hall in Three Forks. Pastor Polack continued[...]holding services from time to time in Three Forks until he Some interesting facts of the present building: Superinten- accepted a call to another parish. dent of Construction wa[...]Eventually, Rev. Paul Brauer accepted a call to the Boze- was $709·.80. Construction a[...]st Forks. Often these services were held in the private homes of $72,617._00. Total donated[...]. After Pastor Brauer left $8,051.00 Membership in this area has grown from a family for Billings, the congregations w[...]associated with first the Butte, Mon- In 1922, John F. Potratz accepted a call to the Bozeman tana Stake, the Helena, Mont[...]from for five years. He then accepted a call to a congregation in memory of the original members of the Church His[...]rganized on April 25, 1926, as Orace this period in this area but no organized meetings were held. Evangelical Lutheran Church. In that same year, ·a small The Cement Plant at Trident in its early history was owned by frame building was purchased as a place for worship. This a group of Mormons.[...]e served two years, leaving on December 31, were in this area by decree of Brigham Young to settle ot[...]Salt Lake Valley. Many of these members In March 1930, Pastor Misch of Harlowton accepted a call fell away from the Church not being in close contact with it. to Bo~eman. His pari[...]Three Forks, Some of these members' families are in the valley now but are Toston and Twin Bridges. Pastor Misch served 1 7 years in not associated with the Church. Some of their of[...]t knowing their greAt grandparents were In 1948, another step was taken when the Three Forks[...]UTHERAN CHURCH In order to provide living quarters for the newly ar[...]Church dates back to 1916 pastor, and in order to have a more suitable place for worship when the Sam Feis[...]retted the extensive remodeling, it became a chapel and parsonage. fact that no Lutheran Church existed in Three Forks. He, Pastor Friederichs served two years and then accepted a call therefore, together with Mr. Conrad Kessler, another resident to Oklahoma. In 1950, a call was sent to Rev. Martin Juengel. of Three Forks, who likewise lamented over the absence of a Pastor Juengel served here until 1958. L[...]this period of time from 1958 to 1968, there was a Lutheran services in Three Forks. They approached Rev. Mar- v[...]past~r. Vicar Pete Peterson worked in the Three Forks area Church in Bozeman. Pastor Polack consented to the re[...] |
| the Three Forks congregation was served by Pastors in the Montana District. In 1968, a call was accepted by Richard E. Bolling to serve the Whitehall and Three Forks parish. During this time, a new parsonage was built at the corner of 5th Avenue and Elm Street. A week day school was formed and classes were held after school on Tuesdays. A Christian Kindergarten was held in the Church for three years during the regular school year. When a public kindergarten was started in the public school, the Christian Kindergarten was discontinued. In 1973, Pastor Bolling accepted a call to Cheyboygan, Michigan. Pastor Bruce Betker accepted a call to the Three Forks - Whitehall parish and was installed on July 8, 1973. In March of 1977 he received a call from North Star Luthe- ran Church at Kenaie, Alaska and he accepted the call, and so left in May 1977 for the new parish. Various calls wer[...]acancy until Pastor Ken Eakins accepted the call in December 1977. Pastor Ladies' Aid at the Lamb's - transportation from town for the Eakins was serving a congregation in Flat River, Missouri ladies. and arrived here with his family in January 1978. Pastor Eakins left us in May to finish his ministerial education and a Vicar is being called. Vicar Dale and Mrs. Huelsm[...]even and Dian Schmitz are which still is in use today, were in Brown's Hall, the Pre- serving us. They arrived[...]hapel or Henslee's auditorium. have two sons and a daughter. Rev. Daniel Fleet was a circuit preacher and in 1907 was[...]study. In 1910 Rev. Fleet.received a 1909 panorama of Three THE UNITED METHO[...]ou On September 17, 1908 the lot sale was held in this city, the would scarcely know the place. I t[...]ed with his bride to serve the Three Forks Church in Geo. D. King and Rev. Charles Rhodes.[...]S. McClure was assigned to Three Forks. Rev. held in the city, conducted by Rev. Crouch and Rev. Rhodes. McClure immediately organized a building program. The These services were in a mess tent of the construction camp foundation had already been poured in 1911. near the round house. Thirty-three men and[...]1914, Brother Jacob Mills, being much interested in the wel- dren, H. S. Graves, Mrs. Maggie Smith, T[...]church, gave over $2500 to place the building on a D. Buchecker, and Norma Buchecker.[...]Epis- The Methodist Church before the earthquake in 1925. copal Church." That name can still be seen on a brass plaque[...]Services at 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. were scheduled.[...]N aphatli Luccock of Helena, took part in the dedication. Rev.[...]program had to remain in his apartment at the Sacajawea that[...]brought a quick exit when a fire developed in the floor. Some[...]a beautiful new church. This did not materialize. In 1920 there[...]rebuild; before he had done very much repair work a[...]Federated Church. The pa tor was Rev. J. A. Barn s. Th[...] |
| pastors were to alternate from the two churches. In May 1926 ones and an air of expectancy was in the air as the time drew the official board deci[...]the call comes. The doors are thrown open and In 1953 while Rev. Idso was here the Federated Church what a sight greets the eyes of the hungry man. once again became strictly a Methodist Church. In 1957 the Picture a long table. In the center a roast pig, weighing Sunday School enrollment had[...]t 100 pounds, stuffed with dressing and cooked to a turn, An ambitious building program was begun and in 1957 or 58 as only Ed Mestad could do the[...]get it." Ed Avery, 6 feet 6, led the way. We fell in Cheeseman; 1919 - W. G. Reese; 1921-Thompson; 192[...]e on the carving end, ably assisted by 1924 - J . A. Barnes. Oris Bryant and a well trained corps. of disectors, we got our M[...]orge rations. Passing slowly along, we got a piece of pork with all Jewitt; 1910-Franklin Holt[...]. McClure; 1914 E. J. Huston , C. R. Carlin; A tin cup , with your name engraved on it, contained a portion 1915 - Henry C. Mecklenberg; 1917 - Wilde[...]works were being built, and we were going to have a The Federation was formed in 1926, J . A. Barnes, Pres- new c_o unty. byterian, was[...]. 1929-Ralph Carlton (Meth.); 1930- Over in the corner a small group was chording. A sweet Frederickson, (P); 1937 - Harold Baber, (M)[...]44 - H. G. Klemme (M) ; 1945 - W. S. Ickler, a harmonious baritone, to be joined by a bass and a soprano. (P); 1947 - Eugene Meyers, (M); 1950-John A. Elliot, (P); 1951 Sweet Adeline was being giv[...]er Idso , (M); Federation Dropped, and harmony in the air. We clustered about the piano and as a became Methodist Church; 1955 - Howard Ricketts; 1967 - note was struck way down in small «g", a beautiful smile came Tom Price, John Rice; 1968 -[...]L. Gay. It started a little mild. A few verses of well-known[...]they could sing, lifted up their Sometimes when a few of the old-timers get together, the voices in song, and how they bore down on the old refrains.[...]at were not listed among opera airs times ~njoyed in the dim, dusty past. And a chuckle will come but they sounded good. «Her Pink Pajamas", and «She Sells forth when a special event is recalled.[...]ore", were rend,ered with vim and We reminisced a little the other day. Al Dance, a one time vigor. popular Three Forks boy, drove do[...]f Three Forks had been rightly called nThe again. A feeling of contentment prevailed. The town clock Biggest Little Town in the Country." struck[...]Missus what kept us so It's Saturday night, and a notice has been posted on the[...]late and decided we'd take her home a pork sandwich to try south wall of the Sacajawea Club rooms that a big feed will be and square ourselves. We straggl[...]took off our shoes in the front yard, and quietly sneaked in. member what that meant? You went home, and after supper, Another night was ended. The club had a very successful you tried to get the Mrs. in the right humor, and then kinda ·[...]edly informed her that the club was going to hold a another notice will be posted to the effect[...]sniff again, and chase the cat home . She'd sniff a little scornfully at you and mention so"me- out, and you'll go up there and be a kid again. thing about an orgy with all those men[...]clan was gathering at the old rendezvous upstairs in the THE AMERICAN LEGION club rooms. Soft lights blended about the rooms making a In October 1938, fifteen local veterans of World War I met harmonious coloring in keeping with the occasion. and formed the Post, and were issued a charter by the national In the back room a scene of great activity prevailed. Smartly headquarters. The Post was named in honor of the Indian dressed waiters and cooks wer[...]de of the Lewis and Clark expedition to this area in ing something good. Luther Hare and three old cro[...]ng World War II, other World War I deeply engaged in a game of solo. A Kelly pool game was in veterans joined the Post. progress, with Claude Sterling, Jim Siffert, Ben Adams and The v[...] |
| [...]CIVIC CLUB State in 1947, the Post has co-sponsored two or three local high In April of 1946, an organization called The Auxiliary to the school junior boys to attend the sessions, held in the past Chamber of Commerce was formed. T[...]roup several years at the Western Montana College in Dillon. In ofladies was to work for the youth of Three Forks, the ultimate later years a boy from Willow Creek and Harrison. goal to be a swimming pool. Dee Rafter was the organization's[...]esponse to this organization from the annually to a senior boy and girl at the high school graduation[...]The ground known as Stevenson Park thus named in tribute tions. U. S. flags are sold and donated.[...]rs was Superintendent of The Post participates in services and programs on patriotic our school[...]sed and work began. Grass and trees holidays, and in conducting military graveside rites at vete-[...]around the park everything grew beautifully. In 1962, the Post was instrumental in the procurement and installation of the monument[...]veterans, located at the Veterans Memorial Park. In the past several years, members have set gravesto[...]erans' graves at the cemetery here and at the one in Willow Creek. The Post is one of eight that forms District 7 in Montana. The first member of the Post to be elected District Commander was Royal Turley, 1967; then Al Multz in 1970, and Ray Lau, 1976. Multz was elected a State Vice-Commander, 1971; State Commander, 1972[...]oin The American Leg- ion. BOY SCOUTING IN THREE FORKS In November 1912 John E. Evans moved to Three Forks from Columbus, Mont. He organized the Scout Troop in Col- umbus, transferring his scout master's certificate to Three Forks. He immediately began organizing a Boy Scout Patrol Civic Club Float. in Three Forks, training Randall Carpenter and Jacin[...]raffles, bake sales. We also purchased a cotton candy machine when word was received of the drowning of John E. Evans at and a popcorn machine and sold this at all the activities in the Madison Bridge." "Boys of Three Forks were le[...]qually as consecrated to gym, which was a huge success for a good many years. daily duties and the Master's se[...]We installed playground equipment in the park. The next Community leaders in Three Forks continued with John big project was to put in an ice skating rink, which also called Evan's pro[...]of the early scouting activities included for a warming house, so the children could change to th[...]skates. This house was designed in such a way as to be used for Troop 680 by Ray Lau started out as Troop 680 in January, dressing rooms when our goal of a swimming pool was 1947, and is next to the oldest troop in Mountain Valley realized. The tennis co[...]of everyone, especially John McAllister, a teacher in our In 1964 one Scout, Eric Jeglum, attended a National Jam- school system for many years; thus the name, McAllister boree in Valley Forge and in 1969 another Scout, Marc Lau, Court. attended a National Jamboree in Farragut, Idaho. In 1973 The wading pool for the small ch[...]has been used and enjoyed by them over a good many years. boree. This Jamboree Troop was nineteen Scouts from Moun- The goal of a swimming pool was never realized, although a tain Valley District, with five from Three Forks,[...]der and our membership grew smaller; we had to In 1976 Troop 680's Bicentennial Project, "The Four[...]who are left are still interested Famous Pictures in American History" was picked as one of in the youth of Three Forks. the outstanding projects of the State of Montana. When the Freedom Train was in Billings (the only stop in Montana) Troop 680 was there as the official repr[...]hree Forks Rainbow As embly No. 26 was instituted in[...] |
| [...]ow eligible for Rainbow, and to be recommended by a Rainbow What a privilege it is to be in this Book, ' girl, a Mason, or an Eastern Star. The office of Worthy A[...]arity, Hope, Faith, Recorder, and For being a part of this Assembly. Treasurer were elective of[...]ices God Bless you, one and all, you are a pleasure and delight. were appointive offices :md[...]NIC HISTORY One or two girls were chosen to be in the Grand Assembly of During the early pa[...]asons who had Montana each year. They were either a Grand Officer or a gravitated to the booming new town of Three Forks, began Grand. Representative, and along with a chaperone and sev- meeting together and petitioned the Grand Lodge for a char- eral members would travel to Great Falls, B[...]school house which stood on the block now used as a baseball park in the east part of town. There was also an Advisory Board, a group of 7 to 15 mem- bers of the Masonic Lodge a[...]he Charter of Three Forks Lodge advised the girls in any way they could help, and get to know No[...]rl' dances, Halloween parties, (Grand Master in 1907) father of a more recent Grand Master Lion's Club Easter egg d[...]of whom only one, Harry O'Donnell is still living in The Grand Cross of Colors is the highest honor[...]the community. given to a Rainbow girl. Each year the Advisory Board has chosen a girl or girls, who work very hard and are sincere in On November 16, 1910 the lodge was duly[...]y the their Rainbow teachings and have taken part in all the As- Grand Lodge and the follow o[...]Gustine, J. W. ; E. M. Paulson, Treasurer; F. A. Dickinson, too, by the help and the time they ha[...]took place on March 22 1912 - were presented with a Majority Certificate , so they were able a special meeting for degree work was held on that[...]al chairs filled by members of the Bryant family. A[...]With the growth of the school census in 1912 the lodge was Helton, Ruth Markel, Mary Pete[...]Wil- forced to give up the meeting place in the school building. cox, Gayle Roberts, Valore D[...]h Young, Marjorie Quarters were rented in the new Wells building, on the 2nd Haas, Doris Be[...]ow the Plaza Bar. While occupying those Lois McKa~a, Lena Olsen, Beatrice Rettig, Nola Shadduck, quarters, the Lodge in ested some $600 in lodge furniture, a Leola Sterlmg, Betty Tibbs, Florence Torgrimson, Marion large part which is still in use. The expense of maintaining the Webb, Marjori[...]ldred Henslee, Lois Salki, Betty lodge in the Wells building proved to be too much when lea[...]years developed about 1916 and 1917, so for a time the lodge The first Mother Advisor was Mr[...]Ruth Brackney, company's building. In 1918 satisfactory arrangements were Jeanette Thom[...]y Thompson, Valorie Aughney, Late in December 1932 the trustees purchased our present[...]eiver of the Labor National Bank.· So we have a sad note to make here, as other activities, W~th a litte professional, but mostly volunteer help, th[...]tect" D. M. Dickinson. The first meeting was held in our ~all rii:iging ~th laughter, love of good fri[...]odge convened here with Grand Master M. D. Roland in order.[...]Without going into debt and for a very nominal sum of Let's take some time to look[...]cali money, the lodge owns a valuable and attractive home of The time that you[...]Thirty-two members signed the charter.·In 1911 there were No T.V. or moonwalkers, spacemen,[...]42 members listed. After 25 years in 1935 there were 104 To keep you in wonder and awe[...], depression, there has been a steady increase to the ranks and Helpmg girls was[...]the Lodge stands at 135. Rainbow for Girls, what a wonderful group! This account written in 1960. Are you proud? Do you care? Can you[...] |
| [...]hmitt 1975, Ruth Davis promise of others to come in soon. The eligible age for mem- 1976, Joyc[...]y store buildings, houses and an interest in the community. As the fore part of activities sc[...]e town then was have been covered, here are a few highlights in later years. 6 years old. In 1939, the Pledge of Allegiance wasn't given in Lodge Our hall was purchased by Three Forks 1.O.O.F. Lodge No. work but was adopted then. In 1940 the first drill team was 88 and still remai[...]s possession. We, sisters, soon organized, 1955 a new sign purchased, 1957 attitude of prayer found our helping hands were needed in every way to help our instituted, Lodge sta[...]n picnics and other Montana, also acquired a 50-star flag. things. In 1964 we celebrated our 50th anniversary, initiati[...]rganizations were being established. Our hall was a members for our lodge and 5 for Townsend, 13[...]ery prominent meeting hall. Lockers were soon put in for including visitors. 197 4 we had a bake sale to help Sheridan possessions of other[...]rebuild Lodge due to a fire. 1979 Odd Fellows and Rebekahs Heat prov[...]l Olympics. For fund raisers we furnace, finally in later years to natural gas. Finally we had ha[...]ing some offices in International Rebekah. I became a member April 26, 1926, and have been a continu- ous member since, I am now the oldest m[...]had our share of District Presidents. Those in recent years[...]have served many offices Lodge has shared in honors. in Grand Rebekah Assembly. I served as Nobel Grand in 1935, under leadership of Sister Saddie Beck, Montana Assembly President, a member of Onyx Rebekah Lodge No. 75 of Man- hatt[...]In 1970 the Gallatin County Council on Aging (GCCA)[...]re had pas- When Frances Wilson was installed in 1914 - the noble sed a bill authorizing counties and cities to levy up t[...]he mill levy unless the they served two terms as a whole year. entire county was organized. GCCA held meetings in Bel- Frances Wilson 1914, Addie Dodson 1914,[...]e, Manhattan, Three Forks and West Yellowstone to in- 1915, Lena LaRock 1915, Myra Burt 1916, Helen[...]heir opportunity to obtain funds, if 1916, Mary Sterling 1917, Phoebe Linden 1917, Zada Butler they were organized. In 1971, Pauline Makoff and Jennie 1918, Mabel Van[...]Andriolo, both members of GCCA, set up meetings in Three Wright 1919, Helen Antonsen 1920, Lucy Re[...]Service, chaired the first meeting in the Sacajawea Hotel. Menapace 1924, Anna Blake 1[...]h 1925, Alfreda Another meeting was held in June at the Three Forks School. Heim 1926, Maude[...]Vice president Fran Denning secretary. July 12 at a From 1930 to date the Noble Grand's term is o[...]Hankinson Board was requested to draw up a constitution and by-laws for 1935, Sarah Cook 1[...]1945, Frances Allen 1946, Opal McLees In October 1971 an auction was held at the school to[...]rgaret Cleve- money and to create interest in the senior program. The next land 1950, Doris Mc[...]xter 1967, expect d to be more than just a social club.[...] |
| [...]Principally through the efforts of Tony Lutkie , a charter cessfully obtained State-Federal funding[...]ths of for the formation of this post. As it is a rule of the Veterans of our rent ($95) each year we were in the telephone building. Foreign Wars organization that a Post be named for the first to This building soon became too small and we began to look for fall in battle from his hometown, the Post was duly named[...]ing year. Tony Lutkie was chosen as down and $100 a month, the balance at 5 percent interest.[...]f the first things the Post undertook was to find a county and the city of Three Forks, each $2 ,500 for down building for their Post home . In September, 1946, arrange- payment. The city of Th[...]nd son, Dale , help. MSU Architect school drew up a plan for the remodeling. made their home here[...]resident at the time and worked very hard on a school teacher: teaching her last year at Sixteen Mile school. the project. The building was purchased in April 1978 and we Mrs. Dolan passed away in 1932. Mr. Dolan, besides living in moved in August.[...]surer Three Forks had up to the date of his death in was rebuilt by the Human Resource Development Cou[...]nother civic thing Mr. Dolan did was furnish room in with funds received from Montana Natural Resource Board t his building for a free library. He also operated a scale weigh- Energy Grants. The purpose was to supply us with an effective ing station in front of the building. In the older pictures of greenhouse and use ~olar en[...]t of t he program that two doors. You had a choice - you could enter the upstairs of receives[...]being completed, plans were carried out to place a Tribble was our first cook and 92 people were served the first bar in the Club. The bar closed in 1953. day. We now average 65. Anyone 60 years or older and a The VFW Post 7621 has been active over the years in ac- spouse of 60 years old may receive the meal f[...]he benefit of all veterans and their families and in must pay the full cost of the meal , now $2.00.[...]ishing_instruments for the high school band; pate in our senior center. You must be at least 50 to be a full renovating the small triangular piece of g[...]by planting trees, flowers and grass and must be a member to participate in the program. We enjoy the erecting a flag pole and deceased veterans' memorial there s[...]ome the attractive park it is today. They oper- A needs program was started in 1982. If any senior citizen ated and service[...]or otherwise. been instrumental in seeing that the flag of our country is The orig[...]Lamb, Ray Post Office. They participate in the parades, hold Memorial Lau, Pauline Makoff, G[...]Day and Veterans Day services and assist in the services for Tocci. This group also worked up the original Constitition and deceased veterans in cooperation with the American Legion. By-Laws.[...]They sponsored the Ladies Auxiliary to their Post in 1946, the[...]; Peck Bacon - 1982. The officers are elected for a term of Other Commanders of the Post over the years have been: one year. The Advisory Board elected on a staggered basis of Ralph E. Wilcox, Walter J[...]fer, Del Hart, Bryon Morse, Joe Brand, appointed. A three member board of Corporate Directors has[...]esent Comman- The Advisory and the club meet on a monthly basis, with the der, Ralph Pike. Ray Lau has been and is an invaluable advisory board meeting a few days before the club. member a[...]from Post 7621 continues to be active in veterans affairs and one to four. The meals are h[...]nity service. meetings generally on Tuesday. Once a month on Saturday is[...]linic. The Gallatin County Council on Aging meets in Three Forks every fourth month.[...] |
| [...]. y; clo r. I a a good udent except for math. Like o her and orma[...]d painted, I as an avid reader. Alma and I on a troph for our school at m[...]color paintin profe ion - I would be a teacher. mith . . Bevier; ·ork · I too dro e our car a a bu to Three Fork High chool th co11ar and c[...]we had one mi hap - ~ a h a fla ire hen it a 20 degree belo . I froze m big toe and[...]no . peech drama and our chool ne paper w re m in- ard; crum lle[...].. tere . I as graduated with the classof1928 a alutatorian. t.erb r[...]nickname . The decided Pat L' n; pi a . Ollie r.[...]I a tended Montana tate olleg for two year , until we[...]th Dad ransferred to Whitehall in Feb. 1931 where I met wa born Augu 23, 1910 a Grandma 01 n at.emit J[...]during the big like m Dad. He worked in his Dad meat marke . A blizzard which help d con rol the famous fore fire in we tern po man he played football bask[...]event · of my happy childhood have been covered in the wa forty-four years old. Hi favori[...]. ing. Our mutual intere in dancing led to our 1'going steady" During my early year there were few my age li ing in town We promo ed. the romance of hi b[...]The fall of 1931 I at ended San Jo e State ollege a San wa erwing , I learned to wim. I iceskated rollerskated, and Jo e a. here I majored in education. Finally in 1934, I played tenni . 'y favorite form of recrea[...]earned m "long dreamed of" degree in Kindergarten-primary learned at thr years.[...]education. I attended elementary chool in Trident. Alma Fei tner and Tha fal[...]e and son R obin, Charlotte daugh- in Dubouis Idaho. Hi folks and mine knew about it. O[...]wa to have a surprise announcement party as part of the[...]for a teaching certificate. The depression had forced h[...]allowed to teach in those days. Consequently, our announce-[...]Bob enrolled at Dillon in Sept. 1935. He discovered a school rule in arch of 1936 - anyone attending chool while secre[...]County Seat and we were able to get a marriage license when[...]our mini ter at hi sister's home in Whitehall. Few people[...]1937-1943 we taught together at Silesia Mont. In 1943, he enli ted in the service of World War II. He was trained as an[...]x-ray technician in the Medics. I was able to be with him in[...]overseas. A chance meeting with Hester Talbott in Bozeman led to my being hired a the primary grade's teacher at Willow[...]Bob came to Willow Creek in 1945, after his di charge from[...]e were active in community affairs. I , in Ladies' Aid,[...]Woman' Club and Ea tern Star. Bob in Willow Creek Mens[...]ed. with our son, Robin Allen born in Town end Ho pital, 30[...]We moved to Billing in 1955. Bob began orking a a[...] |
| [...]arket, erected 1909. The first hardware store in Three Forks. The first street light[...]1925 Earthquake. .Jacob DeBoer, delivering milk in Three Forks.[...] |
| [...]Come and Locate in a[...]Is located In one of the most f ertlle[...]vaf~ys In the:· state--and Is a[...]third grade in Pony. She received the remainder of her educa-[...]tion in Deer Lodge, first staying and going to the Conven[...]College of Deer Lodge, majoring in music, vocal, piano and Ben Adams, son of J. Q. Adams, is perhaps best known in violin. Aurelia also became a beauty operator, owning her own this area for his affiliation with Dean Francis. Ben, a real Beauty Parlor in Deer Lodge. estate agent in Three Forks, was commissioned to purchase, Cecil Adams was born in 1897 in Butte. He railroaded all his lease and manage wha[...]imbing life. He started railroading in Salt Lake, later hiring out on Arrow, or C. A. ranches.[...]Alberton to Avery. When J. Q. Adams passed away in 1919, Ben took over the Aurelia and Cecil were married in Salt Lake at the begin- management of the Adams'[...]the depression. When he was laid off he worked as a in Three Forks with James A. Siffert. Ben was president of the hoisting engineer at the Emery Mine. In the winter when it John Burnham Co., Investment B[...]d frequently between Chicago and Montana. Ben was a engines in.the Butte yard so they would call Cecil. Of course land promoter. He took charge of the farming operations in the the men would <<pretty nearly" freeze to death. He was called summertime. In 1928 he was instrumental in the airport back to the road in 1935. development.[...]rt, difficult to find housing. They first lived in the little corner C. A. McCulloch or Clarence Buckey.[...]school, then moved next door into the Ben died in January of 1942 at the age of 64 at his home in Daniels' brick home. There were many happy day[...]Her dad, John Reed, worked for Charlie Morris as a the weeds in the vacant lots. foreman, managing one of Charlie's mines. Later the Reeds In 1947 Cecil and Aurelia built their beautiful home at the farmed near Pony. In the winter Mrs. Reed moved into town so corne[...]school. Aurelia went through the Milwaukee in 1963. He passed away Sept. 28. 1981 .[...] |
| [...]or of Three Forks. Eastlick and his wife, Millie, in Miami, Arizona. Aurelia also has two grandchildren, Mary Ann, a merchandising teacher has been reported, at one period in his iife he had seen seven at Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and Robert, Salt Lake City. generations in his family. Alfred Ashley Adams, was born in Minneapolis, July 6, CHARLES[...]erations |
| [...]his formal education, qualifying as an instructor in Civil Engineering and Mechanics. Of an ad- venturous type, Alfred joined a man interested in historical research and artifacts, spending most of his time taking photographs while traveling in Mexico, where he eventually became a locomotive engineer for the Vera Cruz and Pacific railroad. He moved to Three Forks in 1909, and homesteaded on a place south of his father's Ruby Ridge ranch. Alfred, or Fred as he was fai:niliarly called, had a commis- sion as a lieutenant during the Spanish-American War and ch[...]officials, en- gineers and other friends he knew in his profession. Tragedy came to Alfred on Febr[...]isoriented while walking, shortly after 6 o'clock in the evening, to his father's ranch. His father, a[...]ce floes caused by the flooding Madison River. A search for him was made that night and most of the following day when William Tinsley reported seeing a man, apparently dead, lying on the ice some dista[...]ch. The lower half of Alfred's body was submerged in the icy water. It was assumed he fell down a steep incline and into the river, and was too wea[...]hree Forks. J. Q., as he was commonly called, was a sweet, gentle man, enorm- ous in stature, courtly with women and pursuasive as a sales- J.Q.Adams man.[...]he went from state to state he was accompanied by a T. E. Hunter from South The origin[...]ukee Land Co." Dakota. The two men were opposites in their dealings. Mr. Later there were nam[...]ht-of-way purchasing, the land agent could choose a town-site to develop. Mr. Adams fell in Mr. Adams commuted freely between Chicago[...]Three Forks. The eastern apartment -in the north wing of the[...]were in Three Forks. December 23, 187 4 he married France[...]Iowa. His brother was Charles E . Adams who lived in Three Forks. The The Ad[...]on from John Clarke Adams, grandson.) J. Q. was a great promoter and a leading inspiration of the development of the city of Three Forks and the surrounding country. His faith in this area was unbounded and he spent of his abund[...]Drug. He donated the land for the hospital , and a tract ofland near the present school to be used as a tourist park. He donated and had installed, the first five street lights in Three Forks. He was an extensive investor in farm land and his properties were develope[...] |
| dreams began to fade. Mr. Adams passed away in Chicago in ery" in the Milwaukee Station. Mr. Allen's strong coffee, "Bat- December 1919. He was survived by his wife, a son, Ben, and a tery Acid", some railroaders called it, and[...]olls and pie soon became famous with the natives. A[...]............ 75c Charles Holmes Allen was born in Viroqua, Wisconsin, Grilled Lamb Chops[...]d Potato Wax Beans Matson in Algona, Iowa. She was born April 16, 1888 at[...]Courier on Sept. 2, 1906 reported: "The Bride is a charming Home Made Pie ...................[...]sh this enterprising young couple much In 1945 their daughter, Lucille and husband, John Ca[...]re took his Bride to Story City, Iowa, and opened a Bakery there. John was employed by the Railroad. Mildred Allen followed A short time later he had health problems so they moved to his them out a few months later from New Jersey and helped her Mother's farm in Warren, Minnesota. On Sept. 7, 1908 a parents with the restaurant. Many loc[...]Mildred Aleta was born, followed by the birth of a employed at The Beanery during the Allen's[...]ason. turned again to Story City, Iowa and opened a restaurant and[...]arles H. Allen died at the Townsend Hospital from a bakery there. Another daughter, Lucille Irene was[...]Forks Federated Church, was buried in Sunset Hills, Boze- Mr. Allen was an avid baseball fan. He played semi-pro man. baseball as a pitcher. He managed numerous boy's teams in[...]sin. Hank Severied of the Washington Senators was a personal friend. a year and then she retired. She served as the nigh[...]Hotel and after she sold her home on 2nd Ave. In 1925 the Allens joined the Interstate Company of[...]r them, the first being at Bensenville, Illinois. In 1940 Sacramento, Cal. and several visits were m[...]it her son Charles and his wife, Erma, and there. In the fall of 1944 they moved to Three Forks, bought a grandson, Wayne Charles. home at 104 N. 2nd A[...]Mrs. Allen enjoyed her card clubs and Churcp work in Three Forks. A highlight in her life was being chosen Telephone Charles H. an[...]"Queen for a Day", on Aug. 20, 1956. Her special friend, Mrs.[...]Walter Makoff, had been selected ((Queen For A Day", over ·[...]five contestants, on the television show in Hollywood, Cal. ·[...]Mrs. Allen's health began failing in 1960 and her hearing[...]and sight were affected. After a short illness, she passed away[...]on Dec. 16, 1961 in the Broadwater Hospital. Services were[...]s officiating. She was buried next to her husband in Sunset Hills, Bozeman, their journey in this life brought to a close.[...]In 1947, Three Forks was a bustling railroad town without a lawyer. In June of that year, Harold Allen, a young attorney,[...]first home was to have been a small rental house on the[...]e of town, but before Betty and Harold could move in they were beaten to the premises by a fast talking young[...]Betty had to do the cooking on a coal range. Harold converted[...]the back porch into a bunk room for the boys and had a closet[...] |
| [...]was a student at Intermountain College. Harold was on t[...]that he was not enrolled in school. As a young man, Harold was a strong and rugged individual[...]fishing and hiking, particularly in backcountry and wilder- ness areas. In his early career as a stenographer for W. D.[...]such encounters weren't kept in those days, but unofficially no[...]one can recall a single instance of Harold's defeat.[...]States attorney and Harold was a serious and good student. He[...]studied law, and in 1940 while he was working as a deputy Clerk of Court in Butte, he passed the Montana Bar Examina- Harold[...]Harold and Betty lived in Butte where Harold practiced law and happy. The n[...]. Forks city council in the spring of 1947. By then, in Harold's The Allen and Mercer families, both t[...]Esther Peterson. The pace and atmos- from a familiar neighborhood and school. When the move to phere of Three Forks in those days was such that it permitted Three Fo[...]was required to drop everything and go on a short trip away from home, «Good ol' Three Forks[...]ast enough." Harold Allen was born and grew up in Thompson Falls, For thirty years Haro[...]obert Lee Allen and Ethel Cloyd, natives Forks in one or more of the offices of city attorney, city[...]raska and Alice fire truck was garaged in the rear of the city office it was Staley Cameron, a Nebraska school teacher, born at Smith- Ha[...]sounded. Harold also was Gallatin County attorney in to California. Betty was raised in Nebraska, and came to the fifties. Betty[...]ntana when her parents moved to Hogeland, Montana in with their newspaper routes, and did income tax returns. In the late 1920's. Harold and Betty met in Helena where Betty 1964 Harold was a candidate for Montana Supreme Court and[...] |
| Doug and Jerry took part in numerous activities. Doug played end on the footb[...]rd on the basketball team and ran distance events in track. Jerry quarterbacked the football team, played guard on the basketball team and was active in other sports. Doug attended Montana State Coll[...]ted most valuable player on the Bobcat Track Team in 1957. He then transferred to the Uni- versity of Montana in Missoula and graduated from law school. He has two sons, Scott and Park, and is a partner of the law firm of Church, Harris, Johnson & Williams, in Great Falls, Montana. His wife is the former Cheryl Spicher of Hingham. In addition to his law practice, Doug and Cheryl operate a farm and ranch near Geraldine, Montana and breed[...]one year, then moved to the University of Montana in Missoula where he graduated from law school. He worked for a time at Church, Harris, Johnson & Williams in Great Falls, was in the service, then worked for the national accounting firm of Arthur Young and Co. in Denver, Colorado to become a CPA. He is married to the former Nancy Haedt of C[...]moved to Three Forks w·here Jerry joined Harold in the law office while Nancy taught school. Jerry is now a partner in the law firm of Corette, Smith, Pohlman & Allen in Butte. Jerry and Nancy have a daughter, Bethany. They ski, fish, hike and follow all sports events. Jerry is a busy attorney who specializes in taxation and estate planning.[...]Millice~t and Jerry Allen in front of the Home Laundry. Harold and Betty st[...]Forks. Here he found work building on a house on the South their 50th wedding anniversary[...]ctices law and remains the only practicing lawyer in «Good ol' Three Forks".[...]ALLEN FAMILY Jerry Allen was born May 23, 1891 in Shoal County, In- diana, son of Clay and Pamela Allen. Later he, t[...]the Army at the beginning of World War I, serving in France. After the war, he and a friend, Fred Gill, who was also raised in Takamah and went through the war years with Jerry[...]e he met Milli- cent Terry. · Millicent was born in Pablem, England, March 19, 1908, to John and Florence Terry. After her father's death in France during World War I, her mother left England for Canada, coming on to the United States and settling in the Great Falls area. The parents had planned thi[...]ers and sisters. Millie received her schooling at a country school between Stanford and Geyser. The children walked four miles a day thinking no- thing of killing a rattlesnake or two on the way. Jerry and Millie were married at Stanford in 1925. Terence was born August 9, 1928 at Lewistown. In January 1929 the family drove for two day[...] |
| [...]st 26, 1933 at Dr. Barbour's house on 1st Avenue in Three Forks. Terry attended first grade in Logan, the same year, 1934, they built the viadu[...]and chickens. Millie warmed Eileen's bottle over a candle and Terry still gripes because his German[...]erry and back to Tom the dog went. Growing up in Three Forks was great. We seemed to have time to[...]l, did contract painting, which Terry helped with in.the summers. Mildred and E. V. Bennett. In 1949 the family bought the Home Laundry. Millie was active in the United Methodist Ladies Aid, Progress Rebecca[...]of Commerce and councilman. pneumonia, and after a Mass at Holy Family Church he was Millie worked at the family business until her death in 1952. buried in Sunset Gardens, Belgrade. Jerry retired in 1957 to fishing and growing flowers for a After Mr. Bennett's death, Mildred gave up her gardening, hobby, leaving us in 1971. and sp[...]had shared were also a favorite pastime. MILDRED ALETA[...]ded care unit of Mildred Aleta Allen was born in Warren, Minnesota on the Bozeman Deaconess Hospit[...]ory arrest. She had been ill from 1ung cancer for a year. Marie Matson Allen. She received her education in La Farge, Funeral services were held at the K&L M[...]d over Mr. B's grave and Headwaters Park. She was a cially enjoyed mysteries by Agatha Christie and[...]an Lodge No. 463 cause of the Depression Years. In the late 1930's she was B.P.O. Elks. A brother Charles C. Allen of Three Forks sur- em[...]Evenrude family (of Evenrude Motors) vives. as a governess for their children Sally and Tommy. Whe[...]ford, Mildred left their home. During the years in their employ she traveled extensively with them o[...]their yacht. Summers were spent on their estate in Mil- Rollyn and Frances (Muggs) Allen c[...]waukee, winters were spent at their Miami home. In 1939 the country around 1932. They lived at Trident for nine years, winter was spent in Hawaii. where Rollyn was employed by Ideal Cement Company. In 1943 she married Jack Fancher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin In 1943, he and his family moved to Three Forks. He[...]ed to Trenton, New Jersey, where he was stationed in employed by the Milwaukee Railroad as a fireman and en- the Navy. The marriage was dissolved in 1945 and Mildred gineer and for fifteen years an[...]from Three Forks to Bozeman, until his retirement in the restaurant. She was sent to Butte, Montana[...]rnest Rollyn loved the mountains and was a great hunter and . Vivian Bennett, a veteran railroader, who started as a Call Potosi Canyon Camper, where he took his family nearly all l3oy in 1909. They were married in Butte, October 1948 and summer when the children were small. Muggs will be remem- made their home in Three Forks at 115 Third Avenue East. bered in the Three Forks area for her dedication to Scouti[...]"Mimi" to her family , loved to plant and and as a wonderful Sunday School teacher, who touched the[...]hundreds of jars of food for lives of many. Muggs a wonderful wife , mother, per son pas- the winte[...]ld. sed away in 1959. After Mr. Bennett's retirement in 1964, after 55 years of From a previous marriag , Rollyn had a on Bob. Bob service, he spent his time making miniature rockers to hold married a Three Fork girl Emma Stockburger . Bob was a sewing accessories. Mildred sewed and stuffed t[...]· sold dozens of them and there are some still in use in Thr e daughters of which four r sid in Three Fork . Bob pas d Forks today. away in 1980 and his wifi in 1981.[...] |
| [...]boys. Rod also works in Three Forks for Kanta Products. Rollyn[...]Phyllis, our only girl was born in Bozeman on August 19,[...]is the only one that left Three Forks. She lives in Together Rollyn and Muggs raised three sons. Their first Clear Lake, Calif. They have a seven month old daughter. We born, Bud is also married to a Three Forks girl, Darleen are grandparents again. Watson. Bud, a Navy man, owned and operated a local service Jeff was born in Bozeman on March 13, 1961. He has worked station[...]the Milwaukee Railroad. He and on different jobs in Wyoming and Idaho but is now living at his wife have two wonderful boys. They reside in Whitehall. home. Three years later a son Harold was born. He is married to Bruce is the youngest boy and was also born in Bozeman on Vicky Bradford, Laurel, Montana. Harol[...]ons. Madeline and I made a big move about 1 block north. We The last born, a son, Jack, also followed in his dad's foots- built a new home in 1972. It is large but we need it when the teps, as he was an employee for the Milwaukee for a short time kids are all home. They don't have far[...]en years. He is married to Madeline is also. from a large family. · Darlene Redli, Reedp[...]len children, one daughter and one son. They live in Pony where Jack is involved in mining and building. One ofRollyn's dreams was to someday live in or near Pony. JIM ALTHOUSE This dream became a reality about 1967, when he purchased Jim Althouse was born in 1867 in York, Pa. In his young property in Pony, renewed the ground and built a new home. manhood this short little Irishman's on[...]e spent several happy years there until his death in 1971. It was "to go west, my boy, go west:''Srrii[...]nts bid him farewell knowing full long remembered in the Three Forks area. we[...]e was mining. His determination never He wa~ born in -Lewistown, MT on August 9, 1928. They wavered, t[...]t would make his dreams come moved to Three Forks in 1929. Madeline M. Bridell came to true. His way w[...]Forks from Minnesota, after graduating from Nevis in time to time to work, he endured through his suff[...]ater met and were Butte, Montana ... a mining town where a -scattering of married in the Methodist Church here at Three Forks in 1950. men around the town had little equipment above the ground, I went to work at the creamery in 1950 and we also helped my much less horses or mules. No one cared much how people parents in the Home Laundry. They retired in 1957 and we could come and go from outlying areas[...]place to begin. run the Coin Laundry since 1961. In 1962 I went to work at Shorty Jim never doubted that there was "gold in them thar Cyprus Industries.[...]Hills" and purchasing several pans and a pick and tools, went Tom, our oldest boy, was born in Bozeman on Oct. 20, 1956. into those hills around[...]rried to Pam Severson and they have two girls and a Shorty Jim. boy. Tom also works for Cyprus Indus[...]One day he saw footsteps fresh in the sand of the creek and Rod, our next boy, ~as bo~ in Bozeman on April 18, 1958. Shorty Jim kept[...] |
| [...]come sthreamin over th' mountains and its rays a-glancin'[...]noticed them and sez 'Silver Bow goes. Thats a good name,[...]i<'Theshe diggins hev produced 'Million in gold dust. We now[...]have Silver Bow County with this quartz camp in Butte,[...]rate ways, Shorty Jim heard about 7-up Pete being in many Finally from out of the bushes came the[...]d "See older. Out of the mining camps and living in Butte he roamed those bushes over there, I cut them last night and used them the streets in search of old friends. One day an old timer said for a bed. You could do the same and the overhanging ta[...]morning at taken to the Sisters of Charity as a stranger in his own land, dawn the sun streamed through the leaves into the eyes of the and went to the great beyond a few days later. His remains sleeping men who wish[...]ive minutes more sleep. were layed to rest at a little rise near the bank of, and within Shorty[...]m? As they travelled through the mining camps in the next few J. Altlwuse (Shorty) weeks Shorty Jim learned that 7-up Pete was a native of the Emerald Isle from which country he had migrated in his early teens, but the precise year he passed[...]land remained unsaid. To Shorty Jim 7-up Pete was a giant of a man standing 6'5" and very mighty. Such men were[...]as they minded their own business. 7-up Pete was a diamond in the rough, fearless and courageous. He told of a[...]pipe and the hard hat work with pick and shovel in a hundred mines. 7-up Pete said in his thick Irish Brogue "Oi and two brothers, a Scotchman and an Englishman, crossed the main Co[...]ters through the 'Pipes- tone Pass.' We were upon a prospectin' tower for placer diggins and as we t[...]and as it was near sundown, we halted and camped a few rods from the crick. Whoile me pards made the camp and were a-preparin' the supper, Oi unpacked my Saratogy trunk, which Boi the way, was a flour sack, to git me gum boots. - "Oi put on me boots and wid me pick and shovel 'nd gold pan in hand, Oi made for the crick bottom, shere Oi set about to dig a found after goin' through sivin or eight feet o'[...]Oi had scraped from the bed rowck 'nd it was rich in Gold! Yes mebee shrue Oi wur- rrked harrd to git through before darrrrk but the' days wuz long thin - it wuz in the month of June. Boi was time it wuz too[...] |
| [...]owed him the luxury of matrimony and domesticity. A stage arrived from St. Paul, Minn. and he greeted[...], Jane Kelly joined her sister and mader her home in Helena where they all worked at the Helena bakery. Shorty Jim and his wife, Sue, worked a short time in Butte and then moved to Norris where they owned a[...]ars. Mr. and Mrs. Althouse came to Three Forks in 1913 and opened, for business, the Gents Clothing[...]of 60 rooms. Mrs. Jane McNorton's sugges- tion of a name was unanimously accepted, "The Sacajawea[...]d by their brother, tern. She worked in the postoffice for several years. Richard Kelly, who lived at the Sacajawea in his old age. Jane Dave and Gerry have one son and one daughter. David and her brother are buried in the Fairview Cemetery in Three received a Bachelor's degree from Montana State University F[...]and a Master's from the University of Montana. In 1953, he In the ensuing years after 1913 Mr. and Mrs. Althouse's began teaching Speech at Sentinel High School in Missoula. original place of business was destroyed by fire. They then After taking a leave for a year to teach at the University of opened the Alt[...]dad, belongs to the Masonic Lodge, Scot- ing work in the Eastern Star and for her many kindnesses and[...]ve of Irish songs Montana and Ross is a sophomore at Hellgate High. enriched the lives of[...]daughter, Janet, attended Montana State following a stroke and was buried in the Masonic plot beside University and Kinman Business College in Spokane. She hE:r husband who preceeded her in death. married Al Stovall in Washington. They lived in Washington Shorty Jim was the i2th Master in the Three Forks until 1965, at which time, they moved to Helena. They had 3 A.F.&A.M. Masonic Lodge No. 73 of Three Forks, and was a children, Brenda, Betty ·and Todd. Br[...]Nelson member of the Bagdad Temple of the Shrine in Butte. His long Ford. They both died in 1981-; leaving two sons, Shawn and and eventful life came to an end in Townsend, Montana. Nicholas. Betty is married to Owen Adams and lives in Grand In the minds of the Three Forks pioneers he and his[...]d is married to Deborah Stanger and • Sue, fill a special memory. works in Helena. Janet is employed by Mountain Bell in Deane Be[...]Dave died in 1973. Gerry still lives in Three Forks in the house they bought in 1932. DAVID H. AND GERALDINE ANDREW[...]ldine Stewart. Dave and Gerry came to Three Forks in 1919, after Dave was released from the U.S. Army,[...]THE WILLIAM ARMSTRONG FAMILY serving as a 2nd Lieutenant. He came as a teacher in the William, Francelia and their si[...]ble was Eck's old ice syth to Elk Creek in 1959. William was born in Forsyth March house where they lived for a couple of weeks until they bought 7, 1903. Fran was born in Antelope, Mont. September 5, 1919. a house. Dave taught for 5 years in Three Forks and then they Five Armstrong[...]erring to the Three Forks school at Thanksgiving. In the After returning to Three Forks in 1931, Dave was a building fall of 1960 the Armstrongs moved t[...]Homer ranch contractor until he became postmaster in 1942. He was a north of Three Forks and the followin[...]enue. They shuttled between the Homer and Shrine (in Helena) and was initiated to the Sons of Scotland[...]one more time, living at the Henslee house He was a member of the Vigilante Organization and received[...]. At that time they bought the Max Herzog home on a plaque for attending over 100 meetings in succession. He Fifth Avenue. was Commander of the American Legion, a member of the Mr. Armstrong worked various places - for Pete Jackson - Uon;s Ciub, a vo1unteer fireman, member of the Sportsmen's on the Hebgen Dam. In 1960 he was measuring grade to lay Club and an ar[...]sewage pipe for the new distillation plant in Livingston when Gerry is a member of the Eastern Star, the Nile Club (in the ditch caved in. He was injured in December, 1962. He was Helena) and was the organi[...]ilities. William often went years. Gerry received a diploma in public school music and with the Boy Sco[...]adison. coming to Three Forks did substitute work in the school sys- By the time Will[...] |
| [...]duated from high school and left the nest. !he a union of the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches.[...]arden and all of the birds Mrs. Avery died in 1941 and Mr. Avery died in 1~55. They and bunnies that come to visit. The Armstrongs have wel- lived in the same house on 4th Ave. that they moved mto wh[...]hine often responded to calls of those who needed a helping hand, a O'Connor, of Butte, in Bozeman and worked there seve~al ride to the hospital, or perhaps a letter that needed to be years, moved to Bu[...]and Fran enjoy the relatively mild winters in 1971. She is still in Portland. and the beautiful scenery surrounding t[...]Thaddeus went to college in Bozeman. He returned to Three[...]re: Joan Sorenson, Milpitas, Cal; Jerry, christ in Anaconda. They moved to California for three year[...]Three then came back to Montana. He worked in Trident and later Forks; Donna Callahan, Preston,[...]ren and one great granddaughter. still live in Anaconda.[...]re went east to school and never returned to live in Montana. He married Augusta Morck in Oil City, Pa. His wife EDWARD AND ELIZABETH A VERY died in 1977 and he died in 1978. Mr. Edward Roy Avery, a native of Joliet, Illinois, came to[...]Thad Avery Bannack, Montana in 1900 to work as an electrician on the electric dr[...]THEE. S. AYERS FAMILY In 1901 he married Elizabeth Boyd in Joliet, Illinois, and[...]versity at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He farmed a homestead and and electrical equipment in the stamp mill. When the mill was worked in a local drug store in Ismay until he acquired owner- completed the ore gave out. The mill never turned a wheel.[...]ship. Elias and Josephine Biddison were married _in Sparta, Three boys wei:-e born in Pony: Stewart, Thaddeus and Theo-[...]were Gerald, Beverly and Mary. As a r~sult of the opening of Leaving family behind,[...]s and drought forced many resi- City where he was in charge of the electric light plant and dents to relocate. In 1936, Elias moved the drug store to Hot Easton mi[...]Springs and remained there until 1942. In 1914 he decided to go into business for himself, and The Ayers' family came to Three Forks in July 1942 when bought a garage in Three Forks. It was located across the Mr[...]ater street from the only large concrete building in town. It be- named the City Drug which was t[...]ged to Mr. Henslee. Later the garage was moved to a much store. Most ofElias's time was spent a[...]ere given to serving his community. He was active in Hotel. About this time he took in a partner, C. D. Buckey. The the Federated churc[...]he war years, no south side of the building until a few years ago. He sold his doctor was available in Three Forks. He conferred by phone share of the business to Mr. Buckey in 1927. with the nearest Medical Doctor to help local people in distress Ed farmed on the south bench a few years, then took a job at or used his first-aid knowledge to assist people unable to reach Trident as a machinest where he worked until retirement.[...]s gathered at Mr. and Mrs. Avery were prominent in lodge and church. He belonged to the Mason[...] |
| [...]mostly wheat. They came back to Minnesota many In 1955 he started his house on Main Street, doing m[...]of her retiring from their ranch they bought a small home in Three time to the church, Ladies Aid, Order of th[...]s sister and husband were the only Robert DeBoer. In 1962 Mr. and Mrs. Ayers acquired a beach ones able to attend from Minnesota. cottage in Westport, Wn., and spent their summers there. Henry Baab fell in ill health at 80 and was taken to the Elias delighted in deep-sea salmon fishing and they both en- Ma[...]Kathryn and Amelia Baab and daughter Elias died in January 1969 and Gerald in 1972. Josephine Hazel attended the funeral. continued to live in Three Forks until March, 1973 when she moved to the Missoula Manor in Missoula. Presently at the Minnie Baab[...]of 93, she lives at Hillside Manor. Beverly lives in Mis- into the rest home at Three Forks where she passed away in soula and Mary Hyre lives in Seattle. 1972, and no[...]They were both buried side by side in the Bozeman Cemetery.[...]AAB Henry Baab was born at Minneiska, Minnesota in the[...]e son of Christian and Kathryn Ray was born in Minnesota, December 18, 1899 the son of Baab. Both parents were born in Germany and came to the Willard and Eli[...]and were married over County, Washington in 1905. He started to school in Godfrey, there. To them were born three sons and[...]Washington in 1906. He finished his school years in Colville, deceased. Henry was the third to the ol[...]Washington. He worked at the building trade in Seattle until born to Christian Linderman and Cat[...]ry, Alberta, Canada where he parents were married in 1876. They had seven children. Five[...]He went to work for the Montana When Henry was a small boy, he moved with his parents Power Company in 1925 as an operator at Madison Power from Minneiska to a farm near Altura, Minnesota, Winona Plant near Ennis. County. When a young man in his twenties he met Minnie I was bor[...]1899. They and mother Ethel Carlson, had a ranch one mile from Norris started their life together running a store and post office at on the old Bozeman road. Oakridge, Minnesota. After a few years they moved to Altura,[...]College, known as Dillon Normal in my day. a grocery store and combined dry goods store for a number of years. From here they moved to Winona, Minnesota and lived Ray and I were married in Butte and moved to the Madison for seven years. Power Plant in 1928. Ray was working there and I had been Finally the call of the West came and they decided to seek a teaching school in Norris. new life and home in Montana. They went by train in the Ronald and ~old were born while[...]spring of 1914 leaving family and relatives back in Minnesota. Dam. We moved to Three Forks in 1936. Ray was town man- They bought a ranch near Willow Creek, Montana, buying a ager for the Montana Power Compan[...] |
| [...]ales at Potosi Montana at Missoula. He graduated in 1957. He is married cities, selli~g and g[...]artistic carvings. |
| [...]around the Headwaters area. He graduated At a very early age, she moved with her family to Virg[...]re Mr. Marshall was freighting supplies in Education at Dillon in 1935; and his Master's Degree from into the mining camp. He was given a federal contract to haul Missoula State University in 1948. On December 27, 1941, he mail and supplies to the army garrison stationed in the Yel- married Sigrid Bortvedt. They have[...]owstone. Sarah and George soon also taught in the Helena school system. During the summers, saw the need of a hotel. The Marshall family spent the cold Sigrid and Antrim ran a tackle shop and guide service in the winter of 1880-1881 in their crude and unfinished hotel. (The Yell[...]tel.) Lucy Marshall Barnes lived in Three Forks until she As a little girl, Lucinda, was always busy drawing. She was finished her Sophomore year in high school. She moved with overjoyed when one[...]crayons, paper, the family to Cleveland, Ohio in 1923 and after this, was in and watercolors.[...]d at the hotel. They helped care for their In the very early days a swamp extended just south of baby sister, Rose[...]o the cause she was the first white child born in Yellowstone Na- Milwaukee right of way. This was a grand place to wade, catch tional Park.[...]en years, the hotel was sold and the family built a After rain, there was a white crust of alkali on the roads. home on th[...]he alkali gradually disappeared; along with water in . Lucinda worked as a cook at the Canyon Hotel, and during basem[...]screened-in-porches but others built smudges in their front the winter when the Old Faithful Ho[...]yards if they wanted to sit out in the evenings. There were few of the cooks. In the spring, each carpenter gave her $1.00 to he[...]ens; a few kept cows and sold inilk; and of course, there were Mr. Marshall was badly injured by a runaway team and the horses and livery st[...]o my brother, Antrim, and myself, Three Forks was a at the Art Institute in Chicago. By about 1905, the family was wonde[...]Our father often told us that: <<This was God's in Livingston, Montana and Lucinda was teaching art in both Country." class and _p rivate art[...]NINA MABEL BARNHOUSE were settled in Three Forks, George Marshall, Sr. came to live[...]she his accident. Sarah did practical nursing in the Headwaters traveled through our area[...]e ties with the Barnes also. covered wagon in _.1 895 from Bird City, Kansas. My mother George farmed and raised cattle in the Horseshoe Hills above was 17 on the way up here. She, with a younger sister, drove a Menard, Montana. Walter farmed near Toston, Montana. light spring wagon with a cover, her folks had the big wagon. Frank was a cattle dealer in Three Forks before the first World Their name[...]sister and three brothers. Other wagons in the train were Frank was discharged from the M[...]es of Geo. Pyle, Charles Richardson and warden in Gallatin County.[...]n Case, Antrim, Sr. and Lucinda were active in community affairs. Con Warner and others. He served on the school board when the only building was a I will write word for word from my mo[...]ite frame one east of town. They were both active in the in your part of the country." Presbyterian Church. He was an elder and she was in Sunday Friday, August 16, 1895 School[...]"We started late in the forenoon. George had to fix the bows Wh[...]and Annie went fish- Locomotive Engineers was a powerful union. A. E. Barnes was ing but they didn't get any fish. Then we did start and we drove very active in the organization. From 1923 to 1925, he took a "just 3 miles by noon. We past Central Park in the afternoon. leave of absence from the railroad and worked and studied in We stopped at night near a place where the people had a the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Cooper[...]r staying with them. We girls visited them and in Cleveland, Ohio. When he returned to "railroading[...]insurance. Sat. Aug. 17 He liked to fish in the Madison. After a lingering illness, he "We pasted Manhattan[...]itefish and trout. ·. able, and to be interested in community affairs. She was a past Sun. Aug. 18 worthy matron of the Eastern Star, a Camp Fire leader, and a "We stayed on the Madison river all day.[...]ber of the Women's Club which started the Library in washing and baking. Some of th[...] |
| [...]uffered an injury to one eye while chopping wood. A splinter lodged in his eye causing him to lose the sight. This happe[...]at Ortin's Music Store in Bozeman, Montana in the 1930s.[...]she got into bookkeeping and worked most her time in[...]with Drs. Nelson & Leidig in Seattle for many years. Evelyn Nina Mabel Barnhou[...]est Marion Walter married passed away in 1967 preceeding her parents in death. At this Feb. 20, 1898, Chapel, Creston, Montana. point in our lives, my parents and I (and my two daughters[...]the river and crossed the divide - scattered in different parts of the city. stopped for dinner o[...]d for the night. Drove 20 miles." in Three Forks when Mamie Tibbs was manager. After f[...]which was "contract manager" of their office in Columbus, Nina Barnhouse was born July 20, 1878[...]Montana. I stayed with the telephone company in different[...]capacities for thirty-five years retiring in 1971. Eighteen of died May 22, 1964 at Kalispell.[...]my working years was here in Seattle for Pacific Northwest Walter Feb. 20, 189[...]Bell when my daughters were still in school. One (Joan) later Iowa and died July 24, 1949 at Kalispell, MT. He came to the Flathead in 1888. I (Clifford M. Walter) was born Nov. 11, married her high school sweetheart and raised a family of five· 1900. My little sister, born in 1915, only lived eight months. I and my other daughter (Karen) stayed in school and thought maybe these 4 days might be of[...]graduated from the University of Washington in the School[...]My father passed away in 1970 and my mother went in ALBERT JAMES BARTON[...]Things I like to remember about my life in Three Martha and Alberta Grace. We were oflrish a[...]Barton, started working for the Mil- music in which the children took part. waukee Railroad out ofThree Forks, Montana in 1910. He was the silent picture shows[...]Midland, Basalt, Colorado, be- swimming in the Jefferson river. cause the smaller lines were[...]as n- mechanic and general foreman of the Midland in Colorado gers stream in for butt rmilk, tc. Springs around 1889.[...] |
| [...]two good medical doctors, Diamond and Koehlor and a good hospital.[...]of Dana our high class merchants Parnacott and Sterling and meat Point, California. Bruce married Mary Lane and lives in market Ernest Roe and always Jimmy Lane.[...]Grace Batchelder passed way in 1967 and Holmes in 1975. After graduating from Iowa State College in 1908, Holmes[...]na to work as manager of the Mar- cus Daly estate in Hamilton. In 1910 he returned to Iowa to marry Grace Davis, they came to Three Forks in 1911 and THE BATEMAN FAMILY HISTORY purchased the Three Forks Dairy from A.C. Lee. He leased The first time I set foot in Three Forks was literally that, on what was calle[...]nd I ran from converted one of the buildings into a modern dairy barn. He the interchange to the Milwaukee Depot, as I was to catch a installed one of the first three milking machines in the state. freight train toHarlowton. You see, I was a newly hired In 1915 he started selling milk and cream to Milwauk[...]. The Three Forks Creamery was the first creamery in new job, and my first student trip on the[...]t, the head brakeman drove me back to my car died in 1970, he is survived by his wife Phoebe of Bozeman, with a can of gas. Well, everything turned out OK, I mad[...]· student trip and I had a first hand look at the people of Three[...]necessitated larger quarters. A new house was decided upon and we moved in on October 1, 1974. Again, the helpfulness[...]and friendliness of the local residents was a contributing fac- tor in the ability of this family to move into our new h[...]settled in, for we fully expected to spend the rest of our w[...]ing lives in Three Forks.[...]Our second child (Tommy) arrived in March of 1977 and by[...]re full fledged "locals". Little did we know that in[...]bankruptcy and a year later, we would move to Missoula,[...]We return to Three Forks a few times each year to visit and[...] |
| rekindle old friendships. This town holds a spedal place in our My father and I milked as many as 32 head of cows by ha_nd memory. For you see, there is a certain nostalgia connected and separated the milk with a small hand separator which with this community and one never really stops being a took longer than milking the cows. "[...]y_ on horseback to Potosi Hot Springs for a week, then to Boze- man where we worked in hay fields for three weeks. We then[...]where we spent two Edwin was born July 2, 1910 in a log cabin 2 miles west of weeks. Three For[...]kins) Bel- I worked on several ranches in the next couple of lach. He came to join three sisters. years. In the fall of 1926 I went to work for the Bell Tele[...]Company on hire crew. Then we did a couple of short hitches at When my mother passe[...]at the Lane school phone company most of 1929 in the Billings area and was walking 23/4 miles with[...]he depres- teacher who passed me to the 2nd grade in May. sion for me. We moved to the homestead in April with the cattle as there However,[...]which caused us to change schools keeping in Trident. The plant closed down in late October. twice a year. Edna was born in 1911 in a log cabin, just east of the We milked cows and[...]dest daugh- sold cream to the Broadwater Creamery in the summer and to ter of Walter and Bessie (Cheeseman) Williams. the Three Forks Creamery in the winter.[...]et cream to Three Forks twice Willow Creek. In 1929 she worked at the Sacajawea hotel and a week, delivering door to door to her regular customers. the Gateway Cafe. This cafe was in the building that is now In the fall of 1922 my sister Deane and I started to school in the laundrymat. It was owned and operated by Mr. & Mrs. Three Forks. We drove a horse and buggy, leaving the cream Georg[...]In the spring of 1931 I went to work for F. L. Dye P[...]rees at 50 cents per hour. I did anything to make a dollar, I[...]In 1933 we rented the Breneman ranch and took a turn at ranching. In 1934. I worked the Logan viaduct on highway No.[...]10. In 1931 we had bought our first home. It was a three room[...]and were able to pay it off from this job. In 1935 I worked as a[...]eman building beacon towers from Bozeman to Avon. In[...]Bozeman viaduct and a viaduct at Whitefish, their next job[...]residence. In 1943 we moved our shop to Main Street. About 20[...]After 42½ years in business we were tired. Edna ran the[...]d I was out on the job. The store was composed of a[...]In 1978 we closed out our business and sold the buil[...]Edwin is a past master of the Three Forks Masonic Lodge[...]No. 73 and a past patron of the Thr River Chapter No. 5[...] |
| Edna is past matron of the order of Eastern Star and a past graduated in 1977. He worked as a plumber since high school, Mother Adviser of the[...]n played the part of Captain-Clark for five years in the now works in Billings where he makes his home and is mar- pageant at the Headwaters in the 1950's. ried to the[...]Three Forks Volunteer Fire ruary 14, 1980 in Bozeman, the same church his parents were[...]married in 28 years before. At their wedding Larry wore his[...]wedding anniver- born September 12, 1961 in Great Falls, Montana. Her par- sary on April 26,[...]Don and Jackie Walker of Glendive. She graduated in[...]Faye Bellach was born June 21, 1961 and graduated in THE EDWIN-E. BE,LLACH FAMILY[...]of town and it is now sity of Nevada - Reno in 1981 where she will complete her the home of Earl Roadarmel. Ed attended school here and degree in Elementary Education in 1983. graduated in 1951, he also attended one year of college at[...]ears each one of the kids worked, all Mont. State in Bozeman. In his younger days he worked for his four at t[...]- Grandfather, Walter Williams of Willow Creek on a Ranch, ton at the A & W. Jody worked as a life guard at the city park, haying. He worked for his Dad too, in the Plumbing and Larry worked for the[...]We are Three Forks people at heart and have a lot of good Ed and his wife Iva lived at 503 East[...]((our" home town, and we are very proud to be had a small ranch there. Ed raised cows, chickens, horses and included in this history book. It's not easy to move so far a[...]ast side of town. The first three new homes to go in will be able to return to Three Forks, Mont[...]e Milwaukee Railroad for 28 years until it closed in March of 1980 and he hired out on the Western Pac[...]GUS BELLACH presently employed, in Portola, California. Gus[...]une Ed married Iva Leffingwell, August 22, 1952 in Bozeman, 21, 1871 to August and Caroline[...]he Kidd Cattle Company. Iva where he had a sister and brother-in-law, Ell and Ida Lamb. attended schools in Central Park, Logan, Manhattan and He[...]He was quite a trader and soon had quite a number of horses. Ed and Iva are the parents of four children, all four were He was a top hand at breaking horses both to work and to ride. born in Townsend, Montana and raised in Three Forks. He met Nellie Jenkins in Radersburg. She was the oldest James Edwin Bel[...]Mary Jenkins. She was born at Mountain graduated in 1971 and attended Montana State for one year.[...]tates He then hired out on the Milwaukee Railroad in June 1972 as with her parents. Gus and Nellie were married in the Com- a brakeman. In 1978 he moved to Glendive, Montana where he mercial Hotel in Townsend, Montana October 2, 1899. To this is now a Train Dispatcher for the Burlington Northern. He[...]Geraldine, Montana. She was born January 16, 1954 in Fort Benton and her parents are Edwin and Verda Joyce. She graduated in 1972, and attended Carroll College in Helena, Montana for two years. She now works for a hardware store in Glendive. Jim and Regina have two chil- dren; Jen[...]Bellach was born October 14, 1955. She graduated in 1974 and then graduated from Mr. Mac's Beauty College in 1975. She worked in Billings, Kalispell, and at the Beauty Charm in Three Forks before her marriage to Matthew Ries, July 1, 1978. He was born July 2, 1952 in Conrad, Montana to Sylvester and Marie Ries. He graduated in 1970, then received his Bachelors and Masters deg[...]d his Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson on May 15, 1982. He now workes for the Cargill Corporation in Plainsview, Texas where they make their home. Jody and Matthew have a daughter, Samantha Christina, born July 3[...] |
| [...]. and I continued my education in Butte, Montana where l[...]My summers were spent in Montana Power camps. I fol-[...]of Montana. I can remember riding back to camp in the com-[...]father in his job. Dad was called Spig and was well-known a[...]I hear of him by that name. Dad was killed in a job related accident in 1950.[...]started my railroad career as a Brakeman and Conductor for[...]married Caroline Elizabeth Kunz, January 16, 1944 in Kunze; Myrtle who married S.W. Tippett and later m3:rried Butte, Montana. We moved into a house owned by Sis Chryst. Dr. H. L. Koehler; Dea[...]awrence Hankmson The water pump was in the backyard and the outhouse could and later mar[...]Hale. Our oldest daughter lived in this same house with her[...]es. They made I was called into the Army in May of 1944. I spent the Second their home in Radersburg until 1907 when they bought a World War in the Philippine Islands working on a narrow ranch from Wm. (Grandpa) Hankinson located[...]e Marie for the first time. She was born in Butte, Montana, known as the Home Ranch, having b[...]ams with him and the Town of Three Forks starting in 1908 February 1946 we moved into the[...]ved the family back to Butte to work the projects in the new town.[...]ree years. During that time two more He took up a homestead twelve miles southwest of Raders-[...]urg and twenty-one miles northwest of Three Forks in 1912, born July 11, 1950 joined the fami[...]t 1950 I moved my family back to Three Forks into a farms to Three Forks. He would have two wagons with six house now owned by Leonard Malby. A month later we bought head of horses, also a four horse team and wagon with a hired the old May house located across fro[...]. We moved to the homestead each spring usually in April All the children attended th[...]urn to the home ranch about Line School in Kansas City, MO. Upon her return she married Than[...]o sons, Gary Dean, schools for the children twice a year. The homestead had a nice born June 1965 and Michael John born Ma[...]s on the lower Madison Road with her husband , Ed in 1920 he kept the homestead and purchased enough l[...]Geisenheimer, from New York. Ed owns and operates a horse- adjoining it to make 480 acres. He ran the[...]Minerals Company. Mrs. Bellach passed away in 1916, March 22. Gus never Judy gra[...]side Carrie Ann born May 1974. his wife in the Fairview Cemetery at Three Forks.[...]tended meat cutting school in Denver, Colorado. He returned[...]r J an Velma Daily and Forest (Spig), Bequette on a cold Casper, born January 1973, Nichol[...]he old Be- Wayn and his family now live in Deer Lod Montana wh r quette homestead ou[...]Wayne is th Meat Manag r for I.G.A. My education started with kindergarten in Boz man, athy married Larry[...]r 1971. Thr grades one through five were attended in Towns nd, Montana childr n w r b[...] |
| [...]d this house was remodeled and added to worked as a carpenter in Montana, Idaho and Utah. In July of keep up with room for the offspring. We[...]Three Forks and location. We have made a number of changes including the bought my house o[...]fountain that became a dream v1ith a trip to Italy. After the Milwaukee Railroad folded in March 1980, I went We have been members of[...]Edward has been a member of the Gallatin County Medical Edward E. Bertagnolli was born in Red Lodge, Montana on Society, Montana Medica[...]d several other med- Bertagnolli. Eugene was born in Coal City, Il~inois. Josephine ical associations since being in Three Forks. He has been on was born in Genoa, Wisconsin. Their parents had migrated to the Board of Trustees for Montana Physicians Service for a these areas from what was then part of Austria -[...]oard of the Montana Founda- Trentino and Lombardy in Northern Italy. Eugene worked in tion for Medical Care for 8 years, and at present is serving on the coal mines in Red Lodge together with many of his rela- the[...]ttees for descendants of the Bertagnolli ancestry in the Red Lodge and the various medical associati[...]iations have always been quite private. Edward is a member Edward attended schools in Red Lodge - graduating from of the Knights of Columbus Council 844, Helena, Montana high school in 1942. He went to college at Carroll College and is a member of the Third Degree Council there also. He[...]rsity As of December 1982 the children are in the following in Chicago. He graduated from Loyola in 1948. He has a B.A. places. Ann - Columbus, Ohio working on her doctorate in from Carroll College. During medical school he ex[...]Medieval English; Mary - Helena, Montana working in the several different hospitals in Chicago and then interned at St.water resources bureau; Mona - Helena, Montana working as Francis Hospital in La Crosse, Wisconsin. This hospital was in a nurse in a doctor's office; Nancy - living in Bozeman, Mon- the area of his mother's relatives. While interning there he tana; Tom - living in Bozeman, Montana and working at the delivered twi[...]ment Plant. Pat and Mike are still living at home in several hundred relatives from his mother's side.[...]ear of high school. He was married to Patricia Hayden in 1947 at St. Mary's Over the years Edward has been interested in the ancient Church in Evanston, Illinois. From this marriage there[...]. Their names are Ann, Mary, Mona, research in many different areas. The mystery still remains N[...]ir birth dates were Ann - Nov. 27, 1950; center in the Headwaters Park should be there not only for[...]- over North America. It appears that this was a very holy area hary; Mary - Matthew; Nancy - Nico[...]rivers form- Edward and Patricia were divorced in 1975 and the children ing the Mother of Waters to the ocean. It has been ascertained remained in the custody of Edward, who continued living in overthe years that this area was well known t[...]he children. All many miles away. It seems to be a center for them. At present have graduated from T[...]ecretive and much has yet to be who will graduate in 1983. learned[...]have to await another document. Edward arrived in Three Forks in November of 1949. At that time a clinic office was owned in Three Forks by the The Bertagnolli's (inset) Edwa[...]was about broke, this job became an opportunity. A rather long association with the clinic in Townsend then began. There was also a hospital in that community called the Broadwater Hospital. Th[...]out Lewis and Clark, we had the rodeo, and we had a chamber of commerce that became the spark plug for the state. Edward finally separated from the clinic in Townsend and for a while rented the building from the clinic and continued to practice there. Finally a duplex at 223 1st Ave. East was purchased and rem[...]ce. This was much differ- ent from the old office in the sense that there was much more space and more[...]later ad.d ed to this building so that it is now in its present state. We purchased a house at 511 lstAve. Eastin about 1951. As[...] |
| [...]t. Most Milwaukee to Alberton, Montana. In 1924 they moved to of these will have to await an[...]en they went to been many very interesting people in the area. There have nearby Ramsay with the BA&P Ry, where he worked as a car been many memorable episodes - such as riding in the inspector until retirement. In 1951 Irvin passed away and in engine from here to Harlow. There was the great t[...], their first son, attended grade and high school in back with the injured. There were the great days[...]h and Tex Simpson as they watched me fly high off a his first job with the Milwaukee Ry[...]g and fertilizing lilac bushes on the depot lawn. In gift of a quart of glue from Harley. Alberton he was active in high school sports. While living in I must assume the first person for a time to say that the Alberton he worke[...]ctor Mr. Amans and years have been very enjoyable in this community and I have Milwaukee Ry. In Ramsay he worked for local railroads. After learn[...]ing from Butte High School he began his career as a the community. I have had many laughs. I have sha[...]Rocky Mountain Division. In 1942 he married Esther Moran[...]II. He attended airplane mechanic school in Texas and served BILL BLAKELY 3½ years in North African and Italian campaigns with the Bill Blakely, born in Helena, MT, August 7, 1912. Raised on U.[...]to Three Forks Milwaukee Ry. Then in 1967 Esther passed away . He retired in 1938 as a Route Driver for Eddy's Bakery. Later worked in from the Milwaukee Ry. at Haugan, MT a[...]service to Superior, MT where he is active in Senior Citizens tired at age 60 in 1973.[...]Legion and V.F.W. My father came from Michigan in 1905 and worked in Alfred attended school in Three Forks and Alberton. He also Burgess Dairy in Helena for a time. He married Agnes John- was active in sports. In Ramsay he started a career as section son from Wisconsin in 1907 and homesteaded about 15 miles[...]gs. They raised 6 children Division. In 1931 he married Nellie Welch of Butte, MT. They ([...]t of 4 living. My had one son named Alfred, Jr. In 1961 Nellie passed away. mother's parents had a homestead near the town of Canyon Alfred retired from the Milwaukee RR in Deer Lodge. In 1963 Creek, northwest of Helena.[...]passed away. Bill Blakely married Lorene Rodda in 1939. We have 2 Leonard attended school in Three Forks, Alberton, Ramsay, children, Larry and Barbara. Larry has a CPA practice in and Butte. He started work with th[...]Silver Bow, Livingston and Barbara is married to a lawyer in Indiana. MT. He started apprentice car repairer training in Los Both children went through the grades and high school in Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Pocatello. In 1942 he was drafted Three Forks. in to WW II. He served in Btry A, 143 FA Bn in Bismarck,[...]ipelago, Luzon, and New Guinea. He was discharged in[...]UP Ry. He transferred soon after to BP&P Ry. in Anaconda. In Irvin Bond was born March 31, 1880 in Yorkshire, England. 1963 Leonard passed away. He began half-day mill work at age eight. He was a worsted Ashley attended school in Three Forks, Alberton, Ramsay mill overseer in Bradford, England. He also was a professional and graduated from Butte High School. He worked in the CCC English rugby football player. He then ma[...]ression. He was then employed with the Moore 1902 in Bradford, England. Mary was born April 7, BA&P Ry. as welder's helper. In 1942 he was drafted into WW 1879 in Yorkshire, England. She also was a worsted mill II. He served 3½ years with the 718th Ry., operating Bn in worker in Bradford, England from the age of ten. To this un[...]France. He then returned to service with the BA&P in Butte. was born three sons: Frank, September 1905; Alfred, October In 1954 he married Evelyn G. Doyer of Butte who survives. In 1907; Leonard, October 1910. All these sons were born in 1972 Ashley passed away. Bradford,[...]Donald attended school in Three Forks, Alberton Ramsay, Irvin Bond arrived in Three Forks in 1910. He was emp- and graduated fro[...]ompleted business courses wife and family arrived in Three Forks in February, 1911. at Butte Business College. In 1941 he began a career with the They stayed for a short time with a cousin, Mr. & Mrs. Orlando U.S. Civil Service. In 1942 he was drafted into WW II with the Robson and daughter Dorothy. They set up housekeeping in a U.S. Army Air Force Technical Command. In 1943 he re- leaky tent where their next son Ashley was born in August, turned to the U.S. Governmen[...]with the Corps of 1912. The tent was replaced by a very small three room house Engineers,[...]Malmstrom AFB in Great Falls, MT in 1977 after 35 yea rs of Irvin Bond worked in Three Forks 1910-1916 with the s[...]Alfred, Jr. was born June , 1932 in Butt.e MT to Alfred and From 1917-1919 he worked on various work in the Butte, Nellie. He graduated from grade and high school in De r Anaconda and Woodville area. In 1920-1921 they returned to Lodge. He was active in sports. He then graduated from We t- Three Forks[...]d the McPhail ern Montana College in Dillon, MT. He was employed as a house later owned by Chester Bayles on Second Str[...]ter J. Payne, who had preceded them in the U .S. Army in Korea. In 1955 he married B rtha Mary from England. In 1922-1924 Irvin was transferred with the Mathison in Deer Lodge. Th y are parents of son Charl[...] |
| [...]daughter Denise Montana State College in Bozeman. She married Douglas E. Anne. He taught school in Deer Lodge. He then was employed Ferguson J[...]Washington State College and obtained a B.S. Degree in Ag- Alfred and Bertha are now employed in the Browning, MT riculture. Fred and his wife, Esther, live in Puyallup, grade school system.[...]Genevieve and her husband, Glenn, live in Queen's Creek, THE F. G. BRABEC FA[...]k G. Brabec arrived by auto from Clarissa, Minn., in Both Frank and Mary Brabec have passed awa[...]e broke We migrated to Three Forks from Iowa in the summer of a spring. After that, he was delayed only a few hours because 1909, which makes us pioneer[...]e was Papa of motor and tire troubles. He arrived in Three Forks at 4:30 and Mamma, daughter, Glady[...]me, Harold, age Sunday, the 16th, making the run in 5 days and 10 hours. The 7, then brother, Ora[...]bus to Three Forks took 10 hours with time a real Paradise for a boy to grow up in. In the summer, it was lost for repairs at two points[...]e our side. present Coast to Coast store. In November, 1916, Mr. Brabec At that time, Three Forks was a real booming town with the moved the Harness Shop[...]rald office, south of the present Masonic Temple. In house, the shops dispatchers, not to forget[...]k. John King of Logan, bought the Brabec business in When they put the sidewalks in, I was on the payroll as June, 1922, and the fami[...]pper. For that, I was There were four children in the family. Ed and Agnes . paid 50 cents a day. I also had a paper route and later, when graduated from the Th[...]took tickets at night. For this, I was paid $2.00 a week. employed by the Equitable Life Insurance So[...]I should mention here that there was an increase in the York. Ed and his wife , Margerite, lived in Chicago. Ed is family,aboynamedOrvilleandag[...]writing, Ora and Orville have left us and are in the Happy Agnes went to business college in Billings and worked at Hunting Ground, as the Indians would say. A busy morning at Brabec's Harness Slwp, Thr[...] |
| [...]hese mouths to feed, I was asked to go to work as a man laborer on the section or track maintenance.[...]y education. The pay on the section job was $1.50 a day. Some time later, I got the job as call bo[...]s walk, walk, walk. The hours from 7 p.m. until 7 a.m., twelve hours and no days off, 30 days a month. The pay was sixty-five dollars a month or $2.16 a night or 18 cents an hour, how about that compared to today. Some time later, I got the day job from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and then the day of my life came on the 29th of November. This was in 1917. They needed an engineer, a conductor and a fireman to go to Deer Lodge and bring back a steam engine to Three Forks. The engineer was Fre[...]man. I begged and begged and I guess I even cried a little to let me go as the fireman, the railroad[...]f I could make this trip, the rest would be easy, in those days when business was real good, it was a question of filling the crews when short- handed, so I was given the O.K. and it was a day I'll never forget. So we deadheaded to Deer L[...]night and got to Three Forks around eight o'clock in the A.M. and I can tell you now that I was really pooped, but I didn't care because I was a real fireman now and the call boy would have to c[...]'t so easy as I soon found out because as soon as a little slump came, I would get cut off, after get[...]eally the beginning of the end as I could see for a kid starting out on a RR career. I was only sixteen years old at the time. My sister, Gladys, was married at the time with a baby. Her husband had gone to Seattle some time before, had a job in the Mr. & Mrs. E. W. Brasch shipyards, and[...]said goodbye to my beloved Three Forks. I stayed in Seattle The Brasch Children until af[...]hen there wasn't any jobs to be had any place. In the meantime, I had brought my mother, Ora, Orvil[...]e, I went down to the water front one day and got a job on a boat that was going to Los Angeles Harbor. By the[...]Lord, I went to work for the Southern Pacific as a brakeman on August 14, 1923 and there I stayed until I retired 43 years later in August 1966. I would go to Seattle for my vacation and in September of 1927, I married my girl ofmy choice,[...]there. Edwin Brasch was born on November 6, 1892 in Mount Ver- non, South Dakota. His family moved to Port Orchard, Washington where he grew up. Ed worked in logging camps in the Pacific northwest before he came to Montana to work for the Milwaukee Railroad. He worked as a fireman and en- gineer from 1912-1957. Most of th[...]erda (Elmberg) Brasch was born on August 18, 1895 in Shafer, Minnesota. She graduated from St.[...] |
| [...]CONRAD THEODORE BRICKSON to Deer Lodge, Montana in 1923. Conrad Theodore Brickson, a 24 year old native of Lake Ed and Gerda met in Deer Lodge and were married August Park, Minnesota arrived in Three Forks, March 11, 1909 30, 1924 in Lindstrom, Minnesota. They were parents of four where he opened a drug store in the new boom town on the children. Robert William born August 9, 1925 in Lewistown, Milwaukee Railroad. MT-died[...]raldine Marie Dr. Stoyer had asked a drug company salesman to find a (Shannon) born February 9, 1929 at Three Forks; J[...]help care for lene (Flanigan) born March 24, 1931 in Harlowton and the community and t[...]. Elizabeth Ann (Bartlemay) born October 17, 1933 in Lind- Conrad Brickson came west. The[...]. Hoy, Dave Whittet Minnesota where he worked for a county road crew. In 1936 banker; Paul Peine, merchant and[...]Three Forks, this time for _good. Conrad and a partner leased ground and grew potatoes. It was Ed and Gerda bought a house and a section of land located that fall that he saw the need for sturdy footwear and opened a on the south bench for taxes and moved the house[...]shoes. His cobbler, Rudock (Rudolph) was a Russian emigre, Ed built a white stone fireplace. The garage was built from[...]d most of the work themselves. It was in the shoe store that he met a young lady, grand- Gerda was fond of flowers, tre[...]and the American Legion. He did A daughter, Mary Angeline III was born to them October 7, carpentry work as a hobby.[...]r of the Federated Church, Mary A. Brooke was born to Charles Walter and Mary A. much of her church work involved the Sunday School Dept. Tinsley Brooke in Whitehall on February 15, 1891. She was She served on election boards. She was also active in the educated in the Whitehall schools and worked in the post PI' A, a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and did[...]Marie Berland Brickson on June 15, 1885 in Lake Park, Min- School.[...]nesota. Both of his parents were born in Norway. Conrad,the Gerda died February 6, 1960[...]ended normal school and taught school one year on a permit.[...]funds to complete his education, he went to work. In[...]he was working at the Great Bend Pharmacy, later in[...]Conrad continued in business until 1918 when his draft HAROLD[...]leave his Harold and Edith came to Three Forks in 1908. Harold was family unprotected so,[...]ley and Montana from Illinois. The depot was then in Old Town of Brooke relatives lived near, but the Armistice was signed Three Forks. The depot was a box car, remodeled into a depot. before Conrad was called. Our home adjoined the depot, which was also a box car. After a few years on the ranch, in 1924 the Bricksons left the In the meantime, a new depot was built down the tracks ranch. They lived in Minneapolis and Great Falls where he about one mile west. There were living quarters included in represented MacDonald Brothers Wholesale Company of the new depot, which was an improvement over a box car. The Minneapolis. depot is still standing. The depot was so far from the site of the In 1931 when companies were retrenching the family p[...]trains. moved to Missoula and bought a grocery store in the Univer- In 1915, Harold was transferred to Sappington, where[...]the train to Conrad and Mamie Brickson school in Willow Creek each day until she got through the 8th grade. She then finished high school in Three Forks. We moved back to Three Forks in 1923. By then, the depot was no longer an adequate place to live. We moved uptown and lived in several different houses. Harold suffered a heart attack in 1935. He recovered after a month of complete bed rest. He then worked[...] |
| [...]them, Patricia A. Fairhurst of Three Forks, Montana and[...]Jim started working for the Milwaukee Road as a Fireman in 1928 out of Three Forks, finally moving his family here in 1943. Retired in 1969. After an extended illness Laura died in[...]In 1981 Jim married Hazel Visser who was really an e[...]graduated from Whitehall, Montana in 1925. She, then,[...]Sleeman in 1927. Two children were born to them. Jack[...]Montana. She worked in the Whitehall Post Office 20 years.[...]Her husband died in 1964. She married Clarence Visser in[...]1967 and they moved to Three Forks. Clarence died in 1980.[...]grandchildren in the Britzius family.[...]In the fall of 1939, the Brocks, Luther, Helen and t[...]live", as I remembered it as a desolate little town with many[...]ers. It was really a forlorn place and here I was to make it my[...]Luther was born in Elkensville, Indiana. He and his brother[...]aduated from the U. of Mon- when he was a baby. tana in 1935.[...]Conrad's health began to fail the store was sold in where his father was living and became a[...]tinued to run the apartments after Conrad's death in 1948. It was while there, he went to work on the Baltimore, Ohio In 1958 she sold out and bought the Colonial Apts. in the Railroad. After a train wreck, he spent many months in a downtown area. In 1965 she retired, sold the Colonial and[...]r you may develop T.B. Mamie continues to live in Pony with her daughter Mary Working his way westward he ended up in Lewistown and Brickson Tallman - also, retired. T[...]yed with the Ringling Brothers of Circus fame. In his younger years, Conrad was an avid hunter and[...]As a young man, he hired out as a camp cook for the Great fisherman. Since ducks abounded in the Three Forks area and[...]re building track to the Coast. game was abundant in the mountains, his string of ducks . draped from[...]the Madison and his elk hunts are duly preserved in horse and saddle for a section of what now is the business photographs.[...]ar St. Paul and trophy elk. The mounted head hung in the shoe store and came west by ferry boat landing in Fort Benton and then today it hangs on the front[...]and Charles Markin lived about a stone's throw from the JAMES M.[...]River. So the most of our time was spent swimming in James M. Britzius and Laura A. Beauchot both arrived on our oldest c[...]) catching min- wheat farms at Harlowton, Montana in 1918. Jim from Iowa nows and making m[...]aura from Minnesota. Went to school and graduated in petals and leaves and what creations w[...]11 1925. They were married in 1926. Two daughters were born to My Uncle owned a !saloon", mind you, not a bar or lounge"[...] |
| as referred to today. He owned a Ford (Tin Lizzie) one of the in California. Anyway the big earthquake of 1906 destroyed a first in Logan and only used it for pleasure riding. I can[...]including her office. She mar- remember us riding in that open touring car, sitting proudly ried[...]ow Creek. tana later living and dying in Three Forks. The Markins lived in Logan until 1917 when they moved to Mrs. Chester Bales was married to a Milwaukee Engineer. Bozeman so Florence could go to High School. She was a widow when our paths crossed. Ah yes, Mrs. Bales Amybelle Robinson now lives in LaGrande, Oregon and - what a talented woman she was. She was known for her Geo[...]hes and violin playing. My After settling down in Three Forks, we lived next door to a children took a special fancy to her. Perhaps it was the cookies[...]impromptu little tea parties. gorie was born here in 1942 so is a true Three Forks native. Anyway, being an o[...]enjoyed going to Ruby Hill, later owned by the C. A. Church, Grace Lutheran. At Church, I became involved in Ranch. What dreams we had of finding a large perfect garnet, teaching Sunday School and[...]ild you could almost hear the thun- they now live in Butte. dering hoofs of the buffalo with Indians in hot pursuit. Below[...]and to the left you could imagine a ring of teepees with smoke Maribeth Hagin lives in Wallace, S.D. (Hubert Humphrey's lazily dr[...]en the sudden activity as the birthplace) married a rancher, farmer (Harlan) and they have buff[...]as we Donnie, now called Don lives at Conner, a small town in the were at war and Germans weren't held in high esteem. Mr. Bitter Roots, worked as electrician for the Champion Lumber Richter had a cobbler shop right next to where Skipps Barber Mi[...]University of Shop is now and he did mend many a sole. After his death, Montana. He and Janet hav[...]Anna opened up to her neighbors and became a close friend. girls.[...]As to Three Forks - it is a pretty town, with paved streets, In the 40's Three Forks became alive. We were at war[...]en built and new businesses have sprung up. It is a commodities. Many hired out on the Milwaukee, oc[...]Helen Brock earthquakes in Helena in 1935. Of course, Three Forks had a big quake in 1925 damaging the school. The radio came alive an[...]d stayed and the Dam held. was a favorite in our town. What town hasn't its eccentric character? Well Three Forks Tom was born in Wilson Co., Ohio, Oct. 18, 1878. He first was no[...]came to Montana and worked as a section hand. Later he There was Barney Castle, reported to be a woman-hater and worked at the Borden Hotel in Whitehall. Soon after the a real recluse. He lived in a two story ramshackle house construction[...]awea Hotel he moved to Three Forks surrounded by a yard lined with timbers eight feet high - all where he worked as a porter and shoe shine boy. Just when he of which[...]rown matted hair he wore down past his shoulders, a tered his life in 1922 with the death of Mary, the adopted beard and mustasch and dressed in old clothes. He really stood daughter of Mr. a[...]nd short haired. It his wife passed away. was a common sight to see him with his wheelbarrow, eit[...]ng them rumors were but it was said (and seen by a few) that he had a with a jig or a joke. He greeted everyone with a warm smile water glass almost full of diamonds. W[...]on digging everywhere. Did he or did he not leave a fortune!!? the hotel, Tom was forced to lo[...]ecame acquainted with Grace Williams as she lived in our spending some time in Butte, Tom returned to Three Forks. neighborhood in a shack in the alley. Her story was in reverse On the edge of town stood an old fo[...]se, aban- from "Poverty to riches", as she lived in this house with her doned and left to the ele[...]work had many cats. I can see her still dressed in a man's overcoat and seen better days. Tom took[...]road. Tom, being of an enterprising nature, Born in a rich home with maids she attended Vassar and late[...].D. certificate to practice, she opened an office in selected streamlined hogs. Tom's pens w[...] |
| [...]When I was a boy I would go with my aunt to carry water in from the hand pump in the yard and coal in for the stove, when[...]Tom was sick. Tom would be sitting in his rocker and he'd[...]y blonde hair with his big black hand and give me a nickle. I remember looking into a ready smile and thinking[...]Ronald Eugene (Ron) Brown, born June 13, 1940, in Santa[...]College. Ron served in the U.S. Navy from August 1960 to[...]had a seven month tour to Japan from August 1961 to Apr[...]Following a discharge from the Navy, Ron worked for the[...]U.S. Post Office as a letter carrier until July 1966, when he[...]became a Deputy Sheriff for San Joaquin County, in Stockton, California. While a deputy, he attended California Law En-[...]forcement School at Delta College in Stockton, California.[...]Ron married Jane Ardyce Kaminga, July 7, 1961, in Ripon, California. Jane was born in Spencer, Iowa, to Henry and[...]Kaminga's moved to Salem, Oregon, in 1944. Jane attended school in Oregon, until 1951, when the Kaminga's moved to[...]to butchering to curing. This was when were born in Modesto, California. the rubber-tired wagon came in and the people of the area Ron, Jane, M[...]was February, 1969, which was the hardest winter in 10 years. put into a slop pail for Tom's hogs. Tom would hitch up his They rented a house on what was known as the Visser Ranch, team[...]d. on the Jefferson River. A year and a half later, they bought a Tom tied the knot in 1941 and married Gladys. Gladys was a home on 3rd Street known as the old Haan place. The house little bit of a woman but with a temper that would put the devil was built in 1908, and seen in some of the first pictures of in his place. Tom was never known to be rich in money but he Three Forks. was rich in heart. In 1971, I was looking through some old Ron[...]ot, Ideal Cement, then, letters of Tom's and back in the 30's when things were tighter the Gallatin Fa[...]deputy kept a base radio in his home for taking calls 24 hours a[...]the miles logged for county business. In 1974, L. John Onstad[...]Ron was elected City Councilman in 1980 and elected to serve as a member on the board of directors for the Three[...]Forks Security Bank in 1982. Ron has served as a volunteer[...]Cyprus Industrial Mines, and as a waitre s for th Big Sky[...]Restaurant, owned by Jim and Nancy Anderson, in 1977 and[...]Feeders, then in the fall of 1979, Jane worked part time do[...] |
| [...]ace at the home of his Ron and Jane purchased the A & W Restaurant. Jane also sister and her husband, Margaret Kerr Bryant-Irvine and serves as a volunteer for the Hall Ambulance Service, based in William Irvine. Three Forks.[...]Orison resigned from the Mayorship to accept a position as Mel graduated from Three Forks High[...]Forks High School. included a large herd of cattle, several hundred head of hor[...]orses to be brought into The Brown's are active in the First Baptist Church of Three Montana) and[...]ters were born to them: Betty, who died in 1941 and Gerry.[...]the business. For the next two years he operated a Kansas, the eighth of nine children.[...]He and his family left Kansas when he was about a year old The family left Three Forks in February of 1931 and moved and moved to Ohio.[...]to Whitehall where they ranched in Pleasant Valley. They Mr. Bryant came alone to[...]n the Northern returned to Three Forks in 1933. The summers of 1933 and Pacific Railroad in 1892. He lived at Big Timber for about 1934 found the family in residence at West Yellowstone where twelve years.[...]they operated a meat market and supplied meat for the CCC In 1904, Mr. Bryant moved to Lewistown where he resided camps in the park. for about five years. He then moved to Old Town in 1908 where His past achievements included: one of the founders of the his brother Mansfield was in business with Joe Menapace Three Forks Volunteer Fire Department, Past Patron and running a general store. Orison and his brother, Ed, had a Charter member of the Three Forks Eastern S[...]ater moved to Three Forks and had the first store in Livingston, member of the Bozeman Shrine Club. a tent; later expanding the store to include a restaurant. Mr. Bryant passed away March 15, 1964 in Missoula, Mon- Orison left Three Forks and went to Utah for six months in tana. He was buried in the Bozeman Cemetery. 1909. He returned to Three Forks and was elected Mayor in ROSA FWRA SICKMILLER-BRYANT 1911[...](Skinny and Rose)~ South Dakota in 1906. Her father worked on the Milwaukee[...]Montana in boxcars until they reached Melstone.[...]Leaving Melstone they arrived in Three Forks in 1912 where Rosa ob~ined a position of playing the organ at the old[...]Ruby Theatre which was then occupied in the Plaza Bar build- ing. Her interest in music had been fostered in the public schools in Falion. This was where she had learned to play a[...]trated popular songs of the day in the local theatre at Falion.[...]She played for several vaudeville shows to a full house in the Ruby Theatre. The shows ran for a week to ten days. Eventually a bigger theatre was constructed on the site of[...]Three Forks over the poor roads. An auditorium in Trident[...] |
| [...]she was asked to play at the annual Rangers Ball in Yellowstone Park, which signified the end of the[...]KEY Clarence DeHart Buckey (1890-1948) was born in Spencer, Iowa. He crune to Three Forks in 1913 and was affiliated with Menapace Grocery. In 1914 he entered in partnership with E. R. Avery in the Jim Siffert, Ed Avery and C. D. Buckey and Fish. Smith Garage which later became the Avery Garage. In 1925 he purchased Mr. Avery's interest in the garage and owned and operated the business un[...]Paul, Minnesota. They met while attending college in in 1945.[...]bault, Minnesota. Hazel played the piano and sang in a He was appointed deputy sheriff for Gallatin County in number of musical programs, often accomp[...]They resided in Three Forks until October of 194 7 when A veteran of World War I, he served under General "[...]they moved to Los Angeles. Clarence passed away in June of Jack" Pershing in France. 1948. In June 1918, he married Hazel Irene Withy (1891-195[...]City, Utah until her death in September 1952. ______ |
| [...]s now employed by Burlington Northern at Missoula in Train Service. He married Mary Jo Sager, a native of Deer Lodge, there June 15, 1948 and the[...]cond Burns' son, Rex Eric, was born March 4, 1926 in Anaconda, Mt. Rex entered the Marine Corps in 1943 upon graduation from high school, contacted TB in the service and died in a Veterans Hospital in 1950. He is buried in the family plot in Helena, Mt. The third son, Charles Andrew, was born June 15, 1932 in Helena, Mt. and attended colleges in California and Dillon, Mt. graduating from University of Montana at Missoula, Mt. He married Viola Ward in Thompson Falls, Mt. Nov. 1961.[...]ona and is employed by the U.S. Forest Service as a contract specialist. The fourth son, Harvey Pa[...]14, 1938 The Buzdikians moved to Ringling in June 1950, then to at Three Forks, Mt. He graduated from Western Montana Lombard in June 1951 to live until the closure of that stati[...]and is presently teaching at Lavina, Mon- in Sept. 1959. The family moved to Manhattan from Lo[...]and then came back to Three Forks in March 1960 where[...]Bernard (Barney) Buzdikian was born July 15, 1921 in vivid in his memory occurred at Three Forks during his ear[...]ars. As he recalls it: "I was working the mid- · in 1923 with his grandmother and two uncles. They we[...]night to 8 a.m. shift, known as Third Trick in railroad jargon. the small central Montana town o[...]It was a very quiet night with no trains in the area and the grandfather who had previously s[...]nts would follow the next year but due to changes in out as I remember waking with a start and with the feeling I immigrant laws and q[...]39 years later that they came to the U.S. to live in Pasadena, Ca. was being[...]window, staring at me, a giant figure of a man, wearing a cap Barney came to the Three Forks area in June 1941 emp- and dark overcoat, with a matted beard and long straggly loyed as a telegraph operator for the Milwaukee Railroad,[...]ations on the division until June 1943 tle, a local recluse and junk collector who lived across from the when he entered military service in the U.S. Army and was depot and had com[...]he end of World War II Bar- Mr. Castle was a harmless old gentleman but to see him for the ney[...]continue his career with the first time at a distance of two feet in the middle of the night Milwaukee Road.[...]riage was born their daughter, Helen. Lucille had a son, operators." Michael Cavey, from a previous marriage and she and Mike T[...]. "One morning about had come west from Wisconsin in 1943 to be with her parents, 7:00 a.m. a local stockman came in to order cars for loading. Charles and Marie Alle[...]out and before leaving (Beanery as it was called) in Deer Lodge and Three Forks. the man offered me a cigar. Being a non-smoker, ordinarily I[...]Feeling like a full-fledged rail, I leaned back in the chair, put[...]started in this same manner. After about 20 minutes I gave u[...]when Agent Harry Rector came to work at 8:00 a.m. and I[...]had never seen a green faced Armenian before."[...]The Caveys reside in Missoula where Mike is the Vo-Ag[...]o children, Lee age 10 and Kelly age 8. They live in . Billings where she is employed as a social worker for Yellows-[...] |
| [...]early 30 years of Barney and Lucille In 1921, Dad was again working for the Milwaukee and in ended with her death on October 15, 1975.[...]Chief Timekeeper of that division. Because of a strike in 1923, Zelpha was a special Ed. teacher working jointly between the[...]k high schools. She was born Zelpha mostly in Bozeman as a bus and taxi driver, while Mom, sis Reichman, July 10, 1934 in Juliette, Ida. to Louis and Dorothy , and I stayed in Three Forks. During this time, Mom again Reichman[...]her grandparents' homestead near worked in the postoffice. We joined Dad in Bozeman in 1924. Central Park in 1942. Zelpha attended elementary and high He returned to work for the Milwaukee in 1926, when the school in Belgrade, received her B.A. degree from the Univer- earthquake resulted in considerable damage to the road at sity of Wyoming and a Masters degree from Eastern Montana Deer Park and the need for more operators. College in Billings. She has three daughters, Leah age 25,[...]ay, Deer Lodge, Saltese, person having taken part in several wilderness hikes the past East Porta[...]w summers and enjoys gardening and raising plants in her retired in about 1950. greenhouse.[...]rs, especially fishing and has where Dad died in 1952. Mom continued to live in Missoula tied his own fishing flies for over 30 years. Also being sports until her death in 1975. Sis died in Missoula in 1979. minded he ran the clock as timer for local[...]THE J. J. CALLAGHAN FAMILY First Ave. East in Three Forks.[...]John Joseph Callaghan was born November 23, 1868 in[...]in Three Forks, Montana. FRANK P. BYR[...]John and Elizabeth were married in Three Forks. They Frank P. Byrne was born in West Columbia, West Virginia, lived on a ranch near Willow Creek for forty-five years. Then May 17, 1877. Ernaline Witzel was born in Oshkosh, Wiscon- my father sold the ranch[...]Forks where sin, May 11, 1888. I believe they met in Aberdeen, South they lived the rest of their lives. Dakota and were married in Watertown, South Dakota, date Mrs. Callaghan was a charter member of the Three Forks unknown, where[...]ociety. They were members of the Holy Family born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, March 31, 1908.[...]were born the following children: believe it was in about 1910. Dad worked as a telegrapher for Anna Callaghan born near[...]on January 4, the Milwaukee (I think). I was born in Three Forks, August 1894. She graduated from Butte Central. She was a stenog- 15, 1913. rapher in Bozeman, and Deputy Oounty Treasurer for 15 I d[...]t various times as Postmaster and Mom also worked in the They have two children. Jack Hines of Jefferson, Wisconsin, Postoffice. Dad also served as a Deputy Sheriff for some time and Edward Hines of Bozeman. Ed and Peg have four children in about 1919-1920.[...] |
| [...]keview, Oregon. Shy passed away December 10, 1981 in[...]Hospital in Seattle. She did nursing at Providence and at the[...]nn, Theresa Marie and Tommy. Tommy passed away as a[...]m high school he joined the U.S. Navy and made it a career.[...]child, Jimmie George who is also making the Navy a career. Jim and Lee are retired and live in Sun City, Arizona.[...]sen and lives in Issaquah, Wn. She has two children, Jock and[...]tion he joined the U.S. Army. He was in the "D-Day Invasion". Mrs. Callaghan[...]1941. 1946. After graduation from Western in 1951 he taught school Laura Callaghan was born March 31 , 1899. She was a and coached. He and Muriel lived in Columbia Falls, Mon- graduate of local schools a[...]our children - Raymond Jr., Laurie, Sharon Music in Chicago. In 1926 she moved to California where she Shafer and Mary Kay. Raymond passed away March 29, 1969. was a music teacher. She was a devout Catholic and organist George Weldon (Wally) Callaghan was born June 19, 1923. in her parish. In 1950 she made a Holy Year Pilgrimage to After graduation he entered the U.S. Air Fore~. He served in . Rome. She was a member of the Third Order of St. Francis of Engla[...]passed away June 26, 1960. worked at various jobs in the community. Now he is living and John Edwa[...]king as Director of the "Problem Drinking Center" in spent all his life working on the ranch for his[...]on, Montana. ranch was sold he farmed on his own in the valley. He never John Callaghan pass[...]l today College and received her Masters' Degree in Education from and always. Montana State Univers[...]hool and traveling. After re- tirement she lived in Butte. She was active in her church. She never married. She passed away A[...]Maud Carlson was born December 5, 1880 in Ohio and died graduated from Three Forks High Sc[...]Arthur James Carlson was born February 7, 1884 in Iowa Wayne Roberts August 23, 1933 in Red Lodge, Montana. They and died May 24, 1965. Both are buried in Deer Lodge, Mt. have one daughter, Janice Roberts of Honolulu, Hawaii. Maud and Art lived in White Earth, No. Dak., their first Agnes passed[...]d away child was born there -Adelaide May. Due to a bad cyclone, that December 6, 1981.[...]ril 21, 1906. She graduated the stock, Art hopped a freight train and headed West. He _from Three For[...]waukee Railroad; he was with them till he retired in 1956. dan June 20, 1942 in San Francisco, California. They have one Art sent for his wife and daughter in 1912 to join him in Deer child, Paul Walter who is married and lives in Butte. He works Lodge. While they lived in Deer Lodge, a son and daughter for the Montana Power Company. Viola and Henry are retired were born - William and Gladys. In 1918 the family moved to and live in Sheridan, Montana.[...]worked Three more daughters and one son were born in Three Forks. for his father on the ranch. After moving to Three Forks he Every spring a very large garden was planted to provide for worked at various jobs in the community. He never married. this family of nine. Everyone helped work in the vegetables, He passed away January 6, 1936. and in the fall Mrs. Carlson would can 100 quarts[...] |
| [...]ry. Their second daughter Norma Jean Jones, lives in[...]naheim, Ca. She spent four years at Norfork, Va., in the[...]vy. Addie and Dick both worked at the State Cafe, in Three[...]Addie took care of the tables. They lived in Seattle for many[...]years before they moved to Anaheim, Ca. in 1949. They celeb-[...]rated their 50th Anniversary in Desert Hot Springs, Ca.[...]them for the joyous occasion, in 1981. _[...]William Carl Carlson was born in Deer Lodge, Sept. 25, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Carlson. 1914. He attended school in Three Forks. Bill has alot of good[...]heat would help hatch eggs so they lit a fire under the[...]d it to the ground. Bill tells vegetable that was in the garden. Popcorn was also planted about the kids in Three Forks that hitched their sleds to cars and[...]winter treats. in the winter time. One day they hooked onto Dr. Dim[...]es Mr. Chollar" (the night watchman); of interest in this area to show these people. He was considered[...]d other int~r~sting speeches. tana, he spent a year and a half in the CCC's, near Bozeman, The family has, in their possession, a large scrap book of where he met his first wife, Jean Stevens. They lived in Three many, many, letters that Art received over[...]r to Carlson. His two children were born in Three Forks - Mar- the Supt. of the Chicago Milwa[...]er, quote, (II was particularly li~es_ in ~r~any with her husband who is in the Army. impressed with the kindness and courtes[...]red from the Air Force, and has three sons hi Mr. A.J. Carlson. He was alert in supervising the movement of wife is from Fra[...]ds for himself and stationed there. They live in Ariz. Bill Sr. made five trips your railroad by h[...]s,' un- across the U.S. before he boarded a ship. He was stationed at quote.[...]are Island Shipyard, Vallejo , Ca. where he met In the hot summers the family would spend many weeks[...]harlotte (Carl on) Hancock, and her three- camped in tents, at the favorite camp spot, POTOSI. They[...]ld daughter, Kar n. She is the mother of thre and a would take their milk cow, so the children would[...]w~dow twice. She is an RN at the Sw di h Hospital in Seattle. milk. This was a great way for the children to learn about God. Bill served in the Asiatic/Pacific Theatre and was at Biu Adel[...]after 25 y ars of s rvice and liv sat Vacaville, a. two daughters Betty (Mossafer). She and h[...] |
| Gladys Marie Carlson was born in Deer Lodge, Mt May 13, ing home in 1961, he went back to work for the railroad and[...]ly, of Albuquer- worked til his death in 1980. He was 50 years old when he que, New Mex.,[...]Ore. Gladys married Bud Bergren of Willow Creek in 1935. They lived in Bozeman some time after W. A. CARLSON FAMILY they were married. Gladys was a girl scout leader for -five William A. and Bertha (Harvey) Carlson first came to Three[...]ater they moved to Bain- Forks, Montana in 1923 after their marriage in Deer Lodge, bridge, Wash. where they owned their[...]Montana May 5, 1923. Both had known each other in Kansas now retired and live at Casa Grande, Ariz[...]n the railroad and Mary Jane Carlson was born in Three Forks June 10, 1919. Bertha had taught school. A railroad strike had forced Bill out She graduate[...]d on the Valley from Milwaukee Railroad in Western Montana, Bill came west 1937 to 1976. Th[...]ghters and one son, Mary looking for a job. He was hired by the Milwaukee and worked Lo[...]Carole Wanner, and William for them in various capacities until the Depression. David Jr. The home they lived in on the valley was the old The Carlson's first home in Three Forks was on Second Madison School house, before it was moved to its present Avenue, but in 1925 they traded 500 dollars worth of bank locat[...]e Clerk of the Logan School for stock in the Three Forks Bank for a house on the comer of many years. While on the ranch, she helped in the fields most Fourth Avenue and Neal. T[...]lived here for an additional eleven husband died in 1977, and a grandson, Tony was killed in a car years until he left Montana to live with his daughter, Wilma, accident in 1976. They had eleven grandchildren. Mary Jane in Phoenix, Arizona. sold the ranch and lives in Bozeman, Mt. To s[...]was Geraldine Carlson was born April 11, 1921 in Three Forks, released from the railroad,[...]ickens and and graduated from high school there. In 1938 Gerre started selling poultry products to the people in Three Forks and her working days at the Gateway Cafe as a waitress at 10 vicinity. He gradually enlarged this business until, in addi- cents an hour. A company came into Montana, planting peas[...]flock, he began buying chickens and carrots for a frozen food company. Gerre and some of her[...]the Gallatin Valley, the friends left their jobs in the city to pick weeds out of the Holland Settlement and in Bozeman. The family would then vegetable patch.[...]carton the eggs for sale harvest and made 1 cent a pound for the picked peas. Her to grocery stores in Butte and Helena, Montana. After he had mother w[...]iness, Bill was more for her lunch than she made in the field. The girls would never interested in working for the railroad again. In 1941 work til they made 3 or 4 dollars a day, or until it was too hot to Bill was in an auto accident on his return home on a selling work. She decided it was a hard way to make a living so she trip to Helena. He was severly injured about the head and face headed West, like she had heard (!Head West youn[...]est of his life. Two Carlson Head West." She and a friend left for Seattle. Her father got families lived in Three Forks at this time, and many persons her h[...]e soon. She en" Car son (Bill). worked in the restaurant in Seattle, Tacoma shipyard. After The Carlsons had two children, Harvey Clifford, born in two months she left the restaurant and went to work in the 1924, and Wilma Mae, born in 1926. Both children were born shipyard office as a clerk and typist. In 1944 Gerre presented in the Milwaukee Hospital in Three Forks. They attended the American flag to[...]that was being built grade and high school in Three Forks, Clifford graduating in in the yard. That was one of the honors the girls in the office 1942 and Wilma in 1944. received. In 1945 Gerre's future husband, Ed Scheider, came The family was involved in numerous activities that occur- home from World War II, and they were married at her red in Three Forks during the years they lived in the area. In parents' home. They have two daughters, Sandra[...]anice Cole, and four grandchildren; they all live in Seattle. the buildings in town. Bill, at the time of the quake, was Kathleen Carlson was born in Three Forks, Nov. 19, 1924 walking toward main street and was in sight of the brick and she also graduated from T[...]five minutes time you could see every rafter in the building". years. They were married in Bozeman in 1944 while Ralph Bertha and her two children were active in the programs of the was home on leave. They have four children - Judy Kay Federated church in town. Although they never joined the ·Brandt, Su[...]nd James Marion. church, Bertha taught a Sunday School class when her chil- They were als[...]Katie dren were young. She was also a member of the Three Forks ·worked in the Page's Rest Home in Three Forks, while her Federated Women's Club. Clifford was a member of the Boy father was there. They have lived on the Madison Valley for 35 Scout Troop 29 in 1932 when Reverend Fredricksen was pas- years.[...]s born May 18, 1930 and attended ning. In high school, Clifford and Wilma were involved in a school in Three Forks, and later in Deer Lodge, Mt. He was number of school activities. Clifford played in the school band stricken with polio when he was four years old. He recovered and had a role in the Junior Play. He was also among the but suffered with a bad back from the disease. He had three group in the early 1940's that helped build the stone "T"[...]f and mountain west of town. Wilma entered a Shakespearean com- Jody. He worked on the Milwaukee Railroad before he went petition in Bozeman one year and won third place. She also did into the service in 1953. He was in Hawaii and Korea. Return- substitute teaching in the 5th and 6th grade during her senior[...] |
| year and worked as a night operator for the telephone com- pany as _sh[...]r his high school graduation, Clifford worked for a short time at the cement pl~~t in Trident. Both children attended college, Clifford re- ce1vmg a M.S. degree from Montana State College in 1950 and grad1;1ated. from the University of Kansas City School of De~tistry m 1~61, and Wilma received a M.S. degree from Ar1z?na State 1_n 1965 and an Education Specialist degree in Special Education from Central Missouri State University in 1973. Bertha died at the home in 1949 and is buried in Sunset . Hills Cemetery in Bozeman, Montana. Bill continued to live in Thre~ F?rks until 1960 when he moved to Phoenix, Arizona. He died m 1963 and is buried in Resthaven Park Cemetery in Glendale, Arizona. Cliffo~ and _Wilma now live in Independence, Missouri where Clifford 1s Professo[...]uri Kansas City School of Dentistry, and Wilma is a[...]Homer, Helen, Idamae & Bertha Reading Specialist in the Independence Schools. Clifford and his wife,[...]ur children, Linda, David, Ellen February 6, 1895 in Costello, Pennsylvania and lived there till[...]1911, when she came to Three Forks. Being a vibrant little and[...]her life, it wasn't long before she was involved in the EMMA BERTHA REINHARDT CHOLLAR[...]at Olive Sealy Chollar, was born November 3, 1889 in Corsicana, those two were just about the only two who went courting on a Texas. The family later moved to Fort Worth Texas where he motorcycle, in those days. spent his childhood and youth until 1[...]the Navy and for the next four years saw service in Whether it was the motorcycle or not, their[...]rica and Panama as together culminated in their being married in Three Forks on well as the United States.[...]October the 1st, 1914, the wedding being held in the two story[...]time of his discharge from service, he fulfilled a long East. standing desire to work with a railroad so he came to Three Forks, Montana and hired out in engine service with the Their first "Home", known as the "Doll House" was a con- Milwaukee Railroad. Since work was not alway[...]one was built on Second ?elping lay the sidewalks in Three Forks, among other things Avenue East and C[...]ssing of four It wasn't too long before he met a young lady who, though ch1ld!en: a daughter, Bertha Olive McPhail , now living in not much bigger than a minute, would turn out to be one to Sheridan, Wyoming; a son, Homer B. of Three Forks, Mon- play a big part in his life in Three Forks. She was Emma tana; a daughter, Helen Frances Jenkins of Seattle, Washi[...]ton and a daughter ldamae Jeglum of Three Forks, Montana.[...]t was the daughter of Carl Otto A part of the time of the family was spent in living in Florida Reinhardt and Bertha Emma Miller Reinhard[...]however, they purchased a home in Three Forks in 1929 antl[...]spent the rest of their years in this community. Homer spent Homer & Emma Cholla[...]art of the time working as the town policeman for a time and as stationary engineer for a company who drilled for oil a[...]t distance south of Three Forks, as well as being a member[...]Both he and Emma were active in the affairs of the town and[...]Women's Club and activities in their church. At one time they operated a small cafe.[...]Emma lived till April 4th, 1979. They are'buried in the Three[...] |
| [...]born in Montana, two in Butte and the other three in Three[...]s. The two eldest, Marie and Charlotte (Sis) born in Butte[...]were born in Three Forks. In 1912, Charles came to Three Forks to assume the p[...]was located on Main Street in the former Big Sky location. The[...]ing family moved to a new home at 608 Fourth A venue East,[...]Chryst remained active in the growth of the city: coaching and[...]holesale coal business (broker for two mines, one in Round- up , Montana and the other in Bear Creek, Montana)[...]wholesale hardware with a brokerage for Republic Steel Corp.[...]His business interests included farming a one-half section of[...]life was ended suddenly by a heart attack September 1, 1940.[...]s. Sabina Joyce Chryst was born September 1, 1885 in Homer B. C hollar & Anne Patricia C hollar the family home in J ewwett, Wisconsin. After early schooling in Wisconsin, she and her sisters were employed in St. Paul, Emma Bertha Reinhardt Chollar, was born in Three Forks, Minnesota. Her marriage to Charles C[...]6. daughters in the Three Forks area filled her with a very active·[...]ater years were spent with her daughter Charlotte in He spent his childhood and youth there until he enlisted in Three Forks and she passed away at Charlotte's ho[...]d States Navy where he served until his discharge in[...]ons until he joined the Merchant Marines, serving in both Marie Chryst Wiggins, eldest daughter was born in Butte, the Atlantic and Pacific areas as well as[...]yed by the Standard Oil Company as Chief Engineer in shipping along the west coast of the United State[...]While with Standard, Jim and his wife Anne lived in the Seattle area until 1979 when they moved to th[...]ay 287, southwest of Three Forks. While he was in Canada, at one time, Jim met Anne P. Pieschuk and the two were married in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada on February 24, 1944. Anne Patricia Pieschuk was born a daughter of Nick and Mary Pieschuk, May 29, 1922. She spent the years of growing up and attending school, in her place of birth of Lethbridge and in 1942, she joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and remained with them until 1944. Jim and Anne have a son, Donald James, who was born July 14, 1953. Donald is employed and lives in Seattle, Washing- ton.[...]Charles Edmond Chryst was born February 15, 1885 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. The family consisted[...]e. Only two, Charles and Gertrude, came to reside in Montana. Charles was employed for a short period in St. Paul, Min- nesota where he met his future bri[...]holesale Company, Charles and Sabina were married in Butte, Mon- tana, November 26, 1908. Of th[...] |
| [...]ntana, December 21, 1910, completed her education in wholesale steel products. After the s[...]ess, Mr. Three Forks and married Mr. Earl Wiggins in Three Forks Fisher was associated with a brother-in-law, Mr. Earl Wig- May, 1929. Mr. Wiggins was employed as a teacher in the gins in farming and ranching in the Willow Creek area. The Three Forks Public School. After teaching in several com- Fisher family moved to Bozeman in 1958 to continue the munities in Montana, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wiggins settled in insurance and real estate business started in 1954 in partner- Whitehall, Montana, where Marie died July 28, 1960. This ship with Mr. Ray Hagadone in Three Forks. After raising five ' couple raised one son, Dr. Thomas Wiggins, now a practicing children, Charles V. Fisher, Donne F. Fisher, Robert G. doctor of dentistry in Prince George, British Columbia, Fishe[...]as of this publication. Charlotte Chryst, born in Butte, Montana, educated in Sadie Elizabeth Chryst Lindstrand rec[...]r formal Three Forks and resided most of her life in that city. She spent education in Three Forks and graduated from high school severa[...]ny and June, 1938. Sadie was employed in local businesses where she later by the Mountain[...]any. An illness met John H. Lindstrand, a Montana Highway Patrolman. forced Charlotte to ta[...]etirement; however she has They were married in December, 1942 and were the parents of remained active in the management of her farm property. t[...]n and Diana Lynn Lindstrand. After retire- School in May, 1932, attended college at Western Montana[...]ontana Highway Patrol John served as Gal- College in Dillon, Montana. For a number of years she was latin County Deputy Sheriff and later was employed by the employed as a bookkeeper for several firms in Bozeman, Mon- Three Valley Insurance Agency in Three Forks. Mr. Lind- tana. She married Mr. Frank J. Seitz in 1940 and resided in strand was hospitalized at the Veterans Ho[...]August, 1970 and passed away thirty days later in the family Three Forks where Mr. Seitz was employed by the Soil Con- home in Three Forks. His widow, three daughters and three[...]grandchildren survive. Welding and Machine Shop in Bozeman for over thirty years. It is o[...]two of Sabina Joyce Joyce Seitz passed away after a short illness June, 1969 in Chryst's sisters followed her to the Three[...]by her husband and two sons, taught school in the Toston, Montana area and married two Dr. Fran[...]B mbrick married Jam s by Montgomery Ward Company in Bozeman. She married Bembrick who[...]veral prominent area dude Francis G. "Bud" Fisher in Three Forks, December 27, 1935. ranches.[...]ude Mr. Fisher was associated with Charles Chryst in the opera- came west to visit and marri d Mr. Smith broth r Alb r tion of a Feed and Grain business in Three Forks, which who also ranched in that ar a . incorporated a bulk oil and transfer (trucking) busines w[...] |
| [...]FAMILY barrell into a stove and cooked our meals out in the woods The Dale Clark family moved to Three Forks in November north west of Three Forks. 19[...]was working Part of the time, while in Three Forks, we lived in the C. E. at Page's Rest Home. At that time Larry was in the 9th grade, Adams house. A white house east of the Main Street. The last Patsy was in the 7th grade and Carolyn was in the 5th grade. year in Three Forks, we lived in his house located on Main Phyllis Colleen joined us in 1963 with excited big brother and Street just[...]the street. That fall, a cowboy rode into town and offered his Larry married in 1962. His children are: Larry Dale Jr., horse for sale for $10. Being interested in horses, I bought the Shayne LeRoy, Maria Lynn,[...]place to keep it did not dampen my ently living in Three Forks and working at Wicks Sawmill in spirits. Mr. Adams said he did not believe in giving things Townsend.[...]are: Terry was invited to pasture the horse on a ranch south of Three Lee, Mitzi Mae, Barbara Ellen. Patsy lives in Bozeman, Walt Forks. From that time I did not see the horse again as we left in works for the city and Patsy keeps a contented family and the spring to retur[...]of the writes poetry. She loves to bake, raise a nice garden and go Teton High School. From[...], and Ririe, Idaho until Carolyn was married in 1963 and has two sons: Daryl Deon,[...]and Daryn Dale. Carolyn is divorced now and lives in Helena where she is employed by St. Peter's Hospital as a Pharmacy During our last winter in Three Forks, the «empty" block Technician and[...]our residence was filled with water and spends a lot of time <<dancing'' and writing poetry. frozen; we spent a lot of time there ice skating. Verna has bee[...]out of the furnace. We enjoyed Hoot Gibson movies in throughout the years. Verna has been a clerk at the Three those days; tickets w[...]d 14 grandchil- Phyllis works summers at the A & Win Three Forks and she dren to date. graduated from Three Forks High School in 1981 and is cur- Elmer Clark rently in her sophomore year at M.S.U. in Business Ed. Phyl- lis was an active teenager involved in school and church HISTORY OF GAIL COLEGROVE CLARK events. She attended Girls State in 1981. My grandparents[...]. Before we came to Three Forks Dale engaged in ranching in Granddad Knowles was born in Jasper County, Indiana and the Savage, Lambert[...]for the county. Grandma, Sarah Knowles, was born in operated Headwaters Rock & Antique Shop. Dale died on May Illinois. Granddad enlisted in the Northern Army at age 16, he 29, 1975 and was buried at Fairview Cemetery in Three Forks. gave his age as 18, and spent four years as a soldier. He was[...]wounded once. He and Granamofher met in Minneapolis and Carolyn Clark were married in the early 1870's. Mother was their fourth[...]child. She was born in La Croix County, Wisconsin in 1882. ELMER L. CLARK[...]Park Rapids, Minnesota, where they took up a homestead in taught in the high school in Three Forks, Montana from the the wilder[...]here. were both born in Ohio, I believe, near the town of Sunbury. Da[...]Salt Lake Their three sons were all born in Ohio, although the family City, Utah 84102. Considering their ages of 94 and 91, they lived in Illinois between the events. Later they moved to[...]married in 1903. In 1904 I was born in a log house 8 miles from 1915, presently residing[...]He is the father of three sister, and I had a wonderful childhood. It was a beautiful chil~n: Steve, a Seminary teacher and a Bishop; Dave, a place. pharmacist, and a daughter, Carole, a·mother and a registered About the time the folks were[...]fornia. (She men- years, prior to her death in 1911. She was my, almost, constant tions Floren[...]We lived on the homestead until 1926 when dad had a long · California 83170; Melvin born May 1928[...]ove to town. None of us liked town but While in Three Forks, Eben Dickinson and I spent a lot of spent nearly 2 years there. _[...] |
| [...]a seriously until my brother and I came home from a summer in North Dakota and found her practically packed up and ready to go. We left Park Rapids on October 11 in two cars, both loaded "to the gunnels". We expect[...]es, breakdowns, jobs, and periods of being snowed in for as much as 2 weeks at a time, we finally arrived in Three Forks, Jan. 7, 1929. All roads out of here were closed. Cliff Phillips, who became my brother-in-law later, had come out here in the summer. He thought it would be impossible to go on during the winter, so he rented a house and we moved in sans furniture except a heating stove. But the next day a friend of Cliffs who was a well-known figure in Three Forks, Gus Rowland, came over and brought a load of furniture and hired the men folks to cut[...]at the time. They weren't graded or gravelled and in some counties were scarcely more than trails. Well, it was a tough winter, but we were used to tough winters. By spring we were in love with the country. We went to Minnesota and s[...]LUMBUS C. COLLINS Columbus C. Collins was born in Platte County, Missouri, March 19, 1841, being on[...]present at the hanging of"Club Foot George in 1864". George Robert Collins was born in Virginia. Robert was a private in asked the committee if he might call on som[...]save himself from the noose. He asked Col- active in politics in Virginia as he was a member of the com- lins to testify for him.[...]n with others. He was also Columbus was living in Missouri at the time of the outbreak present[...]ing of Captain Slade. of the Civil War. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, On January 6, 1871 he married Lavina Yates Tribble, a he enlisted in the regiment commanded by Colonel Childs, an[...]e was Mills, Missouri, Collins was returning with a recruiting party · engaged in quartz mining in Radersburg where Mrs. Tribble when he was taken p[...]y. After five was also employed. months in prison he managed to escape, having plied his[...]trips west. Some accounts state she came in 1864 and others as was still in Missouri with a host ofrelatives in the State, one[...]late as 1870. It is known that she was in Radersburg in 1870 can assume that relatives or friends smuggle[...]and was employed as a cook at Plunkett's Lake,·a stage coach[...]ollins stated that it was cheaper to marry her In 1812 he made his way to Jackson County, Iowa wher[...]pay board. Her son, George Dudle , told relati e in farmed. In 1863 he came west with the Dan Crichton Com-[...], when Collins. Cord lia and Anna w re born in Radersburg. the lure of gold attracted him to Virginia City. In the spring of 187 4 Mr. and Mr . ollin mov d to G[...]rator on th J fferson Riv r. It wash r that Frank a during this period that he ob erved Vigila[...] |
| A ledger from Guerdon Campbell's store in Gallatin City, shows several purchases mad[...]8 lbs. of sugar $2.00 and 1 lb. of tobacco $1.00. A credit shows a cash payment of $20.00. Sometime during the late 1870's Mr. and Mrs. Collins moved to a farm on Dry Creek, near Belgrade. They lived[...]ank grew up on the farm , attended school in the area, and were married from this home[...]elia married her teacher, James Lewis. They lived in the Gallatin Valley, and later in Nigger Hollow and Three Forks, where they[...]ndchildren and two great-great grandchildren live in California, Washington and Alaska.[...]e cautious one and made certain T .W. had a home ready for her before she t.i would conse[...]ldren, Thomas -~ (deceased) and Oleta, who lives in California. u O:: Their son, Frank, marri[...]l Park on C July 29 , 1896. They homesteaded on a place next to the Dry tJ Creek Cemetery. Gra[...]y. They had five children) -~ three of whom died in infancy. Violet Lilly of Three Forks and ~[...]nhattan. There are six great grandchildren living in Mon- ~ 0 tana, Washington and Australia. There are also seven great- c., great grandchildren, two in Australia and five in Montana. Sometime around 1910 or 1912,[...]te often there. They recall two amusing incidents in their grandfather's life. uour grandfather was not only a southerner, but he was an ardent southern Democrat. One November he voted for a friend for County Commissioner who happened to be a Repub- lican. That night he tossed and tu[...]troubling him. He replied he'd voted for a Republican for the first and only time in his life and he couldn't sleep."[...]ediately to the cupboard where she kept her teeth in a cup during the night, and discovered an em[...]was using her teeth. Needless to report, he was in deep, deep trouble . Lavina an[...]satisfying life. They saw Montana develop from a territory in 1863 to statehood in 1889 and become the beautiful and pros- p[...]17; Columbus died March 23, 1923. Both are buried in the Dry Creek Cemetery near the church an[...]COLLINS PICNIC In July 1946 there was a picnic held for Frank Collins and hi[...] |
| [...]depression denied these folks even a berth on the trainman's[...]disappeared. In the meantime, two sons were born - Stanley[...]Emmons in 1928 and Richard Harold in 1932. The great de-[...]Three Forks' folks in the 1930's. Like most, they survived by[...]Life progressed in the late 1930's as Stan found fairly regu-[...]and cars. Both young and old Stan, who died in 1969 at the age of 63. But prior to that time wer[...]Frank told. There was food galore, he achieved a life long ambition by becoming, for one trip only[...]pert Older son Stanley completed high school in Three Forks and and piping hot.[...]college at the University of Montana. In 1949 he married Everyone ate until their stoma[...]ng Three Forks as their home thought we would get a rest when Frank yelled again 'get town. After a four year stint in the Air Force, Stan completed ready for the guess[...]MBA. He and Charlotte then This was the end of a perfect day. moved to St. Paul, Minnesota where, except for a short inter- Violet Lill[...]an, now Mrs. Kendall Jackson of Billings; Richard A. Collum In 1927 Stanley and Hazel Dyer Collum moved to Three[...]rried the former Susanne Martin, and also resides in Forks from White Sulphur Springs, Montana. Stan had a Billings; and Carmel Louise, now Mrs. Bryan Yarger of newly acquired job as a brakeman on the Milwaukee Road. Helena[...]Sulpur Springs about 1920 - Stan happy in her activities with the senior citizens and with[...]riends, while enjoying reasonably good health. In 1920 Stan's dad, Harold, while operating a farm he owned Three Forks remains as home town for the Collums. Their in eastern Pennsylvania, was called back into Milwaukee roots are sunk in fifty five years of its history. Road service as[...]and Jennie P. Conner. One brother peddled him to a local conductor for 5 cents - convinced she had[...]James came to Montana with his parents in 1928. He was tears, however, as the conductor ref[...]ton, New Mexico and lived at Farmington and later in the day.[...]from Iowa and Missouri to Hebron, Nebraska early in the Jefferson. Jim joined the C.C.C.'s in 1935 and was on the crew century, and eventually[...]d Eva had four sets of twins and one single child in 7 hauled it to the bridge in wheel barrows. He was stationed at years. Hazel and twin sister, Marie were the youngest in the the Squaw Creek Ranger Station at that[...]were twins age 2, twins age 4, twins age 6, In 1937 he went to work for the Climbing Arrow Ranch and single child age 7. Imagine four babies in diapers at one under the management of Ben A[...]ozen diapers by hand every day. being in charge of building all of the fence on the Climbing After a temporary absence when Stan fabricated his age an[...]Valley Cattle Com- joined the Marines at age 15 (a deception that lasted one year), pany. He was a[...]months and living at the ranch at Francis in the summer.[...] |
| [...]ston. U .A. now lives at Hillcrest in Bozeman. Their son Arthur[...]graduated from TFHS in 1950 and from there went to MSU. In 1951 he worked for the Milwaukee a short time and then went[...]sen in Clyde Park at his parents home. Jane moved to Thr[...]Jergensen and sisters Dora and Wilma, in February 1943.[...]Three Forks. He died in April 1982 in Portland, Oregon. Dur-[...]ing her whole time in Three Forks, Delores was in restaurant work. In 1944 and 1945 she managed the Beanery, which was[...]the restaurant in the Milwaukee Depot. In 1947 Delores mar-[...]out of Logan. In the fall of 1949 they moved to Butte and then[...]in 1950 to Livingston where they lived until Kirby's death in October 1955. Delores died in December 1971 in Bozeman.[...]Callant in Three Forks until her marriage to Art in October[...]is now low, Montana. Betty was born and raised in the Maudlow- presently in business at Art's Repair at 104 Caifornia where Francis area to a family of 13 children of the late Noah W. and[...]arch 1978. J aneann is presently employed Lydia A. Bennett. There were 9 girls and 4 boys. Two sist[...]have three children; Barbara Jane born June In 1957 Jim with his brother John bought the Walbert[...]upation is ranch- Barbara graduated from TFHS in 1971 and married Wayne ing. Bequette in November 1971 and they presently live in Deer Jim and Betty have three sons. Larry th[...]r children; Heather Jean,Nicole Lee, Toni years in the Vietnam war, and went to Link's School of Busi- . Ann, and Dustin John. Vicki graduated in 1973 and Jim in ness in Boise, Idaho. He met and married Karyn Hartnett o[...]4 and they are both presently employed and living in Emmett, Idaho. They have two sons-J. J. (James[...]Vicki Cooper and Michael spend a lot of time visiting at their grandparents home[...]HENRIE'ITA CROCKE'IT Products as a kiln operator. He never married. A._w.ong the outstanding women in the Headwaters area is Joe went to work for Karyn's father in Emmett, Idaho and Henrietta Crockett. She and her son, Hayden Levesque, came met and married Cindy Welch. For a short time after they to Montana from eastern Canada. She was married in 1918 to were married they resided in Three Forks. He worked for the James Crockett in Great Falls. Mr. Crockett, born in Selida, Lone Star Texaco, farmed for Sid Price and worked in the Bee Colorado in 1855, was an engineer on the Milwaukee Rail- I[...]published in the Milwaukee magazine. Jim and Betty enjoy planting and raising a garden. Betty DEDICATE HENRIE'ITA CROCKE'IT[...]by L. C. iwcKinnon This summer they hosted a family reunion of the Bennett Correspondent, Three Forks, Mont. side of the family in their back yard. There were 50 people that What was a dream for 25 years became a reality with the showed up. All ten of the sis[...]Jim and Betty Conners in honor of the widow of James Crockett, who was a Rocky[...]Division engineer for 26 years prior to his death in Lewistown, Mont., in 1936. THE FAMILIES OF ARTHUR and JANEANN COOPER[...]sanitorium at Galen, Mont., Mr. and Mrs. U .A. (Elizabeth) Cooper moved to Three Forks was not the .work of Mrs. Crockett alone, but it is conceded by in August 1947 from Great Falls. They were both educ[...]roject that without her unceas- their whole time in Three Forks. U.A. taught high school . ing efforts, it might never[...]tical science, guidance and visual aide. · spent a great part of her life working for the welfare of[...]or 18 years she has been secretary first grade. In June of 1951 they moved to Clyde Park with of the[...]r the 14 years _ t heir son James. Elizabeth died in January 1980 in Living- prior she was a Mont~na public I:iealth nurse.[...] |
| Henrietta Crockett As a field nurse traveling over 16 counties, Mrs. Croc[...]of Montana, and for |
| [...]moved to Seattle. ·Mr. Crouch resumed work in the banking[...]business until his illness and death in 1949. They had no[...]raising livestock together with wheat farming on a[...]ranch he homesteaded adjacent to his father. In 1919 he and[...]some artifacts in that area.[...]He married Laura McIntosh of Washington in 1912 and had[...]one son, Charles who died within a year.[...]and moved to Manhattan where he died in 1942. Mrs. Crouch passed away in 1948 in Bozeman.[...]was raised in Bozeman after her mother's death in 1888. She[...]family ranch in 1906. During the years that her sons attended[...]school in Three Forks, Mrs. Haskell served on the school bo[...]for several years. In 1924 after the death of her father, she[...]en, Stella died when 12 years old, and Clara died in son Wyatt. In later years she moved to the town of Three Forks[...]ren were left, Elizabeth (1876), and then to a rest home in Helena where she passed away Samuel James (1877)[...]y Sep- Kenneth completed his education in Three Forks graduat- tember 9, 1924, leaving his ranch to his daughter, Elizabeth ing in the class of 1923. Following came a period of working at (Lizzie, as she was called). Charles L. Crouch was not a man to Yellowstone Park driving a touring bus. He then was emp- elaborate on his ru[...]loyed by the highway and received his training as a surveyor the years as he forgot caution he would[...]which he continued to do until he retired. In 1931 he married days as a Vigilante and his many encounters with the Indian[...]e end he remained as one ofthe old West. Lind-a--Kay (1942). At present Mr. and Mrs. K. Haskell a[...]f Charles L. Crouch, was raised on the living in Eureka, Montana.[...]Haskell, was born State College and was graduated in a business course in 1897. in 1903 and raised on the family ranch. He attended school in After his education was completed he continued on[...]until he assumed ownership previous to her death in 1965. acreage to engage in farming. He was instrumental in intro- Over the years he added more acreage[...]omesteaders during the dry years. He retained the in Helena. He served two terms in the Montana State Legisla- love of horses th[...]Representative. implanted in him and set them in their most natural environ- In 1913 Sam Crouch located in the town of Three Forks and ment among the hills along the Jefferson River. Many a poker became cashier of its First National Bank u[...]s early lite when winners and losers alike active in civic affairs being elected first president of th[...]of Commerce, president of the Sacajawea Club and a skyline and dream of days and times long g[...]ome of the most outstanding Ap- became interested in mining and joined a company with paloosa horses in this country. Senator Charles Muffiey, Al Dance and P.M. Abbott. In 1946, after serving in the U.S. Air Force during World Sam Crouch and Gertrude Boomer were united in marriage War II, he married Martha Benedick of Pennsylvania. They in 1916. She was the chief operator of the Independe[...]o daughters, Kim Elizabeth (1947) and Betinna J . in Three Forks.[...]Haskell was employed by Mountain States Tel. & In 1918 Mr. Crouch again entered the political aren~ and Tel. Co. in Three Forks for 18 years - serving as chief served as Representative for Gallatin County in the Sixteenth operator for 10 years. She also served many years in the Session. Lutheran Church as a leader and officer of the Women's Mis- Mrs. Cr[...]nary League. painting which she later turned into a successful business Mr. Haskell was per[...]vernor of Mon- venture when they left Three Forks in the mid 1920's and tana in 1968 - not winning but proud to be a contestant. A few[...] |
| [...]25, 1968 he passed away. formed a company with Senator Chas. Muffley, Sam Crouch,[...]mpany dissolved, ranch. Aside from her ability as a ranchwoman, Bettina has he continued operations, and increased his holdings known as made a name for herself as an artist. In her spare time, she the Marietta Mines by[...]es - western scenes, animals other mines in the area. The Marietta Property as it stood and I[...]when purchased by the Northern Milling Company in 1958 Laurence H . Gibbs, a rancher from McAllister, Montana were rep[...]the mine was developed so it could be operated at a Ranch. A son, Wyatt Haskell Gibbs, was born February 26, profit, it was a source of income and employment for many 1978.[...]dissolution (1971) and Bruce (1980). They operate a dairy farm in the of the Mining Company became a financial and physical Belgrade area.[...]hardship for Al and his family over a period of many years.[...]Martha Haskell The older mining men in the area contended that the Park[...]lief and never gave up hope that it could be made a[...]ALBERT DANCE make a living during the winter taking the family in by team Albert ttAl" Dance was born at Falmouth[...]- 15, 1882. He left his home state of Kentucky as a young man, ing. Al spent several winters a[...]nly going first to California where he worked for a time as a contact with the outside world was made[...]t to Mon- hills to Winston or Townsend, a distance of 12 or 16 miles. He tana which he did in 1903. He worked on various large ranches st[...]Rabbits and throughout the state before settling in Three Forks. Al was beans. As with many successful men, there is a strong help- one of the first citizens of that town and built one of the first mate in the background which was the case in this family. Al's buildings on the Main Street of[...]Many times she worked side by side shoveling in a prospect On September 15, 1915, he was united in marriage to Jewell hole or walking several miles each day to a cook shack to cook H. Feeback of Martinsdale, Mon[...]stock being born at Latour, Missouri, their home in Three Forks until 1923 when they came to January 16, 1896 coming with her family to a homestead near Townsend.[...]Mart insdale, Montana when she was a small girl. He became interested in mining, and in 1916 began operat- Mr. Dance was also actively engaged in farming in Broad- ing in the Park Mining District of Broadwater Cou[...] |
| interest in 1949 to Claire E. Kracaw.[...]ng Hope and Bill's marriage , they spent 11 years in He also served as County Commissioner of Broadwater Townsend and in 1957 moved to Walden , Colorado where they County[...]ed the Jackson County Star, the county newspaper. in politics, both locally and nationally, and was an[...]Montana. Bill was employed with what was going on in all parts of the country. He never hesi- Artcraft Printers in Bozeman until May of 1969 when the tated to take a stand or make his own convictions known. He family moved to Three Forks. took an active part in the campaign of Senator Walsh and T[...]31, 1954. Mark was married June paign tours. Born in the South, it follows that Al was a strong 27, 1981 to Lana Rae Kolokotrones, da[...]ve political candidates. the Steer In Restaurant and J oRill at the Three Forks Herald.[...]Kay is a graduate of North Park High School at Walden,[...]eman. Charles F. Davis was born Feb. 11, 1911 in rural Poplar, JoRill is a graduate of Three Forks High School and at- then[...]tana. Mark is a graduate of Three Forks High School and at- He arrived in the Headwaters Area, Oct. 1945. He engaged[...]e University of Montana and Montana State Univer- in farming, ranching and operated the Ruby Theatre in Three sity. He enlisted in the United States Navy and following his Forks. Their home was located at 120 E. Birch in Three Forks. discharge began Radiology Sch[...]Rev. Howard Ricketts. They were both interested in hunting, expecting their first child. fi[...]Bill and Hope lost their first born child, a son Robert Wil- Mr. Davis is active in the Masonic Lodge, Methodist Church liam Dav[...]. He left Three Forks about 1965 and now resides in Hardin, Montana.[...]ike, Helena; Pat, Leonard Decco was born in Hecla, a mining camp near Glendive, and Peggy, Colorado. Melrose, Montana. In 1897 he moved with his parents to Butte[...]eventually reaching the position as a locomotive el}gineer. He William R. Davis and Hope L. Clare Davis came to Three Forks in May of 1969 when they purchased the Three Forks[...]avis and William Robert Davis Sr. ·He was raised in the Winifred, Denton, Roy area and spent a few years at Ada, Oklahoma. Bill's father owned and operated a store at Ada before the family moved back to Mont[...](Rocky Mountain) College at Billings. He majored in journalism. Following college, he acquired a job working construction at Dutch Harbour, in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. In 1942 he entered the Army air force and was statio[...]e from the Army, he returned to Montana settling in Townsend. Bill's father was principal of the ele[...]ime . Bill began work at the Townsend Star as a printer. He married Hope Louise Clare on Septemb[...]pe was born June 26, 1927 near Townsend, Montana, a daughter of Frank W. and Lillie Louise Kieckbusc[...]School. Hope divided her childhood by living in town with her mother and spending summers on he[...]f Townsend. She and her sisters and cousins had a grand time making mud pies with Grandmothe[...] |
| moved to Three Forks in 1920 when he married Nora Breckenridge in September and bought the Slim Adams place near th[...]mpany. Leonard died June 14, 1951, and was buried in Bozeman. Nora Breckenridge Decco, a descendant of the famous southern Breckenridge family , was born in 1886 in Colorado, where her father was agent-operator for the Southern Pacific. In 1906 she began her colorful career as a telegrapher, gaining her first job on the El Paso[...]a brought nationwide attention as the only family in the United States, except for her mother, to work[...]vision at the same time. After extended stints in Kansas and Texas, Nora started working on the Milwaukee Road in 1910, opening a station at Bruno, Montana, and later working at L[...]d Isabella Dickinson. transferred to Three Forks. A very energetic woman, Nora · proved up on a 160 acre homestead 16 miles from Loweth,[...]After that he returned to his old trade as a carpenter. He In 1913, when she won first prize for submitting a fiction was one of the men who designed th[...]them withherinitialsN.B.D. ing. He died in 1935 at the age of 66 while still working. And by[...]e the correspondent for the east end of A daughter, Margaret, had stayed in North Dakota to finish the railroad's Rocky Mount[...]the following high school. She came here in 1919 and worked for a time in year she was given the responsibility as division editor for the the Donaldson Bakery. She left in 1920 to marry Paul R. magazine. Until she retired in 1946, Nora had a lively column, Kuehn in St. Paul, Minn. and now lives in Anaheim, Ca. near titled "Up and Down Hill on the[...]o Three Forks to live with her son D.M. Dickinson in the ning of her career weren't ideal. She lived in tents, a sheet iron early 1920's. She told people that she took a long walk every warehouse in August and tie shacks. While working at the day so that when she got old she would not be a care for people. Three Forks station she carried[...]lks every day until the age of 73 she passed away in a hospital in Lewistown on a few days before her death. April 14, 1959 and was buried beside her husband in Boze- Isabella died in 1946 at the age of 76. She had been active in man.[...]Aid and was an expert seam- To quote her words in the Milwaukee Road Magazine: tress[...]Have I been Eben finished school in Three Forks and worked for a dreaming while the hour grows late?" It seems appropriate to time in the Althouse Grocery and the Avery Garage . Then enter here one of her poems, which appeared in the June 1919 went to work for the Milwauk[...]almost 38 years. There being no watchmaker in Three Forks "As if upon my heart strings softly played, he went to school in Chicago and became a watchmaker. He By angel hands that touch the chords unseen, had a shop in his home for about nine years. In 1940 he Through all the dead, sweet years that li[...]ontana. This was blessed There comes the music of a serenade with fo[...]Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Mt. She now teaches in And like a benediction, calm, Dillon, Mont. A gentle peace upon my soul is laid."[...]and two years at Rocky Mountain College in Billings. In Jan: THE FAMILY OF DEWITT DICKINSON[...]rol, Julie, Mary, Bob, Kay, and Eben Dickinson. |
| 1963 she married David Anderson. They lived for a time in about two years, when machine-made ciga[...]ch Lincoln, Neb. and Whitehall, Mont. And now are in Hong competition the company began l[...]ert Eugene finished school here and barber school in Someone had told him about a new little town in ~ontana, Spokane, Wash. and now is in Eugene, Ore. Robert is a twin of so -he arrived , one brfght sunny day in May, 1913 with his Roberta. Robert married Mary Seifke in Libby, Mont. They wife and two children, Warren and Marjorie. He opened a have two children - Jason and Corey.[...]ry began selling here and Western Montana College in Dillon, Mont. She mar- machine-made ciga[...]ger afford to pay the ried James Loomis and lives in Loveland, Colo. They have two higher wages[...]Eben Dickinson He took up a homestead south of Three Forks between[...]enced carpenter and the two of them built a nice comfortable FRANK DIXON AND WIFE AU[...]was quite young then, but Frank Dixon was born in 1880 in Whatcheer, Iowa, the son will always rem[...]bitter-root flowers were more fragrant found in the sandy soil. and the other brother was a conductor on the Rock Island We even h[...]such a new adventure beckoning us. The building of fences, While still in his teens, Frank took up the cigar trade. In root cellars, garages, sheds, barns and cor[...]ime, 1901, he established his first cigar factory in Muscatine, Iowa. money and hard work. We haule[...]home use. Later, as we acquired more land, we had a big ter of Marshal Vein Blanchard and Sara Jane V[...]tock. One spring was so Blanchard. Her father ran a creamery in Illinois City, where large, it furnished e[...]all essential to building a larger spread. The soil was good and In 1907, Frank and his family moved to Portland, Ore[...]hey were sold right from pasture where his mother-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law to local dealers and some even went to Eastern markets. The were also living. He worked for a cigar maker there for about turkeys were sold in Three Forks and for a while buyers from three and a half years. Then they moved to Lewiston, Idaho to[...]d them. The womenfolk raised strawberries work at a factory owned by 0 . Pring. He worked there for and sold them in Willow: Creek and Three Forks. Folks called[...]was a lot of timber scattered around the place; some pi[...]more land, moved to a larger place and did more building of[...]were lots of good times and there were bad times. A horde of grasshoppers came like a heavy cloud, eating every- thing in sight. Frank had a real good wheat crop coming on; he[...]put her hand on one while checking a turkey nest.[...]He died of a heart attack in 1942. Augusta Dixon lived in Missoula until she passed away in 1949. She was such an[...]d later went to Butte Business College. He became a call boy[...]tors Union. Warren was a retired conductor when he died of a heart attack in 1978. Warren was married to Noma Peairs[...]graduating in 1929. She went to Northwestern Business Co[...] |
| [...]Nursing in Spokane, Washington and was employed for about Warren's son, Donald, teaches high school in Anacortes, four years at the Veterans Hospital in Seattle, Washington. Washington. Don's wife is a special nurse. Don's son She is married to Captain Ronald Iverson from a little town graduated from college this year (198[...]e, called Hobart. They have three children· died in a car accident. Warren's daughter, Beverly, lives in Rhonda, Craig and Roger. Rhonda finished a secretariai Sunnyvale, California. She and her husband, Captain Ron course at DeAnza College in Sunnyvale, California and is Iverson, have three[...]xon Peairs DeAnza College and Roger is still in elementary school. The[...]ON Noma was active in the Methodist Church, teaching in the Noma Peairs was born on a homestead in Alberta Canada Sunday School and working in the Women's Society. She was of American born parents. Her grandfather was a minister of also active in Eastern Star and was Mother Advisor of the the Un[...]two mother had taught school and was instrumental in getting a[...]Ca?in. Warren enjoyed working to improve the cabin and ity. The farming venture failed during a severe drought and bwlt two fishing vehicle[...]otors, these barges could accommodate several ing in Northern Idaho.[...]people and were a lot of fun. It was in August of 1931 that Noma went to Three Forks to In the Fall of 1977, Warren and Noma decided to do some manage a small beauty shop for Tillie Bates. She had[...]o both the East and graduated from Beauty College in Spokane, Washington and[...]West coasts and also into Canada but now a motorhome was had been employed at the salon in the New York Store in[...], weather conditions became unfavora- Helena when a distributor of hairdressing supplies interested[...]decided to wait until spring. They had purchased a her in the Three Forks shop. Noma recalls her apprehensi[...]that would be nice, too. Warren suffered a heart attack and very much as the spoken word and[...]passed away on February 14, 1978. quite a contrast to Noma's Christian background and prove[...]In August of 1980, Noma sold her home and moved to[...]Anacortes to be near her son and wife. June is a registered At a dance on New Year's Eve, Noma met Warren Dixon nurse working part time in surgery. However, she started and_they were marri[...]collecting attractive clothes as a very young girl. She now has children; Donald and Beverly. Donald graduated from Whit- a little costume shop to keep her busy when she is not nursing. worth College in Spokane, Washington and has taught in the[...]duated from Washington State College and accepted a position with the Western Farmers Associa-[...]mmutes to his job tion. Randy was fatally injured in a tragic automobile accident in Oak Harbor. at the age of 16, just a few minutes after leaving church in a Although she is finding new friends she will always miss the friend's car. He had worked in a local hardware store and his dear people of Three Forks and is very grateful for the kind- interest in carpentry, machinery and constructive activities[...]We came in October 1934, in a Model T Ford with our two[...]all over, so we decided to try our luck in Montana. I was born on a little farm near Arthur, North Dakota in[...]Earl was born in Bertha, Minnesota in 1888. We were mar- ried January 22, 1925 in Moorhead, Minnesota. Madeline wa[...]r. Teresa and Marla ar both married. T resa lives in Spokane, Marla in Nicasio, alifornia Jim and Madelin live in Chandler, Arizona. I have fiv gre~t grandc[...] |
| Florence and Earl Doore We bought our home in 1935 from Joe Bugle, the old |
| [...]Willow Creek-Three Forks area to work for Sharp's in 1918. He married Rose Agnes Walbert, daughter of Edward and Katherine (Lane) Walbert in Three Forks, Montana, on January 14, 1920. Rose[...]. The trip took several days. Orville worked as a grocery clerk for Parnicotte and Sterl- ing in Three Forks until the depression forced his layoff. A son, William Darryl, was born March 10, 1929. Ano[...]s born April 13, 1931, and on September 27, 1933, a daughter, Shirley Jean, was born. Orville was injured while working on a W.P.A. project Mrs. Rose Doty and Family: Bill Virginia, Shirley and Don. which was clearing a runway for the Three Forks Airport. He died from[...]injuries May 5, 1934. Virginia died in San Francisco, California in July, 1962. Rose remained in Three Forks where she raised her family WI[...]aunfels, Texas on December 2, 1950, at retirement in 1962. She was employed at Anderson's Depart- Ellington A.F.B., Houston, Texas. A daughter, Mary Patricia, ment Store in Three Forks at the time of her retirement. She was born at Sacramento, California on November 5, 1951. A died. in Broadwater Hospital, Townsend, Montana, on Feb-[...]William Doty retired from the U.S.A.F. in 1979 with 32½ Butte, Montana, November 27, 1936[...]years service. He began his military career as a priva~e in t_he They lived in Butte where two daughters were born, Mary[...]ded navigator of B-29 weather planes, pilot of C5-A air- craft and Base commander of Altus A.F.B., Oklahoma. Bill[...]and Peggy are presently living in Sacramento, California,[...]lings, Montana. A daughter, Theresa Lynn, was born in[...]as employed by the Milwaukee Railroad while still in high school. He served in Korea with an armored unit of the[...]Railroad in 1980. Don and Morraine currently live in Sheri-[...]Forks, Montana. They made their first home in Box Elder,[...]Shirley and Troy now live in Townsend, Montana where[...]It was in October 1913 that a man whos name was Patrick[...] |
| Street opposite the Milwaukee depot in the Buttleman addi- recluse home. According to a brother his real name is Henry tion and started to erect a two story 24' x 36' building. Dankel but' in Three Forks people who seemingly gained his[...]ougle, while to the populace floor was to become a second hand store. Mr. Dougle had been as a whole he was known as ttBarney Castle", the mystery engaged in this business in Seattle. uHe is a man who has seen man. Many thought he owned a fabulous fortune and the somewhat of the world,[...]ut the most attractive little city he has visited in all his The old man who came to Three Fork[...]Barney's Castle, Seattle and Butte about 1915 was a recluse of local fame. and Pat Dougle became Barney Castle. A sign ((Second Hand Dougle has shunne[...]get away from people and he lived whomever, for a mere pittance, could spend the night on the like[...]ou~tain American" printed this arti- For a living he collected junk and carried it home where an cle ~bout Barney. ttThree Forks, the Home of a Prophet". accumulation overruns his house and yar[...]s say he came from the Klondike where he operated a Every little hamlet possesses something not[...]here he was supposed known to the outside world. In this respect Three Forks is no to have thrown Fra[...]of the different than other places of its size. In this little city, just day, from the gambling house. across the Milwaukee tracks, resides something unusual in the form of humanity. His make-up is entirely different from Survivors according to a brother in Seattle include: two the average. He has no rega[...]ut allows ( brothers, John Dankel, Seattle; Allen A. Dankel, Deer Trail, his whiskers and hair to grow long. But with all his oddity, the Colo. and a sister, Mrs. Lydia Shinkle, Seattle." Not in all of gentleman is well informed on many subjects. He has resided Three Forks could we find a single picture orBarney Castle. in Three Forks for the last thirteen years. His business, from conversation, would indicate a dealer in stocks and bonds. His UL[...]ELIZABETH ROWENA DOWNING time, is in quite a large frame building. In this building can be Ulysses Grant and Eliza[...]was not. at the same time or together. you have a mind to mention, he has it. His time is spent, to a Grant's parents, John and Sarah Bickly Downing, arrived great degree, in study. He is now working on a new dictionary in Lima (then called Springhill) first,joined in the late fall of and encyclopedia. This new book, when completed, he says, will simplify to a great degree the English language. Aside 1878 by[...]their only other worldly matters, he says he is a prophet, able to tell the daughter, Elizabeth Row[...]kes, and other great happenings that have Charles a nd William (though some of these sons may have b[...]been born after arriving in Montana). By Dec. 26, 1945 yet another newsp[...]Forks ~lysses, born .Nove~ber 30, 1866 in. Peoria, Kansas and Herald" printed an article e[...]hzabeth • born m Collm ~ounty (McKmne!) Tex:3-s A~~st Heart Attack: Found by Officers in His Home." Perhaps this 29, 1872 first became acq[...]. (her c-i.ather h a d grown child ren by hi s fiirst wIJ.e[...]for Patrick Dougle, 70, who was found dead Friday in his[...]ever forgot her long walk up the Abiline Trail as a six-year- old, recounting in later years to her grandchildren that ttthe Ba[...]1878 with a cattle drive consisting of many families headed f[...]the ttgreen grass of Montana" and a new life. The long trek[...], at becoming a cattleman![...]at Columbus, Ohio to become a doctor and practiced for six[...]the California gold rush uwith a white mule and a black horse"[...] |
| [...]ucted the building which now houses the City Hall in[...]people in the community while attending Three Forks High[...]School. However, on July 22, 1910 Mabel, a popular and loved[...]along with a girlfriend, Russie Young, after they had eaten ic[...]cream from a tin container at a picnic. She is buried at Willow-[...]In 1916, Sarah Ethel married Fred Jasper Sargent of[...]Forks and a daughter, Mabelle Ruth was born in the Downing[...]Walter married a Wisconsin girl, Eudora "Laura" Tewalt[...]who was visiting in Three Forks. She became active in the Red[...]st wife's baby daughter. older sister and start a bank. The bank soon failed and he lost Gr[...]e Pattersons met them near their children in Washington, where they lived out their and encour[...]na too. final days . . In Lima Grant eventually began courting his former Grant passed away in 1944 at age 77 and Lizzie followed playmate when she was about fourteen years old, but both him in death at age 80 in 1953. Though they returned to visit families objected strenuously. Lizzie had become a 'mother' to occasionally, they never return[...]Helen VanDerSys cancer. In 1888, Lizzie had to sell her pet calf to provide[...]ALICE HALE DRISCOLL make the return trip and died in Salt Lake City. Alice Hale was born in Bozeman, Montana on July 11, 1910, Meanwhile,[...]ie (Shay) to his courtship, went back to Texas as a cowpuncher. How- Hale. ever, in 1890 he returned to Lima and Lizzie's father, who by The family homesteaded in the upper part of Garden Gulch now had become a Justice of the Peace, relented long enough in 1910. to marry them on October 7, 1890 at the hom[...]ir house, barn and other buildings onogs brother, A. L. Downing. However, neither family ever fully from the mountain near there , where a fire had gone through accepted the union.[...]years before, leaving logs weathered to a silver grey. They set up housekeeping in Lima where a son, Walter Eugene was born September 10, 1892. They moved to Dell, where a daughter, Maybelle Rowena was born August 4, 1893[...], was born April 17, 1895. They came to Logan in 1902 when Grant became employed by the railroad,[...]ng an engineer. They soon built the Downing Hotel in Logan to serve the railroad em- ployees and transients, investing their earnings in the future of Logan. However, in 1908 the children had received all the schooling[...]rimary School and the hotel was leased - first to a Mr. Scott and then to Mary Kene- aly, when Lizzie[...]o Bozeman for further schooling. They remained in Bozeman about a year, moving to Three Forks in 1909. They had purchased lot No. 14 in Block 29 and lot No. 10, Block 31 in 1908, building a home on 1st Avenue West (but which, if either lot is not clear) for the family. Grant became a carpenter following his dismissal from the railro[...]ponsibility for several fatalities resulting from a train accident in Logan. A fire in Logan about that time destroyed much of the town,[...]e hurt financially , as they had invested heavily in the theatre stock. He also, about this tim[...] |
| [...]Earl adopted Robert and they formed a closely knit family.[...]gave him a horse and saddle·. Young "Pete" attended both[...]grade and high schools in Three Forks.[...]Robert married Theo Torrence and they later had a son,[...]currently living in Three Forks with his grandmother, Lavone[...]Clayte died March 11, 1956 and Alice died in 1971. Earl sold the business and in 1975 moved to Bremerton, Washington to[...]side with his sister, Ruth Stewart. He died there in 1979, on[...]in Arvada, Colorado.[...]Peter Droge immigrated to the United States in the year 1912, arriving in the Manhattan area with his parents, Mr.[...]29, 1910 in the Netherlands.[...]Pete received his education in the Manhattan area. He[...]helped his parents on the farm until they retired in 1928. In They lived there until selling out to Ralph and Lucy Pike. 1929, Pete was employed by Henry Alberda as a clerk in the Later, they moved to a farm at Pony. Adams Hardware store in Three Fork~, Montana selling In- Ralph and Lucy Pike moved the barn and othe[...]ng two rooms from the Hale house October 31, 1931 in Manhattan. They raised three children, logs. Later, the milk house was also moved for use as a gran- Alvin, JoAnn and J. Dean. ary. In 1934 Pete began employment with the Milwaukee Rail- Clayte and Georgie moved to a farm at Pony where Alice road at Camp Creek, Montana. He retired in June of1975 with attended grade school. Years later she attended high school in 41 years of service and many memories and friends[...]e cooked at the Bungalow and Clayte severe winter a blizzard hit the Gallatin Valley and snow ran the ranch. During part of Alice's days in high school, she filled the cut east of Logan, Montana. An engine and a wedge and Georgie stayed with Georgie's sister, Aunt Dot. Alice was snow plow were stuck in the cut. Another engine was brought a very good cook and occasionally served small dinners for her in to help break through the cut but also got stuck. Finally all close friends. In later days Alice worked at the Quarter Circle tha[...]gave all the girls souvenir cigarettes to In' 1937 Pete was transferred to the City of Sapping[...]Montana. Sappington at the time was a good sized community. Alice attended Montana State College for two years then It was a central outlet for loading cattle from the various went to work at the courthouse, and then worked as a book- valleys surrounding Sappington to be shippe[...]nney store. She and Georgie had an and west. Also in the area was a lime quarry that employed a apartment in Bozeman when Alice worked at the Parrot Cafe. num[...]he same crossing at Sappington so there were In later years, Aunt Dot cared for many children. Th[...]waiting until the where Alice first saw Robert, a small sunny haired boy whom crossing was clear so[...]as born on November hunting were always very good in Sappington, especially 16, 1944.[...]Forks News from Mr. Ballard and converted it into a livestock Sappington is 15 miles west of Thr[...]Alice taught shcool at Milligan schools. Pete was a member of the Willow Creek School Board Canyon.[...]ifteen years and both Pete and Bertha were active in The ranch near Willow Creek came to her and[...]de their home there, remodeling the house and was a very long distance from Bozeman. When relatives and adding a fireplace. Her Aunt Dot and her father, Clayte came friends would come to visit they would always make it a two to live with her there. day trip. In 1952 she married Earl Driscoll in Butte, Montana. They Pete was transferred from Sappington to Three Forks in owned and operated the Frontier Club and Steak House in 1962. After retirement in 1975 the Droges continued as resi- Three Forks,[...]active. They are mem- • Alice also served, for a time, on the State Liquor Board. ber[...] |
| [...]s activities at the schools. ried in my home in 1926. This home was later owned by Mr. They bo[...]e, Butte is employed by Butler Machinery Company, a Caterpillar and then to Castle Rock, Washington. Eventually Ross and his dealer in Bismarck, ND. He and his wife Eunice have three family and Alice and her family all settled in Castle Rock. My children. J oAnn married Ed Spoelstra and they now reside in parents and Alice and her husband Ralph Mickelberry died in Bozeman, Montana. Ed is employed by Gallatin Equipment Castle Rock. Ross and his wife live in Portland. Company, a John Deere dealer in Belgrade, Montana. JoAnn We lived in Old Town and farmed north of town. In the fall of works as a secretary for the Bozeman Public Schools. They[...]ts completely hailed out. Byron worked in Trident the first three Center, a printing company in Portland, Or. He and his wife winters and I taught three years in rural schools. Nella have three daughters and reside in Battle Ground, WA. We had two children, Byron (Pete) and Lorna. Pete had been Nella works as a bank teller in a local bank. an FBI Special Ag[...]rk Rapids, Minnesota. Byron passed away in 1968 and we sold the ranch in 1969. I My father had been a roadmaster on the Great Northern there had my house moved into Three Forks where I still live. and was a roadmaster here on the Milwaukee. We came on the train. In those days it took nearly 48 hours.[...]young men to work for him here so there were nine in our party. We had so many berths we had FRANK DUNBAR JR. one half a pullman car for ourselves, which was fun for seve[...]Anna Campbell Dunbar, was born June 10, 1877 in Gallatin Arriving on Memorial Day 1920 was an experience. The City, Montana. He died in 1943 in Butte. wind was blowing a gale, bringing all the top soil of the south[...]len L. Gallagher Scott at the old Dunbar Ranch by a minis- practically no trees in town. My mother took one look at it and ter fro[...]brother Herb were Our furniture had been loaded in a boxcar and was on a interested in the mines at Copper City. All three Dunbar freigh[...]he Sacajawea Hotel for three brothers were in the sheep business. At one time Frank had a weeks until it arrived. butcher shop in Logan. The family lived in Three Forks for a Ross, Alice and I all graduated from high school here. We all time, later moving to Butte in 1923. attended Montana State College.[...]Las Vegas; Margaret Bruno Butt ; and Sheldon, dee a d. bert Dunbar, grandparents Mr. and Mrs.[...] |
| [...]were the winning of the State B boy's basketball in 1974 and the State B meet in 1975.[...]shut down, I accepted a job with the Burlington Northern Railroad in Sheridan, Wyoming.[...]l have lots of good memories of our ten year stay in[...]Dr. Lindon C. Durham a fourth-generation Montanan, was[...]Lin and his parents moved to 16 Mile after a couple of years,[...]In June of 1950 Lin enlisted in the Navy for four years[...]he was a Dental Technician stationed at the U.S. Naval Hos[...]games that Lin played in for the Naval Hospital Team. They[...]were married Sept. 4, 1954, in Round Lake, Illionis. Upon JAMES AND NOR[...]retirement B~tty's folks, ~a_m and Inez Crom, moved to Three My grandfather and father homesteaded at the foot of the Forks in 1970. At the end of Lin's Navy Career he resumed his Little Belt Mountains in the early 1900's. educati[...]for the "Bob- I was born September 30, 1931, in Harlowton, Montana and cats", in the old Romney gym. He then attended Northwestern[...]e Musselshell University Dental School in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Leo river. I attended school in Two Dot and Harlowton. After Durham also graduated from MSU and Northwestern, and is a graduation I enlisted in the U.S. Navy. dentist in Bozeman. While in the Navy, I married Norma L. Gwaltney in Corpus While attending Dental School his first son, Mick Scott Christi, Texas. Norma was born in Oklahoma and raised in ( California.[...]to live. I hired out on the Milwaukee Railroad as a switchman in Harlowton. We are the parents of three sons:[...]ek, Montana. They became parents August 28, 1982, in Reno, Nevada, of Cory Todd. Bob is presently a civil engineer for U.S. Gypsum in Empire, Nevada. William Scott Duncan, born Se[...]first grandchild, Aaron Scott, born March 1, 1981 in Worland, Wyoming. Bill is a brakeman-conductor working out of Sheridan, Wyomi[...]s emp- loyed with Pablos' Mexican Restaurant here in Sheridan, Wyoming. After selling the farm in 1968, we moved to Three Forks in 1970 to work on the Milwaukee Railroad. Our three boys all liked sports and we were lucky to find a school such as Three Forks. One of the big[...] |
| [...]Durham children attended grade and high school in Three Forks, and like their parents, have a love for athletics.[...]Lin coached the Three Forks Girl's Softball Team in the[...]played on the team. Mark won a trip, in the seventh grade, to Seattle in the Pepsi/NBA Hoop Shoot. He shot at halftime of a[...]that won the State Tournament two years in a row and[...]the track team that won the State Championship in 1975 and[...]e basketball team that won the State Championship in 197 4. He also followed in his father's footsteps and played[...]g the first lot purchasers on September 17, 1908, in[...]John Eck was born October 9, 1870 in Sweden. He was[...]born in Sweden January 15, 1886. They resided in Granite,[...]he following from the memories of Mrs. Eck - t , 'In Old[...]raduation he returned to Montana, and established a the top of her head because of the tall grass. The children practice in Three Forks in August 1959. His second daughter, played hide-and-seek in the grass and tall weeds in our back John Eck and Al Anderson[...] |
| · yard. But when the sewer was put in it seemed to drain the land around and things d[...]om down by the river. Many people kept pumps in their basements to keep them dry, while others built small walks around the basement to avoid walking in the water that almost always seemed to be there." Besides being the ice man in Three Forks, Mr. Eck was also the city marshall. He retired in 1943. Mrs. Eck was a devout member of the Federated Church. She will[...]ed away May 4, 1961. They had one son, Leo, and a daughter Florence. Leo was born Dec. 9, 1911. He was educated in Three Forks. He resided here his entire life except for five years when he and his wife lived in Harlingen, Texas from 1972 to 1977. Leo was a brakeman and conductor for the Milwaukee Road for 37 years. He retired in 1972. He and Thelma Davis were married Dec. 3,[...]eman Convalescent Home. Florence Eck Caesar lives in Lewistown.[...]HOWARD ELLIO'IT AND FAMILY Howard was born in Bear Creek, Idaho in the year 1891. This was a small community of log cabins in the Seven Devil H. E. Elliot.[...]father was a miner and his mother a practical nurse. Since she[...]schoolwork. She was a remarkable, self-educated woman, and[...]get an education. Howard told me that when he was a small[...]They moved to a ranch near Council, Idaho where he went to[...]e school. One teacher, who was greatly interested in[...]ecial attention along that line, which helped him in later[...]graduated from high school. He worked in a butcher shop[...]mine, which they never found. In fact, he was so intrigued by[...]specting that for the rest of his life he carried a miner's pick |
| [...]and played all the old-time seven years in Palm Springs, California and four more in bluegrass Kentucky tunes. My two sisters played g[...]ing colored pic- sing. I loved to sing, but later in life I had throat surgery that tures, and I making water color studies. It was a wonderful slowed down that happy activity.[...]us. I graduated from high school at Corvallis in 1911, taught We always came back to our home in Deer Lodge for the two years, then went to Dillon[...]ame to an end when we returned where I met Howard in a strange coincidence. He called it his in 1967 and discovered that Howard had developed a strange ttlucky kick-off'. disease called Valley-fever, a lung disease, caused by a fungus Howard finally decided it would be bett[...]never School of Mines and pay his way by working in the mines. Just heard of any desert being the source of such a disease so took how he planned to work it out I d[...]t anyway when no precautions. Howard was in a Great Falls hospital for four he got to Butte the miners were on strike. He was broke, so he and a half months under the care of a lung specialist, but shipped his belongings back[...]nothing could be done to save him. He is buried in Deer Lodge hopped a train going through Weiser, his home town. He was Cemetery and there is a place for me beside him. riding the train in the blinds, was discovered and kicked off at It was hard, but life goes on. I lived along in Deer Lodge for Dillon.[...]about fourteen years, then decided to move in here, Eagles It was early fall and he got work on a farm. He noticed what Manor, Helena, Montana. It's a pleasant place and son Bill seemed to be a college on a hill and asked what it was. He liked and wife, Corinne live here in town and I see them often and the country there a[...]. He told me later if it had all's well. been a seminary he might have been a preacher. School had I'm eighty-eight years old, and am in reasonably good just started and he enrolled. Although it had never occurred to health. I still have a sense of humor, and when my time has him to get i[...]Riley's poem! He was a lieutenant in the army during World War I, but What d[...]Lingeringly I tum away over we were married in my old homestead near Corvallis, T[...], but glad enough Montana, and our first home was in Florida where Howard They have not withheld from me taught mathematics in the Junior Naval Reserve, a boy's Their high hospitality. private school. It was before Florida had been developed as a So with face lit with delight resort and was very pleasant. We lived in tents and ate in a And all gratitude I stay mess hall. L[...]s their hands and say - teachers and crew boarded a school ship called tThe Sword ''Thanks! so fine a time! Fish' and sailed up the inland waters of Fl[...]Good N1ght." regular ship to Prudence Island in N araganset Bay, Rhode[...]Mrs. Howard Elliot Island, where we spent a happy summer. However, we were both beginning[...]EINAR (SWEDE) ERICKSON in the Big Hole Country. It was a happy winter even though Swede tells of his father, a village cobbler, who left Finland the temperature got down to sixty below zero. There, Bruce in 1898 to prospect in Idaho. While he searched for a rich was born, our dear son, who died of pneumoni[...]lver. fifteen. Our second son, Paul Roy, was born in 1923, while we He never forgot the pretty girl he left behind. were living in Geraldine, Montana, where Howard was prin- When he had hoarded a grubstake and boat ticket he re- cipal. Paul Roy served six years in the Navy Band, playing turned to his h[...]ildhood trumpet during World War II. He now lives in Lodi, California sweetheart to join him in America. The couple were married in and has four children. Bill, our youngest, was born in 1927, is a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho in 1907. retired teacher and lives in Helena, Montana. He is married Like s[...]ssful. Babies came along writer. He, too, served in the Navy in World War II. wages were slim and[...]was sick with the We spent seven happy years in Three Forks, Montana, ·dreaded uminers con" (silicosis). where we bought a home and I would have liked to stay there[...]children was seven when the family forever, but a better paying job came up in Deer Lodge, Mon- packed their few belongings and boarded a train for Montana tana, and it was wise to move on, in 1936. and a new start. He recalls the only break in the long journey During the summers while we were in Three Forks, we went was the overnight lodging in the Milwaukee Railway stopover to Seattle where H[...]Norris where they were met Puget Sound, renting a cottage each summer and it was a time by Porter Nelson who hauled them in his wagon to a lonely our boys enjoyed so much. Howard and I di[...]les, California, where he got his doctor's degree in and moved to th Varney community wh r the elder Erick- Optometry. Then we moved back to our home in Deer Lodge son had a job in the Madison power plant. Th ir n w home[...] |
| gave the children a chance to get back to school again. Swede ing at"[...]his death and the had completed the first grade in Idaho, but had missed the change of ownership to[...]move on. Along with stayed on as shoemaker. being a full-time student, he was also put on the payroll[...]cked about two gallons of water from the creek up a hill stitch or tack any kind of footwear. When he[...]r 50 years ago, he charged $4.25 to heel and sole a pair tubs so she could do her washing. of boots. Today, a full sole and.heef runs about $37. He claims W[...]s ready for the eighth grade, he decided he it is a real bargain even at that price, when new boots c[...]Resuming his work with young people he became a scout- entertainment came to the valley. His family didn't own a set, master again and later an adult leader. He h[...]did and he often invited many times for his work in scouting. He is also a long time the kids in to listen to his battery radio. Swede sat in wonder member of the Three Forks Lions Club. as h[...]on his stay fairly close to home and are involved in church activities. shoulders. His father died from his long illness and a year Surrounded by the tools of the trade[...]shoe lasts and other equipment, the friendly and a three year old sister. (The little girl was later[...]bbler isn't thinking of retiring. Gently stroking a worn out).[...]honing strap that has been his friend for over a quarter cen- Jobs were scarce then, but he and[...]everything because they were so · sick for such a long time. Guess we figured we were almost rich.[...]Ann (Beckwith) Evans were married in DeMoines, Iowa, Following a turn at logging in Idaho, he returned to work in the year is unknown at this time. Grandpa Charles De- a sawmill up Jack Creek east of Ennis. While oiling the bear- Nathaniel was an activeJy employed lumber-jack in the Three ings behind the whirring buzz saw one day, he accidentally got Forks area and died in Whitehall, Montana, of injuries to the his left foot in the path of the saw. He felt a sudden numbness head caused by the breakage of a gin pole on the joh in approx- in his foot and at the same time saw the better half[...]Christo Williams in Three Forks, where she died of a heart uSince none of the guys st~mding around knew what to do, I attack in her favorite chair watching a chicken hawk steal a had to do my own first aid," he said. ul told them to get some chicken from the chicken yard in approximately 1937. warm water, and throw in some disinfectant. While I cleaned it up I had th[...]dish towels on the stove to sterlize, then I tied a tourniquet above the ankle. Sure it hurt a lot, but Grandpa & Grandma: Charles DeNathaniel a[...]edicinal whiskey on hand. It took over four hours in 15 degree below weather before they reached the hospital in Bozeman. When the doctor saw the swollen limb, he[...]is leg or his life. He spent the next four months in the hospital. When he was released, he was in a serious predicament - jobless, incapacitated and broke until friends rallied round and provided him with a cabin until he could find work. Un- like today, w[...]not covered with accident benefits or insurance. A person was expected to make it on his own. Whe[...]d to the site of his accident and buried his foot in a jar on a hillside nearby. A couple of years later he found that the jar had w[...]good fortune steered him to Dillon where he found a shoe repair machine for sale. The local banker had faith in his courage and made him the neces- sary loan to buy the machine. Within a year Swede had paid off the loan and a second loan enabled him to buy a stitching machine. The people of Ennis gave him the use of a small building rent free and his electrical bills were taken care of. In appreciation to his community and because his intere.s t in its youth he became scoutmaster of the !local scout troop, a position he occupied for many years. In 1952 Swede left Ennis and settled in Three Forks work-[...] |
| Conceived in this marriage of Charles DeN athaniel and also a familiar sight, like the talking parrot. Mary Ann[...]ren. Those known Son No. 2, child 4, Achel Evans, a bachelor; daughter, Juanita are a son Earl now deceased, a daughter Caldonia and another married 'Tip' Reyno[...]ggie, mar- son Bruce Edward now residing in Butte, Montana. Bruce is ried to Samuel Shaffer o[...]st daughter married to Fawn 'May' and in their marriage conceived a girl Monto Christo married to Meirth Martin Williams in 1921. and a boy. Marsha 'Arlene', born on August 31, 1943 and[...]married to Larry Ray Staton on August 7, 1960 in Butte. They Milwaukee Railroad and she was the owner/operator of a now reside with their two daughters, Fawn Lee and Pamela beauty shop located at that time in their home on the corner Rae in California. The son Bruce Edward, Jr., born in Butte, across the alley from the present day U.S. Post Office there in Montana on November 21, 1950, married Cynt[...]en their love was extended to Granger in Butte on April 4, 1974, her birthday being August[...]30, 1952. They have two children both born in Butte, which all kinds, lovebirds, parakeets and a talking parrot. When out are Amanda Dee o[...]Mathew Bruce on walking it was always noted that a 'Hello' sounded from their July 22, 1980[...]Bruce, as we were close as kids and are still in close contact If one sat too close or rocked too fast to get a sea-sick bird, a even now. If memory doesn't fail me, his father lost two fingers nip on the leg was a subtle reminder of the parrot. The pic- in a railroad accident and following that accident held several turesque Fish Pond in the yard always would house a crocodile jobs one of them being employe[...]ing Plant and goldfish. The croc did bite and was a resident until he in Billings, Montana. became about 36 inches in length, then his disappearance A[...]af- became unknown. Aunt Tildie and Uncle Roy had a lovely ford, no children conceived, they lived in Anaconda, Montana home and yard, especially beautiful in their home was the and moved several times finally settling in Kent, Washington. fireplace when it held a fire. The front was laid up of yellow quartz and[...]ld illumi- Uncle Achel Evans, being a bachelor and never married was nate with the fire and flame. Their yard held a Wishing Well, a brick layer and stone mason. Tombstones were his[...]in Aunt 'Tildie' and Uncle Roy's home. Uncle Achel w[...]outdoorsman in every way. Trapping, especially pelts of Mrs. Roy[...]his skunk pelts, but once in a while he would acquire the[...]lovely odor in trying to catch this critter of black and white f[...]More than once he was caught bathing in the sleuth from his[...]was more or less a 'scandal sheet' type newspaper exposing not[...]This news was a,lways first reading by everyone, whether it[...]calls tht she was also owner of the laundry there in Three[...]Shaffer, a bartender in Butte Montana. Both Aunt Maggie[...]Uncle Sam are decea d, living most of th ir lives in[...]e. They had thre children· Charles, now residing in Seat-[...]anuary 6, 1900. She marri d Meirth Martin William in[...] |
| children. Monto Winifred 'Winnie', born in a hospital in The pioneer Three Forks business was kept in one family for Bozeman on August 19, 1922, deceas[...]gusta Smith and later by her Charles Albert, born in Logan, Gallatin County, Montana on daughter, Mrs. Thomas A. Fairhurst. July 6 1928· Russel 'Jardine' born in Three Forks, Montana In its early years the hotel boasted a barber shop and bil- on No;embe~ 29, 1931 and Elfidel Marie 'Bobbi', also born ~n liard parlour in the basement, a dining hall on the first floor Three Forks on March 14, 1933. The family grew up there m where a seven course meal could be served for 35 cents, a[...]Chnsto) death on The barbershop in the basement of the hotel was managed January 10[...]There was also a shoe shine boy known only as "Black Joe".[...]The hotel basement also had a large showroom where the THE FAIRHURS[...]ummers and salesmen played their wares. Thomas A. Fairhurst was born in Holyoke, Mass., Jan. 20, 1886, and left home at _the age of 14 to go to sea as a cabin boy Behind the hotel was located a barn, where farmers and on sailing ships.[...]le their horses while visiting Three Forks. As a sailor he visited all the ports of Africa and Sou[...]out to sea on the Jr. and Bill followed in their father's footsteps as employees of West Coa[...]the Milwaukee railroad and reside in Three Forks. Doug makes his home in Honolulu, Hawaii. Seeking temporary employment, he was hired as a carman on the Jawbone railroad at Lombard, Montana in 1907, and at The Fairhursts also are a "Mayoring" family. On May 1, the time of his death, in 1972, was one of the few remaining 1939, T. A. Fairhurst assumed the office of mayor of Three "[...]same office and in 1969, Bill was also elected as the Tom moved to Three Forks in 1908 where he was employed community's mayor. as a conductor on the Milwaukee Railroad for the next[...]also Milwaukee employees residing in Three Forks with Also in the year 1908, Augusta Smith came to Three Forks . nearly a century of service years combined. from Butte. Th[...]x children had received word that Three Forks was a boom town, where new busines- Georg[...]eve·r y day. She decided she would take a machinegunner with the 1st platoon, A company, 346 advantage of her culinary abilities to make a living for her Machinegun Battalion, 91 Division. Held in reserve in the family.[...]f Saint-Mihiel, the Division distinguished itself in the[...]battle of the Meuse-Argonne and later in the Ypres-Lys offen- Upon reaching Three Forks, Mrs. Smith purchased a small sive. The armistice found George still in the front line ap- frame building from the Dudley[...]rried Donna House and has two daugh- for business in 1910 and was one of the first permanent build- ters, Lisa and Jennifer. ings in Three Forks.[...]Thomas Joseph Finnegan was born February 22, 1888 in[...]he got a seamansjob aboard a freighter, with hopes of getting[...]trying to enlist m the Navy a couple of times, flat feet and bad[...]eyes keeping him out) he decided to stay in the United States in 1918.[...] |
| He told the story (this was during the war) of having a few hours shore leave in New York City while the freighter was being reloa[...]happens that he misses his ship. This same ship, a few hours out of New York City, was torpedoed by a German U-boat and all lives were loast. Fate, wouldn't you say? He worked in the NY shipyards for about a year, then decided to go to Chicago, where he wor[...]r Station for several months. He then worked with a crew put- ting up grain elevators, then after losing a toss of the coin with four other crew members, decided to come to Bozeman, MT. He arrived in Bozeman in the Spring of 1921. He went to work for Ed Poor,[...]aving done this kind of work before, he had quite a time running water uphill, but he caught on and s[...]. Poor until he came to Three Forks and worked on a ranch for Martin Dickman. The ranch was owned by Bill Buttelman. He bought the ranch from Mr. Buttelman in about 1924 with a down payment of $1500.00. He married Anna Elizabeth Connolly in 1925. Anna was born in Wheeling, W. Virginia in 1900. Together they worked the ranch, acquiring more land every few years. In 1934 they adopted a son, Thomas Aloysius, age 4, who grew up on the ranch, going to school in Willow Creek, MT, graduating from there in 1948. On July 12, 1958, Tom married Beverly Jo[...]and Condon Jordan, of Witten, South Dakota. After a short trip to Chicago, they made their home on the ranch. Their son, Thomas Patrick was born in Bozeman on April 13, 1960. In the Fall of1960 , when the ranch was sold they mo[...]to Denton, where Tom worked on the missile bases. In Nov. of Rev. D. H. Fleet 1961 they moved to South Dakota, where Tom operated a ditch digging outfit and Beverly worked as a telephone operator for Rev. D. H. Fleet retired at Maustory, Wisconsin in June two years. A job offer from an old friend took them to New 195[...], Wisconsin where he died Mexico where they lived in Albuquerque , Roswell, Santa Fe on Jan. 19, 1961. and in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. Tom worked as a painter,[...]son. Their son, Patrick, started his education in Tucson, attend- DEANE BELLACH FOWLER ing St. Cyril's School for his first two years. In the Fall of 1968 Gus and Nellie Bellach and th[...]tains lured them back to Montana, where they live in Myrtle, lived in Radersburg where Gus hauled ore in four- Three Forks. Patrick attended the Three For[...]Toston to be railed to East Helena for graduating in 1978, attended MSU for four years and is pres- smeltering. ently working in Clayton, Idaho. November, 1907, I was born in Townsend when birth regist- Mrs. Thomas Finegan (Anne) passed away June 1, 1960 rations first began in Broadwater County. That same month, after a long illness. Mr. Finnegan passed away Dec. 20, 1[...]ed the 160 acre ((Home Ranch" on the at his home in Three Forks after several months illness.[...]low Creek, one of the earliest families to settle in the area.[...]REV.D.H.FLEET In 1913, the Homestead Act for the State of Montana promp- Rev. D. H. Fleet came from Chester, England in May 24, ted my parents to file in Broadwater County for 160 acres 23 1904. In June of that year he arrived in Winnipeg, Canada. miles northwest of Three Forks,[...]there he was sent to the Northwest Territories as a from McIntire and 45 from Boulder. This homestead had Missionary. In March 1907 he went to Belgrade, Montana ample water from a nearby spring which was plentiful even in where he preached on the Belgrade Circuit at Logan, Mon- drouth years. We lived in a log cabin there during the sum- tana.[...]rned to the home ranch each fall to attend the In August, 1908 he went to Evanston, Illinois to att[...]was mar- My brother, Edwin, was born in 1910. Our mother and ried to Ruby Cook, and in Feb. 1912 they moved to Three infant sist r, Bonn B 11, died in 1916. Father nev r r mar- Forks. Their son, William Arthur, was born in Thr e Forks on ried. W all assum d our duti as our ag s allow d, riding Aug. 20, 1912. In Jan. 1913 he moved to Townsend. poines to school or with a pony and cart a n cessit dictated.[...] |
| [...]iles around by team and wagons which they circled in camps beside the and we often went to[...]dances, box socials, picnics and church services. A large com- Hay and grain was raised on the home ranch for the stock in munity hall was finally built and equipped[...]moved, chickens, hogs, cattle and floors, a large grand piano and full kitchen. Many orchestr[...]ns for dances and midnight each week, bringing it in with team and spring wagon. Dairy supper[...]sanitation, as rigid as today, required it packed in ice. We also We owned a Columbia grammaphone with a metal horn sold cases of eggs. The trip took 8 ho[...]and five-inch cylinder disks, some wax, home at 3 a .m. Each pound of butter had to be weighed and[...]t was the first one purchased from Dr. W. wrapped in fresh paper with "Butter, Gus Bella ch, 1 pount net, E. Young in 1910. Edwin has kept it in good repair through the Three Forks, Montana" pri[...]years with spare parts found in old barns and even chicken In the fall, father and many others hauled grain wit[...]Forks' mills and elevators. It Quaker Down in Quaker Town," !(Joan of Ark," "Moonlight often took a neighbor's outfit to help one another up the steep Bay" and "My Buddy" from the World War I years. A neighbor inclines. The Sacajawea Flour Mill could produce 150 barrels in the community gave us her pump organ that had been in 1 of flour a day. It was later destroyed by fire. Help and mac[...]and be- I graduated from high school in 1927, married Lawrence cause of the abundance of[...]d moved to Los Angeles for five years while death in 1935, we sold the 480-acre homestead to a neighbor in Lawrence learned watch, clock and jewelry r[...]lifetime I have Store and Watch Repair in the Ruby Theatre Building Law- seen it all go bac[...]rence was appointed Treasurer of Three Forks in 1936, to[...]upon his resignation, I served the remainder of a two year[...]Rodney Frick was born to Birdie and Tom Frick in St. Paul, Minnesota in J.928. He was raised in nearby Wayzata and in[...]twin brothers and a younger half-sister.[...]joined the U.S. Army, serving in Ft. Knox, Kentucky, and[...]Camp Stoneman, California. Then spent six months in[...]tana, to work as a lumberjack for a short while until finding[...]Rodney met Charlotte Martin at a street dance during the[...]following December, 1949. Charlotte was born in 1932, the[...]Mrs. A.G. Johnston of Three Forks.[...]Rodney started his apprenticeship as a baker with the Bon[...]reserves and spent the next year and a half at Fort Lewis and[...]over, he returned to Bozeman. He continued to be a baker for[...] |
| [...]Baby Jeryl Frick for six years. They bought a home on Wallace Avenue. Having severe back prob[...]was necessary and was suc- cessful. He worked as a salesman for Montana Motor Supply after that, which led to buying a motor supply in Three Forks in 1966. Rodney and Charlotte were in partnership with Bud Lane there for a short time. Bud sold his interests to Frank Kemme[...]ness was known as the Three Forks Motor Supply. A family of five was raised and educated in the Bozeman and Three Forks area. There were ·th[...]ody and two sons, Danny and Dale. Dale was killed in an auto crash on his eighteenth birthday in 1974. Rodney was involved in many organizations. He was VFW post and district commander while in Bozeman. In Three Forks he belonged to the Lions' Club, serving as president for a term. Also was president of the Chamber of Commer[...]ment, he was chief for two years. After suffering a heart attack ih 1980, Rodney was forced to curtai[...]of the historical society and greatly interested in the local museum and in the United Methodist Church. They hope to spend their remaining days in Three Forks.[...] |
| [...]Josh Mickelberry . DELBERT E. and DELORES A. FUHRMAN on Del and Delores's 10th Wedding Anniversary. She was |
| [...]e and 1919 watermelon crop. wing feed, first silo in area.[...]while I took the milk to town with placed in the pit - even cabbage pulled up by the root and[...]placed head down in the straw. Then we covered the pit and The old[...]g and left it until the frost was leaving in the spring. Then we dug up wheat farming. We rent[...]ing when she As anyone who has lived in Montana knows, all was not weeded it, but it real[...]work. With the Madison River nearby, fishing in the summer sweet corn, and of course all the root crops plus the leafy ones was a natural. I remember going with Dad, and in a couple of like lettuce and cabbage. Melons were r[...]ould be home with several nice trout ranging from in our ten year sojourn. Mother always attributed the good one and a half to two and a half pounds. Hunting was also very crop to the rocks holding the heat through the night to keep good in those years. In the fall , Dad would bring in his limit of the ground warm.[...]per day quite regularly, and with Mother's genius in To store the garden crops, we loaded a root cellar with all the cooking wild fowl , t[...]ward root crops and the overflow of canned goods. In addition to the to. We used to come home fro[...]4 o'clock and there root cellar, each fall we dug a pit deeper than the frost and would be ducks boiling in a special iron kettle on the fire of the[...] |
| old wood stove. We'd each have half a duck to tide us over til hitch in the Air Force. Then he married and became a dinner, before we went out to do our evening chores. machinist. He is now retired and living in San Jose, Califor- Our years in Montana ended when the family started to[...]e Sisters of Charity of married to Joseph Wittman in 1920 and farmed with her Providence in Seattle, Washington. In 1979 she celebrated 50 husband in Wilsall for many years. She is now living in Boze- years in the convent. She is now living in Seattle. man. John farmed on Dad's farm in Silverton. He was married in Mike served in World War I, received some disabilities, and 1942 and moved to Mt. Angel where he worked in a seed returned to help on the farm. Then he went t[...]ning plant until his retirement. He is now living in Mt. he was married. He moved several times and settled in Rogers, Angel. Arkansas, where he passed away in 1977. And myself (Joe), I was married in 1941 and bought a small Tom followed the construction game, first in northern Mon- farm near Silverton where I farmed until 1971. Then I moved tana, later in Alaska. He was stricken with lung .cancer and[...]nd retired from farming to sell real estate. died in 1956.[...]that were The rest of the family came to Oregon in September of 1926. graduated from grade school in '25, '26, and '27, or who re- Mom and Dad came by[...]ffke family, or who can tell me about our through in a Dodge Roadster and a Dodge Sedan. former neighbors. Write: Joe Gaffke, 1747 Pine Street, Sil- Our years in Oregon were saddened by the death of our mother verton, Oregon 97381. in 1937 from complications of diabetes. Our Father,[...]Joe Gaffke followed her in 1952 after a lengthy illness that had kept him confined to his[...]r many years. Martha met and married Dan Kintz in Oregon. They farmed HISTORY OF CLAUDIUS C. GAGE in the Sublimity and Silverton areas for many years. She is In the summer of 1923, our family left Wisconsin and now living in Mt. Angel.[...]e by yours truly, aged six- Frances had worked in the telephone office in Three Forks teen and brother Alexander, aged fifteen. My mother, who was in the early '20's with Mrs. Tibbs, the chief teleph[...]ried Nels Torresdal, and is guiding force in the whole adve.r iture; historian of local now living in Silverton.[...]companion to our father. She was buried with them in 1969 in the Mt. Angel five year old sister, Mar[...]ignorant group ever She is now retired and living in Mt. Angel. started out th[...]ent to bed that first night under Henry worked in several states and served a three-year[...] |
| canvas in a little town of Appleton, Wisconsin. It rained all that night. We dried out the next night in a hotel in Eau Claire, Wis- consin. That was our last night under a hard roof until we reached Livingston, Montana, eight days later. (We spent three nights in Aberdeen, South Dakota, licking our wounds from a local tornado that went through the town our firs[...]Miles City, Billings, Livingston, three nights in the Park, Livingston again and Three Forks, where again we opted for rooms and a bath. I will admit that the large hole in the roof of the local movie house made it a little difficult to see the screen through the[...]Three Forks is indeliable. It was where I fell in love; hopelessly and eternally. You see t~at is the first place on our trip where our route fell in beside the electrified lines of the Chicago, Mi[...]where we left the line· to return to it way west in Ellensburg, Washington. Butte, Deer Lodge, Missoula all followed in hallowed mem- ory· to be visited years later in rapid order from the sky lounge of the Olympian[...]ure of life on the road has sur- vived. This is a framed photo enlargement ofour much bat-[...]ing. Seven weeks on the r·oad, half or over in town camp Montana in 1908 until 1916. They had a dairy and raised grounds, sixty-four punctures,[...]of Between 1922 and 1928 they operated a store in Denver, Mt. Washburn and our first sight of the[...]Colorado. Rockies as the sun came out in Columbus, Montana. The It was in the spring of 1928 my parents and I drove from wonderful butcher shop in Livingston where the proprietor Texas where we had been working. We stopped in Three Forks gave us a marvelous feed in his back room, im memory of his over nig[...]-standing friendship with my Mother's grandfather in . that part of the Marcus Daly Ranch was for sale in Oid Town. Detroit. We thought this would be a good place to live so we bought the We did not camp in Three Forks, but all the other places place and started in the poultry business. We kept the place where w[...]ually happy with our lot. One-hundred fifty miles a day was considered a good run and we all look back on the trip as a I worked for many years on the west c[...]I traveled for over a year trying to find a good place to live.[...]id just like so many had done, I There was, in those days, a comradery of the road that I came back to[...]e friends and any calamity to one was cause for a concern to all. It was rough, tough and won[...]I was born in Eagle Point, Oregon. My father, James Ira[...]Bliven was born in West Port, Connecticut, also my grand-[...]grandmother E.H. Bolton Charles Gaines was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa in 1903. An Bliven. My mother Dilly Viola Bergman Bliven was born in older brother, Theoplus Gaines was a member of the New Kehoka, Missouri. Her father , Chris Bergman, was born in York police force . He died on duty in a plane accident during a Berges Germany and came to Missouri. snow storm. His mother, Elsie Dristiiia Larson, born- in Mother's grandfather Cummings was[...]nd- Denmark, came to America at age 18. She lived in America 55 mother Cummings was Scotch. years. There is no record of her parents in Denmark. His My maiden nam was Sa[...]and I liv din father, Joe Artmus Gaines was born in Illinois. His grandpar- Salem, Oregon al[...]s and we moved to Vall jo California. H work d at in Canada.[...]family from Cedar Falls, trucks as a m chanic. H work d in th shipyards in Seattl Iowa to take up a homestead at Coffee Cr ek, Fergus County,[...] |
| [...]Of course at this time a homestead was 160 acres. Every[...]years we lived in Montana there were three children born into[...]away at Canyon, Texas in 1930. My mother passed away at[...]Allison, Texas in 1958.[...]in Roundup, Montana. We got our mail at Flatwillow,[...]tana, just a very small place on the Flatwillow Creek. This[...]parents got busy and organized a school district, so by the next[...]summer we had school. A small building was put up and a teacher hired. We had a short vacation, then started the fall[...]ne teacher stayed with us for three years. He had a[...]that it was hard to make it in the A.M. Of course our mode of We went to Fairbanks, Alaska for a two month vacation in travel was by horse and buggy. June 1963 and stayed two years til Sept. 1965. w; were in Wheat and oats were our principal crop, alt[...]the acre. I was back to the old place in 1960 for the first time in I first came to Three Forks in 1947. Charles and I stayed one forty-three years. When we drove up to the house, a woman month on the farm. Then Joe Gaines came to live with us in came out to meet me, and believe it or no[...]Vallejo, California. We wer_e here one year later in 1948. In She had been a bachelor homestead girl, back in the early 1979 we returned here to make our home.[...]Sarah Gaines much like we had left it in 1917. Her brother now owned the[...]first one was a claim shack) . The second house had a basement[...], two nice porches and EARLY DAYS IN MONTANA seven rooms. It was in very good condition. Now six years later Our fa[...]n; the house had been moved away. The He was born in Vermont on Sept. 23, 1864. He married Emily[...]the place moved it about 4 miles on some Jane Haw in Canton, South Dakota, August 5, 1896.[...]d bought. I went to the place where it had been In the fall of the year 1909, several families (neighbors of moved, looked it over and it was in good shape. It was well ours) in South Dakota decided to take up homestead in Mon- built and of good lumber. The last time I was up there, in 1972, tana. The heads of the households went by t[...]difficult to find your way around. We homesteads. In March of 1910 we started the move , which was stopped at a dugout home to enquire the way. A woman came a big undertaking. Box cars were rented to haul our[...]talked with us. She said, "I can't tell you ings in. We had to take everything we would need in our new how to get to your old homestead.[...]band." He came out and gave· us directions. In the conversa- horses, farm machinery, etc. We stayed in Round up a few days tion, we learned his name was Mang. I asked him ifhe was a while the cars were being unloaded. The trip to t[...]I believe we must be on the moved into one and we in another, to live while the men were wrong r[...]er to keep on until we reached the top of getting a few buildings ready, wells dug, etc. The first su[...]I thought I would know where we were at. we lived in a big tent, and hauled our water 3 miles. This wate[...]ago last spring. Land was broke for fields, a few trees (father had planted three trees) and pr[...]ar there was not spread our 1unch. We could see a man on a tractor plowing up a much farming done. Fences had to be built, as soo[...]or, came everywhere. Wild horses would come along in bunches. to the car, looked it over, got a pencil and paper out of his[...] |
| [...]that Texas license had him puzzled. We talked on a little, learned his name, then I asked him if he was a relative of the man who used to carry our mail on horseback, after we got a mail route. He replied, "why yes, he was my uncle[...]we arrived on the claim. Fences, buildings, etc., in place of open prairie. It hurts to recall the day[...]to be really over. At least we lived at one time in one of the best new lands of this continent. So f[...]Merten's children, Lesley and Mark, were educated in Hazel Rich[...]LIAM GIEM lished a home in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mark and his wife Susan John[...]born February 4, 1869, at Kellogg, live in Castro Valley, California. Minnesota. He grew up there and as a young man came to Les' maternal grandmother, Betty Harder, lived in Three Montana, where he worked as a teamster in Madison and Forks with her daughte[...]until her death at 93 years-of-age in about 1960. Les' mother, On June 8, 1897 he mar[...]had one the former Agnes Harder, resided in Three Forks from 1945 daughter born on March 14, 1898. until her death in 1951. Giem continued hauling ore for mines at R[...]ars he owned and oper- their retirement in their home at 410 - 3rd Avenue East. ated a sawmill near Silver Star. With his family, he mov[...]acing cars Butte and worked for contractors. One, a Mr. Judd, was a in Butte. house mover who contracted to move the old hotel in Three The Mertens spend their summe[...]in Mesa, Arizona, during the winters. John Giem and his wife owned and operated a farm ten[...]for several years and then bought and oper- ated a small grocery store in Butte where he died, after twenty years in business. He died January 28, 1941.[...]as the second oldest consecutively owned business in Three Forks. Carl arrived in Three Forks in 1938 and estab- lished his store in the building now occupied by Skip's Barber Shop. The building was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Richter who operated a shoe repair business in the other portion of the building. In 1941 the Cut-Rate Grocery was moved into roomier quarters at its present location at 121 Main. In 1948 Carl's daughter and son-in-law, Doris and Les Mer- tens, joined him in the business. Carl became semi-retired, and in 1958 he sold the business to the Merten's[...] |
| [...]eirs Iva Edna (Cook) Berquist Gorsky was born in Bismarck, N. was voted "Best Yard of the Week". Olga spends hours with Dakota in 1894, the daughter of E.T. and Martha Cook. She h[...]She was four years old the day Three Forks needed a bank. Carl was a member of the first they arrived in Montana, July 1898. The family made several Board of Directors. Advertising in the tourist season needed to be done, so he and O[...]at the town entrances "You'll like Three Forks". A top priority is the City Library. Carl and Olga have contributed greatly to the improvement of beauty in the Three Forks community. Stevenson Park has become a lovely park. The Gilmores pulled, raked and burne[...]man moved to Three Forks October 1946. She bought a · house at 222 Fourth East. She cooked for Jimmie Thain in his cafe for a while. Then she moved up the street and bought the Handy Shop, where she ran a small cafe. Those working for her at different ti[...]n. After awhile she closed the cafe and opened up a gift shop. Mary Bennett worked for her then. The[...]· In 1953 she had Ray Polston, Ben Peterson and Marv Jewett build a store for her across the street, now occupied by the State Liquor store. The name was the What Knot Shop in the front. In the back was Jane's Beauty Salon. Barbara Bacon and Mary Bennett worked for Jennie in the What Knot Shop. Mrs. E. T. Cook ([...]Mr. and Mrs. A. Gorsky - 1940. . ~ Jennie Goman and Barbara Bacon in the What Knot Shop. Jennie supported all organizations and had a float in the |
| moves and finally homesteaded on the North Bench in 1909 or Dakota before moving in 1900 to a homestead on Dry Creek in 1910. She attended schools in Bozeman, Old Town, Lane, and Carbon County, Montana. In 1920 he moved to Red Lodge, finally in the school at Three Forks. Montana where he resided until his death in 1942 at age 82. She worked at Mested's Bakery and in 1917 married Oscar[...]Clara Hacker Berquist, who was born in Greely County, Kansas. They worked in Twin Bridges at the Orphan's Home in 1922. Oscar contracted sleeping sickness and died in 1928. She returned to RAY AND OLIV[...]Forks from Wisconsin where Oscar was hospitalized in 1923. She then worked at the Sacajawea for five years for C. Ray and Olive Hagadone settled in Three Forks after hav- Burroughs. She bought the[...]ing spent the World War II years working in the Swan Island schoolhouse in Three Forks with the hedge around it and her shipyards in Portland. mother moved in with her from her home where the Jack Rea Ray was born in 1908, died in 1973 in Tucson, Arizona. Veterinary is now. Olive was born in 1918, graduated from Three Forks High[...]School in 1935. She is presently residing in Boulder, Montana. Iva married Adolph Gorsky in 1930. He was a lineman on the Milwaukee Railroad. They moved to[...], Washington when the Milwaukee made some changes in 1942. "Grandma Cook" moved with them and died in Cedar Falls in Dec. 1942 at the age of 82. Adolph retired from the railroad in 1971 and they moved to Carnation, Washington. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary there in 1980.[...]Mrs. Cora Hand Hacker and four children arrived in Three Forks, Montana November 2, 1936 from Staple[...]ey al).d Berdeen. Mrs. Hacker left Three Forks in 1943 to make her home in Yakima, Washington. She resided there for twenty-five years. She returned to Bozeman, Montana in the fall of 1968, where she lived until her death[...]. One son, Ollney, was killed during world War II in the Phil- lipine Islands April 30, 1942. The V.F.W. post was named in his honor. Albert passed away in 1958. Lloyd resides in Three Three Rivers Hatchery owned by Ray Hagad[...]he Milwaukee Railroad for 36 years. Berdeen lives in Helena. Another daughter, Marie lives in Mr. Hagadone operated the Three Rivers[...]was mayor of Three Forks from 1951 to 1953, and a charter · Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickock,[...]r, South Methodist Church. Olive was a charter member and one-time[...]esident of the Civic Club, which was instrumental in de-[...]eloping Stevenson Park. The Hagadone family lived in the Mrs . Cora Hacker.[...]mes and Minnie Hagen came to Three Forks, Montana in 1917 from Rushton, Minnesota to operate a grain elevator.[...]in Canada and Minnesota.[...]The grain fields were plentiful and a town named McIntyre[...] |
| [...]Gail Edward Haigh, at 19 years of age, arrived in Three A cook's h lper for Harry Itoh at the Forks, Montana in 1908, from Niota, Illinois. He came because c[...]own orch stra, playing for dances out a homestead next to his brother-in-law, Frank Martin. in h m ny popular place[...]s Hall and Dunbar's Barn. Three Forks in 1909 to visit her sister, Clara Martin. Maggie,[...]w re marri din 1925. Elsi is a as she was nicknamed, was only 16 years[...]earlier and she had just buried her mother. After a Ly ood. wa born,[...]Willow Creek that her school to become a teacher. Maggie came again to Montana a iam m t ad d in the year of fi w years later and taught[...]ks. Many social events also took place at the In 1934 Bill nd El i pur t ank buil[...]nkruptcy. Th y bringing in enough funds to purchase a new organ for the d[...]n) Matthis They became engaged. Gail built a 3 room house, where they[...]eir life together after marriage on June 14, 1914 in[...]ren improvements on the farm. He was given a deed of ownership. d chool in both Willow With help of neighbors, Gail built a large red barn. Many[...]box-suppers. Gail played the violin and accordian in orn at Bo[...]par- Maurice, the first child was born in 1915; Evelyn in 1917; i . Mr. and Mr . David (Sharon) Jessie in 1919. Rains were abundant in early years with crops[...]s r w r marri d in 1950 at Three mother. They also purchased a new Model T Ford, one of the of Judy, Ward and Jennifer. Mr. and fir t in the area. r p r nts of Amb r, and Aaron. Mr. A terrible drought hit the area in 1919. They were finally[...]They moved to Lloyd H ·11 din a con truction accident in 1930 Thr e Forks and Gail found work at the Yellowstone Garage · uil highway in Montana n ar Flath ad and variou oth[...]in 1921; Arlene in 1922; June Gail in 1924; Eleanor in 1926; fi To yo Fork in Robert in 1928; Thelma in 1930 and Donald in 1933. He died at[...]ly the cause of Gail's disabling asthma. He died in land family who had moved to 1939. Margaret continued to live in Three Forks, where she[...]ool. When the last of the nine children graduated in 1948, ROBERT HAIGH th Three Forks Herald did a write-up and picture of the · n in 1928 in Thr Forks. H and family. The foll[...]Mrs. · · . 0 in Thr Fo Bob Haigh said: !(Upon b[...]t . n, S ., is in rr nH , nd[...] |
| [...]ma and June Gail carry on. My children have been a blessing to me and although Chicago, married[...]n and Michael. They have 4 grandchildren and live in |
| [...]generation of the John Hall who came to America in 1640 at[...]Arthur Hall lived in Providence until 1873 when the[...]family moved to Maine. He returned to Providence in 1877[...]where he attended high school, graduating in 1880. In 1884 he graduated with a B.A. degree from Haverford College, R.I. He[...]was then a teacher, assistant principal or principal at scho[...]in Maine or Massachusetts until 1892. At that time h[...]Briggs was a freshman. In 1893 father was an instructor in[...]Latin and Greek at the Minneapolis Academy. In 1895 he received his Master's degree in Arts. That year he became[...]principal at Morgan Hall - a finishing school. He is listed as[...]Boys. In 1900, mother Jennie Briggs taught at Minneapolis[...]y was welcome to eat and stay. My grandmother was a terrific cook, and always seemed to have a cake baked and homemade bread. She occasio[...] |
| [...]After father's death Raymond continued school in Three[...]In 1920-21 he worked for the City Drug Store to earn[...]had a small room on the ground floor of the school for[...]In 1921 he won the Declamation Contest and represent[...]high school at the State Contest in Missoula. In 1921 he[...]$12.50 each 3 months. Raymond graduated with a B.A. in mathematics in 1925. Employment through the years has[...]been with Western Electric, Chicago; Signal Corps in Boston;[...]ces celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in[...]Elizabeth graduated from high school in Lewistown, Mont.[...]Attended college at Dillon, graduated with a B.A. degree in[...]ness College, taught in rural and high schools in Montana, Washington and Idaho. In 1948 she married August Ericson.[...]Rufus graduated from the U. of Montana with a Bachelor of Raymond and Frances Hall Science degree in Forestry Management. He was employed in this field in Idaho, Wyoming and Utah, beginning in 1928 Classical School. In 1901 father and mother were married at with summer forestry work in Onley, Mont. He married Flor- Minneapolis. From 1[...]were married. Before retiring from Civil Service in principal 15 years and during this time he was a licensed June 1963 Rufus was Land Utilization Forester and Forest guide in Yellowstone Park 14 years. He guided tent tours E[...]o three employed at the University of Utah in the physical plant for tours a year, these varied from 10 to 50 days. At this ti[...]happy, bu_sy, and enjoying life. were published in the Minneapolis Tribune. ·[...]ll family had moved to Caledonia, N. Dak. in Agriculture. In 1956 he became a rural mail carrier in Father became Supt. at Anamoose, N. Dak. In 1915 on Nov. Addison, Alabama. 24 fathe[...]ge of 12 and high schools at Two Dot, established a school at Olaf, was years. He continued to live on the ranch at Two Dot, living active in getting a new county (Wheatland) and establishing there for 62 years. While he is retired now, he still votes in Harlowton as county seat. the Two Dot precinct. In those days we did not have an allowance, but ther[...]s we could make our spending money. We were given a trap each and thereafter we bought our own traps.[...]paid 3 cents for Nels M. Halverson, born in 1882, and Ingeborg C. Jacobson, each caught in the garden, 2 cents if caught in the hay born 1887 in Norway, immigrated to Montana in 1903 and meadow, and 1 cent from pasture, 10 cent[...]ack rab- 1904 respectively and were married in 1904. He was employed bits, a bounty of 25 cents for weasels. We could buy a gun and by the Northern Pacific Railroad. They lived in several towns ammunition at the age of 12. along the railroad and in 1913, with their five children, A neighbor once asked father why a school teacher would Almer, Harold, Harriet, Karl and Ingalf, moved to Three want a homestead. !(There are two reasons" father replie[...]Forks. October 1914, Ruby and Oscar were born and in 1915 !(One, I do not want my boys to grow up in town; two, just in the family moved to Pipestone, Montana. Mr.[...]nything should happen to me the family would have a killed by lightening in August 1915 and Oscar died in Sep- home, garden, cattle, chickens and farm for income." Mother tember. patented the homestead in 1922. It was her home from 1916 to In 1920 Mrs. Halverson married Andrew Larson. He too[...]d from Norway and was employed by the Northern In 1919 Arthur Hall became Supt. of the Three Forks[...]solidated Schools. He immediately became involved in com- and Karl graduated from high school at Whitehall in 1926 and munity affairs. One son, Raymond , and a daughter, Elizabeth 1927. lived in Three Forks with father and attended school. On Nov. In 1929 the family moved to Three Forks again and In[...]death of my father, Arthur D. Hall. He is buried in the with the class of 1932 and Ingalf joined the Navy several Masonic plot at Fairview Cemetery in Three Forks." months before graduation. He lives in San Diego, California. There were five Hall ch[...]; Rufus Hatcher family moved to Whitehall in 1935 and finish d high school born May 20, ·1908[...]there. She married Ira E. Smith and lives in Whitehall. Har- Lawrence Elmore born March[...] |
| [...]Jr., on July 15, 1917, in Three Forks, who attended the Three[...]Forks schools, subsequently becoming a conductor on the[...](John Jr.) died in 1948 in Deer Lodge, Montana.[...]Robert L. Hamilton was born in Three Forks December 8 1923, in a brick house that still stands two blocks to the r[...]school in Three Forks and Manhattan. In the' 40s the Manhat-[...]tan Schools circulated a bus throughout the Madison Valley[...]hereby elementary school children attended school in[...]Bob enlisted in the navy in 1942, subsequently serving in the[...]c Theater on the battleship U.S.S. New Mexico and in[...]conflict took place. In 1947, Bob moved to Portland, Oregon,[...]partment retiring as a Lieutenant from that department in[...]employed in the Security Services Department at the head-[...]quarters of the First Interstate Bank of Oregon. In 1948 he[...]working as a doctor's assistant in Portland.[...]on April 13, 1928, on a ranch known as the Frank Sloan[...]and Brett and are now in the process of collecting grand-[...]children. Bill served in the U.S. Navy from 1947 to 1954,[...]severely burned in a railroad locomotive accident. Bill began P. Lund) lives in Bozeman. Almer is deceased (1976) as well as his_ railroad career working in the roundhouse at Deer Lodge, Harold (1945) and Karl (1959). Mrs. Larson died in 1966 and _ultimately being promoted to engineer. He has operated the Mr. Larson in 1974.[...]Ruby Lund in 1954 from Ray Bacon and Jess Kilgore. Two of his[...]joined him in this pusiness - Steve and Doug, and all of whom[...]T HAMILTON, SR. reside in Three Forks with their families. Born April 26, 1888, at Emporia, Kansas, one of three boys In 1925 the Hamiltons were living on the ranch on th[...]lton. Early Madison and were flooded out in the winter of 1928 when the in life he moved with his parents to Great Falls, Mo[...]e of the valley. The Madison river has many times in Pacific Railroad. He later went to work for the M[...]st frozen itself out of its banks and was subject in Railroad on November 6, 1909, remaining in the employ of Ripley's Believe It Or No[...]William Hamilton until his death in Butte in September, 1947. He met his wife-to-be, Olive Blanche Azeltine, in 1912 or 1913 and they were married May 6, 1914, in Three Forks, MELVIN and JOYCE HAMILTON Monta.a Olive came to Three Forks in 1910 or 1911, home- "Mel" came out of the service in 1940 to join his widowed steading on the "south b[...]Three Forks from Belgrade. Joyce Reynolds Dakota a little later to visit another sister, Julia, who was came from Bozeman in 1942 to teach commercial subjects in married to Lee Hile (an early barber in Three Forks and the high school in Three Forks. We met while Mel was work- Willow Cr[...]ile sometime later left Three Forks to try ing in Parnacott and Sterling Grocery Store and were married his hand at trapping in Alaska where he died after some fur .in Bozeman on August 28, 1943. We purchased the old[...]oce.ry, named it Hamilton Grocery, and also oper- in a very cold winter. He as found frozen to death. Th[...]Dean and Darlene Johnston. We also co-owned the A&W at the Sacajawea Hotel for Charlie Burroughs. Olive died July Drive-In along with Mel's brother Dennis until 1968[...] |
| [...]rapped on the door at 3 a.m. to tell us all to prepare to evacuate[...]DED but not with water but scared customers. What a[...]in Three Forks, but in Helena. We still consider Three Forks[...]beautiful Dave Miller residence and still brings a strong[...]weddings in Three Forks and one since we came to Helena. We center for a happy and wonderful childhood for the four chil-[...]now take pride in eleven lovely grandchildren. Names and dren: Sand[...]raig and Deanna Forks High School and were active in all school events. For 13 Page, Robert Ranney Jr.[...]secutive years one, two, or three of the girls at a time were cheerleaders. Mel Jr. was on the footba[...]Joyce Hamilton We both credit Three Forks a lot for the success in raising the children with a minimum of problems. It was a perfect size and a wholesome environment with everyone in town sharing THE ROBERT and ELLEN HA[...]Ringling, Montana. He went to school at Ringling in all, the entire 25 years we spent there could not[...]high school he joined the Army Air Force and was a gunner. Organizations? - you name it and we did it! Mel spent He served in Italy during the World War II. He came to Three m[...]the City Council and 2½ terms as Mayor. We Forks in 1949 and went to work on the Milwaukee Railroad. In helped buy and begin Stevenson Park and were active in Civic 1980 he went to work for the Burlington Nor[...]nt Chief and Chief for many years. He also served in all Ellen was born in Boulder, Montana to Eli and Marion capacities in Saddle Club, Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club, Tom[...]nd Rebeccas. He School and Broadwater High School in Townsend. After high also served as Boy Scout Master for many years, and we were school, Ellen worked in different jobs in the Townsend and also active members of the Metho[...]ways Crow Creek area before coming to Three Forks in 1951 to w~rk owe a big debt of gratitude to our dear friend, Reveren[...]s brother Dennis and son Mel Jr. of Manhattan. In the early days of the grocery store on the corner[...]re spent around the big old potbellied wood stove in the center of the store, visiting with customers[...]nd could probably tell some story how each of you in some way helped form our life and our family with[...]everyone - no one went hungry. Anyone could have a charge account - all proving successful. Every bill owed us when we sold out was paid in full (with the help of the friendly town b[...] |
| at Slim's Cafe. Ellen married Robert Harden in 1955. They had three children, Chuck who married Jenny Buttelman of Willow Creek. They live in Sheridan, Wyoming and have two sons Dustin and Ja[...]ho married Rick Crowe of Wil- low Creek and lives in Willow Creek have a daughter Chrystal and a son Erik. Jeanne married Kevin Bjorndal also of Willow Creek. They live in Three Forks and have a son, Brian, born September,, 1982.[...]Luther Fletcher Hare was born November 25, 1868 in North Manchester, Indiana. He was married to Nell[...]gust 30, 1899. Nellie was born September 22, 1882 in Moscow,-Idaho. In 1903, Mr. Hare came to Sappington, Montana as agent and operator for the Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1906 he purchased a general merchandising store at Willow Creek, Mont[...]ree Forks and opened his clothing store. This was a very modern store in that the money was sent in tubes to the cashier. In 1911 Mr. Hare became cashier at the Three Valleys State Bank. In 1912 he was elected president. Mr. Hare resigned as president in 1916, and at that time bought the entire stock of the Golden Rule store. In 1928 he bought Mr. Porter's stock moving it to th[...]1962 in San Diego.[...]cember 1, 1900 in Idaho, and Luther Fletcher born November[...]15, 1906 in Willow Creek. Thelma married William Foran in 1922. The..y' had one son, Bill and a daughter, Barbara Jean. She lives in San Diego, California. Fletcher married Alice R.[...]Rutledge of Willow Creek on November 1, 1928 in Butte. They[...]Fletcher had his own welding shop in Helena. During the war he worked in Spokane and Portland, returning to Boze-[...]man in 1945. At that time he bought a welding shop, which he[...]til his retirement. He and Alice presently reside in[...]'Birth of a Nation'.[...]Etne, Norway and came to Livingston, Montana in 1908 and[...] |
| [...]irst daughter, Irene, was born some friends on a ranch and start out the next morning. My in Missoula October 15, 1913. Their second daughter was Inez, father said that between driving in such terrible road condi- also born in Missoula, August 20, 1915. They had one son, tions and with cold, cranky, fighting kids in the back seat he Emmett, who was born October 25, 1918 in Anaconda where was sure if he had bit hi[...]trips to Butte and having to stop on proximately a year later the family moved to Three Forks[...]all have many memories of the ten years we lived in After that we moved to Butte where Dad wor[...]e Forks. We remember very vividly one time taking a ride Milwaukee Railroad. I married Hjalmar My[...]clared my· Raymond born March 26, 1940 in Butte and Gerald born June mother was hitting every bump in the road although we didn't 28, 1943 in Chewelah, Washington where we moved and now see any bumps. Suddenly we noticed a cloud of dust coming live on a farm. John married Paula Liebsack on June 29, 1968 over a cliff by Trident. We concluded there was a big storm and had one son, Paul, born December 24, 1969 who died in coming so decided to turn around and go home. As[...]married Nancy Haggarty April 8, 1961 and proached a bridge there was a big crack across the road. When had three chil[...]March 1, 1963 and David born August 29, 1965 all in Bellevue, school and people standing out in the street. We asked them Washington. Raymon[...]arried Sharon Leice on May 22, 1976 and they have a son, been a terrible earthquake?" The second quake came as we Travis, born September 25, 1979 in Chewelah. were turning down to our street and the[...]r car. The chimney children: Marlene born in Butte November 8, 1937; Kenneth on our house was completely turned around and the furniture born in 1939 and passed away in 1940; JoAnn born June 26, had rolled in front of the doors so we had a hard time getting 1942 in Chewelah, Washington; David born January 8, 1946[...]urtains. Thompson October 7, 1968 and he died in September, 1980. Once it took us two days to driv[...]1970 and Bonnie born December 6, 1972. David is a counselor[...]Inez. ried. Daniel married Cynthia Lee in 197 4 and they have three[...]born June 11, 1949 in Deer Lodge. Emmett served with the Navy in the Philli pines during World War II. He worked a[...]r for the Milwaukee Railroad until his retirement in 1980. He also was very active in the Shrine Lodge. Roger works in Alaska and is unmarried. Richard married Sharon[...]Wiley on June 12, 1971 and has a daughter Kari born March 15, 1982 in Butte. He works for the Montana Power Company.[...]Dad retired in 1948 and passed away May 16, 1968 in[...]Ernest Heilman was born in Geneva, Nebraska, Nove:rp.ber[...]orado while Ernest was a small child. From there they moved[...]to Moscow, Idaho. Ernest attended school in Helmar, Idaho[...]Forest Service, then at a foundry in Lewiston, Idaho. Carmen Sikkenga was born in Three Forks, Mt., December[...]and five brothers. She attended school in Manhattan and the[...]Maries, Idaho in April of 1929. She finished her schooling[...]Ernest and Carmen were married in Lewiston, Idaho, May[...]7, 1938. Ernest worked at the foundry for a year then went back to the Forest Service in Pierra Idaho. They moved to[...] |
| Moscow, Idaho to work in the Washburn Wilson Seed Pea Warehouse. Ernest we[...]Army, April 28, 1944 and was Medically Discharged in August, 1945. Douglas was born June 12, 1942 in Moscow. Edward was born April 14, 1944, also in Moscow. The family moved to Harrison, Montana in April of 1948. Ernest worked for his father-in-law, Dick Sikkenga farming until the fall when he[...]at the Cement plant until 1950. He quit the plant in the spring of 1951 and worked at the Sappington Ranch, then for Earl Davis for a short time. He went back to the Cement plant in August 1953. They bought "the 80 Acres" in the Lane School District from Myrtle Koehler, the[...]here until January 1968 when they moved into town in the new house they built. Ernest retired from the cement plant, May 1, 1982. Douglas went to school in Three Forks, graduating in 1961. He went to Kinman College in Spokane. He moved to California soon after and worked for Xerox in Pasadena, Ca. Then got a job with the Travel Agency of the Airlines. He also went to Bible College in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Then took a job with the Otto and Alfreda Heim. Airlines in New York. He worked with kids on drugs for two years, then was Youth Pastor of the Lutheran Church in rest of the children were born in Wisconsin and Virginia. They Brooklyn. He was there for over a year. Later he quit his all live in Great Falls. Charles Spencer Heim, oldest son, di[...]n working with the kids on the streets and in infancy. also the gangs of Brooklyn. He has been[...]Spencer Heim 10 years. Edward went to school in Three Forks, graduating from high school in 1963. He and Nancy Hankinson were married OTTO HEINRICK HEIM AND ALFREDA LAVINA August 19, 1967 in Helena. He did farm work for a couple LUTHER HEIM of years, then got a job with the Burlington Northern Rail- Otto Heinrick Heim was born February 17, 1882 in Sem- road. They moved to Livingston in 1972 and he has been menstad, Germany. He was one of ten children born to An- working as a machinest for the Burlington Northern. They[...]have two daughters, Sheila, born October 9, 1969 in Bozeman his family to the United States. They settled on a farm near and Shawna, born June 27, 1972 in Livingston, Mt. Sparta, Wiscons[...]Carmen Heilman west to Three Forks in 1910. There he hired out as a fireman[...]lwaukee Railroad. He had left his first love back in[...]lso come to the United States side of Three Forks in a house that is still standing. His from Germany where she was born October 23, 1890 in parents are Otto and Alfreda Luther Heim. He atte[...]rated to Baltimore, Maryland in 1892. From there they moved high school in 1932. During his school years, he was very[...]an settlement near Sparta Wisconsin, where active in sports.[...]lly met and married Otto. Spencer married Doris A. McPherson on April 9, 1934 in Livingston. He followed in his father's footsteps and went to work for the Milwaukee Railroad in 1935. He retired in 1975 Spencer and Doris Heim. as a freight conductor. His wife, Doris, born in Three Forks in 1915, is also from a Milwaukee family, where her father Charles McPher[...]every year or two, following her father's work as a traveling man. Both Spencer and Doris have been very active in fraternal organizations. Spencer is a Past Worshipful Master of Three Forks Lodge No. 7[...]der of the Eastern Star No. 56. He is also active in the Shriners. Doris is a Past Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star and is active in the Daughters of the Nile. Since Spence's retirem[...]Spencer and Doris have one son, James Lee born in 1938. He married Donna Marie Maki, of Montreal, Wisconsin and they have four children namely: Bret Alan born in 1960; Heidi Marie in 1963; Terri Gay in 1964 and Gregory Scott in 1966. The youngest child Gregory is the only native Montanan as he was born in Great Falls. Due to his father's Naval dut[...] |
| [...]ree Forks after their mar- riage and settled into a railroader's life. Otto built a home at 615 1st Ave. E. where they lived their en[...]ful streams of the Galla- tin Valley. He was also a member of the Fireman's and Engineer's Lodge. Alf[...]with frater- nal organizations, where she became a Past Nobel Grand of the Rebecca Lodge, and Past Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star. She was also a member of the Fireman's Auxiliary. She was known for her loving nature and great skill as a baker. Her many grandchildren often teased her ab[...]children were born. Otto attained his citizenship in 1940 and Alfreda followed suit in 1941. To this union were born five children: Spen[...]n family - Harry Sr. , Shirley, Betty, Edna, home in Three Forks.[...]s married to the former Doris McPherson and lives in Three Forks. He has one son and four grandchildre[...]t was very comfortable. children. She passed away in 1964. Larry Luther Heim at the In 1934, we moved back to Three Forks. Harry went to work age of nine was drowned in the Jefferson River. Marilyn at Tride[...]e four children there for nine years. In the meantime, we were blessed with and 10 grandchildren. She died in Ennis in 1981. Richard has the birth of a darling little boy, Harry Jr. We were so thrilled[...]to Jean Olson of South Dakota. Now we had a nice sized family, and decided to keep it that He lives in Great Falls and is married to Mer lie Hartry,[...]Montana. In 1943, we moved to Bremerton, Washington, and went to Otto was killed in an auto accident near Sand Creek in 1952. work in the Navy Yard, wanting to do our bit in the war effort. Alfreda continued to live in the family home until a year In 1945, we moved back to Three Forks, sort of like homing preceeding her death, when she lived in the Three Forks Rest pigeons. Harry went to work on the Milwaukee Railroad as a Home. She passed away in 1968. Both are buried in Sunset fireman, then promoted to engineer. He retired in 1972. We Hills Cemetery in Bozeman, Mt.[...]have a great time every summer, going to many favorite s[...]WILCOX HELTON died in 1961, leaving poor Jim and five little children. It was a On a wintery day in February, the seventh, to be exact, in devastating blow for all of us and the community. Shirley 1909, a daughter was born to George and Edna Wilcox, earl[...]Madison Valley. That baby just hap- live in Grangeville, Idaho. Pat is with the Forest Servic[...]Harry Jr. spent seven years in the service. He now works at My father farmed on not too big of a scale. He also leased dry both Galen and Warm Springs, State Institutions. He 1s a land on the west side of the Madison River, called the south CPA. He has one daughter from a previous marriage. He bench. Here he raised mostl[...]nd did very well. married Frances Nickerson in 1976, and now has four step Mother, of course, wo[...]ry comfortable, and love our I started school, in a one room school, midway across the little[...]stance. I went there four years. The folks bought a home in Three Forks, so we went to school there Shirley, Betty, and Harry Jr. had all of their schooling in for three years. We only lived in town during the winter. A Three Forks except the two years in Bremerton. The twin school bus route was started on the Madison. I then went to graduated in 1950, Harry Jr., in 1954. school in Logan for two years, grades eight and nine. At th[...]r both time, they had three years of high school in Logan, Freshman, Tom, and Bill Fairhurst. I[...]honored to ha v b en th first woman to have rv d in I graduated in May 1928. t~ese capacities, in Three Forks. I enjoyed working for the In June 1928 I married Harry Helton. He worked at various city. I truly learned a lot; especially how hard it wa for a mall jobs the next few years, in both Montana and Wyoming, depre- town to survive on th small budget it was allotted. ssion time. In March, 1932, our twin daughters wer born. We I also r tired in 1972. I thought we hould b tog th r to named them Shirley Anne, and Betty Anne. They were truly a enjoy our hob bi s. W hav a fair collection oflndian artifac joy, and great f[...]ue . that time. With this type of work", we lived in various parts of In 1978 our childr n and grandchildr n put to th r a Montana. We lived in tents, sheepherder ' cabins even a wonderful fifti th w dding anniver a c l bration a th decent house or two. Th n we decided to build our own hurch Ann . It w lov ly nd a m mory w will long t.railerhouse. It was a four wh ler, look d sort oflik a boxcar ch rish. At this point in tim , w ha had 54 ar f hat w[...] |
| think has been a rich and rewarding union.[...]e moved to Missouri about 1934. He took with live in and near Three Forks. Earl lives in Butte, MT. We are him two carloads of horses, hoping to sell them in Iowa and all four retired. We three older ones ha[...]ple had no money, so tieth wedding anniversaries. A pretty fair record, I would say. he found some[...]at and corn for which he We have enjoyed being a part of this community. traded the[...]Edna Helton which he built a service station and Log Cabin Night Club. He[...]later traded that for income property in St. Joe and Kansas City, where he engaged in the real estate business until his[...]me of his death, he owned Lee Roy Henslee, born in Odin, Missouri, January 15, 1878, the Yellowstone Building and the family home in Three Forks son of Ambrose Henslee, who was living in Missouri when the and some apartments in Missouri. Civil War started. He joined the Federa[...]I. Lawrence Henslee and Mr. Henslee were married in war was engaged in farming until his death in 1889. Lee was a Butte in 1900. Miss Lawrence was born October 6, 1880 in resident of Montana since 1898, he worked a short time in the Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her mother died when she was mines in Butte and for eight years was with the Palace Laun- one year old and a family friend, General and Mrs. Gilbert dry in Butte. He then engaged in horse and mule business took her to Los[...]Mrs. Henslee's father was the first peace officer in In 1908, he moved his family and business to Three F[...]inia City, later he moved to where he established a livery barn and transportation service. Helena where he wasjailor until his death. Aquilla T. Lawr- In 1912 he took advantage of the opportunity for expansion ence died June 23, 1892 in Helena. (Historical Society of and erected the co[...]lowstone Mrs. Henslee was very active in church work and donated Garage.[...]church building which still Mr. Henslee eng~ged in several businesses while a resid~nt, stands. Because of her health she lived in Los Angeles from[...]was survived by a daughter Marjorie and a son Ralph, both living in southern California. Gilbert (Dutch) was living w[...]his mother in California and when she returned to Three[...]Forks he stayed in California where he engaged in the food[...]market and real estate business until he retired in 1951. He[...]wife in retirement at Leisure World, Laguna Hills, Califo[...]He has a daughter Virginia who is a school teacher living in[...]Henslee, she lived in Three Forks until about 1934 when she[...]went to school-in Helena and then to college in Marysville, Missouri, where she graduated in music. She married Al Fanelli. They had a music store and taught music in Rock[...] |
| [...]April 27, 1963. She was often got mired in the mud on Harrison hill and an accom- survived by a son Lawrence (Larry) who is a successful modating rancher was always ready to hitch up his team and businessman in Rock Springs, Wyoming.[...]e could continue our journey. Since this occur- A point of interest; in 1906 our family went from Butte red frequ[...]ve often wondered if through the Yellowstone Park in a covered wagon in six weeks this could have been a racket. time. Since then, I have gone through in an automobile and There were seven or eight saloons in Three Forks. We had to pulled a trailer several times. I have also flown over the[...]breath as we passed each one so as not to become in 1958. I was spending the summer in West Yellowstone the contaminated, I guess[...]I dreamed up. I do remember that is some sort of a record. that I[...]ocal children to My early recollections of life in Three Forks consist of participate. specific mental pictures not necessarily in chronological Memories continue to flow[...]putting them in writing. Until then, remember me as one of When I was just a youngster I remember when the icehouse the VanHorsen sisters. Our parents arrived in Three Forks in over by the Milwaukee tracks burned. The ice remained in- 1908. tact. We had homemade ice cream ev[...]ough ice out of the sawdust. On our way we passed a big two story green frame MARK HOPPER building with a high board fence around it. There were[...]ame to Three Forks November 2, 1942, to knotholes in the fence so we could peer in and see houseboys work on the Milwaukee Railroad as a brakeman. He was in white jackets and ladies dressed in beautiful clothes. If we employed in Harlo at the Toggery Clothing Store for six years were lucky, one of the ladies might be getting into a horse and prior to that for J.C. Penney Company in Lewistown and drawn taxi and we had a good look at her finery. I especially Harlo. Many[...]e beautiful plumes. Later I learned · we carried a good stock of well known brands of merchandise . the (}reenhouse as it was called was a house of assignation. One man in particular, Art Carlson, would come in to visit as When the Milwaukee roundhouse moved to Deer Lodge, I he had known Mr. Kalberg for a number of years. He informed guess the ladies mov[...]ay and was accepted, I would stand to be ahead of a lot of expect a boogie man at every turn. It was certainly scary![...]that would be hired. As the Second World War was a I remember when the First World War was in progress. We year old, there was a need for men as business was picking up school ch[...]ly. led silk stockings · which I think were used in making gun I made my student trips and didn't have a very long waiting powder. When the war ended the Kaiser was hung in effigy period as the railroad was beginning to be in need of men. and burned. The huge bonfire and han[...]n Main My wife Eleanor and son Allan stayed in Harlo until Feb- Street. I think I was about ten[...]of 1943 when they came to Three Forks. There was a few Along about that same year I was an angel in our school days delay until we could get into the[...]long underwear so I was by Rose Bryant. We lived in this location until March of 1949 dressed in gauze with angel wings and underwear rolled up -[...]sed as the rest Avenue East as we had the need of a bigger home - Diana was of the angels wore sans long-johns. born in 1944 and Dan was born in 1948. The Hoppers were When I was 13 and in the 8th grade, the high school Glee only the second family to live in this house . This house was Club needed an alto v[...]the state music meet was Mark and Eleanor Hopper in Big Timber. We went on the Northern Pacific train. I wore my hair in braids with big bows on either side. My outfit consisted of a navy blue coat with a white lace collar. My navy straw hat with streame[...]gs were like toothpicks so I must have been quite a sight. My father gave me $1.50 for my four day tr[...]ned the entire time there so I spent 35 cents for a pair of rubbers and came home with the rest of the money. The Birth of a Nation was shown at the Ruby Theater when I was in the lower grades. The entire student body marched[...]lor was our leader. Our big event each summer was a weeks camping trip to Boulder Hot Springs. We camped a mile or so from the hotel and hi~ed there[...] |
| sold in 1978 as Mark's wife passed away in July of 1971 and telephone operator at Nathan, a siding between Maudlow and with the family all ma[...]out of the state, Mark Francis. Mr. Houston ran a coal dock. did not find it necessary to keep a two story house. Railroad cars and cabooses were left in the Three Forks Mark retired from service on No[...]Mark Hopper In 1917 these were replaced by the Milwaukee Clubhou[...]he Milwaukee Clubhouse from the time it was built in 1917[...]By the early 1930's she was confined to a wheelchair. She until she was taken to a nursing home.[...]often scrubbed floors from her wheelchair. In the early 40's she ccAuntie Huse", as she was called by everyone, was first a was almost bedridden but she continued to run[...]everyone else. She owned some lots in California and one of[...]her dreams was to build a log house on them someday.[...]"Auntie Huse" was born in 1890 and passed away in 1958.[...]rell Coombs. Darrell and his wife Connie live in Phillipsburg.[...]eir two sons, Doug and Joe, are attending college in Boze-[...]their parents. In my father's family were five boys. They were Mrs.[...]than all in the Civil War. One boy was killed at the Battle o[...]was attending a Seminary, but he ran away from college and Malind[...]ur sons, Herbert, Earl, Roy and Ralph. I was born in Madi-[...]isc. seven years after my youngest brother. I had a[...]street car to school. It cost a nickel. Lunch at school cost 10 or[...]Piedmont. Piedmont was like a little city in those days -[...]My father ran a creamery in Madison, but in HH3, we came[...]Montana. The folks came with intentions of buying a ranch.[...]1913, at 5 o'clock in the morning and it was pitch dark. The[...]only light they had was a drop light, I supposed a hundred[...]My brother, Roy, had been a fireman on the railroad, but he[...]was injured when he was knocked off a steam engine. He and[...]I started to school sometime in January. I was a junior. I[...]My father was a college man and my mother a dressmaker.[...]making. I never had a dress from a store until I was married.[...]My father began looking for a ranch to buy, but the longer[...] |
| [...]perience all remember. Approximately, didn't know a thing about ranching. Here ranches were hun-[...]ssage actually dreds and thousands of acres. Back in Wisconsin, 160 acres braved the dangerous journey. The passage was during World was considered a good farm. War I, and safe passage to the U.S. was not guaranteed. In So - my father and brother, Earl, hired out to[...]night - tor who was building the Methodist Church in Three Forks. the time to board was not known until a messenger came with They both worked as carpenters, then they took the carpen- a note to their home telling them to board immediately. The ters, by horse and wagon, to work on the church in Willow Corsican was alerted once or twice that a submarine was Creek. I am proud my father and bro[...]last trip the Corsican made with churches. I sang in the choir after I was married until the civilian passengers. They did land safely in Quebec, Canada children came along. Later, I work[...]then got off ship at Montreal. They then boarded a train, where I could.[...]. I could not leave him, so he and I were married in eventually divorced. On Oct. 1, 1918 she married again to October, 1914. We had a lovely home wedding. I remember Edward[...]Three Forks News was there. home in Three Forks until 1934, then moved to Belgrade, M[...]where they lived til her death in 1946. My brother Roy, had the first real estate office in Three Forks. It was up above the Ruby Theatre.[...]June 1, 1922. Two sons were I learned to dance in Three Forks. We would go up to born to[...]e 16, 1923) and Henslee's Hall where we would pay a quarter for five rounds Miles Elwood (born[...]Errett Tuttle on April 12, 1967 and they now live in Mesa, called then, would fill out the programs. W[...]passed away. They had one men would get home just in time to go to work. After the show, daugher J[...]en. Eugene lives in Tempe, Arizona and has remarried. His I rememb[...]nd they had two sons, Dale Eugene Johnson Saloon. A block further down was the Last Chance Saloon. We[...]and Todd Michael (born Mar. 27 , 1969). four went in, sat on the stools and one boy said, ''four beers". She is divorced now and lives in Kirkland, WA. Miles Elwood I'll never forget that[...]Reckner on April 17, 1949 in Whitehall, Mt. To this union was Roy and I had a good marriage. He worked for the Mil- b[...]Gary Boldt on May 12, 1972. The couple had a daughter Dorothy married Garner Cady. Their sons are Larry and Heather Jay born Dec. 1, 1972 in Sheridan, Mt. They have Gary. I have seven grandc[...]since divorced. Debbie is a Petroleum Engineer for Shell Oil I really believe I have lived longer in one house than anyone Co. in New Orleans and married Greg Gaspard in 1980 and else ,in Three Forks. We bought our home at 5181st Ave. East lives in Gretna, Louisiana. in 1917. Sixty-five years later, I am still living in this same Frank Hertz Irvine II, the second of the children grew up in house. You can see I do have a lot of history. Three Forks[...], Mrs.Wade just answered, "39 ery courses in Bozeman, Mt. and in Idaho. In addition to going plus!")[...]27, 1905) in the First Presbyterian Church in Three Forks. Edna wore a short pink dress, attended by her sister, Edith[...]Frank had his brother Nor- Frank Irvine I was a foreman of a General Electric Co. in man Irvine, as his best man. Things they remembered most Scotland, also a watchmaker by hobby. He was the first of the[...]U.S., but the exact date of his around town in a wheelbarrow; stopping at tores to supply his ·arrival is unknown. Once in the U.S. he was told that there friends wi[...]s and sisters attended were good electrical jobs in Montana. He finally ended up in the ceremony, as well as Frank's. Edna s fa[...]y the Montana president of the bank in Three Forks. Both of their children Power Co. In Montana, he helped build the Hi-Line from[...]n Nov. 26, 1929. naturalized an American citizen in Livingston, while Mon- In 1935 the family moved to Anaconda to go into busin ss at tana was still a territory. He returned to Scotland and married[...]mov d to D r Lodg Isabella Gellan, who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on to buy th D er L[...]on: Anaconda to run th Gold n W st Dairy in Anaconda and th Isabella Gellan (April 30, 1902), Frank Hertz (April 4, 1903) Blanchard r am ry in Butte MT. Th y retir d from th and Norman James (June 16, 1905), all born in Glasgow, creamery lift in 1970. Beginning in 1962 Frank b gan battl- Scotland. Frank Irvine I[...]and had op n h art urg r three children followed in July 1915 shortly after the in Spokan in 1978. Frank and Edna c l br t d th ir 50th[...] |
| married 55 years and still reside in Anaconda, MT. Their first child, Margaret Ruth,[...]Claire, born June 24, 1954. Donald and Marcia are in Anaconda and Marilyn is in Deer Lodge. Donald Irvine married Debbie Jo Crnce[...]Verna Schmidt on June 2, 1971, and they now live in Spokane, Wa. Marilyn Ruth married Robert Thomas T[...]rn Nov. 24, 1978. They are both teachers and live in Philipsburg, MT. Marcia Claire married John Papic[...]n (May 12, 1980). Marcia is an R.N. and they live in Spokane, Wa. Frank Edward III, Frank and Edna's second child, married Sheila Rooke on May 25, 1952 in Butte, Mt. To this union were born five children[...]65. Frank III followed his father Frank Irvine II in the creamery business and is presently in charge of the creamery at the state prison in Deer Lodge. Diane Margaret married Tom Kovatch March 24, 1973. They have divorced and in Oct. of 1981 she married Jim Evans in Deer Lodge where they now live. Frank IV[...]ctured). married Ann Bolkovatz on August 19, 1978 in Anaconda and he is teaching school now in Riverton, Wyo. Scott also lives in Deer Lodge.[...]ecifications. Blanche spent most of their time on a ranch outside Belgrade, Florence R. Itoh, after graduating from high school , was in Mt. They had two children - Norma Jo (Oct. 26, 1943) and the Air Corps. After discharge she was in business school in thirteen months later a boy Raymond James. In Nov. 1969 Minneapolis for a year and then went to Drexel Institute of Blanche[...]n sold the ranch and later Technology in Philadelphia and graduated with a B.S. degree married Margaret Muir. He is now retired and lives at Bel- in textiles. She worked for consumers research for a year and grade. Norma Jo married Darold E. Bruhn[...]ct. 29, 1967), James Darold of Overbrook in Philadelphia. Because home economics at- (Sept. 1[...]west of Bozeman. James married majored in mathematics at Temple University and has been Shirley Deituch in May of 1969. They are now divorced . In teaching advanc1/'m athematics since the[...]re. - two children - Eric Scott and a daughter Valli Ann born June Yokichi, ([...]igh school, went to 13, 1974. Jim and Debbie live in Manahttan, Mt. work <<Gandy dancing" for the <<Tom Kogo Gang'', for about a year in order to make money to go to Montana State Colleg[...]AMILY Harry K. Itoh came to the United States in 1905, and started[...]of Main Street around the State Cafe. to work as a cook for Ed Burroughs of the Sacajawea Hotel. Sho[...]Ryu Izumi by arrange- ment which was very common in the old days. About that time he started his own[...]6 he moved kitty-comer across the street and down a lot or two, and business thrived until the depres- sion hit when everyone lost their money in the bank. Recovery was very slow and painful at the time. He passed away in 1939 and the Cafe was sold to Jimmy Thain ..Mrs. Itoh passed away in 1941. There were three children in the family .. Robert, 1<Fug" , after graduati[...]mery' 1• He Qbtained his B.S. and Master Degree in Physics at Montana State College. He then immediately went t o work for Westinghouse as a Research Engineer on[...] |
| injured in the front lines in France, and was hospitalized at Valley Forge Hospital. While being there as a patient he was accepted to Temple Medical School and graduated in 1950. After a year of interning and doing five years of surgical residency he established a practice in Livingston in 1956 and has been there ever since. One of the[...]e earth~ quake that struck Three Fork~. I believe in Jl!ne of 1925. It wrecked every chimney in town, and luckily stoves were not needed and they were hastily repaired before Fall set in. School was delayed in order that the repairs could be made for classrooms to function. As a result of this, earthquake drills were the common occurrence during the school term for a number of years. When the alarm bell would ring e[...]se to the walls, then another alarm would give us a signal to run outside. I believe these drills wer[...]ner, Walter Janssen , Cora were relatively common in those days and I could recall when I Judd, Wi[...]ive with her daughter, Cora Judd, until her death in 1974. the McPhail House we heard the rumble and were thrown to Ella Hafner lives in Belgrade. William Janssen passed the ground. In those days it was the old adage that you should away in 1972. Walter and Pat Janssen live in Los Angeles, be near a tree or a lawn where the roots would hold the earth Ca[...]nd Wilma , and together so you wouldn't fall into a crevice. The old brick three grandchildren. church lost its spirals in the front and they were never rebuilt Walt and Pat Janssen as a result of this earthquake in 1925. I can remember sleep- ing out in the front lawn and we had to use mosquito netting to keep the bugs away for a night or two during the aftershocks.[...]rected the following day or otherwise we would be in deep vam Jeglum. He spent his youth living on a farm and attend- trouble. I'm sure the younger ge[...]e Fairdale Schools. He attended Concordia College in not imagine such an occurrence happening or witho[...]orehead , Minn. and following graduation moved to a sewer system.[...]In 1939 he came to Three Forks, Mont. to teach Engli[...]Music. In the year of 1940 he met ldamae Chollar and in October, was hired by the Milwaukee Railroad in train ser- JANSSEN-MATTHIS vice, retiring as a conductor in 1974. Henry Matthis and Augusta Bratzman were married March Howard and ldamae were married in December 29, 1940 8, 1885, in Iowa. They moved to Oklahoma in 1894 and in and from this union came the blessing of four chi[...]to Montana due to his Dean, born March 23, 1943, in Bozeman, Mont. , now working health.[...]for Micro-Electronics and living in Maynard, Mass.; Terry Born to this couple were eight children: Matilda, Frank, Reid born June 10, 1946 in Townsend, Mont., is now employed William, Anne, Minnie, Otto, Arthur and Rose. They, too, made their home in and around Three Forks for many years. ldam[...]William (better known as Bill) and Amelia lived in Trident and Three Forks area for many years. Bill served as Marshall in Three Forks. Minnie Matthis and John Janssen married June 18, 1913 in Forville, Iowa. They later settled in Montana the year of 1917. They farmed in the Toston area for a while before moving to Three Forks. There were fo[...]d Walter. John went to work at the Cement Plant in Trident in 1928 and retired in 1953. He was a quiet man but enjoyed his retirement. Minnie w[...]kies came from her kitchen. After John's death in 1968, Minnie moved to Washington to[...] |
| [...]nd Howard Jeglum. by Gardiner Metals and living in Aurora, Ill. He married Helen Cholla[...]Martha Joanne Ebert, who was born April 10, 1947, in Suther- |
| [...]rried on January 1, 1914. Homer friends, was born in Tarkio, Missouri on March 8, 1895 as the arrived in Three Forks in 1912 following his two brothers and fourth child of a family of eight. Her mother was Hannah mother to[...]er Thomas and her brothers and sisters were first in 1911 followed closely by his mother, Nancy Jane J[...]illiam. Blanche, Glen and Bob all attended school in Three Forks. The Homer H . Jenkins was born in West Union Ohio on school they attended was locat[...]10, 1889. He left home at an early age and became a between 4th and 5th Avenue. professional baseball player in both the major and miner Blanche was an accomp[...]o help him with his era. The Theater was owned by a Mr. Wadell at that time. pool hall which he had purchased in Three Forks. The site of Blanche also played in a local dance band throughout the the pool hall is[...]ore on East Main headwaters area. Harold remained in Three Forks for a short Street. Homer decided to stay in Three Forks after John had time after getting out[...]kee .decided to divest the pool hall and obtained a job on the Railroad. He and his father and mother and younger members Milwaukee Railroad in 1912. John also went to work for the of the family left Three Forks in 1915 for Utah and eventually railroad later that year. John Jenkins was killed in a railroad Northern California. Both Harold and his father Robert re- accident near Butte in 1935. William Jenkins died in the flu tired after long careers as railroad engi[...]he Thomas family are Blanche Thomas ins worked as a ranch cook in the Helena area for many years. Herrick of San Ma[...]and, She later lived with Homer and Ruth and died in 1936. Nancy California and, of course, Ruth Thomas Jenkins of Three Jane and William are both buried in the Three Forks cemet- Forks.[...]ery. After Ruth arrived in Three Forks she went to work as a When Homer and Ruth were first married they bought a typesetter for Paul S. Dorsey, owner of the Three Forks small horn at 417 1st Avenue East. Later in 1916 the bought Herald, for a few months in 1911. After finding that that work a home at 10-5th Avenue East. When all of th ir childr n had did not appeal to her she found employment as a telephone grown they built their present home at[...]phone Company, which was man- This home was built in 1948. All of these homes still ist and aged by Rex Roberts. Ruth worked full time at this job from are in good condition today. 1911 through 1913 and part time after her marriage in 1914[...] |
| [...]ed with six children all born raised and educated in Three Forks. The children are: Hoz'ner Arden, bor[...]orn March 28, 3 children, all born and raised in Three Forks. :'7ilham died 1921; Ruth Marie, born[...]r family. Ruth, who was an outstanding athlete in her early days in Three Forks, played on a ladies independent basketball team Kathryn Louise was born in early 1919 ~fter_ the death of and Homer, of cour[...]ofessional baseball , seemed to William. Hazel in later years moved to Cahforrua to care for have p[...]en. The Je~k- an elderly aunt, and succumbed to a heart attack in 1956. ins' had a member of their family on a Three Forks High William Murray married[...]r various Sheryl. Roger now runs the Sacajawe_a Inn. William Murra_y, sport achievements. Later t[...]after his marriage , moved to Washmgton and was a rail- Three Forks School with their athletic abil[...]ildren, to Frank having gone through school in Three Forks, served their grandchildren and to their great grandchildren. Arden in the Navy and later returned home, married Mildred[...]Matthis, eldest daughter of William Matthis in 19~0. She was ins Adams of Three Forks, has 3 children and 11 grandchil- also raised in the area. At 15 Mildred was a babysitter for the dren, Marie Jenkins Lee of Par[...]lifornia has 9 Elizabeth Dunbar for $1.25 a week and her board and room, children and 12 gran[...]Here she earned $2.50 a week and board - good wages at that Homer pass[...]anuary 8, 1960 and son Thomas time for a 15 year old. died on March 13, 1967. Ruth still lives at her home in Three Forks. She has long been active in the Methodist Church, After her marri[...]perience and pleasure was one to be ~eme?1bered._ In[...]- Brother of Homer & John In 1955 while at his brother-in-laws, Ray Matthis in Three William moved to Three Forks with his parents in 1911 or Forks, he too was taken with a heart attack. His wish was to[...] |
| [...]Three Forks, 1066 miles in 7 days. Mrs. Nancy Jane Jenkins, guest and[...]rray's grandmother. drove taxi in Three Forks for Lee Henslee for two years. He[...]Three Forks, when he died, so he was laid to rest in worked for over 43 years as brakeman and la[...]California. She Truaisjoined the Army in June 1918. He was killed in action |
| [...]Wayne State Normal College in Wayne, Nebraska. She had[...]taught school for three years in country districts near Har-[...]She took a position with the school district at Wisdom, then[...]attended Dillon Normal in the summer of 1923 and the fall term in 1924. In January 1925, the school district at Lake[...]all the money they had for teaching. She arrived in the[...]Her journey had begun at 8 a.m.; the train finally arrived at[...]midnight after being frozen down to the tracks at a water Cathy, Dean, Darlene, Jim and Cody Johnston[...]boarded a horse drawn bobsled for a 30 mile trip to Lakeview house then moved into th[...]orge Graham family. Her students were four worked in the winter for the Hamilton Grocery located where Shanholtzers (including a set of twins), and the three the Three Forks Sadd[...]eighth grade in April. On December 5, 1956 a daughter was born, Cathy Joan. We[...]d her sister, Clara Dugan, moved into Three Forks in 1958 in the small house of Dee[...]kept house for college students on Huffine Lane in Bozeman; Fowler's then moved into the green house[...]Clara continuing at the college for her B.A. in Home Fairhurst. On January 26, 1959 we bought the[...]Economics. Nora took a teaching position at a country school[...]ng with the Jesse Tope family. On June 29, 1959 a son was born - James Dean. She[...]d us out. They both went to grade and high school in Three Forks. On June 1, 1975 our second son was[...]will soon be our box boy at Frank was born with a twin sister in Benton, Kentucky. He the store.[...]left home at the age of 13 and worked for a family named Hall Cathy went to MSU for a year, then married Mike Elmose in California who at that time owned and farmed all of Laguna on June 19, 1976. She went a second year to MSU and got a Beach. He then worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad as a secretarial degree in June of '77. They live southwest of Threefireman in the State of Utah. -He joined the Army in June, Forks. They have one son Casey, born June 3[...]First Infantry Division in France, the 16th Infantry Regi- James went to--college ·at Gonzaga University in Spokane, ment, seeing action at all the major battles; and was in the Wa. He graduated in 1981 then went to graduate school and army of occupation in Germany until September, 1919. He just received his C.P.A. He is now working at the store for us was discharged at Fort William Russell in Wyoming and re- this summer but will be leaving soon and plans to get a job in turned to Arco, Idaho. He went to work for the Wo[...]Company, which went broke in the disastrous winter of[...]1919-1920. He went to the Big Hole Country in Montana in In July 1978 we bought the building owned by Ed and[...]We re- ·sleeping Child Hot Springs. Frank, a very fine horseman, modeled it for our new Grocery Store where we now reside followed rodeo as a rodeo clown. which is the D & D standing for Dean[...]Frank often recalled the day he left Divide at 4 a.m. and was[...]could see a terrible fire in Three Forks, which was in March NORA DUGAN JONES[...]Kennedy Dugan and Steven Dugan He continued on to a ranch near Toston, but the high winds in June, 1897 in Colridge, Nebraska; the eldest of three chil- kept his horse ttOle Cube a buckin' and a-kickin"' the re- dren. She, her sister, Clara, an[...]ad ten children of her own; they were educated at a at about 11 that same night. nearby convent opera[...]cattle buyers for Carl Huntley at Nora arrived in Willow Creek from Hartington, Nebraska this time, had a herd of 1100 head ready to be driven to the Big via Milwaukee Railroad in September, 1922 to become the Hole country[...] |
| [...]r his marriage to Nora M.S. U. Doug is a junior in Horticulture and Landscaping and Dugan and they lived at various times in Bozeman, Trident, Ray is a sophomore in Mechanical Engineering. Townsend and were living at the Riverside Ranch in Toston[...]o Three Forks where they bought the Scharff place in 1935 and resided there until Frank's death in 1965. Frank served as[...]ks for many years and George was born in Ingomar, Montana on April 25, 1919. later as Nigh[...]ents were Joseph Kanta and Mary Ridzon, both born in The Jones' had five sons, four of whom survive;[...]and twelve, respectively. They were married in Amsterdam,[...]Ohio on January 31, 1912. They homesteaded in Ingomar in[...]ldren, Beth and Jim, tana State University in 1941 as a mechanical engineer. He moved to Three Forks in the spring of 1958. Wallace was worked for the Hoover Company, North Canton, Ohio from employed as a conservationist with the Three Rivers Soil 1941 to 1946 in the engineering department. He then moved to Conservation District. Douglas was born in July, 1959 and Three Forks in 1946 and started Kanta Products Block Plant. Raymond was born in June 1962. We purchased the George McPhail home on Second Ave. During our eight years in Three Forks we were active in KATHRYN C. KANTA Cub[...]d many community Kathryn was born in Lewistown, Montana on December 23, affairs.[...]r parents were Edward Coffey and Verna Currah. In 1966 we were transferred to Ennis, Montana when Wal- They moved to Bozeman in 1934. She graduated from Holy lace accepted the p[...]ict Conservationist with the Rosary High School in 1940. She married George in Chicago, Madison Soil Conservation Service. In 1977 Wallace retired Illinois on April 14, 1942. They moved to Three Forks in 1946. and we returned to Three Forks and our home[...]y have three continued to take an active interest in community affairs. children - Elaine, born[...]married to John Wallace was appointed City Judge in the fall of 1982. Newhaus. They have one daughter, April, age ten, and live in I was born at Sheridan, MT and grew up on our[...]ullerdick Hansen and Ras Hansen. They passed away in the children - twin boys, Pat and Jim, ag[...]Ruby Valley nine months old. They live in Three Forks and George works from Iowa in the 1870's and my father came from Denmark in at the Block Plant; Joe was born September[...]and high school at Sheridan and West- Ii ves in Three Forks and works at the plant. ern Montana College in Dillon. Wallace and I were married June 26, 1950.[...]o Twin Bridges about 1908 to Tom was born in Bozeman, Montana on April 23, 1938. His visit an[...]ed Holy one the entire family continued to arrive in Twin Bridges. His Rosary School and graduated[...]State University for one year; worked in Caldwell, Idaho for a Bridges and also had a blacksmith shop. Wallace's father later year,[...]with his moved to California and Wallace was born in Redlands, brother George at the Block[...]r owned and operated "Earl's Cash Grocery Store." In He married Carol Knutson on April 20, 1963. She was born addition to the store he also had a rural mail route for a in Froid, Montana on June 10, 1942. Her parents were[...]rade at Froid; she moved to Chinook and graduated in 1960. Wallace served in the armed forces in the Pacific Theatre Attending the Montana Beauty College in Great Falls, she during World War II. After his d[...]tended Mon- graduated May 1961 and worked in Bozeman at Maries tana State University and received his B.S. degree in Ag. Beauty Salon until her marrige to Tom[...]rned to the armed service Charm Beauty Salon in Three Forks. and served two years in the Air Force which included one year in Korea. After returning he accepted employment wit[...]rs - Dawn Colleen, born Soil Conservation Service in Dillon. In 1955 he again attended August 23, 1965 in Bozeman. Dawn is now a senior at Three[...]Kimberly Jo, born on July 14 1968 at MSU to earn a Master's Degree in Agronomy. Bozeman. She is now a freshman at Three Forks High School. We have lived in several locations in Montana including Dillon, Sidney, Bozeman, Culber[...]orks from Minnesota. He Our oldest daughter is a graduate of the School of Nursing was born ne[...]at MSU and is now employed at St. James Hospital in Butte. He arrived in Three Forks in April , 1933, with his mother and Jim is also a graduate of M.S.U. in Earth Science and is step-father , Mr. a[...]l Knowles; employed at Cyprus Industrial Minerals in Three Forks. He his brother, Jasper Knowl[...]wo Mary Thate. Clarence attended high chool in Three Forks. youngest sons, Douglas and Raymond are also attending He also spent a few w eks in the U.S. Navy and the C.C.[...] |
| [...]ded by her parents, Herman and Hattie Thompson, in the Nigger Hollow area. She graduated from the[...]t Willow Creek. Clarence and Velma were married in Bozeman, May 30, 1937, and have lived in this area since, with the exception of three years spent in Anaconda during World War II. Clarence worked for Ideal Cement Company for over thirty years, retiring in 1981. They built a new home in Three Forks in 1964, and Clarence stays active in his small engine repair shop at his home. Fi[...]son, Jason, age four. Vern works for Westinghouse in Butte, and his wife is a surgical technician. Kay was born April 19, 1[...]ried to Pamela Canon of Broadus. He and Pam live in Broadus with their four sons: Jay, Corrie, Justi[...]lphE. Wilcox, Jr. They own Ed's Auto and Salvage in Bozeman, where they live with their four childre[...]Randall (Randy) was born March 28, 1958. He lives in Three Forks and works at the Three Forks Motor S[...]eat grand- Inez (Coombe) Kober was born in Forsyth, Montana. She child, Mariah Javonovich,[...]tary school in Salinas, California. She married Bill Kober in Clarence and Velma Knowles 1945 in Tucson, Arizona. They have three children who at-[...]Vonnie Bray graduated in home economics and business and Jasper Rolla Knowles was born January 10, 1923 in Park lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dale Kober graduated in Rapids, Minnesota in the basement of the Hubbard County agricultural education and teaches in Hardin, Montana.[...]Michelle Kober is presently a student at Montana State Uni- Courthouse. His fa[...]Bill and Inez Kober Three Forks in 1933 with his mother and step-father, Ed and Hazel Thate. He attended school in Three Forks and enlisted in the C.C.C.'s in 1939 and enlisted in the Army in January DR. H. L. KOEHL[...]ipped to Hiram Lawrence Koehler was born in Kendall, Wisconsin, Corrigador in the Phillipine Islands to the Coast Artillery. He[...]survived until 1945 received his early education in Wisconsin and then attended just 3 weeks before the war ended. He is buried in a military and graduated, in 1912, from the Loyola Medical and Surgical cemetery located in Manila. He was 23 years old. University of Chicago, Illinois. He also did his internship in[...]On October 6, 1913 he began his private practice in Circle, Montana and practiced in Glendive too. While here he WIL[...]ill and Inez Kober and family came to Three Forks in July During World War I he served in the Medical Corps and at 1953. In 1954 they bought their house on Second Avenue fro[...]Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wilcox. The house was built in 1920 or flesh of the wounds. Date of discharge fr[...]urned to live. Bill Kober was born and raised in Park City, Montana. He Some time in the very early 1920's he, accompanied by his graduated from Eastern Montana College and served as a wife and two children, Frederick and Louise, came to Three pilot in World War II. Then he attended Montana State Uni- Forks and set up his general practice office in the building now versity and graduated with a BS degree and Masters degree in known as the Ruby Theater building. Dr. Koehler w[...]vocational agricul- sociated with Dr. John Dimon in the operation of the Three ture teacher and the first driver's education instructor in the Forks Milwaukee Railroad Hospital for[...] |
| [...]live in Nevada.[...]years in Broadwater and Gallatin Counties.[...]arrived from Nemea. They met in Great Falls and were mar-[...]lasted 54 years. Seven of the children were born in Great Falls, one in Barron, one on the farm, and one in Three[...]was a section foreman for the Milwaukee Railroad. He th[...]moved the family on a farm near Barron. The farm home was[...]early education was in country schools and part in Townsend,[...]the farm in the summer time. What a bug-a-boo haying time[...]allowed to do a fun thing for the 4th of July. Yes, we always[...]In the fall of 1934 the family sold the farm and made a Dr. -an£Mrs. H.L. Koehler.[...]anent move to Three Forks. Jim and the boys built a motel and service station in '36 and sold both in '55. Jim and[...]ess alone during the war years as hospital closed in 1931, Dr. Dimon moved to Polson and began[...]there . Dr. Koehler continued his practice here. In served their country in World War II, by enlisting in the army. 1931 the doctor and Mrs. Myrtle (Bellach) Tippett were mar- ried here in Three Forks. To this union were born a son, David , Jim was very active in the Democratic party. It had been and a daughter, Karol.[...]ive but from 1961 to 1963. he did practice in Kendall , Wisconsin in 1935. He left Kendall and practiced in Deer Lodge and in 1937 moved to Polson and The ten chil[...]neth Cuvey (deceased) and is now living in Tacoma. Marianne the Indians on the Flathead Rese[...]clientele .. He told of one time being called for a delivery daughter is Patricia. on the reservati[...]ge James (deceased) married Doris Gilmore. He was a mother to be was lying on a buffalo robe and the nearest thing Master Sergeant, who lost his life in combat over Germany to sterile material was a dishtowel. Regardless, the birth was and was buried in France. a complete success. In 1944 Dr. Koehler became associated William, deceased in 1979, at the time of his death was with the Northern Pacific Railroad Hospital in Missoula until married to Clare Benner Jackson of Forsyth. Their two daugh- his death in early June, 1946. Dr. Koehler died of a heart ters are Pam and Lana. He is also survived by a son, George, attack in Missoula but was residing in Polson and had a from a former marriage. practice there besides his work[...]Hospital. Ada Lou married Floyd A. Drury, a successful Spokane He served on the Lake County[...]of the Methodist Church, was an resides in Spokane. advisor on the Council of Boy Scouts of[...]Constance Dena (retired) married Lt. Col. Marina a member of the Western Medical Society, the American Med- A. Feild (retired) of Lempasas, Texas. While servin[...]American Legion at Polson and two tours in Tokyo. In 1960 she was sent to Heidelberg, Ger- was an active participant in civic and community affairs. many with[...]Fort Hood, Texas daughters Karol and Louise, and a step-son William Tippett. after 26 years[...]Legion of Merit and Dr. Koehler was laid to rest in the Lake View Cemetery in various overseas ribbons. Polson.[...]Maybelle separated from the U.S. Army in June '48 as Mrs. Koehler still resides in Polson. His son, David, has Captain of th[...]R. Harden- followed his father's footsteps and is a physician and chest burgh from Fredricksburg, Va. in 1947 and was divorced in specialist fo Portland, Oregon and has 2 daughters. Karol 197 4. Their daughter Linda Diane lives in Boston. Maybelle Koehler N ewguard is on the teaching staff of a grade school in lives in Huntsville, Ala.[...] |
| [...]Lulu Kolokotrones Louie (deceased) served time in the Anny. He married |
| 1.. The refinancing of obligations among a maze of former expenditures. 2. The revision a[...]. The establishment by purchase and adaptation of a municipally owned home and housing for all depart[...]various measures skillfully met from time to time in the interest of economical and progressive manage[...]f the Fairview Cemetery. August's civic duties in Three Forks spanned twenty years, five as mayor. He was born in Waconia, Minnesota in 1884 and received his early schooling there. He,[...]nd sister Mabel, migrated to the Three Forks area in 1907. Young August soon tied his fortune to that of the new Milwaukee Road - hiring out as a fireman in 1910. At the time of his death, he had accumulated 28 years of service and was running engine in passenger service. It was said of Au- We[...]was born to Gus and Nellie Bellach at Radersburg in 1901. The family moved to a small ranch near Three Forks,[...]young men who made railroading their careers. ing a teaching certificate; and then spent 2 years teaching at a Mary Louise married Bud (Spencer A.) Fowler, n(?W retired small country school near Cardinal, along the Milwaukee after 40 years as a train dispatcher for the Spokane Interna- tracks in Sixteen Mile Canyon.[...]red to teacher Louise by the re- They live in St. Paul , Minnesota. trieving students. It's not[...]whose hus- and Louise were married at Three Forks in 1925. August built band is Bruce Minick. They live in Portland, Oregon. Mary Louise a home and they settled down to become totally en- and Leah have a piano and dance studio. meshed in Three Forks life.[...]between Susanne Martin, and also resides in Billings; and Carmel slides caused by a Three Forks earthquake. L[...]daughters, Mary and Charlotte, are grateful for in 1911 built Kunze Hall, which now serves as the Th[...]tradition of Three Forks' history and their roots in it. IOOF lodge hall. The piano from the hall, a Kimball upright,[...]fully appreciative of the activities and remains in the family and now has a home in a dance au-[...]accomplishments of their parents, who made a substa~tial ditorium in Portland, Oregon. investment in the lives of past, present and future generat10ns August was active in the Masonic Order and Odd Fellows. residing in the town of Three Forks. Louise was a Rebekah and Eastern Star and a member of the local Ladies Aid and Lady Fireman; but most notably, she was active in the Three Forks Federated (now Methodist) Church. THE N.M. KVALNES FAMILY She had a devotion to church civic and social activities second Norman Marius Kvalnes was born October 5 1878, in only to that to her family. She enjoyed music, and was a Stegen, Norway, on the coast 100 miles north of the A~ctic talented artist. Circle. His father, a fisherman, was lost at sea (1887) m a Two daughters blessed this marriage , Mary Lou[...]unt and Uncle Deane immigrated to America in May 1888, and settled in Lisbon[...] |
| [...]Montana having bought out a furniture store from H.B. Nel- so11 in February 1914. This was located next to Porter's[...]ery and Dry Goods Store. A saloon was on the other side (there[...]were nine saloons in Three Forks and Old Town at that time).[...]The furniture store showed a modest growth during the next[...]furniture store was expanded to a Variety Store handling[...]fishing tackle. It continued in this multiple fashion until it[...]was sold to Chris Sorensen in 1947. Thereafter, Mr. and Mrs.[...]nes moved to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. There they had a[...]Montana (Missoula) in 1924, with a B.A. in Chemistry. He Hamline Kvalnes, Dr. Donavan Lee K[...]Berkeley and completed his graduate work for a Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry in 1928. He worked at a government laboratory for a year and then joined the DuPont Company as North Dakota on a farm. Norman grew up there and started a research chemist. working in a furniture store in Valley City, N . Dakota. In Donovan graduated from the University of Monta[...]d Clara Proctor of LaMerene , North Dakota. soula in 1927 with a B.A. in chemistry. He obtained an assis- A son, Hamline Monroe , was born in LaMerene , North tantship at the University of Mi[...]son, Donvan Erb, was completed his graduate work in Organic Chemistry in 1931. born in Valley City, North Dakota on March 10, 1905.[...]d the Dupont Com- The family "homesteaded" for a couple of years on a farm pany as a research chemist. During this time , he did the i[...]DuPont fiber tana where Mr. Kvalnes was employed in a furniture store. ny Ion. This was extended to new[...]ken between 1950-1955. Company in Wilmington, Delaware, until he retired at 65.[...]·- - - -- --- -- -- -- - - - . He was a chemical con~ultant for the following eight years[...]is living in Castine , Maine. He has three married sons living[...]in Wilmington, Delaware, Cambridge, Maryland and Wol[...]ton, Mass. These have eight children in turn of which only two[...]Mrs. K valnes was born Clara Proctor in Henry, Illinois on 9/14/1878 and died 4/4/1955 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Her[...]father, Willard Proctor, was born in Hackensack, New Jersey[...]of a hat). She was Grand Worthy Matron of the Eastern[...]Since Norman was interested in all kinds of hunting (deer,[...]elk, antelope, ducks, etc.), he covered a large part of the cen- tral area of Montana. Ed A very was a frequent companion. Norman was always interested in community affairs; as an[...]example, he and Ralph Robertson (who owned a Jewelry and Drug Store) were quite influential in getting the Morrison[...]& Clark National Monument along with a new road to the site.[...]constructed a mortuary building on First Avenue (back-to-[...]Norman was a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows and[...] |
| daughter-in-law and a grandchild (Amey Eckles) to his birth- LAMACH-GEE HISTORY place in Norway, near Stegen, in the summer of 1960. After Rev. Howard[...]he marriage of Harold being away 72 years, it was a most memorable experience for Gee and Evelyn Cloyd in Dillon. Harold, born Dec. 5, 1904, him, which included a trip from New York to France on the Ile was[...]ea. de France. He did very well talking Norwegian in his own Before his marriage Harold was[...]lace, Idaho. Norman Kvalnes died in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho,just short of · Ha[...]85 years of age. He and Mrs. K valnes are buried in a plot of the loyed at the Three Forks Creamery a[...]Milwaukee Beanery. Donovan was married in Polson, MT to Blanche B. Johnson Eve[...]d to Mona Nugent Eckles who had three children by a the Dry Creek Schools. previous marriag[...]Mr. and Mrs. Gee resided in Three Forks and the surround- Hamline, who is 80, still lives in Wilmington, Del. In ing area many years. Harold worked at Trident and the Talc Donovan's words "I am now 77 and in fair health and am Plant. They resid[...]1946. They also lived on a mink farm near Maudlow for eight[...]years. . In the early spring of 1959 Larry had finished schoo[...]de where he should set up practice. Two of a member of the Masonic Lodge. He loved horses and duck the fellows that graduated a year before him were practicing hunting. in Montana and had nothing but good to say about the[...]s included crocheting, hobby crafts and Larry and a friend decided to take the Montana State Board[...]ct. 1, 1974. really liked the areas they had been in. Needless to say, when Larry received word he had[...]Their daughter Betty Jane, was born Oct. 5, 1924 in the long to start getting ready to move to Montan[...]o idea Three Forks Milwaukee Hospital. where in Montana we were gong, but here we were, all our[...]16 at Ryegate , Mont. was the worldly possessions in a U-Haul Trailer. son of John and Mary Lamach. He received his education in Larry, Scott (about 10 months old) and I set out to find the Big Timber area. As a young adult he worked on ranches our home. We tra[...]lings, Hardin and Red Lodge area smelter in Anaconda. In 1943 he began working for the Mil- and to Great F[...]o go back to Red Lodge. waukee Road, first as a brakeman and then conductor. Well, the chiropract[...]ins, good fishing and received her education in Three Forks. She started playing the a nice sized town. We headed for Three Forks. Wh[...]o many of the business- men we decided to give it a try. We couldn't find any housing right away, so[...]r Larry when he opened his office. After being in Three Forks a couple of years an opportunity came up for us to move to Bozeman. We thought we might like a bigger town so we moved to Bozeman. We had a hard time giving up our Three Forks friends and Larry had office hours here once a week. Within 10 months we moved back to Three For[...]der sons have told us they were glad they grew up in Three Forks. Larry has been active in many civic organizations, served as mayor for 2 t[...]he state championship track team of 1975. Kris is a sophomo.re and Ben is in the eighth grade.[...] |
| [...]Lottie Salki. The Bob Mil_ler Trio began playing in 1954. The two Lamach daughters are: Marilyn, born Sept. 19, 1946, married to Keiji Shimizu, resides in Spokane, Wash. Dorothy Jean, born June 22, 1950, married to Ray Townsend, resides in Livingston, Mont. There are four grandchildren, D[...]Gene became ill June 12, 1982. He spent 78 days in Billings at the Deaconess Hospital. He passed away Dec. 4, 1982 at the Convalescent Centre in Spokane.[...]hey lived and Ell M. Lamb, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lamb of Milton, VT contributed much to Odd Fellows, Methodist Church and Re- came west to Montana in. 1885 leaving his parents and becca Lodge in this community. brothers and sisters behind in Milton, Vermont. He came out They ran a dairy ranch until his death in 1937. Ida passed to Radersburg and found a job with Kempton Cattle Company away in 1934. The ranch then went to Lloyd Lamb. He mar- and later had his own gold mine. In 1889 he went back to ried Ethel Thompson in 1923 and two children were born of Euclaire, Wisc[...]rence. turned to Montana with and made their home in Radersburg, Lloyd Lamb so d the ranch in 1957 to Leo Lane and moved to where they had one son, Lloyd, born in Radersburg where they Three Forks where he lived until his death in December of lived until 1911, when they sold their mine and bought the 1978. He was preceded in death by his second wife Addie Mr. & Mrs.[...] |
| [...]Phillip's Business College in Bozeman. Mrs. Lane worked[...]eggs to keep Anna in school.[...]in Three Forks for two young attorneys, l(Samuells a[...]lenwaber." Their first location was in the building which later[...]'s building) Callentine; his first wife now lives in California. He was a with two chairs and a kitchen table they awaited their clients. member[...]The old bank building was moved in from old town and stood Eileen Lamb married John Kukuchka in 1945. They have where the Bi-Rite Drug[...]hree children, Jim, Nancy and Dave and all reside in Vallejo, Land Co., agents for the Milwaukee L[...]Secretary. Lawrence Lamb married Lucile Mosby in 1957. They have Mr. Adam's first stenographer was Ida Wolf. When she got lived in the Three Forks area ever since. Lucile had been[...]had four boys: Walt, Ken, Steve and death in 1919. J.Q.'s son, Ben, then took over until the W[...]had five children: Patricia, Street Crash in 1929. Larry, Ricky, Jerry and Lisa who all live in Bozeman and In 1934 Anna helped the teachers at the Three Forks school Three Forks. Walt, Ken and Mike all live in Bozeman and with the mimeographed high school tests. Steve in Helena. The Lambs lived in Willow Creek for sixteen years and have now moved[...]n Kukuchka and are remodeling it and plan to live in Three Forks for their retiring years[...]ANNA LANE HISTORY Anna Lane, a daughter of Tom and Julia Lane was born in 1891 on what was called the Thompson Ranch by Lambs and Donahues. Tom and Julia were both born in Ireland. Julia, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Lane was born in 1867. Her mother died that same year. Thirteen year old Julia came to the United States in 1880 with her father, Patrick, and two brothers,[...]cDonnell until her marriage to Tom Lane at Dillon in 1890. Thomas Frances Lane was born in County Galway, Ireland in 1861. When, but a lad, he set his heart on coming to the land of pr[...]ayme born Jan. 28 1900. When Tom began working in the North rn Pacific round- house h moved his fam[...]nn grad uat d from the Logan grade school sh took a nine month cours at[...] |
| In 1935 she was employed as assistant to Professor Swim of stirring quote of"after four for you" still rings in the ears of the the Forestry Department in Yellowstone Park. alumni of th[...]majority of the children walked Anna then took a Civil Service Exam in 1941 and was to school year round. Distance and weather were of little employed in Spokane at the Baxter Army Hosp_ital for sol- imp[...]cky, they got diers. The entire unit was shipped, in 1951, to the Fort Warren to ride Baldy, the family horse. The Bellach girls, Dee and Air Base in Cheyenne, Wyo. She stayed there until she retired[...]ld be seen on their old white horse, and the Cal- in 1959 and returned to Three Forks. laghan children had a buggy and a horse. The horses were put Mayme was only 14 years and Emmett almost 16 when their in the shed at the school. mother died in May 1914. Their dad and Emmett went to[...]ldren went to Three Forks to attend Butte and got a job at the mines. Anna, nine years older than hig[...]commol!_ for the students to quit Mayme, was like a mother to her sister. During the depres- half way[...]ix too well. Fred also attended this Bob and Pat. In Mayme Bonnett's words "Anna was an old white wood[...]if there ever was one.' ' Thomas Lane passed away in 1916, when it was destroyed and the "new" brick s[...]e Anna passed away Sept. 1, 1964. Emmett lives in Detroit, students. Mich. Mayme has remained in Three Forks. Through the After Fred[...]Bellach Plumb- ranches, Trident Cement Plant, for a sand and gravel plant, ing" and"Gambles". Her son[...]or his brother James. dine Flanigan and they live in Livingston. In 1927, Fred met Marion Elizabeth Tees. Daughter Patricia Ann married Bud Lilly. They live in Marion was a Butte native, born Augu~t 23, 1908. Her Bozeman.[...]H.H.H. Edinburgh, Scotland in the early 1900's. Her father James was a gifted musician. He mastered the[...](FRED) LANE local dances in the Butte area. and MARION ELIZABETH TEES LANE On March 10, 1901, a second son was born to James and He pr[...]naugh Lane. They named him Michael Frederick. ing in the mines. This attributed to his early death. he joined a brother James Joseph. Both of the boys were[...]role of The family of four made their home on a 160 acre home- mother for the family . stead, located approximately three miles south and west of At a very early age, Marion was petitioned out to the home Three Forks. The three room log cabin had a sod roof which of Butte's Copper King, W.A. Clark, Jr., as a pantry maid. This was very comfortable, both wint[...]s only one of many domestic positions she held as a minor. ings consisted of cattle corrals, barn and granary . The family As a young adult, she moved to Helena where she was em[...]ich served as loyed by another "copper" family as a conipariion for their the main living quarters.[...]dren. There were cattle, chickens, pigs and a huge garden to be In 1927 she moved to Three Forks and was employed at[...]the garden harvest, the produce was State Cafe as a waitress for Harry Itoh. Her weekly wage was picked and prepared to sell to the local townspeople in Three $15.00. Shortly thereafter Fred started courting her in his Forks. Jim would hook up the spring wagon and a team of new 1926 Chevrolet, which he paid $750.00[...]January 28, 1928, Fred and Marion were married in Butte. to help supplement the income.[...]r months. For meat, Jim They made their home in Three Forks and rented a small would kill the pigs in the fall and sell the excess meat. The house from[...]n January 30, 1929. She was named under the wheat in the granary for protection against insects Marion Louise. A second daughter, Madeline May arrived and flies . Cattle were generally slaughtered in the winter July 12, 1932. Both of these babies were born in the Mil- months and hung in the shed to freeze . The meat was then waukee Rai[...]ter, Donna Jean. She was born at the family home. A attending were Lane children. Education was from[...]In July of 1934, Fred was taken ill and spent the ne[...]r the school boarded and roomed with local months in the Galen Sanitarium. Needless to say it was a ranchers in the area. One of the schoolmasters was R. H. diff[...]the students for relatives and friends were there in time of need. his discipine. Without a doubt, his most successful discipline Upon Fred's return to Three Forks in 1936, he was employed procedure was to send the disobedient student to the irrigation as a superintendent for the W.P.A. (His girls always thought ditch, which was about 100 feet from the school, to select a[...]the schoolmasters specifications they had to make a second trip. For those who were only a little unruly, the mind In 1940 he became the owner of "Ted's Place"[...] |
| [...]In the early years, the Tavern had swinging doors wh[...]display. The mirror in the backbar was a beauty! Beveled[...]Christmas and New Years. Also a favorite of the clientele was[...]her pickled eggs! A cafe was added to the bar in later years.[...]first two boys were born in the Bozeman Deaconess Hospital[...]and Pat was born in Townsend.[...]the Lane children attended grade and high school in[...]In 1963 Fred and Marion sold their business. They pu[...]ased the Sacajawea Lounge in 1965. In 1967 they gave up the[...]for the next year auditing state liquor stores. In 1969 Marion[...]was installed as vendor of the State Liquor Store in West[...]stone, Montana. They lived there until retirement in[...]laid to rest in the family plot of the Fairview Cemetery of[...]nal owner of this bar. The business prospered and in 1943 he children, Patty Lou, married Jerry Ibs[...]les and renamed it "Fred's Place". The Tavern was a Sharon is married to Charlie Peterson. Al[...]place for the local ranchers, railroaders, home in Kearney, Nebraska. towns people and cattle[...] |
| [...]Thomas Victor Handschke. They ily members in 1884. Leaving her family in St. Louis, Mary have two daughters, Genava Theres[...]moved to Helena where she worked before settling in Three Tom is originally from New London, Wisconsi[...]Mitchell Frederick. All the Todds make their home in Three called Mary-Jim to distinguish her fr[...]Mary Forks with the exception of Craig, who lives in Billings, Mon- Lanes, died in February, 1915, at the age of forty-six. tana.[...]onna Jean married Edward Max Makoff and they live in Forks a few years before his death in 1936, at the age of Bismarck, North Dakota.[...]e Jim attended Three Forks High School their home in Hillsboro, Oregon.[...]bought the City Meat Market after Mr. Roe's death in Patrick John married Carol Hiskey from Great Fa[...]1922. Jim later became sole owner and remained in business children were Tami Ray, Patrick John, Jr[...]rty-six years. Jennifer Leota. Pat and Carol live in Great Falls, Montana Jim and Kathleen Murphy were married in Butte on Feb- .[...]Cork, Ireland and settled in Butte. James Joseph Lane was born in County Galway, Ireland on March 17, 1855. He came[...]Kay graduated from Girl's Central High School in Butte in with his father Patrick and siblings Julia and To[...]mers she worked at the Grand other family members in the Gallatin Valley. James ranched Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone Park. She had many fond southwest of[...]. On August 14, 1897, he married Mary Cavanaugh in Butte. Mary had been born in the village of Cloubarrin, County The[...]fourth avenue. Lizzy Callaghan was always a special friend of[...]the family. The Lanes then bought a house on second avenue, James and Kathleen Lane[...]dances at the Dunbar home in Old Town, a trip through Lewis[...]memories of the years when Jim was in the Meat Market. It was a gathering place where many people would stop to v[...]using the telephone. The Meat Market was also a special place for many children in the community. Jim often mentioned[...]Dude Lane and Sadie Chryst coming in to trade Cracker Jack[...]prizes for the dill pickles that he kept in a wooden barrel. Many people who grew up in Three Forks can recall nick-[...]retired in 1968 and sold the Meat Market to Dr. Lin Durham.[...]They are survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Dr. James[...]e Lane of Seattle, Washington, daughters and sons-in-[...] |
| [...]1889 to Patrick and Sarah Cowan Lane. Patrick was a native of Ireland, born in County Galway, March 17, 1844 to Patrick Sr. and Silana Lane. Patrick Jr. lived in his native country until he came to America in 1879. He first went to California during the gold rush and after staying there a short time he left for Virgini~ City, Montana mak[...]ated on the Haskin ranch 5 miles from Three Forks in 1868. Patrick, Jr. lived on a ranch one mile southwest of Three Forks with his[...]wan Lane of Pony whom he married October 28, 1879 in Helena. To this marriage twelve children were born besides Sam. Mrs. Lane died in 1902. He married Veronica Hogan in 1908. All of the children were born to Sarah and[...]tablished. to work for his brother, Will, driving a freight wagon from[...]tended college in Dillon, when he met Dorothy Ann Larson. He mar[...], now owned by Debbie married Jan Tracy and a granddaughter, Tarah, was Guy and Evelyn Warren.[...]n on born Aug. 31, 1982. They all reside in Billings, where Russ is the old Andy Cook ranch.[...]- Linda tina Rohla in Great Falls in 1939. He lived most of his life at[...]ng) construction business. They moved to Billings a few years prior to his death, July 30, 1971 of a highway accident near Dubois, Wyoming. Three sons[...]vive him. Bill married Joyce Johnson and lives in Toston with their four children, Nancy, Nicki, Jay and Jimmy. Ron and Bonnie Campbell were married in Three Forks in 1960. They have a daughter, Brenda and two sons, John and David.[...]with his present wife, Joanne and her son, Chad, in Virginia City. Bonnie is a resident of Three Forks where she lives with her[...], Min- nesota and Great Falls, Montana. He worked in Denver, Col- orado for the Samsonite Luggage Co.[...]wnsend, Montana at the age of 30. His mother died a year later and Sam died in 1966. Kenneth married Beryl LaVonne Sallee on Nov. 9, 1933 in Butte. She was the daughter of Orville and Stella[...]eek on the Andy ook ranch which his father owned. In 1943, Kenneth went to work for the Milwaukee Rail[...]ook came to Beryl's rescu . They managed to pull a lot offurniture from the house, but th wind chan[...]y d everything but th clothes on their backs and a s wing machine and washing machine. A house was moved in from another of his father's farms. The generosity of the people in the community will[...] |
| [...]give details of some of the provocations and lots in 1942. After graduation from high school, he enter[...]harles, has two sons, Jimmy and Bruce. Marvin has a daughter, too, couldn't share in the love and enjoyment each child has LaVonne by a former wife, JoAnn Best of South Carolina.[...]the U.S. Railroad until his retirement in 1975 and I have loved my role Forest Service sinc[...]ce. as homemaker, wife , and mother. In combining families, I've Jack Douglas is presen[...]have learned lots, but truly thank Power Company in Three Forks. He was married to Diane[...]ity of sharing my life with Kenneth and Markovich in 1970 at Dillon where she was born. They reside[...]rent. have been fortunate to live in a sharing and caring community[...]ere love of friends and family has been paramount in our After the death of Kenneth's wife, Beryl,[...]Martha Lane Chapel in Gallatin Canyon. Martha was born April 2, 1918[...]ther , Jesse C. Langman, came to Three Forks late in families in the Snake River Valley. She had three brothers, 1909 or early in 1910 and was hired as a fireman on the Ernest, a rancher in Idaho Falls, Albert, an orthopedic Milwaukee Railroad. In August of 1910 he went back to his surgeon in Salt Lake and Robert, a Navy veteran, who died in home in Wisconsin and married Blanche Carpenter. Their Th[...]first home in Three Forks was a rooming house where they On Nov. 12, 1936, Mar[...]the next year when they built their home. My bell in Idaho Falls. Charles was born March 11, 1915 at[...]ew memories of Three Forks include the earthquake in tin County in December 1950, to the ranch on the lower Madi-[...]Meredian, Idaho - and Charles died March 5, 1958 in Salt Lake City, Utah, following heart surgery. They have four daughters, all born in Idaho Falls, who are Fern, Bonnie, Linda and Mary. Fern married Anthony Landphere in Winnemucca, Nev. and they have three sons, Kenneth, Michael and Edward and a daughter, Amy. After the death of Tony, Fern married Wil- bur Bailey on May 4, 1974 and they have a son, Matthew. Will has two sons, Jeffrey and James and a daughter, Laura by a former marriage . The family home is in Los Altos Hills, Calif. Bonnie was married to[...]Kenna, Jesse Langman - Before 1918. children live in White Sulphur Springs with her present hus- band,[...]ho is an attorney there. His family were pioneers in Meagher County. He has a daughter, Marlys Blanch Langman, Left - Mamie Williams, Right from a previous marriage.[...]Mary Campbell und Stephen Helburn were married in the Phillipine Islands where he was stationed with the U.S. Navy. Steve is an officer in the Oceaneering International Company, the larges[...]married June 25, 1960 at the Lone Mountain Chapel in Gallatin Canyon. Russell acted as his fath[...] |
| [...]ings were badly damaged. I could not start school in the first grade until the school was repaired and I do remember making a donation from my savings for bricks to repair the school. There was a crack in the earth in the vacant lot behind our house and also a detour had to be built around the highway to Bozeman because of a crack in the road. Many Three Forks people moved up on the hill and lived in tents for • quite a few days because of fear that the Madison Dam wou[...]John Williams, our neighbor, was the engineer on a passenger train that just got through the Lombard[...]teps pulled away from the house. My father died in 1927 and we continued to live in Three Forks until 1929 when my mother married John Jenkins and we moved to Deer Lodge. My mother died in 1969. There are no others in my family except my one son, Edward B. Powell, Jr. who lives in Seattle.[...]D NINA Ray W. Lau was born December 6, 1925 on a ranch between LOUISE (JOHNSON) Pony and Harrison, Montana, and served in the U.S. Navy Samuel was born in Tomah Wis. Nov. 12, 1901. Nina was during World War II in the Pacific Theater. Following the born in Pomeroy, Wash. Nov. 1, 1911. Navy discharge Ray s[...]Co. at Sam's family moved to S. Dakota in 1902, and lived on a Trident and has completed 36 years of service for Ideal. wheat ranch. They bought a ranch at Sedan, Mt. and moved On August 20, 1949 he married E. Jean Sharp in Trident. there in 1912. Dry years followed and the ranch didn't pan out She was born in Townsend, MT, May 6, 1929 to Jefferson G. so they moved to Wilsall, Mt. in 1916, and started a harness Sharp and Jeanette E. (Thompson) Sharp. Jean spent the first 7 years in a log house on Sixteen Mile N ina and Sam Leffingwell. Creek about a mile below Deer Park Station. The Sharp fam- ily[...]ears, then to Willow Creek and lived for 7 years. In 1945 the family moved to Trident and she finished[...]s. On August 21 , 1982 Bill married Marina Gilkey in Three Forks. Bill, like dad, also works for Ideal Cement in Trident and Marc is a salesman. Ray is a devoted Scouter, was on the Three Forks Volunteer Fire Department for eighteen years, is very active in Ameri- can Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, a[...]in County Bicentennial Committee. Jean is also a devoted Scouter and is active in The American Legion and V.F.W. Auxiliaries. Ma[...]CLARE LEFEVER Clare LeFever resides in Helena. She was born June 1, 1891, at Wilton, Wis[...]three brothers and one sister arrived at Castle, in Meagher County in September, 1890. Her father died in December, six months before she was born. The Ahe[...]em and Thos. LeFever were married January 9, 1908 in Miles City. They had one son, Dick. Clare[...] |
| [...]until Sam could get off the load and put rocks in front of the[...]using the ropes saved a wagon from distruction and no doubt[...]our trailer house in Three Forks. In 1970 we bought some ground in Three Forks and spent a few quiet years. We went fishing a lot and just enjoyed our- selves in general. In the fall of 1977 Sam's health began to fail and I[...]931 at Wilsall, Mont. She married Archie Cameron, in[...]Jack Roadarmel in July 1951. They had four sons. Jack Jr. -[...]ried Edwin Bellach, in Aug. 1952. They had four children. Jim He married Nina on Dec. 7, 1929, in Bozeman, Mt. Four married Regina Joyce.[...]orn Aug. 19, 1938. She married George Mickelberry in Nina raising big gardens and canning hundreds of[...]arried Debby Fuhr- and vegetables. They also kept a brood sow and when she had man. They have[...]ng time. · Sam worked on the railroad in the summer, but was layed HANNAH AND HERMAN LEIB off in the winter time. In the winter time he trapped fur Herman Leib was born Nov. 2, 1881 in Benton County, bearing animals. They didn't bring in much money but it kept[...]Iowa and died Sept. 17, 1947 in Seattle, Washington. their heads above the water, and they didn't miss a meal. He trapped beaver (got $4.00 for them) musk[...]round Hannah Leib was born Nov. 23, 1885 in Van Horne, Iowa a dollar, badgers and coyotes got around 25 dollars per pelt. and died Dec. 5, 1963 in Seattle, Wash. Mink brought around $3, weasles $3. Charles A. Leib, their son, was born Nov. 13, 1906 in Perry, In the summertime on the railroad when they put in new Iowa and died Dec. 5, 1978 in Seattle, Wash. ties, Nina would meet him after work and with a car and Hannah and Herman Leib married June 14, 1905 in Van trailer hauled the used ties home. In the evenings he sawed Horne, Iowa. \ them up and they would have a year's supply of wood. Sam and Nina and the girls moved to a ranch on the lower Herman and Hannah Leib. Madison, in 1945 and back to his ranch work again. He did som[...]took him away from home so he started irrigating in the summer. In the winter he fed in the neigh- borhood of 350 cows. Then in the spring he calved out, along with feeding. Nin[...]and keep the little calves from being run over. In his spare time he broke horses for the ranch. He[...]en he first start ed to work them. He always used a well broken horse to tie them to. The ropes would[...]their noses, when their feet were tripped. After a few times of that, they decided it was better to[...]t him. It payed off one time as he was going down a steep hill taking a load of hay to the feed grounds. As he got[...] |
| [...]ukee Rail- road and moved to Three Forks, Montana in 1909. Herman retired in 1947, moved to Seattle, Washington and passed away ten days later. He suffered from asthma and eventually a heart attack. Herman was a big man - six feet four and over. At the time of[...]dred fifty pounds. Hannah Leib was very active in church work, Red Cross, Lady Engineers Auxiliary. She was a leader and always busy with Civic Duties. She was raised a Lutheran but became active in the Presbyterian Church in Three Forks and Seattle. Hannah taught school in Iowa before her marriage . Hannah and Herman h[...]t moved to Three Forks, Montana. They had to live in make- shift buildings until their house was built. It was a cozy five room house, with trees surrounding it.[...]n had three children. Charles was the first born. A baby boy was born in Iowa, but only lived a day. A baby girl was born in Three Forks, Montana and only lived about two days. This baby girl was buried in the cemetery in Three Forks, up on the hill out of the town. Charles Leib attended school in Three Forks, Montana, where he graduated from high school May 15, 1924. He at- tended college in Missoula, Montana one year, went to dental Diane, Karen, Dorothy, Norman, Gary LeTempt. college in Portland, Oregon, graduated in 1929. During depre- ssion time he went to Seattle[...]ICK He married Lois Leedom Leib Sept. 29, 1934 in Seattle, In August 1948 Max and Pauline McCormick Makoff and Wash. Charles served in World War II. He was in the Dental family moved to Three Forks[...]ax and Reserve and reported for duty June 1941 as a Captain. He was Pauline and her brother B[...]and school population. They had five boys and a girl who all was transferred to San Antonio, Texas and then back to Fort finished high school in Three Forks. Lewis, Washington. He was promoted to Full Colonel in the Corky McCormick married Phyl La[...]Charles became an invalid dren and live in Buena Vista, Colorado. Jim McCormick mar- in 1968 and was in a nursing home for ten years, where he died r[...]daughter and live in Great Falls. Rodger McCormick married I hope t[...]could have given you more valuable live in Bozeman. Ralph McCormick married Lorna Dunbar. in[...]ey have four children, two grandchildren and live in Boze-[...]e Fortin. They have four Mrs. Leib passed away in 1982 shortly after she sent this. children, two grandchildren and live in Santa Rosa, Calif. Peg[...]are still enjoying life in Three Forks. Ed Makoff married T[...]Donna Lane. They are living in Bismarck, North Dakota. Don[...]n at Redman, Missouri, son of live in Laurel. Mickey Makoff married Gen Golden. They ha[...]four children, four grandchildren and live in Sheridan, Mon- school at Illmo, Missouri. He came to Montana in June 1946. tana. He went to work for the Chicago Milwaukee Railroad in 1947[...]atin County Deputy Sheriff from at Three Forks as a fireman. In 1957 he was promoted to an engineer. Norman retired from the railroad in July 1978. 1956-1964. He helped to start the Lions Club and was active in community affairs. Max died in October of 1964 and is buried Norman and Dorothy Toma were married Aug. 3, 1949 at in Three Forks. Pauline and Bill Actor continued to[...]they sold the hotel. They both are still living in Three Forks. schools at Radersburg and Townsend.[...]ARKEL and ELLA M. .ELMER The LeTempt's operated a service station (LeTempts Union Ch ster H. Markel was born June 1 1887, in Bartlett Ill., 76) in the years of 1955, 1956, and 1957, on Main Street[...]ace, France. Chest r had two home on Fifth Avenue in 1957. brot[...]H left Bartlett to com w st where h becam a cowboy on a[...] |
| [...]attended Beauty School in Great Falls. I then worked as a beautician in Helena, Deer Lodge and Butte. I married A. Martin Bell about 1936, divorced in 1941. Then John J . "Mudro" Kelly in 1944 in Butte. He worked at various[...]He became interested in Three Forks and bought the empty[...]ilding that had housed the original Parnacott and Sterling[...]Grocery on Main Street. We remodeled the building in west-[...]Garage , built in 1917 and burned down in the 20's, the same[...]These two events are vivid in the minds oflong-time residents[...]because of the fact that Mrs. Shadduck was having a[...](Ella's sister) pick- noticed the Brown's Garage in flames . In the ensuing excite- ing rubies on Ruby Hill above[...]day at the theater. "10 in Texas".[...]and local scenes. ed at 2624 Edwards St. in Butte when our son, Mark (John[...]Markel Kelly) was born in 1951. Due to a long miner's strike Chester later came to work for the Milwaukee Railroad , in Butte we moved to Reno, Nev. in 1959. first as a telegraph lineman, then as a fireman on the electric engines in the Three Forks and Butte areas. He met Ella When my father died in 1961 we came back to Three Forks Elmer, second daughter of Uriah Elmer of Pleasant Valley in to establish our roots. We lived in the small home built on the Jefferson County. They were married Dec. 20 , 1913 in Butte. back of the lot where the Brown Garage[...]the An addition was built to accommodate a four chair beauty steep grade over the Continenta[...]help of three operators, ran for years. It farmed a small acreage next to his father-in-law in Pleasant was named the Charm Beauty Shop. Valley.[...]dro" Kelly, died I was born on Nov. 9, 1914 at a Maternity Home in Three suddenly from a heart attack. Forks. It was located on First Ave.[...]ding and farming ern Montana College of Education in Dillon. He is now teach- in Pleasant Valley where I attended school until it[...]itehall. Then I rode the bus to the Whitehall In his sophomore year of college he married Mardi El[...]was transferred to Three Twin Bridges. They have a son, Shawn Mark Kelly who lives Forks in 1926-27. in Twin Bridges with his mother as this marriage ended in My folks bought a home at 420 First Ave . E . from Emery divorce. V[...]1961. I graduated from Three Forks High School in 1932 and CHARLIE MA[...]I was born in 1903. My parents lived at Mammoth, moving[...]to Butte where Dad, Frank, worked in the mines. In 1906 or[...]He had four head of horses and a slip and helped build tlie[...]and my mother and father lived in a tent for over a year in Jefferson Island. In 1907 he started getting logs out of the[...]mountains for a house in Whitehall. In 1908 he came to Three Forks and homesteaded about[...]Whitehall and built a two room log house. We were to live[...]hauled water in two barrels on a stone boat for a mile and a[...]ing, and for the horses. Mother washed clothes on a wash-[...]I can remember we had a phonograph with a large horn on it[...] |
| [...]Picture a rough mining camp in a remote area of beautiful[...]ntana, where, after living their young lives half a nation[...]belle of the ball". Hey, fellows , look, a new girl in town!! The[...]lucky guy to meet her and get her attention was a handsome[...]in the Butte mines which were flourishing at that ti[...]They were married Aug. 17, 1901 in Sheridan, Montana.[...]Immediately Dad took his bride by horseback to a mining[...]woman in camp - how 1ucky could Dad be!! Later they moved[...]arles, Everett and Talela arrived during After a few years we had those old ring-type telephones.[...]bor ,and three rings might get mining and take up a homestead six miles west of Three central down m[...]of dry land boys out on the homestead and it was a lot of fun for us kids. was a lot of acres to be farmed. Here the last three ch[...]ossing, and my mother our house and taught school in our little red schoolhouse. had to get out into t[...]go around Imagine our pleasure to be able to walk a mile and a half to where the horses were and put the tongue[...]ke . school with our Aunt, ((The Teacher". It was a happy day when That was one of the greatest exper[...]ad when I was this little teacher said tll do" to a homesteader and decided to a kid. make her home in Montana, just a mile from us. What fun it[...]uld go with her family and I would go with In looking back, we know the homestead years were hard mine. We would meet in the Ruby Theatre, and there's where years. The fo[...]acquainted with each other. Believe it or not and a new country. Being very energetic and hard-working people, it didn't cost a dime. That fella that run the show, his ~ame they[...]always work to be done - large garden to be cared in the pit. My wife always wanted to play one of tho[...]rovided My wife and I went to school together. In 1927 we were married in Bozeman. My wife's mother and my mother went to[...]The Frank Martin Family Bozeman with us in a 1926 Chevrolet touring car. Myrtle Front: Charles[...]Carter father in the restaurant. Her parents were the Henry Pecks.[...]Back: Pat, Talela, Barney We made our home in Three Forks until 1939. We had seven children. I worked as a night watchman for all one winter. Then I took ca[...]Methodist Church and the Ruby Theatre. I had $390 in one bank in the thirties when it went broke, and I got 10 cen[...]s then and it was tough going. My father built a new home after the log cabin. The new house was m[...]st teacher. The school, the Valley View, was just a mile and a half north of our home- stead. The school has bee[...]Maggie married Gale Haigh. My wife and I live in Livingston. We have many happy memories of the days gone by in Three Forks.[...] |
| [...]e- turkeys were our pride and joy; they also took a lot of care - if venue Service in 1975. a cloud should appear in the sky, anyone free ran to herd them Nell Soll in as they could not take the rain. Hogs were raised[...]n meat. The beautiful fields of waving grain were a sight to behold. There were the usual setbacks, h[...]FRANCIS J. MASON . and even the grasshoppers were in there getting their share. Born May 14, 1917 in Blacktail Canyon, near Homestake, In spite of all the hardships we were a happy family and I don't which is near Butte in Silver Bow County. think we wanted for much. They[...]Hill when he heard the railroad was going market. A big job but we all worked together. The one Mothe[...]e lot. About 1917, they bought their first car, a Model T Ford. Dad went to Butte after it. The sal[...]ng the summer months, off to town we went to take in the family night at the movie for 50 cents. By this time a bridge had been built across the Jefferson River - the Model T would have had a bit of a problem fording the river. Our country school[...]ll and not lolly-gag around or you might get left in town. Just ask Nell; there is always one in every family. One by one we grew up and left home. Charles married and settled in Three Forks. Everett, nick-named Pat, married and[...]to Helena to enter nurses' training. Nell married a railroad man. The good years became farther and farther apart. In 1930 they gave up the old homestead and bought a ranch on the river bottom out of Manhattan, Monta[...]r Bill married and moved to Helena where he built a thriving lock and key business. A heart attack took him from us in Jan. 1966. May married and settled in Alaska where she has been the Postmistress in a[...]h of the old homestead house at twilight relaxing a moment or two before retiring. Charles raised[...]boy and three girls. As to my life: I was born in June of 1909 on the homestead at Three Forks. I w[...]r was Kenneth Kendrick. There was one other child in my first grade class, Samuel Lee. To my recollec- tion there was one child in the second grade, Thomas Lee. My sister, Talela was in the third grade and, I believe, two other student[...]hool the rest of my school life. I was married in 1926 to Joseph A. Mason, a railroad worker from Eustis, Montana and we lived[...]an Shane, Ms. Jeraldeen Ann Mason. Joe was killed in a mine accident and is buried at Three Forks. I moved to Helena in 1946 and married Frank[...] |
| through. It is said he sat on his claims, gun in hand, until the orthern Pacific bought up his c[...]er known as the Green ranch on the Lower Madison. In 1934 he went to work at Trident and in 1937 became a brake- man on the Milwaukee Railroad. He retired as a conductor in the Spring of 1979. He married Georgia Estes in Butte in 1944. She was the daughter of George and Mary (Ba[...]s chapters of the Masonic lodge and Eastern Star. In 1948 they purchased the John McHale house which i[...]ome. Daughter Mary (1946) married LeRoy Miller in 1968 and they presently reside in Willow Creek with their two children, Brian and J[...]e former Beverly Cooper from Manhattan. They live in North Liberty, Iowa with their three boys, Jamey, Mark, and Luke. Mary and Doug attended school in Three Forks. Doug graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1970. Geor[...]e Saca- Ray E. Matter was born October 9, 1888 in Naperville, jawea Hotel until he could locate a place to live. Illinois and shortly thereafter he[...]or Illinois was inside the store, which had a stable close by for the horse that born.[...]he deli very wagon. Ray married Ruth Reinhardt in Kansas City, Missouri, Amusement places in Three Forks were many at the begin- June 1, 1911. Through the help of his father, who was in Three ning of the town's growth, although a theater was opened, F~rks in 1910, Ray was offered the opportunity to work with there was a duck pin alley and places to dance. When young W.N. Porter who owned a mercantile store in the town. In Ray first came to Three Forks he was taken in by the young December of that year Ray traveled in a cutter from the men of the town to go[...]s to say he was Northern Pacific railroad station in Logan to Three Forks, left holding the ba[...]Ray was a sports enthusiast, both outdoors and indoors. In Three Forks Mercantile - 1911 addition to the young people starting a baseball team, they Bill Weston - Delivery Man also had a town basketball team, playing their games above[...]The day before Christmas became a ritual for the young citizens to travel in a truck to find a suitable tree to place at[...]unable to put it on, business men borrowing a circus tent the[...]group set up a booth at the state fair in Helena. In Ray's own words: Wow! What a collection of wonderful old[...]themselves as well as to a fine group of people who already lived in the valleys and on the benches. In time it all made a[...]best as a well-knit group, to further the interests[...] |
| [...]his, Velma Gates tion. Pump1.ng water, to fight a fire , was pumps dug in the to stop and let the children hop on for a ride. During the |
| [...]aughter, Hazel, married Wil- Missouri became a national historic monument landmark is liam (Bill) Ables and remained in California. She has worked well known to all in Three Forks. for Douglas Aircraft for many years. She has two daughters. Bob died in November, 1974. Prior to this Clark suffered a Both are married and reside in Manhattan Beach, Calif. with stroke and eve[...]tarted his janitorial services. They also adopted a son. W. C. MAY FAMIL[...]d three daughters, are now retired raised in Galena, Stone Co., Missouri. He married Ida Mae and live in Redondo Beach, Calif. Butler in Lamar, Colo. on Feb. 20, 1900. The family lived in Richard Matthis never married and is living in Ozark, Mis- Colorado, Idaho and Montana. They came to Broadwater souri. He is a mechanic by trade. County in 1918. They first made their home on a ranch now[...]also been with Clark where Mr. May died in 1926. Mrs. May gave up ranch- Douglas- Aircraft for many years. He resides in Lawndale,[...]ing Mrs. May's lifetime she had seen many changes in graduated in Los Angeles, went into the service, met and[...]She had known the rigors of pioneer life, married a girl from Mountain Grove, Missouri. He became ill[...]souri to Idaho, and they moved back to California in February 1969. He which a trip took nine months. She knew the rigors of ear[...]ncer. That same year (dad) or William pass~d away in September with leukemia.[...]Helena in a j_e ! p!ane. Florene, the youngest of all the girls succumbed to pneumonia in 1938, shortly after the family moved to Three Forks. Amelia Matthis (mom) is now residing in Manhattan Beach, Calif. with Hazel. At 86 years y[...]g and making quilts which she sells, which is now in the neighbor- hood of about 500.[...]memory of her childhood is somewhat foggy due to a car accident in 1974 when she suffered brain damage, some of the dates of the Maudlin family's life in Three Forks are missing. I have listed here as many of the parts of my mother's family life in Three Forks as we could come up with. Clark Mc[...]7; Islah Margaret Tocher, born Aug. 1898, married in Three Forks in 1919, son Billy, born 1920; son Bob, born 6/23/19[...]ice May, Bill May, Lyle May, Webster May, Aunt In December, 1928 Billy died of pneumonia and ten da[...]fe commenting on occasion that that area would be a The May family had five children, Webster, Bernice, Mabel, good place for a park. After her death in 1939, grandpa decided Lyle and Doran. Webster settled in Oregon, Bernice lived in to purchase the land they had picnicked on so often and make Helena, Mabel in Townsend, Lyle in Spokane and Doran in it into a park in her memory. He spent many years developing Calif.[...]out of Jean and Bob went through grade school in Three Forks, Three Forks for several years, Lyle worked on a cattle ranch then to Laramie, Wyoming to a boarding school. Here they near Three Forks, and Doran attended school in Three Forks. stayed until the spring of 1941, com[...]rks to Missoula and had Grandpa moved to Anaconda in either late 1940 or early 1941, lived in Palm Springs, Calif. and finally settled in Townsend so that when Jean and Bob came home in 1941 it was to near her daughter Mabel and family[...]onda. Even after moving to Anaconda, Grandpa con- in 1964. She had lived in Montana for 46 years and would have tinued traveling to the park on weekends. He had built a little been 84 years old in one month from her death. cabin to stay in and after retiring from the smelter, lived[...] |
| MCCULLOCH The Frank A. McCulloch family arrived in Three Forks in early June of 1916 from Minnesota. Frank McCulloch had arrived some three months earlier to take a job with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail[...]dings between Three Forks and Josephine, Montana. A short time later he became Freight Agent in Three Forks; a job he held until 1924 when the family moved to B[...]ashier and agent for the railroad until his death in 1941. Mattie, the mother, arrived with her three children as soon as the school term ended in Minnesota. She was a business woman and, in addition to assisting her parents, the Dorseys, in getting out the Three Forks Herald, she took out a real estate license, sold insurance, and acted as[...]uby Ridge Oil Company which was exploring for oil in the Three Forks area. She established the M . M.[...]al Estate Agency which flourished until her death in 1955. During the 1918 flu epidemic, which took so many lives in the new town, Mattie nursed a number of people through their ordeal and eventua[...]ase herself and al- most lost her life. She was a devoted wife and mother, and a hard worker in the community, trying to promote interest in the whole Galla- tin area. The children attended school in two different locations in Three Forks. Bob and Nell helped in the move from the old loch and Mary Zion. ____[...]ferred from Three Forks to Bozeman in 1924.[...]writer remembers how the whole town turned out on a |
| Henslee's Auditorium, barn dances at Dunbar's in Old Town or at Flaherty's barn in Willow Creek. Another pleasant occasion was the Gallatin County Fair held at Three Forks in 1922 and 1923. A large circus tent housed displays, a dance floor, etc.[...]Marion Sullivan, even though they both were born in Helena, Montana. Archie's family , who came fr[...]was driven out by the Cambell Clan. They settled in Virginia City via St. Joseph, Missouri. Angus, hi[...]twin sons. The twins, Angus and Archie were born in 1893. When they were old enough they worked as bell boys in various hotels around the state including Glacier[...]914 Archie went to work at the Sacajawea Hotel as a night clerk. and two sons, Joe and Archie. Both boys were struck down in Marion's grandfather was a British sea captain on a wind- young manhood, at age twenty-one. Joe was ill a good part of jammer. His wife sailed with him, th[...]it- was born at sea. She attended boarding school in England ted. He worked with the Boy Sc[...]from Ireland. Catholic Church, and for a time he drove a delivery wagon for On the way over to America they too had their first child at Parnacott and Sterling. sea.[...]rsity of Montana for one year, from where brother in Helena became ill and sent for him to help fulfill the he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. He plaste[...]made. served as a bomber pilot and was killed in a plane crash in They had nine children, Marion, being the eight, was born Burma in 1946. in 1899. In her teens she lived with her older sisters in Rich- Marion, an artis~ with a crochet hook, created many lovely land, Washingt[...]na, Recap, Montana things, among them a large collection of dolls dressed in cos- and Clarkston, Montana. From Clarkston, Mari[...]e residents of Three Three Forks and was hired as a silver girl in the Sacajawea Forks and surrounding communities. Hotel dining room, Archie and Marion were married in 1916. The history of any area can only be as interesting and The Spruce trees, still growing in the park directly across worthwhile as the p[...]most vivid from the hotel, were planted by Archie in 1918. That same memories of Three Forks[...]ents, the tragic loss of both my brothers at such a young age, tant retirement in December of 1960. He spent those years as a and how my parents survived it. Other memori[...]project Archie and Marion had three children, a daughter, Audrey beside it to be taken up[...]my dad, when we were young children he would come in off the[...]road and, despite the lean times, with a little surprise in the Archie and Marion (Sullivan) McDonald.[...]to a young and questioning child, <<As long as there i[...]of loving and sharing there is a Santa Claus." - Visits with[...]while we made a delicious apple or a winter pear last as long as[...]Forks News" ; sometimes on a cold night being allowed to sleep in the kitchen on a real feather mattress. We would watch the[...]patterns made on the wall by the fire in the cook stove as[...]In 1972, due to poor health the McDonald's moved to[...]land, Oregon to be near their family. In July of 1977 accom-[...]enjoyed a trip home to Three Forks. In September of 1978 they[...]observed their 62nd wedding anniversary. About a month[...]in June of the next year.[...] |
| Presently Audrey resides in Portland with her husband mission and[...]have and cartoon began, there was always a series of Hollywood two children, Joe and Michael[...]dren. Michael is head of the marketing department in Earl Clack gasoline ad! It appeared in a brilliant green color the School of Business at the University of Notre Dame and is (in the days when almost everything was black and whi[...]This extended family , visited often and was a special part of the "show" , because my cousin, D[...]Cass, operated the Clack station for a year or two! Forks.[...]After the movie, there was generally a trip across the street Audrey McDonald Etzel to a diner-tavern operated by a gentleman named Louis[...]Woodburn. "Louie" made the best hamburgers in Montana. He later became a successful Bozeman businessman, and[...]played down his Three Forks days. I grew up in the 1930's and ' 40's at a place called Stringtown, The trip home was ma[...]operated the flour mill at Stringtown, along with a I seldom slept, but preferred to watch the bright[...]rge poultry farm. He also raised hay and grain on a 44-acre stars through the back window of the car.[...]there was little time for recreation, especially in the summer. grain elevator. The old mill would ha[...]oved When we did take time off, it was either for a shopping trip to along the Yellowstone Trail through the town of Willow Bozeman or Butte, or a Friday or Saturday night in Three Creek, in order to avoid crossing the Jefferson River. The[...]of such a move, and the advent of World War II made this On a weekend evening, the main amusement in Three undertaking very impractical. Forks, aside[...]ilm fare offered by the Ruby Theatre, operated by a Milwaukee Road electric locomotives glide smoothly into · fellow I knew only as Mister Thompson. His wife , a dignified , town with their mile of cars behind them. There never was a gray-haired lady, sat in the ticket booth and sold admissions to railroad[...]Friday , Saturday and Three Forks was a special place to a Montana farm boy in Sunday nights. Her name was Ruby, and everyone ju[...]f their ticket, and if possi- ble, escort them to a seat. I'm sure he lavished attention on[...]Wilbur McKenna a Three Forks resident for 45 years.[...]ll , Iowa, Oct. 29, 1878. On June 18, and give me a big hug.[...]rly" show at the Ruby started about seven o'clock in McKenna was born Feb. 1, 1877 in Mahaska Co. , Iowa. the evening, but I never atte[...]ad and farm dictated that he work late and arrive in Three Forks at Dubuque, Iowa in 1902, was promoted to engineer in 1905. in time for the "late" show at nine. At times, we arrived a bit There were so many train wrecks on that railroad that in 1907 early, and not wanting to enter the theatre[...]performance. Aside from the local In 1908 he moved his wife and daughter Helen to Lombard, taverns, this was the main spot for socializing in Three Forks where they lived in a boxcar. Forty-four families lived there on a weekend evening.[...]s insisted on was an afternoon nap In February 1909 Wilbur McKenna was hired by the Mil- before an evening at the theatre in Three Forks! Failure to get waukee. He had taken the wheels off the car they lived in so the proper rest usually resulted in all plans for the evening when it was time to move "they just loaded that thing on a flat being cancelled. Sometimes, I was able to feign a nap, but the car and we rode over to Three Forks.[...]d out" when I dozed off im- the way. Mr. Everett, a Milwaukee Railroad engineer rode mediately after[...]Mister Thompson's projectionist would In 1918 Bill Jones, Mr. Townsley, Mr. McKenna and on[...]homesteads on the flat near Toston. They through a still projector. These usually called attention t[...]because they were all big and fat some happening in the community, such as a dance , rummage and their houses were also like that, with a windmill in the sale, auction, etc. The announcements were typewritten on a center. Mrs. McKenna and Helen lived out at the homestead yellow, gelatin-like material , and to a youngster, looked like a while Wilbur made his runs. huge piece of cheese,[...]Echard said he thought they had cut them out with a buzz saw.[...] |
| [...]Emma and Sherman were blessed with a baby boy, Roy T.[...]y, on June 15, 1915, one of the first babies born in the[...]later moved to Harrison to start up a business and John arrived in Three Forks in 1917. Homer married M;ry Nichols[...]Laura celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1952. Mr. One night Emma found a man in an inebriated condition in McKenna passed away Dec. 29, 1954, she passed awa[...]' him and allowed him to lie down on a couch to sober up. Her[...]There were two McKenna daughters. Helen now lives in[...]Kenney home wanted to know why the drunk was in Emma's Missoula. Helen attended the old school in the present ball house, that he had evicte[...]school was finished drunk and disorderly, and in turn chucked the poor fellow out (1917) and "we a[...]rom high school she went two years to the Academy in Helena (she remembers picnicing at the old[...]za broke out Broadwater plunge) and then finished in Jamestown. She in Three Forks, Sherman remembering four engineers dying taught one year in Lombard, then moved to Denver. Helen at t~e same time. His brother-in-law, Al Dance, told about one Hale has one daught[...]itebread, has passed away. next day. In the words of Helen Hale 'Tm glad Dad didn't live[...]ailroad during the what happened to the Milwaukee in the Rocky Mountain seven years he and Emma lived in Three Forks. They then Division. He kinda thought[...]Emma visited Three Forks in 1941, pleasantly surprised when[...]Mr. Parnacott, who operated the Parnacott and Sterling Store[...]Whil~ the McKenneys were living in Kentucky, a daughter, Both F. T. McKenney, better known as[...]30, 1919, who later married Emma Dance were born in Pendleton County, Kentucky; Paul Qualls and now resides in Orlando, Florida. The F. T. Sherman on July 27, 1[...]t grandchildren. Emma died August 29 were married in April of 1911 before moving to Three Forks, 1961 in Orlando. ' where Sherman started out as a machinist helper for the[...]w two-story house March 28, 1912. According to a news item appearing in the Three Forks Herald, Sherman made his first trip as fireman on a run to L C. MCKINNON Deer Lodge. For a time in 1914 he worked on the Lewistown My fir[...]about quite suddenly. It was a cold thirty below zero late in[...] |
| [...]Now for a quick run down on the work during that time: I[...]worked in the Butte mines, Kellogg mines in Idaho , cooking[...]camps and trail camps. I cooked in some of the best hotels in Spokane and many in Idaho. I had my own ¾estaurant in[...]While working in Missoula I finished out my schooling by[...]Ohio in 1801. The first McLees in the Three Forks area was a November when I told my folks I had to get out an[...]cLees who owned an iron mine north of Copper City in help make a living for myself and the rest of the family . Dad 1883, (documented in the first issue of the Three Forks Herald had been down sick for over a month and our meals were dated 1908)[...]ren besides myself. qua , Wisconsin in 1852. My grandfather, John Winfield I was almo[...]Madi- My folks tried to stop me from going out in such weather. With two feet of snow on the ground[...]shmore to Superior which was six miles. I arrived in Superior, Montana that day with not a cent in my pocket. The thing I did have was friends. I st[...]re on paying me?" she asked. "I'm going to get a job with the Milwaukee Railroad on the section. G[...]talking to Bob Mills, section foreman , and after a few questions, he said, "I would like to have you[...]es is going to be here at four o'clock. I'll have a talk with him then. If it's okay with him you will go to work in the morning at eight. "Let's go and have a cup of coffee." I knew the Mills for over two[...]l, while we sat having coffee the Roadmaster came in, and after a few words I was hired. I was given a small place where I could cook my own meals, and Bob fixed me up with a bed and blankets. I could have gotten them from h[...]groceries, and I was off on what turned out to be a connection with the Milwaukee Road for forty nine[...]t two years, and on June 26 , 1918 I hired out as a fireman. I was able to work quite steady for about four years then I was cut off and didn't get a run for five years, when they called me back I wo[...]the engineer's extra board part of the time. Then in 1957 I held a steady run most of the time until I retired April 17, 1965. In my forty nine years as a fireman and engineer I lost[...] |
| [...]lived on what is now part of the grey cliff area in the early[...]n place, later the Wilbur Smith place. Dell owned a garage and lived in Logan at one time and was on the Logan school[...]n the present school was built. Grandfather lived in[...]to Broadus and Uncle Ned and Harold were in Broadus for a[...]at different times. Uncle Ned still lives there. In spite of[...]Except for my Dad, a very serious and stable person, who to[...]hen the family first settled, two of the boys and a[...]he Green Ranch. Being out of season and Mr. Green a[...]game warden , he was obliged to give the boys a summons to[...]riend changed their descriptions. The one wearing a[...]coming up the valley one time with a four-horse team and two[...]wagons. He was dressed up with a vest and derby hat. Passing The McLees family on[...]ward knocked the hat off with rocks. This started a fight that lasted (Skinny), Bill, Jim (Fat).[...]including cousin Leonard McLees, went to Logan, a fight son Valley in 1909. Grandfather's niece and her husband, Roy en[...]aised and broke mules. We stock and equipment all in one train. They then hauled every- had a two-wheeled cart with an 8-foot tongue which we t[...]om the rail stops there. The road to hitched with a mule and a big Belgium stallion and run up and Three Forks at that time was a nearly impassible swampy down the valley until th[...]trail. The family post office was Hyde, Montana, a lit tle st ore range between Norris and the Madis[...]gs, an old trapper, Jim Gilleland. Mr. Gilleland, a contrary old goats, rabbits, chickens and even a pet coyote at one tim~ . fellow, had many tales of visits with Indians in this area When the dinner bell rang, the coyote w[...]y brother, Howard Gilleland , the first In the Twenties, brother William married and worked[...]lley ranch, had his middle name from Avery garage in Three Forks. Fat and Howard (Skinny) the original owner of the ranch, a common practice then. worked their way through hi[...]de drove their own car for four years forty miles a day over My grandfather, obsessed with buying land in order to pro- the lower Madison road to graduate from Three Forks. vide a ranch for each son, at one time held title to wha[...]The de- Holland Settlement. It proved his undoing in later years as pression of the 1930's took it's t[...]ost much of the property. valley in the spring of 1937. Dad and Uncle Harold moved to South of the Gilleland holdings, a man named Sloan home- Three Forks, I was the only[...]but leased it to us from 1910 Howard was working in the mines at Norris, both sisters were until 1936. His son, Frank, later made a fortune and in 1937 married. William lived in Seattle and never returned here. bought what was[...]Dad and Jim went into the feed business with Dad in the Ellis and Uncle Dell.[...]ifficult to get materials to and myself were born in the log house that used to be there. mix feed and[...]wa Sister Edith was born at Kingsley, Mt. during a period the sold to Pyfer and Dimmack in 1949 when Dad suffered a heart family was absent from the valley. attack. He was active in civic affairs, serving on the city The situation of the ranch became a game of musical chairs. council several ye[...] |
| business and was postmaster 19 years. Orece and I married in Amanda attended grade school at School District No. 11 in 1946 and we raised three children, Scott, Kathy a[...]ed from the eighth grade with The youngest McLees in Three Forks at this writing is Scott's hono[...]th.J river on the railroad Milner and family live in Three Forks. bridge. She later attended a preparatory school at the Univer-[...]Earl McLees sity of Montana in Missoula and the University of Valparaiso[...]in Valparaiso, Indiana.[...]Following her years of schooling she worked in the Post EMERY AND AMANDA MCPHAIL Office in Drummond and also served as a telegrapher. Emery William McPhail and his wif[...]Emery and Amanda were married on January 25, 1911 in McPhail arrived in Three Forks in October, 1917 from Helena, Helena, Montana. They took up residency in Helena where, Montana where Mr. McPhail had been[...]ue to his educational background, Mr. McPhail had a posi- Emery William McPhail was born in New Chicago, Mon- tion as a teller in the Union Bank. tana on June 24, 1880, the only son in a family of four children, His new position in Three Forks was that of cashier in the to Allen and Rozenia McPhail who were early M[...]wed the gold rush from Harrison failed in 1923. He procurred what he deemed to be temporary[...]ple Creek, Colorado to Vir- employment as a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Postal De- ginia City, Montana. He then worked at the silver mill in partment. This temporary employment became his major Philipsburg, Montana until settling on a ranch near what was means oflivlihood unti[...]delivered groceries, milk and cream to the dairy in Three and grandmother in a wagon train from Surrey, Maine. Fo[...]tle odds and ends, Emery made his debut during a time when the cattlemen much of which[...]liked on the route and was known to all as still a very young man, he had the dubious privilege of a[...]«Mac". panying his father and other cattlemen on a raid of the Both Mr. and Mrs. McPhail were interested in Free sheepherders, being quick to assert there ha[...]- Masonry. He joined Masonic Lodge No. 73 in September 1919. ence, since his father often bragged about making his long He was a very active and well known member for the remain- trek across America without ever owning a gun. der of his life. He was a Past Master and had received his 50 He was educated in the local rural school at New Chicago year pin in 1969. Mrs. McPhailjoined the Order of the Eastern[...]tive for Lodge where he attended Montana College (a prep school). most of her years in Three Forks. She was a Past Matron of During this part of his life he earned a reputation for being an that organization. exc[...]filiated with the Presbyterian Church. University in Palo Alto, California with a major in math and a Mrs. McPhail furnished· a home away from home to many minor in chemistry. The math background played an impor-[...]who stayed in Three Forks. She had a reputation for being a tant role in his life as he assumed various civic duties in Three[...]was born in Missoula on February 7, 1913, and Clara Frances Amanda was born in the Section House at Drummond,[...]who was born in the Three Forks Hospital on November 10, Montana[...]wen McPhail (Alger) children of George W. arrived in Montana in 1882. This move was triggered by the[...]After retirement Mr. and Mrs. McPhail remained in Three Mr. and Mrs. E. W. McPhail.[...]l his death on January 16, 1972. She followed him in[...]George W. McPhail was born in Missoula, Montana on Feb-[...]ruary 7, 1913. He moved to Three Forks as a small child when[...]high school in Three Forks graduating in May of 1931. He[...]attended Montana State University in Missoula and also took[...]business courses at Montana State College in Bozeman before[...]pany. Later he became a brakeman for the Milwaukee Rail-[...]in that capacity until he went into business[...] |
| [...]century, my father tired of working in the mines and came to[...]at is why 'Joe" was the name by which most people in the area knew him. In Logan , Montana, Dad found work he liked in a general merchandise and lumber business. His empl[...]there was Wilbur Albert Roland , a man my father greatly[...]years in Logan , and it was there that his desire for a business[...]was born in Sweden, March 9, 1879 and came to this country[...]th her family at the age of two. After growing up in Wiscon-[...]first in Bozeman and later in Logan. This was where ttJoe" and[...]"Hannah" met. They were married in Logan on March 5, 1905, and built a small house there which is still standing. In that·[...]oon found what seemed to be an ideal opportunity. A new[...]So when I was only two months old , in May, 1908, my family of[...]three moved to the site of the new town. We lived in a tent at[...]Porter set up a building and began a grocery and general[...]Baby" because of living in that tent.[...]work, many long hours, and a lot of sacrifices were necessary; He married Bertha Olive Chollar on April 20, 1936. but a strong pioneer spirit carried the people through[...]tended Three Forks Schools, graduating hardships. in May 1933. She had attended Northwestern Business[...]rter and my Dad dissolved their partnership after a versity in Spokane, graduating in 1935, and had worked at time and each established a store of his own, both of which Ford Motor Company in Bozeman, under the supervision of L. remained in operation for many years. It was then that Dad K.[...]eah Jean McPhail , which was torn down only in recent years. Our family lived in August 6, 1940 and Gwen McPhail, December 11, 1945. a one-room house for a year, later two more rooms were added.[...]was George was initiated into the Masonic Lodge in 1947 and is born on June 15, 1913. I think it was about this time that a city a Past Master of the Lodge No. 73 in Three Forks. water system and sewers were installed and soon Three Forks In 1965 the McPhails moved to Puyallup, Washington r[...]ll the conveniences this where Mr. McPhail became a representative of the Richfield implied. Now our home was enlarged and remodeled again Oil Company in that area. He remained in this position until into a two-story building. My sister, Naomi Menapace , was his retirement in 1976. Mrs. McPhail was bookkeepeer for the born May 24, 1917, but by then there was a fine new hospital Valley Care Nursing Home in Puyallup for eleven years. in Three Forks, and Naomi was born there. After hi[...]5. Through years of Wyoming where they have built a home and are now residing. drouth and hard[...]on Saturdays. In summer we kids picked radishes and green T[...]onions from Dad's garden, washed and tied them in bunches, My father, John Charles Menapace was born January 24, then hauled them to the store in Russell's little red wagon to 1878, in Luxembourgh. His father, Martin Menapace, came to be sold. We all had a part in this and never thought of it as a America around 1886 and soon sent for his wife and children hardship. to join him in Colorado where he found employment in the After giving up the store my fathe[...]is days mines near Leadville. It was there during a smallpox epidemic as custodian of the Three Forks[...]people growing up at that time will remember him in that ing it necessary for Dad to leave school to[...]r his capacity. He also served as City -Clerk for a number of years[...] |
| and managed County property in the town. For many years he was a member of the Three Forks City band. My mother,[...]ce, died on February 9, 1932. She had been active in church and lodge work, as well as being a loving wife and mother. Dad died June 19, 1939 in the family home. Both are buried in the Three Forks cemetery. Both Mother and Dad had[...]OLIVE MENAPACE McMILLEN Having lived in Three Forks even before the first town lots were sold, I think I may rightly consider myself a pioneer there, even though I was too young to remember the very earliest years. Born in Logan, Montana, March 21, 1908, my parents brought me to the new town (Three Forks) in May of that year. My first year of school was held in a small building called "the Chapel," used because the main school building was overcrowded. In second grade, I attended classes in the white frame, two-story building then in the east part of town. Before that year was over,[...]as well as four years of high school, graduating in 1926. Needless to say, I have many pleasant memor[...]ain on the stage of the school auditorium. It was a large picture of the Headwaters, a beautiful scene and most approp- riate. We attended basketball games in Henslee's Hall over the old garage because in those days there was no gymnasium. Another thing I will never forget was the earthquake in June, 1925, when the school was so badly damaged,[...]s, our class of 1926 was able to graduate on time in The Menapace Family: the spring. There were eleven of us in that class! Anna, Russe[...]lso the Babcock testing of milk and cream brought in by dairy far- Menapace, was born in Three Forks on June 15, 1913. He mers. I also worked in the real estate office of A. E. Barnes a attended school there, graduating from high school in the year between my two years of college work, an[...]Class of 1930. After attending business college in Butte, he one term before my marriage to W. Lester McMillen in July , left early in 1933 to seek employment on the west coast. Those 1930. My husband had then been teaching in Three Forks for were depression years and[...]to find. Finally, four years. We lived six years in Boulder, Montana, and since Russell signed on as a cabin-boy on a ship - a ((land-lubber" then have made our home in Sidney, Montana, where we gone to s[...]ell never returned to farmed until our retirement in 1972. Although we maintain Montana. He liked the life of a sailor. Later, he joined the U.S. our home in Sidney, we have spent the last eleven winters in Merchant Marines and served all through Wor[...]hildren, made that his home until his death in 1957. He and his wife most of them grown now and[...]ied. had no children. All of us in my generation have seen a lot of changes since the early days of Three Fork[...]es of the horse and buggy days, was born in Three Forks. There she attended school graduat-[...]and now the beginning of ing from high school in the Class of 1935. She attended busi- space travel. Personally, I believe we have lived in one of the ness college in Spokane and later worked as a secretary in most interesting periods of history and experienc[...]y of the memories I have of There she continued in the business world, holding responsi- all those[...]ks ble executive positions. She married Charles A. Y etkosky in celebrates its Diamond Jubilee. I'll be there if[...]her husband live in Downey, California, where they have a RUSSELL LANG MENAPACE[...] |
| [...]W. H. MERRILL A couple of newcomers to the community of Three Forks are W. H. Merrill came to Th:r:ee Forks in 1912 to work for the Lester and Vicki Merha, who[...], which had on October 1, 1979. Prior to arriving in Three Forks they the contract for laying sidewalks in the residential areas. moved in 1948 from Columbus, Nebraska to Sheridan, Wyom- Merrill came with a crew and stayed in the Milwaukee Hotel ing.[...]of the Lester Merha was born December 15, 1912 in Norfolk, Neb- Henslee Livery Stable. raska and spent his boyhood in the town of Tilden, much At that time the only sidewalks in Three Forks were in the similar in size to Three Forks. In 1933 he traveled to Dubois, business district and[...]t was not paved and was Wyoming, hoping to become a cowboy. After several wrecks on approximately fou[...]lks. The Milwaukee horseback he decided to become a writer of western novels railroad layed a track up the main street to dump the needed instead of a rider of salty broncs.[...]ch trained at Fort Harrison, Montana and Railroad in the Roundhouse on July 25, 1912. On April 6, 1913 had an equal number of Canadian soldiers in the unit. The I got a date firing with D.A. Robinson as Engineer. In 1914 I famous Green Berets during the Viet Nam conflict were pat- went to Lewistown to haul gr·a vel over a skeleton track to terned after the FSSF. Before retiring in 1973, Lester worked Great Falls, to fill in the yard there, which was a swamp. as an attendant, purchasing agent and contracting officer for Electric motors came in September 1915. Walt Roland and I the Veterans Administration hospitals located in Sheridan, were the first crew to operate an electric motor, as a helper, Wyoming and Walla Walla, Wash. He has one[...]Cleveland and (Mrs. Robert W. Williams) who lives in San Mateo, California. Bill Hart were the first e[...]raveling engineer, to operate from Three Forks to in Creston, Iowa, but was living in Columbus, Nebraska be- Deer Lodge, on a Special for Officials. I worked intermittently, fore she married Lester in Helena, Montana on March 23, as a fireman, between Three Forks, Lewistown and Great[...]son, still Bernice Miller and I were married in Lewistown in 1923. living in Columbus, a sister, Mrs. Nadine Dory, who lives in Mary Elizabeth (Betty) was born in Lewistown in 1924. We Valley, Nebraska, and another sister, Phyllis (Mrs. W. J. moved to Three Forks in 1927 and bought the Al Wagner Phillips) living in Ashboro, North Carolina. The Merhas have house, which we sold to Bud Fisher in 1935. Marjorie Jean was four daughters. born in Three Forks in 1929. The girls both attended grade Nancy Jo,[...]ghter, married Riley Wilson Sept. and high school in Three Forks, but after graduation went to 5, 1956 in Sheridan, Wyoming and moved to Gallatin Gate- Seattle to school and work. Betty was married in Three Forks way, Montana to work for Riley's father, Lawrence E. Wilson, in 1946 to Bryson Lausch of Astoria, Oregon. They had three who now lives in Bozeman. In 1962 they moved to Harrison, daughters, Sandra, Barbra and Debra, and have six grand- Montana and now own a hog and sheep ranch a short distance children. Bryson died in 1976 and Betty lives in Olympia, north of the town. They have five children, three daughters, Washington. Marjorie was married in 1955 to Dean E. Christ- Pam (Mrs. Rusty Hebel) living in Cameron; Paula (Mrs. Boyd ianson of Seattle. They had a daughter and two sons. Her Gunn) and Penni (Mrs. Bret Hoe), Harrison, and two sons, husband died in 1966. Diane is married and has a daughter. Wayne and Todd, also of Harrison. They also have four grand- Dean M. and Paul are at home and in college. children. In 1931 I was cut off the Board on account of the De[...]ie, who are twin sisters, were born July 9, 1955 in Sheridan, Wyoming and attended school in Walla Walla, Washington, graduating in 1973 when they returned Betty, Bernice, Bill and[...]hl of Harrison. They have one son, Andy. Lewis is a fencing contractor, diesel mechanic and heavy equ[...]Mrs. Ed Olind, Harrison, Montana, and now live on a ranch northeast of Belgrade. Pete, a graduate of Montana State University, works for E[...]They moved to Seaside, Calif. where Jack works as a cement contractor. They have four children, Carri[...]two orphan children stranded on the Bozeman Trail in the late 1860s. He used his pen name LES WAYNE f[...]sting novelties and is looking forward to working in her new solar greenhouse.[...] |
| and worked at various jobs in Three Forks, Bozeman and picnic grounds[...]erson flat. The occasion was the fifth Seattle. In 1939 I got the job of Water Superintendent for[...]ry of the founding of Three Forks. Three Forks. In 1941 we bought the house on Cedar Street E.M. Mestad gave a detailed history of Three Forks at that from Warren Dixon. This house was a half block east of the time. He told how he[...]visited many of the new Methodist Church, built in 1913. Lee Henslee hauled and towns along[...]Roundup and came on to Three Forks, arriving here in The church was known as the Three Forks Federated Church a pouring rain during the middle of the afternoon:[...]1908, the auctioneer sold $72 ,000 worth oflots in Three Forks I worked for the City as Water Su[...]ing his 'stake' would permit the purchase of a lot. He told of road called me to work as relie[...]ached here, and how, and when Matt Voss retired in 1943 I bid in the job of Board after paying for a nights lodging and meals at the hotel in Old Man. Retired from that job on Dec. 31 , 195[...]of how he and his Seattle. We sold our home here in 1973 and moved to the wife secured work in the hotel and prepared the meals for Northaven R[...]many of the Three Forks pioneers present in the crowd before Shopping Center. We still love Three Forks but do enjoy the him for a number of days. He went on to relate the experien[...]could set that same bunch of pioneers in the midst of the desert MR. and MRS[...]AD and they would build a city and develop the country in spite of E. M. Mestad was born in Dane County, Wisconsin in 1873. all the obstacles." He related how t[...]rried Miss Jessie Dolding. Mr. here gave a banquet and dance that winter to which the whole Mestad graduated from high school in Warrens, Wisc. His first state was invited, a[...]wns and cities to the fact that Three Forks' ing. In 1904 he went to Fergus Falls, Minn. where he con-[...]comprised of gentlemen and ladies, and not ducted a restaurant and camp on the Northern Pacific[...]Herald started publication in a tent with P .S. Dorsey and Z.L. On September 17, 1913 a gala celebration was held at the Bowen; ho[...]Forks in 1915" worked on the paper daytimes and did car-[...]penter work on a building for the Herald nights, sawing and E. M.[...]way until nei_ghbors requested that he desist for a[...]hours along toward morning that they might enjoy a little[...]present and told of the pleasure he took in the crowds of[...]nderfeet who have joined forces with the pioneers in making[...]offered to build a small building for the Mestads behind the[...]Home Bakery was thus begun in a little shack behind the[...]May, 1911, J .Q. Adams urged the Mestads to build a[...]y August 16, 1911, the Mestads had begun business in[...]candies and added a soda fountain .[...]Mr. Mestad was appointed postmaster in 1932, succeeding Wm. Fraser. In the 1930's E.M. was very active in helping organize The Townsend Club, a plan of Old Age Revolving[...] |
| [...]1977. Joshua Robert was born to them in December 1977. Sandra Lou was born in 1959 and in 1978 she married Mark[...]was born in December 1978. Both Bob and Sandra reside in[...]Henry retired from Trident in 1967 after working there 23[...]Lena passed away in 1969. Henry is a gentle , quiet man who enjoys homelife. In 1980 he suffered a slight stroke , rendering[...]unable to live alone . At this time he is staying in a foster care home in Bozeman.[...]Dave was born on January 20, 1934 in Willow Creek Mon- tana. Actual birth was in the house located on the east side of[...]n on January 21 , 1933 at the ranch home of only a few months old. The family's next move was to Sti[...]. Maternal grandparents were John C. and Mary In time passing, Florida and Tom were married.. At t[...]the next years Henry worked for various ranches in Alberta, Creek. Norma's brothers are Francis[...], ~er where he met and married Lena Wave Moulton in 1924. They sister is Naomi Williams Lower. Norma was the second child welcomed Sidney Irene in 1925, Gordon John in 1927, Dalton born to Lester and Beatrice. Henry in 1928 and George Hiram in 1933. With the growing Norma and Dave[...]n June 27 , 1952 and have family and Canada deep in depression, Henry moved his fam- three chil[...]born at Townsend on February ily to Three Forks in 1937 to find work. He was hired at Ideal 7 1954[...]nt, and during his layoffs he worked for local a~d Judy Rae born at Townsend on August 12, 1959. Greg is ranchers in the area.[...]Renee and Kimberly Kyle. Creek and Manhattan and in 1947 they settled again in Three They now reside in Fort Collins, Colorado. Greg is employed Forks. With all the hardships of raising a family during the by Ideal Cement. depression, and on to better times, in 1947 Sidney married Tina is married to J[...]llings, where they Charles Davis of Bozeman, and in 1948, the first grandchild reside and have t[...]and Jill Lynn. was born. Candace Wave grew into a lovely young lady and John is employed by[...]ied to Vern married John Manfredi of Great Falls in 1970 and to them two W. Harris of Three Forks where they now reside and have a sons were born, Troy Newcome and Ben Collin. The[...]amath Falls, Oregon. Marvin Winsor Davis was born in pany. 1954 and married Melody Tyler of Hardin in 1974. To them Ann Marie and Clinton Winsor joine[...]with his grandparents, Con and Dorothea Toeppnar in Canada until 1947 when he came to the United States and joined the army, and served in Germany. He married Joan Barker of Butte. Paul Joseph was born in 1954 and resides in Butte. Louise Michelle was born in 1956 and married Mark Hilton in 1975 and they have one daughter, Angela Jade. They live in Arizona. Gordon died in 1964. Dalton Henry married Else Sorenson (daughter of Chris and Bess Sorenson) of Three Forks in 1949. In 1950 Kenneth Dalton was born and is serving with the U.S. Navy. Christie Louise was born in 1954 and married Vernon Biebinger. She has one son Justin John. Douglas Hal was born in 1959 and attends college in Butte. Carol Marie was born in 1960 and works in Anaconda . Dalton has worked for A.C.M. in Anaconda for 28 years (is retired). George H[...]hter of Sam .and Nina Leffingwell) of Three Forks in 1957. To them Bob (Robert Hiram) was born. He ma[...]ughter of Del and Delores Fuhrman) of Three Forks in[...] |
| Dave attended grade school in Trident and Willow Creek C.A.MURPHY and graduated from Willow Creek High School in 1952. C. A. Murphy was born in Indiana on December 27, 1916 Norma attended grade and high school in Willow Creek and and traveled west during the 1930s, when times were tough. also graduated from Willow Creek in 1952. There were three At one time he belonged to[...]and Marylyn Miller. Jerry and Marylyn were ball. In 1935 he married Adell Jaap in Whitehall. They lived both first cousins of Daves. We were married in the Willow in Butte from 1935 to 1941 when Mr. Murphy began wor[...]e for the Milwaukee R.R. at Three Forks. Forks on a Friday evening. Attendants were Jo Ann Dalley,[...]Williams. We had only the weekend to honey- lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Terri in Vancouver, Wash. moon, so the first night was spent in Belgrade (the motel has After 30 days of sufferin[...]een removed) then on to Billings the next day for a September 2, 1979. Mr. Murphy raised the three yo[...]tly married couple, Lori, Pat and Ray by himself. In April 1981 he and Lena Chuck and June Parr and returned to home in Willow Creek Knight were united in marriage at the Holy Family Church. on Sunday afternoon. Our first home was a wedding present Roger, 20 and Teresa, 16 are his[...]t had been given to us by our families C. A. Murphy worked for 36 years with the Milwaukee an[...]red during shop periods preparing our first home. A three room in 1978 when he was 60 years old. He has 20 grandc[...]and 2 great grandchildren. His children live in the following[...]s. McGuire) Deer Lodge, Montana was spent digging a water line to the Park's well, installing a[...]rs. Pat Flanagan) Fort Benton, Montana Trident as a shipping clerk. We had no car and had to use[...](Tom Davis) Vancouver, Washington borrow his car, a 1937 or 1938 Plymouth coupe. Dave spent[...]Teresa Knight, Three Forks In 1957 we moved to Trident where Dave worked for Lloyd Carver in the Trident Store and became postmaster in 1958, serving in that capacity until 1968 when he was transferred to the Bozeman Post Office a short period of time before resign- ing and returning to Trident to work for Ideal Cement Com- pany, serving in several positions in the office. During that time Norma continued to w[...]two businesses during our years. We were partners in a 40 Flavor Ice Cream store located next to the MSU campus in Bozeman and then operated an Antique Store in Three Forks in the old telephone office for a year then moved it to our home in Trident and then to our home in Three Forks. Our first home was in Willow Creek as indicated earlier. We also rented the house directly behind Parks Store in Willow Creek and Lew O'Dells house in Willow Creek. We lived in three different homes in Trident. We also built a home on the Gallatin just above Karst Ranch in 1967 and sold it in 1973. The C. A. Murphy Family: We had plans for a small home we bought in Three Forks next to Stevenson Park, but sold it before it was remodeled. In 1980 Nita Kay Periman, Andrea Krause, Walleyne Flanagan, we purchased our present home in Three Forks. It was for- Donna McGuire, Adell Murphy, Pat Murphy, C. A. Murphy, merly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Ols[...]erri Davis, Lori Murphy, Skip Murphy, Ray Murphy (in Mrs. Mel Hamilton and then Mr. and Mrs. Batchelder. It was front). built in the early 1900's by a family named Veach. Dave is a member of the Three Forks Lodge No. 73, AF & BUFORD and RUTH MYERS AM and is a Past Master, the Three Forks Area Pioneers (Past It was late on an August evening in 1929 when a small President), Three Forks Area Historical Soc[...]Chamber of Commerce, Order of Eastern Star and is a member of furniture passed under the suspended street hght m the of the City Council. Norma is a member of the Order of East- middle of an interse[...]ad moved from the Dry Society and both are active in the development of the Head- Creek ranch t[...] |
| [...]My first real introduction to Three Forks was in June, 1947. "Boots" drove bus in Yellowstone Park. I was attending a[...]ere married December 26, 1947. Our first home was in Bozeman. In 1949 we moved to Belgrade, where on Feb. 26,[...]Our destiny was to be Three Forks and in June 1952 we moved to a brick house on second avenue. In February 1954 we[...]"Boots" bought the Ruby Barber Shop in June 1952. 1957-58 was a "Fun" year with kindergarten students in my home. The next two years I was back in the first grade classroom. Our[...]family could write a book about the hilarious, frustrating and[...]& Gwen Myers when we owned the A & Win Townsend. While we were there Seated:[...]employed at Ideal Basic Industries. grade teacher in Three Forks. Perhaps his singing career[...]istory is elsewhere. Linda graduated from started in the third grade when he and Alice Torgrimson had E.M.C. in 1976, was married to Roger Scheifler Feb. 12, 1977. the lead parts in an operetta presented at the Ruby Theatre. Roger was killed in an automobile accident Oct. 23, 1981. As I listen[...]m tales of Earl McLees, Bob Linda lives in Pony with their two daughters Ami and Lind- Norma[...]sey. Elois is employed at the Dept. of Commerce in Helena. youth seem rather tame.[...]s presently attending Eastern Montana College. In 1935 "Boots" and his little sister joined over 300 boys and She was privileged to be a cheerleader at the East-West girls at the Twin Bridges Orphan's Home. "Boots" and two Shrine Game in Great Falls in 1981. other boys weren't exactly contented with life there so for a Ruth Myers year they plotted and planned. A raft was built, food was secretly stored away. Ju[...]CLARENCE MYERS begun. In no time at all the food was depleted. "Let's raid a Maggie Cloyd, in a gown of gunmetal gray satin, was mar- farmer's ga[...]to the highway. As ried to Clarence Myers in the lobby of the Bozeman Hotel they ran across Hi[...]January 17, 1910. Maggie and Clarence had ridden in a spring teachers at the Home brought an end to the[...]boarded the Northern Pacific to Bozeman. After a brief hon- Neihart. In March 1943, he went to Boot Camp at Camp[...]elin Concentration Camp. Clarence, born in September, 1884 near Willow Creek was When Vic Sz[...]eal Cement at Trident. in 1901. It was in 1935 when I (Ruth) first saw and fell in love with When Maggie was just a young girl the Cloyds went by the Land of the Shining Mountains. At that time I was a little wagon up Bridger Canyon down the Shields River, and then prairie maid living on a wheat farm in Southern Saskatch- up the Yellowstone to Mammoth, and spent several weeks ewan. Though we were in deep depression my parents and I seeing the sights in Yellowstone Park. Clarence never saw the were ver[...]Park until almost fifty years later. It was a privilege to share company them on a most wonderful journey. A shiny black with him the joy he exper[...]automobile took us along the highline, we caught a glimpse of Pots, the geysers, the canyon. H[...]s as she described those wonders of nature. Park. A few days later we went through the Headwaters are[...]Three Forks, for he even more magnificent sights in the Yellowstone. started working at the cement plant in Trident. The plant Two years later I moved wit[...]hey remained at the ranch at least they and I met in that beautiful little town at the foot of the[...]Beartooths. He had been discharged from the army in March, got work in 1931 helping build the new gymnasium. One[...] |
| [...]arrived by train in Bozeman, Montana April 30, 1914 where[...]their home in Bridger Canyon until 1921 when they moved to[...]. The last overnight stop was made at 'Old Town'. In the[...]Three Forks. In the fall of 1926 Mrs. Nikles and three children[...]oved to town so the children could attend school. In the fall of[...]John and Kathryn Hafner Nikles reside in Whitehall. They[...]Idaho and have two daughters. Fred resides on a ranch near[...]Belgrade. Qlara and Lloyd Hacker live in Three Forks and was a cripple from that time on. Maggie Myers had also[...]sis. She passed away March 7, 1981. Fay lives in Caldwell, Idaho. Linda lives in Buffalo, 27, 1934. Clarence managed the best he could. Two of the Wyo., and John lives in Sadona, Arizona. children, "Boots" and Doris Mari[...]Clara Hacker in Twin Bridges in 1935. Yvonne married Dave Dale. Their three ch[...]EINIE) O'DONNELL joined the army and was captured in the Phillipines. He was Mr. O'Donnell was born in 1882 and spent his early years on forced to make the Bataan Death March. He completed the a small farm in Saint Croix County, Wisconsin. He said that march[...]married Frank Pickle. Their oldest son also died in Japan of and that he probably would not live lon[...]Young, their two chil- ent, as this might have a beneficial effect. dren are Vicki and Pat. He was retired from the postal service He came to Montana in November 1901 and secured work and resides in Biilings. Maxine married Bill Ogden. They on the Northern Pacific Railroad working on a bridge gang reside in Manhattan. Doris Marie married Chuck Gibson. near Miles City. He began his long career in a locomotive cab They have one daughter and live in Belgrade. The Buford in June of 1902 as a fireman on the Northern Pacific Railroad (Boots) Myers history is elsewhere in this book. Yellowstone Division. In June of 1905, he was promoted to Mr. Myers work[...]ed O'Donnell moved to Lombard, Montana, in October 1907 away Nov. 12, 1955.[...]Julius and Elsie Scharer Nikles and their two-and-a-half and track washouts were common, and a[...] |
| ofrounding a curve to find a huge pile of rock on the track. He senger train[...]Forks and Harlowton until his was unable to stop in time and ordered the fireman to jump retirement in 1959, thus ending a 57 year career in the cab of clear. The engine climbed to the top o[...]en O'Donnell's life ended at her Three Forks home in By necessity, the railbed was later moved to a higher eleva- June 1966. Heinie maintained his[...]ng of tun- manner of living until his death in April 1977 at age of 95. nels and bridges in order to provide a safer route. Thus ended a pioneer era as the last surviving member of the[...]d then sold to the Milwaukee Railroad for $11,000 a mile. HISTORY OF LESLIE MAX OLSO[...]Dakota in 1933 during the (Great Depression'. These were[...]began school. In 1938 she graduated from Watertown High[...]chool and worked at the County Treasurer's office in the[...]Les spent a year in a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp at[...]Belvedere and Hill City in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He[...]Dakota as a pharmacy student in the fall of 1934. In 1939, Heinie and Helen O'Donnell.[...]Drug Store at Watertown. It was during this year in HELEN O'DONNELL[...]May in 1940, Les and Sally eloped and were married at Madi- Helen O'Donnell was born in Helena, Montana. Her par- son, Minnesota. In September of 1940 they moved to Brook- ents, J. N. and Marie Kleber had arrived in Fort Benton,[...]completed his senior year of pharmacy and Montana in 1879, traveling by steamboat from Bellaire, Ohio. worked as a laboratory assistant at the college. Their first[...]Dorsey, the March 18, 1941. Graves Hotel in Harlowton and the Sacajawea Hotel in Three In June Les took his State Bord examination and began his Forks, where he was the first proprietor in 1910. career of pharmacy the summer of 1941 at Halbkat Drug at Helen and Heinie began a courtship in 1908 and were mar- Webster, South Dakota where they moved. ried in Helena, Montana November 15, 1911. They estab- lished their first home in the rapidly growing town of Three Forks and purchased a number of lots from the Milwaukee · The Les and[...]. Land Company. Two children were born to them in the old Milwaukee Hos- pital - a son, John Thurn, who now lives in Anaconda, and a daughter, Mary who resides in Hudson, Wisconsin. In 1919, the O'Donnells sold their home in Three Forks and moved to Lewistown, Montana, wher[...]istown and Harlow- ton. Two children were born in Lewistown - a daughter, Laura, who now lives in Port Hueneme, California, and Ralph, who moved to Three Forks in 1979. During World War II, Harry and Helen mov[...]ly deserted town of Lombard where Heinie operated a helper motor to move the heavy freight through Si[...]ton. Harry and Helen moved back to Three Forks in 1945 where Heinie engineered the crack Hia[...] |
| In 1942 Les and Sally bought the Kenneth Palmer Drug[...]Store at Big Stone City, South Dakota and lived in the apart- Susan taught school in Ennis, Montana. Their marriage ment over the Drug Store. Big Stone City borders Big Stone ended in divorce and each later married again. Susan married Lake and is only one and a half miles from Ortonville, Min- Andy Loc[...]girls in Helena. Roger married Sheila Olson of Litchville,[...]born at the North Dakota, who is also a special education teacher. Roger Graceville, Minnesota Hospital during a raging blizzard on and Sheila have lived in Billings for several years and have March 5, 1945. They bought a small home while living at Big three chil[...]an, she is five; Morgan Kyle who is Stone City. In the fall of 1945, after selling the drug store an[...]oward Lake , Minnesota where Les almost a year old and was born on Grandpa Les' birthday.[...]e. Karen attended business coilege in 1965. Upon graduation On Friday, December 13[...]ompany of Billings. She at St. Francis Hospital in Minneapolis. When Karen was only married Jack O'Donnell of Billings and they have one child, a few months old, Les and Sally and their family moved Shelby, a nine-year-old. further west to Bowdle, South Da[...]Johnston Drug after 26½ years at one Aberdeen. In Bowdle they rented a building and renovated it location, to Pa[...]Housing was critical at Bowdle, but they found a small two Les is semi-retired but keeps busy as a relief druggist and is bedroom house at the edge of town with a windmill and out- re-learning how to play a little golf and fish occasionally. door toilet[...]ey became pioneers own, Sally became a displayer at Home Hostess shows for rather quic[...]Les and Sally bought their present home in 1955 from they lived one summer in the basement apartment of the Louise[...]hirty-one years of schoolhouse. They also spent a year living in the basement living in Three Forks and raising their family here, they f[...]iting out Dennis' children and having a part-time career, when Les is doing surgery at[...]e Hiawatha druggist relief work both in Three Forks and other surround- Train started a number of fires along the track and we very[...]ith many fine friends and nearly lost our house in one fire. fine c[...]stayed on South Dakota prairie country less than a year wanted for a good many years to become a pharmacist, so they and went back to New York C[...]hope to see another Olson become a druggist. Both Les and A drug store doesn't survive long without a doctor, even Sally have been active church workers and Les has been with a hospital, so they sold their stock and moved west again civic-minded all his years in Three Forks. to Rapid City, South Dakota where[...]Les and Sally Olson Drug for a year or two. While they lived there, Dennis' hand[...]hile NIELS OLSON in Rochester they learned that the Easter Seal Socie[...]grapher, help as Dennis would need surgery once a year. came to Montana in the year 1900. He devined that the coming In 1950 they moved to Baker, Montana where Les worked at of the Milwaukee Railroad would result in not only establish- the Baker Drug. Roger began kindergarten in Baker and Mr. ing an inland metropolis but would incidentally, furnish a Leon Heftie was superintendent of schools there. broad fruitful field for a man of his artistic profession. In Two years later they moved to Livingston, Montana w ere December 1908 he purchased a lot, erected a specially de- Les was employed by Cy Wanek of the Livingston Drug. In signed building and opened a gallery. August of 1952 they moved to Three For[...]The Niels Olson studio (notice the window in roof). wedding anniversary), Mary sold them the[...]pot and is the oldest bus depot at one location in the state of Montana. Dennis married Jean[...]anley and Laverne Curtis of Thermopolis, Wyoming, in the spring of 1960 and they have one daughter,[...]ave lived several years at Sahuarita, Arizona; a suburb of Tucson. Roger attended college at Western Dillon and also at Boze- man for a short time and in 1966 married Susan Ranney, a twin daughter of James and Judy Ranney of Thre[...]daughters, Sharon and Karen, wh presently live in Helena and are both in high school.[...] |
| [...]where he worked as a mechanic for C. D. Bucky in the Avery garage. He also worked as a boilerman for the Sierra Talc[...]is now retired and living at 16 East Date Street in[...]in the U .S. Air Force and is now employed at the Ka[...]Cement Company in East Helena. His daughters are Terri[...]years in the Army, part of it Viet Nam. Their daughter,[...]auty School, is married to Doug Jewett and living in Seventh Day Adventist's Sabbath School about 1924. Back Willow Creek. They have a daughter, Jennifer Susan, born Row: Mrs. Olson an[...]HISTORY OF A.M.G. OTIO Many of the pictures which are included in <<Headwaters Adolph Moritz Gustave Ott[...]Mr. Olson. Cal be, Saxony, in Germany. In 1893 he came, with his family, to Iowa. In 1907 he secured employment in the construction of Mr. Olson has left a description of a journey he took in 1911. the Billings and Northern Railroad. By the[...]the · Mr. Otto married Miss Isabelle Gasch, a school teacher from beautiful Sixteen Mile Canyon[...]nes Wisconsin. Mrs. Otto came to Montana in 1911 and also appear more pretty except perhaps when they were yet un- homesteaded a section of land. touched by the works of man. The[...]s rushing Mr. and Mrs. Otto were active in the Presbyterian Church onward and its waters sparkled in the ray of the sun. and belonged to T[...]became Eastern Star. Mr. Otto generously donated a portion of his steeper. At the summit one was left behind. It was Engine land, near the Jefferson Bridge, a_s a Masonic picnic park, 2068 with engineer Luciler. That popular Engine 3004 re- which is still in use today. For many years the school children -su[...]ana from Hannaford, North Dakota, Griggs, County, in August 1936. He was born Isabella G. Otto and A.M.G. Otto. May 27, 1908 to Asmund and Marie Oppeb[...]t much employment, he migrated to Montana and for a time worked for the lntermountain Transportation Co. as a The Ottos had many fine cattle and in 1924, took prizes at mechanic and spare bus driver in Anaconda and Great Falls. the Montana State Fair in Bozeman, with them. For a brief time, in 1937, he returned to North Dakota, where They[...]ieber of Karnak, North Dakota. Ingmar worked as a mechanic in different garages, and for three years worked for[...]Buick RALPH PAGE garage in Dillon. He also worked for the Beecher Chambers There is always a beginning and ending in a history. This garage in Manhattan before moving to Three Forks in 1942, story begins with the ending of the[...] |
| in Three Forks, Montana, and will show a trend of history of started so many years[...]became what is now Margaret Page died in January of 1972 with the hopes that known as Nurs[...]her work could continue, but we closed in July of 1974. Ralph Ours here in Three Forks was bought and started in 1940 by Page died in 1977. Ralph and Margaret Page as a dream of Margarers to have a Victor and Eloise Surdal still live in '1,hree Forks and their place to provide professi[...]ld regain their health and Willow Creek in 1974. They have two children, Jeremy return home.[...]Michael born in 1976 and Shelly Marie born in 1982. Kendal Ralph Page was born in 1892 and raised in Montana. He had (Ken) Surdal and Karen Sprdal both live in Denver, Colo. a degree in education and taught school around Montana in Irving Page lives in Three Forks. He married Kathy Buck in the 1920's and early 1930's.[...]cie and Miles. Margaret Hazelton Page was born in 1896 in Minnesota, Charles Page married his wife Nancy in 1957 and they have but was raised in Eastern Montana. She took her nursing[...]Pamela, Linda, and Ronald. They run the training in Hinsdale, Illinois, with special training in Hyd- Bozeman Hot Springs. rotherapy and ma[...]Mable Page has one son, Richard, and they live in Bozeman. nurse and doctor, she started the hospital in Beach, North Dakota, and ran that until 1924, whe[...]and her husband Curtis have three children, Page. In 1932 they moved to Whitehall, Mt. to a ranch. Wallace, Camala, and Johnathon. They live in Kansas. With the expanded family the need and the dream became a Merna Walrath and her husband, Hank, have four children, reality in the Three Forks Nursing Home. Sheila, David, Dennis, Daniel. They live in Hayden Lake,[...]Page, and later Grace Page passed away in 1981. Irving Page and Mable Page.[...]Farms or the PARNACOTI and STERLING State Hospital, and without our modern drugs the life span Claude Sterling and his Uncle William Parnacott purch- was shorte[...]d lots during the Milwaukee Land Company lot sale in As World War II started, families needed somew[...]the sons were at war. So They were to form a p'artnership and establish a grocery this evolved a need for "homes for the elderly". This began our store to be named Parnacott and Sterling with a side line of Nursing Home. I remember the first p[...]uilding and sold feed. They also had an ice house in This small beginning changed the care given th[...]the resi- forties. Two homes were built a block back of the store on 1st dents from the Gal[...]s are still kept up by their present that home to a Nursing Home. Commissioners from over the[...]ms would be changed. Cyrus and Mary Sterling, mother and father of Claude, Margaret was amo[...]tal tana and returned to Three Forks as a bookkeeper for Par- standards we have today. nacott and Sterling, later marrying Lawrence Bucklin and[...]had two children, Bill and Marsha. Bill living in Lansing, Margaret's influence encouraged the family to become in- Michigan and Marsha in Florence, Montana. t~rested in the health field. Eloise took her nursing training at Madison College in Tenn., in 1950, Minnie in 1957 at Loma William and Rose Parnacott had no family. William died in Linda, California. Merna took a practical nurse's course and 1943 and Rose in 1947. They were both active in the Catholic Charles a business course. Victor and Eloise and family joined the staff of the Nursing Home in 1955. Mr. & Mrs. Wi[...]ng Home here had many ups and downs as prog- ress in the Nursing Home Business across the nation ex- panded and Medicaid came in. New Laws of fire safety stan- dards, staffing,[...]rsing Home could no longer keep up and we closed in July of 1974. However, this great town did band together and raised $120,000.00 toward a new Nursing Home, but with inflation and being a small town without a hospital, it just wasn't possible to get the pro[...]ies and it was small enough to give skilled care in a home like atmosphere that let them live out their lives in contentment. Now in the ending of the small nursing homes of t[...] |
| Claude and Bess Sterling. He was a partner with William Mr. & Mrs. Henry Peck in he~ house built in 1909. (Ver~a Parnacott in the grocery store. She was an excellent piano[...]He was also born in Germany. He came to the United States Church, B.P[...]ur, Lilly Ruby Peck Gates (de- Claude and Bess Sterling had four children, Stewart, Leola, ceased) and Et[...]re accomplished musicians playing for many dances in the area. Claude died in 1940 and Bess in 1957, Stewart died in 1955 RALPH PIKE and Wayne in 1980. Leola, Mrs. R.E. Davis, lives in Longview, I was born at Kansas City, Kansas.[...]f Gladys Washington and Audrey, Mrs. Jay Gilbert, in Hamilton, Mon- and Orie Gifford. They were divorc[...]ranches in the Belgrade area. I went to school, did chores,[...]as much mischief as the average kid (maybe more). In THE HENRY PECK HISTORY[...]any. She the Clark Maudlin place. Meanwhile, back in North Dakota, was born July 1, 1869. She came to Montana 35 years later. Lois Williams was born in rural McLean County, the sixth First came to Boze[...]nd Ethel Williams. After on her way to Whitehall. In Whitehall she worked for Mrs. graduating from Washburn High School in 1937, she came Smith at the hotel. My dad was a miner at Whitehall, Silver with her family to Montana, also living in the Belgrade area. Star and Ennis. they lived in Pony where I was born. When I Lois and I[...]zeman on July 7, 1939. I was two years old, about in 1908, they came to Three Forks worked on ranches in the Belgrade and Manhattan areas for where dad wa[...]there ever since, building one of the first homes in Three moved into Three Forks for the first time in September of that Forks. year. There were a number of moves in the next few years. I I had two sisters and on[...]round worked for Earl Wiggins at the elevator for a time and later Three Forks. Mother and dad were married July 1895. moved to Butte where I worked in the Belmont and St. Lawr- Mother's name was Augus[...]s, dad started working on the railroad .. Trident in the fall of 1942. I served in the infantry during Three Forks was less than one[...]y dad's name was World War II, with the 36th Div. in Europe and was wounded Henry Peck. He was an old timer in Three Forks. He worked in action. The worst injury was to the right leg. Af[...]ect the main cord, 13 skin grafts, several months in a roundhou~_to Deer Lodge.[...] |
| During the war, Lois and our small son Paul lived in California. Our daughter, Virginia Gail, was born[...]work at Ideal Cement. I retired from that company in 1973 after 31 years of service and have worked fo[...]+ OP AL.I. KI.ND-t We are both active in a number of organizations: V .F. W. and Aux., Odd F[...]ebekah Lodges, Masons and Eastern Star. I am also a member of York Rites, Disabled American Veterans and American Legion. · Our children both live in Santa Cruz, California. Paul's wife is Joan. He has 2 sons, Mark and Bryan and a stepson, Jeff.[...]NDREW S. PLETT lived in the brick house on First Avenue in the same block that Mr. Plett came to the Unit[...]old telephone office used to be years ago. It was in this mark at the age of 17. He settled on a homestead northeast of house that their oldes[...]. Plett sold that house and moved into a three room home he had Three Forks had just been named at that time. He was a built on First Avenue right across the road from the Mil- carpenter by trade and after a few years of crop failures, he waukee Railroad tracks and one block in front of the Three closed up his farm and went to Taft, Montana and worked as a Forks school. Louie F. Plett was born in this home. Three carpenter on the Taft tunnel for[...]d. years later Andrew Plett Jr. was born in the same home. In When that was finished, he came back to Three For[...]·rooms on the main floor and an upstairs. It was in 1927 that Three Forks and had a few successful crops there. Mr. Plett received his first car oflumber and went into the In September of 1912 he went back to his native Denm[...]re and coal business, gradually. Their fourth for a visit with his parents 3:nd on his return to the United child, Susanne Marie Plett was born in this house. States, his brother, Louie came with him. Andrew remained in He continued working as a carpenter and then was hired by Three Forks and his brother settled in Butte and worked in the Ben Adams to build the Climbing Arrow Ranc[...]build the Andrew continued his carpenter trade in and around Three D.D. Francis ranch up Six[...]udlow. Forks and also farmed his section of land. In September of The Block Ranch on the Madiso[...]bout this 1914, Mr. Plett went to his aunt's home in Minneapolis and time. Quite a crew of men were hired to help with the building[...]Andrew Jr. married Iris Dent from Belgrade in August 1941 Seated: Andrew, Mary, Marie and Kirstine and they lived in Butte for a while where Andy Jr. worked as a[...]rpenter, they then moved to Charlo where they ran a dairy[...]farm. After Mr. Plett Sr. passed away in June 1944, Andy[...]wife settled there also. They are still living in Spokane.[...]went to Spokane and took a business college course and then[...]ent to work for the U.S. Treasury Accounts Office in Helena, Montana in 1936. She worked there until she married Everett[...]D. McKee, a brakeman for the Northern Pacific Railroad in[...]Louise. Donna Wetherell and two girls live in Spokane.[...]live in Longview, Washington and Christine Lendhart and[...]her little boy live in Portland, Oregon. Mary's husband retired[...]from the Burlington Northern in April 1977 after 42 years of[...]service. They are still living in Spokane as of this ~riting.[...] |
| [...]th their three children Bill, Betty and Boni ell, a district manager for the Spokesman Review and Chroni- moved to Three Forks in Oct. 1946. Ray Polston was a car- cle. Marie worked in different photography studios as a re- penter and built many houses in Three Forks. toucher and photo colorer, before an[...]ynette Marie and Dean Robert. zation in Three Forks and helped to build the main log cabi[...]4, 1975. Mrs. Plett did get to visit her homeland in Denmark while in good health. LOUIS and MARY PLETI' |
| home and passed away in 1937. He never married. Lol[...]Wilbur Cuthbert, the youngest child, was known a~ Cub. As buildings at the Headwaters. In 1938 Art married Essie Ellen he grew to manhood in this area he took over the operation and Murry or Murray LaShelle, who was a descendant of Granny ownership of his ground and[...]rry side. They lived at the Headwaters until live in this area it has been left to them to provide the informa- they got their home in Manhattan built. For reasons of health, tion on him. Nettie J. Dimock passed away in September, Art and Essie, in 1972, moved to the Lloyd Pyfer home where 1944.[...]was sixteen years of age when the family arrived in remained until she entered the ,r est home in Bozeman in July, this area. She and Woody trail drove the livestock here from 1978. Essie passed away there in March 1982. the Fort Benton area. Mrs. Dimock and[...]some ground. When the proving up period was over a PYFER FAMILY nea[...]r out of her homestead by some In 1982 Lloyd Arthur Pyfer and Vara J. are the only[...]iage bers of this family still residing in this area. working outside in the fields, and working with the livestock.[...]On July 30, 1917 she married Arthur Amos Pyfer in Boze- County, Montana. His parents we[...]uated from Clark. The family lived in the area of Whitehall and Three eighth grade from[...]he Wenatche-Chelan, Washington area. ness College in Missouri and became a certified public accoun- Lloyd entered the first grade at Chelan. The following year the tant. In 1946 he married Mary Sasek in East Helena, makes family returned t[...]ade. When he started the third grade he and Clark a very successful accountant with Galusha, Higgins,[...]s of the Millegan school. Galusha, is very active in lodges and organizations on both Mabel[...]and national levels, very civic minded and active in the there had been no students in the district for a number of years political party.[...]he school had been vandalized the school room was in the After Art went to work at Trident and the[...]here one harvested the pump- schooling. In 1930 they moved to Trident where Lloyd entered ki[...]the them was by boat. Lola and Art were divorced in 1932. In 1935 ceremonies being held in Logan. Lloyd's high school years she and her chil[...]Three Forks, where he was principally interested in made her last home in Whitehall and passed away in Helena sports. The middle of his sop[...]lling The Pyfer family came to Gallatin county in 1895. Samuel horses and mules. He re-e[...]ith their two sons, received his diploma in December, 1939. Because of the mid- Arthur Amos,[...]in with their goods and livestock and homesteaded in the[...]d early Salesville area. Here three more sons and a daughter were[...]nt re•s idents of Logan area. They were married in 1916 and Ray[...]Business College in Missouri where he played on their bas- Elizabeth died and is buried in the Logan cemetery. ketball, f[...]ketball Other members of Martha's family lived in this area. Sister team. March, 1941, he r[...]nown that Missouri was'by hitchhiking. In March, 1942, he left school they were there in 1910. and enlisted in the Armed Services. Assignment was to the Arth[...]n Nicey Air Corps, with basic training in Hill Field, Utah. While here (Ella) and Cephus Inabnit in Willow Creek for 5½ years before the en[...]were found they were sent to Alameda, and robbed in his home on September 4, 1910. Ceph and Ella[...]married in Berkeley, California on August 31, 1942. For s[...]and Nova Mil- Salesville area and rented property in the present vicinity of dren (Shank) Jone[...]27, 1917 at Challis, Jess Kilgore's property and in 1910 were on the Crowley place Idaho. Sh[...]for many the Challis High School in 1935 and received additional edu- years at Triden[...]t, retiring from there. When cation in Pocatello, Idaho and Berkeley, California[...] |
| [...]a child, David Dana, born May 16, 1976 in Missoula. The family is residing in Poplar. After working as Home Trainer[...]employed in a responsible position with the Fort Peck Indian[...]Tammy Lloyd, born October 6, 1952 in Bozeman, graduated[...]from Three Forks, attended MSU on a 4-H Union Pacific[...]Forks, in Bozeman. Their children are Wendy Kaye, born Jan.[...]Colorado Springs, Colo. Tom enlisted in the Army in 1972, serving in U.S., Germany, Korea and presently is on detached[...]Guard as coordinator in Medical Company. Mary is a[...]ker and Certified Nurse Aide. They presently live in[...]Andrew A. and Ella (Kuipers) Droge of Rural Route, Belgrad[...]son, N.D. Randy is employed by Matador Service in the oil fields and resides in Belfield, N .D.[...]to England on the Queen Elizabeth, arriving in early June,[...]s honorable discharge at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in Oc-[...]tober, 1945. The family returned to Three Forks in Nov. 1945[...]military service to employment at being employed in those areas. She was employed by the th[...]kland, Calif. at the time of the mar- Trident in March, 1949. At this time he purchased McLees ria[...]Citizen building is in Three Forks. In 1950, associated with his Children born to thi[...]nd Mt. She graduated from Three Forks High School in 1961, operated the Pyfer Elevator and Fe[...]Bos) stands on the east end of Three Forks. In 1953 he sold his share Veltkamp of Amsterdam, Mt.[...]e farming Reagen, Clinton, Mt. at Rathdrum, Idaho in 1980; Christi and ranching east of Three Forks. Anne, born Oct. 30, 1964 in Bozeman. Vicki, Allen and Rearing and participating in the activities of five children, families live in Missoula at present time. Allen is mechanic ranching and railroading did not leave a great deal of time for and Vicki is Tupperware Ma[...]yd or Vara. However, they Aug. 29, 1966 is buried in the Bozeman Sunset Hills cemetery. are members[...]ive 4-H Club Linda Loanne, born Sept. 12, 1947 in. Bozeman, graduated leaders (first club lead[...]ars Post and 1968 she married Peter Daniel Griego in Spokane , Wa., the Auxiliary 7621 having he[...]es Griego, Santa Fe, New Mexico. offices in the organization. They have worked with Boy Sc- T[...]was Secretary-Treasurer, Local Chairman and a System Of- thony, born May 13, 1980 Kirkland, Wa.[...]ailroad Brotherhood of Maintenance ently residing in Kirkland, Wa. Linda is a homemaker and of Way Union until it was n[...]or Citizen Club Terry Lynn, born July 11, 1949 in Bozeman. She graduated and Lloyd was elected as a representative to the 1982 Legacy from Three Forks, with a B.A. from Montana State, and a Legislature. Lloyd cares for the ranch a[...]" on the ranch. (Pickett) McAnally of Poplar, Mt. in Wolf Point. They have[...] |
| [...]ontana Sept. 11, 1901. We moved to Logan, Montana in At one time I knew nearly everybody around Three Forks, 1904. At that time Logan was a busy town. They had a round- especially the Lane family that li[...]s open 24 hours. There left Three Forks in 1918. My folks , John and Carrie Quist, are were[...]were. four boys and There were seven children in our family. My dad ran the three girls in the family. They are all gone except two. The coa[...]only ones left are my sister Alice, living in Reno, Nevada. I live hurt in an accident. He was in the hospital in Missoula for 18 at 1808 Thornton in Butte. months and could not do any work after tha[...]Arthur Quist to Three Forks in 1910. We were still living in Logan when the Milwaukee Railroad[...]JOHN and FAIR REMPP was built in 1908. We kids used to go and watch them build the[...]Feb. 10, 1927. Before going to Three Forks in 1918 John was Forks. The Madison river used to fr[...]employed by the Helena Meat Company in Helena. Upon the water out of the river and flood[...]arriving in Three Forks, John bought 125 acres across the two[...]elling cattle. They had one daughter who was born in Three 90 is now there would have been three feet[...]Madison River to the Carpenter Ranch looked like a lake. In 1938 Fair had to go to the Galen Sanitorium for t[...]d acquired. It took 28 months I started school in Three Forks in 1910 and have seen Three[...]fore she recovered. John and their daughter lived in Three Forks grow into a small city. I used to watch them move the[...]Great Falls where John worked for a packing plant. In March · to its present location. At that time Le[...]1940 they moved to Boise, Idaho, but found a place to rent in livery barn and garage . He used to run three tax[...]Nampa, later buying a twenty acre place 4 miles from town. stairs, over the livery barn, was a big dance hall , dances were held all the time.[...]During the winter John worked for a sugar factory and[...]learn the profession as laboratory technician in Minneapolis.[...]She married and had three dallghters. In 1953 and 1958 the[...]Holland, and after a prolonged illness John died March 1961.[...]Residing in Minneapolis, Fair learned to be a beauty operator and owned a beauty shop. She later made two more[...]trips to Germany. She planned to attend a family reunion in August of 1982 in Bozeman. She has two sisters, Mrs. Carol[...] |
| [...]The family then went to Ontario, Canada in the far north on[...]of Bozeman, and They returned to Montana in 1908 and on December 12, 1908, a brother Joe Richardson, who lives in Anaconda. he applied for a homestead. The final land patent was dated[...]Meanwhile, a partnership was formed with William Hunt to[...]operate a hardware store in Three Forks (see pictures). Ap-[...]Ben Reynolds came to Montana for the first time in 1906. partnership with a Mr. Long who was engaged in the plumb- He, his father and an uncle had a contract with the Milwaukee ing and heating business. Railroad to build 110 miles of roadbed in the area east and Ben was active in Three Forks community affairs and was west of Roundup. The bulk of this work was done in 1907.[...]ied Carolyn (Carrie) I. Noyes on October 22, 1903 in Commerce and served as an officer at one time. Wymore, Nebraska. They maintained a home in Billings dur- In 1913 or 1914, the family moved to Manhattan, Mont[...]and bought a home there. Ben worked for Power Implement of Carolyn was born there in 1907. Bozeman, Montana. This was a branch of the old T.C. Power Other children were Mary Louise born in Kansas City, Company of Helena. March 10[...]ber 5, 1911 while on the Ben Reynolds died in 1917. homestead near Three Forks and Ben Reynolds[...]Tyler Reynolds 26, 1915 in Manhattan, Montana. Ben Rey[...]Howard Ricketts was born in Perry County, Ohio to Matilda[...]and James Ricketts. Beula Bell Ricketts was born in Junction[...]hio to Margaret and Frank Bell. Rev. Ricketts was a[...]The couple were married in Friendship Church, Junction[...]born to the couple in Ohio where they farmed and Rev. Rick-[...]etts taught school. In 1917 they moved to Delaware, Ohio[...]leyn College in 1921. The family moved to Boston, Mas-[...]Boston Seminary in 1924. While in Seminary, Rev. Ricketts |
| [...]Beula Ricketts, always a homemaker, enjoyed sewing and[...]embroidery work. Getting prepared for bazaars was a year long project. She had a lovely alto voice and was a faithful member of[...]Percy Roberts was born in 1892 in Pennyslvania, he had two[...]Bob and Charles. He attended one year of college in Pennsylvania. He then set out for Three Forks, Montana as a baseball player. He[...]Milwaukee Railroad in 1911. Percy left Three Forks in 1923 to go to Florida. He retained[...]years. He returned in a Packard Touring car which was used by R.R.[...]Roberts returned shortly after the earthquake in 1925. Ivern, Percy's wife, was born in Missouri in 1899. Her father was a E. 'ction foreman who was known to lay the first track in various sections of[...]d for the R.R. crew in box cars around Butte. Ivern stayed with her sister in Three Forks and was working at the cafe when she met Percy. H. B. Ricketts in Butte At the age of 16 she married Percy in Butte, Montana by Howard and Beula Ricketts R[...]e. Gayle was born in Three Forks in 1915 in the Henslee Rooming[...]She attended grade and high school graduating in 1933. She[...] |
| [...]ABRIEFHISTORYOFTHED.A.ROBINSONFAMILY My father was born on a small farm in Tennessee on[...]had been a Civil War veteran. He left home at 14 to work in the[...]tton fields, moved on to the farms around Modesto in[...]lowed a brother to Montana where he later went to work fo[...]the Northern Pacific Railroad in Livingston and eventually became a locomotive engineer. While in Livingston in 1908 he, along with some other[...]workers broke into a wrecked railroad boxcar and removed[...]caught, convicted and sentenced to 4½ years in the State Prison in Deer Lodge, where they were released in June 1912[...]sentences were a bit stiff not o~ly to set an exam_ple, but also[...]stealing at the time. Anyway, the Governor gave a full and[...]em to go to work for the Milwaukee Railroad there in[...]In January 1914 my father went back to Mississippi w[...]he married Myrtle Lee Mosley, a 19 year old school teacher he[...]had been corresponding with as a <l)en pal". The marriage[...]I was born in Deer Lodge the following December 16. We[...]moved to Lewistown where we lived in a «dug-out" (not so[...]In 1919 my mother and I spent the necessary six months to married Russell Dunbar in 1933. Two children were born: <<prove up" on 160 acres of land for a «homestead". It was 40 Garrell and Sylvia. Garrell is in Las Vegas and employed as a miles south of the nearest railroad at Malta,[...]sor. Sylvia married Roger nearest store, and a mile from the nearest neighbor and who McCormick and is presently living in Bozeman. They have spoke French. Except[...]us was on foot. It was bare Gayle went to Butte in 1954 and worked 14 years at the land tha[...]d. I got the mumps and my parents Finlen Hotel as a desk clerk. She returned to Three Forks after g[...]first in a one room «shack" on Adams Stree, a block south of ROBERT and GRACE ROBER[...]e three room Robert Roberts came from Michigan in 1910. He jumped «Davenport Place" wher[...]the Jack Hamil- from the train at Sappington and in doing so had to run for tons (a Milwaukee passenger ~rem_a n); Tom Brooks (the_ about ½ mile to keep from f[...]re he worked for several years on Hebgen Dam with a scraper and a team. He left there and Mrs. D. A. Robinson - 88 years. H. H. (Howard) Robinson. homesteaded in Canada, spent some time in Washington and Oregon. He returned to Montana where he worked in the Boaz mine. In 1931, he married Grace Mason in Butte, Montana. In 1934 he was hired to work at Trident. He worked there until his death in 1956. Grace and Bob had 2 children, a daughter Lorraine, who resides in Los Angeles and a son Lawrence, who married Beverly Kirschner and t[...]ott, Gary and Liza. Lawrence and his family Ii ve in Helena. Grace did room work in the Sacajawea and at the Bryant Hotel. She also w[...]d helped build what is known as the West End Cafe in about 1950. She worked for Al Ashley, for Charlie Robinson at Big Sky in Three Forks, also Jim Anderson who owned the Big Sky and back to the West End. In all she has cleaned and cooked for Three F[...] |
| [...]black person I more and were caught. To a small boy this was an awesome knew in Three Forks then); the Newton Cranes; and a Nor- sight. Once or twice they seemed[...]would have "night-mares" even years later in which I could Inez and a younger son whose name I have forgotten. Irene[...]little boy being chased by the big horses and was in my school class for several years until the famil[...]very much overweight and had diabetes). They had a parrot that often imitated my It must h[...]ad ever seen at that Great Depression". I was in high school and moved to the hotel[...]evious janitor nearly died When I was 9 or 10 in 1924 or '25 we moved into our last from tr[...]runk on «canned-heat". (It was still during home in Three Forks, still on Adams Street where my paren[...]big ice house where it was stored after had been a duplex of three rooms each which my parents[...]son River each winter. The ice was remodeled into a single five room house where they put in a packed in clean sawdust and would last until the next winte[...]uded sweeping and mopping the lobby, and plumbing in about 1926 or '27 with the help of the local[...]while at- plumber by the name of Brackney. We had a well with an tending high school and[...]ure system. There were still many outdoor privies in town which regularly got tipped My father's lack of "seniority" as a locomotive engineer on over every Halloween night[...]the depres- We must have gotten our first car in about 1927. It was a sion years, but he was proud that he never took a dime of used Maxwell with <<side curtains", which when we got a new "Relief' as it was called then. He often worked up to 18 hours a car later was used like a truck for hauling dirt from the bench day dur[...]provide the top soil for the garden my folks put in there "truck-garden" when most everyone had his[...]which I helped <•extract" from the bee "combs" in our was waving to some other kid to "show off' my[...]car until I ran into the side of it. Was I ever a blend of sweet-clover, dandelion and willow buds sold for a scared? We went over to the Avery Garage nearby a[...]dandelion. Our first radio was a DeForest, named after the inventor of the radio vacuum tube. For a loud speaker it had a large horn I quit the Sacajawea and my go[...]rademark. For when I finished high school in June 1932 and went to work for power it req~ired an automobile storage battery and a "dry Mr. Woodward as a •<night cook" at the Van-Noy Interstate battery", both of which stood out in plain view on a shelf which ran the •<Beanery" at the[...]beneath the radio. It was tuned with the help of a delicate hours a night from seven to seven, seven nights a week for the coiled spring wire called a "cat's whisker" that dipped into a entire summer I was paid $35 a month plus my food. That round shiny exposed surface about a half inch in diameter and figures out to about 10 cents[...]opper the same as my father was making as a truck-gardener and wire stretched between two tal[...]honey producer. far away as Pittsburg. What a Luxury! It was in the fall that year that I started college at Boze[...]ived with his son across the studying toward a degree in Civil Engineering. My two room street south of us[...]side plumbing" was just off c~mpus behind the was a Christian Scientist who had acquired quite a reputation heating plant and it rented for[...]as thought to be one of her successes. With a scholarship my out of pocket cost for the year to[...]Butte Daily Post, On August 9, 1935, in Wallace, Idaho, I married Lovina and the Sunday[...]delivered daily to cus- Works which is still in business in Helena. tomers all over town on my bicycle before[...]University of Michigan wore out three bicycles. In addition I sold subscriptions to and in Ann Arbor where I received my Bachelor's Degree in June delivered many of the popular magazines of[...]. Steel's Carnegie-Illinois' South Chicago Works, in erty, Ladies Home Journal, Country Gentleman and[...]ew the Both our children were born in Chicago - a daughter Mari- names of all the thousand or more[...]of the town. lyn on December 15, 1936 and a son Allen on September 20, Around the early a[...]vered 1939. to the customers of Parnacott & Sterling by a horse drawn delivery wagon and there were times when because of heat or In 1940 we settled in Southern California where I became flies,[...] |
| become first their Personnel Director and then the Plant In- mines in Butte. Samuel and Rhodillia were married Feb. 13,[...]at the steel plant. raised in Three Forks. Helen married Everett Oyler. They I left Kaiser in 1948 and by 1951 while working for another have lived in Three Forks, and Manhattan all their married steel company I became convinced I ought to go into a business life. Lorene married Bill Blakely in 1939, living in Three of my own and made a radical switch from my engineering[...]g into the egg business. Beginning with a Cement Company in Trident. They have two children, Larry[...]I expanded to about 135,000 before sell- ing out in 1964 so I could follow an ambition since childhoo[...]that ambition. Dur- road until his death in 1940. His wife, Rhodillia, married ing the past 1[...]50 states at least Peter Kaneuth of Havre in 1942 and lived the remainder of twice, made 13 trips to Europe spending a total of over 25 their lives in Three Forks. months traveling mostly in my own car driving in all the[...]ope except Albania. Some weeks were spent driving in the "Iron Curtain" countries of eastern Europe. F[...]America, North and Eatern Africa. Best of all was a 72 day THE ROE FAMI[...]to Katmandu, Nepal, through countries It was in 1909 that Ernest W. Roe, his wife, Maud, and son,[...]at are no longer open to AmericanRussell, arrived in Three Forks. They were accompanied by a travelers. In more recent years there have been tours ofRus- Mr. Chaffin; who was Mr. Roe's partner in a Meat Market in sia, Siberia, outer Mongolia, Red China. Taiwan a[...]purchased the meat business of the Lane etc., for a total of nearly 75 countries.[...]e purchased the market of the Bryant Brothers and A.C. Lee. are still places I would like to see. It[...]ran the City Meat Market till pis death in 1922. After Mr.[...]of the business to Mr. James My father retired in 1957 at the age of 75 and died on August[...]The 22, 1974 at the «ripe old age" of92½, only a year younger than market is still being run in the same building by Mr. John his father at his death, and both in quite good health up to the end. My father was still traveling in his 80's. Lingenfelter. My mother is living in north eastern Washington and will Ernest W. R[...]1881, died March 22, 1922. He was united in marriage to Miss be 88 in June. She is in quite good physical condition except for being confined to a wheelchair due to a broken hip shortly Maud McGarrah at Butte, Mont[...]Wichita, Kansas to a meat cutters school. From there he went to work in a Meat Market in Kiowa, Kansas where he met his[...]future wife, Maud McGarrah. Mr. Roe was a member of Three Samuel J. Rodda, born in England, August 4, 1889, came to Forks Lodge No. 73 A.F. & A.M., The Royal Arch Masons, The Butte as a small boy, moving to Three Forks to work for the[...]2 Knights Templer, Bozeman and Milwaukee Railroad in 1912. Prior to that time he married The Bagdad Shrine of Butte. He was also a member of the Rhodillia VanWart of Woodville, Montana, a small town bet- Three Forks Chapter of Eastern St[...]Maud E. Roe was born and raised in Kiowa, Kansas. It was[...]years in Butte they moved to Three Forks and with the exce[...]two short periods she lived there till her death in 1937. Maud was a past matron of the Three Forks Chapter of East-[...]W. Russell Roe, 1908-1975, was born in Butte and moved to[...]Three Forks when he was just over a year old. He graduated[...]from Three Forks High School in the Class of '25; and soon[...]rward bought out the Grocery Delivery Business of A. C.[...]to live in 1930. He later moved to Whitehall and ran the Arr[...]Bar in the Borden Hotel for Mrs. Borden. During World Wa[...]he joined the navy and spent several years in the South Pacific[...]Town Club Bar. Later on he ran the bar in the Sacajawea Hotel. 1Rusty" passed away in December of 1975.[...]enry B. Roe 1911 - Still here - (that's me). Born in Thr e[...]. spent a few months in Butte during the fall of '29 and th[...] |
| [...]that he had no farmers in his family, and we moved back to[...]1935. He worked for Parnacott and Sterling a couple of years[...]and then at the Palm Hotel in Whitehali till the start of World[...]t the service and hired out with McDonald Douglas in Long[...]Beach and worked there till he retired in 1975 and moved back[...]When the Roe family first arrived in Three Forks, they lived[...]at 207 First Avenue East. (I was born in this house.) Then after a couple of years we moved to 220 Fourth Avenue Eas[...]East, where we lived till after my mother's death in[...]Montana on our honeymoon. We arrived on a Saturday even-[...]ing and our first dinner was a can of chili served out in the yard[...]at the Hoellein house on the Madison River in our wedding dishes. We were so in love, nothing mattered. We used the[...]kitchen and bathroom in the house and slept in the trailer[...]moved into the yard of Jim and Joan Hayden where I could sit[...]running water in the sink. My first acquaintances over coffee Maud[...]ht out the southern accent and just out of a large University in Texas Dray Line ofL. R. Henslee. After a few years I disposed of the with a degree in music. I had difficulty following a conversa- Dray to Mr. "Bud" Fisher and I went t~nding bar for Harry tion, not knowing a heifer from a Hereford. Salki at the Plaza Bar. In 1941 I went firing on the Milwaukee In August along came the '59 earthquake. Our little trailer Railroad. I retired as an engineer in 1975 with 34 years of was bounding and we[...]this ranch with the inten- higher ground in the dark. What a honeymoon!! tion of building a big feedlot; but after a few years he decided We left after August t[...]A&M. When he finished, his love for Montana was dra[...]back and I agreed for 2 years only! We re-arrived in Three in the butcher shop. Forks in October 1960 and moved to the headquarters of the[...]active in the Federated Church but we missed our Baptist[...]day and asked-if we'd like to start a Southern Baptist Church,[...]we said, "SURE". We knew nothing about starting a church but ((God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform."[...]Three Forks was a new culture, a new adventure to us[...]Holidays were the hardest for us to face 2000 miles away from[...]((taking us in". Many others did, also, too numerous to n[...] |
| [...]and Elsie Rouse; Harry, Everett, Mary and Vel~a Ruegamer. ences as night marshall for 9 months th[...]the children went to school at Willow was to own a ranch so in 1963, we moved to Whitehall and Creek[...]It's been 23 years this October since width as a wagon box, seats were benches that would drop we[...]rselves down when hauling grain. It had a canvas top. welcoming other new, wide-eyed young[...]Next two years were spent at the school in Three Forks. ((We ful state. Thank you, Three Forks, for ntaking us in". drove in an old E.M.F. (Everett Metzger Flanders) until mi[...]GAMER The Ruegamer family moved to Willow Creek in 1918 from Eddy, Montana, Sanders County. Peter O. Rue gamer had come west from Delfi, Indiana in the late 1800's. He worked for the Great Northern[...]an at Logan. While at Logan he married Rose Lane. A daughter, now Ida C. Knutson of Helena was born t[...]Bench ten miles south of Three Forks for 4 years. In 1924 they moved to the Inabnit place i,n Willow Creek. In 1925 they moved to Manhattan where they ranched.[...]was 1918. The grade School (1-4) at that time was a little south of Park's Store.[...]with just a windshield in front, which came from Ed Avery's.[...]The following year we used a closed 1919 Model T Forci. The[...]((In 1924 when we moved to Willow Creek there was an[...]appening. On Nov. 14. of that year the tempera- In 1920 the move to the South Bench was made - now the ture changed 100 degrees in 24 hours - from 52° above to 52° Ruegamer child[...]Manhattan became home to the Ruegamers in 1925. can't remember missing a single day of school. It was at Table Everet[...]ountain Everett took the fastest ride he ever had in his life. with the State Highway in 1940 and at various jobs until July He and Jim Ro[...]d with this job until he was promoted to engineer in stopped abruptly when they hit a farmer's rock pile. At the end 1952, retiring June 22, 197 4. of the school term in 1921 the school was closed. There were[...]Miram, Dorothy Emery Three Forks in 1930. At the age of 14 Fern began playing in[...] |
| [...]Hall) and the opening of the Gallatin Gateway Inn in 1928. Fern had an exciting experience at the ag[...]l "Dance Band" joined by Vernon Jones of Bozeman, a banjo player, made the trip on the Milwaukee Railroad. Herb Wilcox was the chaperone and, while in Elkhorn, they were guests of Fern's aunts and uncles. In 1930 Fern was married to Dennis Snodgrass. They re- sided in Three Forks. Their daughter Jean was born in Sept. 1931 at the Dick Helton home, Dr. Koehler was the doctor. The Heltons lived in the present Gerry Andrews residence. The next nine years Fern lived in different places .in Washington and Montana. She returned to Three Forks in 1939. Bennie and Daisy Docksteddar who ran the Gateway Cafe employed Fern, first as a waitress, then as a cook until her marriage to Everett. Harold and[...]both attended the Three Forks schools, graduating in 1959. Harold lives in Great Falls. Harriet lives in Tucson, Arizona. There are four grandchildren.[...]n absorbed with anti- que cars. At present he has a 1941 Studebaker Sedan in an excellent original condition, formerly owned by Ida Thomp- son. He has also been instrumental in the Mosquito Abate- ment Program.[...]KI FAMILY Lottie Daniels came to Three Forks as a young lady about[...]ooden. The Milwaukee Round- house was constructed in and about that time. School was held in the building that after served as an ice house. It was at the a job. His was bartending at the Sacajawea Hotel. H[...]d of town directly behind our house that we lived in first base for the team and at this point of time had hoped for a during my childhood, 604 South Main. Harry Salki came to career as a professional baseball player. Three Forks in 1913 or 1914 from Butte, Montana. He came to[...]nteed the players the hotel. They were housed in the wing that is to the back of[...]the hotel on the Southeast side. It was run like a dormitory. They had a curfew and the doors were locked at a certain time. The Salki Family Many bed sheets served as a rope for climbing in a window Lois, Lotti, Harriet and H[...]married in Butte, Montana. They had two daughters, Lois[...]born in 1916 and Harriet in 1920. The family lived in Three ·Forks except for a year in 1934-1935 when they resided in Butte while Harry worked at[...]Bar until his death in 1940. Lottie continued to operate the bar[...]Lodge and back to Billings. She passed away in 1977. Harriet passed away in Billings in 1955. Lois Salki Hoskins lives in Billings, Montana and has a daughter Susan and a son Tye. There are three grandchildren.[...] |
| [...]now employed by Mountain Bell in Helena. He married Anas-[...]born Sept. 18, 1981. Lisa graduated in 1982 from the Three[...]In appreciation for living in a town such as Three Forks, the[...]a book match cover advertising Rod's Steak House in Wil-[...]I like to live in a Little Town[...]I like to stand for a moment[...]So I like to live in a Little Town,[...]For every house in a Little Town Is more than a house, it's a ho~e.[...]Forks from Bozeman in July, 1975. They purchased the Gam-[...]les Store from John and Esta Watson at that time. In the fall[...]Myrna was teaching in the public school system. Van began children were born, a son Allen and a daughter Florence. his retail business career in 1916 with the F.W. Wooiworth Co. When Florence wa[...]e family moved to Billings and the family started a trek which took them to four other where Joe went to work for Yellowstone County and then in states in seven years. (Each of their children was born in a 1925 they moved to Three Forks where he went to w[...]a, 1964; After retiring he cut and sold wood as a pastime for awhile. Bradley, Riverton, Wyoming, 1[...]moved back to Bozeman eventually and Joe died of a 1970). In Havre Van became a manager for the Gamble Co. stroke in the 1950's. Mrs. Sackett lived in California in her and transferred to the Bozeman store in 1970 where the family later years dying there in 1981, both are buried in Bozeman. lived until purchasing their business in Three Forks. Son Allen lives in1lood River, California and is a retired Darryl, Laura, and Barbara have gradu[...]DON F. SCOFFIELD In 1964 the Peter Kiewft,~ Sons Company, began const[...]f the Interstate 90 Highway, which brought in Layton, Utah, August 28, 1927, and is the son of[...]ugarbeets and onions. Their first residence was a mobile home parked on the He attended[...]ool and rented lot of Bud Lane at 416 Fir Street. In 1968 they purch- graduated from the Davis High School where he met Pat y ased a lot at 409 4th Avenue East, where they built thei[...]Da Jess graduated from Three Forks High School in 1977 and is Saints on October 23, 1946. After their marriag Don drov a[...] |
| [...]cattle truck until they moved to Toston, Montana in March 1949 to work for his brother Chet on the Pa[...]eir son Ralph moved to Three Forks and leased the A.M.G. Otto Ranch. Don Mr. & M[...]ed the ranch for Isabelle G. Otto until her death in November 1958 after which he bought the ranch.[...]Three Forks Washington in her teens, married J. Tedrow and homesteaded elem[...]d from the Three Forks high in the Boulder Valley. She later moved to Coeur d'Al[...]nd married John Seim. They moved to sons and live in Three Forks. Sandra married Leroy McCauley Bend, Oregon where John worked as a tree feller until his of Three Forks. They have three sons and a daughter and live retirement in 1949. They then moved to Three Forks where in the old home on the ranch. Bonnie works for the F[...]maining years. Freida died March 30, 1953 Service in Provo, Utah. George married Janet Dorsey of Three[...]Oct. 11, 1967 at the age of 89. Forks. They live in Helena.[...]Howard and Idamae Jeglum Don is active in his church and has served twice as Branch Preside[...]CHARLES REED SHADDUCK He is also active in community affairs, serving twice on the Charles Reed Shadduck, born in 1883 in Iowa, married to school board. When he isn't busy raising cattle, horses and Mary Martha Leedham, arrived in Three Forks in 1908. He grain he helps Dr. Rea of the Three Fork[...]enjoyed for the last 17 years. in 1955. Mrs. Shadduck came to Montana in 1912. She was Don also acts as treasurer for th[...]Leedham, born Nov. 13, 1913, now lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.[...]SEIM served at 1st Sgt. in the Btry A 921st Field Artillery, 96th Inf. John came to t[...]our years, one month, nineteen days. He is active in when he was 19 years old. He was born in Bergen, Norway, Masons, York Rite, Aloha Temple a[...]has one Nov. 27, 1877 and spent many of his years in Montana. He son, Ronald, of Portland, Oregon and[...]hildren, married Frieda Caroline Reinhardt Tedrow in Coeur d'Alene, Jim, Sherri and Rebecca. Idaho Nov. 27, 1928. His wife, Frieda was born in Pennysl- Nola May Williams, borh Oct. 2, 1915, lives in Whitehall vania July 24, 1891, the daughter of Carl and Bertha Miller _ where she is active in Eastern Star, China Painters Assoc.,[...] |
| [...]Pauline moved back with her parents and with his, in Lewis-[...]In Oct. 1956 they moved back to Three Forks with the[...]three children. Constance Lee (Connie) was born in Lewis-[...]dren, a son Nicholas and a daughter Tara. Ted was a pilot in[...]lines. They live in Dallas, Texas. Kim Marie was born in Lewistown, Montana. She is also a[...]versity. In 1973 Kim joined the staff of Congressman Dick[...]Shoup in Washington, D.C. For the past seven years she has[...]William Nole was born in Lewistown, Montana. After[...]graduation he attended M.S.U. in Bozeman for one year. He is Charles and Mary Shad[...]an Engineer for the Burlington Northern Railroad in[...]Tim was born in 1959 - the year of the big earthquake. He[...]was a month and two days old when that hit. What a scare. He lives in Bozeman, and works at the Valley View Supper Club[...]Maradi K was born in Bozeman, Montana. She is a junior at[...]When we first built our home in 1961 the lot across from us[...]was nothing but high weeds. It is now a beautiful park. We[...]Edwin and Josephine Skeate came to Three Forks in 1909[...]on the Northern Pacific. He made his home in the house on 2nd[...]Ed passed away in 1944. Josephine then moved back to[...]e. Mary Foy, Harry and Nola Shadduck and M.I.A. Nile. |
| 8taples, Minnesota to be near her family. 8he passed away in 1977 - at the age of 99 years and 11 months. They had no children. Ed played the 11 trombone" in the Three Forks City Band. He was an avid fisherm[...]nce Wilcox THE SKORNOGOSKIES The Smith family -Back row: Wal[...] |
| when they moved to Three Forks in 1912. He was a charter attended school here and left to live in Helena in 1939. She member of the Three Forks Masonic Lodge[...]arrison for Dr. and Mrs. Faxon while attend- died in 1936, Alice moved to Spokane and at age 66 began[...]a High School. She worked at Shodair Hospital for a working in a rest home. She returned to Three Forks in 1955 to time and then at the Deaconess Hospital in Great Falls. She be near her nephew, Walter B. Smith. She died at age 86 in returned to Helena to work at the Greyhound Bus Depot as a 1959. ticket agent in 1942. She married Lee K . Kelly in May 1943 Blanche McRae Smith and her husband, George Washing- and lived in Nevada a short time before divorcing Kelly and ton Smith a[...]returning to Montana where she enlisted in the WAVES in from Mobridge, South Dakota where he had managed the January 1944. She trained at Hunter College in New York Pierce Hotel. He managed the Montana Hot[...]for the Medics at Bethesda, Maryland at the U.S. in Deer Lodge until World War I. They moved to Great[...]the Montana Cord Tire Company (having been taken in on the U.S. Naval Repair Base in San Diego, California. Out of a crooked stock deal) so George took employment at the Ben the service in 1946 she returned to Montana and worked as Hotel. Walter started the 7th grade in Great Falls when his ticket agent for Intermo[...]Ocotober 22, 1947. Belgrade where he ran a restaurant and hotel, went to Virgil P. Smith born to Eva May and Felix Perlinck March Spokane in 1924 and that was when Frank persuaded the 21, 1921 in Butte, Montana. He was adopted by his stepfather,[...]e years old. He attended Hotel and Cafe, and took a job on the trouble shooter. He schools in Butte and entered the Army in 1941 and served in finally opened the Gateway Cafe in Three Forks on Main the Euopean Theatre[...]e laundromat location), Blanche and Wal- Army in 1948 and he and Opal moved to Granite City, Illinois. ter helping as needed. Blanche died in 1935. They lived at several Army posts in the United States and Leland had stayed in Deer Lodge as call boy for the Mil- Europe. He attained the rank of 1st. Sgt. E/8 and retired in waukee Railroad when the family moved to Great Falls. He 1965 in El Paso, Texas and they returned to Montana. enlisted in the Navy, serving on a coaling ship, U.S.S. Huron. They had four children - Danny L. born October 7, 1948 in His ship was the first into Yokohoma, Japan , with 500 nurses Townsend, Montana, (he was killed in a truck accident in and doctors, to aid victims of the 1923 earthquake. Leland Germany in 1957 and is buried in Butte, Mt.); Richard E. born completed three year[...]rvice, then worked as an December 5, 1950 in Townsend, Montana; Michael J. born apprentice linotype operator after discharge . He died in 1927 June 1, 1952 in Stuttgart, Germany and Virginia E. born at the VA Hospital in Walla Walla, Washington, age 25. December 20 , 1953 in Townsend, Montana. Walter started high school in Ringling, graduated from Virgil and Opa[...]rlie") Three Forks High School, attended college in Dillon working worked for the Burns Detective Agency in Butte, covering at the Andrus Hotel and Restauran[...]y married Jean Hunter of Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1935. was discontinued in Butte in 1971. They moved to Three Forks Her father was a monotype operator for the Spokesman Re- in May 1972. Virgil died in April 1973 at Fort Harrison view in Spokane, then worked for the Great Falls Tribune[...]d from high school. She also attended son in Butte. In June 1973 Opal bought her home on Front St. college in Dillon.[...]er taught at Polaris and Sanders, working summers in Opal Smith West Yellowstone in the railroad ticket office and a gas sta- tion. He taught two years at the Lane Sc[...]when he re- Richard E. Smith was born in Townsend, Montana De- turned here to work for the[...]brother, Danny, to join his father who was in the Army there. Their son, Frank, also took a degree from Dillon; married He spent his earl[...]his Bonnie Ann Trerise of Anaconda. He worked at a lumber yard family. He graduated from Butte High School in 1970 and in Anaconda which he and a partner eventually bought and joined the[...]raining at Ft. Lewis, Washing- now operate as the A-1 Builders. They have five children. ton.[...]t Ft. Ord, Califor- Ann married LaGrand Cazier in 1957, son ofVordis (known nia. He was stati[...]He and his brother were partners discharged in 1973 and returned to Three Forks where he met wit[...]Grande and Ann are the parents of six chil- in February 1974. Their daughter Angela, was born Oc[...]married. Connie and husband, John 5, 1974 in Bozeman. Dalton; Grandy and Tina Azure Cazier - all living in Alaska. Richard again joined the Army and[...]ansferred Swenson Cazier, of Bozeman, are farming in the Toston area. to Kornveistheim , Germany[...]a returned Beth Cazier is attending Ricks College in Idaho and Doug is a to Three Forks. junior in Three Forks High.[...]alter Smith He was discharged from the Army in 1977 and returned to[...]He and Debra were divorced in 1979 and she moved to Califor- VIR[...]ed as building inspector for the city until 1981. in Park Rapids, Minnesota on November 19, 1920. She[...]h Three Forks with her folks, Ed and Hazel Thate, in 1933. She Montana University Campus in Bozeman . He is also a[...] |
| talented artist. Many of his paintings hang in homes of his friends. MICHAE[...]e |
| [...]In 1970 the Yellowstone Garage (Henslee's) was purch[...]ee Forks High School and Montana State University in[...]was master of Three Forks Masonic Lodge No. 73, in 1962. In[...]in Three Forks, having sold the business to Toby and[...]Toby is now living in Three Forks. After college he worked in the bees with his father and from 1973 to 1980 worked as a[...]Three Forks Masonic Lodge in 1982.[...]Bank in California. He returned to Three Forks in 1976 where[...]They now live in Meeteetsee, Wyoming. Both she and her[...]Medicine in Seattle, and is now a doctor doing his residency in[...]Dr. F. L. Stentz, a native of Ohio, graduated .from West-[...]ern Reserve Medical School in Cincinatti. He came to Mon-[...]tana to serve his internship as a dentist and male nurse Elmo and Florence Sorensen[...]country that year Elmo purchased the bee business in Three Forks and transported from the west coast in boxcars to Montana to from R.D. Bradshaw. In the fall of 1952 on November 11, Gail work in the mines in Butte, Helena, Virginia City and the Ann was born in Bozeman. Ruby. Those making the trip during the winter months were In 1954 Elmo and Florence purchased their home on Fo[...]hen they reached Shelby, Montana. Later, was born in Bozeman. Dr. Stentz established a dental practice in Butte and in 1912 married Helen Cutting, daughter of a Butte Druggist. She[...]graduated from Dillon Normal and taught in the Butte The Sorensen's - Neal, Gail, R. J. (Tob[...]tist. He opened an office in Ennis several days a month,[...]Ennis in an old Hupmobile (it was new in those days) often[...]over the Norris Hill. The family lived in Three Forks from[...]coach and social science instructor in 1936. In 1940 he was[...]serving in that capacity at the time of his death, in Rochester,[...]''Steve" was born in Wahpeton, N.D., January 19, 1906 and[...] |
| [...]to Margaret Tullock of Lombard August 16, 1934, in the Presbyterian Church in Helena. Before coming to Three Forks he taught in Pillsbury, N.D., Lavina, Montana and Dixon, Montana. In 1940 "Steve" received his master of education de[...]University of Montana at Missoula. . ''Steve" was a member of the Three Forks Masonic Lodge and the Scottish Rite in Livingston. During his residence in Three Forks he was prominent in civic and educational ac- tivities of the town.[...]Funeral services were held at the Dokken Chapel in Boze- Fredrick and Julie Stock - about 19[...]at Sunset Hills Cemetery. the canyon. In 1883 the couple moved to Pony where he was[...]engaged in the mines. Here, ten children were born - Mable[...]ertrude , and William Henry . clined to continue in that capacity another year. She moved to Helena in 1945 to teach in the Helena school system. In 1948 When the mines at Pony gave out the[...]each for one year and then returned Forks in 1906 where Mr. and Mrs. Stock managed the Mil- to Helena. In July 1951 she married Leonard L. Mashino, a waukee Hotel until it was destroyed by fire in 1913. Henry Montana Power Company employee. Beca[...]his first love, mining. Julia remained transfers in his work she taught in Hall, Dillon and in the m Three Forks and started a rooming house located on Main Head Start in Philipsburg. In all she taught for 28 years. Since Street acro[...]and above the Joe Menapace Leonard's retirement in 1969 they have made their home in Dillon. A Sunday ride to the Headwaters .[...]FREDRICK STOCK Julia Mae Allen was born in Newton, Iowa on August 15, 1861, one of a family of fourteen children of the Zadock Mann an[...]hildren were by his first wife , Rachel, who died in Newton in 1854. He met Almira Osborn and they were married in September 21, 1858. Three daugh- ters were born in Newton, and in 1866 the family came to Montana via the Bozeman Road. They first settled in the mining town of Jefferson City, later Unionville, and Silver Star where the father was a blacksmith. In 1870 the family settled on a farm on Willow Creek, now Harrison, Montana, wher[...]Julia came to Three Forks and was employed as a waitress in a boarding house, where she met Fredrick Henry Stock, a mining engineer from Minneapolis. They were married in Sappington, December 5, 1882. He was employed by a mining firm in the Jefferson Canyon and he was the one wh[...] |
| [...]in daughters remained with her, Agnes employed as a waitress and Genevieve as a telephone 1 operator. William or Billy" went to school and worked as a deli very boy and clerk in the Parnacott and Sterling Grocery. In 1925 Henry returned to Three Forks in ill health and died on July 10, 1927 at his oldes[...]iver. She had married William McDeed and they had a small farm on Ray Creek. Billy, graduated from high school in Three Forks and his mother sold out and moved with him to Bozeman in 1927 to enable him to enter the college there. Af[...]o Minnesota, entered the University and graduated in 1932. Later he was superintendent of the high school in Whitefish, Montana, Coos Bay and Bend, Oregon. He died in Butte in 1958 and was buried in the Allen family plot in Harrison. Genevieve, while working in Three Forks in 1915, met John Donald Fraser, also of a pioneer family from Miles City. They were married in Deer Lodge on December 4, 1912. He was employed by the Milwaukee Railway as a roundhouse foreman and on May 6, 1916, their only child, a son, was born in a small white house (still standing) across the street from the high school. In 1917 the family moved to Livingston and later to[...]elected president of the Montana Pioneer Society in 1958, in Livingston with her daughter, Genevieve. She passed away in 1960 at age 99 years and 7 months. Her younger brother, Lumen Woodruff Allen died in Butte, the last member of the Montana Pioneer Soc[...]a Mae Stock family, was born on December 3, 1907 in Pony, Montana and moved to Three Forks, Montana[...]year where he grew up and daughter Patricia born in 1938. He became principal of the remained until 1[...]high school and in 1941 at the outbreak of World War II he[...]enlisted and served in the European Theatre as a sergeant in Billy was a very good student in both grade and high school. Troop A of the 106th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron. He[...]t- was awarded the Bronze Star near Zell, Germany in 1945 for ball team, also prominent in public speaking, and dramatics heroism. He returned to his school in Whitefish after the war while in high school. He worked most of his school days to[...]of both high schools for short periods. old home in Pony and was engaged in prospecting and garden- He left the teaching profession in 1956 moved with his ing, from about 1915 to 1924. Billy started a paper route at age elderly mother to Butte, Montana and he went to work in the 13 and later went to work during his high school years as a Anaconda Co. Smelters. He became ill and after a short time delivery boy and grocery clerk in the Parnacott and Sterling died in 1958. He was interred with Masonic ervice beside[...]remained until graduating from high school father in the family plot in Harrison, Montana. His daughter at the top of his class in 1926. Fanny Patric[...]Don Fraser took in college students to support them. Bill entered Mo[...]e and enter the University of Minnesota as it was a larger Gwen and Larry Swanby both came to Montana in 1927. school and offered a greater curriculum. He graduated at the Gwen came[...]ts from Halliday . Dak. to Gla - top of his class in 1931, and accepted the position as a branch gow. Larry came from Maple Bay, Minn. to M[...]ger for the Boston office of the Curtis Candy Co. a was employed at the hevrolet garage. Gw n and Lar[...]pt for only one year. He did not like the east so in Malta where Gwen wa teaching and the were marri d at returned to Montana and spent the summer working in Yel- Minneapolis Minn. in 1930. They have one daughter Larilyn lowstone National Park on the telephone crew. On visiting a who is marri d to Richard Miller. Th r side in Boz man. sister in Whitefish Montana he accepted a job as school Th Swanby first cam to the Gallatin Vall in 193 , teacher in the High School and this started him on his life's living in Bozeman. In 1942-45 they were 'war r fugee in Lo work. He met and married Iola F. Turner and they had one Ang le . In 1945 the cam ba kt Gallatin all[...] |
| [...]head mechanic, Mr. Richardson and his family. In 1957 they sold the garage to Fred Kamp, moving to Helena where, except for two or three intervals, Larry was in business. Larry was very active in all community organizations in Three Forks. In 1974, a year after retirement, the Swanby's moved back to the starti~ point in this area, Bozeman. Mr. and M~s. Swanby have th[...]dparents three times. The Swanbys enjoy wintering in California.[...]en. My father's first wife, Nannie G. Cloyd, died in 1910, leaving him with two daughters, Alma and Gr[...]hool, Boulder School and the old Lane School. had a son, Warren Wicks. Mother had attended Montana I was born in 1921 on the Maudlin Ranch out of Three Forks. State College, Bozeman, the State Normal School in Dillon, My dad worked on the road from Three Forks to Logan and and taught in Monida, Mont.[...]We moved to Anaconda, where my dad worked in the smel- the Three Forks area. My sisters and br[...]Wallace, Juie Tarter - 1929. In 1928 we moved back to Three Forks. I started my s[...]We rented a little house of Mr. Lou Wallace. Lots of good[...]hunt every Easter, a dancing skeleton on a board and oh, the[...]have a radio and Mr. Wallace did, so it was a big attraction for[...]We moved to my house on Fifth and Date Street in 1929,[...]I remember one year when we put on a play called Jolly[...](where we lived from one Saturday to the next for a serial) and for a whole dime too. Last but maybe best of all[...]We moved to California in 1936. John passed away in 1950. Grace Tarter Wiseman passed away in 1974, and Warren Wicks in 1978. Alma, who married Edmund Burke, lives in[...] |
| [...]11, 1978. Ed and Hazel have kept active in their garden since his She was a composer, poet and author. For a number of years retirement and enjoy their many friends who come from all she wrote a column called "Tartar Sauce" for the Herald[...]to visit. American Newspapers. Mother passed away in Bellflower on Mary Thate, Ed's mother[...]family for 10 years. She died in the Townsend Hospital in My husband, Gene Shefko, and I reside in California, but 1945. Three Forks is still[...]Charlie was born in Red Lodge, Montana , May 13, 1913. The Hazel Irene was born June 12, 1896 in Verdale, Minnesota family moved to Liberal,[...]t of and he grew up there. eleven children. In 1905 she went with her family, riding first He married Reba Duncan in Hooker, Oklahoma in 1933. on a stage coach as far as Minneapolis and then on a steam They moved back to Montana and Charlie worked in the Bear engined train to Spokane, Washington, wh[...]Mine disaster, and worked with the crews in bringing the dead She lived with a sister until she returned to Evelth, Min- and[...]15 years old. She married John L. In 1951 they, with their small son, John, moved to Ab- Knowles in 1915. They had four children; Clarence born in sarokee, Montana and Charlie bgan his years of service with 1915, Raymond born in 1918 (died in infancy), Opal E. born in the Montana Power Company. He was later transferred to Cut 1920 and Jasper Rolla born in 1923. Bank and his[...]om Cut Bank he was transfer- She divorced John in 1926 and moved to Fargo, North red to[...]to retire Dakota with her two youngest children. A year or so later she from Montana Power in 1975, due to failing health. moved to Tower City,[...]e she went to work His one son, John, a veteran of Viet Nam, is now living in for Ed's Aunt, Mrs. Lena Swartz, in a rooming house. Missoula. He is an L.[...]e Board of Directors of Edward Ernest was born in Hartley , Iowa on May 11, 1895 CRISIS Center. During his active years, Charlie was a to Herman and Mary Thate. He was the fourth of se[...]Scouts. dren. He traveled around working on farms in North Dakota He took up lapidary work aft[...]ws. He was well thought Nelle was born in Elgin, Nebraska on December 26, 1917, of and made many friends whom he visited in later years. the daughter of Orville and[...]t Ed and Hazel met. They married Emile Hague in 1936, and they lived on a ranch near were married the evening of November 9, 1928 and moved to Cody, Wyoming until 1953. In 1954 they sold the ranch and Bonilla, South Dakot[...]arokee, Montana. Her husband died there. Nelle of a chivaree to be given by old friends. (When they v[...]ne son and two daughters - Nancy (Mrs. Tower City in 1979 for that city's 100 anniversary those same[...]Betty (Mrs. David Martin) , Absarokee. They lived in South Dakota until 1930 when they moved to While in Absarokee Nelle was involved in Civic Club (as Laport, Minnesota. They farmed the[...]rved children, they moved to Three Forks arriving in April. on the Church Board, taught Sun[...]dlin and Pete Tocci , farmers the Boy Scouts. in the valley, until 1935 when he was hired at the Trident She moved to Three Forks in 1965, where Charlie and she Cement plant. He retired from there in 1960 after 25 years. were married. After mo[...]cajawea Hotel for Mrs. Josephine involved in Club work, Nelle turned to painting as a hobby. Sc·o tt and the Bryant Hotel for Mrs. Westfall. She also did Her father, a self-taught artist, had somehow always man- house[...]uth Phillips. It was sold to paintings won a ribbon at the Winter Fair, and what began Jerry Allen in 1949. as a hobby has become a 'profession. ' They bought their home on Front St. in 1938 from Mr. She also writes poetry, has had a number of poems pub- Lamb. Over the years they added the other five lots in the lished, has received several awards, and is listed in Interna- block to their holdings. Four lots were put into gardens which tional Who's Who in Poetry. they both tended. Their produce was sold to many people in Nelle Thomas Three Forks but a large percentage was given away to less fortunate[...]Art Thompson and Edith McAfee were married in Deer which she gave away for weddings, proms, fun[...]here until January 1956 when we moved to Three In 1942 Hazel went to California and brought Ed's niece and Forks. Our family lived in Three Forks from Jan . 1956 until nephew,[...] |
| ridge, South Dakota; Gary Wayne was born in Bozeman on on a farm about a mile out of Three Forks. July 11, 1956; Peggy Teresa was born in Bozeman on Jan. 15, My father married my mother, Jeanette (Bartlett) in about 1958. Art quit working for the Railroad and we moved to 1917 and they purchased the Ruby Theatre in about 1918. She Laurel in July 1963, where he was the agent for Metropolita[...]from Life Insurance Co. Lawrence Montie was born in Billings on Morningside College in Iowa. She came out to teach at Man- Jan. 4, 1964.[...]Art started working for Farmers Union Insurance in April I was born at the Three Forks Hospital on March 4, 1921. 1969. Jarrod Dale was born in Billings on August 28, 1975. The Three Forks Hera[...]ly be Arthur Jr. graduated from the Law School in Missoula in named Warren Harding Thompson, as Harding was inauga- June 1981. He is presently a law clerk for Justice John rated that same day. however, I was named Homer Bartlett, a Sheehey. Gary is a senior at M.S.U. Peggy is living and work- good c[...]e Harding proved to be not too illustrious as ing in Union City, California. Lawrence is a senior at Laurel President and I turned out to be a life long Democrat. High School. Jarrod is in Laurel Kindergarten. I was five years old when my parents moved into town in We enjoyed our years in Three Forks and made many good 1926. We lived in the little house across the street from the frien[...]Edith Thompson when small but he was a year older. His sister, Florence, was in my class throughout school and valedictorian of o[...]school graduating class of 22 members in 1939. HOMER CHARLES THOMPSON FAMILY[...]street from our and Louise (Welborn) Thompson. As a newly married couple house. My folks took me over[...]e second major Montana. This was before there was a Helena, Mont. and shock hit. before the Last Chan[...]traveled to where Helena is now located and built a log Declamatory contests while in grade school. I played 6-man cabin trading post.[...]he Indians until the gold football and basketball in high school. We had some very good rush. Charles mined for gold and put together about $50,000 teams in those years while Mr. Stevenson was our coach. The in gold dust. He and Louise then headed over the mou[...]hat is now Jefferson, Montana. He apparently lost a large Klare and Wally Lane. We went to state tour[...]to three or four years. my father). They settled in Jefferson and the home in which I graduated in 1939, went to the University of Montana in my father was born was still standing beside the[...]Missoula, from which I graduated in 1943. While attending lane road from Helena to Butte, when I last passed by in the 1930's.[...]then learned to be a brakeman and worked out of Three Forks My fath[...]23, during summer and Christmas vacation periods in 1941 and 1876. My father had a sister, Pearl, and a brother who died 1942. when young. Pearl married a man named Erve Brown. Erve and Pearl homesteaded in Willow Creek, and in later years The theatre business was[...]ression and my Charles and Louise lived with them in Willow Creek. Charles father went back to teaching in Three Forks until 1935. By died and was buried in Willow Creek. Erve and Pearl, and then Bank Night[...]business and my father stopped teaching. with us in Three Forks for a while when I was about 9 years I met my wife, Helen, while in college. She was Helen old. Then she moved to live with one of Erve and Pearl's Gussenhaven, born and raised in Butte. She comes from a children in Oregon, where she died. pioneer family of Gussenhavens that settled in Havre, Mon- My father was determined to go to college. He worked his tana in the early days. Her aunt, Pauline, still lives in Havre. way through Montana State in Bozeman and graduated about We were married in Missoula on January 19, 1944. I had just[...]graduated from Officer Candidate School in Georgia and was 1900. While at Montana State he[...]on my way to my first assignment in Oregon. We spent the war cats, played a coronet in the college band, and was a member[...]years with the 17 4th Infantry Regiment in various camps in of the debate team. the south until I went to Germany in February of 1946. I While in college my father worked in Yellowstone Park returned later that year and we[...]I attneded Stanford University_ and obtained a Masters De- coaches from West Yellowstone, where[...]re they again boarded the train. gree in 1947 and a Law Degree in 1950. I had no sooner taken[...]bar exam when I was recalled to the Korean War as a He took them from campsite to campsite. When they Captain in the Infantry, in October, 1950. I was sent to Japan reached a place like Canyon or Old Faithful he would pitch[...]f the horses. At the was admitted to practice. As a result I was detailed to the end of the journey the group would give him a tip for his Judge Advocate Generals Corp in Okinawa, where I tried efforts. Sometimes this c[...]emed General Courts Martial cases until my return in early 1952. a lot in those days. My father loved the Park and continued to visit it every year while he lived in Three Forks. I practiced law in Palo Alto from 1952 to 1961. We have two My father majored in math and history at Bozeman. He childr[...]5, and the taught high school at various places in Montana (including latest 11 months old. Three Forks) and was a high school principal. He enjoyed I w[...]perior Court by Governor Pat teaching. He worked in school systems a total of 25 years. He Brown in 1961, where I have served until now. I am now the also farmed at various times. He had a farm on the south most senior judge on our 33 judge court, serving Santa Clara bench. In 1926, when he moved into town he had been living County, a county of 1,300,000 residents. I enjoy my work a[...] |
| [...]ren: Harry, Betty, and I have been very active in legal writing and in teaching of Alma, all of whom attended and w[...]the other judges. My special interests have been in the fields of Three Forks schools. court ma[...]ee Forks since 1961, when we visited agent in Three Forks for thirty-five years; she retired in 1954. with our daughters and exposed them to our roots. I feel I Harry married Fannie Mady in Great Falls; they had two was very fortunate to h[...]children: Harry and Mary Ruth. Harry died in 1971. education and experience I had growing up in Three Forks. Betty married M.N. Gray who worked for Armour & Co. in The 22 years I lived there were very, very happy ones. Chicago, Ill. Newell was a chemist. They are retired and living My parents sold the Theatre and moved to California in in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho at 1014 Maple. They had three chil- 1945. They first lived in southern Calif., then moved to San dren: Martha , John and Ann. Francisco, where my father died in 1953. My mother moved to Alma married C[...]on who taught for seven years, Palo Alto and died in 1968. She is buried with my father in the then moved to Anaconda, Montana, where he was a chemist Palo Alto Cemetery in a beautiful spot. for t[...]My father came to Calif., but he left his heart in Montana. It children: Carol , Beth, Charles, Margo, Sally and Rick. Our was a difficult transition for him. He was a true Montana address is 419 Cherry. pioneer, as were his father and mother. I have one momento, a[...]de with the Montana flower going up each side and a crossed pick and shovel across[...]F. M. Tinsley, owner of the Cash and Carry Store in Ho[...]engaged in business here (1931 article). GUY AN[...]Mrs. Williamson D. Dunn in 1879. Mr. Dunn was a native of Mamie Martin and Guy Tibbs were married in Great Falls, Kentucky, and later practiced in Brizial, Indiana. They came[...]in Government conveyance to Virginia City. They stop[...]enroute on the trip at a stage station and at the Raymond[...]purchased a homestead from Mr. Tuggles and operated the[...]moved to the lower Madison purchasing a large tract of land ,[...]Miss Dunn was married to Mr. Tinsley in January 1883 at[...]horses, though a dark bay, appeared white when they arrived[...]near Pony, where he had bought land a few years before their Harry, Alma, Mrs. Tibbs, a[...]In 1901 Mr. and Mrs. Tinsley moved to Logan and oper[...]a meat market until 1908 when they rented their bus[...]arents first moved to the Madison there were only a few[...]They traded mostly at Gallatin City and in Bozeman, mak-[...]In 1918 they moved back to Willow Creek, retiring fr[...]business and in 1923 they moved to Three Forks living on[...]engaged in business. In the fall of 1924 Mrs. Tinsley engaged in a small cash business which she gradually enlarged[...]now has one of the largest grocery stores in town having moved to a larger building where the Saveway is now located[...]Mr. Tinsley passed away in the spring of '27 and since then[...]Mrs. Tinsley has been associated in her business by her son[...] |
| [...]CECELIA TOCCI Pete and Cecelia were both raised in Eden Country south of Great Falls, and were married there in December 1922. We moved to Gallatin Valley in 1927 with our three chil- dren, Elaine, Patricia[...]ught the John Cal- laghan Ranch near Willow Creek in 1929 and lived there until 1967 when Pete passed[...]MARION TOMA Marion Toma was born in Boston, Mass. The family came west in 1915 for her mother's health. In 1917 they moved to Boulder. Later she met her hus[...]Sacajawea Hotel , then was in the Rest Home. He passed away[...]born in Custer County.[...]her parents from Stacey, Montana, to Big Timber, in 1930 and Mrs. Eli (Marion) Toma family: Dorothy, Ellen, Millie, Neil, graduated from high school there in 1937. Marion , Eli, and Jim. The Townsends were married in Ekalaka and lived in the[...]ldren and has The family moved to Three Forks in June of 1961 and have Ii ved here since.[...]hey were the parents Andy moved to Three Forks in 1919 from Staples, Minn. and of three children, Dawn, Ryan and Vickie. Gail died in 1967 went to work as a fireman on the Chicago Milwaukee Rail- and Ron and children still make their home in East Helena. road. He had worked on the Northern Pacific Railroad in the Max is a Chemical Engineer, working for American Oil Stapl[...]He married the former Joy LaFeen Takanga, and In the fall he went back and brought his wife, Belva[...]ith their two boys, Tom and Tim , make their home in tiny son back with him. He built his home at 515[...]n - Clarence (Bud), deceased; Flor- Richard is a nursing supervisor and lives in Daharan, Saudi ence (Sis) Wilcox, Butte; H[...] |
| [...]lty has two girls, Rena Jo and Rebecca. They live in Livingston, for the high school. Mt. and Ray[...]Steven and Paul. Gene works for Cyprus up in my classroom on the second floor, where high school Industries, has served as a city councilman for five years and classes wer[...]when Earl retired from Ideal Basic Industries in 1973 and Inez filled with students. I went t[...]E DOIG TOWNSEND year in Three Forks had begun. My first memory of the[...]there?" In 1936, my husband and I were taken to Three Forks[...]ey responded. We climbed into the car and I drove A. Francis, who owned a ranch up the Madison (or it could[...]one river. He drove into town, stopped before a large building. I read ''There on my left i[...]he valley , the east and west streams were led to a table on the east side of the room . Mr. Francis[...]om here. Right ahead of me is the Madison ordered a meal for us: omelettes.Never had I eaten this kin[...]the Jefferson - comes from up this side of the In 1931, I came directly from college to Gallatin Va[...]nental Divide. Lewis and Clark named these rivers in After teaching in a little country school up Sixteen Mile Can- 1805,[...]and then one near Menard, I married and lived on a Beverly turned to look to the north.[...]Hollow. After my husband died run together?" when a horse threw him onto his head , I went back to te[...]rth ," and I taking my five babies with me. I had a little girl three years pointed, "the canyon is o[...]irls two years old - Margie and Marilyn; through. In fact it must have cut its way out of this valley[...]undreds of years ago . There isn't even space for a road beyond I taught in Manhattan in Ennis, then came to Three Forks. I just ra[...]ilyn. told me not to rent there. The women living in the surrounding We climbed back down off th[...]ve on to the end of the road; we climbed the over in Three Forks now and then, since it was a division point sides of the hill , watching out for a train whenever we were on in the railroad. So I moved into a tiny house , not far from the the tracks. high sc[...]d to myself as we owner of the house had built on a bathroom at the back, so we wandered back down th[...]have to use an outside "John" as we had had to do in[...]five and three -with me on weekends to my garden in Manhat- EDWARD MARSHALL TOWNS[...]He little cellar under the kitchen floor. Lifting a trap door in the and Clara Howk were married December 24 1894[...]h anniver- the sacks of vegetables and store them in the dirt cellar. Some sary, but for his death Nov[...]r, Hazel, was with me during the school days died in infancy. The seven remaining are: Orley born in and nights. Never was she unkind to my children. Colorado, 1900, died 1978; Ira, born in Colorado, 1903 mar- The first day of school we went very early, meeting in the ried Edna Mitchel and resides in Deer Lodge Mont.; Edna, principal's office. Mr. Stevenson sat erect on his chair before born in Colorado 1905 married Frank Irvine and re ides in his desk. He was a handsome man, his eyes bright and eager, Anaconda Mont.; Clifford born in Nebra ka 1907 married his hair clean and shiny, the waves smoothly combed back Edith Hagen died in 1955· Edith was born in Thre Forks, from his forehead. Carefully he explained rules and regula- 1911 married James A. Flint and resides in Seattle Wash .; tions of the school, passed out a schedule of classes in their Edward was born in Three Forks married Louis Croghan[...] |
| Clara and Ed Townsley. Schwall, resides in Sumner, Wash.; Mildred was born in Three |
| Butte, Mt. to work in the mines. The mines shut down in 1929 when the depression hit. In 1930 he worked on a road job at Dayton, Mt. when they were building the first highways. In 1931 he worked on the atural Gas Line from Cut Bank ot Butte for the Wittens Construction Co. And in 1932 he worked on ranches. From 1933 to 1936 Edward worked for the Texas Oil Co. as a pipefit- ter. Beginning in the fall of 1936 he worked for the Anaconda Co. u[...]t. From 1939 until World War II started he worked in the Butte mines. On December 7, 1941 he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corp. and spent the next 46 months in the South Pacific and Spokane, Wahsington. He was[...]married on November 26 1949 to Cecilia Harrington in Butte. In 1950 he began build~ C. W. (Jack) Trent. ing a house in Three Forks and on July 28, 1951 the family moved in. To this marriage were oorn two cfaugnters - Juli[...]ove, born July 27, 1950 and Marilyn Agnes In 1934 he was married to Kathryn Ross in Livingston. Tracy, born April 2, 1952. Julie lives in Olympia, Washington They remained with the family until they moved to Bozeman and Marilyn lives in Tempe, Arizona. in 1935 - going into the baling and hauling hay business in[...], etc. from Idaho, Utah and Washington to stores in same year.[...]rri McLees (Milner). The six was employed driving a truck for Ryan Grocery Co. grandchildren are Bria[...]Ed Tracy Hospital in Billings. Not being satisfied driving a truck Jack[...]into what "Jack" was born September 20 , 1916 in Unionville Mis- was then the Ted Anderson house M[...]of hard work, from daylight until dark. During In 1918 the family came west by train and settled at[...]moved out to grain haulers. These had to be eaten in the trucks as there was Roundup, Montana where hi[...]would be in the grain fields. They didn't seem to pay much Deciding to return to Montana again they came back in attention to the men and machinery, at a safe distance . One 1924 to settle at White Sulphur Springs where his father day a huge grizzly was in the south part of the field acting as[...]eemed to be the route at that time they purchased a ranch at Belgrade. Jack a:nd his the bears took migrating to and from Yello[...]Being a mechanic by nature Jack decided to build a shop and[...]grounds from Mr. Anderson he built a small building, he bought a lathe , welder and numerous tools to start his bu[...]Their second son Charles was born in Bozeman June 26[...]Along with the other work in his shop he did the pipe[...]pumped in the reserve supply of Natural Gas on the l[...] |
| [...]ip- son, William, and Judith Flegel. Jeff has a ranch out of White ment. Adding a track press, roller machine , and a machine to Sulphur Springs and Bill has a ranch near the Alder, Virginia build up tracks he[...]City area. Judi is Mrs. David D. Flegel and lives in Racine, equipment, buying and selling new and use[...]ed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. the City Council. He was a kind and gentle man who was The day af[...]ent Franklin Roosevelt re- always willing to give a helping hand to someone when it was stricted[...]vidual's home. Both sons, Tim and Chick, living in Three Forks continue to The World War II brought the Wada family to Montana in operate their father's business as he passed away Dec. 18, 1944. In 1942 the President decided to evacuate all Japane[...]arrived in Tulare, California. There we stayed till they mov[...]tayed till Melvin Vandolah was born and raised in Missouri. He came the President released th[...]if we to Montana where he married Isabel Billman in 1920. She was wanted to go out on our own. born in !migrant, Montana. The couple owned and operated a One d~y the man from the Railroad Company came to camp ranch in Shields River when he decided to go to V. A. School to recruit men t o work on the railroad . That is when Gabriel and learn to be an electrician in Helena. signed up to go to work w_ith the railroad . There were seven- Melvin was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in teen men who came with him. At the time o[...]was taken to was employed by the Montana Power as a lineman for several Butte, Montana, from B[...]Deer Park, Montana years. He moved to Three Forks in 1925 with his wife and one where Mr. Tom Koga was general foreman on Chicago Mil- daughter, Joan. A daughter, Alice was born in 1925, a son Jim waukee St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Co. He started to work in 1927 and a son Pete born in 1929. for the Railro[...]19, 1944. Mr. Vandolah was self-employed while in Three Forks until In the meantime he left his wife and son in Arizona. Later the second war broke out then he went to Vancouver and that year in June 1944 his wife and son left Arizona for Salt worked as an electrician in the shipyards. He later was an Lake City, Utah. A week before Christmas he came after his electrician in Salt Lake City, Utah.[...]n to take them to Hardin , Montana to visit his In his spare time he raised bird dogs. One dog named Tillie , brother and sister-in-law. On Christmas day the Wada family which he wa[...]e porch Before making our permanent home in Three Forks we or steps by the deliverymen. lived in Butte, Montana and on the extra gang. In 1947 we The Vandolahs had four more children -[...]d back to Three Forks. Gabriel Jr. started school in 1947 Sandy and Andy. The four older children came down with and he went through all twelve grades in Three Forks. He also chicken pox and Melvin who had never had any childhood went to college in Dillon Mt. and Billings, Mt. He joined the diseases, got the chicken pox. He was a sorry sight. Air Force in 1960 and retired from the force in 1980. He now lives in Olathe, Kansas with his wife and daughter Kimie. Melvin died in 1967 and a son Jim died about five years later. All eight children attended the Three Forks School. In 1951 daughter Shirley was born in Bozeman, Mt. She also[...]attended all twelve grades in Three Forks, and attended Col- lege in Bozeman. In 1970 she married Thomas D. Tietz. They[...]have two children and they live in Sidney, Mt. WILLIAM VEACH[...]Wada is retired from the Railroad now. He retired in We moved to Three Forks from New Castle,Pa. in 1919. My 1977. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wada are residing in Three Forks, father William and Uncle Frank owned[...]Gabe and Dorothy Wada elevator in town. The mill burned to the ground about 1922.[...]h and George went to grade school and high school in Three Forks. Our parents moved to ESTELLA ELMER WADE Phoenix, Ariz. in 1929, then to Santa Cruz where they lived for Estella was born April 25, 1876 in Bates County Missouri. some years. William, (Bill) passed away in San Francisco in She was the daughter of Cathern and Joseph[...]s; she was next to the youngest George Veach is a musician and lives in San Francisco. child. They called her St[...]fancy. Elizabeth (Lib) married Howard J . Doggett in December 1928 When she was three years old the family heard about the and lived on a ranch out of Townsend. Howard died in 1977 richest hill on earth - Butte, Montana. In April 1879 they and Elizabeth lives in Helena. I have three children - Jeffer- joined a wagon train in Saint Joseph, Missouri and headed[...] |
| [...]hen travel was not possible, Dr. Bradbury came on a[...]patient's homes.A great many people died in this epidemic.[...]Three Forks. She nursed for Dr. Hoy in the Milwaukee Hospi-[...]that time and for Dr. Barbour in Three Forks. She was one of[...]Dr. Sabo's first nurses in Three Forks after he completed his[...]uring these years she lost one son, Charlie Wade. A few[...]left a daughter, Maxine Nave, who Stella partially raise[...]In 1926 Stella and Maude Roe started a Tea Parlor and Waffle Shoppe in Three Forks where the Montana Power[...]office is today. She also cooked for Harry Itoh in the State Cafe.[...]went into a rest home in Manhattan, Montana, run by Freda[...]Richards. She passed away in her sleep at the age of 82. She[...]was laid to rest in the Fish Creek Cemetery.[...]as Henry Wade , son of Thomas Benton Wade , lived in Estella Wade .[...]In June 1891 he married Estella Viola Elmer. Estella was west on the Oregon Trail. Somewhere in Nebraska they left born in Missouri , April 25, 1876. She came by wagon trai[...]lying by their wagons Uriah Elmer, Lydia A. Elmer, Harriet Elmer, Martha Elmer, that had bee[...]While burying the bodies of the dead they heard a faint cry and Samuel Elmer. and found a little girl in a small clump of brush. They took her Thomas He[...]n with them the rest of the journey. They arrived in Butte, July children - Lloyd (born May 19, 18[...]n January Pleasant Valley which was near Piedmont in the area of 19, 1899), Melva Viola (b[...]se seven settle down and get married." So picking a man more or less of children by herslf. She s[...]married Thomas Wade on June 27 , running a cafe. She also did practical nursing. 1891. To th[...]boys and Roy Joseph Wade married Florence A. Hungerford in Three two girls; Lloyd Arron, 1892; Ray Joseph 18[...]was 15 years old. He worked as a fireman and engineer for fifty When Henry, the[...], Stella's husband years. Thomas, drowned in an irrigation ditch. The two oldest boys Clarence Arnold Wade married Doris C. Mizner in Deer helped her and they managed to keep the fami[...]d four children - Jerry Roy Later they moved onto a homestead out of Willow Creek, Gene A[...]support her family. She took ried and has a daughter Cari Joy. Gene died in infancy. in laundry and sold baked goods for some time.[...]d practical nursing, working with Dr. Brad- a daughter Sarah Lyn. Carolyn is employed in Billing Mon- bury in Willow Creek. During the flu siege in 1918, it was said tana.[...] |
| C. Arnold worked on the Milwaukee Railroad as a brake- the apple orchards. Our first child, Joyce, arrived in March of man and conductor. He retired in March of 1980 when the 1932. Shortly after she wa[...]d to Montana Milwaukee Railroad ceased to operate in Montana. He worked where my husband got employmen[...]Bill Deneke, he worked for 33 and one third cents a day or ten dollars a month. Now this really was a depression! When my SHIRLEY[...]some warmer socks and mittens, with Dr. Bradbury in attendance. I was raised in Willow so that was all he had coming. He went to[...]ey. While growing up I worked for several ranches in the country During this time , my baby and I were living in Willow such as Ezra Smart, Pete Tocci and Charlie Purdom of Harrri- Creek and my husband lost his mother. In 1935 we moved to son. Then my folks moved to Washington where I worked in[...]erine MacMillan of Harrison on February 11, 1931. A Joyce , came down with polio that summer and we a[...]s Forks and bought our first home. My husband had a team of running. I am now a retired work-a-holic and live in Three horses that he sold and bought our home fro[...]ived there for two years and then traded our home in Three Forks for eighty acres and a house to John Sheppard,[...]wandered around all night in the dark. Soon after we moved to[...]burger family who lived there bought a home in Old Town and[...]children there. In 1956 we sold the ranch to John and Jim[...]two years. In 1958 we bought a home in Logan and moved[...]December 15, 1979, when we bought a home in Bozeman. We lived there almost three years. In September 1981 we sold our home in Bozeman and purchased the Bill Anderson home in Darlene, Bud, Catherine, Joyce, Shirley Walbert.[...]Some of the most memorable times in my life , good and bad CATHER[...]are as follows: I was born in 1912, October 28th at a little old log cabin, When I was five years old my folks bought me a red fur coat which still stands at the small town of Melrose , Montana. In[...]Instead I cut across over the hill and fell in an old well. The great aunt was a mid-wife and she delivered me and also cared only[...]mother was very ill for several behind. It became a very great mystery as to what became of months af[...]my Creek, Montana and my Dad was born and raised in Canada. sixteenth birthday, I told my mother wher[...]t Garrison the fall of 1919 but moved to Harrison in Being we got married in the great depression we saw some November of that year. We moved to a ranch 3½ miles from very tough times. We had app[...]tough times of Harrison where my mother and I ran a hotel for several we sold milk, cream, and eggs t[...]had grown to six children. My thing we never had a grocery bill. Ifwe didn't have the money brother[...]was three years old, she fell into a branch of the Madison River When finishing school, I still stayed on at the Hotel until in back of our ranch home. It was the 13th day of Ma[...]ream was high and full of slush ice and there was a deep hole Wenatchee, Washington where my husband was employed in where she fell in. She was in the water at least 15 minutes[...] |
| [...]trash we gold strike at Gold Creek, Montana. A friend named Hollan- had thrown in the hole to fill it up. I got her out. She was as[...]back asked John to join him in 1882. Katherine and the two as a board and turned black. I frantically worked with[...]them. With this and the whiskey, which we dropped a drop at a time, down her and money from their home[...]rents, who felt they were at the end of the wor~d in Iowa did not respond until the fifth drop of whis[...]accompany her and went back to Austna. sputtered a little. We finally brought her to and she had fro[...]ly filled up, but we knew it they transferred to a narrow gauge railroad enroute to Butte. was God w[...]e, there to Gold Creek. They were unloaded in front of a saloon. John was there and he kept walking through the paint so I Since Katherine refused to go in, they waited outside until Mr. finally said, "John, you're walking in the paint." He said, "Oh, Hollanback came to take her to the one room cabin John had a little paint isn't going to hurt these old shoes[...]before the poor man was almost blind but it made a good John had filed on a piece of land near Gold Creek, but since joke.[...]he had a family to support he took a job as section foreman on Our years in Logan were happy years as we kept improving the Northern Pacific Railroad, living in the section house. our house and yard. But as we[...]aughter, Amanda, was born here. While he was left in Logan. We had to go either to Manhattan or Three[...]For a short time John worked in Featherman's Mercantile Bozeman. But Bozeman grew[...]Store in Drummond before the "Gold Fever" struck again. ma[...]lk so John left for Alaska. There he met Barney In February of 1981 our children gave us a Fiftieth An- Dougherty, who was to become a life-long friend, but came niversary party in the gym at the Logan School. It was a very home empty handed, broke. memorable time in our lives. There were over 200 people who[...]saved $700 which she used as a payment on a ranch site she[...]move to the ranch where there was a four room log house and a cabin for the boys in the family. John had built a home in[...]in food alone was a job as there were five more children, ten in John August Waldbillig was born in Feulen, Luxembourg, all. There were underclothes[...], 1854. When he was fourteen his brother, Casper, a boy's shirts and girl's dresses, pigs to be butchered, lard to be stone mason who had come to America in 1867, sent for John made, and gardens to be tende[...]ing mining John had been educated by his uncle in Luxembourg and camps and from Katherine's many talents. John built a nine- spoke both French and German. When he arriv[...]ood prospered. The boys and girls at- sent him to a Jesuit school in St. Louis to receive his education tended school in Drummond, walking long miles for an educa- in English with the hope that he would become a priest. tion. Katherine Frankl was born November 28, 1855, in Poders- After World War I he sold this[...]a. Her parents owned vineyards on Neusiedler took a mortgage on a hay and cattle ranch near Philipsburg, Lake near Vienna, and since they made a good quality wine, Montana. This eventually fell[...]come to America. They arrived lived. They resided in Three Forks from February 1921 to in Livermore, Iowa where there were relatives.[...]living on this ranch for John Waldbillig who was a clerk in a near-by store and came thirteen years. He was injured by a horse and died as a result to the hotel for meals. He fell in love with this Austrian blond of the injury on Au[...]ter John's marriage to Katherine, his brother and a friend named Chrischilles set him up in business in St. Joseph and Irvington, Iowa. The Chicago and N[...]W.T. WEISER being built and during a bad year the contractor went broke. I came to Three Forks to teach in 7th and 8th grades there in John, who had given the workers much credit , als[...]nces, was manager of the John and Katherine had a two-story home in Irvington.[...]th) . he was manager of the same company s branch in West Yel- Katherine's father and mother came from Austria to live with lowstone. Nona A. Weiser, mother, played piano and taught them.[...]piano to some school students. She was a member of Eastern Shortly after the loss[...] |
| church-goers to the Methodist-Presbyterian Church in Three Forks and active members of the church choi[...]liot be- came Principal of Powell Co. High School in Deer Lodge. Rolla Weiser and John Weiser attend[...]eman and later graduated from Forsyth High School in 1938. All the Weiser family are now deceased. W. T. died in June, 1964. Walter, the oldest son, committed suicide in San WE LOVE OUR OWN MONTANA[...]The best in all the west;[...]ished by Nona Alice Weiser. Bernadino, California in February, 1960, Nona (mother) pas- sed away in September, 1969. Rolla died in Veteran Hospital, Sacotelle, California in October, 1969. John died in Beaver- ton, Oregon in 1977 and Frances died on August 28, 1980. All[...]There were seven boys and six girls in our family, I am the[...]last of the boys. My father and sister, May died in 1904. I[...]sisters and my father are buried in Willow Creek. Lydia was[...]In early 1905 my mother decided to move to Bozeman.[...]in two pieces and the front built on.[...]I started to school there in a one room schoolhouse. I think[...] |
| [...]ning a bowling alley in Port Angeles.[...]but that was a rough job for a greenhorn, I only worked for a few months. Then in 1916 I went back to driving for Holmes.[...]Three Forks in 1919. I stayed awhile and when Les got mar-[...]ried and moved to Missoula I followed. In 1924 I married Eda[...]lived in Willow Creek for several years and graduated from[...]school there. We separated in 1952, she remarried and so did I.[...]She passed away in 1978 with cancer. My wife and I not long[...]grave. She was buried in Olympia, Washington. We all surely[...]and Robert Decatur West, the tenth child of a Alice Quist, Claudia Zink , Bill Quist, Harold Br[...]ox teams to Three Forks in about 1872 to help Mrs. Hall's[...]ith their many toll bridges on the Madison and In 1908, when the railroad went through, my older br[...]own as the Shed's Ed had moved there and started a blacksmith shop. His oldest Bridges. daughter, I[...]her married Tom Dunn and the Dunn family started a hack service. I remember watching the scrapers[...]were all born in Three Forks: Jim, Bill, George, Elizabeth and bu[...]Ida. In 1909 we moved back to the ranch on upper Willow C[...]George and Bill Dunn, along with Mack Lane, took a con- We went to school there for two years. In 1911 we moved back tract building the Milwaukee Railroad grade from above, to Three Forks and lived in a house across from Batchelders where Newtown was later, to the Jefferson river and possibly Dairy in Old Town. My mother boarded the men that worked f[...]r-horse scrapers. at the dairy . We walked about a mile to school on the outskirts I carried drink[...]of town. The first schoolhouse that was there was a four room mules went without untii mealtime. two[...]janitor My sister Agnes and I went to school in Old Town where work, the ~ext year Les had quit school. When school was out I there were only four in the school, we two and Russie and Eva worked on[...]s up at Young. Our teacher was, Miss Hurline, who in later years Sappington, driving four horses on a water wagon, they were married John Walbert. The next year in Old Town, as I re- plowing with a steam engine. One summer I worked for Ben member, there were ten or twelve in school, as there were now LaRm: on a dry land ranch on the north bench. more people. Halfway through the eighth grade, in the middle of winter, I When H. S. Batchelder bought the dairy, I milked cows for quit school and took a job in North Dakota punching cows. My him and then for s[...]or him at his milk mother was having too hard of a time so I came home in the plant up near the Milwaukee Depot.-We were in on the intro- spring of 1914 and left again to go to Wyoming breaking duction of the t'Eskimo Pie" a new product of chocolate covered horses for the government for World War I. We were not in the ice cream on a stick that became very popular in those years, war yet, but they knew we would be.[...]an~ to this day, still is. In the fall of 1914 I came back to Three Forks and d[...]e Henslee came to Three Forks with two horses and a kinds of jobs. From time to time I drove bus for George buggy and started a livery stable. In no time, it seems, he had Dunkley. He also playe[...]or them when they played body and his brother had a Model T which sold for between for dances. They[...]low Creek, Manhattan and at $300 and $500. He put a dray on the street to haul express and Hensley Hall in Three Forks. In the spring of 1915 I got ajob light freight and a Model T taxi to meet the N orthem Pacific driving a Model T Ford for a man named Holmes, who had trains. For 25 cents on[...]others tried different types of land farmers had a bumper crop. I can remember four horse transporta[...]most successful was Mr. teams and loads of wheat a mile long waiting to get into the Broderick with[...]at the Copeland Lumber and Coal thirteen saloons in Three Forks. They also had to close the red Yard.[...]ing when I went into the service light district. In later years I met a man who had tended bar in in 1917. Three Forks and had married one of those girls. He was run- There were some wonderful people in Three Forks during[...] |
| those years. The senior Mr. Voyles, a man in his late sixties, farmed for a while where the cemetery is now located. He had t[...]ore next to the Ruby Theater. The post office was in the drug store and the gal that handed out the mail was Eth~l Downing. Next door in the Ruby Theater building were two barbers, Ed Bu[...]as years after Ed Bucha- nan was the first barber in the basement of the Sacajawea -,..,-,- Hotel. The only colored man I knew in Three Forks was Tom Brooks. He did the porter work and shined shoes in the base- 'Mr. & Mrs. Archie White ment of the Sacajawea Hotel. What a wonderful fellow he was. Then there were those[...]ry (the fiddler) and his wife, Eva Early in the 1920's they moved to Whitehall where dad Youn[...]wife, the Liston girl, and the tall worked in a garage. They moved from there to Jefferson Island[...]e horn, his wife where mom and dad opened a shop and cafe. I believe the two was Ternice Gord[...]was over there. We lived upstairs, the cafe was in the front and every Saturday night at Henslee's Auditorium. the shop in the back. When I came uptown in the evening, seems the old gang In 1925 my dad and Ray Wilkinson bought two grain tr[...]Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine"! A story ofmy life in a very few words. In the last part of 1911 I took my student trip firi[...]of coal. If you weren't fortunate enough to have a hobo riding up front to pass coal to you when that tender was over half empty, it was a long way to carry coal and keep that steam up. I[...]so I quit, thinking there must be an easier way. A very short time later they electrified the system and the fire- man went to work with a white shirt and tie and did nothing but take sign[...]s area and its history. One of Les' dreams was of a museum in Three Forks. In the words of his sister Agnew DeBoer "He was so interested in the book. I'm sorry he didn't live to see it finished. His ashes were placed in our mother's grave in Olympia, Washington." ARCH[...]Holter Dam. |
| [...]r the Ben Adams Company hauling «Like a ship that left its moorings grain from the bench[...]So someone dear has sailed away In 1928 we moved to Three Forks in May. The first house we In calm serenity. lived in was the little house next door to the present Tom[...]esent Colgrove Than Earth could have in store, home. In 1934 mom and dad bought the Vanen Weigen house For God has planned a richer life at 401 Adams.[...]d the unseen shore." Over the years my dad was a mechanic, truck driver, night Selected. watchman for oil wells here in the Madison Valley and the[...]orth Bench. He painted the buildings on the C. A. Ranch at Francis. He also helped b~ild rooms at[...]Shop. He work- I think we liked Ii ving in Three Forks better than any place ed at Trident[...]e ever lived. We both wept when we left. Bill was a Mil-[...]eer. Our interests were the church and Eastern In the late 1940's or early 1950's he was helping build a Star. Mrs. Merrill Brasch and I did most of the decorating at house in Three Forks when he caught his right hand in an the church, not because we did it be[...]His left arm was cut off when he was 11 years old in Min- o'clock in the morning. I think the weather was 30 degrees n[...]below zero. Although Dad had a temper he also had a wonderful sense of humor. He was kind, too. There[...]inson doing carpenter work. My dad passed away in November 1958 and mother passed away in May 1965. Children: J . L. White, Carona, Cali[...]THE WICKHAMS Many interesting tales are told in Three Forks about the Wickham family. The family[...]t Holt, England. He was employed with his father, a railroad contractor until he and his family came in 1893 to this country. Jane was born in London, Eng- land June 26, 1855. They made their home at Pony in 1895 before coming to Three Forks in 1914.[...]e infants passed The tall spruce tree that is in our used-to-be yard was given away; Henry d. Sept. 1936; Alice d. Oct. 5, 1937; Lemie, Percy to us by a lady from Deer Lodge. I think it was crooked. Mrs[...]tly after writing this Mr. Wickham passed away in Sept. 1936, and Mrs. Wick- history. ham in 1942. At that time the remaining family moved to Butte. The Wickham family resided in the house now owned by Howard and Ida May Jeglum.[...]em was included with his Herb was born in Hebron, Wisc. , Jan. 5, 1886, a son of Helen obituary.[...]ene Wilcox , Wisconsin farmers. He attended chool in[...] |
| [...]joy of finally having a windmill close by; threshing machines;[...]had stopped. Usually we moved back to town in the winter. In 1918 we stayed at the homestead. We had a little Christmas[...]Forrest passed a way. There were no crops for three years. "We[...]were flat broke" so in 1921 they moved back to town. Herb was[...]Maybelle invested in a new venture. Herb bought 37 acres,[...]which he sold in 1941 to Mr. Bill Olsen, which in turn became Herb and Maybelle Wilcox[...]shipped eggs in 3:luminum containers by train to Butte, he had[...]an International panel truck and once a week delivered on an Wisconsin. He developed asthma, so at the age of 22 he was egg route in Helena. One year there were 3000 baby chicks, advised to move west. In 1907 he was milking 30 cows in they had a huge incubator, many brooders - electric and coal[...]Herb took a cot and slept right out in the brooder house. There Maybelle was born Dec[...]arid carton. Edward and Elnora Hollinger. Edward, a lumberman of En- Herb bought a player piano in 1928. All the youngsters glish and French descent called himself a "blue bellied Yan- would gather at their house to[...]Idaho where he worked on the Laurie", "3 O'clock in the Morning'', "Why Should I Cry Over Idaho and W[...], who played the saxaphone, and Cliff, who played in 1910 at Spirit Lake. By 1912 the Wilcoxes had mov[...]on the train each Avery, Idaho where Herb worked in the Milwaukee shops. Saturday for music lessons r[...]night. Clifford Twins, Fern and Forrest were born in Avery in 1912. played for his first dance at Dunbar's Dance Pavillion with In July, 1912, when the twins were just five weeks o[...]mily moved to Three Forks where Herb hired out as a In 1936 the Wilcoxes bought their home on second ave[...]ng poured, from Edna and Frank Irvin. The furnace in this house which is "the mosquitoes drove us crazy. We had a pump in the back still operating, was from the old school house in the ball park. yard. It was just a shallow well pumping alkali water and we In 1941 Herb was promoted to engineer. He sold the e[...]to Mr. Whitney of Manhattan. rented the Wilcoxes a house (now owned by Doris McLees Herb retired in 1949, passed away February 27, 1955. The Tracy) across from the schoolhouse, which was in the present past ten years, Jean, a granddaughter, has stayed with baseball park. Thi[...]d seven great, great watched the children playing in the schoolyard." Mrs. Wilcox grandchildren." Maybelle, at 94 years, continues to drive her ordered a unique cradle for the twins. She could wind it up and car, do the cooking and the housework, is in wonderful health, it would rock for an hour. She[...]racious of ladies. twins. Reed Brackney installed a three burner electric range[...]H.H.H. for the Wilcoxes in this house, the first one in Three Forks. In 1916 the Wilcox family moved 24½ miles out of Three Forks on the North Bench. They bought a relinquishment. KATHRYN VAN HORSEN WILCOX Herb took the furniture out in a lumber wagon. Roy Hunger- ford in his Model T took Maybelle, her sister and the three My life in Three Forks began on a cold January 20 in 1911- children to their new log cabin home.[...]in Three Forks from North Dakota in early 1908. forever pulling cactus out of little feet, the rattlesnakes - killed 35 in the six years we lived ther~; the terrible winter of Dad sent Mom and Vera back to Mom's parents in New 1919-20 when we lost all the horses and 400[...]d Virginia, Iowa where my sister, Wilma was born. In the fall of brought from Wisconsin except three Shetland ponies, a sad- 1908, the family was reunited when Mom and her two young dle horse and a little Jersey cow; going day after day without da[...]e Forks. mail; driving cattle to the spring once a day; haulin water in Then on January 20, 1911, they welcomed me to the fold. barrels from that same spring which was a mile and a half The family lived in the two back rooms of a four room house in away; making lye from stove ashes and water in a barrel with the 400 Block on First Avenue, East, known for many years as a tap; making soft soap to use in the boiler and hard soap to use the Josie Grace house. The Peter Kirwin family lived in the on the board; making toast by the isi[...] |
| [...]and K. Elaine Hain, were all born at home in Three Forks.[...]Cliff went to work for the Milwaukee Railroad in 1927 while he was still in school. He was a fireman when we were married[...]He served a term on the City Council at the time the first mi[...]He had been a member of a local band since he was 15 years I[...]played for dances from that time until his death in Elaine, Richard, Nancy, Kate and Clifford Wilcox.[...]We had some fine times at dances in Flaherty's Barn in One ofmy earliest recollections was my father[...]y fell into the car of apples. bered by a few old-timers. Cliff was playing atFlaherty's when I a~so remember the rocking horse that Al Dance, who ran a couple from Boulder became a little boisterous and the man the big saloon down[...]Cliff's dad, Herbert Wilcox, took a swing at the fellow who The old livery stable[...]te and Mr. Eck's ice house across the dance floor in fine style. had a fatal fascination for me I guess, because I used[...]for Sunday School at the Federated away from home a lot to play in them. Church for seve[...]s on the committee to select the I raised such a fuss about being dragged away from these organ fo[...]ome quietly was for my sister, Waters Music Store in Butte. Vera, to wheel me home in a baby carriage. I belong[...]as we always enjoyed the card parties. I remember a group ofus hanged in effigy on Main Street; attending Chatauqua shows[...]rom the Kunze house across the tracks when set up in the lot where now is Murphy's Trailer Court; roll[...]w zero. It didn't bother us - we skating upstairs in the old y ellowstone Garage; playing bas- laughed[...]I think I am the oldest person born in Three Forks proper ~t ti1:°es the hall was de[...]balloons and greenery. One time there was _ .Life in " our town" has had its ups and downs but over all, a dance when everyone came in pajamas. I remember I got has been a good life. pretty new pajamas for the occasion. T[...]Kathryn Wilcox When we would buy a car, new or old, we would test drive it up cemetery hill. Ifit would make it to the top in high gear, it was a good car.[...]Horsen was born Nov. 4, 1880 at to visit friends in Deer Lodge. During our absence there was a Marion, Iowa. My mother Minnie Martha Gleckler was born hail storm in Three Forks, golf ball size hail stones. Our Jan.[...]re married Sept. hostess offered to bring us home in her Jewett car. At that time 10, 1902 at Ruthven,[...]s. In 1904 my parents moved from Iowa to White Earth, No . As a consequence of the storm, my folks had to have a new Dakota to homestead. It proved to be a near disaster for we roof put on our house.[...]the earthquake of 1925 hit, my father was cutting a built through this area and my Uncle, who[...]im and it said the opportunities were great. Life in Montana bein~ so was never seen again.[...]with my Grandparents til Dad could get estab- In the late 1920's we had a singing minstrel show at the lished and find us a place to live. My sister Wilma arrived in Ruby Theatre directed by Mrs. Howard Elliot whose[...]ayed the part of Clemen- My Grandfather packed us a lunch, enough to last us the three tine.[...]could imagine Indians everywhere. We the Elliots in 1940. '[...]s and I was married to Clifford Herbert Wilcox in 1931 in Butte. coal smoke from the steam engines.[...] |
| [...]Van's Barber Shop - Russell Dunbar in the chair.[...]s to be our new home wasn't too great, there were a lot[...]scattered here and there. Dad had a place for us to live even[...]though it was hardly any larger than a one car garage. It's a Vera and Ralph Wilcox, Ralph E . and Mary Lou - 1[...]kerosene lamps and carried our water from a block away. We[...]with the unkempt looks of the workmen in th enew town and without any training in the tonsorial arts he set up a barber shop in the back room of Gillingham's pool hall. He later[...]he passed away in 1951. His slogan was «van's for the best[...]shave and haircut in town". Shaves were 25 cents and haircuts[...]evident there was a great need for a school. An old building was secured and made into a two room school, four grades to a room. I was in the first grade, there were 50 students in that room and 26 in the first grade alone, one teacher for each four[...]carry me to school, I had my lun~h in a little lard pail, as we[...]rounded the school building a gust of wind took the pail right[...]down and in hot pursuit he got everything back together[...]In 1910 we had a brand new school building, located where[...]In Jan. 1911 my sister Kathryn was born and we were[...]Sidewalks came in 1912, every child had roller skates, they[...]pressed to keep us girls in stockings, for we didn't wear jeans in those days; it was dresses and long stockings, an[...]the time with darns in the knees.[...] |
| In the early years the grocery stores delivered the[...]mething would spook the horses and there would be a run a way. If you were outdoors and heard all the racke[...]ver, for you never knew what was going to happen. In those days coffee sold for 35 cents a pound and 50 cents worth of round steak would fee[...]for we got to go to the show, it was hard to wait a whole week for the continuing episodes of "The Pe[...]and set up the tent, and of course we always got in free. Dad let the advance man put the advertiseme[...]erine and Grandfather Sirus (<Albert" were joined in the day the salesman for the Minnesota Woolen Mills called at marriage on the 5th day of December in 1886. Both Sirus and our house and Mother ordered[...]entually Several years after their union in marriage, they moved we outgrew them and sister K[...]them both. with their three sons and a daughter to Alder, Madison After much argument and many tears they ended up in a rug. County, Montana, where in 1902, Grandpa Sirus «Albert" In 1916 we moved into another new school building. I was in worked as a section foreman for the railroad. At this time the 7th grade. Shortly after that each class planted a tree for Merith the eldest of the three sons and with a Biblical name Arbor Day. That was an exciting day[...]Moving to Three Forks, in 1911 Meirth Williams being a In 1920 Dad built us a new home on 1st Ave. How nice it was young[...]to the Milwaukee Railroad to spread out and have a little room, and for the first time I had as a mechanic's helper in the 13 stall roundhouse. A year or so a bedroom of my own. later he became a fireman for the same Milwaukee Railroad The hi[...]owa to visit our Grandparents. Mother always took a truck, and on our return trip the truck was fille[...]chool and Church til I graduated from high school in 1922, and that fall I went to work in the Post Office which was located on the west side of Main Street in Connie Berg's Drug Store, where the old Tex- aco building is now. I worked 6½ days a week for $50 a month. On June 1, 1923 I married Ralph M. Wilcox in Bozeman, Montana, by Rev. Klemme. We had two chil[...]. My Mother passed away July 4, 1934 following a lingering illness. In 1942 I was asked to come back to work in the Post Office. The Second World War was starting and the manpower was short. I retired in 1965 and Ralph retired from the Montana Highway Department in 1967 after nearly 38 years service.[...]rt" Martin Williams, the eldest of three sons and a daughter, born to Sirus Albert and Katherine May (Busch) Williams in Perham, Otter Tail County, Minnesota on November[...], Meirth's father, being of Welsh decent was born in Cazenovia, Richland County, Wisconsin on April 26[...]eing of French, Irish and German descent was born in Buf- falo , Erie County, New York on May 1[...] |
| [...]all men working. Times neth Charles born in Townsend, Broadwater County, Mon- did not seem r[...]graduated from Rome Free luck did hit for Meirth in the spring of 1913. In March while Academy High School in Rome, New Y urk and is now married pitching hors[...]orkers he became ill and was and living in Roxbury, New York. Second son Timothy Craig rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital in Butte where pneumonia was born on September 19, 1948, in Townsend, Broadwater diagnosed. Being very ill a[...]divorced on February 5, 1974. Timothy then stay in the hospital. His recovery was slow and discourag[...]veland, her birthday being October 12, However:, in a little more than a year, he went to work for the 1945, on May 12, 1979 in Seala, Washington. They have con- Gallatin Valley, then a privately owned spur in 1914. Three ceived no chirldren to this date, however, there is a possible Forks was in its "heyday", with its two terminals, a depot at adoption of four of her children from a previous marriage. The each end of the town and[...]hildren to be adopted are: Angelia Christine born in his health wouldn't permit him to continue his h[...]hen owner/operator of October 24, 1973 in Great Falls, Montana, and the twin sons the livery stable, he hired out as a taxi driver. Mr. Henslee was Justin George and Jason Stanley born in Pocotello, Idaho, on a man who thought progress should prevail and invested in a August 30, 1974. Other step-children inc[...]rth was the first taxi driver for Mr. Cox born in Yakima, Washington, on October 29, 1966, Karen H[...]transporting not only Mae Cox also born in Yakima, Washington, on October 13, railroad pass[...], and April Diane Cox (Mrs. BoydEarl) Mayer, born in -Pacific Railroads, but also transporting local g[...]ades. It was at this so called "heyday" there was a count of November 19, 1981 at Tacoma, Washin[...]en saloons and the Green House on the Main Street in husband have two children - Spring Mi[...]bsequent closing of the children born in Yakima, Washington. Timothy and 'June' are Green[...]taxi service. now making their home in Tacoma, Washington and are Several years passe[...]ime he met the former Monto Christo divorce in 1950. Upon receiving my divorce, joined the U.S. Evans in Bozeman. They were married on April 15, 1921, with Air Force. This was a very 'moving' experience, seeing tours two deput[...]and temporary duty tours in North Africa, New Foundland, Monto Christo Eva[...]hters Alaska, and throughout the bases in the southwestern United and two sons, being chil[...]ckwith) Evans. The While serving a tour at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, union of t[...]harles Albert, Russell Graves Muehlhauser in that city on February 2, 1963 'Jardine', and Elfi[...]Janeann was born on September 10, 1936, in Toledo, Lucas Meirth and Monto's first born da[...]County, Ohio. She being married before having a daughter by 'Winnie' was born in the hospital in Bozeman, Gallatin a previous marriage named Barbara Elizabeth, was ad[...]nnie' grew up at- by legal formalities in September 1963. Barbara was born in tending and graduating from Three Forks High Sch[...]Patterson Air graduating. She eventually settled in Palm Springs, Califor- Force Base, Dayton, Ohio in 1970 after twenty-years plus with nia, as a Batchelorette, and worked in the banking world prior the Military, led our family to reside permanently in Castalia, to her death oflung cancer in February 1977. Erie County[...]be forth coming from G&C Foundry. In the meantime enjoying Charles Albert was second eldest born in Logan, Gallatin an active life in our community and being grandparents sev- County[...]ue eyed. 'Butch' Weyer on June 24, 1978, in Sandusky, Erie County, Charles was after Grandpa[...]Ohio. They have two daughters both born in Sandusky, Erie Williams, who Charles never knew,[...]He too, spent his childhood years and teen years in Second son, child No. 3 born to Meirth and M[...]rks School Russell 'Jardine' delivered in Three Forks on November 29, system with many hap[...]hese growing up 1931, coming almost as a birthday present for his dad. He too years memor[...]Forks High School and· there are several pieces in the family, but also wall hangings served his country in the Army. He married his wife, Dorothy, all come[...]o was an active church person and while in the service in San Francisco, California on June 24, gave of he[...]. They conceived three children, all now residing in Three Tildies accomplishments were quilting a quilt for a Church Forks, they are: Linda (Mrs. Brian) Todd, Steven and Nancy Raffle. This quilt having a backing of solid green and won by (Mrs. Tom) Jones married in August, 1981. Phoebe Batchelder. Mom was a true homemaker as referred to Youngest being Elfidel Marie 'Bobbi' Peccia born on March in today's slang language, a 'domestic engineer'. She was the 14, 1933 in Three Forks, Montana. She too grew up and re- ke[...]ce of birth. She then when she was stricken with a heart attack. met and ma[...]1955, Roland C. 'Bill' Peccia, son While being a young adult there in Three Forks, I married of Felix and Louisia Peccia of Harlowtown, Montana, his Louella Lovern in November 1946. Conceived two sons: Ken-[...] |
| railroad there in Three Forks, before the family being trans- THE WYNE FAMILY IN THREE FORKS ferred to Sheridan, Wyoming. Their only child a daughter, In the spring of 1930 Frank and Mabel Wyne and five Viki Jo was born in Bozeman Hospital, Bozeman, Montana on daugh[...]Frank took over the March 23 , 1961. Viki too, is a Three Forks graduate and a Yellowstone garage on the west side of town, just a block off graduate of Spokane Kinman Business Col[...]remember the garage because the with her parents in Sheridan, Wyoming. dance hall was over it and it was also used for a gymnasium[...]The family moved into a hotel on Main Street which they managed for a year. A brother, Stanley, came to live with[...]etty Sirus Albert Williams, called Albert, born in Cazenovia, Jim, had him outnumbered. Wis. on April 26, 1863 and died in Bozeman, May 12, 1938. He rm Alta. I'm writing this so I guess I might as well write it in married Katherine May Busch who was born in Buffalo, N.Y. the first person. I remember that first year in high school May 9, 1871 and died in Butte Jan. 3, 1960. They h~d four when I was a sophomore that there was no girls' basketball. I children: Meirth Martin Williams born in Perham, Minn. on had been looking forward to basketball since I was a little girl Nov. 28, 1889, died in Bozeman June 27, 1972; Appola John in Whitehall and I was disappointed, as were some others, so WiUiams, called Paul, born March 9, 1898, died in a car wreck we went to the school board to see ifwe[...]tball. east of Manhattan March 31, 1929 (Paul had a nickname of They said there was no money for girl[...], 1899, that all figured out too. Agnes Callahan, a teacher ~n the grade died in Billings Jan. 30, 1941. (I am not sure but I thin[...]our coach, for nothmg, and we and Lige were born in Perham, Minn. All are buried in Boze- had found some old suits that we could use so the school board man Paul is buried in the old Catholic Cemetery); Luella gave in. The team did very well, too. In fact we did so wel~ that Mary Williams was born in Ironrod, Mont. May 12, 1906. the school bought us[...]walking to the Jefferson River to go swimming in the sum~er[...]remember well. Mrs. Shadduck was like a mother to me. After[...]have several lilac bushes in our yard in Jordan which she gave[...]Phyllis, and I all graduated from high school in T~r~e For~s.[...]lives in Spokane. We have all married and scatte~ed. ~eo~a and Stanley live in Spokane. Ellen and Betty Jim hve m[...]Seattle and Phyllis lives in Carpintera, California. I live in Jordan, Montana where I came to teach school in 1935. Even though we only lived a few years in Three Forks they[...]l- Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul selected a new town site ley Railroad (this was a branch line of the Milwaukee Railroad about a mile south of what was known, when I was a boy, as that ran to Bozeman) and moved from Bozeman to Three Old Town. Forks in 1912 (I think). They moved back to Bozeman when h[...]The new town site selection was made in 1908, My Dad,[...]road, preceded the family to the Paul worked as a Brakeman for the Milwaukee Railroad for booming city in order to make suitable living arrangements. a short time before leaving Three Forks.[...]the three children - Glen, Magdalen Lige worked in the Lime Quarry west of Three Forks until[...]efiance, ated the old Pioneer Pool Hall in partnership with Frank Ohio and moved to Butte in June 1927. He was an electrician Rutter. Da[...]d base on the Three Forks baseball and was killed in an accident working for the Montana Power team, and was good enough to be invited by a scout for the Aug. 13, 1945.[...] |
| [...]Paul Zeller on the first Kiddie Kar in Three Forks. Three Forks had a great team in those days, and the family[...]lay. Another player I thought was good enough for a |
| Murphy's fifth grade, I was in a high school production that Springs, Ky. He was educated in Jacksonville College, Ill., required a couple of youngsters. Lila Mae Lofgren and I were and became prominent in connection with political affairs in selected, and rm sure we helped to make it a smashing suc- Iowa, having established a pioneer Whig newspaper at Ot- cess. In one of the scenes the leading lady was supposed t[...]continued me, but it didn't amount to much. Just a light touch on the its publication for so[...]ating rink that was Council Bluffs. formed in winter by flooding the summer campgrounds at the[...]on, to Virginia City to look behind Parnacott and Sterling's delivery wagon. Also my over the go[...]Baldwin, who worked me over might be a promising area for the future. There was ap- peri[...]ruler. But I didn't hold it prehension of a general economic collapse after the war and against her. As a matter of fact, I once proposed marriage to the gold rush had a strong appeal. The brothers came her, but she tur[...]om Chinook. overland driving mule teams in a wagon train, and arrived at She told my sister, M[...]June 20, 1864. Here they secured some partial was a perfect devil. That's a reason for rejecting a marriage rights in a placer claim. Their survival over the winter prop[...]depended, however, on the proceeds of a candle-making ven- Life in Three Forks was a lot of fun , but there were times of ture and occasional work in freighting and other odd jobs. sorrow, too. I lost my Mother in the flu epidemic of 1918 when I The main family group (parents and son Theodore, and was three and a half years old. My Father later married[...]daughters Adela, Mary, and Emma, just a baby) traveled by Eulalia Armstrong Smeltzer, who lost her husband in the[...]tanans settled in Gallatin City where they immediately But I coul[...]ground and started farming. on the proportions of a fantasy land where there was much adult-love for[...]even though you J. H. D. Street conducted a law practice in Gallatin City did get slammed occasionally against a cloak room wall. and later in Bozeman. He served as probate judge of the[...]nty for several years. He was county commissioner in[...]1866-1867, and county Superintdent of Schols in 1874-1875.[...]The family was instrumental in the establishment of the TAL[...]Presbyterian Church in the Gallatin Valley. Sheldon In Crowcreek, Montana, May 8, 1903, Talley A. Jenkins Jackson, the famous organizer in the West, was present at was born to David and Ma[...]e from Wales. the initial meeting held in the family home in Gallatin City. Also in Crowcreek, Montana, February 16, 1918, Agnes S.[...]children: Thomas Posey Street; Thornton A. Street; Adela from Scotland.[...]t; Emma Ida Street Dixon. Mrs. Street passed away in 1936. They lived at Crowcreek and worked for Tom[...]born to this union. Ranch for Ed Spangler. Later in 1937 they moved to Three During the flood of 1873 Gurden Campbell wrote a letter to Forks. There they bought a small 12X12 building with one his moth[...]. " The south 10. They built their home and added a grocery store, gas sta- room, occupied by S[...], became uninhabitable, tion, wrecker service and a Construction Company. On and they[...]ice near were destroyed by fire. The family lived in their garage for Thomas House.' ' about 10[...]Judge J.H.D. Street passed away in September, 1875, at They have been in business since 1941. They have the only, h[...]City. He was laid to rest at the. oldest business in town that hasn't changed hands.[...]n, one girl and two J. Dewey Street, a grandson, presently resides in boys. Susie was married to Bob Allard. Susie and her Bozeman. Great grandchildren who reside in Bozeman are: daughter, Susan Marie, are living in Three Forks. Dan is Charles H. Crouse,[...]and- nie, Dan (Buddy), and Becky. They are living in East Helena. daughter, Georgiana Crouse Anderson, resides in Dillon, Talley W. is married to Clara Jensen. The[...]e to put into Gallatin City. They are also living in Three Forks. J. H. D. STREET |
| [...]ll 1.-.::1.uor-a " 1 11 -r •1C1Pt .[...]~ r ·-r•, ~If _m a l:6 t u<1 Y' t fr, t ne 1'1r "[...].,- e . Nancy Shephard milliner took first prize in the 1913 parade. First school in Three Forks, 1909. School is out at the Three[...]Mr. Chryst coached the winning team in 1914-15-16. Even the horses were "dres[...] |
| [...]Butte Company and a group of Mormons who had just opened In the summer of 1907, within one mile down river fr[...]. headwaters of the Missouri River, Dan Morrison, a local Ground breaking for Montana[...]ttles for control of the plant excellent site for a cement plant. To obtain additional finan-[...] |
| [...]son first bought. Trident in 1919. Cr. W.R. McGee all outstanding bills; the G[...]gion did return to Trident after families settled in. half completed plant on an N .P. complaint for f[...]or several years due; and, the company stock took a fall. With the drop in the Trident had its own band complete with uniforms, and a ((first price of the stock, the Utah men bought u[...]and then paid off all bills. Theater, was a big attraction until cars and "talkies" made its[...]stand as reminders of a past era. Production was started in June 1910. Skilled workers were Few eve[...]barrels annually Celebrating would start a week or two before Thanksgiving and cement storag[...]Day. On the day of the feast, about a 60 pound pig, stuffed with shovels were used to quarry the rock and a steam engine chickens, oysters and raisins, would be roasted over a bed of pulled the loaded rock cars a short distance to the crusher. hot coals.[...]ost of those who worked at the plant lived either in the the meal. village of Trident or in what was known as ttWop Town". Only The Trident plant was purchased by Ideal in 1917 and American citizens were allowed to live in Trident. The remained under the nam[...]ustrians, Italians, and other ((foreigners" lived in the dirt Company until 1948 when it was cha[...]capacity gradually increased with silo never dull in either place. additions in 1933, 1962, and 1975 to the present of 80,000 tons. Prior to the completion of the homes in Trident, a bunk- The quarry steam shovels were replaced in the mid 1930's by house was home to most of the w[...]day nights were an electric shovel which in turn gave way to diesel shovels, spent by the riv[...]then another, present, Marion electric shovel and a 988 Cat lice that helped to chase off Trident's first preacher in the fall loader. The steam engine was donated t[...]ginia City, Montana where it is still on display. A fourth him a louse infested bunk, the preacher left the next morning. kiln was added in 1949. Presently, three 35 ton Wabcos per- Towns[...]e |
| [...]Plan t today with one kiln in the open, Silos way out were added in the 1930's. puter contro[...]sing and the old plant this time, there was a two-room schoolhouse (and a teacherage becoming obsolete, ground was broken for a new wet process for two teachers). School was taught through the eighth grade plant in 1971. On March 29, 1972, after $11,800,000.00 , t[...]controlled one kiln plant went into opera- In the early days, there was a hotel, theatre, pool hall, tion. Annual productio[...]bowling alley, icehouse, grocery story, and a depot. Silent During Trident's 72 year history[...]e present. Both tragedy shown at the theatre in Three Forks and then the silent and great joy have filled those decades. In 1917, seven men movies were no longer shown[...]or Christmas programs by the school. Now exploded in the quarry. In 1967, Trident broke the 4000 day the buildin[...]ime accidents and still holds the national In July of 1917, there was a bad accident. Several kegs of cement plant safety[...]4 no lost time black powder (stored for use in the quarry) exploded and nine days.[...]men lost their lives. In January of 1918, the ice jammed in the[...]taken out of the town by train. Trident became a town in 1910 or thereabouts. The Limes- In 1918 there were only three cars in town. One was owned tone cliffs (for the making of cement) were discovered in 1906 by the Superintendent, one by the chief chemist, and one by by a man by the name of Morrison. The Morrison Caves b[...]d Lewis and Clark Caverns) were also phones in town. discovered by this same man. In 1925 there was a bad earthquake which did some dam- Trident was a tent town in the beginning. Around 1917 age, knocking[...]of the houses. there were about 153 people living in Trident. On the south During the early ye[...]er, electricity, and garbage pickup to the living in somewhat temporary dwellings. The Northern Pacific Railroad ran through the center of A big shovel once used in quarry. It helped dig the Panama[...]in the quarry for a time, but is on display at Nevada City nea[...] |
| [...]cost to the townspeople. Rent was A FEW EXCERPTS OF TRIDENT very reasonable; apartments rented for $12.00 monthly, four- 1912 - At last a bridge is to be put in, it will connect towns room houses for $15.00 and[...]Chief Chemist's houses were rent-free as miles. In 1931 a new bridge was put in by contractors Mougey part of their salary.[...]Bozeman. This bridge had an overhead There were a lot of houses in Trident at this time , but in the support. In the 1970's a t ruck with a load too high hooked the last few years many of them have been torn down. In later cover, wrecking the bridge and an abutm[...]chool and store have been closed. There are still a condemned. In 1974 an open 180 foot cement bridge was con- few families living in Trident, but most of the men working atstructed at a cost of $245,000.00 with revenue sharing. Ideal d[...]as. Aug. 20, 1913 - There was a brutal murder in Trident.[...]go was deliberately shot by Dominic Romeo, both N.A. Smith, 1st agent in new building, stayed22 years.As well residents of Dagotown , Trident's foreign quarters in early as operator he was Western Union Telegraphe[...]times. Crago was taken by train to Helena and put in a hospi- war II, he trained teleg~apher recruits (m[...]In 1923 another room was added to the school house at a cost[...]rospecting for rock suitable for making of cement in[...]I remember, as a small boy not yet fourteen, of spending a[...] |
| night in a very crowded bunkhouse and eating breakfast the next morning in a cook shack also crowded. They were the only build[...]. The .P. railroad advertised for bids to grade a¼ mile side track to be built, and my father, John Crowley, a lower Madi son valley rancher and orchardist, got[...]souri river twelve miles north of Three Forks. In the fall of 1880 he came to Glendive, Mont. terri[...]ck for the N.P. and for the next two years he was a grading foreman for Heman H. Clark, a large contractor. Finishing this job at the[...]el my father came over the hill where he filed on a homestead on the Madison in the fall of 1882. He died on that old homestead in Feb. 1940. One of th~ probl[...]the sidetrack for Trident was finished there was a Andrews instead of Kathryn as they had known me all their bad railroad wreck. In 1908 the whole west was a boom stage lives. By that time the room[...]be an art teacher but the children learned in spite of me and I[...]was so proud when they met all the requirements in the course· With no side track as yet the loc[...]needed supplies. One day while this was going on a second train came up behind the In the early days when I was in the grades, discipline was[...]e fourth came something and belted us a good one. No danger of being sued by the went wrong and it smashed into the rear of the third, killing a parents or of warping our personalities. fir[...]rloads of hogs that were enroute eral years in the early days, because she was so quick on the to the west coast. A few of the hogs were killed and a few draw. Little did she care that my d[...]they had to be destroyed. The rest were scattered in the brush along the Gallatin and all over Craw-[...]mmer of 1917 when four young men lost their lives in an accidental explosion. As I was always a horseback farmer, Trident never held much attraction for me. I attended a ball game or a dance now and then and that was it. I ran out[...]under Stan Wilson and the last six weeks I was up in the quarry under a mean old geek with a decided German accent who went by the name of Fred Frebie. He should have been running a concentration camp for Hitler. Marcus Crowley A LETIER TO THE EDITOR OF THE |
| [...]when she slapped me. I was a giggler and a whisperer and[...]In one room you learn by listening to others recite[...]times - such as the time Willie Feistner kicked a skunk on[...]As a reward for work finished we were allowed to go be[...]have their own private TVs in their bedrooms.[...]Hollow Top and my friend Lloyd Carver is still in the Trident[...]is fenced in. The children will never know how much fun[...]more I think I WILL cry a TEAR.[...]Another teacher that spent time in the Trident School was[...]Peatling. She taught there for 10 years, leaving in 1931.[...]father Augustus Adams,.who came as a blacksmith to Boze- man, Montana, in 1887. Ten years before his move to Montana, a son, Victor Adams, was born in 1877, in Wilson County, Kansas. Augustus moved[...]here until Victor was 10 years old. Victor served in the Another teacher of Trident, Miss Alexander. Spanish American War, 1898-1899, in the Philippines. He[...]y homesteaded 2 miles out of Karst Kamp and lived in - -~ .... -·[...]eorgia Bell Schwietering was born August 25, 1885 in Gallatin County on Middle Creek in a tent. At age 7, the[...]Montana and built a home on South Wallace in Bozeman. She attended schools in Bozeman.[...]Victor Hays Adams, Jr. was born on Nov. 27, 1911 in Boze- man, attended schools in Bozeman. He worked for Floyd[...]pioneer family of John A. Nelson and Lavina Ann (Clark)[...]in July of 1864, arriving by Bridger Pass with John[...]Bridger Canyon. He was the first white child born in[...]t 20 miles west of Bozeman on the trail to Helena in[...] |
| [...]Helen passed away June 17, 1974 in Bozeman.[...]ctor married Nettie Davis, April 2, 1975, He died in 1978 while visiting his daughter in Omaha, Nebraska.[...]4) Virginia Marie, born 9/20/61, married in Omaha[...]ells real estate for C.B.S. - Omaha and Harvey is a[...]ningson, Durham and Richardson in Omaha, Nebraska.[...]Graduated in 1970 M.S.U., BS in Education and[...]Supt. of Schools - Hobson, MT. Sherrall - Teacher in[...]nt Company, later named the Ideal Cement Company, in[...]dren, Norma and Dick, when they moved to Trident. A Marla Mae and Sherrall Adams. son, Mike was born in 1946. Jennie (Verwolf) Andriolo wa~ born a few miles west of 1867. Two more sons, Louis and Lester and a daughter, Alice , who later married Robert H. Wil[...]Mae (Williams-Frost)and Donna Rose , who died as a small child. Helen attended schools at the upper Madison School in 1924-1926, graduated from Manhattan 1934. She wor[...]d Helen Mae (Williams-Frost) Adams first home was a 2 room cabin in Cotton Wood Canyon. They moved to Manhattan where[...]rn on March 18, 1936. They moved to Bozeman where a second daughter was born on Oct. 19, 1937. In 1938, they moved to the Jim Border ranch in the Dry Creek area. Then in 1944, they again moved, this time to Trident wher[...]961 when they moved to Belgrade. Victor worked as a blacksmith and later as a shop foreman at the Ideal Cement Plant. He also had a leather and canvas shop of his own from 1962 to[...]the Trident store and as assistant post mistress. In 1950, she worked for Harold Adams , her husband's[...]here when Marj and Ly le Wise bought the cleaners in 1961. She continued to work for the Wises[...] |
| [...]ana. Her father was Peter J. Verwolf, who arrived in Manhattan at the age of12 via covered wagon, from Kentucky. Her mother Katie Wassenaar was born in Holland and crossed the Atlantic Ocean when only four years old. The family first settled in Kansas, then Colorado, before moving to Manhattan. Joe was born in Chicago, Ill., June 1915. His father was born in Italy and his mother in Poland. Both came to the U.S. as young adults. The couple's three children attended grade school in the two room school house in Trident, and each graduated from the Three Forks[...]o Trident, the students going to high school rode in a panel truck to Three Forks. This truck had only one window to the front and was padlocked from the outside in back. Its principle purpose was to bring milk to[...]dren unsafe. For several years high Jennie in front of post office in Trident. school students from Trident, had to board in Three Forks to attend school. In 1949, the Three Forks School" Board pur- chased a bus to take the Trident high school students to s[...]Missouri River Headwaters State Park is now Later a larger bus was purchased to carry rural students[...]urchase of the first bus, several students, In 1968, she became interested in working for Senior Citi- both grade and high, attended school in Manhattan. zens. She became a member of the Executive Board of the There was a large building filled with sawdust at the south[...]store river ice, which tion, Jennie assisted in a survey of Gallatin County Senior the Northern Pac[...]summer Citizens. She was instrumental in establishing Senior Citizen months to cool their lunch water. Centers in Belgrade, Manhattan, and Three Forks. She was When Joe first worked at the Trident plant, there was only a able to obtain funding for the Three Rivers S[...]present building for an outhouse. Safety was not a top priority. During his first their club as a center. She was treasurer of the club for ten yea[...]almost quit, but work was hard to come by. In 1982, Jennie is still on the executive board of the They worked long hours, 14 to 16 hours a shift. A man could Gallatin County Council on Aging,[...]etired Senior Volunteer Program and is working on a The plant was closed during the winter months.[...]e was Minority Leader of the Senate for Joe is a charter member of the United Cement, Lime and[...]of SCLL to the Montana State Legislature in 1981. Again work eight hour days, forty hour week[...]s now one of the most safety conscious industries in the United States. In 1981, Jennie became a volunteer ambulance attendant[...]for Three Forks. Now in 1982, Jennie and seven other Three Joe took co[...]e enjoyed his work. Ideal Training at MSU, in order to become more proficient ambu- was good to[...]Jennie became a member of Progress Rebekah Lodge in Jennie became school clerk in 1942 and was school clerk November, 1942. She is a charter member of the Gallatin when the school was closed in 1967. She became mail mess- County Historical Society and of the Three Forks Area Histor- enger in 1947, taking the mail to and from the post office and ical Society. trains for more than 20 years. In 1968, Jennie became post- master of Trident, a job she held for ten years, then transferred After livin~ 36 years in Trident, Joe and Jennie bought to Three Forks as clerk for two years before retiring in 1979. some land on the west side of the Jefferson River and had a[...]t, three and one-half miles southwest of Three In 1974, a school community involvement program was[...]oroughly enjoying their retirement. Their started in Three Forks by Jack Kreitinger. It lasted for fou[...], river, years. Jennie became actively interested in this program. mountains and valley and is a delightful spot to live. From then on she has been very actively involved in commun-[...]ps at MSU, one week each year for three years. In 1975, Jennie became a member of the Gallatin County[...]Robert L. Boyington was born April 7, 1920 in Chinook, waters Improvement Project. This commit[...]ty, Montana. Bob was one of six children born to in winning the statewide contest for Montana's Bicentennial Richard (Dick) and Bergetta Boyington. Dick, a native of[...] |
| [...]Bob and Sally built a home in Bozeman in 1976 and moved[...]have continued to make their home at 114 Arnold in Bozeman. In 1982 the oldest son, Rob, is living in Sunnyvale, Califor-[...]nia. Rob attended primary schools in Boston, Bozeman and[...]Three Forks. He attended high school in Three Forks, Canon[...]ton State University with a degree in English and a minor in[...]Bill is living in Seattle, Washington. He also attended schools in Boston, Bozeman, Three Forks, Canon City, Colo.[...]University with a degree in zoology. He then enrolled in and[...]al Sch_ool. After 2 years of practicing dentistry in Enumc-[...]where he was involved in the school dental program. While in[...]parts of North Africa. He returned to Seattle in 1980 and has his office in the Medical-Dental Building in Seattle. Damon attended primary school in Three Forks, Florence,[...]ton attended were in Santa Clara and Three Forks. He graduated[...]from Montana State University with a degree in business and Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and Bergetta, a native of Norway, teaching credentials. He resides in Bozeman. came to Montana in 1911 and settled on a homestead north of Marcia Sue attended schools in Florence, Colorado, Chinook, close to the Canadia[...]ra and Three Forks. She graduated Bob enlisted in the Navy early in 1942 where he served in with a degree in music and teaching credentials from Mon- the Medi[...]rake enlisted tana State University. She resides in Kirkland, Washington. in the Navy Nurse Corps in 1943. They met while both were stationed at the S[...]or Bob and Sally were married November 4, 1944 in many years. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Burkett settled in Bozeman in Portsmouth, Virginia. Sally was one of four children born to 1897. Mrs. W. B. Burkett's family first settled in Bannock, Harold and Isabel Drake, Sr., on February 7, 1916 in Boston, traveling to Bannock by covered wagon. Ma[...]Alonzo D. Burkett, a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Burkett, While living in Lewistown, Montana, Bob was employed by went to Montana State College, graduating in 1915. While Ideal Cement Co. at their Hanover plant in June of 1946. attending M.S.U., he met Nina Armst[...]who During this period two sons were born to them in St. Joseph's was also attending college. While in college, Nina was a part- Hospital, Robert D. on August 16, 1946 and[...]ident of Montana State College. October 30, 1947. In 1951 Bob, Sally and sons moved to Boston After gr[...]Boston University and graduated from college for a year. In 1916 Mr. Burkett moved to Trident. In his Babson College. During these four years Sally worked in Pub- first years at Trident he was assistant chemist and later be- lic Health as a Visiting Nurse in Milton and Needham, Mass. came chief chemist.[...]. was born on May 13, 1955 while the family lived in Boston. Alonzo and Nina (Armstrong) Burkett. In 1955 the family returned to Montana where Bob res[...]ement Co. at the Trident plant. After spending a year in Bozeman, the family moved to Three Forks where th[...]n afterward, Marcia Sue was born January 11, 1957 in the Bozeman Deaconess Hospital. Early in 1962 the Boyingstons moved to Florence, Colorado when Bob was transferred to the Portland, Colorado plant. In 1963 they were transferred to Spokane, Washington where Bob managed the Ideal plant there. In 1967 they were again transferred, this time to th[...]plant. During this period home for the family was in Santa Clara. Late in 1971 there was another transfer back to Trident where a new computerized plant was being constructed. While living in Three Forks and Trident, Bob was active in the Lions Club,[...] |
| [...]Trident in 1918 after selling their interest in a similar store in[...]but purchased an interest in it in 1927, then, a short time later[...]assumed full ownership. It was a friendly place to shop and the[...]and doors boarded, lonesome in the present but filled with[...]zo and Nina were married and they made their home in Trident for 42 years. The Burketts had four chi[...]st daughter, Helen, married Henry Baker and lives in Great Falls. One son, William and his wife Jackie live in Flint, Michigan. Another son, Robert and his wife Leona live in Boise, Idaho. The youngest daughter, Norma, married Bill Fellows and lives in Central Park , Montana. After Mr: Burkett's retirement in 1958, he and Nina moved to Manhattan where they m[...]1975. At that time they moved to Darlinton Manor in Boze- man. Mr. Burkett passed away on March 7,[...]NEVILLE HISTORY On April 21, 1929 I W-8."S born in the hospital in Three Forks to Lois Carver Neville and William Burnette Neville. Our home at tp.at time was in Trident where my dad worked at the Cement Plant as well as attended Montana State College in Bozeman until his graduation in 1921 in electrical engineer- ing. My Mom's parents[...] |
| [...]continue to be the best of friends. Dad retired in the spring of 1960. They were visiting in Trident enroute to Sun City, Ariz.[...]to live when he died in Oct. 1960. My mother stayed on in[...]Lloyd Carver graduated from Helena High School in 1920 and from Stanford University in 1924. After passing the bar[...]exams he remained in Los Angeles where he took care of the[...]Chaney Sr. In 1932 Henry Carver died and Lloyd returned to[...]Trident to manage the store. He died in May, 1977.[...]The Carver family are all buried in the Odd Fellows Cemet- ery in Helena. When the doors of The Trident Store Co. c[...]depot agent in Trident for years. We live in Mendocino[...]Trident, once so vital, now a dying village but it warms my[...]t to visit the people once of Trident, who remain in the[...]Ralph, Sharon and Keith Dickman moved to Trident in July Lloyd and his sister Lois Neville in front of the Trident store in 1968. Ralph was transferred to the Ideal Cement[...]moved into the house on 102 River Street in Trident. When we memories of the past when Trident was a thriving town con- first moved into the[...]re sixteen occupied taining not only many houses, a store, a depot and a hotel, but houses; now there are only eight. We used to have the Trident a school house, dance hall, theatre and pool hall.[...]also had our own postoffice with Jennie Andriolo in Mrs. Carver became postmaster in 1918 and remained so charge. The postoffice had a homey atmosphere because it was until her retirement in 1948. The post office was at first in the located in the front part of the Andriolo home. back of the[...]ater moved to the front section. Mrs. Carver died in May 1955.[...]n the banks of the mighty After leaving Trident in 1924 my dad became affiliated with Missour[...]sy access to the Head- the Veteran Administration in Helena. This started many waters Sta[...]the Park, at first with our young children in bicycle carriers time at each place varied and I was always glad to remain in then with the children on their own bicyc[...]and once during the winter of '71, one place for a full year of school. The best school I attended[...]ater backed up and was pouring was the little one in Trident. It contained two rooms, one for over the banks in the village. Luckily, the cement plant the first[...]or the fifth through eighth grades. It was warmed in winter by a pot-bellied stove. front-end loaders and a truckload of dirt were able to staunch[...]the flow. The school was first opened in 1927 and Kathryn Andrews Rivers was the first teacher. I attended it in 1931, when Anita There are several memories that stand out for us. In the fall Oiye and I made up the sixth grade and Miss Alexander was of '78 a raccoon visited the village and proceeded to make[...]uiet, himself at home. He had obviously been a pet at one time as he pay attention, to keep busy[...]py, Bandit. One of our favorite ac- there. Summer in Trident meant, swimming at Ling Rock[...]nd our Christmas tree. It is our horseback riding in the hills, tennis and being eaten up by[...]ich took friends and head for the hills in search of the perfect tree - all ofus children to the Thursday night movies in Three Forks, and we have always found it! roller skating Wednesday in Manhattan, Saturday night Durin:g the summers of 80 and '81 Ralph, Sharon Pete and dances in Three Forks, picnics on Sundays, and corn roasts ~y participated in the Lewis and Clark Pageant, a fund- usually organized by Margaret Young. I reme[...]for the first three years. She the produce grown in the gardens across the tracks. The very is now a trustee for the Headwaters Heritage Museum. speci[...]er, the most kind, gen- Ralph wa born in Canon ity, Co. on Jul 4 1935. His[...] |
| [...]and was willing to stop for a visit and a cool drink. Many people have lived in Trident since we mo-ved here and we have[...]Mr. and Mrs. Sam Feistner came to Three Forks in March[...]came in by train and some came in by riding in an emigrant car which had a team of horses, some cattle, some farm[...]Farming methods were quite different here than in South[...]dent. In 1919 there wasn't any rain so no pasture or hay.[...]took a carload of cattle to Washington and sold them the[...]after a long delay.[...]e, horses and chickens. It made some large cracks in the parents, Pete and Dorothy Hannah Dickman, hav[...]trembled all their married lives (over 53 years) in Penrose, Co., and still night long. We felt mor~ of them the next day. Then in 1934 reside in the house where Ralph was raised. Ralph graduated when Helena had a severe earthquake we felt them here too, from Colorado State University in 1960 with a degree in but they weren't as strong here. Physical Science. While we have lived in Trident, Ralph started and finished restoring a 1955 Oldsmobile that had belonged to his parents.[...]er, Ok. , where she was born on December 13, 1939 in the house where her parents, Joseph Harvey and Peggy Rice McLaughlin were living while attend- ing Oklahoma A & M College. Sharon enjoyed a life of moving, having lived in Central America (Costa Rica), Ohio, Texas and Colorado. Sharon will graduate from Montana State Uni- versity in June 1983 with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Spanish. Keith, born April 21 , 1960 in Sinton, Texas, went to school in Three Forks from the third grade until he graduated in 1978. While in school, Keith played tuba in the school band and was manager for two years for[...]February 19, 1982, Keith married Aleticia Sanchez in Aransas Pass, Texas. From this union, Erica Miche[...]On October 8, 1968, Pete Alan Dickman was born in Boze-[...]nard. to help his brother deliver <The Chronicle' in the village and sometimes did the job alone when Keith had other commit- ments. <<Firewood for Heaven", a play sponsored by the Adult Among the many[...]piano lessons and he has came over the dike in December on the upper Madison Valley. been taking lessons for eight years. Pete plays drums in the Finally, the river was all coming through[...]of our neighbors moved out 1970 when she was born in the Bozeman Hospital. She was the temporaril[...]ller and the ladies of the This farm was sold in the summer of 1966 to the Fish and village gave a baby shower for Amy. Amy plays trumpet in the Game which is being used as the Headwater[...]Some of us moved into Three Forks in March 1967.[...] |
| [...]GE and MAUDE HAGGARD George W. Haggard was born in DeWitt, Illinois on May 30, 1878. He was married to Maude Neely at Schaller, Iowa in 1907. Maude was born January 5, 1879 in Monona County, Iowa. They came to Montana and ranched a few years at.White Sulphur Springs and also George worked for the T. A. Gunby ranch near Lombard on Sixteen Mile Creek. The Haggards had a daughter, Edna Mae, who passed away at age sevent[...]rom measles. Mr. Haggard was badly injured when a horse he was riding threw itself backwards, crushing him. After recovering from a long convalescence George and Maude moved to Trid[...]taking over evenings and weekends. They also had a garden spot, as everyone did that wished one. They also raised rabbits for awhile, selling to the hotel and a few individuals.[...], Mabel, Mrs. Leh, Clark, Marcus and the Colonel, a[...]and Three Forks. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church.[...]away in 1950. There were three daughters in the Leh family:[...]Clarke, also a native of Pennsylvania, was married to Mary[...]Ann Funk of Sheridan, Montana, an instructor in the Three[...]Forks schools. Mr. Clarke Leh passed away in December,[...]In the words of Mrs. Marc (Waive) Leh, "They were a mar-[...]velous family and I'm very proud to be a part of it." Story tells itself, high water betw[...]ANNA BEULAH OLSEN SMITH |
| [...]Master Manhattan Masonic Lodge, a member Scottish Rite body Bagdad Shrine in Butte. Ice fishing, duck hunting, hik-[...]ing and chokecherrying we did as a family.[...]worked with dad in the depot as a clerk. Our home was a happy place where we were free to bring our[...]make popcorn or have a taffy pull. Sometimes we'd gather[...]were a part of it. My first year in high school everything changed when[...]his wife, Eldor and Birdie Olsen, were nity Home in Logan. The Smiths lived in Helena until 1909 living in Trident at this time which was a blessing for dad. when he was sent to Trident as the Agent/Operator of the new They were a real help to him in adjusting to the loneliness. N.P. station there.[...]Rivulet, Montana in 1935. She died of cancer in 1940. Because everyone's friend. He was hard-work[...]he was asked to work five years beyond seven days a week were his schedule. Until the late 1920's he[...]e again trained recruits as telegraphers. managed a two week vacation about every seven years. He was a pianist, well known around the Logan area for playing He married Blanche Himes in 1945. They moved to Van- at dances. He played clarinet in the Trident band. He loved to couver, Wash. when he retired in 1947. They were living there whistle, especially Sousa Marches. Everyone in town knew his when he succumbed to a stroke in 1952. whistle, he was always happy.[...]ve Beulah was more serious - we would call her a "perfec- tionist" today. She was an immaculate ho[...]OLSEN - SMITH - 1904 lent cook. She had a "green thumb", her vegetable and flower T[...]rished. She taught herself to sew when she A quiet home wedding was solomnized last Thursday,[...]Beulah, was united in marriage to Norman A. Smith. Beulah and Norman enjoyed an active so[...]ng lulled parlor and took their places beneath a large wedding bell of to sleep hearing 15-2, 15-4, etc. There were dances held in the smilax. There they were met by Rev. Frank B. Lewis of St. dance hall over the store about once a month, they al ways James' Church, Bozeman[...]away by her brother, Eldor Olsen. Harry A. Smith of Butte,[...]rs. honor. The bride was attired in a gown of cream Persian crepe[...]eam silk, trimmed with escurial lace, and carried a[...]smilax being used in profusion. From two to four p.m. a recep-[...]people in Logan. Mr. Smith has been the genial operator the[...]r the past three years, while Miss Olsen has been a Logan girl from early chilahooa. A host of friends wish them a long[...]for a coast trip, and will be at home June 26th.[...] |
| r. and Mrs. H.T. Lewis, Butte; et coffee spoons H.A. Smith, Ernest Kessler were my classmates th[...]s. F.M. Tinsley; clock, Mr. and Mrs. I was a good student except for math. Like Mother and orm[...]d painted, I was an avid reader. Alma and I won a trophy for our school at Mesdames Elmer E. and Al[...]or painting, Mrs. profession - I would be a teacher. B.N. Smith and Mrs. L.C. Bevier; work basket, Miss Cooper; I, too, drove our car as a bus to Three Forks High School the collar and cuf[...], Clint and Miss Bertha Miller; dresser scarf; a flat tire when it was 20 degrees below. I froze m[...]. Speech, drama, and our school newspaper were my in- ettie Howard; crumb cloths, Mrs. Hoellein; bed[...]enver; During our senior year, Stewart Sterling and Shirley Cal- shopping bag, Mrs. B.P. Lewis; s[...]e Smith's, Dad transferred to Whitehall in Feb. 1931, where I met was born August 23, 1910,[...]born during the big like my Dad. He worked in his Dad's meat market. A blizzard which helped control the famous forest fire in western sportsman, he played football, basketb[...]The events ofmy happy childhood have been covered in the was forty-four years old. His favorit[...]rident. ing. Our mutual interest in dancing led to our "going steady" During my early years there were few my age living in town We promoted the romance of his brother[...]rollerskated, and Jose, Ca. where I majored in education. Finally, in 1934, I played tennis. My favorite form of recrea[...]ng, I earned my "long dreamed of' degree in Kindergarten-primary learned at three years.[...]education. I attended elementary school in Trident. Alma Feistner and That fall I w[...]Manlove and son Robin Charlotte, daugh- in Dubouis, Idaho. His folks and mine knew about it. Our plan ter of the N.A. Smith's. was to have a surprise announcement party as part of the[...]for a teaching certificate. The depression had forced h[...]allowed to teach in those days. Consequently, our announce-[...]Bob enrolled at Dillon in Sept. 1935. He discovered a school rule in March of 1936 - anyone attending school while sec[...]County Seat and we were able to get a marriage license when[...]our minister at his sister's home in Whitehall. Few people[...]1937-1943 we taught together at Silesia, Mont. In 1943 he enlisted in the service of World War II. He was trained as an[...]x-ray technician in the Medics. I was able to be with him in[...]overseas. A chance meeting with Hester Talbott in Bozeman[...]Bob came to Willow Creek in 1945, after his discharge from[...]We were active in community affairs. I in Ladies Aid Woman's Club and Eastern Star. Bob in Willow Creek Men'[...]Parade each year. His interest in bowling and fishing con-[...]sed with our son, Robin Allen, born in Town end Ho pital 30[...]We moved to Billing in 1955. Bob began working a a[...] |
| Livestock Inspector for the Federal Government in 1965. He started school at four years. Li[...]e he spent eleven years, very happy reader. in his work.[...]neer graduate of Vo-Tech. He married and a good cook - in her eighth year in school she won first place_ has two sons, Corey and Jeremy. Bob was the proverbial in a county bread baking contest. She and her friends[...]imbed the canyons - even Rattlesnake he was taken in 1973. Canyon - and had their own caves in each. They taught them- My parents, sister, husband, son and grandsons have given selves to swim in an inlet behind the Ice House - it made a me a truly blessed life.[...]to melt in the spring. The same pool made a perfect ice skating rink in the winter. After the tennis court was built, she[...]heater, to Three Forks High School. first child, a beautiful blue-eyed daughter, Norma Annette,[...]n they left Trident, if they didn't arrive within a Norma was a joy to the family - bright, quick to learn and[...]y, she Several high school students lived in Trident throughout was unhappy. All of her playma[...]ular with teachers and class- left for her except a baby sister she considered a nuisance. The mates. Her scholastic average was[...]ouse was not completed so classes were being held in from high school in 1923. the dance hall above the store. Norma begged for a week to go to school. Mother contacted the teache[...]school (both were sure she would tire of it after a to become an M.D. Because she was so young[...]tudent, so enced, she was advised to major in Science and later go into[...]maturity - especially in classes where there were World War I[...]veterans enrolled. Norma was active in civic, social and sports[...]events. She was graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1927.[...]he custom at that time was for graduates to teach in a rural[...]in a one-room school at Josephine, Mont. where she tau[...](Bill) was born there in 1936.[...]for the Northern Pacific. Norma taught in Superior Schools[...]They Ii ved in Billings, Mont. for ten years where Norma was[...]move to Missoula in 1968 where they made their home with[...]Charlotte and Bob. Bud died in 1971.[...]took her in 1979.[...]Norma's and Bud's son, Bill, lives in Cheyenne, Wyo. He has a son, Cole, and a daughter, Tracy. Both are attending Uni-[...]I was fortunate to have had Norma as a sister- I am happy[...]re always able to be close to each other. She was a warm,[...] |
| and a physical beauty. She never lost her sense of humo[...]hink Gallatin. There off than she." - would bring a flash of her bright smile and all was a bridge there and I soon learned the only place on[...]go was walk to the bridge and back on a Sunday afternoon.[...]able to get there by train, Eversole of her life in Trident, Montana, after giving up their[...]the mountains were so rugged - just a very small town, built homestead north of Miles C[...]right on the side of a mountain. Am sure my Father was probably very sad about giving up There was a school at Trident, so I went. Still there was no[...]h. Now and then on Saturday nights there would be a just too many things against us. It surely was an[...]was 18. He five years of my life. Feel I learned a lot but was hating so softened, though, and I did have a nice friend when I was 16. much to leave. The tho[...]cross the Missouri River. We had gone for a walk, as I men- loved so much had new masters, wh[...]The Dickmans in costume for 1981, Lewis & Clark Pagent[...]Trident Band, 1918. Dad was fortunate in one respect, he did have a good-paying |
| The Bridge the Truck wrecked, result new Bridge. Built in The mill going full blast in 1928. 1974. Trident in 1928. Packhorses on the left |
| [...]one was John Colter. In the early 1860's people who were Willow Creek is located in the east one-half of Section 19 dissatisfie[...]for survey- Willow Creek. Those hoping t.o find a fortune in the gold fields ing the state being on the hill a[...]town. also came and some were early settlers in Willow Creek. The The creek was named Pholosipher[...]through the Upper Willow Creek valley. There was a stage thicket of willows hat grew along the bank[...]O' eil Place Guy Warren). T. J. Murphy operated a stage line The first person of whom we have a record of being where and had a farm in the Galen Springs area. Other early settlers the[...], the Neal Brothers, C. M. Tate, James Birdwoman, a Shoshone Indian woman. She was a guide for Turner, George Thompson, Wa[...]orge Captain William Clark noted the following in his journal on Miller, Robert Parker, the Mi[...]hers, James Uhler, July 25 Thursday 1805. I wrote a note informing Cap' Lewis orman and An[...]eeler, Tilson, Boyce and Martin. orth fork thro a Vallie the day v,e rry hat, about 6 or 8 miles[...]covered wagon boxes for shelter up the orth fork a small rapid river falls in on the Lar Side until cabins could be built. The cabins had a fireplace and which affords a great Deel of water and appears to head in the they made what furniture was needed. Bre[...]the farming was difficult and often only a few acres a year could be uri by three mouthe haveing seperated after it arrives added. A man walked and guided an oxen-drawn plow and in the river bottoms, and contains as also all the water courses then a crude harrow was used to break up the soil so planting in this quarter emence number of beaver & orter maney could be done. Harvesting was done with a hand scythe for thou and enhabit the river & creeks near the 3 forks both hay and grain. A cradle was attached to the scythe which (Pbolo ip[...]d by Trappers for whom we have no account were in this area and hand and then a flail was used to pound out the grain. The[...] |
| [...]make was completely destroyed by fire in 1921. Ed Walbert had a work easier. Some of these early settlers brought cattle and Feed and Livery Barn, Clint Hale a garage, and there was the horses with them and these animals were the beginning of the King Shoe Shop. In 1914 Thorndike and Nelson opened a bank fine herds in this area. in Willow Creek, but it failed and was closed in 1923. Sarkis The winter of 1864 was very hard[...]flour, Joseph sold his lumber yard to Nelson in 1914. A cheese was scarce and costly. Most lived on wild game. The first factory opened in 1915 and operated a few years but was church service by Rev. L. B. Stateler was held in the Nave dismantled in 1921 and shipped to Twin Bridges. Jet cabin on Christmas Day 1864. Each brought some food and a Shanholtzer purchased the West Blacksmith Shop in 1916. Christmas dinner was had. Dr. Bradbury came in 1914 and was the doctor in Willow Mount Green Cemetery had its beginning[...]Creek for many years. Bertie Heltzel had a millinery shop 1864, in a howling blizzard. A lone man, struggling through between the Dr[...]e to Joseph building. Mrs. Mulderig operated a boarding house on death about halfway between the[...]ouse on the alley behind the Pool Hall. There was a he was found. James Green later donated sufficient land for a tennis court, which was used for several year[...]ardware building took the site. Henry Babb bought a Pilot automobile and opened a sales office and shop just south The Sturgis Ranch was a stage station and also served as a[...]only a short time so his business did not prosper. The Store at the site of the present Jack Cooper Ranch was a Babcock-Bell building had a dance hall upstairs and the lower general store. After Jaynes it was run by James Smart; then floor a saloon and barber shop. There was a theatre, Ted Ben Wells in partnership with Gurdon Campbell. Pink Rob- Cooper's meat market, and at one time five barbers in Willow bins took over from Wells, followed by Coo[...]Electric lights came in 1918. The Mack and Black garage had a generator run by a diesel engine which provided power The Norther[...]Creek for houses and street lights. It was a direct current system in 1887. At that time the town moved nearer the trac[...]diesel ran from 4 til 10 p.m. but by convenience. A Mr. Flynn operated a store there and A. J . 2 p.m. the batteries were so low that a light bulb would only Woodward built a store at the new site. "Uncle Tom" Wil- glow red. It was sold to Electric Power Company in 1920. The liams' store becam~ isolated so he moved it to a spot between garage also had a gasoline pump, first a one-gallon pump and the other two.[...]eventually ten-gallon pumps. In 1891 a news report stated there were two stores, a saloon There were some family telephone systems around Willow and a blacksmith shop. "William Reed is the best blacksmith Creek and on the Jefferson side. In town there was the phone in the seven counties, Lee Crooks furnishes the liquor for the booth in the Hotel and when a call came for someone a mes- boys, A. J. Woodward runs one store and James Smart the[...]vice was 25 cents other." Also James Green put up a little store by the railroad. within a mile radius. When the hotel went out of business the The Milwaukee followed in 1908. The coming of the rail- phone was then in Parks Store. roads was a giant step toward opening up the country. Sup- Dancing was a favorite entertainment and besides those plies be[...]dily available and cheaper. Stock was held in town there were the dances at the Flaherty Barn.[...]d. Speculation was high Willow Creek also had a baseball team and played other teams that a roundhouse would be built in Willow Creek but it was in the area. constructed in Three Forks instead.[...]owstone Trail was the main road through Willow In 1901 there was a dredge in the Jefferson River. This[...]Creek and brought trade to the town. In the early '30s High- venture was not a success for it cost between eight and ten[...]sed the town. Then the Depression set in and caused a further gold and black sand. slowdown in business. Lots were laid out and sold in 1910. The homesteaders came In 1954 a long-time resident, Lawrence Rasmussen, left his[...]were laid. in 1919 with low prices and drought and many moved t[...]e Mason, Summers, Frank Ste- . Only a two-man hose and tank cart were used for fire pro[...]ning- time and the fire hall was built in 1955 and this last year, ham, Babb, John Van Hom,[...]one time Willow Creek was the second largest town in the McGrady, Andy Groan, Wild Bill Vanewyk, John[...]Creek Soon there were other businesses as the A. J. Woodward has a grade and high school, which is known around for[...]sk & Joseph Store and basketball teams, and a Methodist Church. The town is sur- Lumber Yard, and Al Dance's Saloon. A grain elevator was rounded by stock ranches and grain farms; some still in the built on the Northern Pacific and is still t[...]e early settlers. Grain Growers Co-op, was built in 1912 on the Milwaukee but[...] |
| [...]64, Rev. L. B. Stateler preached his first sermon in Willow Creek at the home of Mrs. ave, marking the[...]d the first society of the Methodist Church South in Montana. In June 1873 all the ministers of the district came to Willow Creek for a two-week's conference. A subscription was started to build a church called Stateler's Chapel. It was built in 1873 about a mile south of the present.town and served for many years. It is now used as a shed on Jack Cooper's ranch . The Stateler Chapel was used until the present church was completed in 1915. In 1937 the church merged with the North Church and[...]oldest Methodist Church with continuous services in Montana. Many have served here: L.B . Stateler, A. M. Kergan, C. W. Sanford, J. L. Curtis, J.M. Spe[...]t, W. T. Goulder, Fred F . St. Bill Lower and a house, that had been used by the Todd family Clair, W. Kincaid, A. B. Sanderson, R. S. Clark, B. H. Warren, at the lime quarry and the Great Northern Sugar Company of A. J. Osborn, J.M. Sitton, T. B. Reagan, E . K. Creel, A. M. Billings, was purchased and tom down an[...]Members and other volunteer help, Kinney, Thomas A. Ray, E. Stanley Wilson, F . M. Cass, C. A. under the supervision of Roy Buck of Billi[...]F. Hill, George E . complete the building of a meeting house in 1953. Members of Glasspool, W. P. Jinnett, John R. Reagan, J. L. McCann, the church purchased a house in 1956, which had belonged to Robert L. Meyers, Cla[...]r, E . J. Lawrence Rasmussen, to be used as a preacher's home. Mills, Harold Baber, Willis Thur[...]the years until June. Ickler, Eugene Meyers, John A. Elliott, Cyril Conrad, Omer 1981, when t[...]icketts, Tom Price, John Rice, Charles in Big Timber for them to enlarge and use as a meeting place. Heath Ronald F. Lang and Richard L[...]Riley Malone. The former SPIRITUALIST CHURCH - In the early 1900's there was preacher's home was converted into a meeting place for the a Spiritualist Church at Willow Creek and most of the meet- Church of Christ members in Willow Creek. For several years ings were held in homes of those belonging. According to a Evangelist Wesley E. Haven has served as minister in Willow newspaper report of March 13, 1919, there was a lecture from Creek as well as working in Townsend. the late Editor Stead, who was lost on the Lusitania, given through a medium, Mr. Moore. A large crowd was in atten- dance at the meetings held in Fredericks Hall.[...]- The first meeting was held at In the winter of 1865 and '66 James Green hired a teacher Willow Creek in July 1945 by Evangelists Rickman and Earl[...]me also. The teacher was Mr. Arnold from Bozeman in connection with a Bible School for Ravell. the children. In 1949 two became members when they were The first public school was started in 1867. The building was baptized in the Yellowstone River by Evangelist Marion of log and located in the upper part of the valley near the Lewis of Livingston. In 1951 Evangelist Ross Hinshaw of present home of Sol Miller. It was a crude classroom with Abilene, Texas, held a meeting in which three were baptized rough boards for[...]e others of its time, was and one restored, thus in 1951 the Church of Christ became not graded. The pupils were in the first, second, third or fourth established and needing a meeting place. reader. They used McGuffey's readers and Ray's arithmetics. In 1952 members of the church purchased three lots from It was known as a good school in the Territory and in 1878 ,,, |
| [...]bringing a letter. Later the Post Office was in the Jaynes store.[...]informed by Governor Potts that a late letter received by him Willow Creek Grade an[...]taught that one student establishment of a semi-weekly mail route from Sterling by was able to pass West Point examinations.[...]l was taught by Sally Leeper and then at Sterling is instructed to contract for carrying the mail over Mr. Rowsell in a building just east of Jayne's Store near the[...]irst there was an 1872. This will prove a great accommodation to the Willow upper and lower[...]eople, as heretofore they have had David Sturgis, a teacher and Presbyterian minister, and Flor- no mail communication. Mr. Clagett has thus far shown a ence Switzer. The two districts consolidated and in 1870 a commendable promptness in matters given into his hands and larger building[...]Creek, Gallatin County, Montana. The Post Office A. A. Witter and A. J. Woodward. was established in Madison County on December 11, 1867. It In 1914 a two-story frame building was built just south of was located in Gallatin County on May 18, 1868, discontinued the[...]67 to 1983 were: Richard Reeves (De- lower grades in 1916 and 1917. In 1917 a full four-year high cember 11, 1867), D.[...]ary 24, 1868), B. Ristian school came into being. A new brick school building was built (May 1[...]Vanderbilt (February 8, 1869), D. B. and occupied in 1918 or 1919 and is still being used. After the[...]Terry Burns (February 5, 1872), new building was in use the second floor and partitions were[...]aniel P. Robins (September 24, 1878), verted into a basketball court. The court was so short the[...]was across the river from Wil- 1980, Officer-in-Charge), and Mrs. Esther Clark (October 20, low Creek. The first school, a little log building, was located in 1980). the northeast corner of the Hale place.[...]Star Route to and from Sappington. A new frame building was built in 1910 about 1/4 mile[...]ilding still stands. There were several sheds and a teacherage, a small two-room WILLOW CREEK[...]ett moved the Prospects of building a dam in this area of Gallatin and teacherage to his farin to replace a well-worn log house. Some Madison counties was first proposed in 1918. Mrs. Ruth Miller of the teachers were Frank[...]er home during the years of 1921 through 1928. In about 1919 or 1920 the trustees decided to close[...]Creek would be completely dry. with Willow Creek in 1962.[...]Model T Ford trucks with canvas- getting a dam built. He sold 743 acres, at $50 an ac[...] |
| [...]rtin Harm n, 6 acres. Th ·1 ow e a r- ·ation incorpo- rated n ov.1 , 1935 and a contract made ith he tate ater n rva[...]acre foo fw r. on rue ion of th dam began in 1936. I i an earth-filled dam, 176,0 cubic yard with a phy ical ructure of 105 fee in h · h and 453 fe in length. It h a torage capacity of 17,731 acr fee of ater. The sp[...]anoth r o year becau of lack of money i 120 fi t in width w ·th a capacity of 00 cubic fee per · cond.[...]The firs ttlemen in Montana were mining camps and few local re[...]age . The· ,; ere taken care ofby local platting in town lots agency to work for the con ru ion compan . Fa e Parker of or minin claims by a mete and bounds method ofrecording. the appington Ranch remembers it a being be only job he Thi was ufficien un il 1[...]w al working and wo make permanent home in the agricultural valleys of western m mber of the[...]ntana. They began to rite the General Land Office in of i ban Cooper remembe hi grandmother allow[...]to the ite and watching the men work. He tell of a mall[...]anche be surveyed so they could get trailer court a the mouth of the canyon where the construc- official title to them. In May of 1867 Joseph S. Wilson of the tion worker I[...]V. Pre .from which all public urveys would start. In the letter of Paul Woodward, ere ary Geo ge Rober[...]tions it was suggested that the Beaver Head Rock, a Batchelder of Three Fork . John G. Buttelman wa e[...]ed as the treasu rat thl time but became Presiden in 1957 and re- Initial Point· however he was a[...]mained on the board until the time of bj - death in 19 2. decided there was a better place. Meredith hired two experi- On ep[...]enced civil engineers to assist him in the task. They were ciation met with a repre native of the tate Water Conservation Board[...]e purpo e of 'Declaring the Dam had been offi- In midsummer of 1867 they proceeded, with good instr[...]to be a prominent and satisfactory landmark except that lines dation. Jack L. Cooper was elected to the Board in 1956 and i pre ntl Pre ident of the sociation. Ro[...]st and west soon passed into very Harri on became a Director in 1962 and i currently ice- mountainous country[...]City and Pre . LeRoy iller replaced Sol ·ner as a Director after he over into the Madison Valley .a nd conferred with all interested had rved for alm[...]ce 1972. He regulate the Willow Creek located a prominent hill from which they could orage of[...]ee man miles in each direction. Equally important it was for irri[...]o es. ary · ler of Willow Creek has been located in a position from which survey lines would extend at[...]and Crow Creek. In all these farms were being laid out rapidly[...]Colonel de Lacy described this prominence as "a limestone The ta k of urve ing township and ections out of a track- hill about 800 feet high above the rim, about 3 miles south of le area in earl day tarted from an Initial Poin in each the Jefferson River, half a mile west of Willow Creek and ta e. In ontana the Initial Point i located on a prominent about 12 miles S.W. of the Three Forks[...]iles can be seen particularly town of Willow reek in Galla ·n County. The intersection of the Gallati[...]is numbered north, south, Point wa de ignated and a cro was chiseled into the solid e or we t of t[...]aid ou. and numbered to 36 and each ection is one A monument of tone 3 by 4 by 6 feet wa erected. This mile square. illow reek i de ribed being in ction 19 monument ha fallen away and in 1922 a hole wa drilled at in Town hip 1 north of the Base Line Range wbi.ch i a strip the inter ection of the cross chiseled in the rock and an iron of township ) 1 ea t of the Principal eridian· in short i i pipe with a bra cap on hich the proper data was stamped writt[...]RlE, was inserted. In each of the four directions other pipes we[...] |
| in the rock indicating the true direction of the Bas[...]Flaherty Barn - built in 1916.[...] |
| [...]born April 1, 1884 to Warren E. and became a ghost town. Juie Perkins Albro on the old Hanley[...]They returned to the Gallatin Valley in 1939 and purchased Montana. His first schoolinE was in the little community of the Galen Spring Ra[...]to farm it until his Stringtown. Here he attended a one-room log school with a death in January 1957. Mary moved to Willow Creek where dirt roof and plank floor. The students sat in double desks. she continued to oversee the ranch operation until her passing Later he attended school in Bozeman. in September 1968. He worked for ranchers in his early teens. While working They are survived by six children all raised and educated in for Charley Sappington he was looking for horses in the To- Montana, Bula Miller of Seattle, Washington; Dorothy Mur- bacco Roots, he found a lake that bears his name, «The Albro phy of[...]Betty Jackson He purchased a stationary horse-powered hay baler and for many years contracted baling. In 1908 he married Mary Elizabeth Mongold ofThree Forks. She was born in Wall Hollow, South Carolina in 1894 to Mr. WILLIS ANDREW ALBRO - 1886-1964 and Mrs. Tom Mongold. In 1909 they filed on a homestead in and the Harri[...]Willis Albro and Florida Girard were married in 1915 and for this land the Albro Lake was develop[...]rn while they lived on the homestead, Bula A daughter, Rena Mae , was born to this couple. Inf[...]claimed the life of this young mother in 1919. In 1918 they moved to Sheridan, Montana to the Robbers In 1920 Willis met and married Bina Lane. Three children: Roost place. They lived in the old road house until 1925. While Emmet, Ber[...]young family bought the Frank Hankinson farm in Willow hidden in or around the Roost by a road agent before he was Creek where there[...]d farmed and trees, and flowers. They engaged in raising irrigated crops, he continued to contract[...]milking cows, and building a herd of beef cattle. Mary worked for many years as a nurse and midwife for Dr. Five more childr[...]r could arrive. Many times she cared for the sick in her own home. Bina and Willis Albro - 1920 In 1924 they purchased the old Turcott house in Ruby , Montana and moved it to the Robbers Roost Ranch. It was a two-story, eight-room house. Warren moved[...] |
| [...]11 He a a .e honorable nd re pected man in illow the · o[...]k. To th people back home in Obi ort of a hero rou lli[...]and ra el u · wic . Being a com u[...]accord.in to ou for abou[...]ie po a month. I In 1 1 Mr. Archer purcha d a ne Ford and on January[...]ince · ioe 53rd birthda the ent for a m[...]li Hulle aero Jefferson bridge. In town the ton - , e ck b a c ry ruck and . Arc thro n[...]d fro · dr . he Ii ed a b an 16,[...]19 sed a a from a blood c ea ing many man l military - wo in o ld fri or an oo ic . In 1920 . Arc 'ed Joi Beam and he had[...]June · hi g hi on Waldo in Oregon B n th i a a her di Pendle on Oregon[...]Oregon. Benjamin d in , ce during the first[...]orld ar and di 1922 in Butte Montana of a 1 in pneumonia. He i buried in Willow reek Montana.[...]Fillmo l Ha Ii ed in Portland Oregon and she pas d away[...]ugu 2 960 a h ag of 76. She i buried a Lincoln ·e and Jun 10 morial me ry in Portland Oregon. o[...]nd died Augu t 31 , 1970. Olive Mae Cook was born in 1912 the entire family mo ed there by train.,. ncle Ben' a arch 3 1 93 to George . and Elizabeth Cook in Willow r . rcher a known by young and old , purchased a house a reek and died August 14, 1963.[...]me urray, hi 31 1915 a the Harry Ballantyne home in Bozeman. brother-in-law and to da e the house i occupied. ddition[...]in illow reek on the ranch where Chan Cooper now res[...]. Since my father morning he dro e to to n at :30 a .m . with hi team of hor worked a[...]ended the first half and wa on back home at 11:30 a .m. and back to town at 12:30 of th[...]own and we moved to p.m. and home at 5:00 p.m. It a aid you could e your ime ena[...]half of b hi coming and going. People would catch a ride with him the first grade se[...]in Trident. We then moved to Willow Creek and I spen[...]rest of my chool day there graduating in 1941.[...]hattan on June 16 1946 in the Willow Creek church. We[...]re ided on ranches in Gallatin County until 1951 when we[...]when we returned to Gallatin County. In 1973 we returned to[...]at Philip burg. Linda i a chool teacher and graduated from[...]e tern Montana College a Dillon. They have two children,[...] |
| [...], 1951, at Bozeman. He is Elbert was born in Coopers County, Missouri, September married to Nancy Elizabeth Schneiter of Central Park. They 11, 1832. In 1853 he left for California, following the old ha[...]1971 wagon trains being cut through the wes~. In 1857 his travels at Bozeman and Robert Blake born[...]re he , together with other arganauts, worked man in Ag Education in 1973. He taught school two years and their way[...]ptember 2, 1957 at Bozeman. encountered such a severe storm off Cape Hatteras it seemed He is ma[...]ft of Bozeman. Rodney as if they must meet a watery grave. In a shattered condition graduated from Helena Vo-Tech and after working as a the boat finally reached Norfolk, Va. T[...]rancis Foster, his future wife. They were married in of Bozeman.[...]Harrison on the Pony When the Civil War began in 1861, Elbert, Mary and young road. We also have a ranch northeast of Belgrade. We have a Charlie left for Colorado. They heard tales of[...]n raising cattle, sheep, pigs, grain, and fields in Idaho Territory so they moved on. A lack of a good hay. Our son, Richard and his wife Nancy, wo[...]ods River and journey on by My husband has been a Madison County Soil Conservation horseback.[...]Fort Belgrade School Board, and is now serving as a director of the Owens. On March 30, 1863 they moved to Bannack. In April Bozeman Production Credit Association. He served in the they came to Gallatin City. When Mr. and Mrs. Banta settled Infantry during World War II in the European theatre. He is there deer could be shot from their cabin window. In also a member of the Pony Masonic Lodge.[...]ed at Willow Creek. Elbert was like I have been a housewife all the years I have been married. a gypsy, some call it gold fever , and he worked many claims Before I was married I worked as a secretary for four years along Norwegian Creek and in the Pony area. Mary once after I attended Butte B[...]shack on Norwegian Creek. By 1865 Mr. Banta had a fine herd[...]. BANTA winter. It was in August 1865, William V. Ryan arrived in Elbert, his wife Mary Francis and her son Charl[...]to work for E.S. Banta and accompanied Fort Owens in the Bitter Root Valley August 20 , 1862. It had h[...]llow Creek. The Bantas first settled on what been a long journey.[...]In 1887 the Bantas moved to Elkhorn. For a short time he Mrs. Elbert (Mary Francis) Banta and granddaughter, Fran- ~ngaged in the livery business. The next few years were spen[...]In 1893 the family moved to the Carbonado area where[...]lives just a short distance from where the Banta's formerly[...]settled in Willow Creek.[...]We first hear of John Baptiste as a drifting adventurer who[...]when he was organizing a wagon train to come to Montana in 1863. John was taken on as a roustabout, later horsetender[...]and before the trip ended was a wagon boss. Bozeman said he[...]asked to be released that he might stay in this valley. He was in Bozeman when word was brought of John M. B[...] |
| [...], John Baptiste or "Mexican escape. He was a good and patient man and never mentioned John" as he had become known, took a homestead near Willow our mischief. He and[...]neighbors. Creek on the Jefferson river and built a cabin with a barn and Josephine, John and I graduated from[...]ther buildings. He raised horses and some cattle. In later School and the family lived in the Willow Creek, Three Forks, years T.S. William[...]Boulder areas until moving to Bozeman from James A. English and the other from Mexican John in 1943. Baptiste. This land was to become Tom Willi[...]t December 16, 1936, and home and when he married in 1898 he brought his bride to this they lived on a farm northwest of Willow Creek. Five children hom[...]When Mexican John got old he became blind and a neighbor Dixie and Dan. Although Josephine a[...]to live until he passed away and Bozeman for a time and then to the Virginia City area where was buried in the Willow Creek cemetery.[...]paternal grandmother, Josie Sparks Beam, had been a widow since 1909, living with her children in Clyde Park, Montana. She married Ben Archer of Willow Creek in the CHARLES BELL s[...]Charles Huston Bell was born February 18, 1882, in Mis- of Willow Creek until around 1928 when she m[...]h Ber- Bostwick Bell, and assisted his father in sheep raising on the kett, residing there until h[...], Josie Archer's sons, Ray and Joe, were twins. In 1924 Joe, 1952. being newly returned from Fra[...]rought He attended Montana State College. In September 1907 he his wife, Mildred Harper Beam,[...]fornia to make their home. To this union was born a son and Chester were born in the family home and they lived on an and two daughters. In 1916 they returned to Willow Creek acreage south[...]k until moving to Hood River, where he was a rural mail carrier until 1937 when they moved Oregon, in 1932. to Bozeman. He served as rural mail carrier in Bozeman until Estel and Glen Beam, the younger[...]ith Ray's family. Glen was only 19; he worked for a very short time in a Butte mine and was killed in a cave-in THE BERGREN FAMILY May 22, 1926, and is buried in the cemetery in Willow Creek.[...]grandfather of the Bergren family still living, In April 1925 Ray and Daisy Bliler Beam and their four was born in Wermland, Sweden, in 1847. He came to America children, Josephine, Evelyne, John and Edith moved to the in 1871 at age 24. Upon his arrival here he homesteaded in Garnett place south of Willow Creek. Josephine wa[...]ried nine, John seven and Edith an infant. It was a sad day when Caroline Hedman, who also came[...]lliam (Bill). with us weeping bitterly. Dad drove a team hooked to a hay rack piled with the last of our belongings an[...]oneering life on the Minnesota farm, crowded into a Model T. Ford and drove to our new home. We[...]ved to Stockholm South Dakota, where Nels felt it a traumatic experience going to a new school; the kids engaged in business, selling groceries and implements to set- called us "Beans" which was a towering epithet to our untried tlers there .[...]e ness, he moved his family farther west in 1911 . This time he teacher, Nina Woodward, sent me home accompanied by Rena settled on a farm in an area known as the South Bench i Mae Albro and[...]arm and crops were planted. Thi quake of 1925 was a frightening experience. Alice, Roselyn, was a dry land operation and the main crop was win er wh at. Jim and Bill were all born at home in Willow Creek with the Bill shipped their[...]tana from South Dakota, and they engag d in sod hr aking for Growing up in Willow Creek was a perfect experience. Hav- other ranchers in the area. Th y also thre hed the grain in the ing been bound by the limits of a city yard and the length and fall for most of the surrounding farms in Gallatin and J fli r- breadth of a sidewalk, the freedom of the lovely countryside[...]My mother clipped our hair short, took our In 1921 Nels Bergren and wife turned th farm over to[...]nk Reich H 1 n B rgr n' broth r and ing to school in Grandpa's dray wagon and visiting his straw- i[...], org nd Jack of Willow berry patch. He was a super gardner. I'm sure w wer an r k[...]h, D c mber 1, 1941. Th original deepen the water in the ditches for swimming and hurri dly[...] |
| Bill Bergren was born in Willmar, Minnesota, in 1879. He Government in the Motor Equipment Division, later transfer- married Helen (Lena) Reich in 1908 in Stockholm, South ring to Helena. In 1947 he married Margaret Lunde. They Dakota. Helen was born in Big Stone City, South Dakota, in raised two children, a son, Dale, who is a Doctor of Research in 1888. She was the daughter of Rudolph and Anna El[...]klahoma, where he and his wife , Ginny, live; and a who were born in Germany and came to America in 1883. daughter, Cynthia, who resides in Denver, Colorado. She Except for a short period in Montana, they lived in Minnesota and her husband , Dave Taskila, have two children, a daugh- and South Dakota where they engaged in farming. They both ter, Sadie, and a son, Ian. Rob again served in the U.S. Army in died in South Shore, South Dakota - Rudolph in 1924 and 1951 to 1953 during the Korean War. He retired in 1975 and Anna in 1928. he and Margaret live in Helena with plans to spend winters in Helen Bergren spent most of her married life on the South their home in Billings. Bench and in Willow Creek. After Bill's death she lived in William (Willie) , born on the South Bench in 1919, attended Willow Creek until 1963 when she went to Billings to be with school in Willow Creek until he started driving an oil truck for her daughter, Mae Alice, and family . She passed away in April H.F. Johnson Co. in Laurel. In 1940 he joined the U.S. Army of 1964. Helen and B[...]ldren: Air Corps and served in the United States until the early part Ruby , born in 1912 on the South Bench, attended Willow "[...]the 500th Bombardment Creek school and graduated in 1931. She completed her busi- Group, stationed in Saipan. He died April 7, 1945, when his ness education in Grand Island, Nebraska. In 1936 she ac- plane was shot down on the first daylight bombing mission cepted a government job in Washington, D.C. with the Trea- over Toky[...]illow Creek that did not The war years were spent in Trinidad, W.I . working for the survive th[...]Mae Alice, born on the South Bench in 1922, attended school strong. They later made their home in Richmond , Virginia, in Willow Creek and graduated in 1940. From 1941-1945 where they raised two daughters: Sandra Dames, born in during World War II, she lived in Seattle working at Boeings. Trinidad, a beautician, lives in Richmond , lives with her hus- She returned to Montana and settled in Billings, worked in band who is in the Air Force , and son, Michael ; and Jane the office of Gambles until her marriage in 1946 to Melvin A. Franck, born in Richmond, lives with her husband who is in Hanson, a building contractor. They raised three children, the Air Force, and son, Ricky, in Australia. In 1954 Ruby Daryl , an art teacher living in Fontana, California, with his returned to governm[...]Business Ad- wife, Penny; Debra Lewis, a bookkeeper for a Billings account- ministration, from which she retired in 1970. After Charles' ing firm , lives in Shepherd, Montana, with her three children, death in 1975, she continued living in Richmond. Cyndi , Kevin and Jason; Mel Arlen, a building contractor, Roy (Bud), born in 1913 on the South Bench, attended Wil- lives in Billings. Mae Alice and Melvin still reside in Billings. low Creek schools and graduated in 1932, then attended[...]lice Hanson Polytechnic (Rocky Mountain College) in Billings for two years. In 1935 he married Gladys Carlson. They raised two d[...]m , John and Debbie; and Kay Nokes Loumus A. Berry, known as Dellie to family and friends , o[...]o has three children , Teri , Buddy was born in Princeton, Minnesota, July 7, 1876. His parents, and Patrick. Bud and Gladys spent two years in Bozeman, Loumus and Elizabeth Howard B[...]married Goodyear Tire as TBA salesman. He served in the U.S. Army while Loumus was on furlou[...]mus had joined Capt. Brown's regiment Dealership in Bainbridge Island, Washington. He sold that in of Maine Volunteers at Portland, Maine July 15, 1861 at the 1960 and went to work in the Ford Parts Department, later age of 2[...]sferring to Albuquerque , New Mexico. Bud retired in 1979. He and Gladys moved to Casa Grande , Arizo[...]retirement years. Bud was always very interested in sports. Princeton. Minnesota on April 22 ,[...]nch's Volun- Blanche, born on the South Bench in 1915, attended school teers at Fort Snelling, Minn. Nov. 1, 1861 at the age of 22. He in Willow Creek. In 1936 she married Joseph Dalley, a truck served in Vicksburg in 1863 and Kings Bridge, Ga. Dec. 17, driver for H[...]1864. Alma graduated from the Normal School in St. Cloud, resided in several cities, Cooke City, Laurel, Shelby and Bi[...]02 til lings. They had one daughter, JoAnn, born in 1938 in Billings. 1904 for $45.00 a month. She taught this school two more She is married to Bud Callantine and resides in St. Regis, years after their marriage for the same salary after which a Montana. She has one son, Robin Karp, who lives in Idaho. daughter, Mildred, was born June 1, 1906. Blanche passed away in 1947 in Billings, and JoAnn's grand- Loumus and Alma moved to a homestead in Bowman mother, Helen Bergren, raised her in Willow Creek. County, North Dakota about 1908 where a son, Truman Adel- Robert (Rob), born in 1917 in Willow Creek and attended bert, was born Dec. 11, 1909. school there. In 1935 he moved to Laurel and drove oil tankers Besides far!Iling, Loumus sold Watkins products from a until joining the U.S. Air Force in 1943. He served with the horse-drawn vehicle[...]ble to collect for the products Eighth Air Force in England with the B-17 Group. After he sold, he accepted things in payment, among them a violin completing the required number of missions over Germany, which he learned to play. In the meantime, Alma taught he returned to the Uni[...]was discharged from the school several years in North Dakota. service. He settled in Billings and was employed by the U.S.[...] |
| [...]It was a rude awakening for Alma to find herself and famil[...]in a dry land country miles from any neighbor, with no[...]transportation and not even a well for drinking water. They found a spring in a canyon about a mile away. The mother and[...]birds and playing in the water that overflowed the spring.[...]ned. Until they became accustomed to the sound of a[...]falo Springs, N. Oak. about 1913. Here Loumus ran a Livery chokecherries aiy, making pies with t[...]en struck by lightning, after Eventually a team, wagon and buggy were acquired and which they operated a general store, hotel and post office. water was hauled in barrels. Dellie tried to dig a well as he had In 1917, the family moved by train to a homestead south of done in North Dakota but was unsuccessful. They made many Three Forks, Montana, with all their worldly possessions in a trips to the river for fish and berries, even to Bear Trap where baggage car. In the baggage rode a cat and her newborn they camped several days at a time. Fish were fried over a kittens and two dogs. camp fire in an old black frying pan. They disembarked at N[...]hired someone The first winter was spent in Red Bluff, a mining town, so to take them and their belongings[...]he children could go to school. The crop had been a failure so tana homes - two small rooms and a small shed for a barn. Alma went back to teaching. She taught a school that summer[...]hool. Truman stayed with his father on the Truman A. Berry.[...]worked on the Earl Davis ranch a short distance away .[...]Mildred and Truman spent a lot of time in the summers[...]south of Three Forks. She and the children lived in a small house near the school. Dellie came from the[...]on weekends in the spring wagon and the made many trip to[...]Three Forks. On the way , they stopped in Willow reek to bu[...]They made a down paym nt on a house in Thr e Forks[...]wher Alma deposited her school warrants in th First[...]In the fall of 1920, Delli mov d Alma and th childre[...]rs back to Pony to high school. When th a her got too bad, Mildred board d in town with Mrs. Gardn r . On[...]t r in P riy. Vacation w r sp nt nth horn st ad.[...]Truman gradua d from th i hth gr d . h se ond ear a[...]grad s in Pony. hous was r nt d and th r main d in[...] |
| lost it and then they spent them with him in various places he in Wyoming, Illinois, Missouri, Colorado, and Montan[...]marrying Frank Black in 1923 she made her home in Willow Alma taught at Salesville , Montana and four years at Ruby, Creek the rest of her life. She was a member of the Holy Mont. In the meantime , Truman went one year to high school Family Catholic Church in Three Forks and was a member of in Bozeman and graduated from the Whitehall, Montana[...]He graduated from the Montana and is buried in Mount Green Cemetery. State Normal School in Dillon and taught a few years. He Jean Cree~y served in the Army during World War II and was killed in battle in Germany November 25, 1944. He was buried in Belgium but was brought back to Whitehall and bur[...]T. Bradbury and his family moved to Willow Creek in and taught until she went to teach the Eureka School in the spring of 1914. Children, Jim, age 8[...]Watson, May 22 , Ruth, age 2. We rented a house owned by John Roberts. The 1937.[...]Store was built during the summer and was opened in September. We then moved into a back room and the base- Loumus and Alma lived[...]arkus Joseph sold their stocks of home and bought a house in Whitehall , Montana where they cough syrup[...]c. to the Drug Store. Dr. lived until their death in the summer of 1958. Bradbury anticipated charging a prescription fee for the drugs[...]Watson he dispensed . However, most commonly, a person's ailments[...]were discussed over the counter and neither a prescription nor a consultation fee was charged. The candy counter did a big JERRY FRANK BLACK business in penny candies. Jerry Frank Black was born May[...]e Briggs & McPher- Illinois, and moved to Bozeman in 1906. He worked on the old son Store when Ear[...]trolley between Bozeman and Gallatin Gateway for a short Bradbury was appointed Postmaster a[...]were shared but she did most came to Willow Creek in 1915 where he ranched and had a garage for almost 50 years. He married Maye Growney in Billings on September 16, 1923. He was a 50-yearmember and Dr. J . T. Bradbury. past master of Gallatin Masonic Lodge No. 6 AF&AM, a 50-year member of Gallatin Shrine Club , a 50-year member of Algeria Shrine Temple in Helena and a Knight Templar and Royal Arch Mason. Frank died at the age of 87, August 12, 1971 , and was buried in Mount Green Cemetery ·in Willow Creek, Montana. Maye Growney Black was born April 18, 1892, in Maryville , Missouri , where she received[...] |
| [...]the fire in the miner's cabin and warm both of them and then[...]One of the Haasakker children was brought in after being kicked by a horse. The scalp had been peeled back from the[...]promptly squeezed the chest a few times and restored the[...]After Dad finished medical school in Chicago he had some[...]training with Dr. DeLee, a famous obstetrician. At that time,[...]example, Jay Frank Huller was a premature infant who was put into a ((shoe box" and kept warm by surrounding the box[...]would suspect it must have been a boot box. of the bookkeeping. John Roberts carried the mail to and from One winter night Dad got a call to ((Nigger Hollow" and I the trains. Milwau[...]Northern Pacific 1 was elected as co-pilot. In Milligan Canyon the car broke and 2 were non-stop[...]rst six creek mail from the cranes and tossed off a sack as they passed the crossings but the m[...]ought turned home and Dad asked the Doctor in Three Forks to parcel post, the Butte Miner and t[...]arley Bell had the Rural Mail delivery three days a week. through the petcock to start the co[...]r house was built onto the rear of the Drug Store in 1922. and the cold air through the open petcock had reduced our This was the first house in Willow Creek to have indoor motor power. plumbing and a septic tank. Jim was the ((armstrong pumper" In 1946 on Dad's 81st birthday, the Willow Creek peo[...]een delivered by Dad were asked to side yard into a lawn and flower beds. The lawn was fertilized stand, about one-half the party crowd stood up. It was a gala by manure from the school barn which had not[...]out and tried several retirement where we shared a cabin with the Parks and Clevelands for[...]The trip up the Harrison Hill routinely included a tives. Dad was living in a retirement home in Seattle in stop .1t the spring above the Willis Albro farm to add cold November 1952 when he had a massive stroke and died at the water to the boili[...]el T Ford. Jim hiked age of 87. over to P.A. Woodwards each day with our 2-quart milk pail.[...]Anna Mitchell Briggs was born July 16, 1886 in Milbank, S. sters all completed college in Bozeman. Helen returned to Dak. After graduating from the Granger Business College in Willow Creek and taught from 1934 to 1937. During this time 1908 she worked as a stenographer for a Farm Mortgage she organized boys and girls tumbli[...]s Ralph Oscar Briggs was born May 15, 1882 in Alden , Minn. and to star gaze but mainly to have fun around the bonfire on In 1906 he moved to Milbank where he operated a bakery. It ' the ice.[...]ears to persuade our mother to marry him , but In the 1920's when 6 or 8 children were found to have bad on June 2, 1914 they tied the knot - a secure one which held tonsils, Dad would arrange[...]ng room and all the tonsillectomies would be done in 2 Montana. This was to be their home for the next 24 years. or 3 hours. This was a service which reduced the cost to the Mother has written in her wedding book - «Left Milbank at 5 families. Ruth tells me it was also a source of entertainment o'clock for Willow Creek, Montana. Had a comfortable com- for 12-year-old sister Helen. Sh[...]while they were coming out of anesthesia and get a big kick was covered with rice in a short time. The train was everal out of their cra[...]. Nelson met us with hi For an emergency call in winter Dad would go down to the auto. It[...]efore we reached Willow Cre k Pool Hall and elect a man who knew the area to be his pilot and we[...]rough the drifts and the fences. One trip rescued a at night but Bessie (Thorndike) had a nice wedding upp r miner who had acute app[...] |
| [...]her come because no one could afford such a luxury. Her only[...]Mother established herself as a proficient piano teacher and[...]wrote Mother a letter thanking her for her paitience trying to[...]came like a big family - everyone caring and helping each[...]Thank you, Irene Swan Reagan, for your efforts in Epworth[...]r was the church organist. Mother was very active in[...]ry, Helen . Dad also was a member of a cl uh - "The Red Man Cl uh". This[...], Henry Raymond and R. 0. Briggs. Once a month one of the the Downies were all natives of Milbank making for a smooth members would become ill, the oth[...]chew "Red Man Tobacco". as stenographer. Dad was in the mercantile business with R. Times continued hard into the 30's. Dad made a partial W. McPherson. Their store building is sti[...]for storage. road. Late in 1937 he purch·ased a clothing store in Thompson Our parents occupied the Owen Flynn r[...]tly before known today as the Earl S. Parks home. In 1916 they purch- we left the whole community honored our folks with a farewell ased an acre of ground from Nancy Woodward and built a dinner. lovely house which was to b[...]till remains Lucy's were able to retire in 1945. They purchased a comfortable home. Mother and Dad were able to build their home so the home in Missoula where they spent their remaining years.[...]nvariably would finish by saying <'I tell you- to a building across the street next to the O.K. Pool Hall. This if you've never lived in Willow Creek you haven't lived." building has sin[...]Helen graduated from Montana State College in 1940, business thrived.[...]hold - Helen Katherine, Charles G. Miller in 1943. They have one daughter, Roxann May 30, 1918[...]ames to his never-ending list of residing in Portland, Ore. Helen and Charles reside in Mis- deliveries.[...]d bright. Washington Corporation. However, in 1928 he decided to sell his share of the store to[...]ary Margaret graduated from Montana State College in Ted and go on to bigger and better things - such[...]prings, Montana the Downy-Flake Doughnut business in Seattle. He left the and Toppenish, Washington. She married James A. Ross in spring of 1929 to establish himself before sendin[...]Jim live near Stevensville, Montana, enjoying re- in the doughnut business but he came home bro[...] |
| [...]hildren, Orlando Bing' and Irene, left their home in Missouri[...]and headed west. Their destination was a dry land homestead The Buttelman family - John, G[...]here for several years, living in a one-room cabin with a dirt John G. passed away in 1982 and Virginia in 1973. They roof and a dirt floor. The walls were papered with clean new[...]e Relatives of the Buttelman family have lived in the Willow first two words he mastered. Water had to be hauled in barrels Creek community since 1863, when George and Henry from a spring at the bottom of a gulch one-half mile away for Gerdes, great-great[...]heir new adopted state. Their second daughter, In 1884 John H.'s grandfather, William H. Buttelman,[...]rst Buttelmans to come to Mon- gated farm a few miles southwest of Willow Creek. They lived t[...]mother had just enough money to pay In 1933 they moved to the Bitterroot Valley and live[...]the rest of their life. Jess passed away in 1963 and Viola died country so they would not have to take the military training in in 1974, both buried in the lovely Hamilton cemetery over- Germany. After[...]n. Bing Capps pas- Montana. John and Nick settled in Glendive but William sed away in 1972 and is buried in Kalispell where he and wife came to Willow Creek[...]Hazel made their home. Geneva (Wiebke) lives in Charlo and later took over their ranch. Around 1900 the Buttelman's Irene (Carey) makes her home in Lakeport, California. switched from raising horse[...]pired, and oflasting friendships made. It was a wonderful era! G., Frances (Mrs. Raymond Cooper),[...]om Olin, Iowa. She is the daughter of area made a very desirable camping spot, and nearly always Os[...]d and erected their tents . and John were married in 1952. They have lived on the Har- They would make their home there for weeks at a time. The wood place at the mouth of Willow Creek[...]. four children: David, who is married and lives in Bozeman; As they emerged from their huge[...]lives on the original Buttelman place, and in their gayly colored attire, we knew we would expe[...]al troubles. The women would descend on our house in the mouth of the canyon; and Jenny, who married C[...]11 Harden, has two little boys and lives in Sheridan, Wyoming. doors. Always the plea was for a chicken to make soup for[...]John was elected commissioner for Gallatin County in 1976 Grandma , who was dying in a tent" or for milk for a sick and he divides his time between the ranch an[...]fered in trade for food , but they generally begged for it[...]house we faced a disa ter. Any de irabl items that caught[...]uld disappear before our eyes. Vegetabl s fro m In 1916 Jess and Viola Capps, accompanied by[...] |
| [...]ALFRED CHERRY chickens roasting on the open fires in front of their tents. We William Alfred Cherr[...]Wesley Cherry and Ophelia Cooper Cherry in Mason County, on. Many times they left at night.[...]me through. We never knew where they away in 1906. lived when not on the road. We had many tra[...]Annie M. Hoy le was the daughter of Rev. A. M. and Mollie who stopped for food, but nothing[...]the gypsies Hoyle. Annie came to Willow Creek in the fall of 1905 with her did. father. She died in January of 1954.[...]Jack. The family lived in Willow Creek until 1926. '[...]n of Jesse and Viola Capps. They moved to Montana in 1916 and <<Bing" attended school in Fred C. Cleveland was born in Kansas, March 16, 1873. He Willow Creek and graduated from there in 1929. He was one of married Ella Grace Coleman who was born in Iowa July 14, three children. His sisters were Irene Capps Carey of 1877, in Carson, Iowa January 19, 1898. There were four bo[...]Francis Albert and Alvin Elbert, August 4, 1900, in Iowa; Jean Dwight was born in Nebraska January 30, 1914. ((Bing" attended the University of Kansas and graduated from there in 1933. They heard of the ((Gold Fields" in Montana during the[...]harvest season, especially in Gallatin County, so Mr. and Mrs. Hazel Schaefe[...]r youngest boy, Jean who was 18 and taught school in Willow Creek in the 1930's. She tells of months old decided to come from Hartington, Nebraska in the coming to Willow Creek and feeling she was in the wild wild fall of 1915 to see the <<Gol[...]e ((Bing" and Hazel were married June 2, 1933, in Witchita, older boys took the car and headed[...]rks Land Company took them out to see five years. In 1949 they moved to Kalispell where he owned and operated Capps Sporting Goods Store until his retirement in 1968. ((Bing" served as a Montana football and basketball Ella and Fred Cleveland. referee for 25 years and was active in community affairs. ((Bing" passed away in April of 1972. Hazel Capps resides at Kalispel[...]s of the Willow Creek area. They bought ice cream in the pool hall and men got baths at the barbershop[...]ey flagged the train (to go to Butte) by flashing a white dinner plate in their headlights. Meaderville then served their 3[...]e, or the Galloping Swede as he was called worked in the valley for a number of years and was well liked. When he wor[...]move to Butte for the winter, where Warren worked in the mines, Charley stayed at the ranch feeding th[...]quare dances and often playing the spoons. When a relative died he left to be with the famil[...] |
| various places. Mr. Everson had 160 acres, a quarter section, it Janice married Stanley True on May 14, 1952 and two sons had a five room house, a granary and barn and a 210 foot well, were born: Scott M. September 20, 1954 and Steve A. Feb- which they bought. It was on the bench betw[...]from their twin girls were born: Sheri A. and Teri R. on April 10, 1959. new home they cou[...]ntry. To go to Scott married Margaret A. Baker on September 13, 1975 Willow Creek they had to go over a hill, as they came to the top and they have a son Scott M. born February 7, 1976 and live in they could look down into Willow Creek and the Je[...]ly Root Mountains which had "Hollow Top" Mountain in the born October 26, 1980. Corey Gaudner was born June 27, background. The snow, even in August, doesn't quite melt off. 1978. (Child[...]e Continental Divide is behind it. This was quite a contrast Gian, Jr. October 24, 1981. to the r[...]. Bishop. They have one child, Janice They had a sale at Hartington and brought the rest of their born in 1979. things with them on an emigrant car, on the Milwaukee Rail- road, in the spring of 1916. Included were a team of horses, Kay married Richard W. White, Jr. on January 26, 1957. Rock and Rockie; a wagon, harness, a collie dog, Laddie; and They have two child[...]and David K. born April 2, 1965. They all live in Berkeley, organ, a piano box, which Carroll and Alvin slept in and hid in California. whenever they were at a station. You see, they weren't sup- Jean[...]e on this emigrant car. One day they were sitting in ried Myrtle I. Hagen on June 7, 1937. They ha[...]den. He spent many had to pay part of their fare. In due time they arrived in hours with his ham radio and had many fri[...]ranch three miles away. Mrs. Cleve- Johnson in Oregon in 1953. She died October 27, 1970. land, Francis and Jean had been visiting relatives in Iowa. Connie married Raymond H. Zack in 1959 in Oregon. They They took the Milwaukee passenger tr[...]born July 8, 1963. They live in Puyallup, Washington. They farmed for many yea[...]illow Wayne married Claudia LeTavec in 1978 and they have a Creek on the Hankinson place. They were active in many son Jason W. born January 10, 19[...]spent with their grandparents. Carroll farmed in the Willow Creek area all his life. He[...]ril 14, 1923; she died. He married Margaret Hunt, a Willow Creek school teacher in Ballantine, Montana, June 1, 1939. They were active in the THE COBLER FAMILY O[...]kah Lodges and the Methodist Church. In 1917, Grace B. Cobler moved from Girard, Kansas,[...]Willow Creek, Montana, to join her brother, A. J. "Jet" 1978.[...]hildren, Homer and Isa, to raise, Francis was a farmer and worked at the Ideal Cement Plant and wages for a woman were better in Montana than in Kan- in Trident. He married Agnes Kissee, a Willow Creek school sas. She worked as a cook for different ranches and spent one teacher, in Billings on June 9, 1937. They had one daughter, summer on a cook wagon for the Ballard threshing crew. In Mary Grace, born December 11, 1938. They were active in later years, she cooked for girls' sor[...]urch of Christ. Francis died State College in Bozeman. Upon retirement, she lived with on Janua[...]Haven on her son until his death in 1963. She spent the next four years November 1, 1976, in Bozeman and they continue to live in in Missoula with her daughter and died in 1967. She is buried Willow Creek where he is minister of the Church of Christ. in the Willow Creek Cemetery. Mary Grace graduat[...]married Clinton Eugene Goben on September 1, 1957 in School and attended Montana State C[...]E. born June 21, the City Dye Works for a number of years. He later moved to 1958; Pamela[...]; and Ricky G. Ice Cream Shop. He served in the Navy during World War II. born December 4, 1971. They live in Williston, North Dakota. After the war, he m[...]s Randy married Kathryn Hess September 14, 1979, in Win- mother and worked for the Owenhouse Hardware Store in field, Kansas where they live. Bozeman. He passed away in 1963 and is buried in the Willow Alvin graduated from Willow Creek[...]Mon- Creek Cemetery. tana State College in Bozeman. He married Alice K. Skoog in Isa Cobler worked for Mountain Bell Telel[...]Cleve- married Arlean L. Freeman on June 2, 1928 in Bozeman. They land of Bozeman in 1931. He worked for the Northern Pacific moved t[...]Railroad, and the Montana communities they lived in in- Janice A. on September 4, 1932 and Kay M. on October 9,[...]n, and Missoula. They had two 1938. Alvin taught in an Agricultural College and they were children, James E . Cleveland, who resides in Grants, New active in the Presbyterian Church. Arlean died on September Mexico, and Orlena Gabel who lives in Billings, Montana. 20, 1967. Alvin married Velma[...]ober 6, 1970. Earl Cleveland passed away in 1966. Isa is now married to Alvin passed away on[...]continues to live Carl B. Willig and lives in Missoula, Montana. in Sherman Oaks, California.[...] |
| [...]Evelyn and myself moved to Willow Creek, Montana in the fall of 1926. Vera and I were freshmen in high school and Evelyn was in the grades. Vera was the only one who graduated from high school in Willow Creek. Dad was born in West Salem, South Dakota in 1882. Mother was born in Arcadia, Wisconsin in 1894. They came to Mon- tana as young people. Dad had a homestead at Grace, Mon- tana (near Silver Star).[...]ed at Whitehall. Vera and Ada were born at Grace, a doctor from Whitehall was in attendance. Mother and Dad left Grace to farm in the Paradise Valley near Pray, Montana. Evelyn was born there. Dad quit farming and ran a black- smith shop and garage at Emigrant, Montana before moving to Willow Creek. In Willow Creek he had the blacksmith shop across th[...]and whatever else there was to do; he even drove a school bus for awhile. This was during the depression and it was hard Francis Phipps. They had a son and daughter, four grandchil- times, but Dad was always ready for a good joke, he laughed a dren and three great grandchildren. Francis w[...]ied February 25, Mother managed the only Hotel in Willow Creek. She paid 1982, shortly after[...]m niversary. Ada lives at the Gallatin Manor in Bozeman. Eve- and board. The Hotel was quite prim[...]time, there lyn met her husband, Jim Arnold in Three Forks. They had was no hot or cold running water, just a pump, no modern four daughters, eleven g[...]and two great grand- pl um bing. Mother cooked on a wood stove and heated the place children. Jim died in 1970. Evelyn lives in King Arthur with wood heaters. She did the washin[...]s and Art Congdon died September 1936 on a ranch south of Three towels to take care of at times. Business was good in summer Forks. Mabel Congdon died March 7, 1980, in Bozeman. as there were quite a few tourists, sometimes too many as the Harrison[...]to The Congdon family spent about eight years in Willow come back to the Hotel in Willow Creek and stay until they Creek. Although it was. a struggle to make ends meet, I have could go on. T[...]when we were busiest or at night. Mother received a messenger fee for GEORGE W[...]d to the Vera and Ada met the men they married in 1931 while the old Paul Woodward place at[...]ll of 1939, where they lived until he passed away in 1944. men were boarding at the Hotel and working on the highway. Vera and Ada had a double wedding. Vera married Nigel In 1945 Mrs. Conner moved to a little house across from the Baker. They had two daughters and a son who drowned in parsonage just beyond the schoolhouse[...]ozeman to make her great grandchildren. They live in Reno, Nevada. Ada_married home with Harriet. She passed away in 1961. He was born in Lucas County, Iowa in 1869 - Mrs. Conner was born in Humansville, Missouri in 1882. For a time in his Art Congdon in Blacksmith Shop. early manhood, he drove a stagecoach in Wyoming and south-[...]1902 George and Jennie LaRue were married in Humansville,[...]worked in the mines at Cripple Creek and Canon City. A second daughter, Grace, was born in Victor, Colorado. The[...]a time and it was there that George was born. After[...]week in Farmington for the children to attend school. One[...]different places in the Farmington area, one of which also had[...] |
| [...]was raised on a ranch south of Willow Creek. He had six[...]ers and four brothers and he was the eighth child in the[...]the children, one by one, left the ranch to make a life for[...]farmed. Arthur moved in town and the other two boys farmed George and Jen[...]they lived until their death. a big orchard. (Fruit was so plentiful they couldn't even give it Frank belonged to a small orchestra in the valley, playing away).[...]ved music and one could hear him whistling his In 1923 they moved to Kline, Colorado (now Marvel) w[...]until 1928 when they moved to Montana with He was a happy go-lucky person with a host of friends. their four sons and Harriet. They moved in a 1926 Chevrolet In the thirties, he met Laura Severtson of Butte and[...]trip on mostly dirt became very good friends and in Oct. 7, 1933, they became roads. The first winter was spent in Belgrade and was full of man and wife. They bought a house on the Cook property and discouragement - j[...]wife, Freda stayed on reached more than 60 below a few times. (One morning John the home place. had washed his face but hadn't dried it when he went out to In 1972 the brothers sold their ranches to Jack Cooper, help a cousin put his horse in a shed - when he returned, little whose property jo[...]oved to Three Forks icicles were hanging from his face.) to retire. They were engaged in farming near Belgrade for a couple of Frank was a member of the Masons, Scottish Rites and years an[...]ng for dances when he retired and attended school in the church as the school had been destroyed enjoyed his home in Three Forks until his death in 1974. by an earthquake). In March 1931 they moved to the Ben Adams place in the Lane District where they ranched until Laura Severtson Cook is still living in their Three Forks moving to Willow Creek. (Harrie[...]chool and graduated from Willow Creek High School in active member of the local Senior Citizens. 1939.[...]Laura was born in Albert Leo, Minn. and moved to Montana During the drouth in the early 1930's, one day the dust was with her p[...]d stacked up and burned. father was a foreman on a cattle ranch. In later years they[...]this time there was another sister and still live in the Three Forks vicinity except George who and brother, Mary and Otto Jr. passed away in 1966 but his wife still lives on a corner of the place where Mr. and Mrs. Conner lived until his passing in In 1933 she married Frank Cook and they farmed the Cook 1944. Harriet lives in Bozeman - Lois also lives in Bozeman. Ranch with his brother Harry. The[...]her four daughters who are deceased never settled in grain and hay. Montana but made frequent trips home to visit the family . Laura made many friends in Willow Creek and Three Forks[...]Harriet Conner and enjoys her clubs in both towns as well as fond memories of[...]her ranch life with Frank in Willow Creek. FRANCIS GEORGE COOK |
| [...]istopher Cook of the lower Willow Creek, was born in Green County, Tennessee March 14, 1819. He was the son of Henry and Martha Cook. He was a self educated lad and at the age of 18, went to the gold mines in Georgia. Here he remained a short time thenjoined General Nelson and went to[...]until the close of the war, returning to Georgia in 1838. His next venture was in the year 1850 to California where he mined until[...]00. He again returned to Georgia where he engaged in farming until he became enthusiastic over the Western country, of which he had read and heard so much about. In 1860 he went to Colorado where he again tried min[...]rs. From Colorado he went to Montana and mined in Alder Gulch until 1865 when he made about $1500 t[...]e purchased two hundred feet of mining ground for a consideration of $32,000, from which he realized[...]ry, Frank, Lucy, Sarah and mines. He then engaged in farming on the South Boulder and Arthur. finding it a more lucrative business he bought a farm for George and Elizabeth lived in a log house on the home place $350.00 on the lower Willow Creek in Gallatin Co. and moved of his parents, later moving in his parents' house following to that area where h[...]Mr. Cook became quite dependent on the use of a cane and second marriage blessed him with three c[...]found it had more uses than one. He had a pet rooster that Andrew and Sarah.[...], he would take his cane and swat the the family, in 1869 to join his father who was engaged in bird on the head then throw him on the shed roof. This made mining in the Boulder Valley at that time. The trip was mad[...]r day until finally the blow was too hard located a mine. and the old bird went in the stew. They resided there until 1874 when u[...]orn Feb. 12, 1864 at Wil- Willow Creek Valley for a load of flour from the Willow Creek lard City[...]ispose of his South Boulder property, She lived in the valley the rest of her life. She married George he moved his family to Willow Creek where he engaged in Cook in 1883 and she raised her family on the ranch south[...]Willow Creek. She was a hard working woman and was al- George married[...]st those who needed help. The marriage took place in the home of the bride's parents, Several[...]residing in Willow Creek. All have passed on with the excep-[...]tion of Lucy and Sarah who still reside in Willow Creek.[...]away in that town but Frank's wife Laura still resides in[...]Lucy who had married Frank Reich in 1929 was a graduate of th~ Willow Creek high school in 1922. Her first school was a[...]aught 8 grades with an enrollment of 40 students. In 1911 the pupils were moved to a school in Willow Creek. In 1931 Frank Reich took the job as janitor of the s[...]farming when their father passed away in 1961 from a sudden[...] |
| [...]y reside at Auburn, Washington. Lucy is active in the Pioneers, Senior Citizens, Hobby Club, Marla married Ronald Charles Richardson, live in Three Sewing Club, Woman's Club, Ladies Aid and Birthday Club. Forks and have a daughter Jamie Jon. Cindi resides in Sheri-[...]lege at Dillon on a basketball scholarship and is majoring in They lived in the home of her parents following their death.[...]f Ingmar Chan was born less than a mile from where he now lives and Theresa Oppeboen[...]from Germany when he was 14 years old. He worked in wood, daughter of Wayne and Ellen McGuire of Belgrade. Jim New Jersey for a year before he came to Montana where he lives wit[...]with his family from Neb- garden and is involved in many social activities. raska when Chan's dad, Howell Raymond Cooper, was a[...]izabeth Buttelman Arthur, who passed away with a heart attack, was educated and had four sons, Raymond Chan, William Henry (deceased), in the Willow Creek School. He married Labina Jewett[...]had one daughter, D'Et who is married and living in Helena.[...]lena where from the eastern United States in the early 1900's to ranch she is a nurse in the hospital there. n[...]Elaine. They lived in Harlowton until February 6, 1943, when[...]trice, March 26, life was not just riding a pony and making mud pies with 1952; Marla Faith,[...]id eggs taken from the barn. Chan being raised on a 1959; Raymond Britt, May 2, 1962 and Chanelle Joy[...]d they have learned the difference between a bull and a cow, how to raise a three children Chan Anthony, Tammy Michelle and C[...]One time they had a girl live with them for a year. Their two[...]Mrs. Barton Gourley Cooper in Jewell County, Kansas. Au-[...]gust 1899 he married Anna Dupin in Seward, Nebraska. They[...]had three children who were all born in Seward, Nebraska:[...]d, Verniece, and Helen. They came to Willow Creek in 1913 where Mr. Cooper had purchased a ranch. Two months[...]Anna Shogren was born April 5, 1885, in Hastings, Min- nesota. In 1909 she married John F. Holden and they had one[...]son, Leslie. John Holden died in 1915 and Anna and her small[...]secured employment as a housekeeper for Frank Cooper.[...]On Thanksgiving Eve in 1916 Anna Shogren Holden and[...] |
| [...]oline Buttelman. She was born on the family lived in a large two-story white house on this place (a home ·ranch between Willow Creek and Three[...]Willow Creek. Sometimes in the winter months they skated to[...]yrd the Lane School and then they drove a horse and buggy. She[...]Cooper were married in the Bozeman Presbyterian Church. Jack L. Coope[...]e on the Joe Tinsley place, now the Raymond ranch in Willow Creek, Montana. He married Phyllis Geor-[...]Willow Creek, Bill who passed away March 2, 1961, in the St. John's Episcopal Church. Children are Rob[...]of Washington, D.C., and Frank of Helena. living in Bozeman; Mark Wa-r ren, married to Cristy Davis,[...]on the Willow Creek school board for many living in Willow Creek and operating the ranch; Lois Elaine years. Both he and Frances have been active in the various married to Douglas Zeitner and living in Farmington, New civic affairs. On Dece[...]o. There are four grandchildren: Tracy and Kelsie in Frances continues to reside on the home ranch. With the death Willow Creek and Kellie and Chad in New Mexico. Jack has of his father Cha[...]ooper Farm was recorded at the Clerk and Recorder in Gallatin County the 28th of November 1914 by his[...]Ted Cooper was born December 26, 1883, in Rock Grove, The main crops are hay, irrigated grain and dryland grain. Illinois. He came to Montana in 1914 where for 30 years he Jack started out with commercial cattle and sheep which he operated a grocery store and meat market at Willow Creek. He sold out oflater. In 1947 he started with a few registered Line retired to his farm in 1942 and lived there until his death in One Herefords that he had bought from the U.S. Range Sta- February of 1957. tion in Miles City. In April of 1968, Jack and Leslie Holden E[...], 1901, to M.C. (his half-brother) started having a bull sale at Great Falls, and and Sarah Coursien. She spent her entire life in Willow Creek had them up there until 1979. In 1980 we started having our until 1970 whe[...]from different dren: Vivian, Ralph and a daughter, Ree. parts of the United States that ha[...]gold seekers and eventually settled in Willow Creek in 1864. RAYMOND AND FRANCES COOPER His parents died when he was a young boy and he was appren- Raymond Cooper was born September 22, 1901, in Neb- ticed to a man who taught him the blacksmith's trade. raska[...]age 14 he came Sarah O'Green arrived in Willow Creek in 1878 with her to Willow Creek with his family. He attended school at Willow brother from Nephi, Utah, in a covered wagon. She found Creek and then Montana State College where he graduated in employment in the Paul and Hanley Hotel at the old town[...] |
| [...]with that religion when they accompanied Dak. in 1879 being among the earliest pioneers in the settle- a family named Timmons in a covered wagon to the new ment of that[...]Sarah O'Green and Marshal Coursien were married in and later to Willow Creek where they made their home near 1879. In 1880 Marshal built the first three-story frame ho[...]ghter Bessie who was married to Eugene Thorndike. in Willow Creek. It was lived in until the late 1970's when it Mrs. Downie was baptized in the Lutheran Church in her was tom down and a portion of the lumber used to renovate a infancy, but after her marriage, affiliated with the Methodist home in Three Forks. It was known as the House of Seven people, taking an interest and active part in the ladies aid Gables. They had two children: Fra[...]). She was a member of the Eastern Star and served as Grand[...]Mrs. Downie took a great interest in the social activities in Earl Davis was born September 2, 1889, at Bible Grove, Willow Creek, being a member of the Ladies Aid and Woman's Missouri, to William H. and Victoria Belle Davis.[...]of the Methodist Church. The couple en- educated in Missouri and taught school in South Dakota be- joyed their yard and flowers and kept their home a real show fore moving to Willow Creek in 1910. He died in November of place. Their daughter Bessie lived in Medford, Ore. at the time 1981.[...]of their death and a foster daughter Florence lived in Earl homesteaded on the South Bench. As the ot[...]Washington. Mrs. Downie passed away at her home in Willow steaders became discouraged he bought their farms. He had a Creek in Dec. 1934 and Mr. Downie passed away in Oct. 1940 home on the South Bench and most of his life the ranch in Medford, Oregon. headquarters were there. His holdings became the Table Mountain Farms which he sold in 1962 to the Lane Brothers.[...]e raised pigs on the Eugene Thorndike was born in Big Stone City, South South Bench or whatever wou[...]ad Dakota June 26, 1888. He married Bessie Downie in Milbank, three or four bands of sheep. Earl was a good farmer and very South Dakota in 1913. She passeq away in Medford, Oregon in progressive. He began farming with horses but kept up with 1~5. In 1938 he married Inez Oakes who passed away in the times. He had one of the first self-propelled[...]Thorndike was a banker by profession and was associated After[...]ow Creek and moving into the Nelson with the bank in Willow Creek before moving to Oregon in house he continued to farm the South Bench in a large way. At 1924. He became associated with the First National Bank in one time he owned the elevator now owned by Robert Lane. Medford and continued in that role until his retirement in Earl's daughters, Juanita (Mrs. Clancy Stalcup) and Lola 1955. (Mrs. Howard Peed) were born and raised in the Willow Creek Mr. and Mrs. Thorndike took an active part in the social area. In 1957 he and Birdie Mumper were married. Birdie now events in Willow Creek and were greatly missed when they lives in Bozeman. chose to move to Oregon. Mr. Thorndike passed away in 1969. Earl Davis was instrumental in getting the Willow Creek[...]dwards gave the HARRY M. and MARLYSE A. DROGITIS land for the cemetery. The cemetary has[...]d Frank and Georgia the oldest of seven children, in a Milwaukee Railroad section Hilke gave 10 acre fee[...]ne about five miles west of Ringling, Mon- lished a sprinkler was put in. tana. Harry lived and attended school in Ringling and in 1936 HHH they moved to Eustis, a Milwaukee station about 10 miles east[...]and the Drogitis family, rode a ¾ ton Ford panel bus with Mr. Downie was born March 2, 1855 in Hamilton, Ontario, wooden benches on each side and few windows to school in Canada, the son of George and Grace Downie. When[...]One winter the bus became stuck in a snow drift for several . Mr. Downie studied the printing craft and worked as a hours. One of the older Fisk girls had a large fluffy hand muff journeyman in various cities. In 1879 he turned westward and and the smaller children on the bus took turns putting their established a newspaper in Big Stone City. Later he moved the hands and feet in the muff to keep from freezing. After several bus[...]e bus had run out of gas and was very cold. lived in Willow Creek for many years. Mr. Downie was work-[...]ok them home and ing with the Three Forks Herald. In his lifetime he had served then returned for we o[...]to be home and of course we got to stay home for a Methodist Church and chairman of the board of edu[...]kota. The couple had one daughter, Bessie. In the fall of 1941, when Harry was 15, he went to w[...]w at Eustis. His uncle, Dan Drogitis was the Molm in Pennsylvania on Dec. 14, 1858. Her parents moved[...]s of age. There she tion for Harry he had to fib" a little on the birthdate (two[...]d. The family moved to Big Stone City, So. years) in order for Harry to be old enough to work o[...] |
| [...]English also. She attended high school in White Sulphur .Springs, Montana. In 1936 Marlyse's mother married Frank[...]Company in the Harlowton area. The seismograph crew then[...]November 21, 1951. In the spring of 1953 Harry went to[...]7, 1953, their second son, Duane C. was born in Harlowton.[...]ears as an extra agent-telegrapher before landing a steady job at Sheridan, Montana. In 1957 he bid and was[...]1957. All four children were born in Harlowton. Dennis and[...]Duane attended school in Willow Creek until 1960. While[...]and graduated from high school in Willow Creek.[...]Harry was bumped out of his job in February 1960 and on[...]in the old N.P. depot at Norris for 11 years. When t[...]closed between Harrison and Norris they purchased a home in[...]In 1979 the depot at Jiarrison was closed and Harry[...]into a telegraph position at Butte and drove back and fo[...]GEORGE L. DUKE which was pretty good money for a young boy. George Duke was from Kentucky and arrived at Alder In early 1942 Harry and his family moved to Two Dot[...]attended one-half his junior year of high school in Harlowton. where he served as Justice of Peace for three years. In 1869 he Then he quit school and went back to work on the Milwaukee moved to Willow Creek. He had a ranch near the canyon that as an electrician helper and traveled with a crew between Two bears his name. Also he was a Gallatin County Commissioner Dot and Avery, Idaho[...]Pacific theatre of war. Upon Duke. discharge in 1946 he went back to work on the Milwaukee in[...]partment. Harry left the sub-station de- partment in 1948 and went to Harlowton and worked as a switchman for a few months but didn't like this work and left[...]road altogether and worked at various other jobs, in- Charley Evans and wife, Carrie, came to Willow Creek in cluding ranching.[...]father died when ren, three of them born in the log cabin built on the home- she was very you[...]Montana to stead by Charley and his father-in-law when the homestead a homestead owned by Mildred's uncle, Jacob Tvetene, in the requirements were met. The two youngest[...]the old homestead. The homestead proved not to be a Marlyse was six years old, Uncle Jake bought another ranch successful way of making a living and the family experienced on the M[...] |
| [...]job throughout the illow served in he arm in Korea just prior to he Korean conflic . re k valley, hi 1 employment in ontana wi h he · 1- Hi hobbie be i[...]Railroad . Charley and Carrie moved to California in Elean[...]y 1929 becau of Carrie's poor health. Carrie died in 194 and harley followed her in dea h in 1951 both in California.[...]EDD FLAHERTY Virgil graduated from high school in illo Creek in 192 . and WILLIAM ALFRED FLAHE[...]John Flaher father of , illiam a born in County ilwaukee Railroad before leaving for California in he fall of Donegal, Ireland on o ember 10 1846[...]rated for many yea before retiring. He was active in the alifornia o America in 1851 locating in an Burensburg, Montgomery ational uard, having earned hi com.mi sion in communi- Count , Ill . , here the fath[...]have been aviation radio until hi death. In 1 66 he again headed es via Salt Lake and TV work. He ha hi own hortwave radio tation in Ci y with an ox team ha · ng no[...]re he make hi home. arrived in irginia i in 1866. He ent to work on Jame worked for am Lan[...]Cardwell Ranch at he mouth of orth Boulder Creek. In for California in 1931. He worked a a heavy equipment 1 69 John Flaherty[...]orth Boulder reek \ here he was engaged in farming and and variou job requiring the u of heavy equipmen . He general ock rai ing. In 1872 ovember, he wa married to retired in 1974 after 30 years of heavy hard,; ork. At one time Elizabeth A. Murray of Andrew County Mi souri. Eight chil- he[...]nta Anita Race Track. He married Virginia Shaffer in 1946. illiam wa born October 17 1877 an[...]ter named <tThe Cold Springs Ranch" be- d away in 1969. Jame later married hi present wife[...]ro by s home and spend much time &hool in Bozeman and left college with a degree in Mechani- reading.[...]Dorothy graduated from Willow reek high cbool in 1929 William was employed for two years with the Chief the only girl in her clas . After graduat ion he moved to[...]Summers, to join their parent who had been living in California for six during Preparatory School and College, Will drove a months. Dorothy worked at variou job before marrying stagecoach in Yellowstone Park, taking <dudes" to various amuel Hutchinson in 1934. They have three daughters are[...]ne of Lo Alamitos and took up' a homestead across the river from his parental Cali[...]Residence on the homestead land was mandatory for a now has thirteen grandchildren and five great gra[...]ownership was given. Dorothy hu band pas ed away in 1977. She ha been active William met and married Marie Shedd, who was teaching in for many years in her church work having served as ecretary the orth Boulder Valley near the Flaherty ranch, in Butte, to her ward in the church besides teaching a Sunday School Montana on August 10, 1907. cla for many year . he is now active in the Senior Citizens Marie Shedd daughter of Isabelle Williams Shedd and group in Torrence alifornia. Her hobby i bowling. She[...]n at her parental home near bowl on everal league in Wilmington , California where Willow[...]n County High Eleanor married George Trainotti in California in 1935. They had no children. Eleanor pursued a career in banking and after twenty-six year retired as vice president of the The W. A . Flaherty Family - 1941 bank for which be worked. She engaged in extensive philan- Back : Madely n, Dorothy Marjorie , Gwendolyn, Isabelle thropic activities in civic and fraternal organizations. She is a Front-: William, Marie, Billie, Desmo[...]r and honorary life member of Quota International a womens classified service organization headquartered in Washington D.C. She was active in much of the civic activity in onrovia, California where she and her husband , G[...]he and George moved to Montana to make their home in 1972 and Eleanor now lives in Ennis. Her husband pas ed away in 1980. George Evans finished high school in Monrovia California in 1935 and studied in various school and colleges before settling on a career as an engineer. He retired a a design and manufacturing engineer for Carrier Corporation in 1979 and moved to Redding California where he now resides with hi wife Poppy, who he married in 1948. They have three chil- dren, Linda ofBladwin Park ichael of Lakewood and David of Azu a and four grandchildren. George can't eem to ta[...]now doing de ign engineering for variou companie in Redding California. He[...] |
| [...]a, for one year. Because teachers Meaker in the early 1940's, he passed away and Billie marri[...]e offered the option of Robert Harnsberger in 1951. Billie passed away June 10, interrupting th[...]nd attending the . 1978. Robert passed away in 1973. State Normal College at Dillon in preparation for teaching. Robert Desmond was born September 27, 1923, married Marie earned a certificate to teach and taught school at J effer- Mary Humphreys and they live in Manhattan Beach, Califor- son Island and in the North Boulder Valley. George Sebern nia. Shedd, father of Marie Flaherty, was a nephew probably of[...]ly survivor of that union. George moved to a ranch at Willow Creek and Isabelle attended the died in 1885, shortly after Marie's birth. Her mother mar[...]er Mar- Frank Huller and there were five children in that family: jorie walked or rode horse[...]hey frequently stopped at <<Grandma Huller's" for a <<hand- grandchildren of Jay Huller now operate t[...]on the Jefferson near Willow they were in the sixth grade. The girls drove a one horse rig for Creek.[...]occupied the farm during the day. Finally a bus was provided - it made the in the North Boulder Valley between 1912 and 1915, a[...]lived at Jefferson school. The <<bus" was a pick-up-truck, with solid Willow Creek having pur[...]benches along the sides - very little (<spring'' in them. was in Gallatin County, but a small part in Jefferson County. Isabelle was a good athlete and a creditable member of the The ranch had an early w[...]raduated from Willow creek, and William developed a fine irrigation system out of a Creek High School in 1926 and attended State Normal College spring at the "Point of Rocks" in the canyon on the ranch, to in Dillon. She taught summer schools at Suffolk, Mon[...]the Mitchell Gulch School in Lewis and Clark County. She and The near 600 ac[...]Anthony J. Vollmer were married and operated a dairy farm grain crops, under irrigation, and gra[...]After they sold the dairy business, Tony worked in Alaska, went with his cattle to market in Chicago, on the cattle train, and Isabelle was in the Industrial Accident Board, at the for many ye[...]m the dairy herd was an impor- Capitol in Helena for 11 years. Tony was employed with the t[...]curds Helena Housing Authority. They built a cabin on Canyon for a Greek turkey raiser for several years - cooked in the Ferry Lake, where they spent much of[...]latives. large modern dairy and horse barn, built in 1916 was not only Their only child, a son, William Anthony, is currently Chief functional in dairy and farm operations, but was well scrub-[...]of the Disability Determination Department in the Montana bed for barn dances during the 20's a[...]Social and Rehabilitation Services in Helena. He married Marie and Will sold the Willow Creek farm in 1944 and Will Marcia Peterson from Great Falls, a pharmacist who has her worked with the Internal Revenue Service, and both were own pharmacy in Helena. They have three children: Victoria, employed at the Girl's Vocational School in the Helena valley. Bradford, and Kristin, and reside in Helena. They are experi- They moved to Bozeman, 5[...]spare hours sailing on Canyon until Will's death in 1950, just previous to his 75th birthday. Ferry Lake in summer and skiing in winter. Marie returned to Helena for four years m[...]Isabelle passed away in 1980 of cancer and Tony in 1981 of Vocational School, being very proud of ha[...]rt problems. Social Security benefits on her own. In 1955, she returned to[...]here she lived until she passed away at 93 years, in 1978. Elizabeth Isabelle was born August 20, 19[...]JORIE FLAHERTY PAISLEY thony J. Vollmer and lived in Helena, Montana. Iabelle passed Marjorie Flaherty Paisley was born at Willow Creek, Mon- away in 1980 and Tony in 1981. Lillian Marjorie was born tana,[...]ransferred to the Willow Creek 16, 1930 and lived in Kalispell. Chester passed away in 1937. grade school in the sixth grade. She graduated from Willow Marjorie now lives in Bozeman, Montana. Creek High School in 1926. Marjorie received a teaching dip- Dorothy Hazel was born April 11,[...]es loma from MSNC at Dillon, Montana in 1928. Her first year of Mitchell in 1937 and lives in Bozeman, Montana and Mesa, teaching was at the rural Seright School in Fergus County, Arizona.[...]grade, in Flathead County. She and James Chester Paisley[...]were married August 16, 1930 and they lived in Kalispell. Massa in 1938 and farmed in the Crow Creek Valley. They ((Chet'' was county agent in Flathead County Extension Ser- now live in Townsend. Mike passed away in 1982. vice. When the service was cut back in 1932, they moved to Madelyn was born October 5, 1916, married Frank Pinto in Bozeman, where James Donald, their first son was born, 1946 and lives in Bisbee, Arizona. Frank passed away in 1958. January 15, 1933. When Jim was[...] |
| where Chet was Farm Agent in the Indian Service. After 14 the Forest Service in Missoula and Dave has a cleaning ser- months there, they returned to Lake[...]Carina and John. One vice, where Chet passed away in 1937 following an appendec- son died an accidental death while a pre-schooler. tomy. David Dean was born in Ronan, Lake County on June 1, Dorothy was graduated from Montana State University in 1936. 1959 and taught in the Bozeman schools for 31 years and Marjorie and the two boys went back to Somers to a teaching retired in 1975. They maintain a home in Mesa, Arizona, and position, again, for two years. She had always had a desire to spend summers in Montana. Dorothy had a book of poetry, take Home Economics and while the[...]the ttHearts and Feathers", published in 1973. In retirement, they boys at Willow Creek, she came t[...]a State painting. Ente~aining friends is a high priority activity. University). Working as an assistant to the Social Director in Hamilton Hall (Women's residence) and then as Advisor at the Home Management House for two years - a residence GWENDOLYN FLAH[...]endolyn Fla\lerty Massa was born on the homestead in Bachelor's degree in 1941 and Master's in 1942. She did part of Jefferson County, ·oct[...]low Creek High School in 1932. Gwendolyn spent her first During her college years at MSU, Marjorie taught a number year out of high school with the Paisleys, when Jim was a of classes where there was an overflow in enrollment, and baby, in Bozeman, and in South Dakota. In 1935 she was 1942 joined the Home Economics staff on a regular basis, graduated from Eastern[...]- taught at Polson for the next three years, in the elementary velopment and family relationships[...]grades. charge of the laboratory nursery school in the Home Gwendolyn married in 1938 to Mike Massa ofToston. They Economics Department for 14 years. MSU had an attractive farmed in the Crow Creek Valley for many years. Mike and hi[...]vel and study and allowed one quarter at full pay in brother Alex Antonetti were successful and prosperous far- every eight for this arrangement. If a full-time situation were mers and operated th[...]held elsewhere, pay was not given by MSU. It was a privilege moved to Townsend, where they ma[...](Mrs. versity of Hawaii and Merrill-Palmer School in Detroit. Fred Heer) who lives in Bismarck, North Dakota, teaches Travel trips were taken to Europe, to Mexico twice, and a English in the Junior High School. They have one son, Cody.[...]ed with the Department of Home Economics, she had a two year to Linda Brence of Ekalaka, a daughter, Deanna, live in appointment with the Department of State, working in Peru Hamilton where they own and operat[...]onomics. Her last Linda graduated from MSU in elementary education, and ten years at Montana St[...]in Havre. Larry, a carpenter, and wife Marcia Oberembt, MSU Marjorie retired in 1974, lives in Bozeman, works on three graduate in nursing, both work in Long Beach, California. campus committees yet, is[...]oan. Tom, married to goes fishing and has managed a couple of recent trips to Spain Terry Roark, and parent of Taryn, lives in Townsend and and to the British Isles. Jim, who began his school career in works as an electrician. Terry works for Mo[...]aduated from Montana State phone Company in Billings. Penny Massa married Ron University. Jim[...]r of Billings. They operate Zig's Building Center in versity of Colorado and Arizona State University, respec- ·Kalispell and have a daughter, Kelley. They have their home tively, and works in Phoenix as a Clinical Psychologist. He on Flathead Lak[...]nd Literature Department of the Tempe High School in grandchildren often and thoroughly[...]Alma Bigby of Oklahoma and Bozeman, and they live in Moscow, Idaho, where David is an engineer for Ben[...]Dana and Madelyn Flaherty Pinto was born in Willow Creek, Mon- Delise.[...]tana October 5, 1916. She attended school in Willow Creek Marjorie Flaherty Paisley graduating from high school in 1934. Madelyn was graduated[...]from Eastern Montana College of Education in 1936. She[...]returned to MSU and got her degree in Education in 1960, DOROTHY FLAHERTY MITCHELL after an interim in which she taught at Polson for 6 years, at Doro[...]Creek, Mon- Ringling for one year and was in the Fleet Post Office in the tana on April 11, 1912. She attended grade and high school in WAVES from 1943 to 1945. In 1946 she married Frank Pinto Willow Creek, graduating from high school in 1930. She in New York City, where they were both in the Navy, and in graduated from Eastern Montana College of Educati[...]rural schools out of Townsend and at Crow Creek, in master until his death in 1958. They have three children, Broadwater County. In 1937 she and James Mitchell were Jerr[...]with one child, Kelly Kristin, and who is married in Dubois, Idaho. Jim was with the Montana Power[...]untant with Mobil Oil Co. His wife, Peggy Company in Butte, as crew foreman , and as division foreman is a teacher. Marie Pinto, also married living in Bisbee, and is in Bozeman, until his retirement in 1976. They have one a practicing counselor. Jerry graduated from MSU, and has a daughter, Carma, married to David Gilligan[...] |
| youngest, have degrees from Arizona State. Zona graduated in Directors of Asbury Systems. They reside in Manhattan Home Economics, taught in Alaska, and is now employed in Beach, California. Tucson.[...]e Flaherty Paisley Madelyn taught for 16 years in Bisbee, and retired in 1976. She spent one year with the College Ship, The Seven Seas, on a round-the-world excursion and study in 1968. She has since DO[...]lled to the Orient twice and to Europe. She lives in Mr. and Mrs. Fredericks were early settlers in Willow Creek Bisbee, bowls, golfs, enjoys the horse and dog races. having settled in the Willow Creek Canyon where Mr. Fre-[...]Marjorie Flaherty Paisley dericks, in partnership with A. J. Davis of Butte, operated a flour mill. A son, Don, came west with his parents whenjust a boy. Don was born in 1863. BILLIE FLAHERTY HARNSBERGER Bil[...]llow Creek schools and graduated from high school in 1938. Billie at- tended Montana State University[...]her teaching diploma. She married Louis Meaker in the early 1940's and they lived in Billings until his death. They have one son, Charles R Meaker born in 1946. While in Billings, Billie taught at Molt, and the Lockwood[...]ed to Bozeman and Billie taught at Central Park , in the Bozeman schools and at the Rae school. Louis was electrocuted in a Montana Power accident. She married Robert Harnsberger in 1951. They had one child, Barry, who died at the age of 18 months. Robert passed away in 1973. Billie worked as cafeteria supervisor at th[...]g on the MSU campus for 10 years. Then she taught in West Yellowstone for 10 years, retiring because o[...]received her degree from Montana State University in Elementary Education in 1971. Bob Harnsberger was game room supervisor[...]the University of Washington, while working there in private Following the death of Mr. Fre[...]ecorator. He had graduated from moved to a farm north of t own where they resided until the MSU with a degree in art. He married Elaine Holman from deat[...]and their two children, Erik and Michele , lived in married, made his home in Willow Creek at the Hotel which Seattle with thei[...]. He also owned the dance hall across the ingale, a professional photographer, and he is a glass blower, street from the Hotel. professio[...]selling on his own and also work- Don was a quiet man and chose to be a loner. He spent much ing as a designer for Rosenthal in Bavaria. He received his of his time in the room below the dance hall. Don became ill Master's at The Royal College of Art in London, and spent a and was taken to the Deaconess Hospital in Bozeman where year with Orefors in Sweden. He has worked in Bornholm, he passed away June 9, 1936. Denmark much of his time in Europe. Billie was in ill health for two years before her death, June 10, 1978. She had been living at St. John's Lutheran Home in W. A. FREDERICKS - WILLOW CREEK MILL Billings.[...]Wellington A. Fredericks was born in Ontario, Canada, in[...]founders of Madison. In 1859 he and Sarah J. Gilbert of Bel- Robert Des[...]until tana September 27 , 1923. He went to school in Willow Creek 1864 when he moved overland to Fort Ellis where he built a and graduated from high school in 1941 and went to Seattle to sawmill. He built several sawmills around Montana and then work in the defense industries. He joined the Marines in 1943, in 1866 went east to buy machinery for a grist mill at Gallatin served in the South Pacific, China, Okinawa, was awarded the City. Purple Heart and The President's Citation, in World War II. In 1873 A. J . Davis and William Drew entered into an In 1946 he was discharged, and stayed in the Los Angeles area agreement to erect a flouring mill on Willow Creek. On where he has si[...]arahJ. they have two children: William, who works in jewelry-design Fredericks for $1. 00 and oth[...]iness. Wendy , their daughter described as in the SE½ of the SE½ of Section 7, Township lS, works for a credit bureau. Both attended junior college and Range lE. W. A. Fredericks supervised the building of the university in the Los Angeles area. Desmond has worked with Willow Creek Mill which was finished in 1873. Asbury Transportation and Construction Systems since 1946 In January of 1874 the Madisonian had an article stating and is currently Secretary, General Manager, a~d one of the that the Willow Creek F[...] |
| [...]lity of the flour the are turning ou are the best in he Tern ory. r . H. H. Mood is in .c harge of the mills and his name one ery ack of flour i a ufficient warrant that it is up[...]e tandard indicated b the number of X's it bears. In[...]crusader of he east, when he in ends to make a sortie and cap ure the flo[...]X to double U .' . A. Fredericks continued to operate the mill with success until tragedy ruck in ptember of 1878. On September 15, 187' he wa murdered b a former employee, Mike Foley during an argument over money. ike Foley served a life entence at Deer Lodg[...]w apparently had difficult in operating the mill. She employed Andrew[...]this did not o.r k out because Mr. Pierstorffhad a card in The Avan mirier January 1,[...]dericks and her on Hiram Don Fredericks, puchased a tock ranch near Willow C[...]Galen, attorney general of Montana, is in truest sense indi- genous[...]. His father, an Irishman in point of nativity, cast his fortunes with Montana[...]played an Willow Creek Mill. important part in the vigorous life of the new country and died[...]lued public officials and a commanding figure in the affairs of the Repub-[...]Mr. Galen was born on a ranch near Three Forks, Jefferson[...]The Honorable Mr. Galen received his education of a pre- liminary character in the parochial and public schools of Helena. In September 1889, he entered Notre Dame Univer- sity at South Bend, Indiana, as a student in the preparatory department and in due time entered the college proper. Rav~[...]profession he matriculated in the law department of that[...]gan at Ann Arbor and took a special course in law, the next year receiving a degree from that university and being admitted to the bar of Michigan in August of that year and was admitted to practice[...]into the practice of his profession in Helena. He was admitted t[...]court at Washington D.C., in June 1897. His attainments were from[...]llence and his elec- tion in ovember, 1904 as attorney general was a most ap- propriate[...] |
| ter that they received the eloquent approval of re-election in Nancy is a sophomore at Willow Creek. She is on the bas- Nov[...]ketball and track team. They have placed third in District lOC Mr. Galen since earliest voting d[...]nd for two years. The girls got started in 4-H with a market lamb, heart to the Republican party and has ever been ready to do all project which grew to a small flock of sheep for each of them. in his power to bring about its success. He is an ac[...]ve both showed at the 4-H Summer Fair and Montana in national, state, and local affairs and very influential in Winter Fair, and take part in the associations to do with the party councils.[...]sheep industry. Mr. Galen was married in Helena, February 2, 1898, the In 1976, we bought the place Archie and Iona Cameron[...]eveland place" by old-timers. We Willard Bennett, a native of Ontario, Canada. They share built a garage and ham on the land since then. their home, which is modest though hospitable , in Helena, and Dale was born to Joe and Pearl Gibson, September 1932. His is presided over by a mistress of unusual social grace, with one . mother, Pearl, graduated from Willow Creek High School in. son, James A. Galen, born in Helena, May 5, 1902. Their 1926. Dale was raised in the Gallatin Valley until 1942 when residence is[...]on to Helena where he Fraternally Mr. Galen is a member of the Benevolent and graduated from Helena High School. He was in the Korean Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen[...]erving with the Air Force. He attended MSU. He is a Montana Club of Helena.[...]years; a member of Masonic Lodge in Three Forks, Scottish[...]Rite and Algeria Shrine in Helena, and a 4-H Leader. THE DALE GIBSON FAMILY I was born in November 1938 and raised in the Springhill We came to Willow Creek in 1966 looking for a place to live. area north of Bozeman. My parents are Llos and Leona Parker. Dale had a job with the Lone Star Texaco in Three Forks, and I have a brother, Ray, who lives in Florida. I graduated where we could find nothing[...]Willow from Gallatin County High School in Bozeman and MSU. I Creek where Dale used to go to visit his grandparents, Bert have been a member of the Willow Creek Study Club, Ladies and Winnie Thompson. They had lived on different places in Aid, Three Rivers No. -56 O.E.S. and a 4-H leader. I was the area moving away when Dale[...]le employed by the school district as a school bus driver in 1977. remember·s loving fried chicken and when h[...]ture the chicken. When his grandmother would hear a ruckus in the chicken house she would rush out to rescue th[...]ur grandfather, James Green, was born May 1, 1830 in Bert Thompson used to say that Willow Creek was the only King's Norton Parish in Warwickshire, England. His father, place the wind[...]ires would Joseph Green, died while James was a baby. Grandfather was be bunched up at the corner[...]h Foley Green, made We were only going to live in.Willow Creek until Dale could their home with his grandfather who owned a farm near: find a better job. The Reich family had a house for rent near Birmingham and was manager of a large estate known as · town. Toni Kay was three years old, and in 1967 Nancy Renee Rueberry Hill Farm. was born. Dale started to work at the talc plant in Three Forks When Grandfather was 13 years old, his grandfather de- . in October, 1966, which was still in its infancy, since then has cided that with all the land in the U.S. to be had for the taking, grown consider[...]his best opportunity would be in America. Accordingly in 1843 In 1974, Dale's daughter Jean Marie graduated from Wil- they came to this country landing in New Orleans. From there low Creek High School. She had moved in with us in the middle of her junior year and stayed until sh[...]Travis and Jason. They live near Great Falls. In 1974 and '75 we had the enjoyment of a foreign student live with us. He was Leonidas Chaux of Cali, Colombia, who came to school in Willow Creek with several other Spanish speaking students. In August 1975, after finishing the re- quired subje[...]ish dictio- nary the first few weeks he was here. A high-light of communications was when a joke was told and we could all laugh together wit[...]. Toni graduated from Willow Creek High School in 1981 after a very interesting time as a student. She was the Girls State delegate in her junior year. She had the chance of going to the Western Divisional C Class Basketball Tournament in all four years of high school with the final year being on the State C Class Championship team; a first in the history of Willow Creek High School. The same year she won a trip to National 4-H Congress in Chicago and won the State C Class discus throw in track and field. She attended college one year on a basketball scholarship at Dawson Community College in Glendive.[...] |
| [...]they went to a settlement of the L.D.S. Church. Born members[...]some L.D.S. missionaries preach in England and this also[...]stayed in England to settle an estate, planning to join the[...]had married and moved to Utah, they heard of a Mrs. Green who had died in Colorado on the way West. They never heard[...]under the guardianship of a Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield, a Scotch[...]Grandfather joined a group going first to Iowa and then to[...]Utah. It was in Iowa that he first saw our grandmother,[...]Margurata Wellwood, who was born January 16, 1833 in the[...]father, William Wellwood, was a younger son of the lesser[...]fortune in the new land. He died shortly after they arrived in[...]Jane Wellwood then married a Scotchman, Mr. Dack, and[...]died. Later Jane married Levi Powell who had a stepdaughter,[...]Elizabeth Carter. Levi Powell was born in 1800 and drowned in 1866 while canoeing on the Jefferson River. Eliza[...]People who knew Grandmother described her as a beautiful[...]woman with dark brown hair and eyes and a lovely singing Back - Melissa Green. Front - Jrmn[...]dark brown hair. They were married July 27, 1851 in[...]They travelled in groups of 50 and made their own boats for[...]Our grandparents moved to Provo City and acquired a[...]not accept polygamy, so when gold was discovered in Virginia[...]arrived in Virginia City in May of 1864, six weeks after leav-[...]ing Provo City. Virginia City was a wide-open town and not a desirable place to establish a home and raise a family so the[...]as it was at that time. Here in this primitive land, where the[...]glass window in the community. They had brought furniture[...]is still in use). James had some farming tools and horses and[...]cattle. Later butter sold in Helena and Virginia City helped[...] |
| she made was in a cat (she paid $25 for it). There were none in Railroad in Livingston, Montana. Ruby died December 25, the community. The winter of 1864 was a time of extreme 1948. He and Olga Green, a widow with one child, married hardship for all, having arrived too late to raise a garden and April 19, 1952, and in December of that year he retired as the snow so[...]oved to California where he died white child born in the Willow Creek area. James went to[...]Roul) born November 24, 1891, Virginia City early in 1865 and on returning he walked in and married Ruby Viola Harbinson, Prather, Wells (a widow with threw a 100-pound sack of flour on the table saying, "It[...]on November 9, 1965. The first school was held in the Green cabin during the The seve[...]to cattlemen but Grandfather raised a big hay crop and some teach his children and some[...]Charles put in much effort developing this ranch and soon This l[...]her. and five brothers; four of these boys ranged in age from 2 to 9. Mr. and Mrs. Hankinson Ii ved on[...]me Chief Joseph passed through the Green ranch on a and only after Grandfather took her to B[...]ted, she never married and became an ttold maid". In and set up their teepee and pastured their horses[...]the 80's when husbands and families were a woman's vocation ing he offered to trade a horse for Charles, a four-year old and avocation, this was a most unenviable title. blond boy with twinkling_[...]share of Great-Grandmother, Jane Powell , died in 1870. She, Levi community responsibilit[...]and Wellwood Kent are the two grandchildren born in the Thomas Reese, who farmed in the Gallatin Valley. Thomas white house. Reese was born September 11, 1845, in Wales and came with his parents to Pennsylvania in 1865. He and his family came Grandfa[...]me and more care of to Montana via Utah, arriving in Bannack in 1862. Montana the home became Melissa~s responsibility. When he no longer was then a part of Idaho. Aunt Jennie died November 19,[...]ne 13, 1873. Joseph Alma garet, had died in September of 1902 and early in 1903 his born January 5, 1874, died January 18, 1[...]16 when she went to live with her father and make a 1877. died August 24, 1942, he and his wife , Josie had two home for them in Billings. Ann remained with Aunt Liss until child[...]aggie Jane born July 13, 1888, died moved in with her during 1923. Her health continued to de-[...]cline until her death on Valentines's Day in 1925, an approp- eight children.[...]riate day for hers was a life lovingly spent in service for others. As the Green boys grew up[...]cattered for miles. Horse and cattle thieves were a common problem. As the size of the cattle her~ increased each boy was given a cow. Later when Joseph[...]Arie Haasakker was born on January 29, 1884, in Gouda, his cattle helped this venture. Andrew and[...]Holland. There were 13 children but Arie, a brother and two have their own ranch on the Madis[...]sed and bred racing horses. He never In 1904 Arie and his father, Delius, came to America[...]1913. George Quincy lived arriving in New York. They moved on to Iowa to stay with unti[...]hat time they moved to South Dakota and worked on a married June 1881. He was born in 1850. His parents came dryland ranch[...]here they came to Manhattan from France, settling in New York state and eventually came and to Willow Creek in 1915. In 1923 Delius returned to to Montana, where he met and married Eliza. Michael died in Holland. Arie's brother, Cornelius, came to Montana in 1920. 1906 and Aunt Eliza on May 21 , 1928. They had a large farm Arie married Rosa Parker o[...]on April 8, 1925; Bennie 1885, married Ruby Moore in 1909, while employed by the NP[...] |
| [...]Bill married Elsie Harwood in Butte, Montana, January, 1926. Bill had a bad case of the mumps the day of his wedding.[...]Elsie was the daughter of A. W. Harwood and Lydia Ann[...]out of Sheridan. Elsie went to 9th and 10th grade in Three Forks and 11th and 12th grade in Willow Creek.[...]thleen (Roadarmel). Yvonne was born March 1, 1927 in the[...]Three Forks Hospital and Kathleen was born ~ebr~a1:Y 26, 1929 in the Lauren Rice home in Three Forks. Elsie said it was[...]Music was a very important part of the Hagen's life. Bill p~t[...]y, John, Bennie. Front: Rose Mae, Rosa, Arie, a full sized piano in an 8x20 trailer house and taught his Mary.[...]olin case, saying to the girls, "Well, we'll play a t~ne[...]accompanied by his daughters. He played regularly in Willow Daniel has a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Doris. Bennie had Creek, Manhatta[...]ers - Judy and Bill and Elsie brought a horse shed, which was taken on a Shelly. Rose May has a son, Steven, and~ daughter, M~rsha. debt f[...]it to its present site, All grandchildren reside in Montana with the exce~t10n of and built it into a lovely home. Steven who lives in Idaho. There are 15 great grandchildren. Bill did many jobs in his lifetime to support his family, he On January 16, 1962, Arie passed away in Bozeman. His worked in the Butte mines, delivered firewood, coal and ice[...]on the North Bench, worked Co~elius,' passed away in California in 1955. on road construction fo[...]furniture and cars, drove a school bus and dump truck, tanned A niece of Arie's, Cora and her husband, John DeWaal, hides and ran a service station. came to America in 1950. Their daughter, Margaret, re- mained in Holland but their other daughter, Betty, came[...]Forks, Willow along with their son, Jim. They had a son, Arie, who was born Creek communities and now their children, grandchildren in Bozeman. Betty later joined her parents in Green Bay. John and great-grandchildren live, work and go to school in these and Cora are deceased.[...]urke and Elizabeth (Wil- Bilf Hagen was born to a Swedish mother, Minnie Arnilia,[...]Livingston Co., Mo., married Cynthia Margaret and a Norwegian father, James A. in Alexandria, Minnesota[...]Nave Nov. 1, 1859. George was born in W. Va. Dec. 16, 1838 in 1905. The attending physician told Mr. and Mrs. J[...]and his parents were born in Giles, Co., Va. Cynthia was born Hagen their firs[...]of James and Lucy ~ 2½ pounds. His first bed was a shoe box, a cradle was much too[...]James Hagen family lived on an uncle's homestead in Minnesota for awhile then moved to Saskatchewan, Canada to George was educated in the common sch?ols of Mo. an?-[...]en he was 21 which he contmued to do until manage a brother's grain elevator. The family lived above[...]862 when he moved to Colorado and took up mining. In the elevator and the metal afforded little shelte[...]. spring of 1864 they joined a wagon train going north to Mon- recalled sleeping with a scotch cap pulled down over his ears at[...]tana where they settled on a farm in Willow Creek. When they night and listening to the clinking noise of the water freezing in the water bucket.[...]old. The story, as written by Lucy (Tinsley) Hale in young sister, Edith to walk so she rode a cow back and forth poetry form is as follows: wit[...]!(Mother told us a sad incident that happened out on the plains After living in Canada, James Hagen and family were sent The train stopped to rest - wash and bake for a day again. to manage an elevator in Three Forks, Montana. Bill said There was a house and upstairs was a small room Three Forks was the warmest place they[...]ddled around on the floor the family. Bill cooked in the Sacajawea dining room and And somehow[...] |
| [...]Clayton married 1st a Miss Ross and 2nd Georgia M. Shay in[...]In England, James and Anna Hankinson raised a family of[...]eight children. William H. is the fourth in line. He was born March 7, 1835 in Didsbury, six miles from Manchester. His[...]means and two sisters, Ellen and Mary to support. In[...]met in Ogden, Utah and married at Willard on June 25, 18[...]they went to Mound Springs, Idaho where they kept a hotel for 2 years or more. In 1871 they came to Montana, arriving on[...]Edward (Ted) was born in Summit Creek, Utah June 25, 1858.[...]some of his early years with his Aunt Mary Garner in[...]hoped she had 1859. He married Joanna Williams in 1887 at Willow Creek, swallowed none[...]Montana who was born November 13, 1869 and died in 1945. But she soon suffered so we knew she had sw[...]8; She complained about her eyes, but lived about a day Elmer Leslie, born March 11, 1898; G[...]o daughters, Your Grandfather hued stone and made a box Maebelle and Mildred. William H. died May 22, 1955. Both We laid her coffin in this and laid on the top. William and Joanna were buried at Superior, Montana. He smoothed a large flat stone, chisled her birth, name, death[...]William and Sarah Hankinson Next morning everyone in the train prepared to move on All our family knew[...]feet, Come Cynthia, w~ must go. We placed her in the wagon, her grief was so intense she couldn[...]George and Cynthia's first two children were born in Livingston Co., Mo.; Laura Phene, Sept. 19, 1860 and Lucy Elizabeth, Sept. 23, 1862. After they settled in Montana, five other children were born, as follow[...]1879. Laura Phene married Rev. Charles Sanford in 1876, James[...] |
| [...]tober 23, 1956 and were orphan. He became a close observer and successful business- buried in Mount View Cemetery in Butte, Montana. They had man having 480 acres of land, 100 head of cattle and a large no children. Dorenda had one daughter, Cice[...]917. Sarah Phillips Hankin- Elizabeth was born in Box Elder County, Willard, Utah, son (born in Cardiff, Wales, January 20, 1840) came to the Feb[...]d George Cook December 25, United States in 1856. She pushed a hand cart across the 1883. George was born March[...]ne 26, 1944. Their children were: Charles A family story tells that after William H. Hankinso[...]ember 5, Sarah Phillips Hankinson had lived in ''Mormon Country" for 1886; William Christopher,[...]Mae, born March 3, 1893; must have been a very decided person as they "pulled stakes" Hatti[...]Clayborn, born March 23, 1908. Joesph was born in Box Elder County, Willard, Utah, June 26, 1866. H[...]3, Willow Creek, Montana. He passed away in Omak, Washing- 1897. She died August 7, 1965. Lew[...]ly Annie Maria Peterson. She was born in Topeka, Kansas on 6, 1868. He married Clara O'Gre[...]rch 1, 1912. Hiram parents. They arrived in Willow Creek, Montana on July 4, died August 31,[...]at Willow Creek, 1889 making their home in the valley. Annie passed away on Montana and Clara at Red Bluff in Madison County. Children October 1964 at Om[...]Francis and Annie fell in love and on December 15, 1900 1942. Pearl, born J[...]they were married in Bozeman, Montana. They lived on the July 4, 1893,[...]903, died December 18, 1926. Sarah Ellen, born in Mound Springs, Idaho August 12, 1870. She married[...]kinson was apparently an open-handed person. When a friend needed some money, and he had some[...] |
| [...]Our daughter, Naoma was born in Omak on August 7, 1934.[...]Lula and Forest went to school in Omak. Lula graduated[...]from high school the top of her class in August of 1936, who[...]married Harold Radies. They made th3ir home in Chicago,[...]worked many years in a large hospital retiring two years ago,[...]sons and a daughter, Arvon, Russell, Lonnie and Phyllis. She[...]ton. Hazel lives in Long Beach, California. She married Joe[...]Schober in 1934. He was killed at Pearl Harbor on a construc- tion job, in the early 1940's. She married Nick Cooney in 1948 and divorced in 1949. She then married Charlie Hirst. He[...]passed away on February 18, 1980 and is buried in Long[...]Rose married Martin Cox, September 1925 in Bozeman, Montana. Martin passed away in 1973, in Omak, Washington.[...]Lewis, Bert, Merle and Dixie. Bertha passed away in De- Clay, Frank, Mildred, Forrest, Annie, Lula, Phil cember 1981 in Omak, Washington. Charles married Ruth[...]Tolliver in 1932. He passed away in 1968 and is buried in homestead, near Three Forks, the highway now goes[...]3 and Hazel on November 7, Jean still live in Spokane, Washington. The two boys live on 1904. T[...]was the coast. Clayburn married Josie Beam in 1930 and divorced born April 1, 1906. They moved again to old Three Forks in 1932. He lives in Omak, Washington with his brothers, where Charles[...]and Grandma Hankinson built them- served in World War II. Phillip was never called for duty. Sons selves a new home, they gave the old home to Francis and and grandsons served in World War II, Korean War and Viet Annie and their family. We moved there when Charles was a Nam. baby. Here is where the rest of the f[...]go but the war ended. south of Willow Creek in the family home, the· son of Alfred On June 15, 1920, Cosa married Ben Houston in Butte, and Sara Ella (Mize) Harwood. Mon[...]res and we raised all our when his mother died in 1881. His sisters, Rosa and Mabel own hay and grain. We had some stock which consisted of a were taken by the maternal grandparents. f[...]his Uncle Richard's log house northeast of Wil- In May of1922, Violet married Thomas Malloy. They mo[...]lis loved books and read continually all his life in quest Theo, Thomas, Francis, Verlin and Victor. T[...]wledge. He still bought books when he passed away in 1949. Violet passed away in January 1973. was almost blind just as if a miracle would let him read again, In June of 1922, we left Montana by covered wagon -[...]en surprised his grandchildren by inscribing them in Latin, wagons in all. Frank and family, Ben and Cosa, Skip Parker[...]travelled to Wenatchee, Washington. to speak a little Portugese from a sheepherder who was em- We all came up north to Tonasket, in the Okanogan Valley ployed locally for a time. He found someone who would teach where we t[...]. Skip Parker and him similar accomplishments in German. He did not think family returned to Willow Creek, in the spring of 1924, Frank this was unusual but[...]He met his future wife Lydia Williams at a party in the 1924 in Tonasket, Washington. They returned to Three Forks, home of Andrew Peterson in the Willow Creek area, when Montana and were there when the earthquake hit in June they were both 17 years old. The P[...]sure was prospecting and exploring the Ben worked in the mines. In Tonasket, Washington our third wilderness areas. He spent hours alone as a boy near the son, Ray was born, February 19, 1932[...]ana Jefferson River. When he was 21 he worked in Yellowstone in 1931 coming to Omak, Washington in 1932 and made their Park doing road[...] |
| [...]pioneer home in Jeffer on oun one of eight children of[...]1903 in Helena ontana.[...]Her mo her became an in alid and her older i ters had[...]married before he as ten so she a urned the household[...]v as poli hed wi ha pa made from a he . he saw ice cu'[...]from the Jeffe on Ri er and tored in the milkhouse a build-[...]ing with thick wall of tuccoed rock, and a rece sed dirt floor,[...]Her bro her v ere avid hunter and the game was in great[...]made a ne rule: 'What you hoo you clean."[...]In 1 92 her brother Thoma and Bert Panell found the[...]and brother took her with them to enter it a short distance[...]Harwood 'Lee R obert on In 1893 a the age of fifteen members of her family made an[...]een she visited her ister Rose Stanton and family in He read books on geology and b came more intere d in the Bozeman and took both ewing and music l[...]untain . One ofhi favorite being ugarloaf ountain a red peak near orri on the ·adi n . The Tobacco Root w.a Lydia's father gave the young couple cattle for their wed- also a favorite. He found large a bestos mineral depo it deep ding gift and they began ranching near Sheridan, Montana in the mountain range above Jeffer on an on. also ''Willie' became a Forest Ranger in the Ruby Valle/ Willi married Lydia Ann William in Helena ontana Lydia said the e were th[...]their lives. They June 12 1903. Hi i ter abel wa a witne as wa a friend were doing what they liked doing best, had[...]and had many good friends there. He became a Fore t Ranger in Madi on County and they For days at a time she cared for the children alone while he made their home near heridan. The picture taken in front of was busy as a Ranger, miles from home. The remoteness of the Ma[...]her. During one severe hows the furs he brought in from one trip. A bounty certifi- epidemic close friends died inclu[...]errified as she nursed her own family back 3 1912 in adi on County.[...]ydia had five girl Elie Lela erry Donna A rabid coyote wandered into the yard, she grabbed[...]them indoors. He moved hi family o Three Forks in 1922 and a year later Her father was getting old she ro[...]ong the to the pioneer home where Lydia had lived in Jefferson sides of the long mountain range and do[...]enormous gardens. He liked to exper- with him for a few days. iment with new varietie of vegetables a[...]e 93· she died December 22, 1971 at their Hi son-in-la Bill Hagen helped deliver the produce to mar- home. She was buried on Christmas Eve in the Williams kets as Willie did not drive a car. In hi eightie he bought a Cemetery. camping tent hoping omeone would take h[...]Harwood Miller tains again. He will be remembered a having loved all kinds of music inging and dancing. He also included horses and dogs a favorites and had had lot of them.[...]Richard Harwood was born in Lewes England, Sussex in tember 30 1977 in Bozeman wa buried beside •Liddy' in the William Cemetery.[...]in Boone County Missouri. She was born October 18 1824 in LYDIA (WILLIAMS) HARWOOD[...]John L dia Ann Williams was born June 12 1 78 in her parents kinner and Ann Hard.a way (South) Skinner.[...] |
| Major Skinner left two documents written in his 64th year. had a log cabin northeast of Willow Creek. He remembered a One stating he was born in 1797 in North Carolina, moved to log schoolhouse n[...]went to school. Georgia with his father John, and in 1801 to Madison County, Richard died in 1882 in Old Town; was buried in the Willow Kentucky. In 1820 to Boone County, Missouri, with five Creek Cemetery beside his daughter-in-law, Sara Ella, who families in a keel boat which they had built for the move to[...]Caroline died October 15, 1906, at the age of 82, in Gallatin Moniteau River.[...]near Willow Creek. She was buried beside Richard in The second states he fought in the Black Hawk War with the Willow Creek Cemetery. Abe Lincoln, (that war being called a skirmish with no sight of[...]es fought sand bars more than two hours at a time and but a few times at together, and several were at the siege of Boonesborough. Her that. We have had a nice trip so far. We have a nice company of Hardaway connection is recorded in Henrico County, Virginia ladies and gentlemen, good officers on the boat and one of the in 1685. best of captains. Capt. Marsh is a very kind and gentlemanly, Caroline's four sisters, Celeste, Anna, Emilie and Elizabeth and does all in his power to make it pleasant for us. Tell all th[...]Richard and Caroline lived near Caroline's family in Capt. Grant Marsh, his boat at present[...]we left Benton, 1844 - John who married Ella Winn in Radersburg, 1847 - having been confine[...]feeling William Alfred who married Sara Ella Mize in Willow Creek quite well now, and think I[...]are with us. Mr. Lyon intends going to Kansas In 1865 they joined a wagon train and headed for Montana. City, Mr. Bruff gets off at Sioux City and Charlie Lyon stops in They traveled in ox-drawn wagons. They were on the trail for[...]ft home, but They first settled on Crow Creek, a few miles from Town- best of all was at a place called Grand River. It is an Indian send, Montana, then on a farm near Radersburg. Richard was Post. We laid over there a half a day, saw the weekly rations a blacksmith by trade, and his first son followed in this trade, given out to the Indians, and to wind up the scene, saw a in Radersburg.[...]much more interesting to witness Caroline made a trip back to Missouri in 1871, partly by it from the boat with plen[...]ed letters during this to have been alone in their midst, out on some lone pararie. time. He wrote that: A school was completed by fall 1871 and Te[...]ff That summer and fall Richard had worked for a Mr. the boat but once and then the Captain took us all to see a lady Townsly for $2.00 a day and at Jefferson for $30.00 a month. friend. I am going to prove her a false prophet ifl can. I do not[...]not write again until I get to Woldfolk preached in the Radersburg area.[...]and feed them well. "A telegraph line has just been completed, running f[...]na to Bozeman, and runs right past our house, and a bless you all. railroad is expected so[...]Affectionately yours tween the time she left in June and returned the next spring.[...]Their older children married and acquired homes in Galla- N.B. We have passed eight boats going up the river, but only a tin and Jefferson Counties.[...]line moved to Old Town, near Three Forks and had a home on a partial island in the river. High water has long covered the site. 'fheir grandson, "Billie" Harwood, stayed with them for a while there and after Richard died he[...]family of three children, and also to see a dentist. They had a farm on Crow Creek and also[...] |
| one five mile or from Rade burg. Well, a I m tell you the ne s. I have a telegraph line in operation running from Helena to Bozeman hitch ru[...]to · Fanny Ya and hi leaves us all ell a this tim . And I hop by God' Ble ing hea few line ma fmd you all ·njoying the same a e of health. You , ant.eel our opinion about our comin home hi fall or a , till pring. e al1 think you had be ter stay t[...]you to travel no . To cold for ou to trav 1. a I want you to give my be love and re pects o all[...]y God ble hur old ul.1 would bur once more in hi world if it God will if not I hop to me t hur in Heaven. Remember me to illi and Li y and family.[...]no wrightin ner I must :ry to do better in he future. _ _ more at thi tim but remain your hu[...]d Harwood P do the best you can with the property in turgeon Par on Stattler has returned from the ta e he got home about 2 week a go I told him I wa going to w him for not fetching you home But he said he did not take you a way Well he brought back eleven P eachers with[...]and e ware verry mu ch pleased with him bu we bad a Babti Preacher that bee them all hi - name i Rev r. Waldfolk from Kentucky he i the be peker I iver hurd in the territory Our Brother Babti Preacher tayed al[...]im and hurd him Preach I think he i good but only a cond rate Preacher him and Mr[...]Richard and Rosa Stephens were married in Willow Creek Woldfold thought of orgunizeing a Bapti church hear on December 20 1897. Ro a was born in Missouri in 1880, she he aid thay tart with 10 mini ter thi Woldfolk i a brother moved to Montana with her parents in 1882-3. of the awyer Wolfolk of Helena he deliverd an adre at the opening of the guralcuttur fair in Helena He recalled that his father[...]to California in 1849. Caroline and the three children who[...]ade up their family at that time were left behind in Missouri. Their father stored a large supply of wood to last them until[...]hi return and he made a shovel and tongs for their fireplace. He was a blacksmith by trade. Giving up in his search for gold[...]brother George rode horseback a lot of the way. When they reached the Platte River in ebraska the water was o high[...]and built a raft to ferry the wagons across. The journey began in April and ended in October. One can well imagine the[...]such a long journey. They saw Indians from time to time[...]They ettled on Crow Creek near Town end in 1865 and one[...]They owned a ranch near Rader burg. Montana was still a[...]hard at one time owned about one hundred of them. In 1892[...]to brand the colts Richard Harwood Il was born in 1 55 in Boone County[...] |
| Richard and Rosa owned a ranch two and a half miles from near Radersburg. There was w[...]ors Willow Creek on the Jefferson River and lived in the <<Pican" thresh or herding and branding ca[...]the time he was twenty-three his father mentions in his Their children, Ralph 1898, Della 1900, and Tommy 1905 letter in 1871, that he had spent ten days with Alfred and had were born here. They swam in the Jefferson River in summer seen his cattle, and they had hunted and fished. and skated in winter. Horseback riding was the way to get Their ranch home was south of Willow Creek and had a places and a source of pleasure. The «Lane" schoolhouse was[...]raised race horses and purebred cattle for a living. school in Three Forks and Bozeman. Sara was an affectionate person and sang a lot, qualities Ralph played baseball in Three Forks and later in Deer that showed up in her son<<Billie" later. Lodge and Fort Wayne, Ind[...]ed with Caroline Harwood until he was their ranch in 1906, the Sacajawea Hotel and the Roundhouse. grown. In later years Rosa said she had been born «old" an[...]liest memories were of Wayne Chase and they owned a Construction Company until his loneliness for his mother and sisters. The Mizes died retirement in Rapid City, South Dakota. within a few years time, he in 1882 and she in 1887. The little Tommy became an artist. He al[...]tory magazines, depicting fierce outlaws home in Willow Creek. Rosa lived to be 105 years old. wit[...]on as Caroline was soon widowed airplane carriers in the Pacific. and would have been alone . Richard was a young man when Montana became a state in Alfred married Susie Parker a very nice lady who mothered 1889 and for most of[...], Minnie and Lou. nearby. He held several offices in Gallatin County.[...]of the He spent his last years with his family in South Dakota and[...]Harwoods or Mizes to be buried in Montana and was buried in died on October 21 , 1944 in Rapid City and is buried there. the Willow Creek Cemetery. Rosa died December 1, 1961 , also in Rapid City.[...]Alfred lived to be 83; died at «Billie's" home in Jefferson[...]County near Willow Cr eek. He was also buried in the Willow[...]WILLIAM ALFRED HARWOOD Alfred was born in Sturgeon, Missouri , January 29, 1847. He was the[...]ALBERT E. HAWES Married Sara Ella Mize in 187 4, the daughter of Fremont[...]Mendon, and Catherine Mize, born October 15, 1855 in Iowa. Michigan. In 1904 he wanted a change of working in the woods Alfred's family lived near his grandp[...]o went to Milbank , South Dakota. There he became a fireman hearing about their lives on the frontier in Kentucky. He was on the railroad. 17 when his parents and family left for Montana in 1865. They On July 3, 1906 he married Arly A[...]encountered many Indians and were thankful to be in a wagon Archer, in Milbank, South Dakota. There they also ran a large train with friends.[...]as born Aug. 16, 1907 and Irene, He helped make a home on Crow Creek and later at a site Jan. 13, 1909. In 1917 they decided to move to Willow Creek to be w[...]«Collins" Ranch a mile south of town and neighbors of Ben[...]the fair in Billings every year. Along with that he raised ab[...]1500 turkeys and in the fall bidders would come from St. Paul[...]In 1914 they moved to Bozeman where they had purchas[...]some property and Mrs. Hawes ran a small restaurant on Main Street. In 1943 Mr. and Mrs. Hawes moved to Portland,[...]Oregon where they both worked in the shipyards.[...]Mr. Hawes passed away from a heart attack May 10, 1958 at[...]later to Joe Zenker, passed away Oct. 22, 1970 in New Or-[...] |
| lean . orinn married to Fred Bur in Ii e a, ad trict on he,_ e ide of ·he[...]and Robert bo h 1i e vith illow reek. In 1962 Frank re ired a chool bus in Portland, r gon. driver after 27 e . Frank ahi a had a p cial tiiea for hi Alice , a bus kids at hri . tma· im and agai[...]There . as no ho in around on hi bu though. In , he earl 1940 Frank began to ake care of th ceme[...]gi en credi for le eling Edwa d J. Heily w born in Graceville, nneso a. ugu the land furnishing fence and g[...]e that are o 7, 1 94. He recei ed. hi booling in · nneso a and later beau iful. Hen Hoellein and Frank[...]ga e 10 acre fe t of ater. Th area wa gro n up in needle- he ran the elevator in Logan and that i here h met .h i wife gr at one time bu with a lo of, ork and tender loving care Vi la Leary. iola wa from But and taugh chool in th~ b Frank i i now one of the pre ties in the count . Frank Logan High hool before h r marr[...]Hilke T d came to iUow ree to manage the ele ator in 1926 and wa there t the time of hi death in 1935.[...]illiam Frederick Hilke a born at Watertown, Wi con• FR D G ORGIA HILKE in October 11 1 65 and Berta May ollin was born at N[...]llo- 1892 at adi on Sou h Dakota. reek in 1912.[...]ren were born to them at Colton South Dakota. In 1916 Frank opened a barber hip in\ .illo,_ Creek. A tha Their children ere: Flo d Abner born June 6, 1893; Orrie tim the price charged were 50cen for a haircut, 25cent for a have and 50 cent for a bath in a tub behind a partition ( he charge for a bath included soap and towel ). When Frank retired from barbering in 1972 he a charging 1.50 for a haircut and 1.00 for a have. He y he never\ anted to be a barb r . He wa a good one hough. orgia Thomp on wa born at oeur d Alene Idaho o John and Emily Thomp on in 1900. The Thompson family had been in thi area but wen on to Idaho and returned in the early 1900' . Frank and Georgia were marr[...]reek nearly all their married life. Frank was a chool bus driver for the Jefferson chool Dis- Ge[...]The Hilke family came to Willow Creek in 1912 and settled[...] |
| on a farm north of Willow Creek. The farm was later sold and Anna was born Sept. 2, 1880, in Coburg, Germany. She they moved into town.[...]came to the United States as a small child with her mother, Frank Hilke who worked in the Chicago area as a seamstress and cooked - for a family. When they moved to Montana, they filed on a[...]a died September 13. family came to Willow Creek in 1912 and lived on a farm north, The child, then 3 years old, moved[...]1922. When Thomas Walbert, brother-in-law of Henry, died, ; Elizabeth Park was born Feb[...]sister Frieda needed help with her hardware store in Wisconsin, to Al C. (Pete) and Hermie Park. Al a[...]d coal at the railroad while came to Three Forks in 1910. Since he was a telegraph working at the hardware store, and set up machinery there operator, he worked in many places (Sappington, Lombard (binder[...]to the home ranch on the Madi- her school years in Three Forks going through the seventh son[...]ne, both of was born. The ranch had been sold in 1918, but later returned which are torn down. She went to high school in Willow Creek by default. where she met Cliff Hilke. In 1931, Henry W. married Rosella Sherman, who had[...]married 57 years taught 7th and 8th grades in Willow Creek from 1927. Her and have three child[...], 13, and his son Henry E. both retired and live in a mobile home right by the ocean in was 14 when their parents married. Pacifica,[...]The Madison Ranch was sold in 1937 to Henry Raymond, Elizabeth's grandparent[...]e family moved back to Willow Creek, Three Forks in the spring of 1909 and built a home on 4th to a ranch originally belonging to the Hankinson family, Avenue in 1910. Will was a freight conductor on the Mil- about 1½ m[...]y cattle. During World War II, Henry never missed a[...]Rosella died in June, 1947. Later that year, he sold the[...]to Henry Raffety, and returned to the family home in Henry W. Hoellein, born Oct. 15, 1888, near Log[...]h was the family homestead, at- collect a Halloween treat - an apple from his trees. Frieda tended a country school 3 miles from the ranch. He had two Walbert had sold the hardware store to E. L. Wiley in 1939. sisters, Frieda Walbert and Rosalie Davis, who preceded him After Henry sold his ranch in 1947, he worked occasionally for in death. In his youth, Henry attended dances in Willow Mr. Wiley. He also worked for a few years with Frank Hilke at Creek, then rode ho[...]started seedlings which were later planted in the new section. Beginning about 1910, Henry worked a homestead ranch Henry W. Hoellein lived in Willow Creek until November, in Broadwater County, 10 miles north of Three Forks.[...]1971, when he moved to Hillcrest Retirement Home in Boze- he married Helen Christine Elfers (known as Anna) in 1912, man. The home was sold to Bert Todd in 1972. Henry died Dec. they farmed both places, li[...]hich was more 22, 1975. accessible, but in the same area. He hauled grain in a wagon[...]aprobe, used on many cold, wintery days, is still in good condition. Henry W. and Ella Hoellein, Eile[...]death of his mother in 1920, he lived in Willow Creek with his[...]stead. He began school at age 5 and continued in Willow Creek[...]Manhattan High School, where he graduated in 1934. He then[...]attended University of Montana in Missoula, graduating in |
| neral Hospital. They r turned to Butte a the end of the ub ided lea ·ng debri on[...]Reagan, and Donald ·1e living in \ illow Creek v o ns ere born to Le and illiam.[...]Le was ac i e in Farm Bureau, hool Board Methodi THE L[...]den wa born on ov. 1 In 1945 he leased a farm near Town end on ana for 10 vada. Hi father, John Florence Holden a in be gold e . Then in 1954 he purcha ed a ranch outhwes of mining busine at onopah, Goldfie[...]City, e . alier ontana and moved there in 1955. Thi i where they When hi father pa d a ay Les, four year old and hi ill[...]s wife Linda Wenz and their children mploymen as a housekeeper for Frank 0. Cooper of illow[...]dra and Janelle· on Scott and his r ek who was a widower with three children erniece wife arianne Siemens and their children Li a, Jeff and the Ra mond, and Helen . In 1916 Le' mother, Anna hogren t in ary and Kell . Holden and Frank 0. Cooper were united in marriage. o[...]e s. Ted Rowe). They lived on be farm ituated a CLARE CE CHARLES HOLT the uth en[...]in stree forks larence Hol as born in Willow Creek Montana on Dec- about a half mile out of town. In tbi T in the road tood a ember 20, 1 92 the son of Joseph Benjamin Holt and Lillie F . large two- ory white hou , which in it hey-day a a very insle ) Holt. Lillie as born on September 16 1871, the ttractive place with a paciou fron lawn haded b tall daughter[...]ading cottonwood tree . This large front yard was a fir in 1863, then wen back to Empire, Colorado and re- g[...]omm unit and famil turned again to ontana in 1864, driving a team of oxen. picnic . The table were laden with[...]fellow vied with Lucy had come to Montana in 1864 with her parents, James each other to e who[...]cream. and Lucinda Ann ave, driving a team of oxen. Thi home was torn down in the winter of 1975. ow a Jo eph and Lillie had six children - Maggie, Harry, Clar- mobile home i in its place. e[...]George. Leslie J. Holden and Ethel L. Eversen a native of Billing were married on Christmas Eve 1936 in Billings, ontana. Clarence Holt . They were living in a log cabin at the south end of the Cooper ranch at[...]the creek to the ranch known as the Harwood place in 1943 and lea d it from William Bu telman for two year . This is the first ranch below the Willow Creek Dam. In June of 1943 six inches of rain fell in a couple of day thi filled the Harrison Lake above[...]hich had not ye been finished with concrete. For a week it was thought the dam and spillway m[...] |
| [...]hibits and ran his own suit cleaning business. In 1916 he began a dry land farming partnership with J. W. Holmes. H[...]ngs Polytechnic farm and taught agriculture there in 1918, and did student military drilling. He then volunteered for the Army and was sent to U.S. Army Camp Lee in Virginia. In 1920 he again tried his hand at dryland farming,[...]ted to haul for road was often seen delivering it in a baby buggy. Both she and Ben construction. Then f[...]remarried; Ben to Mayme C. Miller Fisher. He died in 1940. raised peas at Stevensville for the cannery[...]ure instructor until 1930, when he resigned to as a manager and she cooking for crews. On January 11,[...]ville. Lillie Clarence married Norma Van Duzer in 1930. Norma was passed away September 27, 1947. born January 15, 1897, and raised in Pennsylvania. Norma Nellie Neoma Holt a[...]worked with young people at the Probation Office in Billings lings, Montana, in 1912 and 1913. Nellie taught in Belmont, and was a secretary there. Clarence and Norma farmed at Montana, for two years and at the Birch Creek school in the Busteed and Belmont from 1930 until 1938. Bitterroot Valley in 1917 and 1918. Nellie married Ted Picard In 1939 he was with the Farm Security Administration[...]n May 3, 1919. Corrine and Betty Jane Bozeman for a year, making and supervising loans. 1940 were born in 1922 and 1924. From 1923 to 1926 they lived at found him at Broadus in partnership as Finley and Holt, as a Sully Ranch in the Bitterroot Valley. They then moved to livesto[...]near the sister, Freda, on their ranch at Custer in the winter. He was oil fields from 1927 to about 1930 and back to Tacoma in 1931. farm foreman at the L.J. Van Houten Ranch at Custer, then Ted died from a fall from a cherry tree. Later Nellie married went back to th[...]nage the farm again. From there ~ouis E. Dowling, a long-time family friend, who preceded her he went to the Guayule Rubber Plantation in Arizona, work- m death. Nellie passed away May 20[...]as chief agricultural aide, then as unit manager in raising served in the Washington National Guard Band, Corrine is Gu[...]ried to David Black, and Betty Jane is married to a fellow operation. In 1950, he was operator of the Huron Development na[...]father, George Tinsley Holt, went to high school in 1915 After retirement, he and his wife Norma purchased a house at Stevensville, Montana, and to Polytechnic Institute at Bil- in Billings and managed it while living next door at their lings, Montana. In 1920 to 1923 George and Clarence ranched home unt[...]May, George, to publish poems, including several in the book "Bi ts of Sage", Jr. before dying on Dec[...]Ann Nave Tinsley. She was born September 16, 1871 in Gallatin County, Montana. On N9vember 6, 1889, Li[...]Willow Creek, Montana. Ben was born April 26 1869 in Jefferson County, Montana, to James R. and Julia A. Tho~p- son Holt. To this union were born: Maggie[...]ce, Nellie and George survived to adult- hood. In later years Lillie and Ben were divorced. She returned to Willow Creek. She helped make a living by baking bread and[...] |
| at Busteed, ontana, raising stock, hay and grain. In 1923 lene Ann hey mo ed to he ((Coursien Ranch northeast of and 1924 they did hay hauling for a road construction job at illow Creek in 193 . After veral move around the Willow Busteed and in 1924 through 1927 they leased a farm here Creek area he purchased he ttDuke ranch outhwe t of they raised pea for a cannery at vensville, ontana. Dur- illow[...]oldest ing the Depr ion George went broke fanning in the area. e n w born. He a he la bab tha Dr. Bradbury deli- were often told[...]that he vered before be retired from his prac ice in Willow Creek. On worked off over a 1000 in debt by working for a dollar a da . arch 29 1943 abel became naturalized an A[...]and tepmother at their entennial alley Ranch and In the um.mer of 1956 the stork made a surprise visit to the they were married June 19, 1941, in Dillon at the Bea erhead How r famil one las ime[...]Jame of he How r children wen to school in Willow Creek and all Orr and bel cFarland hanhol ur wa born in of hem e cep Ronald graduated from[...]ol. Al · o all of them excep Ronald were married in the tennial Valley to home lead with her family . They purchased illow Creek Me hodist hurch. In 1969 Ted and Mabel sold Ben Holt' ranch in Ala ka Basin and while there hree chil- heir[...]at Idaho Fall , Idaho, o . ember 6 to li e in iUow reek. 1944; and ary Beatrice born August 26, 1946 at Dillon oll wa married in 1950 to George Allen McLean who Montana.[...]wa born and raised a orris Montana. At that time Allen Due to poor health George sold out and moved hi family to a wa working for Earl Davis an.d Molly had just gra[...]llowing con- 1948, George Tinsley Holt Jr. w born in ula Mon• rue ion the purchased property on the north end of Willow tana. George had a rious heart problem and passed away a Creek from Frank Hilke where they built the[...]Barry who i he oldest, graduated from MSU in Agricul- On June 6, 1953 Beatrice married Lynn[...]ure Production and Agronomy. He has made his home in friend from entennial Valley day . They lived a Dillon and illow Creek and i employed on the Chan Cooper Hereford he worked on area .ranche . For a while they lived at Silver Ranch. He married Trudy Meyer who was a teacher in Bow,Montana. Beatrice passed away June 10 1967, a Dillon. Whitehall. Presently they have one son, B[...]who is George and Bea s daughter, Lily till live in the family home Molly and Allens econd son, also graduated from MSU in at Dillon. he married Ray E.. Riley December 9,.[...]e Idaho and Lisa Rae born arch 25, tem where be i a teacher and a coach. Mike, the youngest of 1963 at Butte. The Riley's WE:_re divorced in February 1982. the three boy , attended the Vo~ Tech Center in Butte Mike Joseph Orr Holt has a Bachelors in condary education married Darla Raffety and toget[...]t grandson Zach. Mike and his family have and is a Viet am Veteran. On December 5 1969, he married made their home in Willow Creek where he is currently emp-[...]loyed as a carpenter for Kroon and Son. Shirley Glenn at Bo[...]ral years. arch 20, 1971 Joseph Ed- ence at being a male carrier the Postal Service gave her a mail win Holt was born at Dillon. They were divorced in 19 0. Joe route for 12 years. is presently Idaho[...]Robert Eugene Holt September 30 basketball fever in the McLean family in 1948 when she and 1966 at Idaho Falls, Idaho. They live at Dillon and operate her family used to travel in bad winter storms to go to her high Dillon Elect[...]ng to basketball ontana College and is active in community work They games ever since cheering for[...]bruary 9, 1964 at Butte· Supporting their family in all of their efforts has been an Robert E. born[...]ern Montana College and MSU at Bozeman. He served in the U.S. Army and also REV. A. M. HOYLE worked on area ranches for a while. George married Marie Ambrose McDuffee Hoyle was born December 14, 1857, in Carroll March 16, 1974 at Dillon. Her parents are Joe and Old Brick Mill on Bakers Creek in Tennessee. He was the Judy Carroll. Marie is a registered nurse. They moved to eighth child in a family of ten. He came from a long line of California where George went to a custom saddlemaking religious teachers and r[...]Elko, evada where be is shop foreman training in ashville and Knoxville. He had several churches and saddlemaker for Capriolas. in Knoxville before coming to Montana. Lily Riley and Mary Holt The Rev. A. M. Hoyle came to the Methodist Church in[...]eldest daughters Annie and Bessie. In September of 1906 his HOWSER -[...]d Mary, joined the fam- Mabel E. Armstrong born in Regina Saskatchewan ily coming by train. They resided in the old Ed Garnett house Canada, and Theodore William Howser, born in Lakota and Bessie and Macie attended grade school there in the orth Dakota were married in 1930 at Havre Montana. school house beside the road which later became a residence. Together with their two oldest[...] |
| [...]Washington in 1971. Grandma Hoyle, Mollie, passed away in Butte in January 1940.[...]Ringling and Twodot. Annie married Will Cherry in Willow Creek and two sons, Wesley and Wallis, were born there and attended grade school. Wesley lives in Choteau and Wallis, or Jack, is de- ceased and is buried in the local cemetery as are his mother and father. Rev. Hoyle moved to Twodot to the Church in 1910. He also proved up on a homestead there and lived there for the next five years. In November of 1915 he died of an old injury and was buried in Willow Creek. His wife, Mollie, sold the holdings in Twodot and moved back to Willow Creek with Mary and Morris. She bought a small acreage south of town on Willow Creek. A son, Morris, had been born in Willow Creek in 1908. Bessie married E. S. Hopkins of Twodot and to them four girls were born. Mary Williams lives in Missoula, Ruth Olson in Plains, Margaret Vierra in California, and Betty Nelson in Fort Benton. Mary lived in Willow Creek with her grand- mother in the early twenties and attended high school. Bessie remarried~ C. J. Vallance. She passed away in March 1968. Meta Huffine. Macie married R. D. Crowder of Twodot and they had three children/R. D. was a Milwaukee depot agent and they lived in Meta attended the Lane School and the Willow[...]ky Mountain Line. Their son, Fran- School. She is a graduate nurse who received her degree from cis, lives in the state of Washington, Marice died in a fire in Seattle General Hospital in 19~9. After completing her train- Canada in 1980, Robert died accidentally in 1955. All were ing she returned to Bozeman where she worked at the Boze- born in Willow Creek. man Deaconess Hospital. She worked a special 20-hour duty Mary married Ted Lockhart[...]ey were married at the hospital and various homes in Gallatin County. After a in Willow Creek at the Will Cherry home. Their two c[...]ered Montana State College and received were born in Willow Creek. The Lockharts moved about, re- a degree in Home Economics in 1932. turning to Willow Creek on occasion to live. Both children are In 1935 she and Dwight Huffine were married and they deceased; Betty in May 1942, and Arnold in February 1979. lived and worked on ranches in the area. They later divorced. Mary died of a heart condition on April 28, 1982, just two Meta returned to nursing in 1963 and worked in the newborn weeks before they were to celebrate t[...]zeman Deaconess Hospital. Many of the Ted resides in Madras, Oregon. babies that Meta cared for still live in Gallatin County. She Morris attended grade and high school in Willow Creek, retired in 1971 and now lives in Willow Creek. graduating there. He married Elino[...]Patricia and Shirley. Later he separated from has a family. She and her family live in Berkeley, California. his wife and remarried. He died in Butte in 1968 and Macie in As T[...] |
| [...]for hi famil . He died February 13 190 after a long illness hou on th home tead in Jefferson Count ·th diabete when Ja a 17 ear old. wa he son of Mary Isabelle (Isabella) Belle) illiams hed Jay a tended hool in Jefferson mm di tric o. 17 hedd)[...]ade . Jay ·e) L., Rosa elle, ho died a ten and one-half helped hi mo herruntheranchas he[...]ed . Younger i race horse and raced in he horse race in Three Fork . Mary ere Ina Annetta, Hazel and an[...]P . almond became hi bride on o ember 26, 191 in Butte Jay's mother, Isabelle illiams, was born in alinas, San- ontana. pete County Utah, De[...]illiam ary' mo her Harriet Erksine, a bom in Burntisland, and Martha Porter Williams. Clinton[...]arch 9 1 56. Her fa her, Jame Salmond, was Utah in 1 63 or 1864 to establi ha home. In 1 66 by wagon he born in Aberneth co land a 5., 1854. They were married brought his wife and five children, one cow, a roo ter and .wo in otland. Children Harrie B. Mary T. and George were hens, to a homestead on the we t ide of the Jefferson Ri er. born in Dundee otland. Mary T. and George died there. The[...]f America sometime Isab Ile married George hed in Jefferson County Ma 2 between 18 0 and 18 2 and ettled in Chicago Illinois. James 18 1. George died in 1 85 and on ovember 26, 1 6 he was an iron moulde[...]my ( wins) Robert, Katie and J runes T. were born in 90 at the home of Jay and ary Huller where he had[...]when young and are buried in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Salmond ot much i know[...]d to Iowa. Mary Peddie was was born July 4, 1 52, in Ohio, and later moved to . Joseph, born in Woodberry County, Leeds, Iowa ovember 20, 1893, M[...]ir- ear her fa her married Susan Hoffman in Chicago, Illinois. t en. A baker took him ·nand taught him his rade. He wor[...]een Ft. Benton and Helena. He also attended chool in Des Moine , Iowa; Chicago, Illinois; and had a general tore at Pipe tone, ontana. He married We[...]ary and brother James T. came to Montana in 1914. Her i ters were already living in Willow Creek. Harriet and her Jay and Mary Huller[...]husband Ed Swope were owners of a small store, ice cream --[...]Green ranch on the Madison, in Manhattan and Bozeman[...]where a daughter Evelyn Mae was born September 4, 1919, in[...]at the shipyards as a scaler and in the sheet metal department. In the spring they moved back to the ranch. On Janua[...]1923, another daughter, Iris Harriet was born in the front[...]took place. About 1927 the last move was made to a two-room[...]School all twelve years. Evelyn graduated in 1938, Iris in 1940 and Frank in 1948. Raising a family in the 20' s and 30's was not too easy. If the[...]kids had a nickel to spend when the family went to town, it[...]a real treat.[...]honey bees and many a stinger pierced the skin before the[...]up the o.r th Boulder. This was a tiresome two-day treck.[...]cattle. Homemade root beer tasted super after a hot day in the[...]the area. Mary planted harvested and canned many a[...] |
| [...]or of the milk separator which was turned by hand in those days. Chickens and the eggs and turkeys als[...]ng horseback with the neighbor children, swimming in the Jefferson river, ice skating on the slough nearby, going to barn dances picnicing up in the hills and picking chokecherries, hunting for[...]e days". After the children were gone times got a little better and Jay and Mary could do a few things for their enjoyment. They still worked hard. In fact , their grandson Jim McCauley stayed with th[...]trips with them, as well as on their own. Jay had a terrific rock collection and enjoyed making jewel[...]his collection to anyone interested. He also did a little woodwork - making candlesticks, lamps and[...]- 1968. for word many of the poems she learned as a child. She be- longed to the Rebecca Lodge of Thr[...]dren are Kurtis J., Jill M., Steven W. and Stacey A. They into the Church of Christ in 1964. They celebrated their 50th own and operate a welding and auto shop and auto parts store Wedding Anniversary in November of 1968 with an open in Boulder, Montana. Monica is a registered nurse and is house in Willow Creek. employed at St. Peter's Hospital in Helena, Montana where After Jay's death in 1972 Mary stayed on the ranch with she re[...]resides Larry and Joyce McCauley for seven years. In 1979 she got her and is employed in Anchorage, Alaska as a carpenter. Paul own apartment in Three Forks. She goes to the Senior Center attended Vo-Tech and Montana State University for a short there and enjoys visiting her children, gra[...]ere at great grandchildren and all of her friends in Three Forks and Cardinal Distributing. Willo[...]Evelyn worked at the courthouse in Boulder for Jefferson The home ranch has under[...]riginal County Superintendent of Schools, in the Sheriffs and log home was torn down in 1973. The big red barn was hit by Treasurer's office. She retired in 1978 and operated an auto lightning and burned to[...]g, volunteer work at the cabin Mary and Jay lived in in their early married life. Senior Center and dabbles in painting, oils and watercolor. Mary Huller, Evelyn McCauley and Iris Snyder She lives in Boulder.[...]uperintendent of Montana State man Motors in Butte, Montana, at the Montana School of Training[...]der. She and Eugene P. McCauley of Mines in the President's office and in the book store, at the Boulder were married on April 4, 1942, in Deer Lodge, Mon- Whitehall ASC office and later in the State 4-H Club office in tana. ((Gene" served in the U.S. Army for three years - from Bozeman. In 1944 Iris enlisted in the WAVES and went to May 16, 1942 to December 22, 1944 in active service and ((boot" camp at U.S[...].S. Naval worked for the Montana Power Company as a lineman until Air Station, Lakehurst,[...]ry J. Division, Mercer Field, Trenton, N.J., a U.S. Naval air facil- born December 19, 1943; Jam[...]; Monica ity. She returned to Willow Creek in 1947 and on October 26, L. born March 15, 1947; L[...]Irving's parents' place in the Dry Creek area, and still farm Larr[...] |
| [...]amela J. bom !la 2, 1955. Beverly is . Tim a on of Ea Helena, ontana and has a daughter rah icole. Ronald· married to uzanne D Fe of Reno, evada. who h a n ' ot and re ide a inden, evada where he · engaged in con truction v ork. Randy wen to barber yling college in · uJa and bar- bered in Great Fall for a year. He i now a tending ontana tate niversi y and wor on constru ion during the sum~ mer. Heh a daughter Heather Renee born October 5 19 3. Pamel[...]ob at pre n bu hope to get into dance instruction in Bozeman. She attended a dance or. hop in Chica o lllinoi in 19 · 2. Iris en·oy bowling, gardening and her[...]uated from ni er- ity wi h a B. A. d gree in Agricu ture. He was in ROT and w n into the Air Force upon graduation in 1952 and erved for two ye . After hi discharge h w engaged in farmifig with hi dad f · om 1954 to 1 60. During[...]ldrenwereborn-Gr ory J.onFebruary · 1957· beryl A. b mJune 12 195 · ,arkW. innie ( i[...]arHe" followed to homestead born August 14, 1959. In 196 h y moved to Bozeman where north of Thr[...]machinery and be- Fr nk go hi r' degr e in Educa ion. Ann received her longing e in a boxcar. Af r a hou e was built, Susie Ma · degree in Home Ee. He moved hi fa.mil to ut brough[...]mery Luella, Be sie and Marvin out Bank, MontanaJ in 1962 where he wa a guidance counselor on he train. for th ut Bank school y em. In 1965 they ent to orthern The Block and Je et[...]e each o her on the north bench. They put up a white cloth on a in charge of Operation Headstart dealing with the he[...]rn on the homestead, then St. Labre Indian School in A hland ontana. Ann wa as- came Rosalie, Ch[...]ra. The fciur ciated with the day care center. In 1976 they bought a farmolder children walked three miles up over the[...]~ their house and the Wilson School, or in bad weather, Emery barley and ha . Frank works part time .at a Plant atenal drove them in a one horse buggy. There was a rattlesnake pit nter there and Ann works at t[...]t horses and cattle from snakebite. Gregory i in the U. . a vy. Home port i Charleston South Whea crops were good until the drought of 1917-1919. In arolina. Hi si -year enlistment will be up in January 1984. 1918, only a few heads of wheat were cut for chicken feed and beryl i married to Da id Blanchard. Both are First in 1919 there was nothing at all. Mustard weeds and Russian Lieutenants in the U. . Army and are tationed in urenberg, thistles were stacked for livestock to pull them through the Germany. ark is in the U. ·. avy with San Diego Califor- winter. The Blocks sold out in 1919 and bought a ranch on the nia a home port. Hi four-year enlistment end in 1983. Mary Huller Evelyn cCauley and[...]CHARLES S. JEWETI' FAMILY Charles S. Jewett wa a rancher beekeeper, trapper and fi herman in the Headwaters area for over fifty years. He was[...]up near Three Forks and many pent their live only a few miles from their birthplace. The Je[...] |
| [...]for Snohomi.sh, Washington. Willow Creek in the early 1900's. In 1914 they put in a lumber Charlie gave up the homestead and moved to a vacated yard. In 1918 Mr. Joseph opened a new store and it later was house off the old main[...]lock brought all of Joseph was attending a party and dance at Three Forks when Charlie and S[...]he remembered he had failed to close the safe in the store and youngest who were born after she mo[...]the turn at Memories of the homestead include a Christmas long before Buttelman's Crossing a[...]e many wax candles. Grandma Block put it out with a wet cloth. TOM KARNS A favorite pastime was when "Pa" played the accordian or Tom and Ida Karns moved to the Orr place in about 1935 the mouth organ and everyone danced to[...]at grown when they came to this area. Tom was a good carpenter Char.les Baker's barn two miles no[...]ranch and did carpenter work for Earl Davis. In the early roomed in the one behind the main house. The family had[...]on free range. When these wild horses were driven in, the boys would leap from the gateposts onto their CHARLES A. LINDAL backs for a wild ride! Charles A. Lindal and Sophie M. Peterson were married Be[...]nd cream to sell or trade. They also Frank A., Maude, Lillie Bell, William P. and Fred G. who[...]ables, chickens, geese and turkeys for born in Kansas and Nebraska. Clara A., Mark and Floetta goods and services. Trapping furs such as lynx, fox, beaver and were born in Willow Creek. The Lindal family came to Willow th[...]ols. here and around Whitehall. Charles lived in Three Forks for The next move was to the Rober[...]iary. Susie the river was so high that he used a rowboat to go from the raised huge raspberry and[...]he family's last move was onto the Woodward place in set in and he lost both legs above the knee. Bill had a shoe Willow Creek. Charlie left farming to his sons and he pursued repair shop in Bozeman. He died in 1939. trapping and fishing. He enjoyed smoking the many whitefish Sophie Lindal died in 1912. She and two of her children are he caught through the ice. In summers, he loaded the grand- buried in the cemetery at Willow Creek. children into his 1928 Plymouth for a picnic and soak in the[...]arm- ing. Emery moved to Toston where he operated a sawmill for ALBRO HARVEY MACK most of his life. Luella (Kirell) lived in Willow Creek and Born in Seattle, the son of Harvey P. and Mary Jeanette n[...]latin C<?unty) Octob~r _31, cation and taught for a few years in Townsend before moving to Minnesota. Marvin and Orville farmed in the Three Forks· and Willow Creek area all their[...]ish, Wash. For many years, the Jewetts sheared a good many of the sheep in the country, and they felt good when they could shear one hundred sheep apiece in a day's work. Harold migrated to Washington early in life. "Teddy" (Guerrero) also became a teacher and she taught in Utah until she retired. Violet (Murray) lived in Three Forks and later on the Johnny Murray place[...]oth of them. The youngest, Agnes (Johnson) lived a long time in Willow Creek then moved to Helena.[...]SYRIUS JOSEPH . Syrius Joseph and a man, Rask, had a general store in[...] |
| 1949. He lived his first few years in Seattle where his fathe~ and Bill left the farm to get supplies in Willow Creek. On the owned and operated a garage. He moved with his parents to trip home they could see a red sky over the hills ahead. On Sheridan where h[...]en attended the Willow Creek Schools. A combination of drought and depression forced the[...]to move to Willow Creek where they purchased a farm and special interest was stock car racing. H[...]or his amicable personality and and towns in the area. compassion for others. He was killed in a car accident July 28, Minnie worked for Mr. DeBree in the drug store for a short 1966. He would have been a senior in Willow Creek High time. William was employed for a number of years for the School in the fall. Ideal Cement Company in Trident. He passed away March of[...]Jeanette Mack 1953. He had been a musician and enjoyed a variety of sports. George passed away in 1982. Harvey and his wife, Jeanette[...](Albro) Mack reside in Willow Creek.[...]ND MINNIE PARKER MACK Minnie May Mack was born in 1894 on a farm east of Willow Creek. She was the oldest dau[...]nah Badgley Parker. She has lived her entire life in the Oscar Mack, Walter Mack and Frank Black first came to Willow Creek area. She recalls as a young girl a Syrian _ Montana in the early 1900's. They stayed mostly around the gentleman, Sirkus Joseph, peddled dry goods and a varied Bozeman area for a short time. They returned to their homes assortment of items on foot from house to house. He later in Hillsboro, Illinois. After a brief stay there they returned to started the first store in Willow Creek. He became her first the Bozem[...]er boxcars whenever it was possible. to take a job as a clerk. He sold the store to Earl S. Parks.[...]Later all three homesteaded in the Willow Creek area. Oscar W. Mack was born[...]Walter Mack and Frank Black ran the garage in Willow Creek Illinois, the son of Mr. and Mrs. De[...]is the same garage now owned by Tom Todd. Montana in 1905 and farmed in the Gallatin Valley until 1914 They sold Re[...]at the garage and he and Oscar farmed in Galen Springs. Frank store. They were married at her family home in 1917. They Black put in the trolly line from Gallatin Gateway to Boze- moved to his homestead in the Galen Springs area. A son, man. George, was born in 1919 and Harvey Parker was born in Walter Mack married Hazel Whitsett[...]Montana, area in 1918. He moved with his family to Twin It was a custom for neighbors to go from farm to farm to help Falls, Idaho, in 1929 after hailing out. Oscar Mack moved his with[...]threshing that Minnie family to Willow Creek in the early 1930's.[...]in Missoula, Montana. Two sons were born to us: Char[...]tin, July 9, 1925. Each attended high school in Three Forks, Montana. We resided in Francis (formerly Josephine) from[...]1918 and arrived in Willow Creek May 30, 1933, where we[...]75, at the age of 90 years. Our home still stands in Willow Creek in excellent condition. Clarence was a railroad worker[...]Another early settler was Levi Maxwell. In 1859 he left[...]when the- gold strike was made at Bannack and was a butcher[...]and blacksmith there. He and his partner had a claim which they sold for a few hundred dollars and later in a spot the size of a wagon box $30,000 was taken from it. When he came[...]Levi had one of the first threshing machines in the state.[...]Some of the parts for it he made himself. It was a horsepower[...] |
| [...]Jacob married Lucy Cowen in 1900 at Sixteen. To this union He is buried in the Willow Creek Cemetery. s[...]Leona and Florence. They moved to Walow Creek in 1918. Leona grew up in the valley and attended the Willow Creek[...]Leona continues to live in her home in Willow Creek. Elmer Meskimen was born in Vinton , Iowa. Myrtle was born in Adams County, North Dakota. They came to Montana Newell also grew up in Willow Creek and then worked in in the spring of 1934 to work on the Fort Peck Dam.[...]ly lived at Hamilton, Mon- and Edna lived in Willow Creek for many years. tana for several yea[...]Solomon Miller was born in Sixteen in 1901 to Jacob Frye Dick is married to Jeannine[...]ster passed away Feb-family moved to Willow Creek in 1918. ruary 1978. Sol grew up in the valley finally residing in Trident and[...]ied chemical. Elmer Jr., Anne, Matt and Lori live in years. In those days a shift was 11 hours, night shift was 13 Lakeside,[...], Montana. He is student Ruth Jenkins was born in Missouri to George and Pearl counselor at Kalispe[...]k, Jeannine , DickieJenkins. They came to Montana in 1918 and settled in Pony. and Shawn live in Lakeside , California. Re is a partner in a There were four children all born in Missouri. Besides Ruth construction company. Clar[...]there was John, Charles and Madge. in East Helena, Montana. He works for Kaiser Cement. Ber- Ruth met Lou Harwood at a dance at Pony and they married nie, Julie, Michael , Kristi and Holly live in Bismarck, North[...]ved to Willow Creek. Jacob Frye Miller was born in Cardwell, Montana in 1867; Olga Parker lived with Ruth for about 10[...]Creek with Ruth and helped her while Ruth took in washing,[...]Sol Miller and Ruth Harwood were married in 1933. In 1936[...]where they have engaged in diversified farming over the[...]married Otto Allen and lives in California, Stanley married[...]Barbara Gant and lives in Butte, Lou married Georgine But-[...]telman and they live in Joliet, Marylyn married William Bohn and lives in California, Faye married Julie Layman and lives in California, and LeRoy married Mary Mason and they[...]made a great difference in crop production in the valley. They[...]Sol has been a member of the Farm Bureau and Gallatin[...]Wool Growers Association and was a school board member for[...] |
| [...]CHARLIE MYERS Fremont Mize was born in Kentucky in 1827. Charlie Myers was only three years old when he arrived in Catherine Adkins was born in 1833, in Tennessee, raised in Montana. He had been riding atop of a horse down cut coulees Kentucky and was one often[...]n when and across deep gulches for many a day. Horses were to be- she married Fremont in Kentucky. come[...]According to his obituary Charlie was born in Jackson that both Fremont and Catherine were of P[...]Elbert and Mary Francis Banta to Fort Owens in August 1862. After they were married they moved to Iowa and in 1864-65 The Bantas eventually settled in Willow Creek. It was here they moved to Montana. They lived briefly in Alder Gulch, that young Charlie grew up[...]y boying for the Gerdis Bros. stayed in Willow Creek for several years and finally moved to On Jan. 19, 1880 in the Avant Courier under <<Gallatin" this Middle C[...]bride's They had four children, three were born in Iowa Celeste sister Mrs. C. A. Ellison; Miss SarahJ. Spafford to Mr. Charles Sara Ella and Louis. Clay was born in Virginia City in 1869'. Myers all of this place." On Jan. 26, 1880 under Gallatin While they lived in the Willow Creek area the children went to G[...]came with Jim Bridger in July 1864 settling on the West Gallatin. In 1868 he brought his family by wagon train from[...]Willow Creek. In 1887 because of the severe winter of '86-87[...]ere Charlie prospered and his land holdings grew. In the[...]In 1907 Mr. Myers bought a Percheron stallion who came[...]from Belgium. Charlie met «Tullapin" in New York, bringing[...]it." She recalled that Fremont had been an Elder in the Willow Creek Church. Catherine was an extrovert, very out-spoken and smoked a cob pipe which was common for southern women to do . Fremont died in their home on Middle Creek in 1882 and Catherine died there in 1887. Both were buried in Willow Creek.[...] |
| [...]near Maudlow. Dave and his wife, Grace, lived in Laurel. Their children are Arvilla, Melvin, Mildr[...]s family have passed away except Elbert who lives in Modesto, Cal. Charlie passed away May 20, 1929. S[...]chael, the son of Buford and Ruth Myers, was born in Bozeman Feb. 26, 1952. He moved with his parents from Belgrade to Three Forks in June 1952. His first year in the old James Murray, Adeline Jackson, Ben Murray. grade school was in the same room his dad had been in. This must have been the family room. His mother[...]Michael graduated from Three Forks High School in 1970. He passed away in Nov. 1936, after falling off from the roof During high school days he was active in a band called "The of Sam Lane's house, he was shingling. Apparently from a Sands of Time." Others members were Jim Aughney, Jack stroke. He is buried at Mt. View Cemetery. He was a brother- Dorsey, Steve Hamilton and Chuck FlegeL in-law of Ben Archer.[...]ment into the van after we had finished play- ing in Twin Bridges. We were grateful for their assistance until we realized they had taken a snare drum and driven off." Offers of assistance[...]ERRENDLE FRANKLIN NAVE professional engagement as a singer was in Billings in Dec. Errendle Franklin Nave was born July 10, 1836, in Saline 1973. This was the beginning of his musica[...]were married Jan. 1, 1978. much of his childhood in Missouri and fought on the side of the Gwen was born in Helena Oct. 7, 1952 to Don and Charlotte South du[...]ictorian of the class of 1970 at Belgrade wounded in the shoulder and laid on the battlefield for four[...]diers kicked him as they passed by. He University in 197 4. She worked in Glasgow and Denver before moved with his family t[...]eturning to Montana. At the present time she owns a fabric Missouri May of 1863 and arriving at Empire in August. They store, "Buttons and Bows" in Belgrade. spent that winter in Empire and then traveled north to Willow Michael and Gwen moved to Willow Creek in the spring of 1979.[...]JAMES MURRAY James Murray was born in Meigs County, Ohio in 1860. In 1881 he moved to Milbank, South Dakota. He never married but took care of his mother who was in a wheel chair for many years. Here he worked as a carpenter. When she passed away at the age of 81,[...]illow Creek, the year of 1914. There he purchased a farm a mile south of town where he raised grain and hay.[...]s and additions have been added. Mr. Murray was a quiet, reserved man who loved to read. He will be[...]ackson became good friends and you would see them in his Model A. Ford going to the river, fishing.[...] |
| [...]in the partnership and purchased the 160 acre homest[...]had originally been registered in the name of Elizabeth Toston[...]the hanging of Club Foot, was a kind family man with a good[...]wash tubs in amidst the apple trees to keep them hidden from[...]and there was no feed so the cattle milled in a circle until they[...]had been visiting a neighbor and when they arrived home Creek, Montan[...]uldn't and 150 people. One time they stopped near a large tribe of bend to help him. The father then[...]rted on their way they were unaware that one done a lot more modestly then and in the morning when the fellow of very low character in the wagon train had caught a two oldest girls wanted to look in the box where the new baby pretty Indian maiden a[...]as lying, he said "Now be careful girls, there is a baby -rabhif body. The train hadn't gotten far when many angry warriors in there." came racing after them and demanded to be[...], 1914, at handed over to the Indians for killing a "no good Indian" but home near his family and was[...]home losing the lives of the whole wagon·train. A very frightened , with her daughter, Mrs. Ernest P. Rider, in Butte until her screaming and begging young man was handed over to a fate , death in 1959. She was buried in the Radersburg Cemetery. he rightly deserved.[...]By Elsie Allinson When the Nave family arrived in Willow Creek they built a small cabin of alder trees, a dirt roof and boards from the JAMES NAVE wagon. It was a happy home. After a while the parents moved James and Lucy Ann (Harvey) Nave were early settlers in to Spring Creek. Willow Creek, arriving there in the spring of 1864. James was Errendle married Susan Palmer on July 13, 1865, and they born in Cocke Co., Tenn. Dec. 25, 1811 and came with his[...]n died July 23, 1873, and he raised the parents in 1816 to Saline Co., Mo. when he was only six year[...]nd- Springs. When Errendle was first there he was in partnership father was John Nave , Sr. of Jefferson Co. , Tenn. James was with his brother-in-law, Enoch Wilson, on 1200 acres raising one of a family of eleven children. cattle. They later sol[...]. He married Lucy Ann in Dec. of 1832. She was the daughter After his ch[...]of Johnathon and Margaret Harvey and was born in Orange lock. She was born May 9, 1864, in Maungakaranea, New Co., Va. Oct. 3, 18[...]and Lucy Ann and their grated from Cork, Ireland, in 1858. They engaged in farming three children moved to Livingston Co., Mo. where they lived and sheep ranching in New Zealand until 1873 when they until[...]1915 at San Diego, California, married 1st- gaged in the sheep and cattle business. The overland trip[...]lizabeth born April 22, 1835, married 1st - David A. children and was divorced.[...]klin born July Errendle and Belle were married in Great Falls on Sep- 10, 1836, died Sept.[...]August 29, 1895, born March 4, 1838, died in infancy. 5) Henry born -1839, died - Alma Bryan Nave born June 11, 1897, Sherlock Errendle in infancy. 6) James Harvey, born Oct. 15, 1840, die[...]Nave born Feb- 1864, Missouri , killed in the war. 7) Cynthia Margaret born ruary 10[...] |
| [...]In 1916, with the adventofWorld War 1, the Bankjoine[...]Nelson built a new home one block east of the church and[...]moved in. After the war and during the early 20's, there w[...]mortgages. In 1923 the Federal Reserve demanded payment[...]Oregon for one year but returned to Willow Creek in 1924 and Creek, Montana. started a chicken farm that they operated until 1937 when[...]Fred and Lois moved to Medford, Oregon, to manage a fruit In May of 1863 James and Lucy Ann and family left with a ranch. Lois died in Medford in 1948. Fred moved to Butte, large wagon train fro[...]until he (Denver), Colorado. They arrived there in August after a very died in 1966. eventful trip across the plains.[...]to spare the oxen. tials at Montana State Normal in Dillon and eventually .She wore an apron with large pockets in which she kept taught school at Milligan[...]and bits of cloth from which She married Ed Buck in 1934. There were no children from she created quilt designs as she walked along. Later she won a this union. Ed passed away in 1954. Bernice now lives in prize at the Fair with one of her designs.[...]na. They stayed at Empire for the winter, then in the spring of Robert (Bob) graduated from the University of Montana in 1864 they headed north to Montana. They built their little log 1931. He won a scholarship to Western Reserve University home a[...]ng alder trees, it was their first and earned a Masters Degree in Social Service from that home since leaving Missouri over a year before. The roof of University. Followin[...]ing of Brookline, Massachusetts. They had twins, a boy and a girl. them with dirt, the floor was of dirt, leveled and packed hard. Bob worked in Chattanooga, Indianapolis and Chicago. He Boards[...]the wagon wheels became legs for stools. It was a humble home but they were all thankful to Richard[...]& Robert Nelson - 1914 be settled down once more in a place of their own. Soon the children went to[...]d Lucy Ann went to Virginia City where they made a log house and here they operated a dressmaking shop. They had no sewing machine so[...]James and Lucy Ann spent the rest of their lives in Crow Creek Valley and died there - James on May 21, 1882, and Lucy Ann July 2, 1888. They are both buried in the old Raders burg Cemetery.[...]moved from Milbank, South Dakota, to Willow Creek in 1914. Fred sold his clothing store in Milbank, bought a section of dry land wheat acreage on the South Be[...]k Lumber Company, the Willow Creek State Bank and a home for his family on the south side of the ~[...]horndike home. Nelson and Thorndike were partners in this business venture; during that partic~[...] |
| Charities of Chicago in 1973 and moved to Ashville, North Willia[...]to Missouri that he Carolina. Bob died of cancer in 1977. knew of. Richard (Dick) graduated from Montana State College in One roan mare was used as lead horse and she was brought 1938 and took a job as Director of a WPA Education and home each time. It[...]ry to lead her as she followed Recreation Program in Lewistown, Montana. In 1939 he mar- the wagon and saddle ponies[...]her and she had no intentions from this marriage, a boy and a girl. After six years of service of being elsew[...]having made the trip all by herself. years spent in England - he worked in the paper industry When Abe was no l[...]arm his place he sold it and until his retirement in 1975. Dick and Louise reside in Fuller- moved to Bozeman. Part of it was purch[...]s sketch, Dick , remembers: In the Mt. Green Cemetery is the grave of Matilda Ne[...]ain elevator located on the Mil- waukee Railroad; a gun and shooting incident that occurred in Parks first general store; the O'Neill-Hendershot[...]une 3, 1833 - June 29 , 1914 and cottonwood trees in town; the «gong" sound of the giantstride Elizabeth Ann Conley, January 10, 1845 - March 25, 1887. in the schoolyard when the wind blew; pegging any handy They were married in October 1867. Their children were: rock through any handy window in town; playing "Pump, Lucinda Jane, September 11, 1868 - November 25, 1937, Pump, Pull-a-way" and "Run Sheep Run" with all the town[...]- January 1, 1943 and kids under the street light in front of the church; the ''putt, Mary Edith[...]uary 16, 1943. putt, putt" of the gasoline engine in Frank Black's garage that drove the generator that provided the first electricity in Wil- William had another son by a prior marriage: Isaac, May 21, low Creek and the[...]The family came from Springfield, Illinois in 1882 to Butte, ing; the lowing of cattle intermin[...]f Montana and settled there. Williams was a woodcutter and coyotes on cold, frosty nights; swimming in the Jefferson Lucinda worked at the Nine[...]"rhythmic" bouncing of the old. loft floor in the Flaherty barn during a dance; Majestic radios Abe Nevins, William's brother, didn't have a good opinion of that I sold; the waving alfalfa f[...]eighty acres of his place if they would move with a fist fight between Jess Capps and Don Emigh; hunt[...]ce their move to the Jefferson Valley, across for a magpie and crow eggs along the creek; Old Hollowt[...]om hours of sell. Except for several years in St. Ignatius they lived in and listening to our first radio through earphone[...]Mary married Torn Fisher who was working in this area. wheat on the South Bench; watching wag[...]they moved to near Belgrade and also being dumped in the elevator; borrowing 5 cents from the lived in the Bozeman area. They had seven children - Charl[...]s death she later married Charlie Tumbleson. In later years she Dance Hall to the music of Frank[...]ived near Wil- "stub" from Butte - these are just a few - there are many, many more - a great little town![...]Abe other than he came to this area and had quite a ranch before his brother William came to Montana.[...]tes, having one hundred to one hundred fifty head in a herd. His nephew, Walter[...] |
| [...]Josephine and hus- Both Wilbur and Ross served in World War II in active band Bill Stewart also lived in Willow Creek. combat. William and Elizabeth Nevins are buried in Mt. Green John bought a second-hand Model T Ford. He depended on Cemetery in Willow Creek. Nora Peterson o[...]ing John commented on what a wonderful car it was and how well it ran. A couple miles from home they ran out of gas. John[...]oughts, hailstorms and Creek schools. I graduated in 1930 and left to work on the depression. But thro[...]Agnes died in 1951 and John in 1956, both are buried in the[...]John O'Connor born 1860, died 1920, buried in the Willow[...]died in Boulder, Montana,in the early 1930's, and was buried[...]They owned the Harry Vincent place and worked in the[...]son River. The ice tongs slipped off a block of ice, he fell off the[...]ack at Three Forks. He graduated from high school in 1931. Don graduated from high school in 1936. He left to do THE ORR FAMILY newspaper work in Oregon and California. We lived in Three Jim Orr was born August 27, 1873, in Virginia to Mr. and Forks in 1935' and 1936.[...]JOHN NOBLE John Noble married Agnes Sallee in 1900 in Filly Missouri, where they were both born, John,[...]rents were also of Filly, Missouri. They lived in Kansas City, Topeka and Coffeville, Kansas. They[...]lle (now called Gallatin Gateway) where he leased a farm. In 1914 they moved to the Ed Walbert farm four miles[...]Willow Creek which they had purchased. They lived in a small cabin until they built their house in 1917. This is where they lived the rest of their Ifves. , They had five children: Charles was born in Missouri, Viola in Kansas, Bernice at Gallatin Gateway and John Wilbur and Ross on the farm at Willow Creek. Viola Ragen lives in Town- send; Bernice and Dave Middlemas live in Helena, Ross and Elizabeth also live in Helena.[...] |
| [...]who lived on the home place to the South Bench as a homesteader in the early 1900's. Jim and farmed until his death in 1981. Wesly is deceased. Dan died December 4, 195[...]tember of married Gladys Lane and they live in Three Forks, they had 1891 at Willow Creek to Geo[...]n Bennie is deceased, his wife Loretta lives in Wyoming, his the South Bench when they were first married. Their children sons Richard and Bennie live in Boulder and Helena. Mary were born in the Willow Creek area and are as follows: Oliver[...]Judy, David, Daryl, Ronald and Shelley live in the Fairfield, children; Calistia, born July 8, 1[...], Cardwell, Hamilton. After Dick died Helen lived in Mis- attended school at Willow Creek until the family moved in soula until her death in 1976. 1923. Some members of the family live at Atwater, California. Fred lived in Willow Creek until he died in 1921. He was 19[...]Dan lived in Willow Creek until he was killed in a mining FRED PARKER FAMILY accident at Pony in 1936. He was 29. Fred J. Parker was born in Buffalo, N.Y., April 9, 1856, and Lottie mar[...]nd Charlotte Ottama, Iowa, July 4, 1866, and died in 1924. Fred and Han- who are also living in Oregon.[...]eese nah Parker were pioneers who first farmed on a place in Jefferson County "across the river" from Willow C[...]orn March 11, 1882 at the Parker were Helen (born in Iowa), Fred, Dan, and Lottie, all born at Willow[...]children. A brother and two sisters died when they were child[...]stock from Brown Brothers, Rochester, Min- oldest in the family was the first white child born in Montana nesota. He had his own orchard. He also h[...]ill is deceased. Solon drove a horse and buggy to take his sisters to the rural George married Dorothy Hiatt and they lived in Montana, school. Mississippi, and Florida. George[...]Frankie) married Jeanette Albro and their home is in Willow Creek. Coursien in Bozeman, Montana. Frankie was born in Willow They had four children, Albro - deceased,[...]r. Elma married Hugh Woodside and their home is in Willow Coursien arrived in Montana with the many gold seekers and Creek. Hugh is deceased. Elma also lived in Boulder and eventually settled in Willow Creek in 1864. He married Sarah Anaconda. Their daughter Audrey married Joe Reese, Jr. , O'Green in 1879. She had arrived in Willow Creek the prev- who died in 1973. Now Elma and Audrey have retired and live[...]ous year along with her brother from Nephi , Utah in a co- together at their home in Willow Creek. vered wagon. In 1880 Mr. Coursien built the first three story Rose married Arie Haasakker and has always lived in Wil-frame house in Willow Creek. It was lived in until the late low Creek. Arie is deceased. Rose now lives on the Parker 1970's when it was torn down and a portion of the lumber used to renovate a home in Three Forks. It was known as the House The Parker[...]Skip and Frankie Parker lived on a ranch west of Willow[...]all born. Then about 1915 they built a new home in Willow[...]Birdie and Jane. The children attended school in Willow[...]traveled to Wenatchee, Washington to partake in the harvest[...]a wagon the trip took six weeks travel time each wa[...]were approximately 21 children in the group. During the stay in Wenatchee all the family picked fruit , and atten[...]who was a baby. Mrs. Parker made preserves andj lly[...] |
| [...]were born to them, Brett and Matthew. Newell died in 1957 and Edna married Richard Hilke in 1959. Mr. Hilke passed away in 1981.[...]arried Charles (Son) Jewett. They have one child, a[...]Gary married a second ti.m e to Ann McIntyre. Gary has a[...]ried Eileen Mosher. They have one child, a daughter Bobbie.[...]e the following poem which ap- At this writing in 1982 there are six great-great grandchil- peared in a Missoula paper and the Three Forks Herald: dre[...]Edna and one is a great grandchild of Faye. When I left Old Montana[...]Frankie Parker died in the Bozeman Deaconess Hospital in I thought the twenty dollar bills 1949 following a heart attack and is buried in Willow Creek. Would be lying in the road. Skip died in 1947 following a heart attack and is buried in[...]Edna Hilke And what a fool I've been I nearly starved my family Likewis[...]The Parks family moved to Willow Creek in the spring of Hunger stared us in the face 1916. Willow Creek at that time was a promising little town I thought the race was run Three meals a day at Willow Creek and none at Washington.[...]k I am going Before the rising sun I'd rather die in that old town Than live in Washington. Of the children Olga marrie[...] |
| [...]th gifts and candy for every Earl Parks bought a store that had been in existence for child. Every boy and girl who gradu[...]reek many years from Briggs and McPherson. It was in an old High School received a gift from the Parks. wooden building with a hitching rack on one side, a block of Burdette and Earl Parks were active in community and cement with an old style gas pump o[...]hey came to the valley as newcomers and there was a wagon scale and loading dock.[...]Merwin Parks next fourteen years with a team of horses. Ben lived a mile out of town and drove in a light wagon, switching in town to a heavy work wagon.[...]bank, drugstore The Parr family residence in Three Forks began in 1920 and post office run by Dr. and Mrs. Bradbury. The mail came . when Claude A. (Charley) Parr moved into the area to super- several times a day and was hauled to the post office by hand vis[...]y raced through town. The North- northern Wyoming in the early 1900's from Forest, Indiana. ern Pacific and Milwaukee trains ran parallel through town Frank was a conductor on the Burlington. and for a ways on either side. Going West the flyers raced[...]acob and Lucy through town trying to be the first in the block at Sappington Miller, who ranched near Willow Creek. They were married in where they crossed. The last one to enter the block had to wait 1921 and their first son, Frank, was born in 1922 on Thelma's for the other.[...]19th birthday. Charley was a contractor in Three Forks for There were two stockyards and two elevators, two depots some years, and built a number of structures still in existence. and two agents all competing for busin[...]alled the memorial rock across Main Street from In the first years the wheat was hauled into town by[...]Son number two, William (Bill) was born in 1923 in Three watch the team make the wide swing to haul[...]d the twenty families on the South tion. He built a string of electrical power plants which ran all Bench and out in Milligan, as was then being tried, was not the wa[...]ly accompanied him to all profitable. The drought in the early twenties finished off most the construction sites, which, in addition to the five power of them. As the new ec[...]plants, included city commercial blocks, schools, a hospital , threw a great burden on the stores and they all gradually and other buildings. He also did a tour as a corrections officer disappeared until only Earl S[...]duated from Willow Creek High School and included a stopover with Fergy Ballard, Editor and Publisher went on to college. Earl, Jr. wound up in Seattle after college , of the Three Forks News. After rushing the growler, the men and worked for a number of years at Boeing. Merwin went talked abo[...]were allowed to East to school. After graduating in Engineering at the Uni- play with the oldtime steam linotype. versity of Minnesota and marrying a Minneapolis girl, he Charley died in 1937 and the family spent a while in Bill- returned to the West and settled in Seattle. Ross Parks be- ing_s before returning to Three Forks in 1939. Thelma bought came a doctor and spent his years of practice in Los Angeles. a beauty salon which she operated for some years. T[...]as member of the family who moved to Willow Creek in 1916. graduated in 1940, Bill in 1942, and Charles in 1945. The Parks family started out in Cable, Wisconsin, where all Frank left in 1940 to join some of his classmates in the Army the boys were born. They moved to Montana in 1910 and Earl Air Corps. He served in Europe, the Far East, Alaska, the Parks was hired to reorganize the Union Store in Anaconda. Caribbean and Korea. In 1960 he joined Federal Aviation After a year he bought a store in Ruby and ran it until the Administration and was[...]flight operations organization in Oklahoma. He is married to Ruby was a town supplying the dredges that were cleaning Bar[...]ke. When the dredges shut foreign service officer in Africa; Barbara of Oklahoma City, down, the town vanished. In the move to Willow Creek the Felicia and Brad, Ra[...]still at home. line to Whitehall, stay overnight in the hotel, and catch the Bill enlisted in the Army and served in Europe in an Arm- local train to Willow Creek the next day.[...]ngs. He and his wife difficult as the family dog, a large St. Bernard, had to be Edna, raised three children. Mike, a minister in Sheridan, smuggled up the back stairs of the hotel. Earl Parks had to Montana, Jack, in Billings and Patty , in New Haven, Con- hold his tail to keep him from beating the floor in all the neticut. Bill worked as a construction engineer, carpenter, excitement.[...]steel worker, etc., in Africa, Greenland, Alaska, and finally When the[...]were new- moved to the Denver area. He was killed in a boating accident comers and made to feel that way. It was years after Merwin west of Denver in 1975. had a grown family and returned for visits that[...] |
| [...]vice and was aboard the Squalus when it was lost in the Pacific. Jack was 19. Charles stayed in Three Forks the longest but finally joined the Marine Corps after service in the Merchant Marine. He was not allowed combat a[...]k's loss and because his two other brothers were in combat areas in Italy and Britain. He did get an assignment in Hawaii and was then assigned to the Marine Corps drill team in Hollywood where he appeared in several movies. Chuck ultimately went into major appliance sales in Billings and ultimately in Salt Lake City. He and his wife, June, had two children; John and Lynn, both of who live in the Salt Lake City area. Thelma died in Denver in 1973.[...]Immigration Officials when the family im- in and in some cases rooms were nearly filled with snow. migrated to the U.S.A. in 1862. Outside in the storm it was as dark as night with the snow s[...]to Annie) Marie Rossensen was born thick in the wind as to make it impossible to see your han[...]lt-Holbeck, Denmark. She was before your face. The animals in the barn had to make out as an only child. In 1859 she and Hans were married and Sophie be[...]Marie (1860) and James Peter (1861) were born in Denmark. livestock. The husband did not re[...]children in the house, would go out ot see if she could find[...]brothers: Andrew, Pete, Nels and John. After In many cases both perished, often within a few feet of the going through a war with Germany Hans and John and their[...]families decided to come to America. Hans served in this war. In 1862 they arrived at New Hartford, Connecticut, a[...]ore children were born there to John Thompson, in 1886. They stayed at Willow Creek, Mon- Hans a[...]oss (1865) and Emma Mae (1868). tana for a while before going on to Couer d'Alene, Idaho. Hans In 1869 the two families emigrated to Atchison, Kans[...]le Williams, Hans came to Willow Creek several a while before going on to Topeka. years earlier to build a house for Mr. Coursien. From Topeka they traveled_west to Eskridge where they In the spring of 1889 three wagons left Nebraska and[...]onging to the Petersons and the tall grass for a thatched roof. The women and children re- other to a neighbor, George Cheeseman. The Petersons con-[...]ill, and two obtain work. The pay was scant so in order to make ends meet daughters - Anna and[...]alked from Topeka at the end of each week pushing a George Chees~man went north to see some[...]ld meet at quently through blinding snowstorms in the winter. When Miles City. At Miles Ci[...]s enough money was saved they were able to buy a team of waiting for the Cheeseman family. Finally they decided that ponies and later a yoke of oxen to begin breaking up and the[...]William August" Cheeseman. He had broken a wheel on the other side of town (1873), L1lhe[...]Christine (1879) were and the Petersons had a spare wheel. born to Hans and Annie while they[...]they drove into Willow Creek. The community In 1882 they moved to Nebraska and settled on Dutch Creek was having a celebrati~n because Montana officially became a which was 16 miles from Ainsworth. Somewhere P[...]ited to join them and Hans, who had been .up on a homestead which was later sold.[...]During the winter of 1887-1888 they were living in a house They needed work and there were hous[...]rew, which had stone walls. My father, William A., told us of the who had been in Washington, joined them here. The first blizza[...]ka. The day the blizzard winter they stayed in a log house, which they built, about came starte[...]day and Pete decided seven miles out of town in an area known as Galen Springs. . to go to Ainsworth with a team of mules hitched to a spring Later they bought some land just outside of town. Pete started wagon to buy supplies. A black storm cloud which covered the a blacksmith shop. Andrew was a carpenter. Hans was also a entire sky could be seen in the distance and the family builder; hi[...]e barn doors mules and Hans passed away in 1907 and his wife Annie in 1926. wagon came in, the doors were slammed shut. As near as I Sophie Marie married Charles A. Lindal about 1879 at recall the story, the st[...]hat the very walls of the house were Frank A., Maude, Lillie Bell, William P., Fred G.,[...] |
| [...]Creek between Andrew traded his oxen for a team of horses. Since the 1890 and 1894. Sophie Lindal died in 1912. wagons were getting a little old and worn they bought new Lillie Blanch married Albert Hankinson in 1896. They had ones to continue their trip[...]three children: Lawrence H., Mary Ann, and Minnie A. left Miles City and on the 4th of J[...]the Anna Christine married Francis T. Hankinson in 1900. Ten Bozeman Pass. They said it raine[...]and worked five James Peter Peterson was born in 1861 in Denmark and days in a gold mine for $3.50 a day. immigrated to the United States with his par[...]wn at Meyers Annie. Andrew Ross Peterson was born in 1865 in Connecticut Falls, Washington, and raised a large family . Emma died where the family stayed until moving westward. Somewhere June 25, 1944. A son, Frank Rounds, lives around Wauconda, in Nebraska Pete proved up on a homestead which was later Washington. sol[...]In 1889 Pete left Nebraska and started westward with[...]drove into Willow Rounds at Ainsworth, Nebraska. In the summer of 1887 Jack Creek. They neede[...]ted westward Andrew who had been out in Washington joined them here. towards Washington T[...]pulled by The first winter they stayed in a log house in the Galen oxen. The travel was slow. At Pine Ridg[...]tires set on the wagons town. Pete started a blacksmith shop. Andrew was a car- and the sore-footed oxen shod. Jack traded his oxen for a span penter. of mules. On October 10 they arri[...]e home place. and decided to stay for the winter. A house and barn were Neither one married.[...]k and Andrew cut and smith. He passed away in 1940. Andrew farmed the place and delivered firewood to Miles City for $4.00 a cord. According to did carpenter work around th[...]Hawes furnished the music for most of the dances in this area. the temperature was 65 degrees below z[...]piano. Andrew passed away in 1945.[...]iam August Peterson was born at. Eskridge, Kansas in[...]had immigrated from Denmark. He grew up in Kansas and[...]In 1889 he and part of his family migrated westward[...]Montana. They arrived in Willow Creek on July 4th. They came in two wagons which had been pulled by oxen at the s[...]and then later on in the trip by mules and finally by horses.[...]The first winter they built a log house about ·s even miles[...] |
| ·about a mile out of town and moved the log house down to[...]is still standing. in Mountain Rest, South Carolina, the son of Thomas[...]His male ancestors came from England to ·f ight in the Rev- Later on he bought an adjoining homeste[...]jamin from Moscow, Idaho, who had tled in the northern part of South Carolina. come to visit her sister, Mrs. L. F. Hare. The Hares had a store Dave came west when he was 17. He settled in Jefferson in Willow Creek. In December of 1910, Bill and Phebe were[...]Willow Creek. His homestead was ½ mile married in Idaho at her grandmother's home.[...]ere born on the homestead. on ranches in the area. Phebe Annie was born in 1911. She married George Herman in He married Margaret Mae (Maggie) Williams in 1909, the 1950. He was the postmaster at Silver[...]are retired and are was born May 25, 1892 in Jefferson County, west of Willow living there now. William B. (Ben) was born in 1914; married in Creek. 1933 to Lucile DeFields. He farmed for a while and later on worked as a carpenter around the Willow Creek-Three Forks ar[...]e died he married Lavina Bipman. They still live in Three Forks. James R. born in 1916. He farmed and worked out at various times. Served in the Army during World War II for three years. In 1961 he married Lanora M. Williams, daughter of Walter Williams - a pioneer cattleman. Jim and Lanora had attended g[...]same time. Their grandparents had been neighbors in Nebraska and had come to Montana together. They[...]t Jim's grandparents. had. Laura H. was born in 1918, married Warren Kramer of Aberdeen, Idaho in 1937, where she is now living. Her hus- band passed away in 1970. He had worked at many jobs such as blacksmithing, ranching, farming, trucking -just to men- tion a few. August H. was born in 1920 and died in 1921. Nellie B. was born in 1923. After high school she worked in Helena where she met and married Wallace Ward, a cattle rancher. They are still living on and runn[...]user Lake, below Canyon Ferry. Berta M. was born in 1928. She married Harold Hulbert of Bozeman in 1949. He worked several years for the Trident Ce[...]h practically destroyed theJr home. Bill died in his home on the homestead in 1960 at the age of, eighty six. Ten years later Phebe joined her husband in death. Both are buried in Mt. Green Cemetery.[...], Au- Two of their children were born in Jefferson County. gust 16, 1853, and died in June of 1932. Thomas Marien was born April 24, 1910, he drowned in the When he was 17 years of age he came to Mont[...]who located at ruary 12, 1913, he lives in Redwood City, California. Willow Creek. Rev. Stat[...]After leaving their homestead they moved to a farm be- minsters in the state. When Mr. Purdom·first came to Mont-[...]to the Bozeman area and ran a dairy. Cathleen now lives in He married Florence Duke, daughter of Fred Duke[...]this union. Dave died September 23, 1950 in Bozeman. Maggie died They resided on a ranch that later belonged to Fred Rutledge September 13, 1947 in Harlem, Montana. and after that time took a homestead at the head of Sand Nora Peterson Creek. In 1928 they moved to Harrison.[...] |
| [...]w Creek, Missoula, Deer Lodge, Ronan, Chinook, In about 1916 twin brothers from Shelbyville, Ky. de[...]Whitefish and Glendive. For 13 years he worked as a field travel west and explore the country. At Wi[...]what the possibilities were for work. _Home_in Bozeman, Montana. They pitched a tent on the Coursien place and decided to try _raising a garden on the land they leased from Mrs. Coursien. BILL REED In 1917 they returned to Kentucky and enlisted in the Mr. and Mrs. Bill Reed were a lovable couple who lived a few service. Each of three brothers enlisted in a different branch of miles from the first location of Willow Creek in the early days. the service. Following the war in 1918, they returned to Wil- Mrs. N. L. Woo[...]w Creek and finally to Logan where they purchased a house his faithful old horse, Babe. The horse was a bay mare, aged, from a man by the name of Boomer who had been in the[...]Bill enjoyed occasionally to go to town and go on a drinking The boys began planting their seed and preparing for a spree with his buddies at which time he would spin yarn after prosperous year in the garden business. Phil who had married yarn and have a drink with each one until he was quite ineb- bef[...]are for home where she would be met Kentucky, so in 1924 Phil and his wife returned to Kentucky[...]his gardening. horse in the barn. Sometimes instead of riding Babe he would A few years had passed when Henry moved to Willow harness her to a single buggy and drive to town, but in either Creek and gardened on the Coursien place[...]headed towards home where she faithfully arrived a short In 1927 Henry decided to take a bride so married Gladys time later. Wi[...]ad been drinking with the boys and two of sided. In 1931, they moved to Logan where they resided in the ·them decided to play a joke on him, so went out and turned the house on[...]ree Forks. This was him aboard. Everybody in the saloon had been tipped off done in a Model T pickup truck.[...]Bill The roads to Butte were rough and it was a slow haul with off. He looked so ludicrou[...]for James Richie came from Michigan and in 1863 built a cabin them and usually lasted until they were lu[...]ses Ranch. He raised vegetables and sold them in the summer of but his bark did little to scare t[...]n't bother his dish of food. then a stage station on the route from Virginia City to Boze- Henry was a member of the Logan baseball team and also[...]club consisted of four men who to W. A. Harwood. Eventually it was purchased by William H. chewed Red Man chewing tobacco. Once a month the four men Buttelman from Mr.[...]JOHN THOMAS ROBERTS In 1937 the Raymonds sold their place to Tom Oyie, a Japanese gardener, and they moved to Myrtle Cree[...]20, 1853 at St. Louis, Mo. the where they set up a tomato cannery. Finding this unprofit- son of John T. and Margaret Roberts, both natives of Wales. In able, they moved to Cornelius, Ore. where they built a 1874 he was married to Rose A. Jones. They both came to greenhouse and sold plants, both vegetables and flower, until Montana in 1882 and settled in Willow Creek where Mr. recent years when they re[...]Gladys Williams In 1917 they moved into town when Mr. Roberts became[...]mail carrier. He was very active and maintained a nice garden which they delighted in sharing with the townspeople.[...]ese J. John Reagan was born December 28, 1900, in Willow Creek Roberts, Margaret, Nell an[...]she met John Thomas Roberts and they were married in On June 14, 1930, John Reagan married Irene M. Swan in 1874. Caldwell, Idaho. They had four[...]l, Lynette, The Roberts family home in Willow Creek was the gather- Norma, and Marilyn.[...]er people during the early days and the He was a minister in Montana for 41 years, having served in familv alwa s e~t~nde!l_ ~ welcome t[...] |
| [...]January 24, 1834, in Canada. William Henry Rouse was born in 1828 in Genessee County, New York. Roberts were a kindly couple and knew no enemies.[...]Grant Rouse married Elsie Dora Wilson June 22, In later years, Mrs. Roberts suffered a stroke which left her 1897 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Elsie was born Novembe[...]Children born to William Grant and Elsie Rouse in Sioux paralyzed for several weeks and she passed away in May 1934. Falls were: William Henry, March[...]Robert Reese, the only boy, married and lived in Torrence, Califor- Donald Oct~ber 29, 1903; Mo[...]othy, July 31, 1909. Those born at garet was born in 1881 and married William Powell of Butte.[...]died and Margaret married Harry Carls. Nell, born in November 17, 1918. 1886, married and had one son, Ray Woodward. Rose was born in 1888 and never married. She was employed for 45 years in In 1911 William Grant and Elsie moved with a car of the Parks General Store and devoted a big part of her life in immigrant movables and seven children to a ho~~stead the care of her parents.[...]built a home in Cedar Hollow. They raised grain and potatoes. Mr. Roberts passed away in 1939 having suffered from a The children attended the Table Mountain[...]st of what is now the Sappington t(Y". They lived in a large two- story house which they moved to their[...]speciality was the fiddle. John Rogers operated a threshing outfit around t_he valley and.farmed. M[...]nd died there several years before John, who died in 1934.[...] |
| entertain themselves in the evenings - no radio or TV. They ing[...]raveled by horseback or wagon and attended dances in the place. They called this the haunte[...]then moved to Bozeman. Mr. Rutledge passed away in Boze- when they returned, the horses had gone bac[...]he passed away January 22, 1978. Bill said, ((Get a stick". James said, «What for?" uso you won't[...]. Too cold," said James. Alice, August 8, 1908, in Silver Star; she married Fletcher ucome on. Follo[...]to Bozeman, Montana where Monona and in 1937; she passed away August 30, 1948. He has remarried Miriam attended high school a year or two and then moved to and lives in Logan. Evelyn Lorrain born May 6, 1918, at Three[...]Forks, married Wayne Pollari of Red Lodge in 1933, was Dorothy and Miriam taught school.[...]of Portland, Oregon. William Grant Rouse died in Anaconda, Montana January Evelyn ran the Lark Cafe for a short time. 16, 1941. His wife, Elsie, died February 4, 1969 in Dillon,[...]Mr. Ryan came to Montana from Iowa, arriving in Virginia FREDERICK RUTLEDGE City in August of 1865. He was in a wagon train of 16 wagons; Frederick Rutledge ,[...]t Anaconda, at Omaha they were joined by a large company of about 100 married Bessie Shafer[...]wagons going to Oregon. Later he transferred to a wagon train City, Montana. Bessie was born July 1[...]dge came to Silver Star from Virginia In Virginia City he worked as chore boy for E.S. Banta, a City where he worked in the mines. They wintered in Butte dairyman, who later moved his ·[...]ked for Sturgis and Warren, digging potatoes with a Elmer Winchell, also homesteaded just over the hill. "Bessie" hoe. Mr. Ryan operated a flour mill on Willow Creek in the said Jessie, ulf I should scream, you be sure t o come to help early days of the community. In later years Mr. Ryan was a me." u1 will," promised Bessie. Late one evening[...]f two canes. He hear Jessie's piercing scream and in the dark of the night she had never failed[...]s, and many enjoyed the heard it - the screams of a mountain lion. The Rutledge's products from his garden. homestead cabin burned so they wintered in Three Forks. Mr. Rutledge worked in the Copper City Mines for the Dunbars.[...]the south bench and from there to Willow Creek on a farm below Flaherty's. The boys built a Swedish bath beside the house but it got too hot and this house burned too. Then they lived in a little two-story house belong-[...] |
| Mrs. Margaret Ellen Ryan, born in Van Buran County, Upon their return to Montana they again spent a short time Iowa in 1855 came to Montana with her family Jan. 1, 1888, in Bozeman where Velma was born April 18, 1918. They[...]elman Ranch between Willow Creek and resided on a ranch above Willow Creek for a number of years, Three Forks where they worked for John Buttelman for a later moving to Logan where they ran a rooming house and a time. Esta was born at the ranch April J, 1920. hotel for a number of years. In 1914 they moved to Willow In the fall of 1921 they moved back to Bozeman and O[...]anch where they were California. Mrs. Ryan died in 1934. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ryan employed. Irene was born at Sedan on March 6, 1924. She · are buried in the Mount Green Cemetery at Willow Creek, passed away in Oregon in November of 1970. Buz passed away Montana. in Livingston in June of 1957 after spending all of World War[...]Jean Creecy II in the South Pacific and being discharged from the M[...]ngs, Missouri Au- horses. Glenn was born in Bozeman February 21, 1926. They gust 3, 1886 and[...]lee, born at Filley, Missouri then moved to a ranch five miles south of Willow Creek where June[...]at Willow Creek on March 14, 1928. In 1933 they moved to a Their first child, Noel, was born March 24, 190[...]reek where they remained until Mr. Sallee's death in The family moved to Bozeman in 1910 where Orville 1949. Mrs. Sall[...]o Bozeman where she now worked on various ranches in the area until 1914 when they resides. returned to Missouri. During their stay in Bozeman two more Mr. Sallee worked on several ranches in the Gallatin Valley children, Omer and Beryl were[...]Sallee have 36 November 3, 1913. She passed away in March of 1959. Omer grandchildren, 71 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great- passed away in California in April of 1979 after retiring from a grandchildren. ranch which he operated south of Willow Creek for many years. The family remained in Missouri for three years and during this t[...] |
| [...]ashington, D.C., the family name of Sanford is an in- teresting example of the evolutionary nature of names. It is, just as it seems to be, a combination of two Old English words, uSand" and[...]original bearers of this name probably lived near a sandbar that was sufficiently large enough to permit a river crossing. This was often chosen as the best location for a village, since water would not have to be carried[...]ome branches of the Sanford name may have evolved in or near the town of Sanford in Westmoreland County, located in the Lake district of Northwestern England. Pla[...]lass of the four classes of name origin presently in use by geneaologists. The largely rural nature of medieval life and the tendency of one family to live in a specific location for many generations probably c[...]give evidence of early church organized in Bozeman. It was a comfortable church, forms of the name and show us[...]the union of several branches of Methodism in the mid 1940's, By the time of the first census in America in 1790, many it became the Faith Methodist Church and was sold in the late Sanford families had settled in this country. The average months of 197[...]census records indi- after being without a religious base in Bozeman for many cate that there were more Sanford heads-of-households living years. in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island than in any other part of America. Official United States[...]increased church duties, Rev. C. W. Sanford also in 1974 indicate that in that year Sanford was the 801st most managed to acquire a family and supplemented his meager frequently occurring surname in the nation. Today there are church remune[...]to Lura Phene Hale, But now, we wish to relate a bit of history about one Sanford daughter of G[...]solemnized by the Rev. R. Clark at the Hale home in[...]George, Lester, and Lolita. Born in 1842 in Livingston County, Missouri Charles W.[...]is time to Santa Maria, California, where he tory in the fall of 1870 as a circuit rider minister for the continued h[...]e With the three older children remaining in California and Church in February, 1868, had also organized a society at taking up individual life int[...]assed away April 18, to realize Montana's needs. A formal request for a number of 1912 at the age of 51 yrs., 7 mo.[...]d as Mrs. Lura ministers was sent out, resulting in Rev. C. W. Sanford's being Spooner in the Willow Creek Cemetery. transferred from the[...]nford Cole ference. Shortly after his arrival in Montana in November, Rev. Sanford was appointed by Brother[...]take charge of JAMES A. SHEDD the Bozeman Circuit, consisting at that time of six members. Jim, as he was known, was born in Oconee County, South His first quarterly meeting[...]as protracted fourteen to fifteen days, resulting in Montana, with Crouch and Lang, who were fre[...]d those mares, which were the beginning of a lucrative horse- Central Park and Bozeman.[...]h South was perhaps the second A few weeks after arriving at Three Forks, J[...] |
| [...]school in Gaiiatin Couiity was taught in 1867-68. The first teacher was a Miss Smith, who later married Frank Akin, who[...]was a violinist and played for dances for miles around.[...]Akin's death, his wife married John Stovener, a colorful[...]eer character. Mrs. Stovener lived for many years in the Masonic Home in Helena, and died there at an old age.[...]ved mostly at Willow Creek, but at one time owned a[...].house and lived near Gallatin Gateway. He was a cripple from[...]died in 1944 at Willow Creek. He was buried in the Logan[...]In 1864 James Smart came to Alder Gulch from Utah an[...]worked in the mines for two years. He returned to Utah, sol[...]his home and brought his family to Montana. In 1868 he located.on a ranch near Three Forks but after a few years sold .the ranch and bought a store at Willow Creek. The store was[...]Smart was a cousin of Mrs. John Roberts. He later sold his[...]Frank Eugene Stanton was born in Hastings, Michigan,[...]were buried on the left bank College as a school master, and came from Holland, Michigan of[...]Town. to Montana in about 1873. He taught at the Jefferson School[...]ty-five and others, and was moved to and reburied in Logan Cemet- years. During this time h[...]en buried. admitted to the Montana Bar in 1902. However, he never[...]ally Hall, who later became Mrs. Thomas Dunn, was in the party of immigrants. Her son, Ephram Hall, wi[...]of the Sappington Wye. bered by some oldtimers as a violinist who played for many He tau[...]However, he went to Bozeman, got ajob as a mail carrier and Grandmother Shedd and Uncle Jim,[...]ead. The cattlemen did not like five toll bridges in the vicinity of Three Forks, and one west of t[...]The Shedds the pasture. had also built a bridge across the Jefferson River and over the While teaching in the Jefferson School he stayed at Clinton rivers[...]farmed and raised quantit~es of oats, which found a ready market with the freighters. Charges were fi[...]dred dollars. Later on, Jim started to go home as a rich man and disap- peared without explanation. T[...]they profited permanently. Gorden Campbell had a ferry near where the present site of Trident is l[...]bridges made traffic much faster and cheaper, and a Mr. Weir who worked for Campbell was soon out of[...]dds were first to learn of Custer's massacre. The In- dians had passed that way recently, and S[...] |
| [...]two children, Iva, born May 2, 1894 and Guy born in 1903. Guy lives in Bozeman. When he abandoned school teaching, a profession he fol- lowed for a decade in Gallatin Valley, the maximum pay was sixty dollars a month. · He carried mail for about 6 years, retiring in 1923. His first route was known as the "man killi[...]Established six years before he took over, almost a dozen men had tried and failed on it. When he retired he became a busy agriculturalist with two truck farms and two ranches he had accumulated in his years of mail carrying. Their daughter, Iva, married Herbert Lessley, Sr., May 6, 1917, in Bozeman. Herbert was born September 8, 1878 and d[...]known as Judge Bill Lessley. Iva presently lives in Paradise, California.[...]Winter was coming but Mrs. Stateler hired a man to drive Frank Stanton died February 21, 19[...]d the oxen and stock and she drove a team of horses, and they set January 11, 1962.[...]Iva Lessley them at Fort Kearney in the middle of the winter. Near the[...]end of the winter they arrived in Denver without any money.[...]He finally found a friend who loaned him $50.00. There was a REV. L. B. STATELER[...]circuit out of Denver which paid him $40 for a year's work. The L.B. Stateler was born in Kentucky in 1811. Learned spent Statelers eeked out a meager existence for some months and his boyhood[...]d his · then heard that gold had been discovered in Montana. Major education in a log school house during the winter months. He Jim Bridger organized a wagon train of 562 persons who left knew how to e[...]d at an early age he felt called to the ministry. In the fall in the open. They finally arrived at the Big Hom and Yellow- of 1831 he left on horseback with a few possessions and no stone Rivers where they we[...]hey made themselves. Stateler's wagon turned over a was sent to ride a circuit in Missouri. Payments were ex- bank throwing him out[...]held them at the edge of a steep precipice. The train eventually Rev. Sta[...]through Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois and Kansas. In 1862 he was available so they decided to go on to Norwegian Gulch received a call to Denver. There were no funds for the trip[...]omemade soap and cornmeal and left this creek was a Methodist South minister named Rev. Har- his wife and adopted daughter in Topeka. After a grove. The two ministers prepared a place for preaching and three-month's journey he arrived in Denver where he disposed most of the miners stopp[...]had spent their last dollar so their only hope of a to his family. On arriving in Denver he met disaster; he was so living was from[...]been Stateler had brought from Kansas. They built a corral and sold to the Episcopalians. He had no home and then received having a chum and milk pans made a log structure over the word from his wife that th[...]o keep the milk and butter cool. Later they built a the ground.[...]for $1.50 a pound in gold dust or $3.00 in greenbacks. Rev. L.B. Stateler and Mrs. Stateler[...]scarce and the prices prohibitive. Flour was a dollar a pound if[...]ere easier and he began to preach at Willow Creek in the fall. His first sermon was preached in Mr. Nave's cabin on[...]nized the first society of Methodist Church South in Montana. He did spend some time in Oregon but he and his[...]Creek and sometimes went 200 miles a week over a 30-year[...]Montana's need and more ministers were sent out. In[...] |
| June 1873 a meeting of great importance was held at Willow came to Willow Creek in 1914. Jim worked in the blacksmith Creek and lasted over a two-week period. A subscription was shop for Jet Shanholtzer. started to build a church called ttStateler's Chapel". The[...]uilding was used briefly as an chapel was erected in 1873 and served well for many years. overflow for the school. At a later time Frar..k and Shorty Rev. Stateler preached his last sermon in the chapel in April of Reich used the building as a garage. 1896.[...]unds. She loved to fish and it is said she smoked a corn cob pipe as did many of the women then. When[...]. L. B. Stateler died May 1, 1896, while visiting in[...]alis, Montana. He and Mrs. Stateler are buried on a hill[...]tatoes to been taken into their home when she was a very small child. eat with your fish."[...]crossed the plains when she was eight years old. In 1871 William and George Taylor settled in Manhattan and be- she married Alexander Weaver, a rancher, near Belgrade. .came involved in construction work with installing of cul- Alexander Weaver was born in Virginia and left home at age verts, bridge building and making roads. Among the still 18. In 1864 he arrived in Virginia City and the next year came standing str[...]n Broad- to the Gallatin Valley where he acquired a tract of land. The way across from Manhattan High[...]es there was little evidence of cracking anywhere in the Harriet Salmond was born in Scotland to J arnes and Harriet masonry when last observed in 1968. Eskine Salmond. She came to the United Sta[...]Taylor married Rose Ann Carney of Water- parents in the early 1800's and settled in Chicago. Harriet and loo in 1909 and they made their home in Manhattan. Rose Ed Swope were married in 1897 and came to Willow Creek Carney was among th[...]e section and built the Normal School when it was in Twin Bridges. The school is now building that became a small store, ice cream parlor and located in Dillon. Also, she worked at the Orphan's Horne in restaurant. The Swope children, Hazel and Ruth, a[...]to Grace on the Butte Patrick Carney, who served in the first and second Legisla- mountain and then t[...]nd William H. Taylor - 1909 In Swope Restaurant |
| tures of Montana, was instrumental in getting the Orphan's Home established in Twin Bridges. During the early 1900s Rose worked in the millinery trade where she had a shop in Manhattan. It was there that Bill and Rose became[...]Ella and Kendrick. Both Bill and Rose were active in the Lodge in Manhattan. Bill was a member of both the Masonic and Eastern Star Lodge[...]onged to the Eastern Star Lodge. Rose Taylor died in 1919 and was buried in Meadow View Cemetery near Manhattan. During the[...]s of this century Bill Taylor worked on the roads in Gallatin County. One summer while working in the Willow Creek area he established a campsite in Yok Miller's yard. In those days road construction was done using horses. A gasoline driven concrete mixer was the only machinery used by this crew. Among those working for Bill was a young red-headed lad known as Sol Miller, a well known member of the Willow Creek Community.[...]f the work was on the old "Yellowstone Trail." In 1922 Bill Taylor and his three young children, who were in elementary school, moved to Willow Creek and rented a home from Jim and Dorinda Hankinson. In 1923 Bill was hired as janitor of the Willow Creek school and remained in the job until he retired in March of 1931. Pat Taylor completed that school y[...]ent Bill Taylor would do concrete work for people in the Willow Creek area. On occasions he would con-[...]ild small bridges for the County. For two summers in the early '30s, before the W.C. dam was built, Bi[...]mmissioner on the Willow Creek irrigation system. In 1936 Bill Taylor moved to Woods Bay on the east shore of Flathead Lake and started a cherry orchard. He died in 1941 Ella Taylor - About 1921 at the age of 76 and was buried in Kalispell. George Taylor, Bill's younger brother, worked for Gallatin Company as a payroll accountant. She continued in this posi- County many years. He married Fauntie Oyler in 1908 and tion for 25 years. In 1953 she married Bryant Reynolds and had one daughter, Alnora, who lives in Redondo Beach, CA. they made their home in San Leandro, then later in Castro George died at the age of 76 in 1945 as he was driving home Valley. Bry had a daughter and two sons by a previous mar- from work. Mrs. George (Fauntie Taylor) died in Manhattan riage and Ella has had a rewarding relationship with these about two years[...]Patrick W. Taylor Due to a health problem Bry had to retire from his work in[...]home is lo<;:ated in the small town of St. Anthony, right on the[...]Snake River. Again the three Taylors live in three states. Ella Taylor was born October 3, 1[...]Since retiring, Bryand Ella have done quite a bit of traveling birthday by two days. Both parents had a sister Ella so that[...]and now spend their winter months in California. In St. An- was a natural choice for the name of the baby daughter.[...]thony, Ella has been active in Women's Club, P.E.O., and was born in Manhattan, Montana and started her elementary[...]n Star. She is especially proud of her membership in the education there. In 1922 the family moved to Willow Creek.[...]ynolds to the Taylor family and helped Mr. Taylor in many ways in raising these three young children. Ella conti[...]KENDRICK J. TAYLOR low Creek High School in 1932 - the latest graduating class Kendrick Taylor was born in Manhattan in 1914 (March to date. During her school years she spent the summers at the 17th) in the house built on Broadway by Bill Taylor. The n[...]She attended Eastern Montana State Normal School in Bil- across the street. lings, graduating in 1936 in the first graduating class from the Kendrick attended kindergarten - 1st and 2nd grades in new campus. For the next six years Ella was an elementary Manhattan. The first grade was in the old ((White House" on school teacher - the last two years in Three Forks. In 1942 Broadway near the railroad because t[...]the business was too large to be housed in the main school building at the world. Her first[...]other end of Broadway. Grades 3-4-5 were attended in Willow Following World War II her brother, Ken[...]s wife Creek, and grades 6-7-8 at Waterloo. In those days students in settled in Berkeley, California. She didn't see why the thre[...]f the 7th and Taylors needed three states to live in so she moved to Califor- 8th grades. These were taken in Twin Bridges by the Waterloo nia. In 1947 she started to work for California-Pa[...] |
| [...]While on leave in New York, Ken was married to Hazel[...]Griffith, a nurse in charge of Cadet Nurses in the Navy. Hazel had been a student of Ken's at the U. of W. They settled in[...]During the busy years Ken was active in Boy Scouts of[...]he is following his interest in acting and is working in Little[...]High School was a tremendous director. Ken says that even[...]with subsequent courses in acting, he learned more from Mr.[...]Patrick Taylor was born in Manhattan June 25, 1911.[...]Grade 1 was attended in Belgrade and grades 2 through 6 in Manhattan. Grades 7 and 8 were attei:ided in Willow Creek,[...]ction jobs during the summers. Pat was interested in track and field sports and became a top contender in the high Ken Taylor - 1932 or '33 jump in county and state track meets. Pat graduated from[...]high school in 1928 and that fall entered the Forestry School in Virginia City he went over some of the same exams and in the University at Missoula. At the end of two qua[...]orked all summer and fall on High school began in Whitehall where Ken was fortunate the conc[...]fferson Canyon road enough to take typing. Within a few weeks he transferred to between Cardwell and Three Forks. In 1930 the spring quar- W.C.H.S. He was quite upset not to be able to continue typing ter was attended in Missoula. lessons and was considerably vocal on t[...]Kendrick and Pat Taylor. a class in typing was offered at W.C .H.S. for the first tim[...]g graduation at Bozeman three years were spent as a Teaching Fellow in the Bacteriology Department at the University of Washington in Seattle while doing graduate work. This was inter[...], out of some 16 million regis- tered, landed Ken in the Army in 1941. Fortunately he was assigned to the Medical Department. Basic training was at Camp Grant, Illinois. In 1942 he was sent to Iceland with the 14th Station[...]isfjor- dur he received his commission as 1st Lt. in the Sanitary Corps and was transferred to the 49th Station Hospital in Akureyri. He spent one year in Iceland then went to England where he spent two[...]eneral Hospital and was sent back to the U.S. for a month's leave to be followed by training for shi[...]nts toward discharge, Ken was freed from service in October 1945.[...] |
| In June of 1930 Pat got a job which was to extend over a Harriet (Wheeler) Phillips. The Ira Phillips' fam[...]e seasonal so Pat worked Montana from Connecticut in 1865. Maude was educated in winters in the woods as a lumber jack. Due to the loss of an Madison County and also at Danbury Connecticut. She taught eye in a woods accident in 1935 there was no military service. school a year before her marriage. Maude died in September In 1938 Pat was married to Caroline Streit in Kalispell and 1929. in 1940 daugher Rose was born. During Rose's first winter the family was snowed in at an isolated Ranger Station for four[...]INSLEY months. Another summer the family spent at a wilderness camp 28 miles from the nearest road. F[...]My father, William B. Tinsley , was born in Kentucky Aug- Caroline and Rose lived in Kalispell and Pat would get home ust 1, 1836. He spent most of his early life in Missouri and weekends. joined a wagon train at St. Joe in the summer of 1864 headed[...]'s wagon con- y~ars of the Forest Service. It was a physically strenuous job tained his personal belongings and he was alone. As was often wi~h a constant challenge caused by the job, weather, wi[...]the Platte River was the most eventful. In those days the river was a great body of water with mud and sand in the bottom. Pat retired in May of 1968 and that fall started as a Field[...]ree weeks to get the entire train over Instructor in the new Forestry Technology course in the new ·the river. The crossing had to be made by ferry. No doubt a Flathead Valley Community College. This lasted eight years. part of the time was used to build a ferry which was probably a It was a very satisfying and worthwhile job, which allowed[...]log raft. time for travel during the summers. In 1972 and 1978 Pat and Caroline built a small home, doing much of the work them- The party arrived in Virginia City on Thanksgiving 1864, selves. Now P[...]at Falls to visit Rose, her husband Gary, crowded in Virginia City with opportunities very scarce. The[...]gold claims in Alder Gulch were all taken so Dad and a partner[...]or looked toward Denver. With only their blankets in a roll and[...]made the trip and returned satisfied to stay in Montana. The JOHN THOMPSON FAMILY[...]jobs around Virginia City. In 1886 John Thompson and his wife Amelia came west in a During these first years in Virginia City, Father met covered wagon. They stayed at Willow Creek Montana for a[...]other, Lucy Ann Nave. She was born June 12, 1844, in while before going on to Couer D'Alene, Ilaho. Ameiia B. Peterson was born in 1871 to Hans and Annie Peterson at Kentucky and m[...]Montana. Some of Mother's folks had set her up in a dress- making store in Virginia City. The Nave family lived in what Three children were born to John and Amel[...]r and Mother were married William (1888) who died in 1966 and lived in Idaho and never at Big Spring January 1, 1867. Bi[...]rtant married. Georgia (1900) married Frank Hilke in 1919 and they live in Willow Creek. Della (born 1896 and died 1960) mar[...]d Don. The Thompson family returned to Montana in the early 1900's. Amelia married Andy Stamm in 1910. They were living in Butte when he died in 1951 and she in 1966.[...]nto raising stock and farming. At one time he was in the meat business but sold it in 1911. Mr. Tinsley was a democrat and active in the politics of the day. He was mayor of Pony for some time and spent time as a legislator in Montana as well as State Democratic Commit[...] |
| stopping point in those days on the Bozeman to Helena road Ge[...]ive division 1 managed by Nick and John After a period around Radersburg Father took a homestead Buttelman and stayed for four years. The close of my work at in the Willow Creek area. Some time before 1867 he filed on Glendive must have been in 1901. the NW¼ Section 5, T lS, R lE. He also too[...]attle Company of section by preemption, which was a system of "squatting" or Dickinson, North D[...]privilege of believe it was my first winter in Dakota when my partner and paying the government $1.25 to $2.50 per acre after the land I were caught in a storm. We barely survived with frozen feet was surveyed. The land was fenced with poles set up on A and our eyes were frozen shut. Only by th[...]e and the Creator we made camp. It took a long time to recover. bored in the poles and in the A frame and they were held in Time went by and I left Dakota. I started[...]pins driven into the holes. The poles were in the home country again at Manhattan. For some tim[...]ishing was Buenos Noble and I were married in Bozeman in June of a sport and also a duty. Mother would say, "Now children go 190[...]or breakfast." Green for a time and again returned to Manhattan. During the years 1868 to 1881 four boys and four girls came In 1908 the homestead fever swept over the country.[...]an and filed on 1878. Lucy was the youngest born in 1881. the NE¼ of Section 6, T 3N, R 3E. In 1911 we bought a We outgrew the original cabin and moved to a much larger relinquishment on a quarter section west of our homestead home some[...]made us one-half section. We set to work building a made of logs but was very well done having two s[...]as made by hand. all there was no water in those dry hills. Our son, Harry, came Dad was[...]hesitation. His favorite say- water and built a cistern to catch rain water. This was a poor ing was, "Dog my cats." way out so we started to drill. After a year we were down to 400 Our school was about a mile from home. My first teacher feet with only a trace of water. Our resources were exhausted was Minnie Richter from a family around Norris. She was a and the driller gave up. noted foot racer[...]ssion. I am not sure whether it was at home or on a trip tothe problem I offered Charley $100 for a right-of-way and the Virginia City. It was my meeting with Mrs. Slade. For some right to dig a well in the same coulee in which his well was[...]o stone rooms built water of my own. We dug a well 22 feet deep and 10 feet across together al[...]top with boards and had duced me to Mrs. Slade a small dark-eyed woman.[...]eadquarters on the be hung. When he was on trial a swift rider went over the old Charley Bumg[...]back to Virginia City to the rescue. She arrived in time to receive the corpse of One fir tree tha[...]r still her dead husband which she had preserved in a metal coffin stands as a landmark. It is being cared for by those of the[...]uenza, the dry sum- first trip to Montana he met a noted Indian Chief, Bannock mer of 1919 and[...]r whereabouts of William B. Tinsley and paid him a visit at the Buenos' old home on the Boulder.[...]his boys with him and Before all of this in the fall of 1916 Jess Green and I both the Tinsley boys were with Father when he rode in. There was bought Model T's. Frank Jakle of Manhattan was the dealer a friendly greeting. Bannock Jim, seeing one of the boys hang- and we paid $412.75 for a Ford then. We never anticipated the ing on Father's leg, offered to trade boys. He said, "You make a troubles that a Ford would bring but we both lived through the big farmer out of my boy and I make a big brave out of yours." trials. These words struck fear in the hearts of the Tinsley boys and Then there[...]m Depression was soon to be on us, starting in the fall of 1929. laughed and that part of the v[...]Coincident with low prices, as 30 cents a bushel for wheat and At age 14 I applied for a job with the biggest horseman in thea dollar a day for pay, if you could get a job, there was a 10-year country, George Gerdes. He orily said I[...]he place The Tinsley family moved around some in those years and for a day or two. A foreman named John Hansberry advised finally made a permanent home in Pony. Out of here I rode for the only thing to[...]eded halter braking. The next day Mr. years in the Tob~cco Root Mou!1tains under Old Holl[...] |
| [...]hoot but Martha saw Joseph's born April 12, 1843, in Missouri and married Isabel Salee, brother, John, and stopped him just in time. Next, the house May 1869, in Livingston County, Missouri. He joined the[...]t that point the Thompsons offered the Union Army in the Civil War, then came to Montana and couple land to work for a year. By the spring of 1864 they were settled nea[...]nmarried brother, William Bailey Tins- first jury in Broadwater County in 1897. ley had been to Mo[...]farm land was to be had in Madison County.[...]restless, and with permission of the Wagon Master a[...]sighted coming in the distance.[...]An old hen was found at one of the campsites. A cage of willow[...]They arrived in August in Virginia City via the Lander[...]Cutoff. The family was left in the wagon box home in Virginia[...]homestead and timber claims. Back in Virginia City, he filed[...]home while hay was cut with a hand scythe and sold in Vir-[...]for the winter were purchased. A one-room log cabin was quickly built with a dirt roof and dirt floor. There was no flour[...]in the house for three weeks. It was selling for $10[...]with a scythe and cradled what wheat they raised. Then t[...]took a stick or flail to pound and flail it out. Later t[...]ed to Kate Hines, daughter of was owned by A. J. Woodward and used wire instead of twine. Mr.[...]home- steaded west of Lewistown with his mother. In 1917 he served Time passed, the family prospered, a fine two-story house his apprenticeship with the T .F. Funeral Home in Great Falls. was built for them by the Peterson brothers. In 1912 Martha He married Pearl Stockwell in 1920. She died in 1962. In 1966 died and in 1917 Joseph died. They are buried in Mount Green he married Alpha Bray at Missoula and they lived in Miles Cemetery in Willow Creek. City. He retired in 1969 and died January 19, 1979.[...]ton (1889) died at age five of diptheria, Mary A. (Mamie) During the War Between the States, Mi[...]Brooke (Brickson) 1891, Walter Leslie died in infancy, and and half slave. It suffered from str[...]s with Joseph Hamilton and Martha Emeline Tinsley in April 6, 1872, an infant. Grundy County,[...]Joseph H. Tinsley was born September 12, 1834 in Ken- Boner in Wenatchee, Washigton; Mary A. (Mamie) Brooke tucky the son of Basil (Bazzel) and Mary Henry Tinsley. Basil Brickson in Pony, Montana; Maude Elsie Tinsley Moser in was from South Carolina.[...]Pittsburg, California; and Joseph Kyle Tinsley in Napa, Martha was born in Kentucky in 1835, the daughter of California. Loren[...]oseph H. and Martha Thompson Tinsley were married in 1855 and with their three children were prosperin[...]d Lucy Ann Nave January 1, As their crops were in the barn, a note was placed on their 1867 at Spring Creek, Montana and they settled in Willow[...] |
| [...]moved to Grundy County Missouri with their family in 1840.[...]They had ten children. The first seven were born in Hopkins[...]County, Kentucky, the last three were born in Grundy[...]1869 in Livingston County, Missouri. Lucy and Martha were[...]bry, January 5, 1854, in Grundy County, Missouri. 4) Joseph[...]Thompson March 15, 1855 in Grundy County, Missouri.[...]Joseph died November 21, 1917, in Willow Creek, Montana. 5)[...]8, 1838, married Gary M. Tate, February 28, 1856, in[...]1869 in Livingston County, Missouri. 10) Mary E. born Mar[...]Bazzel was a planter and also held the position of County[...]Assessor in Grundy County for many years. He died at James-[...]1888. Both are buried in the Bratton Cemetery, now known as[...]from Ireland in 1789 and settled first in Augusta County, Back: Edwin, Floyd, Lillie, Ida,[...]n were as follows: 1) daughter, name and Creek on a farm where they lived the rest of their lives.[...]County, Kentucky. 3) Livingston County, Missouri in 1864. Mary born October 21, 1807, died May 17, 1888, Grundy William was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky August 1, Count[...]Tinsley January 21, 1830, 1836. Lucy Ann was born in Livingston, County, Missouri Hopkins County, Kentucky. 4) Sallie married a Mr. June 12, 1844. They had eight children as fol[...]James Measom. 4) Ida May Kentucky, was a farmer and moved to Mt. Vernon. born April 3, 187[...]2, married Pearl Northington July 13, 1910. In 1927 at Bozeman, Montana, Paul B. "Possum" Todd m[...]lene, Gene, Jerry, and Bert. Bill was killed in an automobile Hale April 7, 1904. All of the above were born in Gallatin accident while serving with the Air Foree in Great Falls. They County, Montana.[...]four William's father, Bazzel Tinsley was born in Pendleton Dis- remaining boys live in the Three Forks and Willow Creek trict of South Carolina March 11, 1801 but was raised in area. Franklin County, Georgia by his gr[...]tly after their marriage, they moved to Missouri. In Elizabeth Tate. His parents both died when he was very small. 1932, they came back to Montana and lived in the Bozeman, At the death of Andrew in 1823, Bazzel left to seek his fortune Manhattan, Lower Madison, and South Bench areas. In 1936, and by 1828 owned land in Hopkins County, Kentucky where they moved to Willow Creek and lived in the Sappington and he married Mary Henry January[...]Willow Creek areas until his death in 1971 and hers in 1981. Th~y lived in Hopkins County Kentucky for ten years then[...] |
| [...]g his retirement, he kept active and busy raising a big garden. Although he kept busy keeping neighbors and friends in produce, he took time out to do some fishing and[...]D Thomas P. Todd and Jessie Rogers were married in Whitehall in 1951 and have lived in Willow Creek except for the year 1953 when they lived at the Shaw Ranch in Cardwell. Tom has worked for Ideal Cement Company[...]raduating, Gary attended the Auto Training Center in Billings. He married Jackie Man- ley of Harrison. They have one boy, Jason, and live in Butte where Gary works for the ((Port of Butte" and Jackie is a nurse at St. James Hospital. Paulette graduated from Mr. Mack's Beauty School in Bozeman and worked at the Cameo Beauty Salon whil[...]. Paul is the son of Mack and Alice Love who live in the Madison Valley. They have two girls and now live in Ferndale, Washington, where Paul works as a chemical engineer for Atlantic Richfield Company. Shirley attended M.S.U. and worked as a secretary in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. She is now ma[...]on of Joe and the late Dai Lukkason, and works as a secretary at the School of Business at M.S.U. Scott works as a campus minister at the college through the Church of Christ in Bozeman. Beverly also attended M.S.U. and lives in Empire, Nevada, with her husband Bob Duncan. Bob graduated from M.S.U. as a civil engineer and works for U.S. Gypsum Comany in Em-[...]· Walbert Grewell was born in 1904. She now resides at East[...]was born in 1913, now lives at East 1412 17th Avenue,[...]Spokane, Washington. Rita Walbert Meister, born in 1915, Ed Walbert, whose parents were John and Margaret Wal- lives in Spokane at East 38-32nd Avenue. bert, was born in Missouri in 187 4. His parents, both from Ruth Herold Ireland, met in Wisconsin and were married there. They soon moved to Missouri. Ed's father, John, served in the Civil War. He was wounded at the Battle of Ge[...]injured Achille's tendon, caused him to walk with a cane for Happy Birthday to our little Grand[...]st of his life. Because of the injury he received a small To us you are much greater than President I[...]And us the branches are proud as can be. them a few miles north of Willow Creek and brought them[...]to our clan. tives until John moved his family to a beautiful ranch a few Then she was called back to Heaven according[...]on that was ever. Here Edward grew to manhood. In 1900 he married To be more like her, we should all endeavor. Katherine L. Lane, a school teacher. She was the daughter of A son came next as a branch on your tree. Michael and Sarah Lane, who[...]d He is the one that is best known to me. settled in the Lane district between Three Forks and Willow[...]rmed for approximately Aggie was your third child in line. twelve years. They sold the homestead to John Noble and With a personality that really makes her shin moved to W[...]We love her so because she isn't a quitter. Six daughters were born to Edward and Kate (as she was Your youngest child Margaret, has a heart of gold. familiarly known). Two of the children died in infancy, Rose She was the last to join in your fold. Walbert Doty was born in 1901 and died in 1979. Esther Her eyes are so pretty and so[...] |
| [...]Her tricks and jokes sometimes caused a scene.[...]He's loads of fun and a real good sport.[...]A little girl , Ethel Marie is her name .[...]Mike Doty, and Donna Schneiter are 8 years of a~e ..[...]And fixing it for you has really been a lot of fun.[...]And in our hearts we hold him so dear.[...]N WALBERT You have known them when they were good a~d bad. Frieda Hoellein was born Janua[...]oon learned. I remember that we brought our books A little blonde boy came next in our midst. ho~e and Mother studied[...]s his full given name. outstanding in the 1890's was a geologist, Earl Douglas, who And his capors have[...]fossils, which he shipped to To Raymond, you gave a spanking one day. the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg, Pa. The only grandchild you ever spanked, so you say. He is one grand guy and a darn good cop. When I was 16 I went to school in Bozeman and stayed part For a better man you would really have to shop.[...]paid a school tuition fee of $3.00 per_ month. I ~as rat[...]ambitious, wanting to be a teacher, which was as high ~s any As you told me,[...]girl aspired to in those days. In the fall of 1904, I taught m the This makes me la[...]iful and pretty one. winter I taught in the old town of Three Forks and continued Off to[...]teaching until I married Tom Walbert in 1910. We had kept She is a wonderful and good mother of three.[...]My last job was in the new town of Three Forks in an old Next on this family tree is a branch, laundry building. We had 2 rooms with 4 grades each, and I Of a boy who loves horses and his ranch.[...]grades. I had 50 children and often wonder He has a temper that is quick to let go. that I was able to do any teaching. But a great big heart which is also quick to show.[...]d June 20, 1910. We moved to Waterloo 1 Then came a little girl named Darlene. which was not even a wide place in ~h~ road. Our store was all[...] |
| there was in this farming community, and we also had the[...]master. The community grew, and we soon built a new store. We sold the store to J. J . Lally from Butte in 1916, since Tom wasn't well. In the fall of 1916, we joined with T.C . Power Co. of Helena to build a hardware store in Willow Creek. We lived in the rear of th[...]r, Frances. In 1920 the Willow Creek Bank failed and this was really a terrific blow[...]was forced to take over T.C. Power's interest in 1932 to protect[...]When I sold to E.L. Wiley in 1939 there were no debts to pay[...]Other jobs I held were Census Enumerator in 1940, selling[...]tana, hardware clerk in Seattle in 1942, and returned to Three Forks Post Office for 12 years. I retired in 1955. I am[...]da' by so many in the community - young and old. I have always enjo[...]story has to begin with the Herbert Smith family in Frieda Walbert Driggs, Idaho[...]Leeds, England in 1908. They first settled in Salt Lake City, Tom Walbert[...]mother was left with a small child, and very much a stranger in a different country than her home in England. I am not[...]that he was the best friend that they had in Driggs. In fact , he[...] |
| had driven the hearse to the cemetery in Parker, Idaho, where Grandma read them to me s[...]heart but still count not read. It created a learning problem. I know my mother then went to work in the homes of a Great-gramma died in 191 7, and is buried in the Willow Creek number of people in and around Driggs - working for those Cemetery. who would hire a person with a small child to care for - and I graduated from high school in 1927, and went on to the my mother would not lea[...]Business College where I studied bookkeeping and a families were the Hubbards, and Watermans, who w[...]wledge has served me well for tives of Joe Ward. In fact Joe was raised by his grandfather many years. Pearl graduated from high school in 1932, and and grandmother Hubbard, and he was ca[...]I married Arvid Hiller on the 22nd of July in the same year, Joe and his mother and grandparents came to Idaho in a 1932, but we continued to live in Willow Creek. covered wagon from the Oklahoma Te[...]oe was Pearl and Sam had two children, a son Fred born on born. Some time after that his mother married John W. Lyon, November 2, 1936 and a daughter Sharon, on May 15, 1940. and they lived for a time at Mammoth, Montana, before mov- Now P[...]oud grandmother of five children, and she ing to a homestead in the Jefferson Canyon a few miles west of has four great grandchildren.[...]Arvid and I had one daughter, Karen, born in Three Forks born to the Lyon family.[...]e Northern Pacific Railroad Our life in Willow Creek was a very pleasant one and we through the western part of the state. At one time there was a have always felt that our parents were the best ever. Although train station on the railroad in the Jefferson valley, named Pearl and I are h[...]dest girl and Pearl was his youngest. We were for a In October of 1912, he and mother were married, and she time the only family in Willow Creek who had no other rela- came to live in Montana. I remember living in a railroad camp tives there. Arvid Hiller passed away on July 17th, 1951, in in Logan, Montana, and also at one not too far from Butte, Butted and he is buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Butte. named Spirerock.[...]died the 27th of December, 1956, and he is buried in the Pearl was born on a homestead, not far from the one Mt. Green Cemetery in Willow Creek. Sam died the 15th of Grandpa Lyon had, and only a couple of miles from one of his April 1961, and he is buried in the Sunset Memorial Cemetery brother's homestead[...]died on the 1st of June 1966. Her Whether or not a doctor attended the birth I do not know, but service, like Daddy's was held in the Methodist Church in Aunt Ida Lyon was with mother at the birth. The[...]proud to have lived in Willow Creek. We still own our home Very soon[...]s property there, and have had it rented for a long time. We have many in Willow Creek, right across·the street from the s[...]any many friends so that his children would have a much better chance of get- that we have. tin[...]Florence (Peggy) Smith Hiller cold winters in Idaho. When we moved to Willow Creek from the last railroad camp, our home was not finished so we lived in a tent until it GUY L. AND EVELYN B. W[...]Guy Lorimer Warren was born May 17, 1908, in Boulder, house as it was getting too cold for th[...]o. He was the third of six children born to James A. Daddy worked at many different jobs. He had horses, and he (Dolf) and Bessie Warren. His father was a building contractor put up hay, and helped with[...]California, and back to and raised chickens, and a huge garden. He worked on the Colorado. T[...]g Railroads, also spent some time tending bar at a local pub. He High School in Denver. Summers were spent working on a also worked many years at the cement plant in Trident, Mon- ranch in Route County for Ferry Carpenter. Guy entered ta[...]finally got him to retire. Colorado University in Boulder at the age of 16. After study- That took some doing - as he was such a proud man that he ing chemistry and oil geology for four years, Guy worked as a did not want any welfare and it took us some time to convince roughneck in Nebraska and Oklahoma and a surveyor in him that Social Security was not welfare ... the[...]uld think he invented it. He and mother had quite a few with his brother, Ralph, in 1932 prospecting for gold, drilling happy years[...]and testing placer ground in Madison County. Mother was a helper to everyone in Willow Creek ... she Evelyn Elizabeth Ba[...]h of many Willow Hadzor Barter May 12, 1911, in a cabin just west of Norris, Creek babies. She wor[...]Montana. The midwife for the birth was killed in a horse and Ladies Aid, the Women's Club and could[...]er roomed and boarded at our school and was a member of the last graduating class from home th[...]ate Normal College at Dillon receiving J~rni_shed in those <:lays, and when Mother bought my books, her t~achin_g certification _i~ ,1929. She taU:.g~t at a coun~ry _[...] |
| school on the upper Ruby for a year and then met and married Guy. Guy met Evelyn at a school picnic in Norris in May of 1932 while waiting for equipment to arrive[...]Storey on the gold dredge. When the dredge closed in 1933 after Storey's death, Guy worked for Roscoe Bridge Contractors and then in 1934 the U.S. Geodetic Survey as a surveyor in the Ruby Valley. When that project was finished in 1935 he went to work for Bill McKenzie as clerk in the general store in Alder until 1939. He then worked as parts man at Brack Motor Supply in Butte through 1940 and then returned to the Ruby[...]ter, Guylyn Rea Warren, was born August 16, 1941, in Butte, Montana. At the advent of World War II[...]Tennessee Walking Horses when the CA brought them in- to the country. They also calved 300 head of cow[...]place on the lower Madison. Evelyn was active as a leader of 4-H from 1952 to 1960. By 1954 the family was contracting hay in the summers and by November 1956 had saved enough to buy a place, buying the old Kelly Ranch on Willow Creek[...]57. Guylyn completed her high school education in Three Forks and attended Montana State College, receiving a B.S. in bac- teriology in 1963 and Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics from Montana State University in 1967. The ranch began produc- tion testing in 1959 and raised Red Angus cattle and Bob West family. registered Columbia sheep. In 1960 we began artificial in- semination and two new breeds of cattle were introduced in passed away in 1904 at the age of sixty from T.B. He was a 1970, Simmental and Maine Anjou. Guylyn was an NI[...]acres five doctoral fellow at Stanford 1968-1970, a research associate miles up Willow Creek from[...]ed to MSU where she is presently em- fenced in about 200 acres, mostly rocky hill land for pastu[...]Wedding Anniver- sold it to the housewives in Norris, Pony and Boulder. There sary on August 14, 1982, with a barbecue and dance at the was much mining in those localities then. In Les West's words, ranch. The ranch is still run b[...]t Simpson 1885-1977; Frank Martha Jane was born in South Carolina Sept. 14, 1858 to Decatur 1887-197[...]el and Sarah Melissa Shedd Hall. Samuel Hall died in Hiram 1895-1980; Agnes Blanche 1897- ; Hugh Lincoln the Civil War of typhoid fever. In 1872 Martha Jane came to 1900- ; Esthe[...]cher of Willow Creek, Esther married Lloyd Manley in Elizabeth Davis Shed and her mother, her eleven y[...]x Forks, where she and the younger children lived in both the teams, the hardships, the constant cloud[...]came to help Jane's brother, James Shed, upstairs in the old bank building. It was the custom to serve a builder of bridges.[...]snack around midnight. Jane always served that. In the very In 1874 at sixteen years Martha Jane was married to[...]30-year-old Robert D. West. Robert West was born in Tennes- layers who were building the beautiful mansion for Herb and see in 1844. He went into the service when he was 17. He[...]en Les came home from World War I Jane was living in[...] |
| [...]albert. They moved here that year. Olympia, Wash. In a letter to Thelma Multz Les paid a beauti- Due to favorable circumstances and lo[...]Elizabeth Dunbar. "You veloped it into a very sound business, which he operated until know[...]Being a very outgoing man and a good salesman he liked to[...]talk to people. The store had a large wood and coal heater that[...]he was very proud of as it was the biggest in the county. It was EWAN L. WILEY a very welcome place on cold winter days to visit friends and Ewan Lawrence Wiley was born Februry 8, 1890 in neighbors and catch up on the loc[...]ible items people came from all over to buy. Even in Iowa, migrating frcfm Weston, Vermont; like so ma[...]though he had moved to Hillcrest Retirement Home in Boze- others he was headed for San Francisco. The Martin family man in 197 4, the store continued to operate in a limited fash- were New Englanders and joined a wagon train headed west. ion. Gene Chinn[...]to buy something. Seeing the opportunity to start a business they stopped in Ewan and Blanche were active members of the Methodist Iowa near the Mississippi River and built a hotel. Church and he was a long time member of the Cemetery The Wiley family lived in Curlew, Iowa, prior to moving on Board. west[...]nche died January 29, 1974 from injuries received in a come to eastern Montana several years earlier where they two car collision at an intersection in Three Forks. She was homesteaded. Their father, Henry Clay, also homesteaded in buried in Mt. Green Cemetery in Willow Creek. that area.[...]ied November 25, 1976 and was buried beside his In April 1908, Ewan, his mother and Edmond's three l[...]ew Jersey, moved to Pacific Railway, traveling on a freight train that included a Willow Creek in 1974 to stay with her uncle after Blanche was bag[...]over the Missouri River and go beyond born in Missouri and grew up in eastern Montana. Her mother Mobridge, South Dakot[...]the be- died when she was six years old. In 1943 she moved to longings of the pioneers moving[...]nation of the Wiley Washington, D.C. and lived in the east until 1974. She pres- family was at what is now Baker; at that time it was only a ently lives in Bozeman. 'dot' on the map. There was no depot nor[...]Almeta Wiley Lamb even a platform. Ewan also homesteaded in eastern Montana. He married Blanche Slater September 27, 1917. Blanche was born January 11, 1894, in northern Michigan. Her mother died[...]he North Dakota Gill Williams, was born in Galesburg, Illinois, January 25, border.[...]t Illinois with his parents, brothers and sisters in Ewan and Blanche moved from their homestead to Wyola 1847 arriving in Salt Lake Valley in 1848. Later the family where they operated an implement and hardware store until settled in Provo Valley. The site selected was inviting as t[...]their business they decided to move west- was a variety of fish to be had from the Lake Utah and[...]was abundant, the soil was fertile and there was a good supply heard of a business in western Montana and were on their way of wat[...]ening attitude there when they stopped for dinner in Three Forks and hap- of the Indians. pened[...]hardware salesmen. When they told Within a few months, they built a fort there with approxi- him their plans he sugge[...]ther families. The Ute Indians were very upset by in Willow Creek that was for sale, which they did an[...]ence. The old Chief Sowette was persuaded to live in Blanche and Ewan Wiley.[...] |
| [...]t the new- membered for his participation in the Indian campaigns. comers fighting for their s[...]ella Huller 1859-1950, ing west. Clinton received a medal belatedly, from the U.S. Roland Wil[...]n Williams government for helping defend the area in 1850, when he was 1863-1946, Rosalia Stan[...]After one battle between Mexicans and Indians, a baby was Harwood 1878-1971. found (by one[...]ied to it's dead mother's Martha became ill in later life and was an invalid for several back. T[...]years. She died on Christmas day and was buried in the until it could be cared for in a pioneer home. She was named cemetery on their ranch in 1906. Viroque, sent to school and after a few years she married a man from Ogden, Utah , had a son and lived to be 24 years of age. On another o[...]Francis (Frank) Williams, born December 6, 1857 in Provo, them.[...]Clinton and Martha Jane Williams who moved to In 1860, when on a trip to San Francisco to get supplies, the Willow Creek area in 1866. Clinton had first come to Thomas and his brother-in-law, P.J. Jackman, were surprised Montana in 1864. Frank married Lucinda Jane Nevins of by Ind[...]e ranch home were: Walter CH.nton's father was a man of great determination. He was[...]heriff for three years. Alex had left his home as a lad of 14[...]May born May 25, 1892, died September 11, Montana in 1864 with the James Green Company by ox team,[...]le horses and Hereford cattle. Clinton picked out a farmstead on the west side of the Jefferson River, then went back to Utah, returning to Montana in 1866. He was accom- Lucinda and Frank Wi[...]s wife, three sons and two daughters and brought in a small herd of cattle. Mr. Williams went on freighting expeditions to bring in supplies from the outside and also operated a cattle ranch. These few cattle brought in by Mr. Williams and Mr. Green and other early pi[...]me from pneumonia. Martha Jane Porter was born in 1837 to James Buchanen Porter and Elizabeth Slau[...]ania. Martha traveled to Utah with her parents in 1848. She had two sisters, Elizabeth (Libby) and[...]brothers, George and half brother James Henry. In 1849 her sister, Lydia Ann, who was 16, married John Burns while making a trip to Utah. Their baby, James Burns, had been b[...]ssing the first crossing of the Sweetwater River in Wyoming. About one month later Lydia Ann died at the second crossing of the Sweetwater River in Fremont Co. Wyoming. Baby James was delivered to the grandparents while they were still in Great Salt Lake. Martha was 11 years old at t[...]rew up with her. Years later James became sheriff in the territory around Mt. Pleasant where the Port[...]ed. This was November 26, 1894. Sheriff James had a son who became sheriff and he too was killed in the line of duty. Martha married Clinton Williams whose parents were also from Provo, Utah. In 1866 they moved from Utah to Jefferson Co. Monta[...]ch were few and far between and were always given a place to rest and some food before continuing on. One such person who left an impression in their memories was General Terry who is re[...] |
| [...]married Clarence Stenerson. Frank homesteaded a mile south of his father's home, on the east side[...]built their new home. The homestead house was a two-room log building. A log and frame room as added on, it was sealed ins[...]lter's homestead and reassembled. It was used for a chicken house. Lydia and Henry Williams. It was a sturdy building and was still standing in 1970 when the ranch was sold.[...]hanan Porter another two feet using material from a big mound west of the and Elizabeth Schlotterbeck[...]ne were slough. Some years later the levy was put in west of the barn married in Provo, Utah, in 1857. and was built by Frank and Walter Williams,[...]her the Jefferson, the Williams Bridge, was built in 1898. mother, Matilda Anderson Burns[...]t The first school Walter attended was located in the north- West Goethland, Sweden. east corner of[...]ood buildings (where Porter Burns, were traveling in a wagon train to the gold rush Gordon Williams lives). Water for the school was packed from in Colorado when they became ill with cholera and died in the Harwood barn well. School ran for three month[...]the crossing of the Sweetwater and buried there, in September and three months in the spring starting in November 1849. A wagon train stopped to water their stock March. T[...]re his grandparents, James Walter spent six weeks in bed with pneumonia and that ended Buchanan Porter[...]uary 15, 1800, Lebanon . chased more land and had a sizable ranch. Their new home Co., Pennsylvania,[...]n 1789, Stony Batter, Horse racing was popular in that day and one of the race Franklin Township, P[...], day was long, and his word was his bond. He was a pillar in the 1805, West Goethland, Sweden, and Christine M[...]along with her family, crossed the plains to Utah in His last illness was brought on when he called[...]garding improvement of the telephone line. It was a cold windy December day and he came home chilled[...]t their home December to settle and remain in Montana as I believe they arrived in 30, 1921; was buried in the Willow Creek Cemetery. the early 1860's. · Lucinda continued to live in the family home until the early The ranch o[...]k to the homestead. She died Williams was located in Jefferson County, Montana, near November 25, 1937[...]· for feeding their stock (cattle and horses) in the winter HENRY CLINTON WILLIAMS[...]was born November 8, 1863, at Mt. house was built in the late 1890's and although it had been Pleasan[...]ocation. I do not know where. They sold the ranch in the early married in Butte, Montana in 1904. 1940's and[...]urg, Knox County, Illinois. Henry's grand- bought a 1914 Buick touring car. father, Alex Will[...] |
| working with a healthy sense of humor. While they had no childr[...]and Ruth Burns, daughters of her brother, Archie A. Burns and Pauline Billingsley, and a nephew , Clifton T. Burns, son of her brother, Clifton T. Burns, Sr., and Henrietta Paden. Henry died in 1946 and Lydia Ann died February 5, 1952. They are both buried in the cemetery in Helena, Montana.[...], my aunt and uncle. Since Willow Creek is just a few miles from Three Forks, I feel I am really an[...]rs of the Missouri. I am the daughter of Archie A. Burns who was born March 18, 1884, Mt. Pleasant, Utah, but spent his adult life in Montana as a rancher and broker. He died in Deer Lodge, Montana, August 7, 1954. He The Hiram[...]Burns Williams, who came to Montana and settled in the late 1890's. In recalling my childhood, I remember a Buick touring car, I believe 1914 vintage. When we came to a long hill or moun- building of sawdust for use in iceboxes in the summer months. tain, we had to back up them[...]too large for There was no electricity for homes in those days but Hira!Il the engine. Also, since[...]the stuff used to patch the tubes. That mile from a spring on the hillside, for use in the home. The always had to be done along the s[...]quite a number of years. We went to see and hear Jea[...]ear or where we went. I do recall that I In 1918, during the influenza epidemic, Grace Williams mimicked some of her speech for a while. It is strange what one passed away leav[...]rl were raised by their grand- remembers: I had a very happy childhood. How may of you remember b[...]re good years and bad years. The year of 1919 was a in St. Paul, Minnesota, and I were married May 7, 1930 in very dry year and in 1929 was the great depression and Minneapolis,[...]nd Rapids, Michigan. We Hiram retired in 1948 and turned the operation of the ranch have[...]his Most of my first twenty years were spent in Montana and home of a heart attack April 30, 1950 and was buried in the even though I have lived in other states, I still feel nostaligic family ceme[...]Grace J . Woodward, daughter of A. J. and Nancy L. Wood- We have retired in Uvalde, Texas, and enjoy living here ward of Will[...]womanhood in Willow Creek. She received her education in[...]ow Creek and graduated from Montana State College in Bozeman June 16, 1900 in the Preparatory Depar"'!Jlent in a class of thirteen. She taught school for a number of years then[...]she married Hiram Williams in Butte, Montana September[...]Clinton and Martha Jane Williams, She was a member of the local Homestead B.A,Y. and for pioneers of the Willow Creek area, w[...]e spent his entire life here , School District 17 in Jefferson County for seveial years and where he was educated and grew to manhood. He filed and was active in the church, Woman's Club and other social proved up on a fourth section of land under the Homestead societies. Grace Williams died May 26, 1918 and was buried in Act, adjo.ining his parents property, and gradu[...]Children: Roland Neil Williams was born in Willow Creek Hiram married Grace Woodward September 12, 1904 and May 22, 1910. He was educated in the Willow Creek schools they made their home in Jefferson County near Willow Creek. and graduated from high school in 1929. myattended Mon- He ran Hereford cattle and for a time raised hogs and had a tana State College and later went to Ryderwood, W[...]d of sheep. The harvesting of grain was done with a -where he was employed a number of years. He married Mary binder, steam[...]rmers helped each Pearson of Chehalis, Washington in July 1940 and two boys other and the women cook[...]an engineer for the Bureau of' with the use of a stacker. In the fall came the butchering of Reclamation at He[...]go to the river and saw blocks ofice to be stored in a Washington where Neil was an engineer for[...] |
| [...]ughter. Neil died November 10, 1978 and is buried in Mount Green Cemetery at Willow Creek. Jean Williams Creecy was born July 25, 1912 in Willow Creek. She attended grade and high school in Willow Creek and graduated in 1931. She married, then in 1944 she began working as clerk in the Earl S. Parks grocery store. In 1954 she received her Commission as Postmaster o[...]d served 26 years, retiring May 16, 1980. She has a daugh- ter, Janet Creecy Burdett, who lives in Manhattan, Montana. Jean is a member of the Willow Creek Woman's Club and the Eastern Star. Carl Hiram William[...]1915 at Willow Creek. He received his education in Willow Creek and graduated from high school in 1933. He was with the Civilian Conservation Corp. in Montana and California during 1934. In 1939 he started working for the Highway Department in Montana. December 1940 he married Ruth Pravda of[...]Naoma. From 1944 to 1946 Carl was an engineer in the armed forces in the South West Pacific Theatre. In 1956 he began working the home of her parents, John Calvin Creecy and Mary Maude in the Ideal Cement Plant at Trident, Montana and al[...]Jones Creecy. John and Mary came to Montana in April 1913, .over the operation of his father 's ranch, after his father passed settling in Rosebud County, Ingamar, Montana where they away[...]ay 6, 1978 and ·earl proved up on a homestead. Beatrice is the seventh child of reti[...]Creecy ranch but continues to live there. He is a member of the and Elizabeth Mary Anne[...]Jean Creecy Lester and Beatrice were married in Bozeman, Montana on[...]June 26, 1929 at the home of Reverend E. Shaw, a Baptist[...]Four children were born. Francis Calvin born in Three Forks Lester was born September 28, 1900 in Willow Creek, Mon- on April 12, 1930, N[...]Forks on October 26, 1934 the able assistance of a lady known as Grandma Peterson. The and[...]an on March 16,. 1943. house that Lester was born in is now occupied by Reverend Francis[...]ve one daughter Kim Renee and one son parents had a new home constructed which is still standing born to a previous marriage, William Wayne. They now reside[...]e at Polson, Montana where they operate a cherry orchard. fifth child born to Francis Mario[...]gory Zane, Betina Leigh Johnson, Nevins and Eliza A. Conlee Nevins. Paternal Grandparents and Judy Rae Harris. They reside in Three Forks. were Clinton Williams and Martha Jan[...]e former Barbara Karhoff of Town- Clinton settled in Willow Cree]{ migrating from Utah in 1864. send. They have five children, Dana Russell, Danelle Beatrice was born in Liberal, Missouri on April 16, 1909, at Rac[...]Zane B. They make their home in Glendive, Montana where[...]Dick is employed as a Montana Highway Patrolman.[...]Lester attended school in the Jefferson School and Beatrice[...]attended schools in Ingamar and Bozeman. They resided on[...]the ranch in Willow Creek. Some of the remembrances of[...]ranching in the 1920's and 1930's were of some tough times.[...]Operating a stock ranch was a big job in the early days. The[...]days was spent moving to the range. Then in the fall five or six[...]and a lot of cattle. The Williams ran about 500[...] |
| last week in June until September was spent doing this chore.[...]ce cooked three full high school years were spent in a school in Willow Creek where meals for all of these hay hands each day, except Sunday. On he graduated in a class of four, which was the second graduat- Sunday this being a home ranch many people showed up on ing class fol[...]n of the school. He received Sunday to partake of a good meal and this was also the time to a one-year scholarship to the University of Missoul[...]took the biggest share of the summer. sity in Journalism. He graduated from the School of Jour-[...]many banks closed; Willow Creek nalism in June of 1927 with honors. was no different. The W[...]Three Forks Herald which from the sale of cattle in the Willow Creek Bank the day before circulated in his home community of Willow Creek. He had it clo[...]this paper as well as the dollar which was quite a setback at the time. By the late 1940's Daily Missoulian while in school. tough times were nearly over. A few years after taking over the Herald he expanded his Lester and Beatrice sold the ranch and retired in March activity by starting the first tourist-oriented newspaper in the 1970 and moved to Three Forks where they now reside. The state, "The Montana Trailsman." This was a free distribution ranch which had been in the Williams' family for 106 years newspaper, sup[...]s- was purchased by Simkins and Taylor and is now a part of the ings of the superintendents of the Ye[...]him with news releases and permitted Lester is a 50-year member of Three Forks Lodge No. 73, distribution in the Parks. The second year the paper had AF&AM, a[...]f Three Rivers Chapter, Order of Eastern Star and a member was changed to the ((Western Parks Trailsman" with circula- of a birthday club. tion also in Idaho and Wyoming. This paper was later sold and[...]r- They reside at the corner of Ash and Fourth in Three Forks nal was acquired, The Ennis Wrangler and the Intermountain in the home they purchased. The home was built by Harold Press were established in Manhattan. The Wrangler died by Fisher.[...]. WILLIAMS brothers and in 1968 the Herald and Manhattan Press sold to Ly[...]and Emma L. Williams. He was born ing. and raised in the family home 4 miles southwest of Willow He established a Rock Museum next door to the Herald and Creek in Jefferson County. was Justice of Peace in Three Forks for 17 years. During this He attended his first three years of grade school in a small time he lost his eye sight and was forced t[...]hey later For years Lyle had visions of a Museum in Three Forks and built a school on the Hiram Williams' ranch about one-half had put much effort in trying to get one started. He offered[...]show cases to display things brought in, but it wasn't until[...]became blind that his dreaillSrna.terialized and a Lyle Williams building was purchased and work began on a musewn. With Cr. Chuck Br[...]good help and good workers the Museum was opened in[...]Roland Williams was born in Summit County, Utah,[...]they made their home in the Jefferson valley where his father[...]from Alaska to Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada. In Nevada he[...]was quite successful and held interests in many rich gold properties. In Goldfield, Nevada he met Miss Grace Davis[...]whom he later married in 1921. After their honeymoon they[...]disposed of interests in Goldfield and Mr. Williams invested in[...]Grace Davis Williams was born in Loma, Ohio in 1870. She died June 22, 1951 and was buried in the Williams family[...] |
| [...]They built a store above which was a dance-hall and also built a hotel. Emma played for the dances.[...]Besides raising six children, Emma was active in social and[...]civic affairs. At the ranch she worked in the fields while the[...]Muriel attended Normal college in Dillon and became a[...]to Portland, Ore. where he continued his work in Art. He[...]has one daughter Christina. Muriel taught school in Mil- Roland Williams legan Canyon and in Reed Point where she married Alfred[...]e daughter and two step children, and is cemetery in Jefferson county. presently living in Columbus, Montana. Gladys graduated[...]who was a truck gardener from that area. They now live in[...]e adopted daughter. Ronald and his wife Jean live in 1868 the son of Clinton and Martha Williams, the[...]from the Willow Creek high having come to Montana in 1864 bringing his family from school and after working a few years, married Webster May of Utah in 1866. Mr. Williams grew to manhood at Willow Creek Three Forks. They have a daughter who lives in Lompoc, where he purchased two adjoining tracks o[...]In the late fall of 1892 Thomas Williams and a friend Bert[...]Panell were deer hunting when they stumbled onto a cave He married Emma L. Woodward on March 30,[...]fall, they home of his sister, Mrs. Rose Stanton in Bozeman. The couple determined the cave was[...]able to make an entrance. However they climbed to a Gladys and Lois.[...]hich these two men 19, 1879 and grew to womanhood in the community. After discovered is now the Lewis and Clark Caverns. teaching school a few years, her father started a general store Emma passed away while visiting her daughter, Muriel in and other business ventures in the pioneer community. Reed Point June 23, 1953. Thomas passed away in October of When her parents, A.J. Woodward and wife Nancy, arrived 1954. Louis, the oldest son, passed away in Portland on Feb. at Willow Creek in 1878 from Utah, it was but a few hours 18, 1975. after their arrival that a four-mill operator by the name of Fredricks had been murdered in his home. "Tenderfeet" as they were at that time,[...]Lois May trip overland. Having little choice in the matter at that late hour, he accepted[...] |
| [...]x miles out on the Jefferson River road and built a cabin. His mother was a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, and she kept house f[...]high school in Willow Creek and Whitehall.[...]He assisted his father in ranching until 1910 when he mar-[...]Vernie were born in 1891 in the rock house built by Rev.[...]er. This house was located about three-fourths of a mile[...]Walter homesteaded on a dryland farm about three miles[...]ters. They were all born in the log cabin on the homestead ,[...]g Eldrid (Peck) Bacon. Esther passed away in 1962. the Northern Pacific Railroad, <<Uncle Tom"[...]sed cattle, horses chickens, turkeys town to open a general store which he operated until his death.[...]son of Clinton Williams who came to Willow Creek in 1864. When this marriage was dissolved[...]went to their grandparent Frank Walter was born in a log cabin on his father's homestead and Lu[...]vins) and Frank Williams. He went to grade school in a log became their fath r and th ir moth[...] |
| [...]ll this he did besides trying to farm and milking a few cows selling a little cream and some eggs to help with the livin[...]rted school at the Jefferson School which was now a frame building built in 1910, replacing the log building that both of the[...]several years. He also was county road supervisor in 1913 and 1914. After many crop failures due to[...]e the rest of his life. He spent his life being a good neighbor and a good friend to everyone, always willing to give a helping hand, a wonderful father and a respected man. Walter passed away November 23, 1970, and is buried in the The Woodside Family - Elma, Audrey, Hu[...]Hugh remained in Willow Creek and married Elma Parker burger and g[...]June 4, 1915. The Woodside family lived in Blue Mound,[...]wagon, they also school and high school in Willow Creek. had a cow and calf. Somewhere along the line the Indian[...]ed them and wanted the calf. Clinton said no. The In- grade school in Willow Creek and attended high school at dians ke[...]best to give them the calf. The Indians gave him a little blue pitcher and went on their way.[...]roduce, both Clinton Williams was instrumental in changing the chan- wholesale and retail. In the beginning most was sold in Three nel of the Jefferson River to south and eas[...]Forks and later Hugh developed an egg route in Helena and liams place. Originally the main chann[...]ail and now called the Williams Slough, which was in the form of a wholesale. He continued there for years until he had a heart horseshoe. Clinton, with his ox-team and walking plow, attack in 1957. It was terribly hard for him to give up his[...]Montana where The Jefferson River was crossed in most fields and there Audrey was a teacher at the Montana State Training School. wer[...]his pocketbook. The next day he boated was in charge of all new and used clothing for almost 1000 down river and found it near the bank stuck in a forked limb - children there. She was the in[...]first Clothing Super- he had one hundred dollars in the pocketbook. visor. Elma[...]Walter Williams worked in Boulder from March 1958 until she retired March[...]. She moved to Anaconda with her daughter and son-in- WOODSIDE FAMILY[...]side family came to Willow Hugh was in charge of beautification of the grounds there. Creek to farm in the early 1900's. George and his wife, Mae, In a short time his work really showed. He came home from remained in Jefferson Island raising their two children work July 1, 1958 and just as he drove in the driveway he Everett and Esther. John and his wife, Leora, first lived in passed away in_his pickup. Willow Creek where th~ir young daughter Irene passed a way, Audrey graduated from Willow Creek High School in 1939. later moving to Bozeman with their daughter[...]lege of Educa- and her husbandi Bert Allen, lived in Willow Creek, later, tion, Dillon, Monta[...]tana. She then went to Boulder, Montana where she in Bremerton, Washington with her husband Cecil Barr[...]School. She and son Noel) and Herbert who died as a young man. Hugh taught music and art for one year in Billings, Montana and and Pearl lived in Willow Creek with their parents. Hugh[...]lliam Smith and two years that she taught in Boulder. moved to Santa Maria, California, where she still resides since She received her degree in Elementary Education from the death of her husband. They had a son, Herbert, who lives Montana State University, 1965. She had a Special Endorse- at Ojai, California - his wife Betty is deceased. All Woodside ment in Special Education. All of her teaching was in Special children are now deceased but Pearl. Geor[...]retarded, except for one year each Bernice lives in Clancy, Montana, and John's second wife[...]and one-half year at Lakeside, Mon- Jessie lives in Bozeman.[...] |
| [...]family moved to Sparta, Wisconsin where A. J. Woodward She started teaching in Anaconda, Montana in 1964. That grew up on a farm. He attended public schools and college, yea[...]acquiring a good education, teaching school in and around his the building of the Anaconda Job C[...]hometown until in 1875 when he moved to Fountain Green, In 1966 he was transferred to San Francisco where he[...]tal at the Presedio. He resigned his position and in June 1966 they started their In Utah he established a private school but it wasn't long own company, Reese Engineering, Inc. in Kalispell. They did[...]ried and single in attendance at his school and the school Due to[...]ners owned the Anaconda Tire lished night schools in music, singing, spelling-down and gen- Center. Joe retired early due to his health and passed away in[...]cational amusements. All of this was accomplished in October, 1974.[...]In 1878 he married Nancy Lauretta Johnson in Fountain where she was teacher and Rehabilitation[...]udents out into the world of work. Audrey retired in Mrs. Woodward settled in Willow Creek where he taught school for a few years then he purchased what was known as 1976 and in 1978 she and her mother moved to their home in Willow Creek. the George C. Cook ranch where he lived and engaged in farming for several years. A. J. Woodward had the first self Gary Woodside,[...]binder on the t(Creek" and it was a blessing to the farmers as his wife, Dorothy, and their two children in Three Forks. Gary[...]ould not have to bind the grain by hand, anymore. In is the only Woodside with the Woodside name to carry on as a member of the James Woodside family. He works for the those days they had to cut their grain with a hand scythe and Cherry Lane Chicken Farms. cradle the wheat. They, then took a flail to pound out the[...]Willow Creek where he erected a store building and for many ADOLPHUS JAMES WOODWARD years engaged in the mercantile business. He also owned and managed a hotel. He was appointed Postmaster March 31, Ad[...]1890 and served until February 12, 1902. A. J. Woodward died Woodward and Maria Annie Kronkright Woodward was born March 31, 1912 and was buried in Mount Green Cemetery at in Adams Center, N.Y., September 14, 1851. In 1854 the Willow Creek.[...]ncy Lauretta Johnson Woodward was born September A. J. and Nancy Woodward. 23, 1860 in Moroni, Utah daughter of Maria Jane and George[...]Washington Johnson. She married A. J. Woodward January[...]13, 1878 and they came to Montana driving a buckboard in a wagon train. They spent the rest of their lives in Willow[...]Nancy Woodward died June 15, 1942 and was buried in[...]Children of A. J. and Nancy Woodward: Emma Louisa Wil-[...]Nina Woodward, a retired school teacher and newspaper[...] |
| reporter, was born in Willow Creek on April _14, 1894, the PAUL WOODWARD FAMILY daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Woodward, pioneer residents of Paul Woodward was born in Willow Creek in 1886 to A. J. Gallatin County.[...]John and Rose Roberts. She also was born in Willow Creek. Western Montana College of Education at Dillon and was a They had one son, Ray, who currently resides in Bozeman. graduate ofWestern·Washington School of Education at Bell- Paul farmed in Willow Creek most of his life. He was active ingh[...]in community affairs and was clerk of the Willow Creek For a number of years she was a news reporter for the Three School Board for many years. Paul was a staunch Mason and Forks Herald as well as being a correspondent for the Mon- Nellie was an Eastern Star in the Three Forks Lodge. tana Standard for 20 years[...]len following an extended illness. She was buried in Mount Green Cemetery at Willow Creek, July 25, 19[...]ek, Montana March 6, 1896 the son of Mr. and Mrs. A._J. ,Woodward. He spent most of his life in this valley. He attended Montana State College for three years before going into the service and was in service two years (World War I), being overseas as a private in the medical department of the 65th Artillery, C.A.C., and re- ceived his honorable discharge in February, 1919. After his return from service, he was draftsman in the smelter at Anaconda. He came home from Utah in 1921 where he was taking a banking course in the University of Utah, to spend[...]ation which served as a market outlet for turkey raisers in the[...]Paul passed away in 1955 and his wife, Nellie, in 1980.[...]r vacation, intending to return to the University in September. He was assisting his brother-,in-law T.S. Williams in harvesting his hay crop and during th~;;noon hour Otto and his two nephews went swimming in the Jefferson River, he got into deep water before he realized it and was drowned. He was buried in Mount Green Cemetery at Willow Creek, Augu[...] |
| [...]Once a hotez"at Sand Creek. It is 100 to 125 years old,[...].J. .. - • -:,._ - Pirst hotel in Willow Creek - Woodward Hotel. Nat Par[...] |
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