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 | [...]ing on Volume One of History of Beaverhead County was a [earning experience. Many wrote stories about f[...]ck Stauffer. We knew by the end of Vo[ume One that we had left out more then we included1 so we bega[...]Two if others wou[d he[p us. Montie didn1 t make it1 but here we are1 The working committee was smaUer1 but it proved to be a cracker jack group of thinking1 Computer hardware and. software made it possible for us to produce camera-ready pages. We ran ou[...]k you 1 [[ [ike the book. We1ve enjoyed |
| [...]unty and its people so that today we can be more enlightened:[...]before they, too, became part of it.[...] |
| [...]and how best to use it Once we realized ho[...]ions1 primari [y: 1J Type was set in IOpoint CT Times for ease of reading[...]erve space. 2J The book is [aid out alphabetica[[y by subject1 6J lndex is 6 - Beaverhead History No. 2 |
| "Gossip is rife, as[...]n or guessed at. Character is quickly read and people rated at their worth. It is known that the Utah and Northern railroad,[...]a narrow gauge line, is heading for Montana ..... Its advent is not unanimously.favored. Some of the ranchmen are opposed to the many changes it would bring, nor are the[...] |
| [...]n 1925. In the barn loft is youngest son, Philip. Ref.185. 36. 10[...] |
| [...]non, Wyoming with their families to purchase what was originally known as the Henry Thompson ranch. This ranch was composed of the Young place, the Buck place and t[...]Thompson came from the east and brought qualities that with him enhanced our country. Afte[...]t. Because of her fear of this of them. This was a challenge not many families would take new fron[...]to the east. on; however, it proved to be a bonding that still exists. To the original ranch, the Ike[...]very organized structured plan. Their life Lodge was added; then later they purchased the Ritchie together was enjoyable with strong family relationships still[...]nd family gatherings were Wayne Montgomery, which was formerly owned by the had with frie[...]Year's and Thanksgiving were often The ranch was located at the little railroad station of cel[...]ng its name after a conductor by the name of Kidd was killed and playing together. by a prisoner who was being transported by the train. In The management of the ranch was divided with brothers those days, the railroad was the most popular mode of each responsib[...]ills they did best. Dick and Jack transportation, even for the criminals. were r[...]Harold took care of the Originally, the ranch was a sheep operation and consisted business affairs and oversaw the farming. Hugh was of approximately 10,000 head of sheep. The Briggs[...]and the new sprinkler and, before the day was through, they had shot out a few pivot systems as[...]m moving sprinkler pipes, mostly from virgin land that Upon their arrival from the ranch in Wyoming,[...]ived in the large to their waists day after day was not their favorite thing to stone house on[...] |
| [...]e herd on the whole operation. When the ranch was converted from sheep to cattle and when the ranch was sold to First Continental Corp. in 1979, it was running 3,600 head of good cross-bred mother cows[...]investigating to see if someone along the line was kidding a Korean child: Harold Boyd Briggs, Dicksy Lee, Robin and him, but it wasn't a joke. Tina. Jack and Allowee's family co[...]disbursements." This progress made by the Briggs' was a direct result of determination, long-range Hunting buffalo is a dangerous sport any way you look planning and good management. Love was the basic at it, but Waldo Newton has added a new twist. Armed wi[...]--Hugh Briggs Newton said the buffalo hunt was one of the most[...]our prairies by the millions and stopped trains, is an sagebrush-covered land. order received yesterd[...]of 15 buffalo. Newton urged his his eyes and read it a second time. Then he began s[...] |
| [...]otographer, took graphic action shots of that was ready to go back to work to complete the journey[...]ld country, to feed the horde of Pete Stefonic is offering a $20 reward for information hun[...]l has fat on the good nutritious bunch grass that Montana was wandered off.[...]ear Armstead. cattle drives is about some Big Hole Basin cattle that headed The hunt included East Bench Irrigatio[...]newsman, a The Big Hole Basin is located in southwestern Montana photographer and[...]yearling bull, weighing approximately 900 pounds, was rested up from the trip while getting shod,[...]of celebrities at the leg of the journey was the worst, trailing through ice and barbecue have[...]owd will have their first taste of "prairie beef" that a camps. It took six months to get them all delivered. With c[...]so it wasn't long before more cattle buyers came lookin[...]in Alaska. These cattle The livestock business is one of the oldest industries in were trailed[...]een punched weary cattle from the Oregon Trail as it passed through through the wilderness by the Army but was long since Idaho. They trailed them north to the Deer Lodge Valley to abandoned. The going was rough and slow, fighting be rested and fat[...] |
| [...]ally gained elevation into a higher country where it throughout the United States and as far a[...], the steers Potato production in the 1930s was a labor-intensive arrived , making the trip in mu[...]the business. What machinery they had was small and a lot of drovers. the work was done by hand. The harvest consisted of a two-[...]fields playing out, this little-known enterprise was wiped out. crews of up to 100 men hand picking[...]ch has been recorded in this city for many months was made in the Big Hole Basin last week when James G[...]class of cattle sold for $25 last fall; the fact that Mr. Geery has received over $6 per head above the[...]e speaks volumes for the class of stock Mr. Geery is raising . For years he has been breeding the[...]rtified Seed Potatoes warehouse in reports , this was the finest bunch of cattle ever driven from D[...]on Examiner, 13 Jan 1904 A storage unit was constructed by the railroad on the[...]and Cottom bought it and converted it into a potato storage[...]shipping to the southeastern states. There was a need for a[...]building that measured 33 feet high by 66 feet wide and 300[...]feet long that is still in use today. This storage was along the railroad in Texline TX , and it was said that Dillon men[...]Dillon. The Texline farm was later sold . William Irvine[...]in 1952 the first potato harvester that would load potatoes Potato harvesting in 1937 usi[...]in-law, In 1969 the potato operation was sold to Skone and William Irvine, came to[...] |
| [...]Frank and Dan Rebish on the East Bench. Joe was killed in a motorcycle accident before the farm was even taken over. The farm was operated in partnership with Joe's wife, Janet, for a few years until she was bought out by Bill Cottom. In 1980 Bill's son[...]of about 3,000 irrigated acres. east of what is now known as "White Acres". The farms produce abo[...]own place in from the home ranch which was four miles south of Dillon, the operation and wor[...]thresh out his wheat warehouse during harvest and is the expert on potato crop. disease. Steve organizes and plans the fieldwork, designs It was just before school was to start so I had the chance the irrigation syste[...]into the financial planning and accounting. David is the head stack yard. All grains were in bundles and stacked at that mechanic, runs the potato shipping in the spring, operates time. After the separator was set and we had started to the spud harvester and is responsible for some of the office thresh,[...]and hay shipping, irrigating, operating it filled up. To me it was a big job for a small boy of machinery and field[...]beginning to help and learn about the It took most of the day to thresh out the wheat crop[...]the Cottom name will continue to be This was a big surprise for we did not think Holden had as[...]ry much of a wheat crop. As I remember, the wheat was years to come.[...]--Steve Cottom Mr. Holden told us it was high in protein and would[...]fine hard wheat flour. He did not expect to sell it to the flour mills, but would keep it for seed as they were[...] |
| [...]beautiful wheat growers out of business. The land was again used for when in full bloom, but only a few cherries set on the trees. grazing and it was not until after World War II that by the My father had mother make cheesecloth[...]cut down and used for fuel. It made me very sad as it took Flynn Blacktail Homestead[...]County and State Fair. One year the com grew and was |
| A sheep camp was several miles away, but the cook gave us cake, cookies and candy made from honey. It was a beautiful place. Jessie taught school Blacktail School in winter, I believe it was that fall that she became Mrs. Luther Smith. She came to Dillon[...]Charlie Humes, who worked with my father. He was a bachelor so took most of his meals with us. He was an odd man, but we children loved Tallest wheat e[...]of the morning to prepare. The evening meal was just as baby chicks arrived in the mail and mostl[...]lamb, but many did not like lamb so there was always When the roosters were large enough they b[...]dessert - chicken and pullets were fed a diet so that all during winter usually a pie. The men worked[...]e. Most of those the day they began. Everyone was up early, things were on years a niece, Esta Happ[...]s). The horses came for water at the huge troughs that work began, rubbing and scraping to remove[...]There were some times as many as seven. Then it was breakfast time and what meals - hot biscuits,[...]gravy, fried potatoes, varied at other slabs that would be bacon and all other things - feet for mo[...]the barn, harness horses by six o'clock everyone was in sausage meat and lard. the field cutting, shocking, stacking the grain and then There was an enormous pot with fire under it, and into threshing.[...]this went all the fat and when cooked until it was crackling, The huge wagons took the grain to four silos that held the fat was poured into pail, covered and that would be lard grain until disposed of, some sold[...]llon, located at the end of Kentucky Avenue where it was having been made into patties, then covered with lard, that- made into flour and some of whole kernel cleaned to be used kept them for the winter. Cured meat was put in barrels, for cereal. They were delicious with cream and honey. It with a brine solution of many things, kept[...]n did take a long time to cook, but we all loved it. Of course length of time, then taken to the smoke house where they some of the wheat or whatever was grown had to be saved became ham and bacon. for seed. One year a beautiful sight was seen when we had I don't remember what kind of wood was used, but I a field of blue - a field of flax. The men left fields at noon know this was watched carefully so they would have just[...] |
| [...]ed on the weather. Often of the Valley was the East Fox school and both schools have neighbo[...]and father and Flora and Mary. We ranch is sold and so is the farm. The brand on all animals had a Model T[...]ents, bedding and food. except the cat was • 6. It was a wonderful trip. The men fished, and we visited[...]. I almost got a broken arm when I had to It is a very great blessing that I have such wonderful friends crank the car when it stalled going up a hill, but I soon and nei[...]a great big thank you learned what and how to do it. from me. Th[...]es were held there. My father, Norman Holden, was County Assessor and traveled over Beaverhead Coun[...]ments while driving a white horse named Daisy who was hitched to a two[...]going from place to place, he stayed at the home that was closest at the end of the day, sometimes[...]lows: Under the pre-emptive, homestead and timber was always a bunk house or a barn. He carried blanket[...]In our opinion, this is too large an amount of land for[...]possible, and 160 acres is sufficient for this purpose. By[...]giving them this amount, it will not be many years until all We'll start[...]arl Linden lived. The pre-emption law was passed in 1861, the homestead The people that came back from America reported America law in 1862 and the timber culture act in 1873. When the was a beautiful country. They were going back and homestead act was enacted the pre-emption law should have "Wouldn't[...]Dad and Uncle earned money to buy land. This land is at the foot of Squaw Mountain in the Big[...]d horses. I had three brothers - no sisters. Eric was the owner of the Dillon Creamery for awhile then he went railroading and became a conductor. He was married but no children. He is buried in the Livingston Cemetery. Victor con[...]assed away a week after coming to America. Robert was born tongue-tied. The doctors operated on him without asking his mother if she would consent to it. He bled to death and is buried in Jackson Cemetery. All doctors should ha[...]ermission to operate! Next comes Ethel, me. I was married twice and lo and behold, the first marriage brought forth a daughter, Arlene. She was named before she came. She graduated from[...] |
| [...]The horse industry was quite active in Beaverhead The following lett[...]20 Apr 1884. From then until 1917 when it was sold to Washington D.C., 06 June 1884.[...]sale yard and barn were built during that time and managed House of Representatives[...]Around 1900, Charles A. "Horse" Smith was auctioneer and salesman. He was a very colorful person and well Sir: I am in rece[...]to make final proof in desert land cases, stating that in October 1906 that over one thousand horses were sold; it is reported that a decision adverse thereto has been[...]Tribune stated that 600 head of horses had been auctioned In reply, you are advised that I am not aware of any the wee[...]and 29 Sep 1921, the Dillon Tribune reported this was the[...]first fall in thirty years or more that would go by without a[...]It quoted Horse Smith as saying, "Twenty-one years a[...]n ring. I remember several horses being auctioned that[...]owned it until his death in 1929. The State Bank and Trust[...]The bank sold it to James M. Fay in 1937. He tore[...]down the barn and corrals and eventually it became a fox fur[...]Schuyler sold it to Dr. Short who still has it to this day.[...] |
| [...]at Dillon stock yards. The William Orr horse barn is tall building beyond II[...] |
| [...]It is my belief, and most people I have discussed it with What was probably the largest horse sale held in Montana agree, that these horses as wild as they were, were not true since the advent of the automobile was held when Pete wild horses but were ones that had been abandoned or turned Stefonic auctioned 2[...]loose by early ranchers and homesteaders in that area. They were range horses of quarter and A[...]turned their horses out in the fall when through that had been roaming wild on his spread for several y[...]u would have to know and understand the sentiment that spring when they needed them again. They l[...]. cattle herds. At one time he had 20 buffalo but is down to The ranch horses that influenced the wild horse bunch the six now. He s[...]The area known as the Rocky Hills is bounded by attended the Sunday[...]Creek to gather wild horses. of the sale was[...]er bunch of wild ones and run them into the first was some fancy bunch. This was called the day herd; at night they would riding w[...]trail them into the Dillon area to a holding when it threw the Pete Stefonic. Ref 151 .17.[...]holding pastures was on the Laknar ranch. when he was able to[...]used the wild horses as a cash crop by There was a suspicion of a tear in Pete's eyes in telling[...]and got real at one time and offered for sale as was seen Sunday." gentle and were nice litt[...]is area; he had come from Wyoming also closed in. It is doubtful if as big a horse sale will be by way[...]ry where he stayed for a held again, a horse sale that was common in a bygone day. year before[...] |
| [...]d Spence if he turned his horses out in into that. There must have been 40 or 50 riders; some the w[...]well kept the wild horses cleaned out I was alone working several head of horses west ahead o[...]out from the Cross ranch and the lane. It looked to me like In the winter of 193 8 whil[...]s Floyd dark . Spence said the horse I had bought was running in a needed the grass for his catt[...]ience Bannack and found the ones we wanted. There was another gathering wild horses. bunch of[...]me in with a Piper Cub airplane and a good pilot. that Spence wanted, but we were afraid to put the two[...]the Metlen ranch took the bunch with the horse I was buying and trailed them buildings. The airp[...]horse and put ten or twelve as more than that were much harder to handle. them in the corral with the others. Mine was a pretty little There were wing fences on ea[...]rap. There would be three or As neither horse was halter broke, we caught them, put four cow[...]ial place in the wings, they over to the K6 ranch that belonged to the Pahnish brothers would tum the gentle horses loose and they would lead the at that time for the night. We ate supper and breakfast a[...]bought him for $25; I got half the money. Charlie was them out. So ended the Wild Horses of[...]--Tex Smith Charlie was a trick roper at rodeos around the area and used him in his act. He was sure a nice pretty horse. Others from the Dil[...]The property known as the Huntley Home Ranch was In the early 1940s, Art (Shorty) Nicholson mo[...]late 1800s. the Armstead area from Rupert ID . He was raising mostly Stanley sold it to Bielenberg and Walker. They in turn sold thoro[...]the paper. In the spring of 1950, Dale Metlen was still on the ranch In 1912, William Huntl[...].E.O. of the at Horse Prairie and he got the idea that the wild horses bank, sent Carl Huntley ([...]evaluate the property. Carl liked what he saw and was able enough riders to circle the Rocky Hills peri[...]y In 1912 the Huntley Cattle Company was formed and the just walking your horse.[...]s were operated as such. The Huntley The plan was to push the wild bunch into the Cross ranc[...] |
| [...]ig Hole Valley in 1924 to help Carl as his health was waning. Carl died in 1929. Ralph Huntley[...]thers and they ran the remaining properties under that format until 1950. Huntley established by Wayne Meyers and Eddie Hilger, which was Brothers bought the Dishno ranch in June 1942. In[...]ding. they purchased the Charley Miller ranch. At that time, In the 1920s a two-pole derrick was used to stack the Clark and Evelyn Francis Huntle[...]nch. Huntley crops. After the grain was cut with a binder to make Brothers sold the Swans[...]and Ralph dissolved their which was powered by the steam engine. partnership. They sp[...]e loaded by hand with a fork onto a machinery. At that time, a new corporation was formed, wagon pulled by a team. They[...]into the threshing machine. The grain was hauled with a his only son, Clayton, purchased th[...]eam and grain wagon to store in a wooden granary. It was Wise River. The Husted property was sold in 1960 to Vern shoveled into the granary. It took five teams and wagons to Stanchfield and Low[...]Butte. In 1921 the existing ranch barn was built with the logs They spent their winters in P[...]Dillon Brewery which was being tom down; it was located --Clayton[...]ground up to what is now Laknar Lane and on into town. Kate Laknar and her oldest son, Frank, got the family This was the main road until Highway 91 was built. After through the depression times and sup[...]ng vegetables like potatoes, cabbages, is now Lover's Lane to Highway 41 to get into town.[...]school . of income and trade. Early on, the cream was sold and When it was cold, Kate would heat bricks in the oven and shipped to Pocatello until the Dillon Creamery was send them with the buggy r[...] |
| The first car the family had was a 1926 Star Car with a canvas top and side curtai[...]ng them. Most of the horses were branded and when it came time to need the horses, they would round th[...]sort out what you owned or needed. So the family was always Going to the hay field[...]r Joe lived and worked on the Gilbert place which is now owned by Wayne Else; then later he and Margar[...]f.180.13. Oregon area. In the 1930s, the hay was put up with a "Mormon" hay derrick and hay boats[...]one of the few balers in the area and would after it was cut with a mower, side delivery raked and do custom baling. This baler was powered by a one-cylinder bunched with a dump rak[...]nto the stack. The nets were also used to lift was about $2.50 per ton. Baled hay was sold, baled, hauled the hay into the hayloft in t[...]n. "buck" rakes were used to gather the hay, move it to the In the 1940s the beaverslide and buck rakes were used to stack yard and stack it with a Jay Hawk stacker. A new stack the hay and were replaced by the Farmhand later on. mower was purchased for the Boatman place from the D[...] |
| threshing machine. The combine was purchased from Finn Watson Cars who had just begu[...]hbors with threshing during this time. Holgar was one of the last to use a threshing machine, powering it with a D-2 Cat. The threshing crew usually consisted of 16-18 men and the haying crew was usually 6 or 7; of course, the wives of the famil[...]t International M tractor with rubber wheels; it is still running today. About this time they mounted[...]a tricycle front end, kind of a tipsy machine but it put up the hay. The M tractor cost at that time $1,500 and Kate Laknar, taken 1[...]d to retire and move in with daughter, is married to Steve Royce and lives in Dillon. widow[...]ughters. back to run the ranch. The operation now was raising cattle, George and Ellen still live[...]Granddaughter, Marti, is attending the U of M. Daughter, The 1960-70s was the end of the milk cow and the teams Judy (L[...]ia and Megan and live in Helena. In 1965 a permit was purchased to supplement the cattle grazing and in[...]Laknar pigs went away, too. The original home is still lived in by George and Ellen. It has been added to and remodeled a couple of times[...]ren, Dustin and twins, Dawn and Drea. Son, Butch, was killed at the phosphorous plant at Rocker[...] |
| [...]were trailing cows and calves in the Idamon Lane; it was raining like Meine cabin on Little Valley Creek. Ref 162.06. hell and I was riding drag. I was mounted on a big strawberry roan horse named[...]without going home or to town for Well, this is a dangerous place to be on a horse in a[...]mean thunderstorm. But in a case like this, there is no place fresh provisions for them. to go but stay put. It was thundering and raining hard. We They[...]had to travel to the homestead with the family , it his feet in the mud and water. The jolt had gone through was tied to the running boards of the car. They also took me and was grounded by Monte. chickens in the spring for fresh eggs. Sam Howard was Well, I piled off and he laid there a few min[...]the lightening had killed his horse while he was riding over. job. This event happened about 1932. I was 14 years old The storms could be s[...]f those mountains and can recall this story as if it were yesterday . with fierce and f[...]was reluctant to go to the homestead because the ligh[...]family always had fresh meat. Divide Creek is only about Homestead[...]creek and it was the kids' job to catch them. Henry spent[...]Meine filed on Henry's big new cabin was never finished, part of it still stock-raising homesteads on Little Valley C[...]of Dillon In 1933 , George McDonald was pulling sheep camp for to the homestead.[...]ayberry place in the Centennial Valley to the box that could be covered with a tarp. The road up Small[...]east of Armstead. The 10th of October Hom Canyon was always tough, either mud or hot and[...]had to be allowed to stop and Homestead . That night and the next morning, it snowed two 26 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]coming from the near Melrose and Agnes was waitressing at the Lion's Den chimney of Henry's[...]rs and then David and Mary Lou Smail. Now Ted and it. The sheep were able to trail single file to lowe[...]e by a neighbor who wanted the ground, which made it necessary to spend seven more years at the homest[...]f while traveling back and forth to the homestead was Tandy Martin. He stayed up there year round. If T[...]ions. Later Tandy sold his homestead to Henry and it has since been called the Martin field. The homestead (as of 1997) is owned by Bob and Dorothy Meine.[...]the family ranch on 20 Dec 1955 after purchasing it from Scotty's mother, Angela Malesich. (Bvhd Co H[...]d in a personal log kept by Scotty and Sally show that the ranch had a total of 7,307 deeded acres,[...]he home place. The dry farm on Stone Creek, which was late 1880s. His only son was John. Ref 185.31. bought by the Malesich family i[...]res of grazing land. The major portion of grazing was on ·Spring Creek and Carter The remai[...]lc a usable cabin, barn and corrals. The cow camp was used Mine. Scotty also had interests in a[...]g the fall roundup. The any consequence was found in these claims, all located in buildings h[...]dison County. Also included in the leased acreage was weather, neglect and vandals. Also, a cottonwood[...]original homesteaders' families. This rangeland was located Creek to many different people. The first was Scotty's from Stone Creek and West and S[...]oleman) Malesich. The notations stated there was a total of 14,955 acres of Phil had just been dis[...]on. Then Bud and Agnes land supported at that time 370 cows, 290 calves and· about Carl[...] |
| [...]re for credit on the to $.65. Hay this winter is selling at a premium of $100 to bill . Any extra milk and cream was taken to the Dillon $125 a ton. Creamer[...]much like with the calving. This job was a lot of hard work in all tractors today . This is evidenced by the six double stalls and kinds of weather and all times of the day or night when that all the old harnesses still hanging in the barn. This was also heifer decided to calve and needed help.[...]rder to keep warm during the below zero There was the occasional goat or sheep , too. The sheep[...]ere fattened and butchered for food, but the goat was the sick calf that needed medication and a little TLC. Many usually[...]een lost during a bad storm or wet spring weather that Notes mentioned the average prices of 1956 a[...]Emmet Jones 99, 700#; 4 % Rudy Lasich was the main cowboy and his wife, Faye, shrink; 124@[...]summer retreat that they owned up Stone Creek. Rudy 14 Dec - shi[...]summer and push the and 1 cow; average per heifer was $85.60 a head. cattle up[...] |
| [...]Rudy's place and go along for the ride and maybe even be of some "help" as well. In the fall, all of th[...]ls for the summer. Until the East Bench canal was put in, there were no fences or gates, save 2 or[...]and families would get together Brine was made for curing hams and bacon which were and hel[...]which were kept in the root previous year. There was a lot of work involved in grinding cellar.[...]and refrigerated. The butchering of the hogs was a great The blood sausage was made by combining the pigs' , time for[...]Another time for everyone to come together was at cloves, allspice, garlic and cayenne. Rice and[...]en the hay anq grain were ready to be cut and put that's left are the crispy pieces.[...]. up and mix the pot by hand to ensure everything is well Many times threshing machines would go from place to mixed. Then this mixture is put into a sausage press which, place to h[...]n in before bad weather or winter when the handle is turned, forces the meat mix down and s[...]achinery out a spigot at the bottom where someone is holding a length needed to get their farmin[...]get their of casing made from pig intestine. This is done very slowly harvests in and thus the[...]around to the so as not to break the casing which is tied shut on the other neighbors and helping out with whatever was needed. end. When this is full, the press is stopped and the end is Lunches and suppers were really big me[...]gerated. become so efficient that a lot of workers aren't needed any The meat sausage was smoked. This was done by more. Families and neigh[...]loading a wood stove with wood and just letting it smolder independence all this modernization affords. with the stove door open and the damper shut. It was then Also very important was the garden. It fed the large farm wrapped and frozen along with[...]lso provided a cash crop if But of course, there was always some held out for supper. extra household cash was needed.[...] |
| Plenty was grown in order to preserve or can enough to get through the winter and therefore the garden was well taken care of. A fairly large patch of potatoes was grown and then stored in the root cellar for the[...];-::+;.~:~:t:".:Ji ~ Gardens of the size grown at that time have become a thing of the past. Grocer[...]l hobby gardener and not so much for necessity of it now. Rudolph "Scotty" Aerial view of Ru[...]ken 1994. Ref 166.25. this day. The original barn is in danger of going by the way, as it's in very poor repair at this time. 30[...] |
| The old barn was cut in half and moved from the site of calv[...]herd of elk and about as easy to drive. the move, it now sags severely in the middle. Sally and[...]n range in Idaho, down the house in 1960 and this is where Sally resides to this day. Pasimeroi River to the Salmon River, down that river to Daughter, Mary Ann and husband, Robert P[...]The ranching operation remains much the same as it was blizzard as they came through Lemhi Pass. He reported that in the past except for the efforts to keep up-to-[...]the extreme cold and especially the improvements that work for us. In many ways, life is not wind. He wore angora chaps and said that they did a good as difficult, but much more complicated than it used to be. job of keeping his legs warm. Un[...]ck, 1997 would proudly announce, "And how that wind could drive that cold up through the cantel of the saddle!"[...]Apparently he frost bit some very tender parts on that McKim Cattle at Red Rock trip. He claims he found a steer that had died in the Winter of 1886[...]into his pants to protect his manhood. Apparently it Red Rock MT became a major shipping point for[...]le I had a great-uncle named Morgan McKim who was and sheep grazing year around on th[...]te. The open range within a few miles of Red Rock was Salmon River. He sold his interest in the Lucky B[...]ranching operation in to be shipped. He said it was tough to hold the cattle in Idaho's Lost River Va[...]make shipping arrangements. The nearest railhead was in Eagle Rock ID (now Idaho They tried to schedule their arrival close to when it was time Falls), but they had to drive the cattle acr[...]the cattle cars. Snake River Plains to get there. It wasn't all that much The Idaho ranchers really thought it was funny when the farther to Red Rock MT and there was water along the way. blizzard in eastern M[...]for a Chinook." Any fool should have known that could My grandfather, James Robert Pence, bec[...]plains. for McKim Cattle Company in 1880. Grandpa was raised They felt secure that it couldn't happen where the in extreme southwestern[...]ins mountains protected the valleys. That lasted until the winter claimed that he got in trouble in his late teens for stealing[...]alley in late horses in Missouri. At any rate, he was shipped west to December. It warmed up enough for it to rain on the snow, work for his uncle McKim.[...]o for nearly two Although grandpa died when I was only seven, I well months. remember his[...]the cattle snow and starved. Reports claimed that a person could walk drives into Montana.[...]or twenty miles on the carcasses of McKim' s cows that Grandpa chewed tobacco. He kept spitting on t[...]ion from the Mom's hot wood kitchen stove when he was telling stories Idaho Legislature to dra[...]addle horses. The rest of the animals had to make it that cold winter. He died shortly thereafter. on what was available on the open range. The ranchers[...] |
| [...]hay into the attic. The east side of the barn is the milking Beaverhead Valley in 1882, when he was 37 years old. In barn and holding areas f[...]another large two story log building on the area, it was 160 acres along the Albers Slough ten miles ranch that has always been referred to as the engine room. n[...]e stage road, being the NE¼ of Section There was a meat processing area with cemented ice box 21,[...]om for repair of buggies, wagons, and Act of 1862 was five years, however, Conrad's homestead horse drawn haying equipment, later tractors and cars. deed was not recorded until 10 Jun 1890. This was the start The upstairs was living quarters, usually for hired men, of the Me[...]Meines also lived there at Conrad's homestead was grass hay and pasture land, different times. In the upper level there was a large wood where he raised horses and cattle. Conrad and his family water holding tank. Water was pumped into the tank with built a very nice set o[...]a stationery one cylinder gas engine. The water was used in houses, stable, barn and other out buildi[...]¼ of Section 21, Mulany homestead cabin was moved to the new building T6S R8W. The 1909-1910[...]$3,000, for himself. His wife, Hedwig, was paid $3400 for her recorded 20 Feb 1893. Charles was living at the homestead share of the proper[...]nrad Meine as owning 320 acres in Section Conrad, was born in this cabin in 1897. Charlie built a[...]just south of the Mulany buildings in 1900, this was owning 640 acres in sections 9 & 16 valued a[...]and all of the North Pauline's second son, Henry, was born in the new house in half of the northwest quarter of Section 14 lying west of the 1900, as was their third son Paul in 1904. The N ½ of[...]6S R8W, containing about 846 Section 16, T6S R8W, was patented to Charles F. Meine by acres was purchased from the State Bank and Trust the State[...]les (always referred to as Charlie) built This was always known as the Drummey Place. a barn that is still being used in 1997, (86 years later). It Most of the high ground Charlie owned was irrigated was one of the finest in the valley at the time, boasting a farm land. The water to irrigate was picked up from the large horse barn with seven do[...]t with hay lift for getting farm ground. Water was also picked up from the Willard[...] |
| Charlie maintained a large herd of cattle and was an avid horseman. He owned many fine cattle and ~orses, he was always working to upgrade his livestock. Charlie[...]To harvest the hay, it was cut with horse drawn mowing A three bottom plow was pulled with eight horses (four machines. It was then pulled into windrows with a horse ahead of f[...]oved along bunches with a dump rake. The hay was left in bunches plowing about a forty-two inch wide swath. To level the until cured then it was pitched onto a low hay rack called a ground two l[...]wo wheels ahead of dragged across the field. This was done with four horses on center, so the back o[...]two drivers. To grade dirt one The axle was under the bed of the rack but over the top way on[...]. A four horse of large 8 to 10 inch timbers that ran the length of the rack. team would pull a gra[...]tongue of the boat brought to the barn. Each one was then tied in the barn and had chains on either side to keep it centered, or no tongue at given grain while they[...]en intervals. Spread on the bottom of the rack was a hay net came to the house to eat.[...]with a trip-lock in the center. The net was made in two Grain was cut and tied into bundles with a horse drawn[...]rear ends of the rack. About 1,500 pounds of hay was a team and wagon the bundles were hauled to the t[...]where, by means of a derrick, the entire load was lifted machine, the straw was blown into a large pile. The grain from the boat and hoisted to the stack with a team of horses was sacked as it came out a spout on the side of the known as the derrick team. A derrick was about 55 feet machine. The grain was either hauled to the granary in high and[...]hay fell on the stack. One man worked on the used was a steam powered tractor to run the threshing stack to keep it square. Later when a beaver slide replaced machin[...]the derrick, it took a four horse team to drag the apron u[...] |
| [...]west of the main house, this was his residence whenever he was at the ranch. Henry and Frances moved into the[...]place known as the Drummey place or Woods place that had[...]the ranch. In 1923 the ranch was incorporated, with Charlie[...]shares of stock to the Mary S. Johnson, who was a childhood friend, corporation for[...]Apr 1931. A large crew of men was required to do the haying. |
| [...]Martin homestead, 640 acres, for $3500, this land was some distance north of the homestead on Little Va[...]Carl acquired more land on the Dutchman and Apex that joined what Charlie had purchased. In 1935 Cha[...]remained active at the ranch. In 1939 electricity was brought to the ranch by Vigilante Rural Electrifi[...]house at the ranch and later purchased it from Charlie's[...]d with the work, and took pictures of the changes that were taking place. Charlie died 11 Feb 1949 at Glasgow MT . He was 77 years old. Carl and Henry continued to wor[...]930' s and continued through the 1940's. When Bob was young, horses were used for all the work on the r[...]with a swather in the late 1950's. A new shop was built in 1961 that was large enough to McCormack Deering tractor[...]use, wood shed , and ranch. White truck was named "White Elephant. Ref. I 70. 09. pump[...] |
| With the modem equipment there was not the need for Calvin Erb, except for[...]great deal of work in retained and 30 acres that Carl's son Tom now owns. the field. She had been[...]d equipment on her family ranch from the time she was very Jerry. In 1972 Jerry married Tammy T[...]nda Lafrance. In 1978 Bob and on the hay racks so it did not have to be pitched on by hand. Dorothy[...]heads for the buck rakes, but stacking the bales was done by hand, using a bale elevator.[...]ranch south of Dillon in 1961 from Orsina McNaul. It included summer range next to the Meine homestead, it had been homesteaded by Pat and Hube Flynn. On 08 Mar 1962, Hank was killed in an airplane accident, only a little ove[...]the Flynn ranch, the rest of the Flynn home ranch was sold to Don Gransberry in 1968, except for 65 acres on Flynn Lane that Robert and Dorothy retained. In 1964 Robert a[...]until Carl's death in 1982. The Carl Meine ranch was later sold to 36 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]owned it. Richard lives in the house that was his parents ' house that they had bought from Charlie. He and Linda[...]better, reducing the need for hired help. The hay is still[...]put up in small square bales and the farming is still done[...]with a moldboard plow. Irrigation is still done mostly by[...]and hand line that were purchased in 1991. Team Jack & Andy with[...]ranch through some |
| [...]country was settled. They were real fine neighbors. They[...]rs would all go from farm to farm Bench. The land was later owned by Clay Smith and later helpi[...]always had fried Dad dug a well and cemented it, from top to bottom was chicken and a big freezer of ice cream and M[...]wind mill and pump which wonderful cake. was fine as long as we had wind. There were days we h[...]he neighbors got together, decided there attached it to a steel cable and pulled the water up with a[...]ur community. team. He dug a cistern and cemented it for a storage place The neighbors got togeth[...]to go for water when we had wind. The next thing was to build see about a school. a barn, chic[...]nk house, pig pens. Dad hired a There was one school in our District, Blacktail I - ours ma[...]too young to help build a school. The school was built. They gave dances much. Our first job was to trap gophers. They were and basket socials to raise money which was a big success. destroying a lot of grain in the f[...]ad good music furnished by Francis Tonrey's doing it and made a little spending money.[...]emember one time Mrs. Jack years my brother Harry was born, then my sister Lucille, Deputy (Geor[...]known as Shortie and in two years my sister Irene was born. came to the dance. Whe[...]the The Kurtzs lived a mile from our place. I was the only two fellows that were determined to get their baskets kept girl fo[...]r and had lots exact amount. of fun. Mr. Kurtz was as big a kid as we were. He used By the time our school was finished the Noah Gees to play with us so rough. We liked it and went back for moved into our communit[...]ore. The boys would dare me to do crazy things. I was two boys Harold and Randolph. Oscar Shar[...]Willis Garland place. Marguerite was about Ethel and my One time we had our old bay horse hitched to a sled, was age, Dorothy was a first grader. Gertrude Holman was our a big long sled, room for four or five kids.[...]e horse with the whip, and down the hill we went. It was real and I to spend a weekend with her. We al[...]n't hurt. The fourth of July was a big event on the dry farm. All We all had t[...]or especially in the winter time. The major crop was winter buggies and went to Axes Canyon for a big celebration. It wheat out on the bench. Everyone had large fields of wheat. was Harold and my job to freeze a big freezer of ice cream Dad planted 20 acres of spuds one year. That was work; and Mom fried chicken. first we we[...]of, always ate twice before We had a bumper crop that year. going home.[...]also had would do as we had no irrigation water. It turned out to be church services. a rainy season, the beets did well. They grew to be huge in I was about 15 when my mother became very ill. D[...] |
| [...]d neighbor. Tried to find five-section drag, it's lost somewhere. Wife mad, dryer[...]ill wet. Dead steer in feed yard, looks like it bloated, must have been Hogs in front yard again. Herded them back, fixed other hog something it ate. Called vet.[...]Vet said steer bloated, must have been something it ate. Paid Neighbor came to get blackfaced[...]tment. Banker called, said note was past due. Nobody laughed. Sent Sprayer froze[...]Put water hose in manure spreader to thaw it out. again.[...]n pickup. Wife mad, car won't start. Sewer is plugged up. Traded off slightly beat up five-sect[...]at they were worth, same as miscounted like that, sure glad to see them all home. I'm getting for[...]him black-faced cow still looks peaked. Vet said it might be wise to put wheels under her.[...]aked, called vet. Banker called, said my note was due. I laughed, he didn't. Wife[...] |
| [...]ill be worth a fortune. Wife mad, house is a mess. Fire truck stuck in driveway. Showed him[...]($5 for each). policy. Anyway it was $100 deductible (about what it cost to fix Put new steel door on hog house . it). Dealer called , wanted to know how I bent u[...]heater. he sure wished he had come and looked at it before the trade. Wife mad , burned her hand[...]Watched T.V. Neighbor called, asked if I was missing black-faced cow with Did the chor[...]here , took kids to show. Wife say hog house is on fire. Sure is . Wife's happy. G[...]Sun went down peaceful. This week is done! Called fire department.[...] |
| The ranch that is known as the Rebich ranch was originally bought by George Rebich in January of[...]ty which has the Beaverhead river running through it consisted of 160 acres purchased from Simeon Este[...]Joseph (Joe) was born on[...]the ground was all flood[...]Haying was · done with[...]The grain was cut[...]was one of the first to[...]ennial Valley from John A. "Pap" Jones. This land was used as pasture for the cattle in the summer. Man[...]The house had been a school house at one time and was known as the yellow house. The Jones Cemetery is just across the creek from the house. The Centennial was Joe and Mary's favorite place where they s[...] |
| [...]ure, part Shaw Homestead of what was known as the Flynn place, was bought from Bob and Dorothy Meine.[...]on the Blacktail In the 1970s , land was purchased from Ray , Henry, and Daniel Rebich in the Small Horn Canyon for summer It was the spring of 1917, that I first saw the Blacktail. pasture , part of it being the Leo Tallent homestead and part Ernes[...]lon to the ranch, In 1979 the Flynn property was sold to Jim Blake so called the Jake Plac[...]cres from Ed Sporich. the cooking and Dad was the foreman there. This piece of property bordered the home ranch and was It was a beautiful spring day, we rode in a seven more c[...]s (Poncho) and Beverly McCoy in 1984 . This field is used in rising above the lofty green pines, was something to the spring to move the cattle out of[...], with the old Jack fence aged gray by many grass is mature enough in the mountains to go to summer[...]m and contented In 1985, the Centennial land was sold to purchase land feeling that I will always remember. in Small Horn. This was much more convenient for While at th[...]e we cooked for many men; pasturing the cows. Now it took only one afternoon to put cowboys, sh[...]attended the Jake Flat School, Blacktail No. 3 as it was travel the 80 miles to the Centennial Valley . Th[...]he cattle to and from summer range in a day while is and Norma Cazad, Norman and Lester Helvie. W[...]eniences . My first In 1985 more pasture land was purchased from Bob and teacher was Mrs. Roy Bird; this was the year of 1918. Dorothy Meine in the Smallhorn[...]rld War ended. A summer pasture all joined making it possible to pasture all cowboy rode past the[...]he school Dam, allowed many acres to be irrigated that .could never be house. Mrs. Nyhart was the teacher, she had three children, watered before . At first all the fields were flood irrigated. that helped to make our school more interesting. Miss[...]wheel line sprinklers. These made Williams was the last teacher on the Flat. After that the it much easier to irrigate and conserved water. In 1990 and school was discontinued. She is now Mrs . Jessie Smith and 1991 they put in two p[...]y were Miss Elizabeth Sutherland was the County losing their pipe changers so the pivots were a big help. Superintendent. She is now Mrs. Sheldon Davis and lives In 1985 Phil purchased some beefalo cattle. Beefalo is in Dillon. I walked to school the 2 ½ mile[...]d buffalo. The cattle are hearty, sometimes it was stormy with cold weather. good tempered animals. The meat is low fat low One morning it was 52 below zero. My dad used to take cholesterol, w[...]990 Phillip Jr. and Paul (Phil Sr. sons) I was bundled up with quilts and a few mornings we had[...]had no hot lunches those The original ranch house is still there. Joe Jr. is living in days. Our school had a wood stove for heat. that house. On sunny days it was nice to walk along the road and[...]house was our first schoolhouse which he moved on to his[...]place. I remember my first dance, it was at the Selway[...]Sheep Co . ranch in 1917, music was furnished by a[...] |
| [...]s the Flat, and as I think back over the years to that ever so humble home, what place could of been any[...]SHEEP CREEK BASIN SHEARING PLANT The plant was located at the head of a canyon where Nicholia Cr[...]p Creek, about twenty miles southwest of Dell MT. It was built about 1910. I worked at the plant for two seasons starting in 1925 when I was eleven years old. I took a man's place. It was a community organization and the sheep ran[...] |
| [...]of the crew and George Whitworth ran the show. He was the one who hired would entertain us. me as a brander. I was paid $5. 00 a day.[...]ittle drive and parked . The joke around the camp was If not, we worked that day too. There were fifteen stalls for that someone drove by and saw the two girls in the bac[...]kid and I in the front seat. with a paper string that would dissolve when the wool was washed and processed.[...]--Edwin Kellner Each fleece was tossed into a cart, then thrown up to the tromper[...]g by tromping in a circular pattern until the bag was full. --Agne[...]ebish Helle He then sewed the top of the sack and it was dropped to the floor, then stacked outside the bu[...]t three-hundred plus pounds. The plant itself was a long, low , structure with a tin roof. The tin roof was to provide heat from the sun to cause the grease in the wool to expand (the wool was sold by the pound) and also to make shearing easi[...]ALLY"! The wranglers would record the count which was totaled at the end of the day. The sheared sh[...]wner's preference, black, red or green. The paint was heated in a tub on an old sheep wagon stove and the brand was stamped on each newly sheared sheep. The shearers, tier, and tramper made up one crew. Sheep Creek was their last job of the season. The shearers were p[...]me to start shearing at 7 a.m. The cook house was a log structure about 20' x 20" with two long tab[...]ne and lemon extract. sheep industry is as diverse as its heritage, its roots, its That was the end of Blackie' s employment as he was hauled ideals. We are based in a rich hi[...]an important role. Because of wool , we can make it." she[...]prosperous livestock business. plant. There was no sanitation. I bathed in the creek after[...]ted sheep were brought to Beaverhead work . There was little recreation, mainly joke-playing and[...] |
| [...]ichard A. Reynolds purchased 400 as a partner. Even in the days of free grass and no fences, it cost money to travel. Crossing on a toll bridge cost them a $40 fee and a toll road $40 as well. Another $40 was paid out to cross the Snake River. The band of sh[...]m his ranch in California years Beaverhead County was the largest sheep and wool in 1870. prod[...]0s and 1930s, Dillon could boast having men was Justin E. Morse. He was on of the organizers of the largest wool shipping[...]f the Mississippi the Dillon Townsite Company that purchased the Richard River. Every year three to[...]azing sheep on Hawkins managed the wool warehouse that was build by the the nearby open range, and ev[...]e since the introduction of sheep ranch shipments that were spread out on the warehouse in Ame[...]neers to the Beaverhead Drummond, reference is made to Morse. "Mr. Morse was Valley. Among those to seek their fortune elsewhe[...]wheel was set afire and rolled into a band of sheep one nig[...]nty. ~ from Oregon and was followed by William C. Orr, of the famous[...] |
| [...]W. S. Tash Ranch Thoroughly flesh the hide; that is, carefully scrape away The ranch opera[...]prinkle salt on a clean floor, spread the hide on it, families managing the same lands and their[...]ree ounces of the original cattle produced that were mostly milking commercial sulfuric acid to t[...]shorthorn breed. In the early 1900s, W. S. Tash was one of a gallon of water, there must be enough so[...]in Montana to develop a registered and hide. Soak it first in cold water until soft and pliable and[...]eford herd of cattle he and his sons, Harry, drop it in the solution held in a wooden container.[...]g days and must be stirred at intervals to assure even and calving and then trailed back thro[...]s partner Remove the hide, wash well, and work it over until soft Linkendoffer, he purchas[...]ective brucellosis immunization program was developed, Bang's disease came close to putt[...]the Big Hole Basin. Also noteworthy is the ongoing determination to start over in the co[...]continued to be family in the fall of 1939. This is an especially interesting good stewa[...] |
| [...]Using the salvaged material "as is" eliminated much TWO THOUSAND[...]reas , sitting atop the After the P & 0 ranch was sold in the late thirties, Byron sheep wagons , the cabin, the cars. As Alice cooked on the "Happy" Orr was out of a job. He and Alice were in search[...]sat on the warming ovens peering of an enterprise that they could share. Both having farm and down[...]They ordered 2,000 poults. The breed recommended was the broad-breasted bronze which had been develope[...]ly larger amount of breast meat. Their coloration was metallic, with burnished iridescence. The site obtained was the Charlie Place on the Axe Canyon road , which[...]ir vast meadows along Blacktail Creek, and during that time had acquired land in his own name around the perimeter of the partnership holdings. It was he who planted the trees. N~ar the tree culture was a warm water spring with a quiet pool covered with water lilies and lily pads; the kind that frogs liked to sit on. In the cabin were pie[...]ble warming ovens atop the back-splash. The stove was moved outside and set up for use. The cabin was cleared of trash. Two sheep- wagons were brought[...]g discarded fence A few visitors mentioned that they had heard stories posts for legs and framin[...]and benches. Luckily, and without fore planning, it was the roadrunners. This proved not to be the case at the constructed in the right place as it would have required four Charlie Place. The turkeys never attacked a rattlesnake, but men to move it. The top was four feet wide and ten feet it was evident they were aware of danger. They wo[...] |
| [...]we would all walk together. In later years there was a Cry, "Wolf", they did.[...]ench, there were lots around the perimeter. There was no pushing and shoving of people living[...]em. There but they set up a cacophony of gobbling that could be heard was the Harry Brown family, Fred Crouse family, Banker for a mile on a clear day. When this alarm was heard, Whitbeck, Jim Owenby, Bert Brow[...]d sounding, "Charge!" The turkeys seemed to sense that Blacktail, Carter Creek, Huffman Gulch, a[...]aside I went to school in Dillon until I was 17. I went to work to let a pair of legs through[...]rked for Hans Mikkelsen all summer and fall until it was Other than the snake alarm, the birds were qu[...]amp Then in Nov 1936, my mother died. It was just my dad might walk up, stretch its long neck,[...]coe Cornell, Jr. I ask a question. If the visitor was polite, he would answer lambed and worked t[...]d satisfied, would then go on my dad died. I was alone. Everett "Tiny" Holden came his way.[...]over and stayed with me until 15 Mar 1939. That is when That was the year of migration. Most individuals not[...]d to work I worked for Roscoe Cornell that spring. In the fall of in defense plants or enter[...]on Whidbey worked there until 1946 when it closed. Then I went to Island WA.[...]work at the talc mine. While I was working there, we sold In the late fall, they[...]ught a place one mile north of Dillon on the Twin that the turkeys had been shipped to market and the Charlie Bridges highway. While I was still at the talc mine, we sold Place was empty and quiet. By that time word had been that place and bought a place in town at 19 S. Dakota. received from the War Department that their brother, Roy In 1970, I had to retire at 62. Lala and I had 32 good Hansen, was being held as a prisoner of war in the[...]y and a week and hunting in the fall. So that is my life so far. perhaps even the score. Whitey, too, had started the paper wor[...]did not come home from the war. The Charlie place is quiet now. The cabin is gone, the roosts are gone,[...]Jessie Williams Homestead the big table is gone. Most of Charlie's trees have died of old ag[...]nd turkeys at the and I thought how nice it would be to own land in Montana Charlie place.[...]and not knowing where there was land for filing I relied on[...]Dillon in the Blacktail Section across from what was then the[...]Helena #022358 for lots 34-S ½ NW ¼ which was approx. 165.20 acres and later I was allowed to have 640 acres We came to Dillon when I was five years old. My dad, grazing land so o[...]red in the old barn and Meridian 486 acres . it burned down and we lost all things that were of any value. My dad, R.E. Williams of[...]I stepped My brother went to work. My sister was sent to Twin off the land and posted sig[...]dges and I went to live with Mrs. Stollen. When I waswas seven years old, I started to 03[...] |
| [...]Miss Elizabeth Sutherland, This ranch was bought by Mike and Mary Rebich now Mrs. Sheldon Davis, was County Superintendent. I had (grandparen[...]an X, which had to be witnessed. The ranch is six miles a salary of $125 per month. I was known as the "school south of Dillon a[...]bich. we would reside on. We chose Luther's which was located ten miles southeast of Dillon, directly e[...]named for Vic Carrigan' s grandfather. Others that homesteaded were Ansel Brown, Hubert and Clyde Sm[...]on my homestead 05 Aug 1925; the following notice was published in the paper. Notice for Publicatio[...]nd office at Great Falls, Mt. 05 Aug 1925. Notice is hereby given that Jessie M. Smith, nee Jessie M. Williams of Dillon[...]Back L-R: Poindexter and Orr Ranch. Later I sold it to the Maces. Sharon and Tom Rice. Sharon is daughter of Jim Rebich. The ranch now belo[...] |
| [...]garage and a chicken house. The original log barn was tom down in the early 1970s, but you can see the[...]used from to Dillon 07 Mar 1909-1965 when it was destroyed due to the construction of 1-15. Ref. I[...]there was a[...]windmill that had[...] |
| [...]best to be and Simmental cross, and alfalfa hay. It's hard unending found anywhere. Horse sales were exciting events to attend work, but they love it as do their sons. and buyers[...]the wild horses were of such good quality was the domestic[...] |
| [...]amped within two miles of the site where Armstead was later built. This place was called Two Forks. They had to pull their boats up the river. It took them four days from the site of Dillon to th[...]ad' s population Shoshone Indians. They found out that the chief of this tribe grew to approximately 200 people and there were eight was Sacajawea's brother, Cameahwait. Sacajawea, who h[...]stead in Mainataree of the Dakota Nation when she was 12 years old 1909. She was paid $50 a month and had 25 pupils. and who was trying to get back to her people, was an Indian The Northern Pacific built the[...]By making friends with these because it was too difficult to build along the Salmon River. In[...]s. In 1939 the railroad was discontinued and torn up. The rails On the re[...]highway right through found their treasures safe that they named the spot Camp Armstead and the[...]ater a man from Polaris named Livestock was Beaverhead County's most important Harry Armstead[...]be shipped out by railroad. The railroad he built was Dillon resident, mapped an East Bench Irrigat[...]parallels to an amazing degree the present United was built. Finally in 1907 the townsite of Armstead was States Bureau of Reclamation system. pla[...]the bench, a 1908 and immediately set to work on it. committee was formed representing 74 homesteaders. They[...] |
| [...]an irrigation system and Grasshopper Valley, was sold in 1905 to the Silver Fissure John T . Neal[...]ing Co. The man in charge of the mining operation was first step was to raise money to finance the study. A total[...]d. Steam traction engines pulling iron- of $2,740 was collected.[...]n 09 May 1922, the East Bench Irrigation District was the Grasshopper Valley over a low pass int[...]es a logical site for a town. at Argenta, was hired to survey the Bench and on 06 Apr[...]ect map , listing ownership of land Railroad was in the planning stages to be constructed from and[...]two railroads was at the same location where the ore was As the six-year planning program progressed, the drought delivered from Polaris. Thus a town was created, getting continued unabated and by 1926 most homesteaders were it 's name from Harry H. Armstead. forced to give up[...]their departure, the project also evaporated and was dropped. Construction of a reservoir and irrigation project was undertaken by the Bureau of Reclamation in Oct 19[...]rie Creek began in Oct 1964. The town of Armstead was doomed. Residents of there and the surrounding ar[...]ter . The last school eighth grade graduation was held in Jun 1963 with four graduates-Marc Sanders[...]y. Mrs. Nellie Decker, Armstead' s first teacher, was featured on the program. Armstead ' s traditional Twelfth Night Party was abandoned in 1963 . This annual party was started in 1934 by a discussion between two women[...]his custom would be good to start in Armstead and it proved to be highly successful because it brought friendliness, fun and laughter to all the[...]The townsite of Armstead was plotted on the northwest[...]living in Armstead in 1908 and 300 Armstead MT was located 22 miles south of Dillon and pe[...]Red Rock and Salmon River Stage Line that ran to Salmon This location is now at the bottom of Clark Canyon[...] |
| May 1939, when service was discontinued because of Beaverhead h[...]l Bradley, Jim Gravely were busy shipping animals that were hauled in by the 1937- Mild[...]1955- Eileen Chism, Gene Hildreth work was halted and a huge log was secured from the forest 1956- Darlene[...]1957- Alt Prophet, Dan Peterson the celebration was the Twelfth Night feast.[...]Mabel Rowe, Evan Huntsman said simply, "Let's do it! Let's have a Twelfth Night Party 1960[...]se and 12 days after Christmas of 1933, the event was 1962- Mabel Gravely, Kenneth Kelly ina[...]In the late 1950s, work was started on the Clark Canyon Thus was born a custom -- an eagerly awaited highlight[...]brand of frontier friendliness -- an event which was to many moving to Dillon. Water co[...] |
| [...]story manner was when the Lewis and Clark expedition came into[...]Shoneshone Indian Chief, Camahawait, learned that the I know none of the touching, poignant, pe[...]so well . However, I do want to explorers, was his long lost sister Sacajawea. In the famous say that when I came to dillon to teach in our Normal diary is mentioned the Rattlesnake Cliff where the reptiles College in 1914, I was keenly interested in Montana and in were so troublesome and also the Beaverhead Rock, that her history, and when I had been in the state a m[...]dness to "Montana Margins", the branch was known as the Big Hole River, the town of Antholog[...]ent on to Deer Lodge but as they did not find ore was derived from the Spanish. From other histories we[...]s nor so rich as they had hoped, returned to know that perhaps as early as 1747 Frenchmen had visited[...]A party from Minnesota arrived, then We known that many of those who were called "the th[...]y many of these were The winter was very open, and a number came in from assimilated[...]rth Saskatchewan River to A saw pit was put up and Lott and Dave Dunkleburg the headwater[...]as far south as Granville Stuart claimed that his party began in May, two Great Salt Lake.[...]panned the first real pay dirt and I believe this is rains, artifacts-arrow points and spear points are found. A spoken of as "the first time gold was found in paying number of you know a lot more abo[...]The first charter recorded in the county was a grant valuable artifacts have been found. Not f[...], significance nor the origin. Also near Armstead is the for the purpose of supplying the mi[...]r for mining purposes. For some reason this ditch was had ceremonial uses , and in the center of a large ring of never built and the first one was made by A. F. Graeter, A. rock , at the fo[...] |
| J. Smith and George Copley. This was taken out of Sage to trouble it had getting recogmt10n from Nebraska or Brush Cre[...]whatever. It was No. 16 and when the Lodge disbanded and In 18[...]nd Rattlesnake united with Dillon Lodge, that number is carried by Dillon Creek meet, stood the only sign post in the Territory, a Lodge. A Lodge was established at Glendale and it rough hewn board, with this inscription daubed in[...]Montana really was. Kepe the trale nex the bluffe."[...]Henry Plummer on 15 Nov 1863. The first sheriff's was a rancher in the Deer Lodge Valley. deed on record in Montana was the sale of undivided quarter The first man to pan out a dollar's worth of gold was interest in and to claim 9 west, on the Da[...]Moses Burris and J. D. Ritchie pan. White's claim was located at a place called Cedar Tree to sati[...]on 01 Sep, and a man named George also located on that date. Just across the creek from the present town of Bannack the Stapleton Bar was discovered by the man whose name it bears (Washington "Wash" Stapleton). Con Kohrs, N[...]nd of the territory. The first timber reserve was made by William Sturgis. It is not definitely known who built the first house as[...]es, a lot 50 feet front and 150 feet deep on what was known as Yankee Flat. J. H. Morley, Mandeville Pi[...]o their cabin in Oct 1862. Later the name Bannock was given to the settlement because of the peaceable tribe known as the Bannock Indians. It's been reported that the Postal Service misspelled the name and thus Bannack was established. Langford says that the first person to die in Bannack was W. H. Bell, who died of typhoid fever, 02 Nov 1862 and who was given a Masonic funeral. There has been a lot of[...]over the establishment of Masonry in Montana, but it is certain that a meeting of Masons was held at a very John (Jon) C. Taylor, first pro[...]date on hill top in the vicinity of Bannack, and it is Territory. He followed gold to Sutter 's Fort CA, Australia, true that Bannack worked under a dispensation from[...]sation from Kansas and when the first Grand Lodge was organized, it met in Virginia City with Virginia City The first probate judge was Hon. John C. Taylor and the Lodge designated as N[...]also at Virginia, first matter of business was - Notice of Application of No. 2, and Helena Lodge was No. 3. George C. Chrisman to be appointed administrator of the There was no Grand Lodge in Utah so Utah was estate of George Carhart. Amos W[...]Lodge in Montana Territory. required was only $100 on an estate of several thousand. Bannack Lodge was the first Masonic Lodge in Beaverhead W. A. Clark is recorded as having preempted claim no. County although it was not chartered until 03 Oct 1871 due[...] |
| Prospect District, 07 Aug 1863. A. F. Graeter is quoted as Omaha and unyoked their oxen 17[...]n his back, the day he left Edgerton was so interested in Montana that he made a Bannack for Jeff Davis Gulch. He was wearing a soldier 's trip back east with[...]Montana before the government in such a way that Montana caused by getting too close to a camp fire sometimes when was made a territory, with Edgerton its first governor in he was cold. No one could have known in those days just[...]legislature convened 07 Dec 1863 . how far Clark was to go ." Now Clark ' s claim was recorded Four men representing the council from what is now in Idaho Territory and on the day following ,[...]ana, rode there on horseback and came home by way was given by John Ault to Jack Allport, in Dakota Territory. of San Francisco. Perhaps it was not at all strange that men did not know The first meeting of county commissioners for exactly where they were as Montana was successively a part Beaverhead County was held at Bannack City on Monday, of the territorie[...], Nebraska, Dakota 04 Apr 1864. A building was rented for offices from Andy and Idaho Territorie[...]Lutzi for $125 a month. It was given up 19 May on the Hugh O'Neil ' s train came into Bannack 20 Apr 1863. grounds that the rent was too high. A resolution was passed John F . Bishop was in this train . Later he brought the first by[...]ity council of sheep into Beaverhead County , and was the first justice of Bannack City for the s[...]he city limits. for $0 .19. Now Beaverhead County is one of the most important points for wool shipmen[...]latin counties, all in Idaho Territory. There is controversy over who was the first white child born in Bannack. One author[...]Burchett, son of B. B. Burchett. Thomas Jefferson was originally named Jefferson Davis , but as the name seemed rather unpopular it was changed . There seems to have been no debate what[...]f this building mother of Nellie. The second girl was Mrs. Montana Nay was used by Mrs. Henry Zoller in spring 1863 or Lucia[...]There is controversy over who started the first school.[...]Mrs. Henry Zoller is said to have held a private school in[...]justice was made by the "Miner's mansion. Ref 090. 28 ·[...]hand and when the stampede to Sidney Edgerton was appointed Chief Justice of Idaho[...] |
| committed on both. Finally the Vigilance Committee was The most prominent of the road ag[...]in order and informed the Assembly that it was necessary that Bannack and many was the foul deed done of which no the[...]Council agreed but there was argument in the House and The men who formed t[...]racter and of the best who have furnished that the law allowed no one to be paid who did not swe[...]ntes simply allegiance to the government that paid them. There was no punished with death, in as humane a way as pos[...]y. The Vigilante When the capital was moved to Virginia City in 1865, the Oath reads: "[...]Beaverhead among them. The first County Assessor was recovering stolen property, do pledge ourselves u[...]help me God, as witness our hand Schools was J. D. Douglas, appointed 30 Sep 1867. F. and seal[...]ember, A. D., 1863." Smith Ball was the first Sheriff and O. M. Kingsbury the[...]first post office was at Bannack and established 01 Nov 1863[...]was the first postmaster.[...]The first Episcopal service was held at Bannack with[...]Bishop Tuttle in charge, 26 Jul 1868. The service was held[...]services held in the Valley proper (Beaverhead) was at the[...]minister in charge. The first Sabbath School was organized[...]nteresting account of his winter of 1867-68 which is[...]cattle and horses for breeding purpose. This was in 1865 . It is said that a man came earlier to Bannack, with two head[...]first brands recorded in Montana was the famous square and[...]Montana Stockman's Association was the first in this part of[...]the country and Theodore Roosevelt who was ranching in Dakota at the time was a member of this association.[...]homes, and permanent ones , was the Selway family . John[...] |
| [...]en, arrived 30 Sep silver, gold and there was some mat copper. 1864, after having taken three m[...]beyond 1871, but I will say that today, 15 Oct 1952, is very The Selways brought 9 cows, 6 oxen and 3 mares. In eventful because it is the 72nd birthday of our town of 1866 Mrs. Selway[...]to ride. Dimsdale ' s "Vigilantes of Montana" was the first book to be published in Montana in Virg[...]oad Post where Thomas Dimsdale worked. The second was "A Fifty-Seven Years Down Memori[...]-Margaret M. Henneberry Gleeson Allen Hosmer, who was the son of Hezekiah Hosmer, appointed by Abraham[...]the Great Beaverhead Wagon Road and Toll when he was fourteen. After the eastern trip described in[...]crossing news print, bound in cardboard. He sold it for a dollar in the Beaverhead River known[...]tation in 1946 were worth $1,600 a copy. One copy is implement was used to hurry this six-month job: horses, in the[...]elena, one in the Library at the mules and even oxen were worked, and picks and shovels State Uni[...]City. Flour was selling at $30 to $50 per hundred, coffee[...]absence, toll was collected by Johnny Welsh or a hostler of[...]Here I shall state that my father was the same M.B. Argenta MT about 1903. Re[...]estock raising. James M. Ryan left the Argenta was among the early settlement in the state and[...]elena after selling his interest in the store and was first named Montana City, and its first post office was Toll Gate to T.M. Barrett. Mr. Ryan also succeeded and at so designated. The name was changed to Argenta on 15 Feb his death was classed with the wealthy of Helena. 1871. Its first smelter was about 1863 , the St. Louis I[...] |
| The site was near where they were to begin work on the much ta[...]ir blankets in a small recess at the base of what was named by Lewis and Clark as Rattlesnake Cliff and[...]hey saw slowly wriggling rattlesnakes in their was perfect. Seven years later I heard Mr. Touher spe[...]men were on their "Henneberry, when you built that grade you did not cut in feet and at daybreak, th[...]hn A memory running back to years ago when I was on the F. Bishop, was one of the first to cross the bridge, and of train going to Deer Lodge in company with my sister is that the freighters, the late Charley Reeder and Tom Touher Sam Word was a passenger, too, and when Mr. Reinhardt passed o[...]ften heard the joke told about Mr. Word's collar. was crossing the bridged ravine south of the Henneber[...]nostril. north of Clark's Canyon, the coach was stuck and all the With unflinching courage, he un[...]d. Mr. Word did his them to our home and insisted that father should sew the part, but with a heav[...]and Mr. Touher, down the line at which he was to speak and his last clean crazed with pain, swo[...]he got a bunch of collars, but how to get them to was holding the candle fainted and my brother, Angelo, fit was a quandary as father's neck size was 16 and Mr. better known as "Mikey," who was then ten years old, Word's 17½. Luckil[...]ton holes with a string and pulled the collar day was on his way. Father advised him to see a do[...] |
| [...]and looked considerably The canyon was always called and known as Beaverhead "dressed up[...]d be unless some of the travelers found it an easy name to a pleasure. Mother replied that his advice and prestige in remember--there was no canyon other than the Beaverhead getting the charter through was more than Henneberry and adjoining the bridge or store site. Ryan could ever do for him, and that their little kindness Mr. Ryan was egotistical and father unostentatious, and was only a trifle.[...]battle--Aug 1877--all the gate, and store--never was William Sturgis mentioned. women an[...]in Beaverhead were ordered to take the Father was the senior partner and being the cattle buyer[...]place mother chose and with my sister who was past five through the canyon to Pleasant Valley. He was impressed years old and I, nearly fou[...]age, our first coach ride and the jerky sensation it would be for the freighters and travel in general. Many of the coach was a real thrill to us youngsters. of the freighters[...]irginia The "big hill" mentioned previously was a "bone of City and father consulted many of the[...]on" to the travelers. The rule of the stage coach was all were for it. that at the foot of the hill all the men had to get ou[...]walk--women and children remained in. That day, only a throughout the state who can remember that the original road couple of men were on, b[...]id not hug close to the Rattlesnake Cliff nor did it cross the down their faces--and their "puffin[...]Well can I remember the dying soldier who was brought meadow near Daly's Spur and traveled thro[...]ital in Virginia City from the Big Hole the which is now the track of the Oregon Short Line. At previous day. Another recollection is the Wheeler Hotel. different parts through the canyon, the road was changed My sister was asked her name by a lad twice her age to from the original and it must be remembered that father and whom she answered, Ella[...] |
| [...]n the store business. By profession, Mr. Ryan was .an expert accountant but was not familiar with construction Old toll road at B[...]the Barrett Store. Toll gate work. Father was in narrow place between the rocks. Ref.085.29. ga[...]rhead River near Daly's Spur--in fact, the scheme was had a general outfitting store and catered but li[...]son Post the box, he hollered, "I've got it, boys, I've got it." Office--later the Sim Estes place--in 1869. About 1872 Sim It was only a box filled with rocks. They pulled him to[...]their victim--did he taste it? Why, he swallowed the Along about 1869 or 18[...]the old homestead still stands. floating ice was on the river and his clothes were as stiff as Mr.[...]and in Sep 1873 mother, the Strange as it may seem, Henry Heinsman who served a two boys, a[...]with McLain in the Ashbaugh cabins--where sister was born--to their new stealing the Treasury Box, was a neighbor of the writer's for home.[...]to Pleasant Valley. in Beaverhead' s mansion, as it was called by neighbors and Mr. Heinsman was a respected citizen of Deer Lodge and freighters. In 1870 father engaged in the cattle business and was popular and trusted by old and young. Mr. Heinsma[...]partner, looked after their interest in the store was injured being run over by a hose cart and fire tr[...]and children and the ever faithful friend, He was crossing the street when the crew pulling the car[...]Mr. Heinsman was a gardener and made a living by For years and years, the Henneberry home was a half- caring for the lawns and ga[...] |
| [...]and residence, and fresh horses for the coaches. It became famous for Sunday afternoon dances. Ref.93[...]The Stanchfield Ranch (where we live) was taken up by my father's life, he spent most of th[...]hose roof he passed to his eternal reward That was the main part. People by the name of Soper and on[...]Gleeson, Eighty acres of our pasture was taken up by Harve[...]rn 1873 Stanchfield; also another pasture was taken up by George via May Tonrey Patton and was bought by Frank Husted and Jack Geiser.[...]ened its 48 Ralph Huntley bought it and six years later we bought it southern gateway for Montana through which have p[...]Trail was then sold to Bill Ferguson to Ben Mallon to Ray[...]. 1866 Lowell Mallon' s home place was taken up by people First railroad into Monta[...]named Jones, I think two brothers. Then it went to people Sunshine Highway 91[...] |
| Ole Christiansen bought the Al Cline place which was the bottom of the Pendergast place. Who had it before them, I don't know. Al Cline then lived at Wise River on that ranch that now belongs to Donald Jones. Al left it to his son-in- law, James Aiken, who sold to Bill[...]Dick Truman took up land up Wise River. This was sold to George Dodgson to Ernest McKenzie to Walter and Leslie Jones. Log house where Minerva Cline was born near Wise River MT. L-R: Anna Cline, Ed Clin[...]s), Albert Cline. Ref.077.34A. land up Wise River that was sold to Arnie Hjelmstad sold to Harry Bennett to Bud Stallman. Land taken up by Ben Butler is now owned by Jones. Ben Ross sold to Charlie Lamb[...]Big Hole Highway now Sunderlief owns it. Lambert took up Jerk Prairie and 25 Feb 1939 now after Verbance had it, it is sold to Foxley. Years ago, the mail would go from Divide to Dewey to The Big Hole Valley is the largest and most populous Fish Trap to Wisdom. In the winter it was taken by sled area in Montana, if not the e[...]lier they stopped at Fish Trap. Then highway. It is snowed up again. That statement doesn't it got to going from Divide to Wisdom by truck and I think mean much until we realize that among several thousand John Pendergast had the ro[...]ext. Troupe lived in Wisdom and Bill in It has been suggested that the Montana Highway Divide.[...]ts face in trying to get to Butte. The Butte took it. He was a brother to Bob. Then Lowell (father of sta[...]There, Willard) and Viola Anderson had it. Then they made the passengers and mail ar[...]took over after his dad died. improvised tractor that negotiates the big drifts. It is an all- When Willard lost it, Bob Dumpke took over and now day trip from Butte to Wisdom. his son, Jack, has it. They come from Dillon and go clear The Warren L. Hughes home is one mile above Ral~ton. around through the Big Hole and back to Dillon. It took three hours to make that one mile the other day . He Verne just now to[...]s and shovel snow from before John Pendergast had it. Harry Bennett drove the first under it. He carried planks to help get the car out of sno[...]drifts. From Ralston, the road is cleared for a short distance There were sever[...]forced to endure the privations that face us. Our business is --Evelyn Stanchfiel[...] |
| There was a funeral the other day in Wisdom. A heaviest snow removal equipment was unable to blast out minister had been sent for to[...]fts. Mr. Lovell made one failed to arrive because it was impossible to travel. Friends trip with a tea[...]bandoned the idea when read some Bible verses and that was the extent of the it took him two days and was too tough on the animals. service. Only a few mon[...]Ed Glassey, garage started, a funeral procession was stalled on the muddy road man at Wisdom, an[...]t of the Big Hole for market this man-pilot is the lone physical link between seven snowbound month. This is the time the ranchers are required to ship ranches and the "outside." this stock. Not a truck is moving on this highway and Glasse[...]winds, the tractor-stage stations. So accurate is his marksmanship that he seldom as well as any who are venturesome enou[...]He won early fame as a stunt flier and has been a even attempt to drive on the ice of the river.[...]the carcass, flying the mails is easy money," he remarked. Big Hole Highway i[...]eam or snowmobile, just exactly how nobody knows, that this would be the last winter that it would be necessary for Mr. Charley Miller and his[...]Information has been received through the press that the Bureau of Public Roads together with the Stat[...]year cycles. From the basin, but the replacement is strictly temporary. When 1930s to the mid 1950s was one of the worst in Big Hole heavy snows i[...] |
| [...]Hole Breezes , 1900 livestock grazing region. But it was strictly a summer[...]Melba Pike, 1956 proposition, so far as livestock was concerned. The fallowing article, telling of the fabulous change that took place in the 20-year period from 1880 to 1900 was reprinted Big Hole Update 1956 in th[...]Fishing or Mining? Breeze which was a news-packed paper published at Wisdom.[...]and fine homes have come to the In 1880 this was the summer range for the Horse Prairie Big Hole--but they have come as in that writer's day in stockmen and no man dared its lon[...]h grass and the fat cattle. Steel, Ruby, summers. It was certainly all right for grazing as long as[...]be--but we dare a home here. Utterly impossible it would be to make a say from our vantage point of hind-sight 56 years later, that living and, the first hard winter having passed,[...]can see toward the surrounding blue mountains, is an their minds to chance the valley.[...]e most artfully designed industrial development. it was where they located. Others followed and the side[...]good water and bracing air of our great valley. It is a fact widely noted that in no place has the rancher and stockman been so successful as here in the Big Hole. The hay is the best to be found any place. It will fatten, without grain, any animal that can be fattened. Our beef cattle are sent to Chi[...]om legitimate ranching with cattle. We know that many more will locate with us, and though they may not be able to make quite as much as th[...]nd look over the resources of the Big Hole. Land is not too high yet for investment. The main r[...]ur south and east. All of these ranges have mines that will, in the near future, produce gold, s[...] |
| [...]c Miller tried this cat in the Centennial Valley, it worked fine .. :until the spring thaw. Ref[...] |
| Chugging down the road in the dead of a Centennial[...] |
| Even a flat tire won't stop the mail delivery. A passe[...]ingley. This Linc Miller snow plane is enclosed for passenger comfort, but is it heated? Re/19.3921.Dingley.[...] |
| [...]enamed for government goofs as have streams , but that is another story. It seems these ponds had a few swans that lived there year around, forty more or less , I'v[...]the thirties some do-gooders came in and decided that these birds were on the edge of extinction. A[...]by Lillian Culver, Terry Hanson's great decline; it is doubtful grandmother.[...]s-1960s: The birds were studied and fences built. It The ranchers were told to sell, or else. Or else in some seemed there was something positive to happen for a change. cases was the revocation of homesteads which were not A telephone and electric line was brought into the valley. proved up on yet. In other cases it was pure lies and The eggs were collected[...]ers of the duck hunting clubs on incubator was used. The eggs were turned every couple of the lo[...]99-year hours and a few hatched. A man was hired to pick leases for their clubs to hunt if t[...]then on. and so the grazing was set back to July for the ducks to[...]hatch. In fairly heavily grazed fields there is quite often 1940s: "Bird Boys", as they were[...]out and seen a tall bunch of grass which is around a duck nest. picked up the eggs of the swa[...]em. They didn' t think the old birds could handle it. To hatch the 1970s: Things decayed further[...]hickens to do the of graduate Rubes decided that the refuge is a wilderness. job . The little hens must have bee[...]e go, take out the fences, bum all the buildings, even the size of their task, since the eggs were as big as they the ones with 99-year leases that the duck hunting clubs were. Must have been quite[...]redators and no trapping of muskrat amount of hay was cut in the meadows. Most of the and beavers is implemented. Real progress now! meadow ground was irrigated and the beavers were trapped to keep th[...]o poison the lakes to kill grain and there is manual labor to do. Time to quit feeding t[...] |
| [...]elors and in swans. No matter the upcoming summer is a drought and exchange, he would buil[...]er lost for the birds. homestead if she was interested. She came to the valley , fell Farmers[...]t; God help them if they get in love with it, took up a homestead at a place she named the sam[...]icnic Springs in the upper end of the valley. But it took on the refuge, so shocking of streams is used for census, the two years of reminding a[...]fish fry by Bird Boys. A to work on that cabin. Conservation First. Centennial still going[...]ss all the time. Snowmobiles can't see where road is without the fences; Bird Boys threaten to trespas[...]Flat. They could become endangered also. Now it is down to a one-man show at the refuge, being wilderness, no cows and all, but it still takes a half-dozen to write reports about w[...]y there are no fish in this wilderness. They find that beaver dams occlude the stream to spawning fish.[...]--Tom Brenneman, At that time, other than bachelor cowboys, there were[...]was conducted at Virginia City, but much of the perso[...]pass at Henry's Lake ID. Some even used the post office of A Fit Place f[...]lthough the winters have occasionally been rough, it's short because in the early 1930s, the gov[...]trumpeter swan an isolated breeding Bud Sprinkle was cow foreman for the Poindexter and Orr ground, undisturbed by man. partnership at that time and they were taking cattle to the Discussion still goes on as to whether the government is valley for the first time. They probably went up[...]villain to the valley, if the status of the swan is Blacktail Deer Creek Road and over the divide and[...]is healthier or declining in quality since cattle no[...], Bud asked, "What shall we One thing is certain: the swans and other water fowl are name[...]the lead from shot gun hunters in their "Name it Centennial Valley for this is the Centennial tummies. year," Mrs. Orr r[...]If Jim Blair and his partner, Henry Hackett, gave it a try. The one is fortunate enough to be able to spend a night at a[...]he lights have been turned out and look arthritis that had brought her millinery career to a halt[...] |
| [...]Clark Canyon Dam crisper. The sky is blacker, the moon fuller, the utter silence unset[...]ght of their stay Missouri River Basin Project is located in Beaverhead and in the valley. They wor[...]tion storage for the lands of the East Bench Unit is dawn, and went home to do chores and start anothe[...]n Dam on the Beaverhead The Centennial Valley was and is a special place that will River, just below the junction of Red Rock[...]rock-fill structure, is about 133 feet above stream bed and[...]Surplus water is stored in the reservoir during the winter[...]irrigation season, water is released to the river and diverted[...]Livestock ranching is the predominant agricultural activity[...]made. With the short growing season of this area, it is[...] |
| [...]n forage crop on the unit. Beef cattle production is the major industry in the area. The principa[...]o fill the valley where once the town of Armstead was county road, 8.6 miles of located, taken Aug 1964[...]f telephone lines and the town of Armstead, which was within the reservoir area. The site of Clark[...]Continental Divide (Lemhi Pass) in Aug 1805. It was near the forks of Red Rock River and Horse Prairie Creek that Sacajawea met Cameahwait, her brother, a chief of[...]recreational potential of Clark Canyon Reservoir was the Oregon Trail followed the pioneer roads through studied and estimated that 75,000 recreation visitors would Beaverhead Cany[...]edictions have proven to be valid. laid. Montana was organized as a territory in 1864 and its first capital was established at the gold mining town of[...] |
| [...]·Dillon's Future - 1884 If it be said that Dillon is not as lively as it was during the freight shipping era and because much of the roving population is midden on · our streets, that is no reason for indulging in gloomy prognostication of the future of Dillon. Those who take that view of the town's present condition do not look[...]arehouses and in districts of Southern background is the Corinne Hotel. Ref 133.36A. Montana and Easte[...]self-supplying in the Our town is bound to keep on growing and these manufacturing[...]matter. Dillon's future is so promising that every Both industries, agriculture and mining[...]n rather slow in southern Montana, for the reason that can contribute something toward making Dillo[...]nd canyons. Altogether the outlook for Dillon is bright and full of cheery promise. Indeed, there is no town in Montana with better surrounding[...] |
| [...]f the original townsite. Ref 072.14. Progress was slow in Dillon as shown in this view of He[...] |
| [...]and also as the first grocery store in Glendale, was sold for $15 and tom down last week. At the time that building was being put up, and before the roof was on, a dispute arose between Noah Armstrong and Ja[...]o what should be the name of the town. One wished it to be called Glendale, the other Clifton. To settle it, the two names were written on a chip, one on each side. The chip was thrown over the log walls of the unfinished house[...]smelter during its heyday. R(!f 065.21A. picking it up it was found that Armstrong won. Hence the baptismal name of the town was Glendale.[...]Smelter was owned[...]was postmistress[...] |
| [...]The mountains that form its outer edges are beautiful #13 company ic[...]ranges of the Rocky Mountains. Even more spectacular than #14 John Gelhaus home, carp[...]its breath-taking beauty is its historical development. # 15 Charcoal house[...]Canadian, Charles Fortier, was the first settler but he #19??[...]Canyon Creek. Road in middle right edge of photo is road to school house. Back of barn and slightly west is home of George B. Conway, father of Mrs. Anthony[...]Horse Prairie Metropolis Until Armstead was an established community, Grant |
| [...]The first child born on Horse Prairie was Ida May Kennison, Sadie Graeter, Arthur and Edith[...]Samuel Jagger's two Walter Taylor. Their teacher was Miss Harkness. children in 1879. The first sermon was preached by Rev. The first school board was made up of: L.A. Harkness, Van Gorg at the r[...]ett. Today the valley of Horse Prairie is an extremely The specifications of this origi[...]weren't most of us from somewhere else? Even Martin cross beams one foot in diameter: Barrett was born in Ireland. roof to project on[...]rnice on eaves to be 8 inches: It is a quietly beautiful high mountain valley, the hea[...]of I-inch lumber across one end, which is the Continental Divide, the boundary between[...]ho had been captured by The town of Amesville was the location of the first Post the Sioux severa[...]ed her brother in a Office in Horse Prairie. This was in 1877 and Mrs. Nancy party of Indians they met--their reunion was joyful after their Hamilton was in charge. There was also a store, and at it long separation. Inciden_tally, I take this[...]her name was Saca-JA-we-a, with the accent on the 'ja'. The[...]valley, found that the stream had four tributaries and[...]divide is remembered by a notation in Lewis and Clark's[...]There is no record of any settlers in the valley until the[...]Indians made their homes in the valley. It appears to have[...]try home and Cheyenne territory in Montana. was similar in design to their Dillon town house.[...]east into Cheyenne territory to find Amesville was located 2 ½ miles west of present day th[...]hides and food; also, when handy, to Grant. There was also a large hotel called the Blair Hotel ste[...]they the establishments were moved to where Grant is today. made it back to the Lemhi valley, but sometimes there were The school, which was in the other direction from Grant, battles in Horse Prairie. was later moved there, too. The name of Grant was chosen These may account for the battlements on Red Butte--a simply because it was well-liked, easy to say, and easy to w[...] |
| [...]valley after the battle of the Big Hole in 1877, it was Shoshone Chief Tendoy's scouts that warned the settlers. Gold! The word of a str[...]ne UT and from Fort Benton on the later. This is how he got his start in the cattle business; Miss[...]he ranch to for new camps, but a few stayed. This was the beginning of Johnny Peterson, he became a[...]Dillon. After Johnny Peterson's death, the ranch was Of this group, Jim Mansfield, a native of Ireland, was operated by his son, Herman, and daughter, Ali[...]ive in Bannack. He came in Nov 1862 Cragholm. It was sold around 1955 to John Casey. with Pat Holihan,[...]years ago to John Erb of Idaho Desmond. This was the origin of the present-day Barrett Falls.[...]County Commissioner. were raids by these Indians. That caused Mr. Holihan to Dave Metlen was another man who was drawn west from sell his land and cattle. Actual[...]Holihan's house, they out for Bannack. This was just at the time of the notorious saw pictures o[...]f Horse Another prominent early settler here was Martin Barrett. Prairie Creek. He married a wom[...]the strike in Bannack and original ranch was sold to Floyd Skelton many years ago. headed nor[...]Dale has been very active in community affairs, was a 4-H him decide to settle in the valley, some m[...]s and donated and built a laboratory in Bannack. It is said that many people were arriving in Dill[...] |
| [...], a tributary of Horse Prairie Creek. This stream was on the principal freight route, the Corinne Trail[...]ldings were sold to Mr. Rife , whose wife, Katie, was a niece of Martin Barrett. The ranch was run by their sons, Ike and Edgar, until its sale[...]ranch. Another ranch on Medicine Lodge Creek was the Craver ranch. They mainly raised horses. They[...]railroad from Armstead to Idaho . Later the ranch was sold to Ras Hansen. This ranch runs both sheep and cattle, one of the few in the area to do so. It is owned by a son, Leonard, and his family. Prominent in the community , Leonard is currently President of the Montana Woolgrowers As[...]d the Pierce ranch in the later 1860s. This ranch is now in its fourth generation, being operated at t[...]ual Dillon show . Near the head of the valley is a ranch established by Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hamilton[...]06.21. bite from the bird. After this , the ranch was sold to Drs. Morse and Donovan of Butte. They ope[...]ter, Nellie Blair, married John Sheser, who time, it is owned and run by one of the heirs, John Morse,[...]they owned the ranch for many years and Anderson was purchased by the Donovans. Anderson had eventually sold it and moved to Dillon. It is presently come from Norway many years before, and[...]area and their sons are very ranch, this property was obtained by a Mr. Shenon. active to[...]gging, and also are packers Subsequently, he sold it to John Brenner, who had come and guide[...]Grant around the same time, the sons had operated it for many years, the one surviving son , ranch had passed on to the third generation, it being Charles, and a grandson, Jack, divided the[...]A railroad, the Gilmore and Pittsburg, was built during Isabel James , and her family run th[...]now in the the period from 1908 until 1912. It was built primarily for fourth generation. Jack and I[...]e ID to the Union Pacific at Armstead, but it made many Legislature and have been active in com[...]o saloons , Another early-comer to the valley was William "Billy" a hotel, a store and a liv[...]area. Later Roy and his family operated death and was succeeded by his son, Denton, until its sale in the ranch and expanded it into a fine spread. the 1950s when Denton[...] |
| It was sold in 1962 and the Stockers now live in Dillon. powered t~actors, but it never flourished. In the 1950s much A sister, Ann[...]um prospecting took place and a thorium discovery was successful business of resting overnight the trai[...]although it has always been surmounted. In the early days Alex Christie came from Butte with his father, who was there was an elementary school in the Bloody Dick area, one[...]purchased a homestead above where Grant is now situated and another on Medicine and he and his wife, Mickey, developed and expanded it into Lodge Creek, as well as others having[...]ohn, bought a ranch near consolidation. It is one of the few remaining rural Grant. Jim operated it until it was sold a number of years elementary schools[...]ren have either boarded in The G & P railroad was discontinued in 1938 and from town during the school year or ridden many long hours on that time on, cattle were trailed to Armstead and ship[...]took up 640-acre plots which were off land was turned into high-producing wild hay meadows. the[...]othills. Most of them plowed The altitude is too high for crops or any amount of alfalfa land and attempted to raise crops, but this was not successful hay, so much of the land remains as native grassland. and there was not enough land on which to raise cattle, so[...]base property. Finnish and one, Mr. Bjomi, was more enterprising than the This can only be described as the barest outline of the rest and was able to buy out the others. This was built into story of Horse Prairie. To do it credit would result in a a very good ranch by his sons, Bi~l and Frank, and is now full-length volume. Many people have[...]try. life and development of the valley. It has had its share of However, in years past, many[...]price of cattle, the federal mostly on land which was free for the taking until the advent governme[...]o, over Lemhi Pass and on down the It was in 1805-6 that Lewis and Clark explorers passed valley.[...]through the Big Hole Basin and stopped at what was Warm The waters of Horse Prairie Creek and its tributaries Springs. It was many years later in 1875 that a man by the were decreed around 1912 by court ac[...]on his arrival at throughout the years and there was considerable oil Warm Springs found[...]lation during the 1930s, but nothing ever came of it. nearly starving. Hackett returned to Bannack, then bought There was a mine on Dark Horse Creek during the early[...]them until spring, when the Moore 1900s and ore was hauled to the railroad with steam-[...] |
| [...]The first post office in this vicinity was known as Alamo. 1884. He was a little Frenchman with a pleasing This was on the George Romain place east of Jackson, perso[...]reat deal of ambition, seeing great which is now owned by S.S. Patterson of Dillon. Mr. possib[...]t later became the town of Jackson. Up Romain was postmaster. Later, this post office was until the time of his death in 1909, he was always a booster. discontinued and the nearest post office was at Fox. The He built the first two-roomed house,[...]ckson became the terminal when a daily mail route was The water at the spring was almost boiling hot and was established from Dillon and mail came from W[...]ttle house times a week. The post office at Fox was discontinued. was about nine by twelve feet and the built-in tub of wood Previous to the advent of mail from Bannack, it was was about two-thirds the size of the room . The water[...]through and cooled sufficiently snowshoes. At that time, freight teams were busy in the to make the[...]to last later Mr. Fournier built a cement plunge that was covered until the snow was gone in the spring. After the general by a frame[...]rst in merchandise store owned by Mr. Fournier was opened, Jackson.[...]conditions were better for the ranchers. It was in July 1886 that Herman Jackson and Antone Much credit is due the early settlers for the hardships Jackson[...]Peterson 1895, Wadams 1896, Hamby 1894 (who was killed Herman Jackson was very active in all civic organizations by a bea[...]ing water, two bathrooms, built-in cupboards, and was Not many years after Jackson had been named, the one of the first modem ranch homes at that time in the Big population had increased ten[...]Basin. In a few short years the vast open range was fenced Martin C. Jackson in 1904 and in 1913 sold the home ranch into ranches. Where there is one ranch owner now, to George Clemow. Then he re[...]ranches. Consequently, the population then was greater than[...]--Emma Farlin Jackson, 1928 At that time, wages were $1 a day except in haying time[...]then; there was more pasture land. But haying time must More Ja[...]into use and was a great help to hay diggers. Then an Antone J[...]had the first hotel and The first school was up on the Bloody Dick Creek with livery barn.[...]anch northeast students. The school house was moved down to Jackson in of town (which is now owned by his oldest son, John J. 1890 and was situated at the comer of the lane one-half mile J[...]s. house that now stands in the north end of Jackson was built. 86 - Beaverhead History No. 2 |
| The first death was that of Mrs. Millogue in 1890. She Mrs. Charles Dishno was the only nurse and her was buried in what is now the Jackson Cemetery. The first efficiency was widely known. She was better known by all child born was James Jackson in 1890, the youngest son of[...]Bunch, 15, and the The Modem Woodman was the first fraternal groom Ed Kuney. After the wedding there was a dance that organization and had quite a large member[...]s and dates were checked by Martin store, running it until a year before he died. This store has C. Jackson and Silas Dishno. changed hands several times and is now owned by George Loss!.[...]! had a store in what had been a dance hall; this was destroyed by fire a few years later. Silas Dishno[...]lumber from the old Wilkie 1898; he was 18 when he first served. He was elected sawmill on Steel Creek with a four-horse[...]d Nov 1946. He took office again Jan 1947, Wilson was built in 1914, in the building now owned by the[...]he Big Hole Breezes had its origin in Jackson and was --Updated 1947 by J[...]y the first newspaper in the Basin. Mr. Armstrong was the editor, after a few years moving the plant to[...]tery The Stewart and Pinkerton hall and hotel was built in Centennial Valley 1896; this was a large log structure which was consumed by fire in 1898. It stood about where the Pendergast hall now E[...]Baby Benson - 1924 other buildings at this time, was hauled from Dillon by Baby Benson - 1926 freight teams. The rough lumber was secured from a little Baby Marie Davis - 1[...]1864-1932 In 1901 the first Literary Society was organized and James M. Saunders - 1860-19[...]ic) bucking contests and baseball. The race track was about George Uhler - died 1907 (bucked off horse into river, one-quarter mile from what is now the ranger station. The died of broken neck) favorite running stock was owned at that time by Chauncy Charles C. Montgomery - 1[...]mbing through fence) although the little cow pony was eligible. While horse Doyle Montgomery - 1910-1913 racing was a favorite sport, so was baseball. Hardly a week (son of Charles C. Montgomery, passed during the summer that there was not one or both of drowned in West Creek[...]lliam Henry Edwards - 1891-1918 July 4, 1898, was a well remembered 4th. In one (d[...]Henrietta Bean - 1863-1935 (wife) started, Martin was well in the lead--but his horse, coming Elli[...]lace) In case of sickness, the nearest doctor was at Bannack or Emma S. Bean - 1884-1909 (Midget) Dillon, a distance of 30 to 50 miles. It would be necessary Mark 0. Bean - 1888[...] |
| [...]infant buried together) it was the highest point along the natural river bank at[...]chel Jones, The site was used over many centuries as a spring and died[...]. and Rachel Jones) jump was nearby. Chief Tendoy was known to camp there Cleve C. Jones - 1895-1959[...](granddaughter of Monroe Bucy) was a popular speak-easy that featured dancing, gambling, Elli Twitchell (Stell[...]ladies in waiting. The moonshine still was kept in an Mr. Sloan - died 1918 (died of flu at[...]house has been modernized The Junction ranch was located on the Beaverhead River and is now stucco. The livery barn has been moved from a[...]ved as an changed its banks since the dam was built. The old stage overnight stop at the juncti[...]d has been paved and the original bridge crossing was lines operating in Bannack City and Virginia City[...]was moved to its current location in the 1920s and its sod The land upon which the stage stop was constructed was roof changed to a shingled roof. It is also now stucco. later deeded by an act of congre[...]y, Hortense McLeod, a new one, and the first deed was dated 03 Nov 1876. William O. Smith,[...]Two structures survive, the two story log house was built Fedorka Smith, and presently Stan and Ka[...]--Stan Smith Xavior Reno is in 1869. The stop was put here because of 88 - Beaverhead His[...] |
| [...](Dick Williams admitted on his deathbed that he had put Jennie Terch Wetmore - b. May 24, 1888[...]J. and Orson Towne, and was driven off by the mares in the field who thought wife of Leverett Moore, was Carrie L. 's adopted mother, the stud was hurting a colt rather than a man.) also her au[...]Lima MT looking north 1902. New brick school is in center rear. Peat Hotel and Bar on righ[...] |
| [...]thing, unknown in Salmon: a railroad! There was a rail yard, depot, black bulking coal chute, wat[...]of air pressure, drove grease as I worked in that roundhouse in the summer just over. I har[...]engines . It was more fun than shovelling cinders from the[...]The original facility of 1880 was replaced in 1903. Built[...]to house twelve engines, it had capability to make any repair[...]necessary. While I remember it in that form, by the time I[...]Dad took me there when I was very young. Entering the U & N Eating house in Li[...]. 25. engine house filled with engines was like finding a herd of[...]e got to the service track, many things was full of strange and wonderful tools, used for too[...]n sequence. The fire unimaginable tasks. was cleaned , a hot , muscle-testing task. The sand dome was The boiler room had two huge boi[...] |
| [...]e hot; scared silly, I stumbled backward. I doubt that I will be overawed when I look into the gates of[...]elp some freight over the Great Divide at Monida. It dominated the town and served as barometer[...]ealth. Then sudden! y, on a June day in 1952, it was closed, blown away by the ugly blat of blaring diesel horns. The roundhouse gang was laid Lion City Avalanche off. Ope[...]many jobs in all other departments. The town was created to serve those who serviced the Scientists have estimated that an avalanche of snow can engines. When that need ended, the town changed . But the sl[...]exceeding 200 miles an creation of the roundhouse was like spinning a flywheel. hour. In 1893[...]people to their The town still exists, the energy is not yet run out. It is no deaths and destroyed most of the buildings in two mining longer a railroad town; even so, many people there can say towns in the Pioneer Mountains of Beaverhead County. that they first came there because of the railroad. Fe[...]r west of Melrose, a the turntable for a picture. That was just the day shift. Ten little community still in existence on the Union Pacific years later, he was working nights, alone, doing all the Rai[...]and Dillon. Glendale, five miles west of Melrose was the there, four of us constituted the midnight sh[...]site of an active smelter. A few miles beyond was the many it was. At closure in 1952, about twenty men were mining town of Hecla and one mile up toward the sky was employed.[...]peak reaching an elevation of 9,855 feet . chute was taken down, the timbers sold. The roundhouse[...]tumn of 1893 brought excessive snowfall, forty to was stripped of machinery and all things of utility, then it sixty feet of snow accumulated during October and was set afire. The largest building ever to exist in town November. The east slope of Lion Mountain was devoid of went up in flames; had it happened by accident, the entire trees and[...]e degree pitch. population would have turned out. It was an execution of Yet the miners continued[...]In the dark of night Nov 29 the mountain gave up it's like ghosts for twenty years more. Then the las[...]of snow skidded down and buried operation at Lima was closed. We disappeared like the most[...]The first victims were five miners and smoke from that great fire, fading away into the mists, going[...]--Kenneth H. Marler, Idaho Falls was pushed out of his bed. His body was later recovered.[...] |
| [...]Monida ages five and seven, dead. The mother and baby survived.[...]fourteen Between the time the railroad was built through Idaho people in their cabins in Lio[...]from Idaho Falls to West Yellowstone, Monida was a little There was yet more snow on the mountain. Two Hecla place with a big future. It was the jumping-off place for mining engineers devise[...]arges of dynamite at selected locations. The plan was a With a summit of 6,800 feet at Monida Pass, heavy snow gamble. It was hoped that the concussion would bring down falls here,[...]catered to tourists snow and placed the charges. It brought down the snow but from Idaho, Montana and Utah. His 1908 Rambler, which it also destroyed much mining equipment including th[...]nd gasoline tanks and flop- The pioneer spirit was still alive as the residents of down windshi[...]ed touring buggy. neighbors. Housing for families was provided. Appropriate These old babies g[...]any uses aside from jewelry, mode of travel that "hee-hawed". coins, and tableware, such as medici[...]otor rather violently. One of his white long ears was a The little town of Hecla is now a historic site. One must breachy devil, fo[...]motorized vehicles. critter and shouted, "Now that you're out, stay out! If you[...] |
| [...]nd trouble lights. The radiator ornament of today is a hangover from the large radiator T[...]day, he shifted gears with such fright and force that the shift lever snapped. Stranded but undaunted,[...]adiator into a can and cooked some of the eggs he was taking to market while awaiting rescue.[...]f sedimentary rock with a hole through its middle is standing on edge on the crest of a mountain one- half mile south of Indian Head Mountain. It is visible from the Horse Prairie Road in the area of the Dave Metlen ranch, which is located on Horse Prairie Creek at the foot[...] |
| This cowboy is probably from the Grasshopper Valley.[...] |
| [...]transportation from place to place. Dillon was a town of commerce from the moment it began, as shown here in this 1882 view of[...] |
| [...]cular Fatality He said that the automobile was going at a rapid rate of[...]a Earle Selway's version of the accident is substantially the respected pioneer citizen of Be[...]Tribune, Mr. Vogler said he striking on his head, was rendered unconscious, from which was taking some friends for a ride and that when he saw the state he did not recover, but pas[...]ase of the brain when he passed the team he was going as slowly as his was the immediate cause of his death.[...]ee miles an hour. Hans Hansen, the Swede, who was driving the team at He said the young[...]ed the time of the accident, informed the Tribune that he and the horses to one side of the road where there was an Mr. Selway and son, Earle, were hauling hay fr[...]the house. wagon, it tipped over when the wheels on one side of the[...]wagon ran upon the embankment. ·He said that had the drive while Earle Selway was driving a second one, and while not "lo[...]e driver of the automobile to possible. stop; that the team became unmanageable, turned out to the[...]Mr. Vogler in the automobile. Mr. Metlen tells the Tribune himself and Mr. Selway to the ground. that before Mr. Selway waved his hand to them,[...] |
| Mr. Metlen said that they barely moved along until the wagons were passed, then more speed was put on; that after passing the wagons the occupants of the automobile could not see the first wagon, which overturned and that he was the only one of the four looking back. After[...]ce, the first wagon became discernible and he saw that the wagon had overturned and he told Mr. Vogler s[...]e scene of the accident and the rest of his story is the same of that given by Mr. Vogler. He also stated that the team did not seem badly frightened, and that Mr. Vogler had gone as far over to the east side of the road as possible, and that he thought the accident was entirely due to the young Swede pulling the horse[...]lly from the time of the accident, but his injury was of such a nature that nothing could be done for him. He passed away wit[...]family were gathered around him, and although he was not aware of their loving ministrations, they ren[...]3.16A. horse told the housewives the bakery wagon was coming. The aroma of fresh bread preceded[...] |
| [...]Even the ladies took[...]buggy was a courting[...]was fine. Al Young driving his auto with C[...] |
| [...]Benjamin F. White's accident. Woman is Fannie Brown.[...] |
| [...]16 Dec 1925 The Barrett |
| [...]Roscoe Cornell and Pearl I. Smith. This hospital is as least the fourth hospital in Dillon.[...]ater Dr. Kingsbury. Ref.076.04. House on far left is home and clinic for Dr. H. D. Pickman near corner[...]streets in early 1880s in Dillon. Other building is a church. Ref. 055.24. A third was the Curtis Hospital at 719 S Washington,[...]in his home near the present day Methodist Church that included --excerpted from Dillo[...]A new hospital was constructed and opened for business in A second hospital-clinic was located at the corner of 1972. Its story[...]08. and now the location of Brookside Apartments, it was[...] |
| [...]rial Hospital was in the "darkest comer" of the old building ' s ba[...]His new working facility was in the central part of the new Physicians[...]etion of the new Barrett Memorial care and was trained in the use of the hospital ' s new crash[...]Beaverhead Laboratory Company (who is automatically chairman of the Executive[...]siness medical care and livestock business was made 15 Mar 1955, affairs has as chairman, Gordon[...]t-large Ted The beginning was the plan made by Dale E. Metlen of Hazelbaker.[...]Armstead, who had in mind an institution that could provide Following the inspection by Mon[...]f Dillon volunteered their services to make that would be of importance to the people of Southwest[...]ocedures and as Hazelbaker of the Executive Board was named to the a result of his observ[...]ilitate communications between technicians was able to set up one of the finest equipped the two[...]d just west of the old Dr. John Seidensticker was named the chief of staff at the Barrett Memorial Hospital, was constructed with the help of new hospital. A nati[...]of the opening of the new hospital, Dr. was Jim Williams who was recommended to the organization Albert Juergens h[...]s ID, which followed Laboratory at Helena at that time. his service with the United State Army Medi[...]nd First plans for the Laboratory made it primarily of training at the University of Michig[...]Dillon five more than 90 percent of the work was being done for the years as of 1972. His experien[...]he Korean conflict. medical diagnostic work was transferred to the new Barrett[...]Hospital. Dr. H. D . Rossiter was the radiologist at the new The agricultural diagnostic equipment was donated to hospital. He came to Dillon each Thursday and was on call Montana State University at Bozeman where it was accepted for emergencies, from his Sherida[...] |
| [...]nt sent to Bozeman from the Beaverhead Laboratory was valued at more than $2,315, with the largest piec[...]he new sites were carried out by Louis Hayes, who was the technician at the laboratory for many years,[...]f directors. The laboratory foundation, which was a non-profit organization, had as board of direct[...]At that time the County Poor Farm, located near the prese[...]Armory, was facing closure. A group of concerned Dr. H.[...]from Canyon A firm from Billings was engaged to construct and City OR with his seven s[...]ord came to Lima as a representative of the was first named Eventide of Dillon and was governed by a Utah and Northern Railroad. Others[...]above. lucrative pastures. Among those who stayed was Dr. M.A. The first patient was admitted 18 Feb 1965. The home Walker. He married Dr. Ford's daughter, Lucy, was a operated in this manner until Mar[...]tly, he started a tradition among area physicians that firm and incorporated Parkview Acres Convalescent and is still practiced in 1997.[...]was obtained through State Bank, Prudential Fe[...] |
| [...]r emergency general public. An additional $52,000 was received from equipment building), and W[...]s led to the Progressive Care Centers in Sep 1975 was largely influenced establishment and sustain[...]f all debt obligations, Special recognition is extended to Harold Petersen for his the board del[...]ay, 1st vice president- Serious consideration was given to dissolution of the Margaret Hagen[...]cil Jones, treasurer-Harold Petersen, and entity. It was eventually resolved to change the name to[...]k Hirschy, Fred L. approved by the new Foundation was for intensive care Hirshy, John Hirsch[...]Dolly $447,648. Of the remainder, nearly $20,000 was paid for Obiague, Anna Petersen, Harold[...]s), Grant Quick When Ken Bandelier was invited to attend a Salt Lake Response Uni[...] |
| However, he informed her that she was signed up for the same conference and would[...]the latest educational technology in education was the development of desk top computers. Nellieenvisioned many ways that a computer could be used to teach first graders a[...]to give any interested school first time that many faculty members put their hands on a distric[...]few members of the faculty became interested two. That looked like a really good deal for School Distric[...]to purchase the two computers met with a denial "It isn't in Trust obtained by Dr. Evelyn Hively,[...]college was able to purchase microcomputers and software[...]o purchase the computers for the school one that he had observed at Saint Martins College in Lacey[...]on the uses of computers in college instruction. It was the[...] |
| [...]n purchased a new IBM microcomputer for home use. It NET project. The purpose was to increase the opportunities was used exclusively by Ken as a word processor for s[...]g to touch Web. The executive board was charged with the another computer during retirement, not even to use it as a responsibility of obtaining a computer, placing it in an word processor to write personal letters.[...]operation. On 13 Sep 1995 application was made to Dillon C) Internet and Just a[...]) told Nellie about all of the Internet resources that she was to the Dillon-Net making it possible to accept donations of using in her clas[...]no charges for Browsing the Online magazines that Carol lent her, Nellie instruction; however, do[...]schools in Montana. the computer was installed in a handicapped available Nellie and Ken decided to get a modem for the IBM that furnished office space at 230 N. Idaho Stree[...]hen they retired. in the business district was donated for Dillon-Net's use by However, computer technology had changed so much that Robert and Norma Jean Miller, owners of[...]puter Access local telephone line access was installed with the monthly store would not work s[...]and installed the volunteer instructors was establish for the purposes of modem, which enable[...]present. There are no restrictions on who is served and no[...]day. On Wednesday the hours are one to nine p. m. that Dillon should have a community network.[...]Initially Big Sky Telegraph was the access server used to E) Dillon-Net is Born[...]erated by Dan Compton, provided without charge to was organized as an outgrowth of these communi[...] |
| [...]son. No limits were placed on the number of times that any one Volunteers are available at[...]astructure Assistance Grant. The following is the people under the age of eighteen must h[...]their use of the computer. The project "This is an Access project primarily to promote public[...]thwestern Montana will be served. "Dillon-Net is a nonprofit organization with volunteers now prov[...]ble from Dillon-Net." In early Sep Dillon-Net was notified that it would be awarded a grant of $97,509 for the purpo[...]in Dillon, where now the Vigilante storage garage is located. Following the awarding of the grant,[...]57.9 center per gallon. Ref093.06A. board decided that the name, Telecommunications Information Infrastructure Access Grant, was too long and did not really represent the true na[...]ame "CONNECT-NET for Community Lifelong Learning" was selected because it reflected the[...]Adams (Miss Millie), Private Sewing Nellie was named director of implementation and[...]Andrus Grill executive board secretary and was replaced by Cindy Andrus[...] |
| [...]Line Railroad was halted just short of a point where the Dillon Aut[...]the next few years, this terminus town was replaced by Dillon Bakery[...]substantial homes and commercial buildings and it was Eli el' s Department Store[...]The land immediately north of the town was an early Elliott Store[...]ever the perception, they felt compelled to share it with Hoffman Tire Company, across from Hartwig Th[...]A track for horse-racing was cleared. Spaces for foot Lougheed Men's Clothing,[...]le T. manager) place was named Selway Park. Dillonites were welcome to Mar[...]use the facilities as it was within walking distance of town. Metlen Hotel, co[...]re 1/18/22) Eventually the park was purchased by Roy and Jim Montana Power Company[...]dances. They were elegant affairs and admission was by O'Berem Auto Repair (C. W.) invitation only. The hall was decorated with crepe paper Olmsted-Stevenson Co.[...]false ceiling of twisted paper ribbons was also acoustical, Potts' Rexall Drug Store[...]skating consession was managed by Montie and Marie Tribune Book Store[...]nitor parts from that era. 108 - Beaverhead History No. 2 |
| [...]movements and very little foot work. Floor space was not needed. All good things come to an end. A[...]ted. Now weathered, forlorn and irremediable, it stands silent, no lights or Cahill Mooney[...] |
| [...]as a car salesman at Berger- Cochrane Motors. He was promoted to sales manager in the fall of 1955. Cochrane Motors was sold to George Gleed in 1958 and Don was still the sales manager. The dealership was moved to a new location that year, to a building that had been a livery stable in the early days of Dillon. It was located where Safeway is now. The name was changed to E. & H Ford Sales, Don Elliot and Jack[...]ken 1960s. Ref.188.12. Gleed Motors. George Gleed was the state representative from Beaverhead County and spent a lot of time during that year in Helena. Don Elliott was[...]ng promoted to general manager in 1958. Gleed was not a good businessman and he had been[...]management County around 1930. This was the time of the depression. when he returned from[...]t his truck drivers off the freight trains as him it was because of poor management. They conferred[...]in Dillon. Some of these drivers would later and it was decided that the senior Gleed would lend Don the haul gr[...]ltine moved to Dillon as a partner also. The name was Montana Power Company up to t[...]who came to work for Dad, though they would later leave In 1965 the new building for the dealership was built Featherly Trucking and purchase Cope Truckline. Micky north of town on Highway 41. It was then renamed Elliott O'Brien and Me[...]became the Walt soon got bigger trucks, that's when he started to do sole owner of the corpora[...]the bigger jobs. The trucking business was not without peril. Chrysler franchise and changed[...]he automobile and into Stone Creek where it burned. business. The business is now known as Big Sky Motors.[...] |
| [...]ft Featherly "If we don't have it, you don't need it!" Trucking. I don't know what happened to the rest of the men. The site of Walter Featherly's house in town was On her first day of business in Di[...]Logan where the current Eliel's Department Store is now located. made but one sale, a 15-cent ti[...]her acclaimed store, Gracie's New and Used, is a major -[...]of goods. Her motto, "If we don't have it, you don't need it," is certainly apropos. Gleed's Cocktail Lounge[...]is partially enclosed by a heavy wire-mesh fence but[...]rily by a strikingly beautiful stone wall. Inside is a for ladies to enjoy a before-dinner or an after[...]n, established the first cocktail lounge in is quick to quote, " ... we keep pretty well hidden.[...]t to Coast Store. heads. A gallon jar was once overflowing with false teeth This was not a short-order chow-down. The entrees were[...]small fenced area to the east, while at the rear is the the lunch hour and again, with a different me[...]il lounge in this space. On the west side is a huge quonset hut, filled to the The ceiling and walls were re-done and the floor was rafters with the overflow of incoming[...]washing machines, other household bar of mirrors was installed. Upholstered booths filled the good[...]The nearby yard is equally compelling, guarded by a 20- Terry Browning, Dillon's professional barkeeper was foot high totem pole, created by a local[...]xed drinks. dishes and utensils, or even a small horse-powered "The Bartender's Guide[...]ng snowplow. Overall, the effect is little short of hundreds of formulas for mixed drinks was available if a overwhelming. patron should[...]How did such a unique attraction evolve? Grace was The lounge was a popular place between the hours of bor[...]cocktails and in childbirth when Grace was four. dinner in an atmosphere of elegance and jovial comradeship. Grace was raised by her step-mother, a warm and loving[...]a railroad boxcar, a popular mode of travel in that[...]colorful pioneer resident of that famed mining camp.[...] |
| The store is immediately north of their creek-side home. They[...]s Second- Hand Store." However, they soon renamed it, "Gracie's New and Used, " and under her shrewd[...]h. Meanwhile, the equally-shrewd Steve was doing his own thing. He purchased and operated th[...]Adding to that impressive[...]image is "The Wall",[...]That addition[...]of the rocks from this area and in 1958 the wall was completed, a true masterpiece which contin[...] |
| [...]ntures. The In 1917 Chris Hansen was given the contract to deliver most frightening occurred as she was showing a .22 rifle to the mail from Dil[...]ther buyer, the Jackson. This route was known as the U.S. Star Mail first man slipped a shell into the rifle, fired it almost into her Route, going from Dillon to Arg[...]Badger Pass. The old road to Bannack cut off hear it!" When she screamed at the shooter, he fled the from Badger Pass and was called "The Dugway." store and never reappeared.[...]iving there, Steve loaded the revolver and handed it to Jackson. Chris operated this route for twenty years, the man who immediately pointed it at Steve and growled, traveling a hun[...]the a few tracks here and there. Mail was picked up at the police and the would-be thief was summarily apprehended in Dillon Post Of[...]ad" up Morrow Hill to Argenta. "He didn't go far, though," Grace remembers. "He couldn't see through the h[...]y by each other." Grace voiced concern to friends that few people would attend the funeral. She was both surprised and grateful when an overflowing c[...]-pass. She refuses to slow down, however, and is frequently seen unloading newly-acquired items fr[...]Ref.145.20. There is one short-coming, though, that irks her. "I just can't run as fast as I used to![...]the snow in high drifts, making it hard for the truck to travel[...] |
| [...]The following letter tells how he solved his problems:[...]Just to let you know that you have the heavy snow[...]"Super Snow Bird." It will go anywhere in snow and[...]elevation over the Big Hole divide; it is running 20 to[...]Snow Bird" last fall, every person to a man said it Chris had the Hansen Stage House in Dillon wh[...]ept supplies, grain and did repairs. The building was on It's a different song now and they like to ride. the[...]tana Street, next to the old post There is some homemade reinforced snow office and Walters[...]ed. He also had charcoal front) and the way it handles and performs indeed foot warmers for himself and passengers. makes it a SUPER SNOW BIRD.[...]The following is a poem composed by Mrs. A.H. Nilson,[...]It comes a practical means of transponation[...]Down into the valley of snow, that for variety[...]It comes not as a plane through canopy heights,[...]And not as with cars that the deep snow bars,[...]But it comes with a comfonable cab of black,[...]With wheels and skis that under Chris Hansen's Snow-Bird truck with snow tr[...]33. Refl45.21 . . When the ground is bare the wheels he'll use,[...]glasses, or teeth, Proof of what I say is given thus. medicine, material, parts, etc. When he came home, his March 24th on that fine day, daughter, Mercedes, would often run to town to fill the It would have taken ten horses and ten hours delay,[...]uld sell "The Grit" newspaper in Bannack. This is a fact upon I pledge my word, Chris would[...] |
| Because Chris was so good to all the people on his route, For[...]the Underworld, "Gypsy Dance" from Carmen or this was a great compliment to Chris. However, in 1937, he[...]The theater organist was paid $5 for four hours of --Chris' children: M[...]o The most popular pastime during the twenties was at the loges upstairs under the projection[...]on duty in both aisles to escort The theater was built in 1919 when silent moving patr[...]trons entering in the dark. Serials were Music was furnished by a pipe organ. Mrs. Pegram, the[...]ded in a crisis , purposely designed to bring and was prepared with appropriate music. Previews of[...]--Edith Hensen Palmer descriptive music was taken from the classics and opera, as well[...] |
| [...]11 The Twenties was a decade of elegance so "Casual was out![...]was also interested in mining and dabbled in mining v[...]Medicine Lodge; a deposit that had been discovered in[...]A siding was constructed by the G & P Railroad where[...]and coal was shipped by rail.[...]This coal was not lignite as many thought, but a sub-[...]is intermediate between peat and bituminous.[...]The area ranchers called it lugnite because "You lug Bertha Huber, Fred "Frit[...]It left a Thompson, children of Fidel and Lena Huber[...]e and cousins of content of 18 to 20 %. It resisted poling or stirring. It Mrs. Kupfer. Ref. 096.06.[...]would only respond to shaking the grates, as it needed a[...]great amount of oxygen from beneath to keep it alive. In[...]spite of these adverse characteristics, it was a welcome[...] |
| Hank Meine Was A Pilot[...]Ref170.12. Henry Francis "Hank" Meine was born 23 Mar 1926. first Beach Bonanza's ever built. When it was new, the |
| [...]chartered the life to aviation. His loss is aviation's loss and he leaves an plane to conduct[...]We deny death in aviation; we believe that no real pilot light plane only 50 to 75 feet off[...]t. They take a last a steep banking turn. He said it then turned over on its long forever fl[...]ill miss his presence among us here at motor, but it smashed into the ground about four miles off[...]ek at about 7,000 feet elevation. behind. It's very quiet at the airport this week, too, and w[...]Montana Auto Supply Co. Plane crash that took the life of Henry "Hank" Meine |
| [...]the town's beginnings. Only months after the city was founded, Hiram Brundage, editor of the Sheridan M[...]a Dillon newspaper called the Tribune. J.F. Kline was the editor and the first issue appeared 19 Feb 18[...]eading railroad town in the territory". There was also an article by James Kirkpatrick which contended that while Dillon probably would not rival Chicago or San Francisco, "it may yet and at no very distant day be the largest town in Montana." The Tribune was the town's only newspaper for only a few short ye[...]he principles of the Democratic party whose cause it will espouse and defend." They promised a "hi[...]home and fireside rigidly excluded." On the staff was Will Oakley, a genial and interesting young man who had a fine sense of humor. At first the print shop was housed in the Kirkpatrick building on the corner[...]erated by a man turning a crank. Most of the news was from Bannack and the Big Hole, as they were older settlements. There was also national news. Free coinage of silver was a Dillon Tribune office in the IOOF Hall, built in 1888, burning issue at that time. located at the comer of Bannack asnd Idaho streets. In that first year, ads told the wonders of a dentist who[...]tooth extractions without pain"; beef by the side was 5 cents a pound; Excelsior Tonsorial Parlors[...]s (private entrance for ladies Later, the plant was moved to a site on Montana Street. at the back) a[...]Poindexter took over as editor. In 1915 of Dillon was advertising a minstrel show at the opera house[...]r. Poindexter and operated the and Eliel' s store was just newly rebuilt. paper wi[...]the business, Kress and Barker moved paper, it received a Montana State Press Association award[...]nter and Montana streets. In 1900 the partnership was Montana weekly paper. dissolved and Kress[...]" _in a third owner. Reporter for many years was Homer Faust, Dillon received front page recogniti[...]st, were line cuts or etchings as photo-engraving was not used the Montana Standard and the Butte[...]ch had been publishing continuously business when it installed a simplex typesetting machine[...] |
| [...]y a few months Atlantis. The Lima Ledger was published for a few decades before talcing a posi[...]took over the paper and published until 1965 when it was sold to Sam Burgess of Dickensen ND. William Finnefrock bought the paper in 1968 and ran it until 1975 When General Jim Womack took over.[...]ite, 22 S. Montana. In 1976 a rival newspaper was started under the name "Trade Wind." The publication was owned by Jerry Hawkins and Ken Chaffin. This paper was published until 1979 when Sage Publishing, a Wyom[...]m with newspapers there and in Montana, purchased it and the Dillon Tribune-Examiner and combin[...] |
| [...]-no orders recorded Beaverhead County was one of the original Montana Lakeview[...]1889-present -formerly Adderdice it was organized in Montana Territory. In 1911 Ce[...] |
| [...]store, news depot and post office in Dillon. This was Dillon's first officical post office.[...] |
| [...]distinguished himself above and beyond. Because it was in 1959 that Dillon's chair lift first brought skiing ease and Immediately south of the Metlen Hotel there is a dwelling renown to Rainy Mountain--the hi[...]personal ski summits. twenties, there was a sign on the door of this little home:[...]like he was stamping out ants, gave thrust to "operation get[...]atrons paid the admission price along" . That's what the Montanans called their chair lift to l[...]he air without the benefit of wires. This concept was too unbelievable for most "practical" minds to ac[...]ith three dials and a volume control. The speaker was a separate unit sitting on top of the box. In ranch homes without electricity , the radio was powered by a wet cell battery adjacent to the rad[...]in, the three dials had to be adjusted. Reception was excellent. There were not many broadcasting stati[...]not clogged with many signals. The best reception was from KFI Los Angeles and KSL Salt Lake City. Othe[...]adcasts consisted of music and news. Later, drama was added. Fifteen-minute comedy skits dominated the[...]esque slopes of Rainy Mountain. How this mountain was broke to skiing is ski-dom's tallest story--taller by a ten- gallon[...]untain Sky Run, foot chair lift, all for $25,000. That's a challenge even in later named Maverick Mountain. Ref 178. 23A. the Big Hole Basin where thinking big was born. The chair lift is unquestionably the only one in this nation, if no[...]late coyotes, there's not more than 150 skiers in that sweeping thirties. They were twin wands that unlatched winter's tumult of mountain, forest and[...]o 20 years of sapping work for the sport and It's a story of a man and a ski club, who together have work is McCracken's grist. provided one of the most amazi[...]ch he espoused his new love of the sport. The man is 67-year-old T. Lee McCracken, soon found the ski masters of that early day tapping him as former vice president of[...]first jumping meets in Montana. In 1958 winner of that association's revered Blegen award, the years that followed, he judged jumping meets over the[...] |
| [...]ided one of the caught in a mountain fastness that preserves the authenticity few high school ski te[...]area and the asphalt world outside is only for spree-taking McCracken's early ski d[...]ming guides but unspoiled grassmen proud that their cattle are pool and cluster of cabins in th[...]rty second to none. miles northwest of Dillon. It had a small rope tow hill but Winter was a long, boring insulation against activity in was so remote for winter that more deer than skiers capered the thirties and a cow town like Dillon ossified in the snow. around it. The family, including Mrs. McCracken and two But not for T. Lee. In 1938 he was among the organizers sons, exhausted themselves p[...]eryone ... and then straggled home on Sunday was installed. It brought new skiing fun to the hard core of night[...]. Dillon skiers. It was the longest one yet, 3,800 feet.[...]mountain that rose shining and majestic in the sun high[...]The report came in that the twenty-year-old chairs of the[...]rolling hay hands for contributions. Those that couldn't give[...]the finally realized $3,500. A total of $12,000 was borrowed cabin, of course. About this time a few[...]in the ski club madness--and the prospect was waxed for the leaving their pot-bellied stoves to[...]decided to try the ski hill one day. A cowboy is a daring sort and will try anything once. He loves fun and quickly found that's what skiing is all about. They found, too, that their bow legs had plenty of camber and that you could train those boards with a little[...] |
| [...]Riley Trucking Fay Clinton Riley was born 23 Dec 1920 to Ella Hansen and Clifford J. R[...]p in Dillon, located about where the Co-op Supply is now. This was the base for Buck Falls and started a and Riley t[...]Dillon the summer of 1950. "Home" produce was hauled to Ike Meagher-Gambel-Robison in was a rented duplex apartment owned by Minnie "Grandm[...]building of cinder block. The building was located facing Highway 41 where Co-op Supply is now and bounded on the[...]produce. The vehicle is now owned and used by Warren[...]Mussard. The place he used as a garage was owned by Ed[...]Rebish shared the garage for a time. Riley. It was a busy place. Ref.093.07A.[...]hay on the Mace Ranch, and Fay moved into it in Oct 1972 and established Riley now known as the Matador Ranch. His boss was Lloyd Trucking Service, Inc. at 6 Ram[...]s and hauled livestock from Fay's first truck was a 1946 Chevrolet. He began loca[...] |
| [...]was him going broke. He spent several years working i[...]operation that became a bus stop for the Intermountain Bus[...]passed away in 1959 and is buried in Dillon. Craig Riley, Cathey Bays an[...]his attention |
| The townsite of Armstead is now under about ninety feet of water, bury[...] |
| [...]nto the NW4NW4 member and president. He worked on it for several years Sec. 26 to the SE4SE4[...]etery, up a draw to back and highlight the routes that Everett and Frances arrive at the plat[...]son explored in researching this article. It 's a followed the original road northwest to[...]doubt, the dirt used on the roof of the house is plainly 6. Salmon City 1864-1885 , 1885-1908[...]was located on the edge of the bench on higher ground[...]00 feet up the creek from Metlen' s location. It came into what is now Montana from the south This[...]reveal any metal relics at all. crossing the pass that is now known as Medicine Lodge Why the dirt and rock pile is there is only conjecture, but Pass. This was used first by pack trains and shortly after[...]rains. Oliver original waterline in 1903. It is said that when the waterline and Hollady stage lines used this route until the fall of 1863. was dug, jewelry and watches were found in the area. The route was used by freighters for a number of years after[...]1.8) Oliver stage station and post office was established 1.1) Deadman's at the junction of[...]1.9) Willis Station and post office was established 12 Sep 1.2) Sheep Creek Station,[...]10) Darling Bridge (Brown Bridge) and post office was Rl 1W. Here, in 1987, can be found the remains of[...]er. Creek and Medicine Lodge Creek. At this point is said to 1.12) Moose Creek station (J[...]8 Barrett Creek into Horse Prairie valley at what was known Tl S R9W thence on over the contine[...]own as Barrett's Crossing. As of 1987 , the place was known as Deer Lodge River (now Silver Bow[...]route was there. Considerable travel to and from the Deer[...]Lodge and Gold Creek valleys was being made at this time. 128 - Beaverhea[...] |
| [...]rse Prairie crossing thus to Knox Station and It came into what is now Montana from the south, Bannack. crossing the pass that is now known as Monida but known in 1863 as Pleasant[...]ty Road 1863-1880, Silver Bow Deer Lodge This was used by the Indians and the first written (1863-67) information was by James and Granville Stuart. They used[...]be about where the interchange at Snowline is located on 1- on the divide. Shortly after the discovery of gold at Alder 15 south of Lima. It ran north through center of Sections Gulch, pack[...]mpanies started using this route in 1863 and used it until T14S R8W north through Sec. 29, 24, 13[...]ssing into T12S R8W Sec. 35 , 26 1880. This route was also used by the freighters and and[...]ute. This is at the junction of Sage and Little Sage creeks and 2.1) Pine Butte on Junction Creek was located about was maintained from 1863 to 1867 at what was known in three miles north of the present town of Monida. NE4NE4 1941 as the P O sheds; in 1987 it was owned by the Sec. 4 (the written description shows it 4 but the map shows Matador Cattle Company. From there the road ran through it 5) or 5 T15S R6W.[...]down Price Creek to the mouth of the canyon where was located on Junction Creek. SE4SE4 Sec. 21 T21S Price Creek station was established. From this R14W . This, in 1987 , is about the location of the Snowline point, on[...]d 3.2) True Dell Station. This station was located just Montgomery headquarters ranching ope[...]nd of Price canyon. In 2.3) Alderdice Station was located at SE4SW4 Sec. 3 1987 , there w[...]here. T14S R8W. In 1987 the location of Alderdice was about This was a complete station offering stock change, repair,[...]e are a overnight lodging , meals , etc. It was very necessary to have couple of trees and severa[...]p of a difficult high mountain area. This station was located on the Bill Alderdice ranch. country. The old barn used by Overland was still in use in 1941, now 3.3) Price Cr[...]Tl0S R6W known as the Retire ranch. As of 1987 , it was owned by was at the mouth of Price Canyon. In 1987 , there was an James Munday. old foundation and cellar. If this is the right location, it is 2.4) Red Rock Station. NW4NW4 Sec. 4 T14S R8W . to the right-hand side of the road that leads into the Chaffin 1987 no information on this site. About one mile west of Ranch which was the old E.O. Selway headquarters. Alderdice was in use at the time the railroad supplanted the[...]one running down the 2.5) Sheep Creek Station was located on the bench east side of the[...]alf-mile Helena and Deer Lodge. The station was discontinued about from the junction of the Big S[...]lishment of the Great Beaverhead Road River. This was a dinner station, and was located about through Ryan (Beaverhead) canyon. From here it ran where the highway crossed Sheep Creek in 1941. This was northeast over the divide between the B[...]the Sweetwater and Ruby 2.6) Crabtree Station was located SW4NW4 Sec. 7 T12S River, up Alder Gulch to Virginia City. R9W. It is in the general area of the present railroad sidin[...]ers were Doc Orr and Felix Alder Gulch, it was necessary to establish a road to Virginia Hennity. As of 1987, it belonged to James McBee. Mrs. City. Since the road already was established as far as the Al Young ran this station and her husband was one of the Bunton Parish Station at Rattl[...]Deer colorful drivers of the 8-horse stages and was known as Lodge road, a branch was established northeast and climbed "Hard Tack" to[...]over the divide into the head of what is now known as 2.8) Red Rock (Shineberger) Station was located on the Frying Pan Basin. It followed down the Frying Pan Basin bank of the R[...]ulch across the Beaverhead at what in later years was Here the road turned west from Red Rock t[...] |
| [...]the mouth of creek bearing At this crossing there was in later years a hotel and a full his name. Clark was a very early trapper and built a cabin complement of facilities. It has had many owners, but about at the mouth of the creek long before gold was discovered. 1900 Conrad Meine secured the property and it has remained NE4SE4 Sec. 33 T9S RlOW. in the[...]Creek NW4NE4 Sec. U T9S RlOW. This was later known 4.2) Stone Ranch at the mouth of[...]g his as Gallagher Creek Station and a saloon was operated here. name, in 1987 owned by the Malesich family. It was here that Jack Oliver stage company maintained a relay stat[...]Beaverhead Rock, where the Point of Rocks Station was established in 1863. SW4SW4 Sec. 22 TSS R7W. The old barn and station house in which was Annie Martin's saloon and hotel were still standi[...]only a few of the logs remained. This station was used by the various stage companies until 1900. F[...]5. Virginia City Helena Road 1867-1881: There was no way to get down the Beaverhead from[...]Ref. 086. 03A. we in 1987 call Barrett. It meant a trip via Bannack or by the Virginia City road that branched down Blacktail Deer Creek to reach Virgi[...]sold to Henneberry and he later to Barrett. This was charter by the Montana Territorial Legisla[...] |
| [...]e federal highway system in 12 T7S RlOW. In 1987, it is the site of Helen Larson, in Montana. 1997 the Harrington ranch. There is one old building still there, the others being re[...], the road bridged the river to bring there was a stage route known as the "Salmon City" road. th[...]Creek. Instead of crossing the creek, it followed it up the[...]Here was a post office in 1909. As of 1987, this post offi[...]building was part of the home of Mrs. Nettie Wellborn. Tol[...]nd stables on left. Old |
| [...]The first location of the State Bank in 1899 was at the[...]which is still standing but greatly revamped, was constructed[...]money. Every cent was paid to the depositors with the[...]The building was constructed of brick made in Dillon[...]The entrance on the comer could even now be designated 6.6) Midway Station located[...]es to reach street numbering system began at that corner. the top of the continental divide. This is the divide that The building became the property of Mr.[...]d a five- Pacific. NW4SW4 Sec. 14 TI0S R15W. Here was located year lease at $15 a month for it. The lease had not quite a hotel, restaurant, bar[...]. expired when the State Bank was established. They desired[...]a good location and a v~ult, so my father was induced to[...]backing, its success is assured. "[...]and the gold fields of Prairie Basin. Dillon was a "splendid[...]n City ID arriving at Red Rock MT. Mathews was a carriage painter. D. W. Callahan and Beers[...]cited for passengers: The to Salmon City ID. Here is located the monument to Chicago, Mi[...]ffet cars and standard sleeping cars. feet. There is a good gravel road over the pass.[...]--Everett F. Johnson reception was planned for the boys returning from the[...]Philippines. Dillon was not to be outdone by New York in 132 - B[...] |
| [...]ing in. W.M. Oliver had 50 bucks shot and trouble was anticipated for Woods Livestock Co., coming in wi[...]ut later with the homestead laws. Bottom land was farmed and public domain was used for grazing. The terrible winter of 1886-87 was preceded and followed by a very dry summer.[...]hey owed a great deal to B.F. White for survival. It was in that situation that the State Bank of Dillon opened for business. About 1906 the bank location was moved to the Tribune building on the comer of Bannack and Idaho Streets where it owned the lower floor and the Order of Odd Fellows retained the second floor. A hole was made in the side of the building to remove the Tribune press. About 1910 dry-land farming was begun. The Enlarged Homestead Act opened up tract[...]g furniture, farm tools and families all at once. It was still mainly the horse age; tractors were clumsy[...]ient. The dry farmers had good crops in 1915, but that was the last time. A crucial situation developed[...]350,000 and placed his money in both local banks. That saved the day for both banks. Sulliva[...]n. The summer of 1919 Eugene and Dave A., was later the location of Anderson's was so dry that the barometer never moved all summer. livery in 1897. Ref 159.06. The following winter was terrible, particularly because of inadequate feed[...]Tanning Hides at Home was a dry year, so dry that in going from Dillon to Lima[...]Thoroughly flesh the hide ; that is , carefully scrape away all there were only two g[...]ver on a clean floor , spread the hide on it, hair side down , and cover the bank. The communi[...]e ounces of commercial sulfuric acid to two banks that he would not desert them; he saved the day for[...]t enough solution to cover the hide. Soak it first in cold water until condition.[...]soft and pliable and drop it in the solution held in a wooden[...]must be stirred at intervals to assure even and uniform tanning.[...]Remove the hide , wash well and work it over until soft and[...] |
| [...]Dillon telephone company 1889. Manager was Charles Vaughn age 35. Employees were Min[...]apprentice equipment installer in May of 1953. At that time company was changed to Mountain Bell. installers were largely small crews that were sent from town About the only serious accident that happened in my to town installing equipment in the central offices of the memory was the explosion that happened in the early 1970s telephone company.[...]After traveling the state for almost six years, I was was drawn into the air conditioning and then ignited.[...]re walls bulged out; however, the machinery was not seriously three times while on the road, I was very happy to accept. damaged. The commerci[...]ith our trailer house (Okie wagon) building was restored. and we have been here ever since.[...]I have always considered myself very fortunate that I was Dillon at the time was a manual office located at 25 East on vacation at the time, since the central office was my main Glendale. Subscribers were answered by "n[...]responsibility at the time of the explosion. It was quite a and the calls were completed by placing a cord at the shock to hear the news on the radio that the Dillon telephone appropriate jack and the rin[...]on office maintained a large area in southwestern that the customers received from the dedicated operato[...]and were The new office at 25 North Idaho Street was completed in served out of Lima which was one of our offices. The trip Aug 1959 and the cha[...]fice to dial office to the Centennial office was difficult, especially in winter. was completed. Just prior to the cutover, the Madison[...]quake took place; however, the telephone building was vehicles; so in case of trouble, many days[...]lephone wires. Big went by, the commercial office was closed, the manager job Sheep Creek was also a long trip and winter trouble was also was eliminated and orders and trouble reports[...] |
| [...]in the outside plant. Lead- sheathed cable was the first type and was very troublesome. The lead would crack an[...]e problem and, finally, much of the outside plant was buried. Generally, telephone people spent the[...]location not given. Ref.073.29. Bell" and morale was high among the employees. This was a plus for both Horse Prairie. There we[...]red to as party lines. During the 1970s there was a movement to break up the Obviously e[...]must have a signal to determine Bell System. It didn't matter that the company was who is being rung. Long rings and short rings in differe[...]n the courts If the person being called was on the same circuit, the and attorney fees were v[...]nd crank on the upper right finally gave in. This was the "Consent Decree." It was side of the telephone box. However, if[...]ne short and one long, and ask the The result was that seven "Baby Bells" were created and operator to switch to the proper circuit and ring the party AT&T was its own company, not related to any of the other wanted. companies. The date of the breakup was 01 Jan 1984. On The operator had to[...]ew company. from the floor. There was a slight adjustment to the I enjoyed my thirt[...]ght months of service, extended mouthpiece. It could be raised or lowered a few and looking back[...]There was a sloping shelf with a holding edge at the[...]needed by the caller. It also served as an elbow rest. The box was of highly polished oak. Two bells at the After the Gilmore and Pittsburg Railroad was completed top front were enclosed in nickel[...]make a call he first lifted the Telephone Company was formed. Telephone poles and lines receiver to determine if the line was clear. If there was a were installed along the railroad track between[...]wait for the line to clear. A building was constructed near the Oregon Short Line Or he could "listen-in" on the conversation. This was depot in Armstead to house the Gilmore and Pittsb[...]oard. determine if someone wanted the line or was rubbering as Telephone poles with two wires were installed from the there was a discernable clicking sound as each receiver was mainline to the many ranch homes on Medici[...] |
| [...]ted. Alveretta worked the Dillon switchboard . At that time all calls in Dillon were completed through a[...]Dillon switchboard with several operators on duty was located at 25 East Glendale Street also known as[...]g along with Larry McGivney, secretary. Jim Given was lineman. Some of the rings originating[...] |
| [...]he original Safeway store. The late Esther Hughes is the young lady with the glasses. The two ladies a[...]was in town. If somebody was having a baby, we'd call the[...]The company was in poor shape, full of rotting poles that in the Big Hole[...]sn't replaced. dead batteries, which it was up to the company to change. George bought c[...]liked them because they couldn't rubber," when he was 20, George spent years working at his[...]everyone and everyone knew you. " It was a big job, but George had his wife, Essie, by his[...]ne cold winter day when he waited for side. "She was a worker, and could put in poles, run the[...]on. On his third climb, one woman was puzzling about From 1944 until the la[...] |
| [...]"I used to come home from work and while Essie was getting dinner, I'd sit at the switchboa[...]Helming, with George and a sister in George is pleased. "It's been a challenge all the way tow, headed to[...]ing bought a inches of snow on the ground when he was born 04 Jul lemon grove. He died there 07 Feb 1922, the same date that 1904, on the Bielenberg and Walker ranch ten mile[...]n to get the doctor and got lost in grade school, that was it." He mowed lawns, picked fruit, the snow."[...]another man were the only non-Mexicans. Pay was six cents 1896 "to see what was going on." He sent for his wife and a box and[...]n Iowa. "Six dollars a day was big money. " George later took a George was four when his mother died from pneumonia. sec[...]ng about 10,000 labels on boxes, working a Around that time, his father bought a ranch in Fox, 12 miles[...]'ve worked all my life. Never up the road. George was the youngest child and asserts, regretted it one bit." ·"The last fellow is always the guy who has to do everything In 1[...]kind of fancy He attended a one-room school that had a revolving batch teachers anyway. " of teachers. "They'd stay one year and decide it was too The years with Essie were good ones[...]e, who died in a car accident in When George was about six, his father married a young 1974. "There wasn't anybody she didn't know. She was a woman from the East he'd wooed through letters. "I don't wonderful woman." He's proud to say that their daughter, know if she knew what she was getting into. " Frances Cumming of Helena, "Is a school teacher like her Lucetta Helming was one of the most wonderful nurses. mother." Geo[...]could do just about everything a doctor could at that time."[...]--excerpted from Montana Standard 1980 Life was simple and money scarce. They traveled by horse[...]dy and I could have half a stick once in awhile. That's all, but it was a good living."[...] |
| [...]Items The yard engine was fired up and Dr. Clutter went to the[...]Miner, was a passenger. "Bart" told our reporter that he was "Pied" for a few minutes and the scene at the wre[...]was the worst "Pied up" mess he ever looked upon.[...]It is fortunate that no one was killed, and although Fireman Mulligan is seriously burned, it is thought he will[...]caboose, was heavily loaded with horses, railroad iron, coal,[...]able and snow . A snow fence, six feet in height, is being built along flew along the track, increasing its speed until it was both sides of the cut, which will prevent its fil[...]4 . . . . . Cow Killer Engine over what is termed a reverse curve in the track, the train[...]had attained such an appalling velocity that the fifth car Last Tuesday night' s southboun[...]ight cars were almost instantly Utah and Northern was ditched four miles north of Dillon derail[...]h of the railroad bridge Conductor Edwards was on top of the fifth car from the crossing the Beaverhead River. The train was coming down caboose at the time of the ac[...]twenty miles an hour applying the brake. He was thrown a distance of twenty-five when the acciden[...]Landing on his head on a pile of rocks, his skull was The cause of the ditching of the train was an old cow. smashed in and his brains ran o[...]ng before the Brakeman Sayles, who was on the fourth car from the cow-catcher caught the[...]hought his caboose at work on the brake, was thrown violently to the engine was moving at such a velocity that the animal would ground on the derailment of the car. His right shoulder was be thrown off the track, but instead the locomoti[...]injuries, but not the cow and in a moment's time was dumped on the prairie. necessarily of a fa[...]e train proceeded down the grade toward Glen at a was badly wrecked. The engine was turned over on its side, fearful rate of sp[...]the track. passenger car thrown out of position. It is something The train was badly smashed up and wrecked, and the remarkable that in such a complete wreck no person was freight was scattered and to a great extent destroyed. Out of[...]th alkali mud from head to foot. Fireman Mulligan was more or less injured. less fortunate. He was badly scalded in the legs and[...] |
| [...]ummond, rector of St. James' engine was found under the tender of the second engine, his Church, officiated. The deceased was about 33 years old. head horribly crush[...]Dillon and is laid out in the round house. Engineer Sweeney Dil[...]Jul 1884 U and N to get Air Brakes is badly injured, but is doing as well as could be expected[...]re to be The northbound passenger train is sidetracked awaiting fitted with air brakes. With[...]he removal of the wreck from the track. The wreck is a no fear of a repetition of a disaster like the one that occurred bad one. At the hour of the Tribune go[...]he Utah resumed over the road. and Northern was setting the brake on a passenger care going through Beaver Canyon, he was thrown from the car, sustaining injuries about the head and neck. The surgeon of the U. P. was on the train at the time of the accident and Mr.[...]on the excavation for the round house at Dillon. It is to be a three-stall turntable round house. It is a much needed railway improvement, and when finished it will be quite an addition to the appearance of ou[...]t remarkable railroad collisions and train wrecks that has ever happened in railroading in the country, Trains continued to wreck. This O.S.L engine was damaged occurred on the Utah & Northern early thi[...]olled down the grade. On they came. The track was clear and the detached train passed rapidly throu[...]ett stations. Emerging from Ryan canyon the train was flying but keeping the track. A ranchman, who was up at the time, saw the train pass his place and told a Tribune reporter, "It was going like the devil beating tan-bark, without any engine!" The train was heard passing through Dillon, but strange to say, no one saw it. On it went northward, passing the curve and railroad br[...]uced a frightful and fatal wreck. The freight was in charge of Conductor McGee of Spring Hill. Engineer Sweeney of Engine No. 751 was badly scalded, cut and bruised and Firema[...] |
| [...]unty towns were slow to organize utility services even when available in other areas. Here we share some[...]pipe for Dillon in 1905. Twelve miles of the pipe was wood. A. L. Badcon was City Water Commissioner at the time. Ref.[...] |
| Lower power plant built when more power was needed by Dillon as the community grew. Located where the Barnes Honey company is now. Ref. 074. 03. Turbines at first p[...] |
| [...]ore Wisdom Store showing wall paper inventory that was popular decorating tool for many a homeste[...] |
| [...]oorway. Shorty Cruthers, an Overland stage driver is tall man in middle left with long whiskers. Sheriff was Charles Padley.[...] |
| [...]drew Jackson "Jack" Bean, and Brigham Young. Jack was the tenth child of Milton Bean and[...] |
| [...]ok in the distance to see if perchance a traveler was Most of the European immigrant groups are represented coming. If one could be seen, son John was to meet the in the family and personal history se[...]le several decades ago and we present the text as it was written was to enter, kindle a fire, stay overnight, feast on[...]ly correct facade. More research needs to who was teaching at the district school in the little log[...]our county and its people into what "stage" was nothing more or less than a large, strong spring[...]ee! The squaws try in vain to sell the It was past time for his return and his food would likel[...]gh drifts of snow they went with young few braves that live have a right to eat. Make ready for a J[...]o's tail. long journey to our old hunting ground. It pleases the Great Pages could be written o[...]It was in August during haying that the Bannocks quietly Thus spoke Chief Tendoy[...]the campfire. The hunting grounds. Excitement was great when the white folks squaws hastily made preparation for a trip across the learned that the Indians had returned and were fishing and mou[...]children were adorable. She made the remark that she government put them on a reservation in south[...]r clean our own children up and love desert land. Even if the farms could be irrigated, that kind them more." of labor is not at all suited to an Indian's nature.[...]the bucks were mounted on for the settlers. Even though it was the hottest month of the sleek Indian ponies.[...]f beef were cut off as home of the Bannock tribe, was an ideal home for them. needed for roasting. The air was so pure that meat would The streams abounded with trout[...] |
| [...]it to the chief and said, "Make your eyes well." Pre[...]the lunch was served and the chief ate greedily. An Indian was never known to refuse food and the best way to ma[...]friends with our red-skinned brothers is by sharing food with[...]The answer was always in the affirmative. It seemed to me that the brothers invented excuses for coming, such as[...]One day I answered a rap on the door. On opening it,[...]of fish. The next day just as the noonday meal was ready to[...]At the table he sat beside me and I noted that he did not[...]he would like to hear the gramophone, which at that time was very popular. The chief had never heard one and was[...]music in which the tom-tom had a prominent part was[...]Ellis turned to me with these remarks, "You write it. You're At the grave they wept and moaned. So[...]parted father until his eyes were "Make it short. Say he is a good Indian, but don't use inflamed and sore; c[...]rom the light. At length, the with him when he was a boy. He is all right." mourners left the lonely grave. Darkness came on and the I wrote, "To whom it may concern: This is to certify that only sound to be heard was the howling of the coyotes. I have known Y ouhoot Tendoy all his life and I know that Perhaps Chief Tendoy was lonely and the light from Tom he is a good Indian. (Signed) Thomas Ellis" Ellis' s cabin inspired him to pay his old friend a visit. It "Ugh! Ugh! Good Injun, good Injun," grunted Youhoot. was a sad Indian chief who called at the Ellis home, but his Late one evening as Joe Ellis, Tom's son, was bunking stately manner and quiet dignity was fascinating. in a tent near the spr[...]by the name of Stick-in-the-Mud approached. Joe was coffee for him, the chief would have thought Tom was a mischievous, so he began snapping his[...]e-Mud! Me want drink! Me want would have resented it. So Tom asked, "Are you hungry?" nickel t[...]oked at Mrs. Ellis and soberly morning if it were agreeable with his father. Early the[...] |
| He refused to carry it, but placed it on the squaw's back. As they left, the squaw look[...]l young women visited the Indian camp where there was plenty of dirt, no activity and no complaining. A[...]Much to our disappointment, the baby's name was Molly. We thought it should have a picturesque Indian name. We held the baby in our arms. She had coal-black hair and eyes and was a "sweet" little thing as her round face was covered with molasses. The molasses was covered with dozens of _flies, yet the child neve[...]g the papoose's picture. They have a superstition that their lives are shortened ten years if a picture is taken of them. They were willing to shorten the l[...]roke camp. Within a few minutes, the whole outfit was trailing the men, leaving us standing there alone[...]meat to take with them to the reservation. So that is how the United States Government has[...]arlan Applegate college men, but the fact remains that the blanket Indian prefers his own kind of[...] |
| [...]Laundry day was something we kids looked forward to Chine[...](1907-1915) as Quong was a jovial soul. He would return[...]done up in a sheet on his back. He dropped it on the Tommy Haw, according to Phil Orr, son of M[...]now clean laundry, there was always a present or prize, and[...]o save box tops or green stamps to get them. DAKE was the Chinese cook at the P & 0 during the 1890s[...]ke fourth of July, New Year's, and in later years was the cook for Mr. William C. Orr at Chinese[...]re were bonus gifts the Orr Mansion in Dillon. He is included in an early of lichee nuts, Ch[...]ar for each of us boys, and a In circa 1896 he was taken on a wagon expedition to choice pi[...]er and asked, Mother (Katherine Orr) was but five foot two inches and "How fishing?"[...], bashed up pans and smashed canned Williams is unknown. He replaced Dake as cook at the goods. Dake got mad and quit! It took a lot of persuasion Home Ranch, probably around 1895 on the basis that I including one armed man in camp at all times to keep a good remember about 1915 it was said that he had cooked there cook on the job.[...]dson Philip (named for Philip Charlie was a small somewhat wizened and taciturn man Poindexter and the teller of these stories) was born in 1903, of indefinite age, which may have[...]he new baby and presented his mother, though he was called the "Old Chinaman." He wore Katherine, wit[...]d up with bobbed tails, and no one He was a good cook and a fast one, and while he could understand what was happening to them. During the complained no person was ever turned away from the cook winters sometimes[...]house hungry during Charlie's rein, be it a solitary cowboy, Occasionally a tail was caught in a coyote or muskrat trap, or drumme[...]o but there were just too many bobtailed cats for that. Selway's or Cornell's. There was always pie and cake One day, Charlie Orr (fou[...]th a cat and a cleaver. As the cat ran Even here, if demanded, as a New Englander once did, pie yowling away, Charley, who was very tender-hearted, took was served. Meat and potatoes, with garden vegetables[...]otherwise Charlie catchem." Charlie insisted this was cruel and inhuman worked without aid, i[...]mattah you, you choppem tail Iii' sheeps (docking is in the middle. The two twenty-foot oil-cloth[...]slopped to the middle, making a crack there that was called mouse. Me catchem cat tail, cat catchum mo[...]it in a muddy stream. QUON LUNG KEE, known as "Quong" was the Orr From the time I was five or six years old to the time family laundry man for many years at the tum of the when I was about 12, I helped Charlie in the kitchen when ce[...], Charlie let me tum the meat, eggs, or hot which was started by Mr. Wikidal.[...] |
| one, I got a Cantonese chewing out that would turn your[...]They show up on the show it.[...]1900 and 1910 The big dinner bell on the roof was rung six times a day,[...]"Chinaman" so we ringing. It was about 1914 when Uncle Finley Cunard was[...]ch needs father, Ernest, had upset the bell which was then located on to be done on the the old Indian fort, filled it with water until it froze solid,[...]and the China cook, probably Dake, couldn't ring it for[...]went out and filled the bell with water and held it there until it froze[...]ed such a result as the stream of Cantonese oaths that rose in the cold OSL roundhouse Chinese wor[...]one Ben Williams, a Chinese boy of 19 years, who was semi-hunched back and consumptive. During the win[...]n A Dane Comes to America China, or so it was said.[...]a because it gives a personal view into the common experience[...]on a five year long visit from 1914, and that visit has now in[...] |
| [...]sight of this man pouring "oil" on the hotcakes was more I possibly could. She agreed to this. It didn't take long for than my stomach could tak[...]full speed pulled up to a quick halt. The driver was a man their adventuresome and dangerous lives on[...]against the whites to save their hunting grounds. It didn't smile motioned for me to sit up beside him. The smile, I take long to decide that America was the place for me. later found out, was caused by the way I looked, my derby I had to go to Copenhagen, Denmark, because I was not hat and girlish-pink complexion made him think I was a permitted to leave Sweden legally as I was of military age young preacher from the Eas[...]s of training. In Denmark American. I found it easy to obtain papers and tickets aboard the S.S.[...]about 21 miles, the route went over the prairies that passed were taken to the mainland. People sat on[...]wiped away, highway, which did not exist at that time. When within a especially by elderly ladies[...](stage station), where a man was holding four fresh horses. Before boarding my train west, I was advised to buy a Then the driver continued[...]This driver, Guy Barrett, took me east about 10 I was fascinated by the beautiful rich-looking countryside, so miles and dropped me off at a mailbox that said, "H. different from Sweden. As the train pro[...]ne mile away. of immigrants dwindled. By the time it reached western I started toward those buildings. I saw a rider on a white Iowa I was the only one left. Upon entering Nebraska, the[...]Kimball", Western salute of welcome. This was my cousin, Gust, who my destination. was working on the Huffman ranch, where I was also Early the next morning, the "News Butche[...]my suitcase then took me to the barn where I was to load a out that the notorious Mexican outlaw had again crossed the wagon full of manure, take it to the field and unload it. Rio Grande and made a raid on U.S. soil. This was the The slushy manure was three to four inches deep and I West I had expected to experience! At a train stop, a fellow was in my best and only suit and shoes. I just had to[...]ong-haired plainsman and said, and bear it. When I gave the horses the signal in Swedish , "[...]o stop did not work--they would have seen a mouth that would have put a kept going in[...]ted a few times until Gust Later as the train was pulling away from another stop, I returned an[...]n I could ride to the store and buy some. Later I was to Kimball. informed that my first job would be that of a wrangler. This The first man I met happened to be a Dane whom I asked was to bring in the horses to be used that day, tie them up if he knew Gust Johnson. He did and said that Gust had and feed them before coming in[...]proprietor to scattered over the range. I was given the beautiful white wake me early in time t[...]arby restaurant where After breakfast I was told to clean out the corral, using I was able to make out words such as bread, eggs, milk.[...]had started eating when the man seated beside me was given the ones I used the day before[...] |
| besides two from the day before. My second error was hitching the outlaws together on the same side. A[...]ecades earlier. The following anicles didn't make it through the gate. The crash and pileup was could have been written in the 1990s. The author is Kirk P. terrific, in sound and in effect. The lef[...]angled from the wreckage. The horses had was jammed with thousands of immigrants awaiting entr[...]e and gatepost. that they would be in time to be admitted under the[...]spective countries under our involved, his remark was that I had been lucky to have immigration l[...]asy as I did. After six days, the sun and the that at least a dozen national quotas would be exhaust[...]ver the situation, saying: "The situation we face is by far on my first Sunday after rounding up the h[...]t Ellis Island has ever known. The best we can do that day, it was suggested I should ride over to Swede is to examine 2,000 a day. Several staff men have br[...]will be too late and must be sent back, their That trip of 12 miles I have never forgotten, the lush[...]une editor, 1924 pine logs with a sod roof. I was about to dismount when a very dark complexioned[...]esent immigration law, which expires 30 Jun 1924, is man with black hair hanging over his shoulders ap[...]gency measure hurriedly jammed through thinking I was at the wrong place, I turned to leave when a Congress shortly after the close of World War I. It was second man appeared . He shouted in Swedish that he was introduced at a time of anti-foreigner[...]to expect me. He introduced unemployment was wide-spread throughout the United me to the India[...]and wind. As I however, clearer judgment is likely to prevail, first, because was about to leave, the Indian spoke to Asplund who t[...]concerning because the supply of labor is now not abundant. Dick, my horse, and the way for[...]s to do This emergency immigration law is a piece of blanket a good job as a wrangler. He said Dick was the fastest and legislation which limits t[...]on a basis than the average rider. So, his advice was to let Dick of like nationals already[...]t him do the rest by The worst part of it is that there is no way of ascertaining giving him a free rein.[...]ause Dick could turn on a dime. whereas it should be in Europe at the source, to eliminate A[...]unnecessary expense and hardship on the convinced that without his advice, I would perhaps never[...]angling. The other objection is that we are not selecting our Thus ends my first a[...]grants now at all on a basis of quality. Quantity is the America![...] |
| Moreover, authorities state that the immigrants admitted I told him he was only a mile away from that trail and are much inferior to the class which came before the quota that I would cut the wire fence so he could keep on th[...]here, of excellent quality, The Chief was a very stately man, well over 6 feet tall tempora[...]per cent limitation clause. his jet black hair was neatly braided and reached below his The Unit[...]s the right class of immigrants. hips. He was willing to trade or buy my riding boots and We ne[...]purs, but when he noticed my German carbine rifle that I quota law, the different national entries canno[...]r I, he asked until the ships arrive in New York. It is a question of if I would shoot some ro[...]ll'um When Congress takes up the issue again, it should woodchucks. " provide for qua[...]hucks. He said, "Me show you, me long, long There is no need for foreigners coming all the way across ago when I was a young papoose with my father, hunt the Atlantic[...]telope, buffalo." He indicated by waving his arms that the little animal was ALL OVER. He then rode with me about[...]o miles along the creek called Rock Creek because it had Dillon Tribun[...]which was lined on its steep sides by a tumbled down[...]by Eric Youngquist many woodchucks. It was plain to see that my job would be[...]a tract of 640 acres way up in and told him that when I had shot enough rock chucks, I the Rockies[...]would fire three rapid-fire shots and he was to bring my As my cash was at low ebb, I went to work as a h[...]e returned to me. Then I mounted Deer Creek. With that job I had to get up ahead of all the my h[...]k to other men and round up and corral the horses that were to their camp with the rock chucks which they immediately be used that day. Having done this, I usually scouted the started to clean and prepare for their meal. I was invited to countryside for Indian artifacts.[...]ng when I took off for my telling them that I was expected back at the ranch for my usual hunt, rid[...]l. weave to and fro and finally stopped. Thinking that he had After bidding good-bye to my[...]dger hole, I nudged him on with realized that this was, to me, the greatest of all my previous my spurs.[...]lding his head high and experiences that I had the honor and privilege bestowed on snorted[...]--Eric Youngquist conclusion that they were Blackfoot Indians from the Fort Hall Reservation near Pocatello ID, which is about 160 miles away.[...]her showed me his identification card which read that he was a cameras. During that half-century as a professional Blackfoot chief and was allowed to carry a revolver but no photog[...]accommodation and congeniality. She was, in every sense, language to tell me that they were lost while trying to follow[...] |
| [...]d as Dillon 's "Outstanding Woman" in 1985 , she was born 02 Sep 1917 at Ucon ID, she married Happy Sa[...]e Western Montana College Associates of which she was a charter member. Aki ' s generosity was a legend with few parallels. She contributed time[...]ects--in amounts which are inestimable throughout that physicist with Westinghouse Corporation in Richla[...]. Mrs. Saito was cited as a citizen who "daily set examples in w[...]a valued member of the business community, she was a ' ~-~; -~-\ -~~ *~·- ..[...] |
| [...]The way here set forth is indeed the teaching bequeathed[...]in all places. It is our wish to lay it to heart in all A banquet with superb menu, g[...]reverence, in common with you, our subjects, that we may warm fellowship and cold beverages was enjoyed by about all thus attain to t[...]from the diversity of an ordinary banquet custom, it was a LaMarche Game Trap thorou[...]ther Japanese The LaMarche Game Trap is a stylized, high altitude boys of the local colon[...]cture, and the age of the trees incorporated into it, other exercises just before the serving of the banquet. indicate that the corral was built in the early 1800s. The banquet hall an[...]profusely decorated Evidence suggests that the trap is Shoshone in origin. with an intermingling of Japanese and American flags, and The site was reported by James LaMarche, an 85-year a huge cak[...]old resident of Melrose MT, who recalled that he had seen prominent position.[...]large logs and brush piles While the dinner was being served each guest drew a while w[...]ll were site, although he had not seen it in 70 years. treasured as a memento of a most enj[...]. After This high altitude game trap is in the Beaverhead the banquet there were several[...]C. Smith, Honorable Frank 8,000 feet. It is on the heavily timbered north slope just Eliel an[...]'s Gulch drainage. The trap blocks a natural game was read by N. Sato and the English translation by E. J. trail that crosses the ridge through an indistinct saddle. C[...]The vegetation on the timbered slope is dominated by "America" by the guests. The transla[...]occasional lodge pole pines. read by Mr. Callaway is as follows. The south slope of the ridge is covered with a heavy, but Know yo, our subje[...]trap consists of a wooden pole corral and an This is the glory of the fundamental character of our empire extensive system of wings that served to channel the animals and therein also la[...]into the corral. The 7 by 22 foot corral is of cribbed log Ye, our subjects, be filial t[...]elves in modesty and rectangular structure that is smaller in perimeter at the top moderation; exten[...]thermore advance public good The corral is entered via a 10-foot long, gently sloping ramp[...]traditions of midpoint, each of the side walls is reinforced with extra your forefathers.[...] |
| [...]the trees supporting the corral provide a extent that it is unlikely that an animal could have escaped, rough maximum date for this site. LaMarche, a retired even though the height of the walls is only five feet. forester, indicated that the trees here, though relatively Some of the poles used in construc[...]been no major forest fire in counts indicate that the trees supporting the trap are all over this a[...]Other poles were simply 300 years old - even though they average only 16 inches in snapped off, or pe[...]e trees amassed between 60 to 70 percent of There is no evidence that metal tools were used in their siz[...]he animals into A minimum date of 1903 is provided by LaMarche, who the corral. These exten[...]rs of the saw the site in the summer of that year. According to him, corral southward through[...]described them as "looking old" in 1903; since that time they slope for approximately one-half mile; parts of it are visible have deteriorated significantly. i[...]iving east wing, but we could find no evidence of it. trees which prevented their co[...]ke the corral - cribbed logs stacked Trap is unknown since no bones were associated with the a[...]ts of both fences still exist, but the east fence is Numerous undocumented reference are made in the better preserved. It can be traced for more than 300 yards. lite[...]k of trees for the site, and LaMarche indicated that he cannot remember braces necessitated the constr[...]ssor of zoology at the University of support. One is constructed of seven poles, the other of four Montana, mountain sheep was not as restricted as it is today. poles. In both, forked poles interlock at[...]s are now less than four of Wyoming, noted that the area near the LaMarche Game feet high, but the ends of the poles have decomposed. Trap is similar to known mountain sheep habitat in Becaus[...]outcrops with almost Wyoming, and observed that the insloping walls of the corral no soil cover,[...]from escaping. His impression was that the trap was The wings on the rough slope were reported by[...]s of mule deer live near the site, piles. He said that many of the large trees used in their fee[...]deer trail runs through the saddle. The area is heavily structure, but only one of them is now evident. This wing hunted by modem de[...]ere LaMarche indicated Traditionally it has been assumed that traps such as the one of the wings had been. We c[...]rather than deer. This is based largely on the mistaken Although attempts were made to date this site using a notion that deer cannot be driven well enough to be trapped l[...]ee ring growth of the five trees in repair, it is likely that at least one of the animals would supporting the trap could not be correlated, even though the have been trapped, even though being driven by only a rings were non-comp[...] |
| This is ample evidence that Indians trapped deer. The During the 1[...]as far north as Alberta. manner in which the site was used; animals were driven But during th[...]aidika (Salmon eaters), and the Tukudika are such that the trap is inconspicuous, even from a position (Sheepeaters), all of whom lived in Idaho along the Lemhi directly in front of it. and Salm[...]ukandika (Dust The size of the corral suggest that single animals or pair eaters) lived in souther[...]ing plains. Another Tukudika group may have lived even though an intensive surface survey and a small-scale in southwestern Montana, but information on this group is test excavation were undertaken. This is perhaps not lacking. surprising, cons[...]e woman who accompanied which to search for tools that might have been lost. The the Lewis and C[...]een captured by the absence of tools may indicate that the animals trapped were Hidatsa near Three[...]ted southern Montana which the LaMarche Game Trap was constructed. Of these, since it is within their aboriginal range, but until now no the Shoshone is the group most likely to have constructed the[...]ng the early nineteenth century - the period is placed in Montana by researcher Hultkrantz, but this may in which the LaMarche Game Trap was constructed - they simply be an extensi[...]also hunted deer and mountain sheep. horses even though other Shoshone prior to the advent of the The two[...]sually taken by single hunters. horse was a "kin and clique" type of organization, Occasion[...]area during the late 1700s and early system was very fluid; it included a poor class known as 1800s, but the center of their territory was near their Walking Shoshones. While the[...]ere always some of the ground, but this seemingly was not as important an activity poorer Shoshone remaining in the ancient food-name band as was buffalo hunting. Except for buffalo kill sites, t[...]butable to the Crow. The author's theory is that in the horse-using Shoshone By 1800 the Flath[...]ave taken place between classes, depending on the was simply to station hunters in an appropriate area, and to acquisition or loss of horses. It is likely that some groups drive the animals past the hunters. A[...]poor class walkers and of this type of game drive is common in the Bitterroot "pauperized"[...]of the LaMarche Another possibility is that the Tukudika simply preferred to Games Tra[...] |
| [...]tanding, the ranchers of the prairie did not come that included corrals or pens of wood, brush, or stone[...]of the brush or stone wings, often in a V-shape, that served to approach of the Indians, they hea[...]horses could carry them. Two traps are known that closely resemble the LaMarche With severa[...]waited at the ranch until evening, Game Trap. One is an archaeologically known wooden but[...]the ranch hands, myself and Mr. Pierce decided that we had is an ethnographically reported trap in northern Utah. better go to Bannack. Knowing that my old mare would It is likely that the LaMarche Game Trap is Shoshone in travel a whole lot better if she had her colt with her, I origin. It closely resembles known Shoshone traps, and it is concluded to go down to the ranch and let it out of the in an area that was used by Shoshones during the period of pasture so that it could follow. Shortly after I had left the its co[...]bout 1800 to 1850. Of the several groups ranch, it began to get dusk and before I had made a mile or[...]ary to build or use the rifles. One glance was all I wanted. LaMarche Game Trap effectively. Les[...]y operated the trap. to meet that colt and I dug my spurs into her sides and[...]ic Game Trap in Southwestern Montana name was Kelley and the other, his cousin, with the Indian[...]road, which was but slightly traveled at that time, forming Some few evenings ago, Thomas P[...]residents of So did Kelley's horse and it was lucky she did so, for the Beaverhead county was in a reminiscent mood, telling of Indians[...]. "Well, I should say so!" he said. Following is his They followed the plain track with the result that in a recounting of that experience: momen[...]ce, tearing down at least a dozen panels and I was running a dairy on Horse Prairie ranch at that time dehorsing every rider. The night was then so dark that the and every resident of the section was on the lookout, redmen could not see the obstruction until they got to it. expecting Chief Joseph and his band would come swooping The horses were going so fast that they could not have down upon us at any minute. It was the 12th of August that stopped even if they had wanted to. Right here the chase, the Indians finally made their visit. When it was learned as far as the Indians were concerned, was over, but I did not that the Indians were close to the prairie, messengers were stop to think about it. I heard the crash of the broken fence sent from ranch to ranch with the understanding that we all as they dashed into it and I threw still more steel into the old[...] |
| [...]ce, owner of the ranch, came near perishing there was danger in retreating, so I resolved to go ahead and during the night. He was somewhat of a dandy and every take chances . Crow[...]pair of boots. When he returned to the ranch, he that it was only shadows that startled me. would store th[...]have gotten everybody on the prairie and was changing his clothes when it was announced prairie," I shouted. Hanlon never answe[...]ht in the road, I overtook old man O'Hoolahan who was driving hills . As the nights were awfully chilly at that time, Pierce, leisurely towards Bannack. "The Ind[...]to death. The hired everything on the prairie and it is now a wilderness!" was man was compelled to lay on him and with the warmth of my[...]p and fairly burnt up the road But there was a tragedy enacted on the prairie that day. to Bannack.[...]ere killed by the Indians . The men had been told that comfortable trip to Bannack and I coaxed the speed out of danger was close but they did not heed the warning. They the old mare, for the road was lonely and there was always were cruelly murdered and their bodi[...]than a frenzy of excitement and all were fearing that the Indians little relieved when the reports came that the Indians had left were headed that way. There was little sleep for anyone that Montana and were in Idaho. They returned to t[...]more than one man who wanted to but it was many a day before they ceased talking of the raid[...]dians from scouts who had been sent out. We found that they had crossed the range towards Idaho and were[...]Six Pictograph Sites Pierce Ranch when I left it to go down to my place after the[...]Jefferson river drainage in southwestern Montana was made They were not much into the ride and wer[...]61, although two of them dusk, they could not see that there were Indians lying down were brought t[...]and one-half my trail. Kelley's cousin, after he was shot, managed to miles up Little Sheep Creek. This stream is a tributary of reach the brush where he found sti[...]h the willows, fearing every River. The site is near the confluence of East Fork and minute that the Nez Perce riders would be upon them.[...]ear-covered hills to Bannack. When they cabin is located here, and the pictographs are about 20 ya[...]a deplorable condition. Their feet east of it. were filled with prickly pear thorns and[...] |
| [...]oulder which lies at the foot of a hill. The face is toward the northwest. Weathering and fading h[...]LISO has been scrawled on the panel. The coloring is in red pigment, and the design elements consist o[...]es, and a snakelike figure. Superimposition is suggested but indistinct. A campsite is located nearby, and one obsidian flake tool was picked up here. Chipping surfaces were on one side only. The implement was this and sharp. Site 3) Pictograph south of R[...]n 1961. Ref 139.02. after 1962 when a new highway is to be constructed here. It is conceivable that proper action may be employed to save or remove these figures for preservation in a museum. (Note: it was spared and is still in place as of 1997. Drawings are fa[...] |
| [...]death of Tendoy. They band was transferred to the Fort An friend for an[...]ic since the Indians agency made most tribal It was late in the summer, and the haying season on our[...]h ranch in Sheep Creek Basin in southwest Montana was clout to be granted his annual fishing trip, because few drawing to a close. Dad was up on the stack while I drove Indians wer[...]ether they were Before I could answer, he added, "It's almost quitting time, two wives or a wife[...]of Indian ponies on lead ropes I guessed at once that he must be talking about Toopompey, which[...]ck of flour and other Toopompey (Black Hair) was the son of Tendoy, for 44 grocery staples[...]d, some years chief of the Lemhi band, whose home was on the untanned-as well as a bundle of buckskins gloves and Salmon River in Idaho near what is now the town of moccasins made up in various sizes. These too were brought Salmon. That region was directly west of our ranch and just along t[...]ld relationship although his English was limited and my sometimes see the Gilmore and Pitt[...]ing and gesturing we miniature in appearance from that distance. The train ran could usually mak[...]isn't as The chief and I somehow hit it off. I, having read Zane long as some, but it' s just as wide." Grey[...]cross the Divide room log cabin library , was impressed by the presence and seasonally to hunt[...]ts later homesteaded. war bonnet. Perhaps it was the tug of ancestral memory that drew The eagle feather headdress[...]o camp and fish, escaping for leadership, was carefully ensconced in a buckskin bag a few weeks[...]father had been one of the few Indian chiefs who was The family rode in back. friendly to the earl[...]ederal agents to cabin, barn and corrals. I was anxious to head out and meet educate the children[...]d and later to move the band them, thinking that my mother had probably already seen to the reserv[...]warred on the them from the cabin. She was always a little nervous when white men as did the[...]nd others. Indians were around. When she was a child growing up at In fact, he acted as a med[...]basin, she and her mother and a small friendship was betrayed by white men who introduced him[...]wandered about the place peering into pony as he was crossing Agency Creek. Toopompey was windows of the ranch house and entering some of the out with him at the time but was in no condition to help, as he buildings. was also intoxicated and rode off by himself. When On that occasion my grandmother had instructed the quest[...]she tried to speak in a deep right." But Tendoy was an old man crippled with arthritis, voice hoping that the Indians would think there was a man and he wasn't "tough" enough. He managed t[...]pony and died of remained with her. She was not as enthusiastic about the exposure before he was found. chief's annual visit as I was, but she was civil.[...] |
| I quickly mounted my Indian pony, Baldy. He was black On one occasion I rode by late in[...]bowls. The chief pointed to a bowl and indicated that horse, Jack, to some Lemhi Indians just across th[...]nental Divide on the Idaho side. As I think about it my hands that my stomach was already bulging, but I did now, giving up her fav[...]or her coolness floated among chucks of meat, It was a touchy moment, but toward Indians in general.[...]ink I escaped without offending him by indicating that I I reached the cabin while the loaded buckboard was still had to hurry home. a little distance away and rode out to meet it. Toopompey The next day Dad and I follo[...]ad a band of sheep in the vicinity, greeting, but that was all. I had not expected any display of and Dad[...]-covered sheep pleasure on his part but did sense that he was glad to see wagon about a half mile away to get some trading goods. I me. I tried to indicate that he should stop at the cabin put canned cor[...]ut must not have been in those days because dried that time.[...]icots were a standard item in every sheep wagon I was The chief drove up to the hitching rack betwe[...]cut holes near the top of the gunny sack, hooked it over rest of the family remained in the buckboard[...]he cabin, then abruptly returned to the was gone, the women had spread their wares out on a b[...]d. Carrying the child, he walked up gauntlets that would reach almost to the elbow, beautifully to m[...]wet. Then they would lose their chose. Not a word was spoken as the record played. The shape,[...]ing When the music ended, the chief indicated that he wanted willow fire which gave them a distin[...]artered, item by item, between the Dad to explain that she had used the last of the Kodak film conte[...]ic, which had been spoiled by a brief, the sack was empty. The chief must have been a pretty but not unusual, high altitude snowstorm. It was her shrewd trader because, as I remember it, when an impasse intention to get more film on the next trip to Dell, 28 miles was reached, it was Dad who usually caved in. away, the trading cente[...]n country. On my next visit to the camp I was disappointed to find She took the Kodak from a chest drawer, opened the no one there and was heartsick at the thought that my friend back and gestured helplessly to show the chief that it was had left without me having an opportunity to have my empty. The problem now was to get the chief to understand picture taken with an Indian chief or even to say goodbye. that if he would come back at a certain time his picture But then it occurred to me that perhaps his time away from would be taken. After some unnecessarily loud "one week" the reservation was running out, and he had decided to break or "seve[...]f his usual When I got home and reported that the chief had broken camping spot in the lower fi[...]camp, my parents reminded me that the seven day period As they left Dad said to[...]y the camp had not elapsed and predicted that he would keep his before they leave and trade for[...]to have his picture taken," every day. Their camp was on Cabin Creek beside a tall Mom[...] |
| Under his arm was the buckskin bag protecting the war[...]out and put on the headdress, beaded perhaps even the lodge of Sacajawea herself. waist and arm bands and other regalia. Then he indicated that he was ready for action.[...]he only one remaining Mr. Kellner was a long-time Helena resident, is that which accompanies this article; my dignified friend and was Montana's Director of Institutions wearing the sy[...]S. Hart as the first hero of Western silent films-even before Tom Mix. Without much in the way of a[...]again. He returned to the reservation, and during that winter he suffered the same fate as his father, Chief Tendoy. Again it was the white man's "firewater" that did them both in. He and some friends traded deer[...]d tribal rites which lasted a whole afternoon. He was arrayed in his most elaborate beaded garments, th[...]l arrangements. Toopompey' s brother, George, was elected chief of the tribe, and, apparently taking advantage of one of the prerogatives of that position, he made Toopompey's annual pilgrimage t[...]ack to Dad and me the Toopompey' s brother George was murdered and the women accompanying him raped.[...]our home mounted on the original cabin door which was photographer. Ref 93.1214.Dingley. salvaged and given to me by a rancher friend who was passing by at the time my birthplace was being demolished. Whenever I look at t[...] |
| What is a Family?[...]other and that's good, showing love and affection.[...]had little funds. Her fiancee was due on the next[...]was due just weeks. What was she to do? Lillian was a tiny woman, just above five feet[...]Her son was about 8 years old. "I'll think of[...]was a widower, without children, rich enough to[...]support a family. True, he was a couple of decades[...]older than she, but would that really be an obstacle? There was only one way to answer that question.[...]y named him William after his step-father, but he was nicknamed "Diggle." A few years later, the bride[...]ded to name him after his real father, so William was bestowed on this son as well, with a nickname of[...]visit relatives. Regardless of the circumstances that brought them together, they lived a full l[...] |
| Ramona Dillon Quackenbush was entered in a Dillon pretty baby contest. Ref 096.[...]ush won the "Pretty Baby" contest, but we do know that pretty babies grow into pretty little girl[...] |
| [...]ressed up in fancy clothes, especially if someone is going to paint their portrait. The museum h[...]ese charming brothers. But we'll venture that the three little boys, dressed in their co[...] |
| [...]s to share in this gathering in Bannack. Standing is Archie Gibson. Seated L-R: Fielding L. Gra[...] |
| [...]therness, the tar paper shack below provided just that. The McCord family lived here for two ye[...] |
| This is reputed to be the first house in Wisdom MT and pr[...]ound building on the left side of the big house is the summer house.[...] |
| [...]ial security in livestock ranching, their success was often reflected in their county homes. The house above was built for E.B. and Effie Roe at Red Rock. Later t[...]en Judy Forsythe Staudenmeyer. In 1997, the ranch was purchased by Ted Turner and Jane Fonda. The house below was built by Henry "Blinky" Thompson for his bride, A[...]ces and nephews. On the porch in the white jacket is Henry's long time Chinese cook who was considered part of the family.[...] |
| [...]1908 to 1918 at the end of Kentucky Avenue where it changes into Sweetwater Road.[...]: , The cottonwoods , located on what was later the Arnold Benson property , burned[...] |
| [...]Helen F. Harrington Walter Lawrence Albertson was born 08 Apr 1917 in Denver CO to Walter Albertson[...]ng the flu epidemic after World War I when Walter was a baby. His mother moved to Butte with Walter and[...]ng $75 a month. He felt lucky to have a job since it was the middle of the 1930s depression. He was transferred to Drummond in 1950 and then to Dillo[...]ssed away in 1978. @Mountain Bel |
| By June of that year, Shorty had purchased the Woody ranch in the[...]llon in late August to begin the school year, but it was not until the beginning of October that Shorty, Elaine and the youngest son, five year ol[...]the ranch for a time. Carl and Kathy's son, Luke, was born in Dillon. Jake was born two years later. Shorty purchased eight[...]firm Marquis-Allred Engineering, of which Shorty was a partner. Clay had been offered a twe[...]of oil Arts for an annual salary of $4,800. He was hired by Rush wells on the Diamond O Ranch at Ape[...]interest in Street, where the Dairy Queen is now located. They the Traughber property for a down payment on the East purchased it from Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Flint, pioneers from Benc[...]Grant the Centennial Valley. The house was next to Mr. and Mrs. and Carolyn Gibson. This is where they are farming at this LeRoy Gilbe[...]a heretofore unknown congenital heart defect. He was a and several apple and shade trees. There was room for a junior in high school.[...]garden which the Anders planted. It taught them about the Shorty sold the Woody r[...]t. Later, Swenson purchased comfortable even without a telephone. The monthly rent the Traughber place and Shorty moved his family to Casper was $70. WY, where his oil field engineering and cons[...]early 1980s. Later, they Helena to college was made smooth because of friendly moved to their pr[...]aff and students. Clay children are all living in that same area near Logan UT. stayed with Wes[...]--Allred family Dan Scott was his colleague in the Industrial Arts[...]Dorothy was a certified elementary teacher but delayed[...]She was an active member of St. Rose Catholic Church.[...]and Paul born in Dillon. Clay was born in Helena and[...] |
| that the Dillon Anders children were off to a good sta[...]ff Carrigan Lane . and gone. The Anders home was the first one in that They purchased one acre of hay land from Mr. and Mrs. vicinity whose occupation was not agriculture. R.G. Sell, formerly owned by Roy Cowan. The home was The rural Blacktail School had shu[...]School building for a number of years until it was sold. The[...]with a Business degree. He is presently completing a civil[...]Summa cum Laude. She is currently working on a master's[...]Champion Auto Store and WMC. It had a beautiful view of the Blacktail mountain range as The Beaverhead area was a superb place to live and raise well as the East Pioneers. In 1960 a shelter belt was a family , especially if they enjoy watching wildlife, established, which is still a landmark. There were many photogr[...]ing, hiking, camping , willows and a water source that was the beginning of snowmobiling and gene[...]ent. property, which the Anders later purchased . It was a wildlife refuge with ducks, song birds and wadi[...]--Clay Anders even sometimes fish in late spring and summer. Lat[...], willows and tree growth. This changed the cover that flood irrigation provided, reducing many species that had lived there. Good neighbors were M[...] |
| [...]mbing shed operation. Hans Christian Andersen was born 26 Jul 1906 in Dillon Hans operated the sheep ranch very successfully until he and was as pure Danish as his name indicates. His parents[...]always were Hans and Kristine Andersen. When Hans was five claimed top price because of their excellent quality. He was years old, his mother took the children, Jack, Li[...]d there when daughter Georgiana Crouse was born near Bozeman in 1913 to Christine was born. The children remained on the island of[...]ly included a four- returned to Bannack when Hans was nine. At that time, year-old son, Frederic. Charles was born in 1916 at their Hans Sr. was an owner of the Ames sheep ranch six miles[...]Normal School, now Western Montana College. She was drove all the children in the sleigh or buggy, de[...]often talked of his fingers being so badly that had electricity, plumbing, telephone or mail service. frozen on his 36-mile supply treks up the Blacktail that he Georgiana was considered the best trapper up the Blacktail had[...]Most of the country schools were consolidated at that During the Great Depression, ranches and their livestock time with the Dillon School District. She was very active were taken over by the banks when ranchers were unable to in community affairs and was chosen Dillon's Woman of the repay loans. For five years Hans was hired by the First Year in 1977. Nationa[...]n, who died 22 Jul 1997; Keith Andersen, rancher; was a full-time job and included dealing with sheep h[...]dersen take this extremely low price because feed was so scarce. Gradually, Hans began to establish his own sheep ranch. He was in a sheep partnership with Phil Lovell on the Lo[...]hay meadows. On this ranch the headquarters camp was Carl in 1906 and Oscar in 1911 in Chicago IL. at the edge of the forest and was accessible by truck where In 1912[...] |
| [...]ey gave her a beautiful pair of beaded That summer he worked for the Carter ranch for forty g[...]the thousand dollars and promised to pay it back after the Oscar started school, a new log ca[...](Edith Palmer's father) for paid a cent of it back, thus ending the chance Oscar had their youn[...]. Later they Creek north of Dillon. One day Claus was putting up ice moved to the west bench n[...]had previously fallen on the ice against a bucket was treated for a dislocated hip and by the time it was she was carrying, and the bruise turned to cancer. She had decided he had broken the hip, it was too late to set it. He surgery and treatments in Butte where Oscar took her in his was taken to a Butte hospital where he lay spread-eag[...]until two beds for three months. Finally, when he was released , she died in Oct 1936. She was fifty-three years old. one leg was several inches shorter than the other, so he was Disillusioned, Oscar asked his dad to mov[...]t a dairy. They fly into his eye, blinding him in that eye for life. moved there and things[...]de their house and ate his meals with them, Claus was able to pay off his entire hospital bill eventual[...]d Lulu Belle Due to the drought, even though Oscar had accumulated Gilman. Their children are[...]hundreds of acres of surrounding pasture land, he was Sheridan WY , and Carl Anson, who now works for H[...]A son, Eddie, was born 08 Sep 1945 . Due to never-[...]A daughter, Edith, was born 18 May 1956. About 1965 While Osca[...] |
| [...]n also had brothers Albert (born 1912) and Edmond was able to be at his memorial service. His widow[...]y service related injury to his ankle in 1967. He was in Korea for thirteen months. Later he graduated[...]oys very much. They live in California. Edith is a special education teacher with a master's degree and several certifications in that field. Her husband, Kurt, is director for the State of Indiana for setting up[...]rn of the century brought the birth of a baby who was destined to leave his imprint on Beaverhead County. Harry J. Andrus was born 14 Nov 1900 in Dillon and was a resident of the Big Sheep Basin for 15 years. H[...]) and Wilma (1898) were raised on the ranch until it was sold in order to build one of Montana's finest ho[...]961 to 1966 at managing the Andrus Hotel until he was appointed Beaverhead County High[...]32, a position he held for 32 years until his was brought about by the birth of a new baby, Nancy,[...]operated a fox farm located on Harry was Dillon postmaster and was manager of the the outskirts of town on south Bla[...]In 1939, Harry J. married Mary Helen Decker. She was married Harry's first cousin, Marie Busc[...]e only eight days apart from her cousin, was his great love as memories of his childhoo[...] |
| [...]was due to her organizational skills and interest. Ma[...]the time of her death 22 Apr 1995 at age 81, she was president of three organizations. Helen was honored by the[...]I. E. Andrus was born 06 Sep 1879 in a log cabin with[...]until I. E. was seven or eight years old. At that time his[...]They moved out to the ranch. When he was about ten[...]which was decayed. Another log under this one was Mary Helen Decker Andrus. Ref.171.02.[...]of his only son, Harry E., at the age of rifle. It had been dropped with the stock against the log that 18 while attending MSU in Bozeman, Harry J. sold out. was completely decayed, and the tree or log that his father However, he remained active as chairman of the Fair Board was sitting on fell alongside of the log. and started[...]had been dropped against and across the log, the was honored in 1983 with the dedication of the Harry gun bending some. It had broken the pan off and had Andrus Arena. He,[...]gh his years of yards from where the gun was, he saw the tooth of a bear on service to the community, Harry J. was recognized with the top of the pine needles.[...]treams fly bear. They had been there so long that he could crush them fishing and hunting the mount[...]one-half inch below the muzzle, so he thought that the man Helen started a fashion shop for women in Dillon known as who owned it had the bear down, went to reload and broke Helen[...]ramrod off, dropped the gun and ran. The location was in the building once known as the This flintlock is an English make, has the English Crown Westwood, next to the Andrus Hotel. Upon meeting Harry, on it, an HB, the name Barnett, an ancient drago[...] |
| [...]driven on the ice from where the Dickey bridge is now located. At that time there was no bridge on the river above[...]the power house, neither was there any power house or dam.[...]The road we then traveled is now under water a good part[...]a pung. The snow was quite deep, notwithstanding the time[...]there was no swifter mode of locomotion at that time in the[...]territory, unless you took the railroad and that was[...]over for two weeks longer. The post office at that time was[...]Mr. Dixon, I was driven to the home of my brother-in-law,[...]A. J. Noyes, who at that time lived on the hill below[...]This ranch was the first in the valley to be entirely fenced.[...]We had many good times in this This flintlock was found just a short distance from the shack; the fact that I could stand flat-footed and reach the Bloody Di[...]all had plenty of hotcakes for breakfast, Company was an English company, it could have belonged though the bacon may have been somewhat scarce due to the to someone in that party. att[...]The Churchill grade, where the watercress is, was not Marsing ID. Edwin placed this gun in the Muse[...]arrival in the valley. The Dillon in 1956, where it is at the present time. road at that time went over the hill and came down to the[...]--Edwin Andrus, Wilder ID the hogback was quite steep and the road across the hills[...]Fording the river was not the least of our troubles and My Arr[...]from the time one crossing was successfully completed, the next one was fearfully contemplated until it, too, was behind I, W.A. Armitage, stayed overnight 30[...]o go through this Bryant Hotel at Dewey, which at that time and for a number nightmare on our trips in the spring during high water. of years after, was quite a thriving town although it is hard The second spring after my arrival, Wat Maloney and I, to realize it now as one rolls through the place in his car at[...]and supplies. The river was high and we expected to haul The morning of t[...]light rig drawn by just small loads as there was every chance in the world that two 900-pound horses and made the Bryant r[...] |
| [...]Frank, who worked for Hans Andersen. of my horses was their heads and a spot on their rumps about the s[...]wagon bed between the box and the sideboards and it seemed to be floating downstream. To say I was glad to get across would be putting it very mildly. I stood up and looked over the wagon to see how Wat was coming, but he wasn't. He waved his hat at me and turned his team back toward home. How I wished I was on that side of the river, too. However, I made the remai[...]idge doing business before high water. The bridge was on Al's land and he charged a small fee for cross[...]velers wouldn't pay the board of us who worked on it as the pier was insufficiently weighted and it went out before the high water was entirely over for that year. In those days the river got much higher[...]long time sponsor, Maybelle Arthur. than it does now. There was little irrigating done and the Refl74.11.[...]cross the river American Legion Post #20 and was adjutant for many years to school when the wagon[...]esigned in 1996. and chained to the running gear. Even then, the water Maybelle had an a[...]n Tribune article, Maybelle had been with her. He was the last of the family to arrive in the[...]After twelve years on our pre-emption, we sold it to Arthur was instrumental in starting the American Legion Fran[...]neat things for us over the years that we named our[...]irector of Sports at Greiner Field in New She was born a few years ago on a ranch by the Big Hole[...]siblings to a ranch at Fort fish. She was a world traveler and visited most of the Bridger[...]. cattle and rope calves. Her girlhood philosophy was, "If it can't be done on horseback, it can't be done."[...] |
| [...]in Dillon and was married in 1906. The newlyweds moved[...]ry owned and managed a lumber Florence Carter was born 25 Jan 1884 in Dillon to yard. Flo[...]na Selway Carter. W.B. arrived J. Backus was born in 1909 and Virginia Ann Backus on 30 in Ban[...], moved her children, Billy, 13, and Florence was the sixth of seven children. W.B. Carter Vi[...]er father, W.B., had died in 1916 and she of what is now Carter Creek. He was the first road helped her mother, An[...]nch until her supervisor in Beaverhead County and was an early advocate mother died in 1930. She lived in the family home until the of public schools. W .B. was a member of the Masonic high school purchased it in 1965. It was where the B.W. Lodge and Anna was a member of the Eastern Star. Lodg[...]and they had one son, James S. Backus. Her Carter was a non-active member of the Vigilantes.[...]mother was working for Boeing in Seattle. She had her[...], but she did not care for her family to call her that.[...]that was the name she was called by family from then on.[...]anything bad about them and she was never harsh in the[...]grandchildren was accepted as the way to do and is still passed on to the next generation. It has proved to be helpful[...]tory of Beaverhead One of the stories she told was about Carter and his County. partner, Bus[...]lievable number of Ives in Nevada City . The rope was found to be too long so covered clothes hang[...]ll stories of their accomplishments. Florence was raised at the family home at 425 Thomsen Sh[...]ng and spending time there. she was acknowledged as the oldest living native during the She was a story-teller and kept her grandchildren Dillon Centennial Celebration. She was a lifelong member entertained for hours on end ab[...]Picnics at Birch a member of the D.A.R. She was loved by all who knew Creek and outings at[...] |
| [...]shop buildings there now). Across Thomsen Avenue is th_e William B. Carter house visible between two[...]us Harbor. He was considered too old, but he felt the need to[...]mate (aviation) school. His first duty station was in Alaska, 2) Virginia Pilling[...]lorence Carter Backus and Perry M. boats. He was a mechanic and a top turret gunner. Backus, was born 12 Mar 1909 in Buffalo WY . Florence He was stationed on Kodiak, Attu and Adak Islands. was the daughter of Montana pioneers W.B. Carter and[...]he planes, Anna Selway Carter. His father, Perry, was an owner- he was also the base mailman, due to his postal experien[...]' s father , In the spring of 1945 , Bill was transferred to Sandpoint mother and sister lived[...]ffalo until the death of his While Bill was in the Navy, Lizabeth and Jimmy lived father in 1[...]ain Bill married Lizabeth Sallee in 1931. She was the in Seattle was webbing his fingers and toes and headed back daug[...]the Montana Mercantile and Bill purchased it. In 1948 Bill married Virginia Pilling and[...] |
| [...]heir Fred all about hunting and fly fishing. Bill was considered fifth-wheeler to Furnace Creek CA[...]James married Beverley Peterson in 1955. She is the[...]Fred Backus is an independent contractor living in Butte[...]ome. The decision to move from Indiana to Montana was[...]ed with while they were on a toot. They knew Bill was honest and boulders, scrubby bushes, and n[...]trusted him to hold their money until they needed it. contrast the broad green leafy trees, com f[...]gently rolling hills? This not to be missed. This was during the era when Armstead question haunted them as they adjusted to a new was the largest cattle shipping point on the Union Pa[...]nagement of the Elks Lodge. Under his management, it department of Western Montana College fo[...]the lodge area The Bandelier first home was the house behind Western and became the size it is today. Bill was Grand Exalted Montana College which had recently been purchased from Ruler in 1961. Bill was also a lifelong member of the Doc Curry[...]er of the Shrine Club. house. At that time there weren't many available houses in Af[...]for his son, Fred, at Dillon; they were lucky that the college rented it to them. his Texaco station. Bill was one of the founders of the Judy, D[...] |
| [...]ed them as easterners . The largest store in town was the Safeway which had just been built. There were[...]dn't have something, the clerk would gladly order it and promise delivery in a few days . However, when something was ordered for delivery to Dillon on a certain day, it frequently didn ' t make it. The most common remark was, "It'll be here tomorrow." In some stores, clerks woul[...]while attending college invited Ken to go along. It was his first opportunity to get classes. After[...]Missile of Torrey Lake behind Torrey Mountain. On that trip it was Range and received an award for his service. David and the first and last time that Ken climbed to the top of Tweedy Laurie divor[...]big Town Pump Truck Stop. The children Nellie was eventually hired to teach the third grade[...] |
| [...]2 at Beaverhead County High School in Dillon. She was organist in the Grace United Methodist Church whe[...]hurch. Gary continued to serve as pastor until he was moved to the Lonsdale United Methodist Church in[...]ior Miss. MT. They have a son, Gabriel Wayne, who was born in Ref171.06. Sidney.[...]University. One of her special interests at BU was story[...]telling. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and is a[...]Bertram Bird Barnes was the second child born to[...] |
| [...]Roswell, their youngest child, Carol Ann, was born 08 Oct fortunate that they were able to finish high school in Texas 1[...]r in Aug 1965. to keep body and soul together. It was in fall 1923 that he All the children were in school, so Bett[...]eir children graduated from Beaverhead Nellie was the fifth child born to George Samuel Seely County High School. Frank is now retired and Betty works and his wife, Carrie[...]"May" Barnhart Jesse Franklin "Frank" Barnes was born 01 Jan 1925 at Plainview, Lea County NM, the[...]2) William Henry Perkins army and was assigned to the 10th Mountain Division, the Bon Accord & the Moneghan Shovel ski troops, that served in Italy during World War II. Upon his dis[...]They were on their Conservation Service where he was employed for about two way west with Jenny'[...]imminent birth forced them to stop in Management. It was upon this transfer that he moved to Spearfish. Farmington NM and[...]fish to Lead to Deadwood. Betty Jean Anderson was born 18 Jul 1931 in Gallup As a child, Ma[...]e Anderson and his wife, the doctor when she was stricken with pneumonia which Sula May Madders. Dempse Anderson was born in Van would end the life of th[...]911 Dempse moved to Clay County, where his sister was she trained as a teacher, her health was not up to the living, and there he met and marrie[...]r in those days--chopping wood, 12 Jan 1912. Sula was the eldest child born to John shovelli[...]yday dishes, good silverware, moved to Gallup and it was here that Betty was born. the things that delight the heart of most women. May's[...]Gallup until she moved to Farmington in Dale was still a babe in arms. May and the children tried[...]trains that Joseph drove. He was an avid photographer and While living in Farm[...]ok many pictures of the "Million Dollar Railroad" that was two oldest children: William Lee, born 07[...] |
| [...]c. On a run to Billings, the train derailed. Will was struck in the chest when a pry bar slipped. It bruised his heart, herniating his diaphragm. Even[...]arged and caused congestive heart disease, and he was unable to work. In 1932 he staked a claim for[...]d in a log house in the town of Bon Accord. There is Moneghan sho[...]few stone outlines of foundations. The gold that Will, Loren and Dale panned was enough to keep the family fed, clothed and housed[...]hydrolyzing the gold. There was one-quarter million dollars The Moneghan was a very large shovel used to put gravel in gold[...]electricity along the creek. The fine flour gold was almost pure and run through several huge cables. It could only be moved by needed little refining. walking it on its "duck feet" or torn down completely[...] |
| [...]would work for his father in the meat trade; that's where Art learned the meat business that he carried on his entire life.[...]ken Jun 1943. Ref.197.19. When Pearl Harbor was bombed and the United States |
| [...]Clifford was born 06 Dec 1917 to Elizabeth and Jens Bay[...]The farm was sold in 1946 and Clifford worked at Co-op[...]Supply until 1956. He wanted a change and was hired as[...]Clifford is a baptized and confirmed member of the First[...]years. He is a forty-five year member of the Veterans of[...]service to Dillon and Beaverhead County was presented to[...]to. Ref.171.07. · He was an active member of the Elks Lodge, being |
| [...]his kindly cheerfulness and gentleness cabin that they nicknamed the "doghouse" until Dave are alwa[...]pleted the large two-story log home which they he was always contented to call home. Happy memories of[...]Earl passed away in the early 1960s and is buried at Little[...]attending her accordion recitals. Dave was very proud of[...]where Paul worked for the Mamie Alberta Meeds was born 23 Oct 1910 at the Dillon Polic[...]o daughters, family home in the Barrett area. She was the youngest Christina and Suzan, and M[...]k for Tri-State Minerals (Pfizer) where Mamie was raised around the Barrett area where the[...]ts for them. They also kept a milk cow when Laura was shot and killed. and gave fresh milk away when there was extra.[...] |
| Mamie kept many canaries and was excited when they unstrapped Blake from[...]s. She attended First Baptist Church and he was alive. worked with the Women's Christian Fellowsh[...]their home and their love for company, their home was the meeting place for all their relatives and man[...]James Blake Bean My father, James Blake Bean, was born 04 Mar 1920 in the old St. James Hospital in[...]ver Creek in the Centennial Valley. Blake's birth was difficult and he was the only child Sunny and Thelma had. Ranching on Clover Creek was a hard life. My grandparents worked f[...]of the ranchers they worked for, Maggie Halligan, was another valley pioneer. Wire fences were scarce i[...]James Blake Bean. Refl71.09. She decided to even the score, anyway. When the neighbor remarked on[...]ndup, Maggie replied loudly, "Sure and be jaysus, it's by raising coyotes and badgers themselves.[...]remote valley. When stories my daddy told me was about hunting with his pet she brought her sister[...]is pet badger up above the grass and point father was to teach him how to fly fish. Blake would[...]ixth squirrel as a reward. the winter. When Daddy was only four, my grandfather Blake we[...]gh school in Polson and then moved back to Dillon That day, crossing the frozen Red Rock River, the weig[...]he ice, sending as seriously as they do now, even to the point of coming up the heater and Blake in[...]y father up by During his junior year, Blake was offered a better-paying job the neck of his jacke[...]Lima and played football for the Lima High School that Grandfather unhitched the horse and qu[...] |
| [...]n the Lima Dam and felled trees in Washington. He even did some work as a union organizer. When the war[...]' At first, Blake wasn't all that enthusiastic about the[...]Colonel Robert Scott had written "And God Is My announced he was going home. When he'd tell the story[...]Pilot" and a public relations officer and a pilot was later, he'd laugh about how naive he was, to think he could[...]Blake was given the duty, quickly earning the nickname[...]rs. t~legraph operator. Blake's greatest ambition was to fly[...]he ever came to death as a pilot auplanes. When I was a little _girl, I played with scrap was flymg with Colonel Scott back from an event in Te[...]Their plane was caught in a down draft over the his family homest[...]Appala~hi~s and they barely pulled it out of a potentially Although Russia was our ally in the war, they still kept[...]to to marry my Russian weather code in Alaska, he was given his chance for[...]Blake had contracted malaria in New Guinea and it led to He wanted to be a pilot. Only college[...]hington. allowed to go to pilot school, but Daddy was persistent and Asthma grounded him. He was able to stay in the Air Force he finally got his wish, going to King City CA in 1942. It[...]ublic relations in a series of bases in the South was hard going and most would-be pilots washed out to[...]Ai; become bombardiers or navigators. Blake made it.[...]w~, t~e ~litary was faced with demobilizing carefully a fellow pilot,[...]One solution was to work with Hollywood to make war After he[...]Andrews and Susan Hayward, and even Ronald Reagan, out of New Guinea.[...]worked on a few unforgettable ones too; he was the about holding a gun on the lead canoeist, nev[...]movies with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Blake was decorated many times, made Captain and[...]government bonds before the war ended. Blake Bean was[...]in the growing Sacramento Valley. He was active in civic the Civil Air Corps and the Unite[...]affairs and was the President of the PT A in Parkway, a se[...] |
| [...]ranch with his parents . In 1967 after the ranch was sold, my father married Viola Catherine Heiller H[...]moved back to Montana when my grandfather was diagnosed with lung L-R: Actor Dana Andrews, Capt[...]nd in the valley. In 1976, Her father was so excited when she was born that he told Blake's health started to fail and he and Vi went to the his coworkers that it was a boy. When they came for lunch , Letterman Army[...]an Francisco . Daddy had a he found out it was a girl and said, "I knew something heart valve re[...]erman for over a year. would happen if they kept that baby on the oven door. " The physicians tried[...]o In 1928, the family moved to Easton WA. She was a help him withstand the high altitudes of his ho[...]ried Bernard B. Chism 06 Jun 1947. Their first He was only 60 years old. He is buried at Mountain View son, Michael Floyd, was born in Seattle WA. They Cemetery next to his mot[...]ntil 1988 when she moved to Grants Pass OR. "This is the her mother. Then a cowboy from Menan ID, who worked way I remember it." at t[...]moved to Fort Peck where Casey was employed by the U.S. Vernadine Bean[...]A son, Patrick Casey, was born 30 Apr 1954. In Aug[...]Bridge on Highway 191. To say it was isolated was an[...]two-room log cabin with a "path". There was no telephone, Bean and Ethel Marie Blake, was born 21 Aug 1927 at the[...]the nearest town of Zortman, where there was a grocery this world at 11: 15 a.m. and weighed o[...]store and a post office. The nearest neighbor was over six Her parents wrapped her in a towel and s[...]miles away. a shoe box depending on who is telling the story) on the When Patrick was about one and a half years old, he oven door to a[...]developed pneumonia. The roads were so muddy that it was 202 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]Timothy, have been with the family because there was a doctor on a drowned in a pond near Roy. When Daniel completed high hunting trip who was "mudded in" across the river from sch[...]Vernadine passed away 17 Feb 1984, and is buried in the jam and gave the jam to Patrick. Th[...]. While living at the game station, Vernadine was many things besides wife and mother. Once a hunte[...]Vernald Floyd Bean door and said that his partner had been shot. The patient was carried into the house and laid on the living roo[...]aw him and all the blood, she thought for sure he was dead. On 08 Aug 1929 Vernald Floyd ~ean was born to She checked the man's wounds and found that a bullet Farmer Floyd Bean and Ethel Mar[...]red the man's scalp and traveled along the was born on the Thelma and Sunny Bean homestead ranch[...]on Clover Creek in the Centennial Valley. He was Farmer until he could be transported to the hospi[...]In Feb 1947 Vernald joined the U.S. Army. He was The roads to the school became almost impassable that stationed at various camps in the U.S. an[...]car seat on the back, and take her Ocean. It was while he was on Guam that he made what he and her sons to school. The ruts[...]d the first of three major decisions in bis life. that the tractor went five miles and stayed in the ruts all the He joined the Catholic Church and was baptized at way to the school without anyone touc[...]my. He returned to Another son, Timothy Joe, was born 14 Oct 1959. Montana and for t[...]orked on ranches Timothy didn't give much warning that he was about to around Deer Lodge, did some[...]e her to the hospital in Malta. The was building a phosphate plant a few miles southwest of ambulance traveled over 70 miles in the time it took Butte. Vernadine and Casey to[...]at Slippery Ann Game Station and by and was immediately transferred to Billings to do his 19[...]electricity, telephones, indoor plumbing and mail was There in Billings he made the third m[...]y were Vernadine's fourth son, Daniel Lavon, was born 04 Oct married 24 Apr 1954. 1961. In Aug 1969 she moved to Roy so that the boys could From 1954 through 1977[...]The National Cash attend school. In the fall of that year, she started cooking at[...]Register Company was to become known throughout the the high school. Vernadine was an outstandio.g cook. She world. During that time he worked at many jobs, including claimed s[...]cities throughout the United States. She was very popular with students at the school. The[...]In 1977 he was appointed Vice President with school annual was dedicated to her two different years. In a[...]ng and manufacturing plants in newspaper article it is easy to see why, "Each day's menu,[...]was appointed Vice President-Corporate Field Engineering, manages to bake a little extra so that each child could have[...] |
| In 1983 he was promoted to Vice President of Customer Services w[...]ld G. Benson Engineering and Systems Engineering. It was from this position that Vernald retired from NCR in 1987 after 35[...]arents of three sons: John Arnold G. Benson was born 22 May 1907 at Red Wing Joseph, born 24 May[...]ett Patsy Contway Patsy Contway was the third child born to Harold "Toke" and Helene Wenger Contway in 1942. Patsy was educated in Dillon, graduating from Beaverhead Co[...]had three children, Johanna, Tom and Bob, Jr. Bob was in the U.S. Air Force. Bob and Patsy lived at Gla[...]ician on the base. After Bob's retirement, he was hired at Western Montana College and while workin[...]Duncan McNeill of Grants NM. Daughter Johanna is an R.N. working for Indian Health Services. Son Tom is a carpenter working in the southwestern states, a[...]Cora was born 08 Dec 1911 at Dillon, graduated from[...]degree at the Normal College. She is a life-long resident of[...]schools, Arnold retired from that profession and entered[...] |
| Two years later, he completed the purchase of that property Staudenmeyer, Richard Bums, Dr. John[...]for watering crops on a large area of the ranch. That subsequently been used to aid many worthwhile projects in system is still in use there, and is now the home ranch of this area. their son, R[...]operation's bankruptcy. They renamed it the Beaverhead Livestock Auction which is now a thriving concern under[...]ons for Dillon. farmers and ranchers. He was a long-time member of the American Farm Bureau and in 1956 was the first operator to[...]a nursing home in the Dillon area. Joining him in that project were Harold Petersen, Harry Andrus[...] |
| [...]ked back to Dillon. Mildred Christine Carlson was born 10 Apr 1909 in During the 1950[...]ol in 1927. work. As a young person, Ron was allowed to experience She received a two-year tea[...]9 and taught school for a year in father was a teacher and exposed Ron to all facets of Malta[...]d Carl Benson 27 Jun 1931 in Garrison. Ron was "crazy for work." The self-satisfaction and They[...]. Marilyn Miller was born 25 Apr 1944 to Helen Pavel Maxine attend[...]Miller and C. Gosta Miller. Marilyn was raised at Lawson from Idaho Falls ID. They spent their entire Grandview Heights which is now a part of WMC. During married life in that city. They had two children, a girl, the 1950s the property was rural. Cattle grazed between the Christine, and a[...]rried and are currently teaching in Montana. Andy is a pharmacist in the Seattle area. Carl died i[...]Marilyn Miller Ronald Albert Benson was born 26 Dec 1942 to Arnold and Cora Benson. He was raised three miles south of Dillon Ron and M[...]ing, then later with tractors. He saw the changes that followed when electricity Marilyn[...] |
| [...]rsity, Spokane. She married Daniel James families was the only telephone until 1978.[...]more efficient Church in Dillon. She is presently a C.P.A. and controller access to his r[...]or his of Kistler-Morse in Redmond WA. Dan is an engineer with growing family. He built corrals and a calving barn that he Boeing in Seattle. had designed in colleg[...], graduated repairs. In 1979 additional farm land was acquired. Valedictorian from BCHS an[...]in Syracuse, NY, married ranch management system that enables him to run his Stephen A. Lu[...]is continuing her post-graduate studies in Florence,[...]d the Their youngest daughter, Kristi Lynn, is a sixth grader value of responsibility and work. When the Bensons moved and is being home-schooled. She is active in 4-H and in the to the ranch in 1967, there was a school bus serving the St. Rose Church. area. Subsequently a bond issue was defeated and bus service was eliminated. Thus, Marilyn drove the girls to[...]Ole Arthur , better known as O.A., was born 10 Feb[...]1907. She was born in Athol SD 22 Dec 1885 and moved[...]Geraldine MT for the next ten years. In 1923 he was named[...]Marilyn Benson, During this period he was a member, and later chairman, of Stephen Luigs. R[...]ack. Their residence The time on these drives was spent studying and learning was at 150 South Washington Street, where thei[...] |
| [...]Laura was successful, even at the high elevation, to grow[...]He was best noted for his work in Water Conservation as[...]urnals. They shared a love for the arts. O.A. was a Mason, a 50-year member of BPOE, Rotary Club an[...]f Education at Western Montana College. Laura was a member of Eastern Star, the Dillon Shakespeare[...]r of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was active in the Laura and Ole B[...]from out of town. In 1963 he was named in the publication, "Who's Who Son Bill[...]Bergeson, one of Dillon's most prominent men, was a Further up the creek, son Joe and his wife,[...]he road to high The entire front of the cabin was glass, allowing for ideals." beaut[...] |
| [...]ry intent was to rob the State Bank but there were too many[...]gun and knew what was happening. He slowly and calmly[...]y into the bank In Dillon 18 Apr 1905, Gordon was born to J runes and[...]Hawkins his bank was being robbed. By then, the robber Normal College,[...]was walking out the door and Mr. Hawkins jumped up an[...]number. 1932 and continued to work there until he was inducted into[...]ormed Butte police chief the Army 16 Nov 1942. He was sent to Fort Douglas UT[...]Bart Riley of the incident, a road block was set up at the for basic training, then to Fort Le[...]harge 13 Jun 1945. While in Fort robber was apprehended. Lewis he worked in the records depar[...]a school teacher from Hood River OR. She was the mother Upon his discharge from the servic[...]attend school. Lillian L. was born in 1919, the fourth child.[...]One of my first memories in Dillon was seeing President[...]car. I remember Christmas was always special. When we[...]awoke on Christmas morning, there was always a beautiful[...]orange and nuts. Santa was very busy all night at our[...]was wasted; children made their toys, played hopscotc[...]obbed the bank of at 98 cents a pound was traded for groceries at Bond $4,565. He handed a[...]and "southern fried on a State Bank deposit slip that said, "Fill the bag with tens chicken."[...] |
| [...]tuition was $24, including books which we would return.[...]epe paper costumes to wind the May Pole and hoped it[...]chosen, of which I was a part. It was a lot of work for teachers and parents, but was beautiful to see and always[...]About 1920 or 1921, Mary Innes School was completed.[...]e. The outside marble fountain in this new school was[...]to see her mother and father. It took eight days. While[...]Carol and Fred. Barrett Station was a favorite place for families to get John[...]--Aileen Berry Peterson it was rattlesnakes some years later.[...] |
| [...]neth Arnold Berthelson Born in 1917, Laurence was the last of five children born Ruth Marie[...]along he joined the Air Force. Ken was born in Penrose WY 20 Sep 1910 to James C.[...]While in the service he mainly worked on gliders that were used to land men and materials behind enemy[...]rs. Bob Kuchler' s ranch and settle down, but Mr. was discharged.[...]er for a time. were good. He was a carpenter and there weren't too many While w[...]nic and lead around so he made a good living; it was a good place to poisoning which may have contribu[...]s in Lima; he worked on fixing up the cemetery so that to California and worked for Lockheed Airc[...] |
| [...]rnia, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, even south to the Carolinas. On coming home, K[...]o we started the Yesterday's Calf-A cafe; it was a success from the[...]959. After final "retirement," he around. Ken was a great storyteller and kept the customers[...]In 1913, he was raised to Master Mason degree of Dillon[...]Lodge #30 and in 1952 was honored as a life member of[...]children were born to the J. P. Bests: Judson was born 29 Aug 1881 in Dillon. He attended Universit[...]trombone. After six months, he When O. M. was elected assessor of Beaverhead County ask[...]er, stationed at Panama. died in 1938, Judson was appointed assessor and was Eventually, he advanced to quarterma[...]g in both reelected in 1940 and 1942. He also was president of the the Atlantic and Pacific[...]Corporation in Kenosha WI where he Later, he was assigned to the auditing division in Helena[...]ed and now indulges his hobbies of antique he was appointed a Montana state income tax intel[...] |
| [...], Audrey, and raised her in Helena, where she She is a native of England, an accomplished water-colori[...]Bob went to work for the United States Postal and is retired from teaching grade school and piano. The[...]a grown son and daughter, and fish. He is retired, living in Dillon with his poodle, Peter[...]ollege and graduated in 1980. She worked for soon was forced into the army , early in World War II, and[...]d served as a sergeant in the Pacific theater. He was severely Pierce from Dillon in 1981. They ha[...]Colter Receiving an honorable discharge , he was treated for Pierce, born 08 Jun 1987 and G[...]Sheridan WY. Nov 1993 . After her job was abolished, she went to work Eventually, he and hi[...]sides as a Critter Laundromat where she is today. She also has her bachelor.[...]r his discharge from the College, Los Angeles. He was self-employed as a consultant service he moved to Toston. He is a truck driver and for a period, and then taught[...]snowmobiling. university in Florida. He was selected by the Ford Audrey L. Beyer[...]Elizabeth "Bessie" Wall was born at Lima 18 Mar 1888 Lorraine Redmo[...]Beaverhead County High School in 1906 and Bob was born 30 Sep 1931 in Helena MT to Clara L.[...]She married W. N. Bichler 29 Jun 1919. He was Bar and was undersheriff of Townsend. He died in 1979.[...]ed. Navy in 1950 and served in the Korean War. He was They moved to Chehalis WA and l[...]d near Townsend deaths. Mrs. Bichler was an extremely active member of building a bridge.[...]1955 he went to work for the State is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon[...] |
| [...]was known as the best tour guide in Yellowstone Park.[...]Gretchen Smith attended Las Vegas schools and is a[...]in 1986. Gretchen was ordained by the Presbytery of[...]Nevada in 1991. She is currently chaplain at the University[...]Arizona. Her graduate work was completed at the[...]dentist and was stationed at Eielson Air Force Base at Lenore[...]where she also coached the girls' basketball team that He married Nancy Salstrom in 1967. Nancy a[...]Lenore married James A. McCollum in 1930. Jim was prior to their marriage and earned a[...]ave during the fall, winter and spring months and was the ticket two children, Melissa Kay,[...] |
| [...]ohl the students, the Nelson School District was consolidated O1 Oct 1994. They are the parents of[...]hey have a telephone John F. Kennedy was elected President, Bobbie's communications busine[...]grandfather, Henry Meine, was killed on the ranch in a Melinda graduated from BCHS in 1994. She is currently tractor accident. attending the University of Arizona where she is a junior The eighth grade class, of which Bobbie was a member, majoring in political science and communications. was the first to graduate from the Parkview Junior Hi[...]then later judged for both. Bobbie Jean Meine was born 17 Sep 1948, first child of On 26 A[...]t to uttered her first words, "Jesus Christ, sure is cold up here, work for the East Bench Ranch, a purebred Charolais isn't it?" Around age three or four, Bobbie began to walk operation owned by Don Culver, where he was employed with quite a limp. Her mother, who had a[...]d a half. After other farming and ranch from what was probably muscular dystrophy, became very[...]work at the Co-op they take her to Mrs. Hall, who was probably the area's first Supply, then later as[...]ege Motor. chiropractor, where her dislocated hip was repaired. L-R: Robert, f[...] |
| Bobbie continued to work for Frank Davis. She was active in the Dillon Jayceens for many years, hol[...]Bobbie learned to Emmett Edward Blomquist was born in Lewisville ID 24 handle an "18-wheeler" a[...]On 20 May 1977, their first son, Robert Lewis, was Bird. He attended first grade in Lincoln[...]haying business . Bobbie took the Emmett was raised on two different farms near Idaho Falls. s[...]a truck with her. Daughter Brandi Jean Blake was born 06 Oct 1980. She had a chromosome defect cal[...]lived 22 days. Their third child , Richard James, was born 19 Jan 1982. Bobbie returned to work for Fra[...]e helping work cattle on her brothers' ranch, Jim was struck with a fatal heart attack while loading hay on his farm. He was 51 years old. Bobbie sold the truck and all t[...]obert attends Western Montana College and Richard is a student at BCHS . Bobbie left her job at[...] |
| [...]Our family was raised[...]l in Missoula. She married David Beck in 1968 who was going to BYU earning a degree in mechanica[...] |
| Kevin was born Christmas Day 1954. He graduated[...], built an airstrip and a hangar. year later. I was born a year after this. I acquired and flew an Ae[...]ttle Being the firstborn in 1919, there was no school bus to airplane and lots of fun.[...]ied seed oats and some grass seed on this I was five years old, it being two and a half miles, a bit too place along[...]ls for sale. years of age and remember it quite well. The school was at The Simmental business opened a whole new[...]incoln ID east of Idaho Falls. The brick building is still We were charter members of the American Sim[...]ociation Board of Directors for several years and was acquired land on the desert east of Ha[...]ring Europe, Russia, Finland, Sweden, it to its ultimate potential. After several ye[...]ographic and U.S. Forest Service maps this spring is I have served as a supervisor on the Soil Con[...]a pleasant experience The family was growing up; the two younger boys, meeting people[...]was a member of the 1946 State Class A Championship h[...]. Blomquist was in the Air Force.[...]had married My father, John Emmett Blomquist, was born 30 Apr[...]also helped Wanda considerably. Albert Blomquist, was a Swedish immigrant born in John was always looking for ways to improve his lot for St[...]family. He sold this ranch in 1965 and Stallings, was born 14 Nov 1874 at Ogden UT. My mother,[...], Alberta, Canada. John died Inez Elizabeth Bird, was born 06 May 1895 at Beaver City[...]here 31 Dec 1982 and is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery UT.[...] |
| [...]e still on this ranch today Their marriage was solemnized in the Logan UT Temple (1997) at Big V[...]lon in 1942. He My father's philosophy of life was to never be satisfied worked as Train Dispatc[...]D during World with the status quo but to improve it and make it better. He War II while holding his position i[...]erved on always left a place better than he found it. the City Council when Pop Townsend was Mayor. Their He had hundreds of friends and neighbors from Idaho major project was black topping the streets. through Montana and up into Alberta, Canada. His word Paul was baptized in the LOS Church, and served as was his bond. He loved his family.[...]was Ward Clerk for four Bishops, Stake Clerk for two[...]r Nebeker. He was High Priest Group Leader and a Stake[...]Missionary. He always sang in the choir and was a tenor in[...]e "Latter Day Sounds." Paul George Boetticher was born 26 May 1906 at Verla was born 12 Nov 1919 in Providence UT, the Melrose MT[...]graduating from Malad High in 1937. Even as a child, Paul worked with his father in th[...]ce and piano with Railroad agent in Melrose. Paul was hired by U.P. and Professor S. M[...] |
| [...]fessors Brinton Jackson and Ralph McFadden. Verla was employed in 1963 by School District 10 as a music[...]and Verla acquired twelve rental properties. One was the apartment building across the street from the[...]t 507 South Nelson from Calvin Harvey. Their yard is ablaze with flowers and the vegetable garden produces in abundance. Paul is active in the Garden Club and its projects which[...]s of 1997. Paul worked 43 years for the U. P. and was the last telegrapher on the railroad. During Bann[...]with John Barrows of the Dillon Tribune. Paul is a genealogy buff, which has given him rewarding T[...]Verla, father Paul Boetticher, daughter Verla was active in Community Concert, serving Patri[...] |
| [...]young man. He is married and has four sons and two Ma[...]nd they have four sons. Bob Anton "Tony" Boka was born in Austria 01 Jun 1896 to[...]naturalized citizen in Beaverhead County when he was 26 years old.[...]--William L. Boka Mary Butala was born 21 Jan 1902 in Dillon, the third child of Jo[...]hers and sisters and attended Dillon schools. She was a Carl Bolick, Sr. cook's help[...]ebich the Peace Joseph C. Smith. Their first home was a farm at Apex, north of Dillon. There was quite a community at I, Mary Rebich Bolick, was born 06 Jul 1917 to Veronica Apex during the 1920[...]orence in 1923 and Walter Anton Dillon. I was the third of seven children: Frank 21 Sep in 1925[...]) 19 May 1921, Anne (Kielbamer) 15 Jan This place was near the old Pipe Organ Lodge on land now[...]nes at the end of Kentucky Avenue. Ford. It was five miles from our home to school; when the These were good years for the family. Mary was an weather was bad we would miss school, which turned out to exc[...]They were living there 24 Sep 1940, when Tony was grandparents , George and Mary Rebich, in St. Helena CA. found dead in his bed that morning. He had been in ill My grandmother was in poor health so I was to help her and health for some time. Ironically, his brother, Michel , was my grandfather. My cousin, John Rebich, was also living found on his homestead east of Dillon[...]ed in California to care for my grandfather. Mike was 42 when he died, and Tony was 44. In the fall of 193[...]could Mountain View Hotel in Calistoga CA. I was paid a dollar not tend the younger ones, so the f[...]nd Edith Ditty for split shifts. Calistoga is a resort town and work was a number of years. Mary married two more times ,[...]ts an hour. Ed died in 1966. After his death, even though she was I went to work for a union restaurant[...]catch a street days before Thanksgiving, when she was taken to Barrett car that took me to catch the ferry which would take me to[...]oe Casey and lived in Butte when her there was so much to do and see. Prior to the opening of fa[...]ed, the Fair, the Oakland Bay Bridge was built and the Golden Florence remarried and was again widowed. She now lives Gate Bridge[...]attraction to the Fair. Walt was married twice, and had a son and daughter. I met Carl Bolick in San Francisco in 1937. Carl was Like his mother, he also died of cancer,[...] |
| San Francisco until our son, Carl Alex, was born 02 Feb Frank, had gone to fight in the war and hired help was 1941 at St. Joseph ' s Hospital. We bought a home[...]to get because of the war effort. Bruno CA which was country at that time. Carl drove ten Our daughter, Veronica, was born 17 Jul 1944 at Barrett miles to work in San Francisco. He was promoted to Hospital in Dillon. The[...]tana. and cooked our meals on a wood stove. It really was Carl Bolick was born 12 Mar 1900 on a little farm in pioneer days for us. At that time farming was done mostly Blowing Rock NC to Emmanuel and Mary[...]th horses. Dad did have an Allis-Chalmers tractor that attended a country school where his sister, Clarissa, was his was used for plowing. teacher. He had five brothers a[...]worked as a Merchant Marine on a freighter that was dry-land farming. He didn't know anything about a[...]t. On 30 Oct 1949 our third child, Claris Bolick, was[...]was from the city and knew little about ranching.[...]it in the fall of 1973 which marked our retirement.[...]life as ranchers. The Bolick-Barrett ranch was leased to[...]four years. We then leased part of it to Larry and Claris,[...]was finished, it was usually a very beautiful piece of Mary and Carl B[...]part. Carl passed away 19 May 1989 and is buried in[...]travel, garden and enjoy my Montana. World War II was going strong and my parents family. I h[...]rby had asked Carl and me to return to Montana so that we on the ranch and one lives in Japan[...]orge and to have my first great-grandchild. It has been a great life and[...] |
| [...]communications officers school. He was then assigned to Born in San Francisco CA 02[...]ths of purchased a ranch south of town where Alex was raised. intensive training as a technical agent. His grammar schooling was at a small one-room rural He and his fa[...]Riverside located near the Tash ranch south he was transferred to Ankara, Turkey, for a two-year of[...]959 and attended Carroll College in Helena in that country. While his work necessitated frequent tra[...]married Maxine Phillips of Cut Bank. where Alex was assigned Deputy Directory, AFOSI In Nov 1963 Alex[...]a Masters Degree in Their first child, Jennifer, was born 15 Feb 1964 in Cut business management[...]l Michigan University. Bank, two weeks after Alex was commissioned. Between[...] |
| [...]ease his transportation to and from work. I was born 17 Jul 1944 at Barrett Hospital in Dillon an[...]runswick NJ and My first nursing job was charge nurse at Barrett Hospital currently lives[...]eszek of Trenton in St. formal education was needed. So I went back to school at Thomas, U.S.[...]1967 and received a BS in nursing. where he is a Vice President heading up U.S. Security[...] |
| [...]ication from Harborview Medical Center. By then I was burned out with school and work so I took a two-y[...]or money took me to Saudi Arabia for three years. It was an interesting experience for a single female and[...]bin on Sheep Creek built in 1921. not, and for me that has been the right choice. I do believe[...] |
| [...]of range west of the Montana Meridian. This claim was given to him under the direction of and signed by[...]nion: Gladys, Carl H., Grace and myself, Edna, in that order. My recollections are few as I was quite young.[...]ng fond of farming, they This home was the Curtis hospital in the 1910s-early decided to go to Wyoming where there was an oil boom 1920s, replaced in the by Barrett Memorial Hospital. Mrs. going on at that time. The log cabin still stands but has[...]ding house here after the hospital been deserted. It was with great nostalgia that I visited there closed. Later the house belonge[...]ndant Mary Jo Maxwell Scott purchased the home in was sold to the Security State Bank Corp. of D[...] |
| [...]nal Audit department. This cut his travel Ron was born in Anaheim CA and grew up in a family[...]ockheed, Ron decided to go back to school and and was active in baseball from Little League through hig[...]ness. The family moved to school as a catcher. He was a linebacker in football and was Provo UT and spent the next two years bac[...]working for Arthur Andersen and Co. Christie was born in Sunnyside WA while her parents were teach[...]ullman. The family moved to Ames IA when Christie was three years old. She has three sisters and a brother. Much family time was spent camping, fishing, hiking, canoeing, singing[...]uetball, gymnastics, dance and any other activity that was offered. She moved to Oxford OH and then to N[...]more pleased with their little daughter. Jennifer was and has always been just a sweet and pleasant li[...]owman, Christie. Ref 171.25 Kimberly Nichole was born 16 Aug 1987 in Glendale right after the fam[...]shley Marie joined the family 13 Jun 1991. Ashley is got them a little farther away from the big city. Kim was a always smiling. She has such a love for[...]ns, story time at the library, wanting to move even farther away from the "big city," Ron pre[...] |
| We love it in Dillon and think it a great place to raise a he hires no additiona[...]he eats his meals at the family. In fact, we love it so much we enlarged the family White Cafe directly across the street. by one more. Madison Noel was born December 15, 1993 Neighboring businessmen will tell you that Jay is a tough at Barrett Memorial Hospital. She is such a joy and is so competitor. Last summer, for instance, he opened his independent. Thank goodness, she is also blessed with a station at 6 a. m. a[...]uch as I used to. Still listen to the news a lot, though, and tubercular patient at a St. Louis MO clinic[...]n car, has a valid driver's license and to be 21. It's very possible that you might not last another drives back and fo[...]highway for past three years because he feels he is not to his home near Mexico MO, packed his few be[...]safer than a good many that are out on the highway. " Today, almost 83 years later, that same Missouri farm Jay was born 27 Jan 1862, (just a few months after the bo[...]tubercular bugs out and by the next year Jay was determined[...]gray cayuse, used for testing prospective riders, was brought[...]ithout pills, without glasses; eats Jay was nicknamed Rawhide from his habit of riding anythi[...]Jay resides alone in a large house and admits it's kinda while on a cattle drive. As th[...] |
| [...]e Indians came and closer each day. It's the only way things will ever get screaming and[...]s dispersed without fatalities on either side but it today. Have to get it pulled. I try to stay away from took the riders t[...]y blood every few years; on horseback many times, even though I couldn't swim other than tbc;tt, I[...]grabbed hold of a steer's tail and got out okay. That was to what he attributed bis longevity. "Don[...]t. And don't be While working for Fratt, Jay was often in Livingston and afraid to get outdoors once in a while!" it was there the magic of railroading lured him from ranch Smoking? Well, his pipe is almost as old as he is. life. He applied at the Northern Pacific depot , was accepted Whiskey? "Only if it is good whiskey. I have never and began a career which was to span over 30 years . missed a nip[...]rs, however, the altitude changes on "and that was only because I wasn't there." runs from mountains[...]p. m. , it will attract a host of friends from throughout Stopping over in Lima, he was approached by the Montana, including[...]Timber. superintendent of the Union Pacific, who was in dire need of "Don' t know why they're[...]t done anything." But Monday he'll be Brandenburg was hired.[...]or a couple of weeks but guess I just froze here. That was in 1888 and I've been here[...]young adults. Karrol was a native of Dalton MN where he Following the[...]was born 14 Dec 1914 and attended school. He was the and Jay moved back to Lima where he purchase[...]only son in a family that included three older sisters. station. After 12[...]c stationed in Texas . He 'bad laying around and it looked like I was going to outlive my returned to Dillon and was working on the Lima-area Gleed money," he relate[...]t Ann MacDonald in Dillon. and have been running it for nine years."[...]21 Sep 1921, she was the younger sister of Duncan, born in record for[...]he beauty urged Jay to come live with her but he is reluctant to leave[...]school, saying a beautician was needed for the community . Lima and besides "I n[...]1952 and retired from it in 1979. In 1956, Ann and Helen "People have changed," he tells you, "Everything is go-[...]ll Drug Store building. Ann's old days. And war is coming, I can feel it coming closer[...] |
| brother, John, had moved to Dillon by that time and was An award-winning trap shooter, Karrol[...]ime to be American trap shooting tournament that year in Vandalia a friend; after retiring, Ann co[...]s with his friends. Young people highlight was when Ann and Karrol attended the 1996 looked up t[...]ntana State Trap Shoot in Helena, at which Karrol was the outdoors; he was always willing to take time to teach induct[...]Sam and Elizabeth were married in Papillion NE. It was popular for young people to run away and get married. It didn't go so well, because Elizabeth had to have permission from a parent. Her mother was shopping in Omaha, so they had to go back to Omah[...]four years before moving to Montana. Dolores Ann was born in Council Bluffs IA. Sam and Elizabeth[...]Bill Clayton for four years. They bought what is known as the Doyle Ranch in 1944 The ne[...]to have school for the five or six children with that move . Mary Jo, their second daughter, was born in the district. A teacher from Anaconda taught that year. in Idaho Falls. Tom was the only child born in Beaverhead She lived[...]taught the school board and do most of the things that needed to be in the old house on the Jones ranch. She married Donald done. That first year, she boarded a teacher from Dakota, Flint in the spring. who was Sam's cousin. The school was in Lakeview. One Elizabeth Kippers came to teach the next year and she child was from California, living with her aunt because her left in six weeks. They had a lot of teachers that year. The mother was busy with a war-time job. Another was from school board decided they needed to[...]The old Idaho living with the same aunt. Dolores was not old enough school had been on the Sunny Be[...]Lakeview school again. old one was on the Blake lane. 230 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]ouse. With about ten wire gates to open and shut, it was quite an ordeal. Mrs. Olsen taught for two or three years. She lived at the 7L Ranch. Elizabeth was busy with a new son who demanded attention and got it. The years that followed were a nightmare. Four or five Sam[...]nine months. When they would lose one, Elizabeth was expected to fill in. In October, the County S[...]t Western Montana, the music Brenemans. Elizabeth was amazed and slightly frightened ; professor adv[...]voice training. She did a vocal number and was accepted at women decided the children shouldn't[...]Morning Side College in Sioux City IA. The city is on the back to the school house for Lys. They had a party that Missouri River and by mid year, after suffer[...]high humidity, her teacher told her she woman who was staying at their home didn't even recognize could not use her voice in that condition and advised her to her. June Forsythe h[...]e years in Dillon and later got a library Now was the time for the school board to function. They[...]keep always went back to her maiden name. She is a librarian in her, Bill Jones and Sam Breneman w[...]er drove. Mary Jo was a dance teacher. She went to Western for Following that experience, a man came from the South. two years and got a diploma for a business degree. She He was about as bad as the one they had hauled off. He[...]ad pictures of her receiving her diploma and said was at the Brenemans until Lys decided she had had enough she hoped he was happy, as he had insisted she get a degree of tea[...]rtly IA. When Lys got back, she found Mrs. Sawyer was the after birth and are buried in Mountain View Cemetery. teacher. She had left a message she was quitting and wanted They had a son Michael, foll[...]st of Mary Jo started working for the company that was sold the year.[...]ds to another Four years later, after Dolores was out of high school, company and on to Knutson Mo[...]nical support young Brenemans were in school. She was a much loved analyst. She always moved to[...]ation has been working and learning. She contends that[...] |
| [...]creage with Princeville IL as their other that the conditions of a lot of new deep snow would ad[...]the sledders into trouble. Life on the ranch was always a happy place for Sam. It So, the next morning early, Tom and Pat set out in a was his idea! He did a lot of work elsewhere. He did blizzard to find them. Overnight there was an additional construction work with a cat he bou[...]of snow, making breaking trail with snow up to he was a foreman for the labor crew at Red Rock Refuge i[...]ons on how to get to the group. All were rescued. It right; there is a silver lining. was a tremendous physical effort put out by Tom and P[...]illon where they enjoy the locate them. There was too much new snow to access that conveniences of town living.[...]mas H. Breneman Barbara Blomquist Tom was born in Dillon 18 Aug 1948 to Sam and Elizabeth B[...]nch. The teacher for all their grade school years was Elinore Sawyer from Lima. Tom married Barbara Blomquist of Dillon 10 Oct 1970. Barbara was the daughter of Wayne and Estelle Blomquist of Di[...]work involved in heat detecting twice a day, Tom was determined to get into a program using a trial dr[...]ne of the field trial herds. The herd of 550 cows was the largest herd done under range conditions. The[...]win large livestock shows in the Midwest. The AI was Once Tom heard that there were three cows with calves continued until the herd was sold in the fall of 1982. The and two yearli[...]an airplane hunting coyotes. The Refuge was then notified Tom and Barbara remained at the ranch even in the that there were some stranded cattle. The management a[...]were sold. Winters being so long and the Refuge was going to shoot them and put them out of isolated[...]They skiing the slopes up Odell Canyon. They knew that area so were living under some six-foot-tall sagebrush as shelter and well that when there were 15 snowmobilers missing, the this was also what their diet was consisting of at that point. 232 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| The snow was four feet deep. Considering their limited diet, the cattle were in good shape. Tom informed the Refuge that he was going to call the ASPCA and tell them that they were going to shoot the cattle only because they were too lazy to rescue them. Tom was able to purchase the cattle for a reasonable amou[...]he said these were the only cattle he ever bought that really made money. Tom and Kevin Rush first h[...]le remained at this location. After the storm was over, the cattle could no longer walk due to the[...]ation. Kevin had a bombardier and a horse trailer that had been rolled. They put skis from one of Tom's snow planes under the horse trailer and pulled it behind the bombardier. There was some discussion as to how to load them into the t[...]to walk them along . A pad of hay in the trailer was all it took. They made three trips to get them. The resc[...]in the valley. He continued this until the ranch was sold in Sep 1995. --Tom and Barbar[...]His final transfer was to Dillon as manager of the J.C. |
| [...]icial sponsors. In this capacity, their Fred is now living at home with his son, Bill, and Bill's[...]activities included retreats at the old CCC was never bored. camp on Birch Creek, being a hunting[...]for his homestead which is on Axes Canyon Road. They[...]dry farmed there. This area is becoming one of the popular[...]ew settlements with many new homes being built in that[...]he applied for his own homestead, which was on Timber[...]strike out west and was in hopes of finding gold. He was not that fortunate, so he turned to ranching. He and his f[...]Fred's interest in photography began while he was in patch" on Timber Creek. high school a[...]ld cut to the P & 0 climbing ; in his albums from that time photographs of Mt. Ranch to build the well-known "jack fence" that surrounded St. Helens are featured, along with ot[...]In 1916 their first son, Harold, was born. Three years He began doing rodeo photography to create western later Fred was born. Fred was a husky, ten-pound baby and displays for t[...] |
| their mother and her brother, Doc Kenison, who was very In 1931 Ansle took a job at the C[...]tion down. 1940. He was one of the first volunteers from Beaverhead[...]County. Buster trained in Alabama and was sent to the[...]py to have two granddaughters. Ansle was Fred "Buster" Brown, about five years old), and h[...]about 11. Ref.146.33. especially proud that the girls went to college.[...]and taught school. In 1973 Ansle and Eva Soon it was time for the boys to go to school. Eva g[...]In 1964 they got electricity at the ranch so that they could She also cooked at the Coffee Shop[...]ir moved back to the ranch for the summer. Harold was golden years at the ranch. They never missed a year of seriously injured when he was thrown from his horse. They going hunting. T[...]him to the hospital in Butte where he died. This was Ansle passed away. Eva passed away in 1[...] |
| [...]Nevertheless, it is an interesting malady and one which[...]the grandparents happy and busy. jokes , "Mining is a disease, not an occupation. "[...]Helen Christensen Fred "Buster" Brown is the son of Ansle and Eva Kenison Brown. Fred was born three years after his brother, Harold, in 1920. Fred was a husky ten-pound baby. When the nurse helped deliver him, she told Fred's mother that she should call him "Buster. " The name stayed wi[...]went to work at the Cornell Ranch in 1931. Ansle was the sheep foreman and Eva cooked for the hired ha[...]eral years. In the fall of 1940, our country was about to go to war. Buster decided he wanted Helen is the daughter of Nels and Maren Jensen to go into the service and enlisted. He was one of the first Christensen who were immigrants[...]ren met on the boat and became friends. Maren and was sent to the European Theater with the 35th Infant[...]r to come out west to the Battle of the Bulge. He was decorated with silver and Montana where he had a homestead. Maren took up a bronze stars. The war was a terrible experience for all the homestead on Carter Creek. boys, but he was fortunate to return home. Buster said very N[...]id the job we were home on Carter Creek. Nels was a dry land farmer, raising sent to do."[...] |
| [...]o Dubois ID where she worked in Carter Creek. Ann is retired and lives in Belgrade. the S[...]lementary education. She took many other families that moved to town to go to school. We her first[...]mark. They visited When the war broke out, Art was in the National Guard the birthplace of Helen's parents and met many relatives. and was called to duty. He served in New Guinea. Helen Helen had always hoped that her mother could return to her graduated from hig[...]Buster was pleased to see the countryside restored, beautifu[...]ttle an :l sheep. In 1950 when their own house was nearly finished , Sharon was born. Two and a half years later, Judy was Sisters Sharon and Judy Ann Bro[...] |
| [...]on a daily basis. There were times when the road was Ruth Ann Brown[...]pits with the road and it was hard to distinguish between the[...]. The social life in a small town is unknown today as it[...]The day was one[...]it sound like a whole band , saw many a dawn before[...]five days earlier but it[...]a Lee. She was named Ruth Ann Brown modeling a dress after her p[...]Gail Darice Hildreth, children of she made in 4-H that helped her grandmother and[...]Armstead was the[...]tching Rack, old English shepherd on the other, I was as protected as if[...]it had been renovated by Mac and Mary Jane McIntosh[...]that town during that time. Scott drove her son, Jack, myself an[...] |
| [...]n't slow anyone down England. I enjoyed it so much that Ray and I have returned for long; it was the way of life. Summer was usually late to London twice since, also s[...]the only Wales, Ireland and Paris, France. That' s a long way from months it hung around sometimes.[...]Montana. There' s still a little chunk of 4-H was an intrinsic part of my country life; at the age Clark Canyon that belongs to me and memories drift back of eight I was allowed to join the Garden Club because[...]xt 26 years until I left Montana. it is dead as it lies under the blue waters of Clark Canyon In Nov 1953 I was proud to represent the State of Dam an[...]Since retiring I am an avid Congress in Chicago. That year I was also a freshman at photographer and a pr[...]Catherine Louise Staudaher was born at Montana City[...](Millen) Staudaher. She was their fourth child and first girl. divorced. Gail[...]tlived her parents, five from this marriage. Gail was born in 1956 in Honolulu,[...]She and her oldest brother, Hawaii, while Lowell was in the navy; Justin was born in[...]George J., were the only two children of that family not 1958 in Dillon.[...]Lucy, as she was known, was raised on the Pearl Spring of Science and[...] |
| [...]by the Malesich family when they were remodeling it. On 12 Oct 1890 Catherine married Everett H. Brundage of Dillon. Everett was the son of pioneer newspaperman Hiram and Elizabe[...]. She passed away on April 27, 1966 at age 95 and is buried in the Brundage plot in Mountain View Cemetery. Dorothy was youngest child of Everett H. Brundage and Catherine "Lucy" Staudaher Brundage. ln 1918, Dorothy was transported by Paul Stahl to Butte for a tonsille[...]was a cabinet maker and mortician and founded[...] |
| [...]e at Dewey last Chester Wright Buckingham was born in 1912 in Sunday.[...]ing from an acute stomach CCC. Buck, as he was called, mined in Argenta for a time trouble for several years and this was the direct cause of his and this was where he met his future wife. death, although he was growing feeble from old age. He He married Dorothy Sharp, daughter of early Beaverhead was born at Oldtown ME 79 years ago, went to Californ[...]hence to Nevada and from there to Buck was deputy sheriff in the late 1940s and also served[...]engineer. Hotel at Dewey for many years and was known near and far They raised two so[...]osition, always ready to make an acquaintance and was true to his --Adele Sawyer friends. He was a good and loving father and husband. He leaves a[...]e at the Mammoth Hotel Tuesday, and the interment was made in the Dewey Cemetery.[...] |
| [...]t the family home. Mr. Burgess (born 25 Feb 1920) was Alice Hazel Davis[...]f World War II, and Alice Hazel Davis Burgess was born 16 Mar 1924 in was discharged 19 May 1946. Dillon the oldest of the[...]min Henry and The University of Montana is his alma mater, having Anna Marie Bourquin Davis.[...]achelor's degree in health and physical education was at 525 South Pacific Street. Alice was educated in the in 1947 and a master's deg[...]em, graduating in the Beaverhead 1965. He was an outstanding athlete throughout his school Coun[...]at basketball. In 1947 Mr. Alumni Cup. She was involved in many activities , Burgess b[...]The Burgesses had four children. Diane Alice was born in the Hunt School , a rural school near Wat[...]illon. At the time of this publication she school was located barely a mile from the farm house of her resides in Helena. Pamela Marie was born 31 Aug 1948 in grandparents , Charles H. and Camilla Bourquin. While that Deer Lodge. She has undergraduate and master's degrees school house is no longer standing , a point of interest is the in physical education from the Unive[...] |
| Robert Charles was born 16 Oct 1950 in Deer Lodge. Del is well known in the Dillon area as he usually visit[...]and his grandfather are from Richard Benjamin was born 13 May 1952 in Deer Lodge. the Dill[...]U:tv~ and the hunting and fishing outdoor life of that area for sixteen years before moving to St[...] |
| [...]worked for the Zina's mother, Laura, was trained as a midwife and was Hartford Times, Hartford CT.[...]stry there were no hospitals nearby. Zina said that it seemed that as an actor. He first studied Radio Acting at the Edison her mother was gone a lot helping others. Zina, being the Vocati[...]he Pacific Northwest. sisters and was responsible for making all meals from He grad[...]by Zina. Television work. Del's first acting job was opposite Hope She sewed all the clothes,[...]f the Week "I Love You and heated it in buckets on the wood-burning cook stove. Goodby[...]helping her siblings with school studies. She was able to Hour" and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." H[...]ers studies. several national TV commercials. Del is a member of the American Federation of Radio and[...]ed and directed. His association with Erik Cooper was over a span of 43 years; during that time they did everything from Broadway musicals a[...]ballets in their repertoire. At present, Del is on the Board of Directors at the San Jacinto School of the Arts, and is directing "An Evening of Cole Porter Music", which features 16 singers and 3 dancers performing to the works of Cole Porter. --Del Burn[...]on |
| and to dance. When you have a musical family there was always a group of friends and neighbors gathered[...]ton all her life and they married 18 Mar 1908. To that union were born Henry, Clarence, Madaline and Gra[...]wenties, his heart and flowers of every kind. She was teased that she couldn't never left Montana. Hovey Earl Cantrell was born 06 Mar even stand a broom on the ground very long before it would 1927 just outside of Dell at the ranch[...]s, married Edward Hovey's sister, Viola May, was born 27 Jul 1928. Barton Hildreth and moved away.[...]widow with five children, and hay derrick that they had built for fun. moved into his own home.[...]something in a truck, he took it.[...]chuckle out of it, everyone, except Hovey and Walt.[...]Lima, took off for Butte and joined the Navy. He was[...]destruction by the atomic bomb, Hovey said that for months after he got there the ground was hot from the explosion.[...]later their daughter, Linda, was born. Reuben and Eathal Waters. Ref.171.[...]ork for Owens Trucking in Dillon. and family. She is survived by Clarence and Bonnie Burton[...]Hovey and Artell's son, Robert, was born in 1951. On living in Sheridan, grand[...] |
| [...]h Idaho Livestock. In 1955 daughter, Candace, was born and about a year later they moved to Po[...]bottom, Hovey delivered local freight but it wasn't long before he was assigned Hovey and Viola Cantrell, children of Ea[...]n Pocatello, but everyone who knew him understood that he felt most at home in Montana. Every time Hovey[...]d load up the family and head for Montana. Artell was a good sport about it; she knew nothing could stop him when he got a touch of homesickness. It didn't matter if it was in the middle of a blizzard or there was three feet of snow, he was going. Hovey knew his sister, Viola, would al[...]y and old friends around the Lima and Dell areas. It was a part of his life that he treasured. Hovey died of cancer in 1989. He is buried in Dillon, back home in Montana, wh[...] |
| [...]A wedding dinner was held at the Wilbur Cafe following the[...]Agnes Rose Malesich was born 20 Jan 1912 at the family 2) Ken[...]Malesich. She attended Drummey Viola Cantrell was born 27 Jul 1928 in a ranch house School,[...]near Red Rock to Earl and May Cantrell. The ranch was Agnes were married, they worked on the Malesich family leased from "Doc" Orr and is currently owned by Jim and ranch north o[...]for one summer and tended sheep camp. When Vi was three years old, the Cantrells moved to the Smith[...]ck every day to go to her house for a treat. This was the highlight of the whole day. Soon Earl and May bought the old Flemings place nearby which is now owned by Leon Hirsch. Vi attended a one- room[...]the year Gertrude Price taught. This school house is now a restaurant, "Yesterday ' s Calf-A.II[...]Nancy of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Sandy of Dell. John was killed in a tractor accident in 1955 . Vi ran[...]09. Agnes Malesich Ludwig Bert Carlisle was born 25 Apr 1914 in Butte Bud entered the United States Navy 30 Nov 1942. He MT. He was always called Bud. His parents were Bert and[...]mbe) Carlisle. The family moved to was stationed in San Francisco CA. He served in the Asia- Beaverhead County when Bud was two years old. He Pacific theater[...]him in California attended schools in Dillon and was an outstanding athlete in and worked as a riveter at the shipyards. Bud was high school.[...] |
| [...]h ranch, where they worked until 1955. Around that time, Bud and Agnes purchased a trailer home and[...]Bud and Agnes Carlisle. Ref 145.13. highway was being built up at Pipe Organ, Bud worked for Peter Kewitt on road eventually built it into one of the largest stock ranches in construc[...]rris, born 23 Feb 1929. for about eight years. He was a member of the Elks Lodge, Louie was killed in a car accident 17 Aug 1972 returning to[...]a few months later 21 Sep 1980. Dillon. It was in the subdivision known as "Ibeyville" at 31 Sun[...]--Betty Whalen, Butte MT Harrison, where he was a patient. Cause of death was listed as coronary thrombosis due to heart diseas[...]poor Holger B. Carlson health made it necessary for her to move to the Parkview Acres C[...]Holger Bernhardt Carlson was born 09 Dec 1911 in[...]Marie was attended at the birth by her friend, Petra Bay,[...]only two years. Because of his Elvera Carlson was born 11 Apr 1906 in Dillon, the father's failing health, he was needed at home to run the eldest of three living[...]erhead County High Marie Laden was born 25 Nov 1916, the eldest daughter School and[...]in of John and Ellen Laughlin Laden. She was a twin to the Big Hole area.[...]e Hansen 30 Jun 1928 in Dillon. eldest was a son, John A., Murray and Marie, Tom, Donald The[...]upper Ruby until 1938. and the youngest was a daughter, Margaret. All six attended That year they bought a ranch between Virginia City an[...]n Alder and Laurin. They Margaret was the only child to leave the Dillon area.[...] |
| [...]e in the community throughout their lives. Holger was a 50-year member of the Dillon Elks Lodge #1554. He served as Exalted Ruler twice and was also District Deputy. He was a lifetime member of the Danish Brotherhood, serv[...]gilante REA board of directors for many years and was honored by the REA by having a substation named after him. He also was active in the local 4-H program throughout his ra[...]Betty was the last person to graduate from the Nelson[...]School. It was a class of one. The following year the upper[...]Holger and Marie had three daughters. Barbara was born school was consolidated with the Beaverhead County school 10[...]ree girls began school at the Nelson School which was Patty graduated from BCHS in 1967 and[...] |
| [...]Mary Zunino Cesare Carpita was born 15 Jun 1883 to Teresa (D'Luca) and she a[...]d to be a very abusive man who found Red Rock MT. It was there that Cesare's brother, Ginlio's, drinking and gamb[...]Mary's life with brother-in-law, Menoti Lunardi, was section foreman for the him was very hard. She cooked for boarders, took a job Un[...]two years Mary Carpita's writings state, "He was living with seven later Eda (Edith) Pia Minetto[...]ing his Verdi. washing to Mrs. Tony Minetto, that was me." Marie In 1913, Mary met Cesare Carpita. Her friendship with (Mary) Josephina Zunino was born 25 Dec 1890, in Tiglieto, Cesare deepene[...]) and while she worked at the Stive Hotel. It was a passing Giovanibatista Zunino. Mary grew up in Italy and at an acquaintance at first, but as Mary was abused more by her early age went to work as a housekeeper. When she was husband, Cesare stepped in to take her p[...]ed Toni Minetto (a distant cousin of her that she was in love with Cesare. She still tried to make her[...]ly did. After a few months, her abusive situation was very grim. Her family urged Mary to marry this man escalated and finally Toni left her. She was all alone. and go to the United States for[...] |
| [...]ls. Finally, Mary received a letter from Toni. He was now in California and told Mary to move to him.[...]UT and arrange for a divorce for her. He insisted that she had to choose whether to go back to Toni and[...]ey moved to the section house at the snow was so high that they couldn't see the road. The Lavon. While livi[...]in 1915, Cesare went into a men to keep it warm. The men went back and finally found partner[...]to bed and put warm Hecla. The family moved there that summer. irons and bowls full of warm water around him. They Mary was expecting a baby and on 13 Nov felt it was rubbed him and finally revived him. time for[...]es. By the next summer, Cesare and Mary "The snow was so high that it raked the horse's stomach. bought three cabin[...]in one, rented one When we got to Melrose, there was no place to stay. We and tore one apart for[...]of Dan years. In 1918 Cesare became very ill and was told he and Florence Little. The doctor didn't kn[...]write On 22 Nov 1915, Daniel William Carpita was born in the the English language. railroad section house in Dillon. On 15 Dec they started That fall, about Nov, he applied for a job on the rail[...]at the Streb Hotel and left next morning for job was at Woodin and there Mary cooked for all the section Hecla. It was 27 below zero. They started out in a wagon me[...]o her breast and the girls, Mamie and Carpita, was born at Dillon. From Goodin, the family Edith, at[...], and Ucon ID. of the sled. In a short time, Mary was getting cold and so On 09 Dec 1925, a third son, Cesare Pietro "Cecil" or was the baby. Cesare took off his coat and covered her "Pete" Carpita was born at Ucon. head. Cesare and the other m[...] |
| [...]George Gleed, purchased the Beaverhead Bar Supply is buried at Mountain View Cemetery. Mary continued[...]ased the live in Dillon after Cesare's death. She was a woman of Ford agency in Dillon, selling it in 1960. strong determination, very dedicated to[...]Tragedy struck 17 Aug 1960 when Marvel was killed in provided many wonderful family dinners,[...]tings in Livingston. away 02 Oct 1973, at 83, and is buried at Mountain View Marvel is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. Cemet[...]argaret Campbell Daniel William Carpita, Sr., was born 22 Nov 1915 to Mary (Zunino) and Cesare Carp[...]his parents were living in Hecla where his father was mining. After his father could no longer work in[...]tended college at Utah State University at Logan. It was while in Lima that Dan met Marvel Gleed. Marvel Gleed was born 21 Dec 1913 in Lima to Iris (Peoples) and Edward Gleed. Marvel was raised in and around Lima, attending schools ther[...]Marvel was active in community affairs and so was Dan. as night shift power plant operator. Also, he was city clerk, Dan helped organize and was a charter member of the Dillon water department c[...]ation and involved the Jaycees in the project. He was In 1939 the Rural Electrification program cam[...]he Beaverhead Chamber of power and the city plant was shut down in Lima. Dan started[...]Commerce and the Beaverhead Country Club. He was a 15- working with the REA. A son, Daniel W. Carpita Jr., was[...]n 23 Oct 1939 at Salt Lake City UT. Shortly after that,[...]s, he still found plenty of Edward Cecil Carpita, was born 28 Jul 1942 in Dillon. In[...]in-one. It came on number five, over a distance of 127 another son, James Bryan Carpita, was born 29 Jun 1946 in yards. It was his first and only one. Butte. They were i[...] |
| [...]ll in Butte. They continued to live at the is where several barn dances were held, this is probably due Carpita home in Dillon. Muggs' four boys , Jim, Don, Ed to the fact that it was so big and the wood floors were much and Bob Camp[...]ge's share in Playing in the bunkhouse was also a favorite. It was a the early 1960s. Dan and Muggs participated in[...]"down books and such on the second floor that kept her busy for south" and played many rounds o[...]time at the Dan died 28 Jun 1984 in Dillon. He is buried at homestead on Sage Creek.[...]Evelyn Meine Carr Evelyn Jane Meine was born 22 Sep 1923 in Dillon at the Barrett Hospital. She is the daughter of Henry Mueller Meine and Frances Marie Boetticher. Evelyn is the oldest of four; her brothers are Hank , Bob, and Jack. Evelyn was raised on the family ranch ten miles north of Dil[...]toes. All four children were in the buggy and Bob was driving, when the bridle came off and slipped dow[...]y 's neck . Nig didn't need an excuse to run. Bob was trying to stop ~he pony by pulling against the po[...]ut Evelyn's coat sleeve got hung up. She says she was dragged a mile, but Bob said it was more like a quarter of a mile. Probably seemed li[...]Evelyn also recalls the winter of 1937 when there was so much snow the drifts covered the fences and they were snowed in for weeks. Unlucky as it may seem, the teacher Miss Dorothy Albro, was living at the Meine Ranch so the children continu[...]r tractor and he opened the road. Their home was always open to friends and relatives. During the[...]. Carr, taken summer 1943. Ref 170.17. There was fresh milk, cream and butter. Evelyn often helped[...]r, she remembers the Marine Corps. While he was attending officers training at best part was licking the paddle. Evelyn recalls going to the[...]agon in the War Dept. , as a secretary. When John was it was kept in sawdust.[...]lways had Their first daughter, Janet was born 30 Mar 1945. When time for fun, like dances, roller skating, the circus, John was sent overseas, Evelyn and Janet moved back[...] |
| [...]John William Carr John William Carr was born 12 May 1920 to Francis an interest[...]Courthouse. sod roof near Dell MT. John's father was running a big In 1935, Frank moved h[...]address on Orr Street. The house was purchased from the There were four other chil[...]rank and Emma Harrison estate, and the land was in a full circle along the Carr. The oldest, Ann[...]1982. Blacktail Creek. The fuel company was just across the Ann had one son, Bert Gaskill, re[...]e, currently living in The Dalles OR. John is a graduate of the University of Washington, where Frances M. (Carr) Virst is currently retired and residing he pledged SAE F[...]niversity District of Gladys M. (Carr) Walker is also now retired and resides Seattle.[...] |
| He still has it. John joined the United States Marines and attended officers' training at Quantico. He was transferred to Camp Pendleton near Oceanside CA.[...]side also, and their first daughter, Janet Irene, was born 20 Mar 1945. John served in the South Pacifi[...]a house on Railroad A venue. Joan Marilyn was born 09 Nov 1949, at the Barrett Hospital in Dillon. John built a new home at 1030 South Pacific. It was a large three- bedroom home with a full basement. Another sister, Jennifer Marlene, was born 30 May 1958. When natural gas came[...]ings MT for the summer. John Paddock. It is just twenty miles from where John's and J[...] |
| [...]Judy Browning and I married 25 The Carr cabin is made up of two buildings John Nov 194[...]he transported from the Ermont Mine. One building was the home place in the Big Hole. old cookhouse and is now the living room. The other My sister, Mary Louise, married William Kajin in 1944 building is a kitchen, living room and bedroom. and Ann married Gile Mitchell in 1957. Our son, Bill, was John added a porch and sun deck out front. Lat[...]Dillon. The spring of 1949 we moved small bedroom was added next to the porch. Recently, to t[...]Spring Creek near Jackson another larger bedroom was added that is in glass and faces MT. My dad passed away 20 O[...]married Bob Our daughter, Marie, was born 03 Nov 1951 in Butte. Johnson, and they live[...]Russell Our family increased. Patrick was born 28 Mar 1954; William, and Kelly Patrick.[...]rom World War II. My dad, William P. Carroll, was born 28 Mar 1892 in Bannack. My mother, Louise "Lula" Madden Carroll, was --by Joseph Francis Carroll & his children born 14 Mar 1895 in Manchester CT. I was born 02 Oct 1922 at my grandfather Frank Carroll'[...]e graduated from the school year. My sister, Ann, was born 29 Dec 1930 in Beaverhead County High[...]another B-17, They have a son, Grady. Marie is a supervisor for home and was awarded seven Air Medals and two Bronze Battle health nursing and George is a custom saddle maker. Stars. 256 - Beave[...] |
| [...]were married 28 Dec 1982. Daughter, Erin, was born in Washington state and daughter, Lindsay, i[...]nding L-R: Mike, Marie, Patrick. Ref.172. 06. and was a qualified surface warfare officer. He now works for an oil company and Carol is a teacher in Charleston SC. They think about Mont[...]Navy from 1977 to 1981. His best assignment was as trouble shooter on A-6 Wyoming. He[...] |
| [...]e for the outdoors. They enjoyed many happy hours That fall she began teaching in Poplar MT, where she[...]h. Becoming an immediate father was no problem for Bud; Charles Carroll - born 12[...]m high school there in 1980. He Bud was forty-two years old when his daughter, Loran, ret[...]llon soon after and continues to live here. was born. It took him exactly 24 hours after she was home Charlie is a journeyman heavy equipment operator and from the hospital before he felt it was safe enough to pick works excavation and construction projects. her up. You could see that he had given serious thought to[...]Loran up and kissed her. That kiss lasted a lifetime. A. Alden "Bud" Cashmore[...]Alden Louis Cashmore was born three years later.[...]After he sold the Eagle Bar in 1966, Bud was employed by[...]of the Mountain View Cemetery "Bud" Cashmore was born 26 Sep 1915 in Dillon to and he w[...]ball. He also played the French horn in was also a member of the Dillon Rifle Club, held a NR[...]and attended numerous small-bore shoots where he was a member of the varsity swimming team. throughout Montana and the Northwest. He was also quite Bud liked fast cars, motorcycles,[...](this would come in handy later in life Bud was a caring person and always helped others. He when he drove an ambulance). was a charter member of the Dillon Search and Rescue,[...]arted working for Fred Woodside at Montana was active in the Dillon Volunteer Fire Department fo[...]nt after serving as working for Mr. Woodside, Bud was introduced to the world captain. To support him in his volunteer work, Bud learned of aircraft and was so impressed that in 1940 he moved to to scuba dive at age fi[...]right Technical Institute. at age sixty. He was always there to help family, friends, He borr[...]ors or strangers. schooling . Bob Barrett's motto was, "I'd loan any man Bud passed away on January 5, 1994, at the age of 78, $100 just to see if he was honest." Bud repaid the loan in at Barrett H[...]Strategic Air Command at McClellan Field, because it paid five cents more per hour than the job at Pea[...]n Pearl Harbor on 07 Dec 1941. After World War II was declared, Bud tried to enlist, but he was considered essential personnel at McClellan Field and was unable to join the service. After World War II ended, Bud decided that California was not the place for him and returned to Mont[...] |
| [...]1937 the family moved to Dillon so that Loretta's brother,[...]by sitter for McDowell and Roberta Bean McDowell, was born 03 Jul Elmer and May Petersen. Du[...]when he arrived. By bookkeeper. the time she was born, her father had joined the doctor in[...]tta graduated from high delivery. Since the nurse was French, Loretta ended up school in 1942 a[...]amed her Loretta, after an old girlfriend; Eunice was her the first day and decided that was not the job for her. mother's middle name.[...]Loretta's mother became ill, so Loretta's and was accepted. After completing her training, she Aunt[...]e in this world. was put in charge of seven new recruits and accompani[...]Springs CO and from training, Loretta was transferred to Sheppard Field TX for there to Superior NE. While living in Superior, Loretta was Control Operator training where she was promoted from run over by a car. She was walking across the street to pick private to co[...]r wore a PFC stripe). a fight with a boy when she was struck. Her dress got She was transferred into the 106th Army Airways caught on the springs of the car and she was dragged for Communications Systems headquar[...]ith some missing clerk. In Apr 1946 Loretta was promoted to sergeant and skin on her head.[...]bbon while serving at the Her sister, Aileen, was born in Superior in 1928. 106th AACS.[...]the family to move back In 1946 Loretta was set for transfer to Japan, but rather to[...] |
| [...]ork out in held a private pilot's license, was the State of Montana's the marriage and she and R[...]AK in 1972, the end of farthest northern highway It was here that she met Bud Cashmore. During a trip down point in the United States. the Big Hole River, Loretta was sucked under a log. She participated in the Chief Joseph Trail Ride for seven Luckily, she was pulled out by Jack Sinclair. When the yea[...]s week-long, group got back to the boat dock, Bud was waiting for her. one-hundred-mile horseback ride was a re-creation of the They started dating the next[...]Clyde Muncey Casterline was born 19 May 1896 in Salt[...]Their son, Clyde John, was born 02 Feb 1922 in Salt Lake[...]was born 06 Apr 1926. They joined "Cass" in Dillon in[...]May 1926. Son, Brandt Harry, was born in Dillon 17 Apr[...]One of my dad's favorite stories was that he was sent to[...]it but they sent me to Paradise." He loved Dillon an[...]thought that the people were the greatest on earth.[...]some mountain peak. While doing that, I became an After Alden was born, Loretta got a temporary job at the incura[...]Jay full-time position as bookkeeper and in 1974 was promoted took my hand and I jumped across, b[...]ante Feb 1989 in the water. Jay retrieved it and told me to put it on and after twenty-seven years of service. wear it or it would shrink. 260 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]cks for my pockets, so off came the hat, I filled it with rocks. The weight of the rocks stretched the crown out, but my mother made me wear it anyway. I looked like "Hoss" on the TV show Bonanza. My mother, Ethel, was a great cook and homemaker. She was very active in the LOS Church. She was a life member of the American Legion Auxiliary and the County Extension Homemakers. She was a reporter for two papers. She worked at the Westwood at one time and was a desk clerk at the Andrus Hotel. Later[...]Stephen Jay school in 1939. My class of 1940-1944 was the first class Selway born 12 Aug 1945[...]several years where they took up golf and loved it. There, on leave and married Betty Sue Crowe. He went on to the Montana Picnic was one of the highlights as they had graduate from L[...]ing from Dillon and all over the state. pilot. He was chosen for Phil Cockrane' s "Fighting Cocks"[...]t 25 Feb 1945 he Mother stayed in Dillon that winter. was reported as "missing in action." Many months late[...]She decided to return to Arizona in 1976. She was not remains were found. He had been buried by an[...]She passed away there 07 Feb 1977. She is at rest at contacted the government and with the[...]All three of the crew at the Depot lost sons in that war: John Shaffner's son, Walter; Everett Cantrel[...]andt died 16 Jun in the hospital in Anaconda. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetery.[...] |
| [...]1988 we sold the upper old . We settled on a farm that Gayle and his father , ranch . We sti[...]the vicinity. On 06 Oct 1952, daughter Cathy was born. By June It was spring 1950 when the Chaffin family first moved 1[...]Jun. Falls. Carlyle was impressed with the valley and felt it ' On 15 Nov 1958 , we purchased a part of the[...]side of Elk Lake , which ran son , John, was born. In 1952, Larry and Gayle put in the[...] |
| [...]he ranch hands needed on the ranch in those days. It is interesting to note that by the early 1970s, Larry and our four teenagers[...]tle extra help. In 1954 our second son, Ken, was born and our daughter, Lori, in 1957. In Jun 1957[...]way place as the Price Creek ranch. Everyone was busy with three bands of sheep, 250 cows and rais[...]ring 1959, Larry and Greta's fourth child, Bruce, was born. Life was good and kept us all on the move. After 23 years on the ranch, a second back _surgery made it necessary for Larry to find work that wasn't as physically demanding. Larry had always[...]n, in their new location at the jumped right into that Evergreen Center, with state-of-the-art el[...] |
| Radio proved to be very interesting and even more Jack retired as a mail carrier in Nov 1980. He was demanding than ranch life. Greta and Larry also o[...]active in the Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star. He was operated Chaffin Printing and Office Supply with[...]Roberta Warrick at that time installed computers, satellites and digital[...]ral employees to just Paul Jack Chism was born 09 Dec 1946 in Dillon, the four or five to r[...]d enjoyed many years his first grade teacher was Adelaide Mitchell. of activity with them.[...]Paul joined the local 4-H club; his project was lambs and Larry participated in city governme[...]they also learned about cooking. Their leader was Nola a City Councilman for over 16 years. They an[...]re active members of the LDS Church from the time it baseball team and they did quite well with their games. was a small branch up to the present. They can honest[...]time Paul was sent to Vietnam for a year. Roberta[...]Post Office. Michelle and Kim Jack Paul Chism was born 03 Jul 1920 in Preston ID, the attended H[...]agent. Jack and his some classes and is active in the Arizona Pastel Artists brothers, Cl[...]Association. also unloaded freight and delivered it. Michelle married Will[...]a carpenter and also cooks Conservation Corps and was stationed at Haugen MT. After in the winter[...]en Chism Jack joined the army in Nov 1940 and was stationed at Fort Lewis WA. He was in the European Theater for thirty- three months. Jack was discharged 14 Jul 1945 and returned[...]Round Head Kids at Bond Grocery, which was located where the Sears Store was and is now the location of Anderson Consulting[...]nd me up the ranch of Dellar Gordon. In 1962 Jack was appointed on the horse for our three mile[...]the first Office in Dillon. The Clark Canyon Dam was being built gate. It was too hard for us to open so we slid off, threw and Armstead was being abandoned. Aileen was appointed the reins up over the sa[...] |
| That was the easy part of the trip, because now we It wasn't easy being children of Danish speaking par[...]ssmates tormented us for the strange words we bus that would take us the remaining eight miles.[...]den benches were hard and cold, and lips. I was always afraid I might blow out.[...]warmly. Even the naughty ones got her motherly treatment.[...]ever wanted a repeat of that kind of discipline.[...]wouldn't start or was stuck in the snow. Many days it[...]lady that would board us the remainder of the year. Just[...]before school was out our world came tumbling down when[...]were on a sleigh load of hay that had to be hauled to feed[...]It was a miserable four hour trip.[...]Nothing was working and the long cold trips weren't the[...]to be made, and now that Helen would be ready for the first[...]grade, there was no way our parents could afford the cost of[...]each morning cooked a big pot of oatmeal. I was dish[...]st getting to school had us worn out and cold and was made the bed, and put together jelly sandwiches for our a worry for our parents. Our homestead was just inside lunch pails. We slept like th[...]er kids within 20 miles so the middle where it was always cozy and warm. county paid my parents seve[...]n. Our parents were the only in her shoe lace that we couldn't untie so we ended up homestead family that had hung right through the depression letting[...]for help. My brother, Art, had to wait until I was ready for school Another time playing with[...]ndow down to keep him outside and instead slammed it always needed his hand to hold so I wouldn't fall. He was down on Helen's little fingers. They[...] |
| When we told her she was out at the ranch, the lady was furious to think that any parent would leave three little children alone to cook and care for themselves. She threatened that we would be taken away from our parents for such[...]lfare office. Her tirade left no doubt in that office that we were never late, absent, unfed or unwashed, an[...]d if they'd tend their business she would do what was best for us under our circumstances. School went smooth and we were known around town as garden. Even though by most standards Art was too young, the three "round head kids." I guess that went with being he drove a team and worked[...]ready and anxious to get back in He quizzed, "That many?" our lit[...]ound bags. Of course I couldn't carry them. I was thin as a sliver, --An[...]weighing about as much as my order of potatoes. I was too embarrassed to tell him to take them back, so[...]n not survive. Their daughter, Alma, was born in 1911 and with us and did housecleaning to[...]us. During those depression years, all I remember is A son, Erwin, was born in 1917. Berg sold the Red Rock hot,[...] |
| [...]ried Janet Smith from Anaconda MT in 1940. Betty, was born in 1926. Following another trip to[...]illon on South Washington end of World War II, he was one of the largest sheep Street. They[...]together when the Berg Christensen Company was sold. with ranches near Bannack and Rattlesnake C[...]son Robert. Betty Lou Presently she is a drama teacher in Utah. She has two Christensen[...]chigan. He attended Montana State College. Walter is[...]Dereck Shane Christensen (born 1971). Shane is a graduate[...]Ricks College and graduated from LDS Christensen, was born 17 Mar 1917, in Dillon MT. He Business College in Salt Lake City UT. Pam is a received his education in the Dillon schools, a[...]n died 20 Mar 1982. Janet lives in Dillon and is still active in many organizations and vol[...] |
| [...]Wallace Christiansen was born 12 Jan 1915 on Squaw[...]Ann Rebecca Paddock was born 11 Jul 1914 in Wisdom[...]was born in the Big Hole and her mother was born at Cherry[...]school together · at the Fish Trap school which was[...]b 1940. and are still very much a part of it and family activities. Ref.148.31. Wallace is a member and Past Master of Wisdom Lodge[...]projects. Wallace is an accomplished team roper, never In 1904 at[...]Larry James, Ted Allan, Wallace Paul Victoria. He was on his own at an early age, making his and[...]he Big Hole and finally Larry James was born in Anaconda 30 Aug 1937. He settling in Wisd[...]egon Institute of Technology in Klamath Soren was an accomplished carpenter and cabinet maker,[...]his parents on the Squaw Creek earning his living that way. He built his own home on the ranch unti[...]for a few years before his Wisdom where he is still in business as Larry's Automotive. death in 1966. His former home is now known as the Nez He married Darlene M[...]--Ann Hirschy married Katherine Periman and is now working in Seattle. 268 - Beaverhead[...] |
| [...]nd Ann Paddock Christiansen maid of Ted Allan was honor Alice Ralston, taken 1936. Ref 186. OBA.[...]' born 22 Jun 1939 in Anaconda. He is a rancher on the East Bench in Dillon and Squaw C[...]and Ted Cale, who graduated from Montana Tech and is now ranching with his parents.[...]the nearest settlement of Grant MT. The bride was Lynn Joanne Paulsen in Seattle. Paul has a veteri[...]k Creek, Horse Prairie, Beaverhead Judith Ann was born 22 Dec 1944. She received a County[...]in Nursing from Northern Illinois University and is one of her cats "Damn It" so that when a wave of loneliness now vice president of p[...]homesteader, Bob Roberts (Serafino Roberto was his real[...]Zan was ordered to leave college and go to Horse[...]Prairie. A log cabin was transported from Bob Roberts'[...] |
| [...]saw the light of day 30 Apr 1908 in Jackson bread that turned out so bad they used it for a door stop. in the Big Hole Valley. He was the third child of George Brother and sister[...]came from throughout the years Bob Roberts' place was purchased and Devonshire, England; they[...]so served on parents' home in Butte; however, she was a frequent visitor many boards and commissions, was a county commissioner to the ranch set in such a[...]Hi Cleverley was born 28 Oct 1914 to William Benjamin cattlemen's[...]arried Leah Phillips, daughter of Joseph absence. Though there were long hours of hard work, the[...]Smith place in the Blacktail area off what is now known as branding, winter feeding, and yearly[...]· Mickey ran the house and kitchen without help, even[...]Idaho until JoAnn was born May 1948. When JoAnn was Horse Prairie folk took turns having house partie[...]join Hi. The stay was temporary this time as Bud Johnson hostess prepared. And then it was fun listening ·in on the[...]sold the Smith place that fall, so the family went back to party-line phone[...]ley came to Beaverhead Finally when age made it imperative that the two retire,[...]and farmed land leased from Les Seldom Seen Ranch was sold to the Brenner family, and the[...]The farm was located in the East Bench area, north of S[...] |
| [...]the Highway 41 north location in 1964. He was also an avid[...]orn Apr Leah, at the age of four. He was born 29 Apr 1944 in 1957. In 1963, when the East Bench Canal was finished and Idaho Falls. After graduati[...]nch Road. Vietnam, he was then stationed with an amphibious He raised c[...]g. Eventually he Canal Company for many years and was one of the members purchased a 1,200-a[...]ates a golf course and club house when the course was moved to feed lot.[...] |
| [...]Father Timothy Clifford was born 18 May 1889 at Keel,[...]was ordained 13 Jun 1915.[...]when he was named Assistant Pastor of St. Rose of Lima[...]Church in Dillon. In 1920 he was named Pastor of St. Rose[...]Pastor of St. Rose. He served there until he was named[...]He was a member of the Father Kelher Council of the[...]a genuine Irish sense of humor and was a friend to everyone[...]He passed away 19 Feb 1959 and is buried in Mt. Olivet[...]John Hulsizer was the eldest child and only son of[...]h in Sep 1935. John Hulsizer died 04 Jan 1937 and was[...]in Butte. The only known survivor of this family is[...]Albert F. Cline, my maternal grandfather, was a highly[...]River area where he homesteaded. I was privileged to know[...]I know he was a good influence on his family and friends[...]was interested in civic affairs and was active in Shrine and[...]in Wise River 04 Oct 1927 and was buried in Butte.[...]Anna Hulsizer Cline, my maternal grandmother, was a[...]d her activities; she passed away 09 Feb 1922 and is[...] |
| [...]located on a hill and was safe. Jim Aiken, my father, used[...]Children from Wise River about 1910. Ed Cline is on rear left. Minerva Cline (later Aiken) is on middle right.[...]only son of Albert F. Drown. " I well remember that day and the sadness at the and Anna F. Cline, mar[...]Trueman and his wife and son and Walkerville. She was a widow with five children whom Ed Charley[...]The Cline family moved to San My father was always writing poems and songs and I can Francisc[...]at Hanson Packing still hear him singing, "It was on a Tuesday morning and the Plant and Murray Hos[...]ing clear, when a flood roared over Wise work and was emp oyed in San Francisco at the Mark[...]he passed away in California 11 Feb home. He was a truly compassionate man with a great 1991--her birthday was May 27. She was buried in Butte. outlook on life--something[...]uffered through a long siege with bone cancer; he was able Jim and Minerva Cline Aiken (daughter of[...]in Butte. Our family had their Minerva was a good mother and very family-oriented. first enc[...]n the upper Wise River, causing a flood. Our home was[...] |
| [...]lth deteriorated from Parkinson's disease and she was in a wheelchair until her death 13 Jan 1985 , at[...]inerva Aiken, married Thula Trone of Spokane, who is now a retired nurse. Al worked for electrical[...]en. Ada M. Hulsizer Ryan died 09 May 1933 and is buried in Wenatchee WA. Her husband, Lincoln Ryan[...]nd Peggy Coleman, 1984. Ref 172.09. Hulsizer Ryan was the second daughter of Ed and Minerva Hulsizer.)[...]parents' home in Leadore ID. Mike was born 21 Feb 1960 Mike Coleman[...]to Harry and Shirley Coleman in Salmon ID. He was raised Peggy Mooney Fadness[...]ad at building the Coleman Construction Peggy was born 24 Jan 1959 to Francis and Esther[...]uilding Francis Mooney Mooney Coleman, was born in Meriden CT . Trucking . In 1966 the famil[...]lemans built a In 1968 both Annie and Ed married. That same year, home in Connecticut and[...]l graduation from Beaverhead County away . It was a very tough time for the entire family. High Sch[...]ir bakery and move back to Montana to in Missoula that fall. On 28 Jan 1978, a son, Jeremy f[...]d and Linda Mooney and Peggy ' s Mooney Fadness , was born in Missoula. In fall 1978 the mom,[...]family are living on the family ranch, which was formerly in the program for two years. The family[...]--Mike and Peggy Coleman Sandra Ann Fadness , was born . In 1981 , Peggy attended Wester[...] |
| [...]y Wilhelm - raised in the Seeley Lake Ora Tash was born in 1879 in Iowa. She came to[...]logging and well Bannack in 1898. Patrick Conner was born in New York drilling . He was killed in an accident in Alaska in and came to Ba[...]Seeley Lake MT. Marion also Marguerite Conner was born 15 Jan 1903 in Bannack. has twin boys that still live in the Swan Valley. She attended Weste[...]Seeley Lake country where George Conner was born 10 Dec 1904 in Bannack. He they owned sawmil[...]He and his wife, Polly, Thomas Conner was born in Bannack 05 Oct 1907. He have three ch[...]entered the service in World War II where he was Melrose until about 1978 . They h[...] |
| [...]ois, died in 1987. Sandi is married and has two children and lives in Frank Conner was born 10 Jul 1909 in Satsop WA. He Washington. Patricia died in 1977. Michael is single and moved back to Melrose with the family and spent his early is in business with his dad in the fuel business and[...]er family, Whitehall MT University in Oregon. Tim is a consultant to Stanford University in Menlo Park[...]Alan Craig Conover Isabel Conner was born 24 Feb 1911 in Satsop WA. She moved with the[...]about 1957 in Whitehall. Dan Smith, her husband, is also dead. I believe Otto Boetticher is also deceased. Monica Ora Conner was born on the Camp Creek Ranch near Melrose 04 Sep[...]the service in the army during World War II. She was driver or chauffeur for several generals. She[...]t part of their life near Divide MT, where Monica was postmistress for several years. They moved to Swa[...]I where Bob was engaged in well drilling. Monica died at Big Fork in 1981. William "Bill" Conner was born on the Dodgson ranch Groom Alan Craig[...]and bride Diane Bold at Melrose 24 Mar 1919. Bill was raised on the ranch at Feragen, married 06[...]e University of Montana and graduated in 1940. He was assistant ranger for the Forest Service after gra[...]erred to the Soil Alan Craig Conover is the third child of John and Gladys Conservation Service as a range specialist in 1941 and Conover. He was born 09 Jun 1962. It was a rainy spring worked in Nebraska and northern and eastern Montana. and shearing the sheep was postponed a few days. So on the While in Nebr[...]stay first day of shearing, Alan decided it was time to enter this overnight at the home of Eva T[...]family and he started very early. 1942 and was a first lieutenant and pilot. He flew B-24[...]in Creek and Tonapah NV, and Ephrata WA, where he was discharged in was good with his disappearing act whenever his dad n[...]three children, Sandi, such a straight face that she believed him, only to find out Michael and Patricia. Bill had a heart attack in 1969 and he was kidding. Alan graduated from BCHS in 1980. Vo- th[...]ranch and moved into Whitehall. Ag was probably his favorite class. He held an of[...] |
| John Leroy was born 28 Sep 1931 . William Milton was born 03 Oct 1932. Then on 14 Mar 1934 a daughter, Mary Ellen arrived. On 15 Aug 1935, Dale Eugene was born. All four babies were born in Barrett[...]tor and nurses. Murlin and John lived at what is now Roberts Packing until Sep 1945 when they purc[...]and the children lived in town , but when school was out they returned to Sheep Canyon. John, Sr. spen[...]the Blacktail. John Leroy Conover- is the oldest son of John A. and All four childr[...]S. John, Jr. Murlin Walker Conover. He was born 28 Sep 1931 in ranched with his dad and marr[...]ar, then joined the Air Force Blacktail. and was stationed in Mississippi and California.[...]rsity of Utah in social and 1957 in Dillon. She is the only child of Henry and Lois psychiatric welf[...]in Salt Goldsworthy, who are deceased, and was born 25 Jul 1936. Lake City . He married Jana Kay[...]C for two years. reside in Great Falls where Jean is employed as a state John and Gladys[...]Smith (21 Jun ranch , married , moved to town and was employed by the 1960); Alan Craig Conover ([...]took care of him until 1978, when Mary he was around ten years old and his brother, Bill, was nine Ellen took him to live with their family in[...]ears old, they herded sheep for their father when it was she cared for him. He passed away 18 Jul 1983.[...]. from the sheep--times have not changed much in that respect In 1992 she sold the house and mov[...] |
| [...]for the wonderful memories it has brought to her. Laurel has always prided[...]s school and becoming an accountant. When she was a baby, her siblings told their dad , "You[...]Helene Wenger we were small , and now there is no excuse." He obeyed their wishes. Harold was the only child of Arthur and Ethel Retallack[...]the County Treasurer's office and later was the chief[...]was born the eleventh child of Jules and Marie Wenger[...]Harold was elected Clerk of Court in 1949 and held that office for 37 years. He was the treasurer and bookkeeper[...]for American Red Cross for many years and was a trustee[...]Band, was a member of the Elks Drum and Bugle Corps.[...]He was also a leader in the Democratic Party. He and[...]ports events, especially football and basketball, that the school provides. Laurel also likes to cook, is an avid reader and enjoys listening to music. Oth[...]to instilling a sense of love and responsibility that will last for many years to come. 280 - B[...] |
| [...]Craig Roscoe Cornell was born 27 May 1938 in Dillon,[...]Cornell was born 07 Jan 1940. Elsie often related that her Harold "Toke" Jr. was the second child of Harold timely not[...]met with "can you wait until Fibber McGee is over?" Roy 1939. Harold attended elementary and high school in was born in Barrett Hospital immediately following th[...]d a commission in the hometown of Dillon where he is enjoying his retirement with Air Force in May[...]urned to the ranch when Craig and Teddy Chris. He is the grandfather of three grandsons, Cody,[...]Roy married Shirley Cole Brown in Nov 1988. Shirley Wayne was the first child of Harold "Toke" and Helene[...]Nov 1937, at Barrett Memorial Office and is the mother of five children: Doug, Cody, Hospital[...]ating from Beaverhead County High Roy was elected Chief of the Dillon Volunteer Fire School[...]led machines Office as a county social worker and was later promoted to (farm and construction ma[...]ent in Dillon. Wayne snowmobiles). Tonya was active in 4-H (horses) and the held this position[...]Elsie Rouse Reno NV. Karyle is employed at Western Montana College as the manage[...]yne and Roscoe Gillespie Cornell was born 08 Jun 1909 in Karyle have one son, L[...] |
| knees when he was six weeks old and never looked back. He spent his[...]ington in Seattle. He Bill Cottom was born 17 Feb 1936 in Dillon, the first son worked[...]Dillon following of his mother when Bill was six, he became close to his college and engaged i[...]an 1940. the fields. He was active in the ski club in high school and Roscoe was active in civic affairs and was a strong played basketball for the Dil[...]Horticulture. chairman. During his tenure he was instrumental in acquiring the land for and construction of the first Parkview School. Roscoe was a charter member of the Montana Livestock Production Credit Association of Helena which was formed to meet the financial needs of Montana far[...]wing by heading up the Montana Woolgrowers' "Make-It- Yourself-With-Wool" contest for several years. S[...]ars and her course record held until 1996. Roscoe was a frequent tournament winner in his own right and often reminded Elsie that she had no holes-in-one (he had two). They spent[...]e ranch, 200 acres located on the Blacktail Road, was[...] |
| [...]Street and have lived there ever since. Bill is active on the board of the Montana Seed Potato Association and has served as its president. He is currently serving on the National Potato Board and is active in the Southwest Montana Seed Potato Assoc[...]skiing in his spare time. Dixie South Cottom was born in Malad ID on 06 Nov 1937. She moved to Dillon with her family in 1950. She was active in 4-H, cheerleading, FHA, student council[...]Lesli Mae Ashley David Lee Cottom was born 11 Dec 1959 in Dillon. He is the second son of Bill and Dixie (South) Cottom.[...]dad and grandpa Philip on the farm as soon as he was old enough and continued to do so through[...]Front L-R: Cole, Shane and Ryan Cottom. high school and college.[...]ck row L-R: parents Lesli and David Cottom. David was active in Key Club and Student Council[...]ummer 1996. Ref172.16. throughout high school. He was a top wrestler for the Dillon Beavers and played[...]Later they built a house on the property next to it and Philip's eye for detail. He is responsible for making sure still reside th[...]rm runs properly. David takes 14 Dec 1984, Cole William, born 03 Aug 1986, and Shane pride in Cot[...]od crops, whether Michael, born 03 Mar 1989. it is grain, hay or potatoes.[...]ir grandmother's ranch in Sheridan. Not only have was born 26 Sep 1963, in Montrose CO, to Wesley Gene[...]ado until same horse their mom did. Ryan and Cole are active in 4- the family moved to Sheridan MT in 1977. She was active H; they especially enjoy shooting[...]and judging and their animal projects. Cole and Shane are active activities during hig[...] |
| [...]is main interests. After his father, Morris David is active in the Southwest Seed Potato Association a[...]from tick fever in 1930 at the age of 54, Philip is currently serving on the Canyon Ditch Board of Di[...]X-ray technologist since 1983. Her main interest is Ruth Irvine was born 30 Jul 1913 in Butte. She attended mammography and breast cancer awareness. She is active grade school in Pipestone where he[...]The Irvines ranched for a time at Leadore ID. It was at this David and Lesli truly appreciate livi[...]of Philip Cottom. Ref 172.13. Philip Cottom was born 04 Jul 1904 near Leadore ID, the |
| [...]in 1944 to Velma Crookshanks from Philip was known for his mechanical ingenuity; for Denver. S[...]procket wheel and gear death in 1989. Velma is buried in Mountain View chain from some[...]Philip was active in the formation of the Montana Potato[...]erved as a director on disease-free seed potatoes that were shipped to most of the the Seed Certifica[...]the United States and as far as Philip was always active in the conservation and Argentina,[...]e involved with the East Bench Canal. This was one of his favorite projects , company until it sold in 1968. hav[...]tain View 1969. During his years as mayor, Philip was active in the Cemetery in Dillon. paving of[...]on and the replacement of the old wood water line that delivered the city's water supply.[...]Barbara Morris Robert Philip Cottom was born 28 Feb 1942 at Murray Hospital in Butte,[...]1962, at the Presbyterian Church in Dillon; from that union were born two children, Bradley Aqen[...] |
| [...]perator, a position which he holds today. Bob is very dedicated to his community, serving on the c[...]gned to accept his job with the city. In 1982 Bob was appointed to the Beaverhead County Refuse Board where he served as secretary until 1986, at which time he was presented with a Public Service award. In 1991 he was appointed to the State Board of Certification for[...]ste water operators by Governor Stan Stephens and is currently starting his second term on the board. Bob was awarded Montana Water Operator of the Year by the[...]rtise in this field in 1994. Bob's spare time is spent spoiling his two granddaughters. His i[...]from 197 4 until Sep 1994 when the Dillon office was closed by the company. Since that time, Barbara has spent her time enjoying the two[...]more of in future years. Bradley Allen Cottom was born 05 Nov 1965, at the old Barrett Hospital in[...]rt, Sheila Squires, in Dillon 20 May 1989. At that time they moved to Jackson WY, where they lived a[...]o Dillon to open the Western Wok Restaurant which is located in the building formerly occupied by Skee[...]Ref.172.18. Brenda Lee Cottom was also born at the old Barrett Hospital, 29 Dec 196[...]20 Nov 1993 in Dillon. Steve Cottom was born 26 Apr 1957, the first son of Bill Their daughter, Rachael Ann, was born 01 Feb 1995, in and Dixie Cottom.[...]--Bob and Barb Cottom in 1975. He was active in Key Club, intramural sports,[...] |
| Cathy (Catherine Louise Nitsche) was born 02 May 1954 Lindsey's interests out[...]aseball , basketball and skiing. All Cajon CA and was active in sports, cheerleading and various thr[...]systems. Steve also well known in the community. It was during this time that serves on the Board for the East Bench Irrig[...]in the little house Improvement Association and was selected to go to the on the Home Ranch, just as[...]where they have lived until the Steve is always investigating the newest methods and prese[...]Cathy's main focus has been parenting. She is involved[...]He was born 14 Sep 1905 to Charles Cowins and Myrtle[...]Reis 23 Jul 1932 . She was born 07 Dec 1911 to Matthew[...]Star Mizpah Chapter #13 Dillon. LeRoy was a member of[...] |
| [...]1 at First Baptist Church in Butte MT. Fay George is Gladys May Reis (born 07 Dec 1911 in Centennial V[...]Garland. One daughter was born of their marriage; Linda Marie 21 Helen M[...]rman Aug 1952 in Butte MT. Linda Marie was educated in Keith Simpson of Merrill OR in Dec 19[...]eith. They divorced Pace 05 Sep 1970. He is the son of Genevie Pace of in 1995. Helen May mar[...]Thomas Milton Graham 08 Aug 1975. He is the son of 288 - Beaverhead History No. 2 |
| [...]In 1939 she married Ellsworth Cragholm, Sr., who was Graham of Ruidoso NM.[...]Cragholm was an avid reader, lover of horses and enjoyed[...]traveling. She was a long-time member of the Order of[...]Michael and William. Her son, Ells, is married to Stacia[...]ce Jeannette Peterson Alice Jeannette Peterson was born on the Home ranch near Grant MT 12 Jul 1916.[...]ohn and Thilda Peterson, from Sweden. Her brother was Herman R.[...] |
| [...]Loraine Thom Donald D. Crosser was born 15 Jun 1928 in Lewistown MT. His parent[...]degree in Business Administration and Finance and was awarded second lieutenant wings in the Air Force Reserve, ROTC. He was employed by JC Penney Company in Missoula and was transferred to Kalispell as assistant manager in 1957. Don was transferred to Dillon in 1961 as the manager of t[...]Don married Loraine Marian Thom of Moore, MT. She was born in Roundup MT and lived in Lavina MT before[...]ersity of Montana as a music major. Loraine was Don's childhood sweetheart, meeting when[...]when Don was a 7th grader and Loraine was in the fifth Don was in the 7th grade and Loraine was in the 5th. They[...] |
| Don was very active in Dillon's business and service[...]change. We now had a hometown name for clubs. He was Rotary Club President, WMC Booster Club[...]ed Ruler, Chamber The Dilmart building was rented from the Masons. They of Commerce member,[...]to the Dart Building to shop, they had to take He was a member of the First Lutheran Church and served[...]art Building, which they kept locked. Loraine was active in the First Lutheran Church, Dillon[...]isterhood, the Mizpah Chapter #13 of This was a good change for the Dilmart. Sometime later the[...]they bought the Dart Building and remodeled it to utilize all Temple, bowling, various local bri[...]e Dilmart and started Don retired in 1990. He is an active community working in it, people would get them mixed up. One day voluntee[...]Irene McFadden asked for the one whose wife was expecting California and works at Eliel's when ne[...]nailed on it around the green to smooth off their tracks on[...]at the Guild Hall. It was a fun dancing group. Their other children, She[...]ers of the LDS Church where Ray Dillon and Aleisa was born in Butte. They moved into served[...]Wrights built a duplex at 6 N. Nelson Ray was on the hospital board and the Dilmart sponsored S[...]which Ray bowled on. He also worked with Street. It was the old-fashioned "number, please" telephones.[...]ed to Dillon, they brought their Dilmart was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and TV set with them. It was two years before TV came to they enjoyed the activities involved with it. Dillon. The ·store would sell TVs, then they wo[...]enna masts came in 10-foot sections and sometimes it was They built a cabin at Elkhorn around 1975 a[...]t Maverick Mountain, fishing, get a TV signal in. It was an exciting time when TV came snowmobili[...]eina, area to submit a new name. Estella Shaffner was the lucky Curtis and Cynthia. They live i[...]red's daughter, Kandis married Jason Winn's, Inc. was started by Hugh McCaleb and George[...]n Dillon. Sheila and her husband, Hughes in 1890. It was called Hughes & Mccaleb and in Mark M[...]obert, Ryan a building on Montana Street. In 1938 it was bought by and Marissa and live in Hend[...]. They moved the store to Bannack Street. In 1948 it was sold to Floyd Winn and Eldon Noble. We wer[...] |
| [...]old Andrus Building and moved the main store into it. They kept the Dart Building for a flo[...] |
| [...]th Dansie Nevada, that he thought that poetry was his true calling. Dorothy P. Wooley[...]uated from Beaverhead County High School where he was quarterback of the[...]as Master Sergeant in the One year the house was used as collateral with one of the Army Air Corps[...]lace When the market collapsed and Mr. Dansie was forced to "Bob" , Amy Jane, William Charles "Bill[...]ed their children in Nevada and Arizona, house. It's presently owned by Dan and Bobbie Scott.[...] |
| [...]llon to help Dorothy. She enrolled at Western and is in the mid-1960s, attended by Feliciana Cor[...]the end." service. She graduated in May 1997 and is pursuing an art Lyston later married Fe[...]ajara in 1980, leaving three sons, Nevada when he is in Dillon. He is a prolific writer and Robert, Charles and[...]emanly in all ways. prospecting and traveling now that his children are grown. Often Bob and Bill travel[...]n, Michael, Angela and Jo Ann Dansie. Amy Jane is State Archaeologist at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City. She publishes regularly and is involved with exciting work dealing with the olde[...]y began in 1912 when Charles Nephi Dansie decided that the Dillon area was where he wanted to base his sheep buying and sell[...]previous article. she's ever known. Lyston Dansie was one of the most Peg Dansie, the y[...]a beating with the razor strap, then would steal it retirement there. She's dearly loved by all o[...]eing a foreman at One favorite family story is of "Grandma" Margaret's the famous Camp Bird Min[...]reana NV. Robert managed to be around horses and even trained polo ponies had been promising her a horse and she was beginning to in California for a few years. nag him about it. He finally relented and bought her a With wi[...]ackson, from the Big Hole), he took horse. She was so proud and happy. up a fruit and nut fa[...] |
| [...]ys had recognized the horse as a circus performer that danced when they whistled a tune. She, of course, wasn't amused by it until much later. Margaret wanted a greyhound[...]d. One Christmas morning she asked Robert, "Where is MY present?" Robert said, "It's in Robert Dansie behind the wheel, beside him is daughter Verona "Ronnie" Dansie. In back seat the[...]s. She said the ranchers came into town and there was a brand-new Cadillac. She was heart broken. for protection after the Batt[...]the town of Dillon was established, George W. moved his[...]1869 and married Harriet Fox. He hardware. That building is still standing at the comer of drove to Utah in a[...]school in several Montana towns, retiring He was a Mason and was said to be one of the Vigilantes in Butte whe[...]to justice at their Our father, Fred Dart, was a great dad. Neither he nor meetings. Few Vigilan[...]000 in promissory notes were his life. His advice was to get out of town. The man didn't found, uncollectible from depression days when ranchers make it; while climbing the stairs, a gunman shot him in the couldn't pay their debts. It took Fred Dart until he retired back. Stairs to t[...]to keep its door open. Honesty was important to the Darts When I was a boy, Harriet Dart told me stories of Henry and still is. Plummer, the outlaw sheriff who led the gang called the After the store was sold, the cannon that fired salutes as Innocents. She told about seeing[...]the Big Hole. She well as 4th of July salutes was stored in the Dart house that told me they rode so close to town that you could see the almost became part of the museum in Dillon, but was later 296 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| moved to Dell. That cannon was donated to the Beaverhead County Museum and may b[...]r Butte and worked the operation. Some say he was a nephew as well as a concessions at fairs and ro[...]hing days. namesake. Other researchers say he was a son by a first[...]research is needed. The second George W. , who became[...] |
| [...]alphabetically in the "Davis" section. Alice was born in 1924, then the Davis family moved to Salm[...]Back L-R: Jack, Alice and Chuck. Ref 153.34A. Sam was born later when the family moved back to Dillon. The kitchen was where the family shared in daily chores, Ben[...]dishes. station. In 1939, the Davis Motor Company was formed as Most family discussions occurred t[...]Conoco set of false teeth. For weeks prior to that day, smiling and station or one of the automotive[...]. Jack purchased erupted as each of us realized that a difficult period was the business there, while Chuck assumed responsibility for over. the Dillon business. Brother Ben was associated with the Wherever the family resided, there was always a piano Dillon enterprise until his untime[...]Jack and Chuck played In 1941 the family home was acquired at 525 South popular pieces like "Elmer's Tune." Ben took great pride in Pacific and was often referred to as the Paul Home. It was his dance band, performing on both the piano an[...]songs and Sam went on to be a many spacious rooms that accommodated a large family. professional[...]led to the second floor, convenient for It was the front living room in which Sam practiced the[...]Alice's marriage to Charles Thomas Burgess was held in occasions and holidays.[...]While the home had central heating, the kitchen was family and guests. The bride proceeded down the front always the warmest place, in large part because that was stairs, through the hallways and glass doors[...]the fireplace where the vows were exchanged. It was a rings, prepared the food and served most[...] |
| [...]cars to each of two partners for their shares. He was a[...]1979 of a heart attack and was buried in the family plot at[...]d the outside of the second story of the building was a railing, probably constructed to keep moisture[...]icks below and strong enough to support a person. It became an avenue from the balcony on the street side and all around the house. One of the boys was sleepwalking one night and exited through a windo[...]comer rain gutters to the ground below. There he was found, oblivious to the fact that he had made this nocturnal trip. By the late[...]tered a nursing home, passed away in Jan 1985 and was BPOE Lodge #1554.[...]ed beside her husband. Ben loved baseball and was active as a player and supporter of the game in S[...]illon youngsters until his mid-fifties. Mazie was known for her flower gardening, pottery ma[...] |
| [...]trip in the Armstead area south of Dillon, he was involved Frances Marion Ryan[...]where the Clark Canyon Dam is now located. He died in[...]Great Falls 24 Nov 1958 from injuries incurred in that Benjamin Robert Davis was born 11 Nov 1929 in Salmon accident. After[...]d her five M~ie Davis. The Davis family residence was at 525 South young children. Her interests[...]rion Ryan of Dillon in Sep 1951. Their first home was in Mountain View CA. Their first child, Karen Mari, was born 31 Jul 1952 in Oakland. Upon his release fro[...]the family moved back to Montana. Kevin Mikel was born 23 Aug 1953 in Butte, Kathryn Mazie was born 30 Jul 1954 in Dillon, Kristin Marian was born in Missoula 22 Jun 1955, and Kelsa Maureen was born in Dillon 15 Aug 1958. Frances Ryan was born 11 Nov 1932 in Laurin MT, the[...]Davis Gallagher, and Karen Episcopal Church. Ben was a member of the Dillon BPOE Davis[...] |
| [...]Chuck, born 23 Nov 1927, is a Dillon native and son of[...]Ben H. Davis and Anna Mazie Bourquin Davis. He is a[...]averhead County High School and Carl M. Davis was born 21 Nov 1923, the son of Loren the Un[...]hter pilot both basketball and football. He was a starter in both sports in the South Pacific in World War II and was recalled to the all four years. Chuck was selected to the All-State First Marine Corps duri[...]Team for three years (1944-1945-1946). He was offered He graduated from the University of M[...]rting berth as Davis Warren and Hristco. The firm was originally called a freshman cager with t[...]the U of M, he served in For several years he was an assistant coach at Western the army from 1948-1950 as an athletic director and was Montana College in addition to his law practice. He was selected First Team at the worldwide bas[...]ment Beaverhead County Attorney for twenty years, was elected at Ft. Belvoir, VA. He was also chosen Most Valuable delegate to the 1972 Mo[...]ce and on many community and state committees. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Martha Brown was born in Florida in 1928. She attended high school[...]d lived on the Navajo reservation when her father was the irrigation engineer there. She graduated from[...]t Pablo. Carl and Martha married in 1950. She was a Girl Scout leader for many years. She was a trustee on the Dillon Public Library Board and served as its chairman. She was also a member of the State Library Commission for more than six years and was a member of the Board of the Barrett Hospital Fou[...]ll as other regions of Montana. Ginny Harkins was born in Butte 29 Mar 1933 and Following discharge, he returned to U of M and was attended schools in Butte where her parents were[...]o at senior years. During his final year, he was selected on the age 8 and at 13 was presented in her own recital. As a LOOK[...]d and Toyota) in Dillon on her keyboard artistry, was a Miss Montana runner-up. until the business was sold in 1974. He was employed with[...] |
| [...]ed Methodist alike. Church trustee. He is a member of the University of Montana Hall of[...]and Melanie I., born medical training, he was stationed in Alaska for two and a 22 Jan 1964 in[...]Officer Candidate School and flew Charles Jr. is a veteran of over 24 years with the U.S. heli[...]uated from U of M. returned to Dillon in 1991 and is employed as a Real Estate William married Marsha J. Carter from Washington, agent. Chuck is a member of the Dillon Masonic Lodge and D[...]ottish Rite and Baghdad Temple of the Charles III is serving with the U.S. Air Force in Germany[...] |
| John Edward was a University of Montana graduate and resi[...]Falls after a their first child in May 1997. John is currently a Las Vegas lengthy illness. His int[...]painting, carpentry and picture framing. He was a member Melanie Irene graduated from C. M. R[...]Connie Mae South Edward Bourquin Davis was born 20 Apr 1931 in Salmon ID, the fifth of six c[...]Mazie Bourquin Davis. The Davis family residence was at 525 South Pacific Street in Dillon. Ed was educated in the Dillon public school syste[...] |
| [...]John Hull was born in 1853 and died in 1925. His wife Frank C. Davis was born in 1858 and died in 1912. They had a son, Fr[...]and a daughter, Lillian. Frank was born in 1884 and died in 1926. Lillian was born in 1879 and died in 1961. Frank[...]the house that Mr. and Mrs. Rowett lived in.[...]Joan Faller is a native Montanan, born 30 Nov 1921 in John Rowett and Lillian Hull Rowett. Ref 145.33. Butte. Joan was the eldest of five daughters of Joe and Ann[...]Frank M. Davis was born in Unicoi TN 02 Nov 1921.[...]Army red tape, permission was granted and they made plans[...]Two days before the planned ceremony, their unit was[...]on 10 May 1945. The ceremony was repeated in a Catholic[...]Randy , was born. After Frank graduated from Law School, Myrt[...]Law in Carlisle PA. A second son, Philip, was born in[...] |
| [...]Commerce banquet. For some twenty years, he was the and Ruth, were born at the old Barrett Memori[...]a receptionist/technician for Dr. Robert English, was elected to the District 10 School Board, and was active a Dillon optometrist. For several year[...]writes and reads poetry. A book of her poems is being and France.[...]Each of the five children went to college. Randy is a teacher in Portland; Philip is a teacher in Seattle; Steve, a[...]In 1983, Frank was elected District Judge, an office he[...]In May 1997, he was honored by the University of[...]skill of young and would-be lawyers and was presented with[...]Luxembourg. Ref.164.16. Hazel Davis was the daughter of Floyd and Edythe[...]Davis. Her parents died young and she was raised by Loren[...]were Anderson appointed Frank to succeed him. He was on the very young. She married William Flynn and three children bench for six months but was defeated in the election by were born, Pat[...]divorced. Her he became active in the Jaycees and was the president when oldest daughter, Diane, d[...]l nurse in nursing homes and Wapiti Players. Joan was similarly active in the theater ear[...] |
| [...]Mark Thomas was born 24 May 1952 in Butte. After Jac[...]retiring to Eugene OR. Jack Benjamin Davis was born 18 May 1926 in Salmon Matthew Dennis was born 02 May 1956, served in the ID , the second o[...]Mazie Bourquin Davis. The Davis family residence was at Andrew Joseph was born 01 Jan 1958 in Butte. He 525 South Pacific Street in Dillon. Jack was educated in the served in the U.S. Navy and now lives in Coos Bay OR. Dillon public schools. He was the President of the Helen Collins Davi[...]lementary schools of Butte for sixteen years. She was a athletics, fishing and hunting.[...]rd the U .S.S. Ocelot and the U .S.S. Basilan and was the manager and later the owner of Davis Mot[...]m Hamilton. They NAP A Parts Store in that community. moved to Bozeman where he completed hi[...]1987 when he degree at Montana State College. He was called back into sold it and subsequently purchased the NAPA Store[...] |
| Jack B. Davis family 1971. Seated is father Jack B. Standing L-R: children Andrew, Mar[...]Loren E. Davis was born 29 Sep 1890, the third of nine[...]Florence June Berry was born 23 Dec 1891 to Walter G.[...] |
| [...]nd Bill. Ref.186.1 lA. In the severe winter that year, remembered as the "winter children cleare[...]the the children stood by and applauded. That approach to the |
| [...]The Loren Davis home at 121 South Washington was the day. Ref 186.09A.[...]ia, he and They bought a second-hand car which was nicknamed his friend, Matthew Orr, remo[...]into a rental "Old Furlough" because they loaned it to so many apartment to prov[...] |
| [...]ration and Raymond L. "Buzz" Davis was the son of Floyd and encouragement to each member[...]Edythe Davis. His parents died young and he was raised by death at age 94 on 30 Sep 1985.[...]Forrester Korea. On his return to Dillon, he was deputy sheriff under Lloyd Thomas and was later elected Beaverhead County[...]of courthouses in the area and Lloyd E. Davis was born 06 Dec 1925, the son of Loren brough[...]ki troops in Court House. Colorado but was sent to the South Pacific and fought in the[...]ile on active duty Philippines and New Guinea and was sent to Japan at the conducting a Searc[...]Montana State Normal College. He and was survived by his wife and five-year-old daughter,[...]illon married in 1946. She recalls He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery with military me[...]had graduated from the University of who is now (in 1997) a senior at the University of Monta[...]--Dorothy Davis Forrester business. Lloyd was a charter member and a vice-president of the Dillon Jaycees, which was activated in 1953. He was active in the first projects undertaken by this g[...]baby Mark, and Samuel Eugene Davis was born in Dillon 29 Jan 1933, have been actively en[...]Mazie Bourquin Davis. The Davis family residence was at national sales manager in the automotive field and he and 525 South Pacific Street in Dillon. He was present at the Millie started their own business in Livermore CA as 1943 Cole Brothers Circus performance when the elephant man[...]with sales and marketing called "Pitt" was killed by lightning, and at the 1949 responsibili[...]and four step-grandchildren. of 1950. He was involved in many activities, especially Mildred d[...]music and sports. As a senior he was a member of the[...]Montana All-State Orchestra and was chosen as one of the[...]He was scouted by the Chicago White Sox baseball[...] |
| [...]at Whitworth College in Spokane WA. This was the Officer Training Corps, he was commissioned as a Second beginning of thir[...]and Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and was called to administrator in higher education.[...]is three-year tenure, Daughter Alicia Mae was born 06 May 1961 in Spokane. he was stationed at Columbus Air Force Base MS, in the[...]and they resided in Belleville IL near He was active with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Sco[...]umerous solo and Their son, Jay Samuel Davis, was born 30 May 1956. ensemble perform[...] |
| [...]cia From 1975 to 1995, Dr. Sam Davis was employed at Sul McFadden Ori and Katharine Davis.[...]her mother, Jean Cowan Dr. Davis was a member of the Montana Music Crockett, in Chinoo[...]Texas Association of College Teachers. He was the Sul accompanied visiting musicians in program[...]Texas Music Educators WMC and local churches. She was a member of the Association and th[...]chools. Montana State Music Teachers Association, was a private The Davises were members of[...]William W. Davis was born 06 Jan 1921, the son of[...]In New Orleans he was in charge of electronics design Samuel E.[...]research to the vehicle which was used on the surface of the Son Jay Samuel Dav[...]moon. He was project engineer in the modification of high scho[...]he retired in 1979 he was involved in the design of was recommended by Montana Senator Mike Mansfi[...] |
| [...]James "Jim" Harrison Ara Jeannine (Ginger) was born 09 Jun 1945 in Pocatello Deborah Ann Detton was born 25 Jan 1956 in Pocatello ID to Don and Jean[...]rced. Casey and Cory. Deb was employed by the Dillon Police Ginger continued to live in Augusta where she was Department for several years where she se[...]Director of to the Chief of Police. She was later employed by Sneed Financial Aid. She moved back to Los Angeles in 1984 and Cycle Sales. Deb is currently working part-time for the lived there until 1992. Ginger is currently attending Boise State of Montana, Department of Lands, while attending State College and is living in Nampa ID. W[...] |
| [...]ed in Dillon 05 Feb 1944. After Don C. Detton was born 29 Jul 1921 on the family ranch[...]south of Dell that was homesteaded by Henry Fitter, a His parents were R[...]enty-eight years until selling in 1976. The ranch is now He has three sisters: Gladys Owen, formerly o[...]operated a gypsum mine up Little Sheep Creek. He was --Do[...]Donna Jean (Detton) Kast was born 17 Oct 1946 in[...]They moved to Bellevue WA, where Lonnie was based out[...]Katherine Lynne (Detton) Schuler was born 20 May 1949[...]and John C. Schuler married in Jean H. Gravely was born in Dillon 20 Jan 1927. Her Dillon. The[...]ing for N orwest (Price) Gravely (1885-1953). She was raised on the family in 1978 and was promoted to bank officer in 1985. ranch ne[...] |
| [...]ody WY where he worked for John Robert Detton was born 31 Dec 1957 in Dillon. He IMCO as a dis[...]Aug 1974 in Creek MT. In fall 1983, Bill was transferred to Evanston Lima. John and Renea are[...]uction. WY. On 20 Mar 1984, Chelsea Jolene was born in nearby The main focus of their business is dirt excavation with an Salt Lake City UT. env[...]s for large mining companies. Detton Construction is currently based in Morenci AZ, while being workin[...]odock 3) Dorothy Meskimen Bill Dingley was born 12 Apr 1955 in Dillon MT. He is the second of five children born to Montrose Ever[...]g from Beaverhead County High School in May 1973. That spring he went to work for F. H. Stoltze Land and[...]o this marriage: In spring 1985, Bill was transferred to Monahans TX Jeremy James Dingley ([...]o work driving a logging also did some mining and even tried the railroad. He and truck. the union didn't agree on some things and he was job A son, Klint Robert Dingley, was born 02 Aug 1986 in hunting again. It just goes to show that sometimes children Bozeman MT. In winter 1986,[...]joring in mechanical engineering. In spring 1977, it was and stayed in that business until the early 1990s. back to th[...] |
| [...]Carrie May Dingley was born 22 Sep 1905 on a ranch enjoys soaking up the[...]His son, Jeremy , lives in California. Son Daniel is a[...]was acquitted, it ruined the family financially. They sold the program (his sport) , he had to change plans. Chelsea is an[...]Payette ID where honor student in El Cajon CA as is her brother Klint. They[...]Dubois ID. When Carrie was eight years old, she walked family home. Alveretta was one of his mother's best friends[...]s convinced there's no place like home , and home is[...]foundation still stands in 1995. The homestead is now good old Dillon MT no matter where his[...] |
| [...]e Clemow Upper extent of her misery. She is buried near the Dingley plot at Ranch in 1930 and[...]etery in Dillon. perfected her cooking skills and was famous for her lemon pie and baked bread. It was a stormy marriage and they[...]cialty key chains before returning to Dillon. She was one of the first tenants in the Bicentennial Apar[...]ir marriage was born 12 Aug 1960 in in 1921. Ref90.4506.Dingley.[...]ley and Lois Mary pastime in her retirement years was fishing Trail Creek and[...]inner. and was stationed at She became quite despondent over[...]White Tanner and they several subdural hematomas that affected her mentally.[...] |
| [...]when possible. Estella Alice Dingley was born 30 Jul 1907 near Dillon[...]County pioneers. She was six when they homesteaded at[...]In 1916, she was carrying her baby brother, Montie,[...]baby was unhurt, but Estella was unconscious for more than[...]a day. She may have suffered brain damage from that[...]rineland CA in 1980s. RefDingley. Later Don was reassigned to George AFB at Victorville |
| [...]'Twerp, who got his name as a baby because he was as cute[...]was running the business[...]his dish pan bath. It must be[...]and mend fences and any other odd job that came about. He[...]but that didn't work out. In 1972 he caught on with a Unio[...]Pacific extra gang that was ripping up siding trackage and[...]ears, she became impoverished and handicapped and was placed in Oregon's adult residency program at hom[...]ars, suffered from osteoporosis, broke a hip, and was placed in a rest home in Roseburg in the early 19[...]22 Mar 1992 at Mercy Hospital in Roseburg OR and is buried in the Dingley plot at Mountain View Cemet[...]e 09 Nov 197 4, but the Everett Monte Dingley was born 23 Feb 1953 in Dillon, constantly movi[...]ose doing a job and not knowing any purpose it was serving. section, so at age four he moved to Melr[...], especially as a for Dorothy and Everett , was an outgrowth of him wanting bowling team m[...] |
| [...]gley (Keppner) business 07 Aug 1978. The business was a success but the marriage was not. They divorced in 1981 and Dorothy[...]Fem Catherine Dingley, was born 23 Nov 1920 when her for work, he quit again[...]mother , Hazel Dingley , was 17 and unmarried. When Hazel Dillon Auto Repair u[...]pressured Hazel to "get rid of her. " Fern was adopted by a He also worked with WestMont in home[...]er who lived at some experience and training , he was hired at Barrett[...]Leadore ID. No one knows for sure who her father was. Memorial Hospital where he works the evening shi[...]glas Kauer 15 Oct 1943 at Salt Lake City UT. John was get more training to upgrade his health care skil[...]s only daughter came into his life. Jaime Pierson was born 04 Oct 1982 in Idaho Falls to Edith Marie "E[...]s part of most summers in Dillon. Initially , she was a bit overwhelmed with all her Dingley relatives[...]Lookout and overlooks the Dingley house which he was left one-sixth in Fern and John Kauer. Ref.93.4006.Dingley. his father 's will. Now that two of his three brothers have returned to Dillon[...]Their first child was John Richard Kauer, born 28 Aug his father could[...]Second child was Steven Leo Kauer, born 03 Aug 1946[...]they live in Blackfoot ID. Steven is an attorney and home[...]is a librarian . They have six children and a[...] |
| Their third child was Terressa Kauer, born 12 Mar 1949 in Shelley ID. S[...]They live Wichita Falls TX. Their fourth child was Trudy Fem Kauer, born 24 Jul 1955 at Idaho Falls[...]John Kauer died 15 Mar 1959 at Leadore ID and is buried at Burton Cemetery in Madison County ID. A[...]a special place in the Dingley family because she was the first to do extensive research into the Dingl[...]ed with her uncle Montie and the family's history is much richer because of her efforts. Fem died in the late 1970s and is sorely missed by her children. After Fern's death[...]Adrianne Morris who died in 1986. Hawley Carlson is a Doctor of Chiropractic in Salmon ID where he ha[...]1921 in Dubois ID. Isaac Morris was born 17 Nov 1895 at 2) Logan Wilson[...]Amanda Rock. A son, Clinton Isaac Morris, was born 29 3) Huey Radwell[...]stead in Middle Creek ID. From an early age Hazel was the vamp of the large family, always smiling, teasing and flirting even when she may not have known the effects on the bo[...]around her. Her first child, Fern Catherine, was born 23 Nov 1920 when Hazel was 17 and unmarried. When Hazel married, her new hus[...]Fem and pressured Hazel to "get rid of her. " Fem was adopted by a fine family with the surname of Keppner who lived at Leadore ID. Fem was beautiful but in her middle years was crippled with arthritis. She married John[...] |
| A second son, Douglas Royal Morris was born 22 Sep Her last marriage in 1955, at age 52, was to Thomas 1923 at Dubois. Isaac ruled his family with an "iron fist" "Tom" Roberson. Little is known of him, but after his and meted out harsh d[...]Hazel married Logan Wilson about 1928. Little is her daughter, Carole Cassidy, for sever[...]Carole respiratory failure. She is buried at Mountain View married Melvin Aaron "Bun[...]lley AZ . Carole died 16 Oct 1993 from cancer and is buried in Dillon. Her widower, Pat[...]orced in time to marry Al Rhulman in 1953. Little is known of him. Hazel was a woman of the 1990s born eight decades too Katherine Lois "Kathy" Dingley is the youngest child of soon. She could live[...] |
| [...]gley Her first son, Kenneth Gregory Donnelly, was born 10 Jul 1983. His birth father is Michael Lincoln of Dillon but[...]Nellie Belle Seybold Jeff is his loving step-dad. A second son, Jeffery Neal Donnelly was born 16 Aug 1985 in Dillon. They moved to[...]he sixth and seventh childr_en of Royal Voss, who was adopted to a loving family. Later Jeff and[...]nts of U.S. Army and served in the Gulf War, then was stationed William Hamilton Huff and his wif[...]nd Dwayne Allen 12 May 1990 at Golconda IL. Roger was lived in the Dell-Lima areas and late[...]ad two daughters by Nellie Belle Seybold was born 18 Aug 1892 near Dell, a previous marriage.[...]KY. The and Daisy Drown. Daisy Drown was a sister to Edward marriage was stormy and ended in divorce a few years later. Drown who married Alma Mae Seybold whose father was She married Michael Rogers 28 Nov 1996 and liv[...]s, Kenny, Jeffery and William. mother was Margaret Elizabeth Huff Seybold (who was Harriet Huff Dingley's sister ... who was Leslie's mother).[...]tt Dingley Meanwhile, Belle's first husband was Louis Anderson (who was Alma Mae Seybold Drown's second husband).[...] |
| [...]Parkview Acres Rest Home. He died 03 Sep 1988 and is Les was experienced in sheep herding, having worked on[...]married Leslie Dingley 20 Nov 1923. This time it was true love. They remained a devoted couple until B[...]ng cancer. He nursed her in her final illness and was Youngest Son of a Youngest Daughter[...]and later Montrose Everett Dingley was named after his father's worked for Snake River E[...]n, restored and repaired George Rebich that caused Roy to lose everything in 1909- airplanes after World War II. Louis Anderson was the son 10. Still the friendship was valued enough to bestow his of Louie Anderson (Le[...]end's name on his eleventh and youngest child. He was Alma May Seybold (Belle's first cousin--their fat[...]f Belle, he lived with his twin sister, He was born 28 Nov 1915 in a log cabin in a narrow Hazel[...]rked for his in Clark County ID. His mother was Harriet Catherine Huff niece and her husband, Car[...]In 1970s, he Sarah Ann Graham Huff. Sarah was 44 years old when and Carrie moved back to Dillon and shared a house, Hattie was born and her father William was 49. moving to the Bicentennial Apartments when it opened. Harriet was 41 years old when she gave birth to Montie, D[...]ment he loved to fish and hunt and and he was spoiled terribly by his parents, all his siblings[...]with his old and new friends. He loved apple pie even more Hattie's father, William Hamilton Huff, was born 31 Aug than his sister's famous lemon[...] |
| of Elias and Margaret Elizabeth Huff. Elias Huff was born about 1785 in Pennsylvania and was 40 when William was born. Elias Huff died 04 Jul 1870 at age 85. Will[...]ingley where Roy's eleventh child, Montie, was born in 1915. Ref 89.15. 03.Ding[...]s and causes of death and physical traits. Montie was about six feet one inches tall. His father was about five feet four. His mother was less than five feet two. After Montie's death, a[...]ked if Montie knew Montrose E. Dingley that he probably wasn't Roy Dingley's son. I asked how the person came to that conclusion.[...]1) Marguerite Marie Evans The reply was to the effect that two short people couldn't produce a tall son. His[...]t have had an affair with Montie Dingley was born November 28, 1915 in a log a tall man. Still in my grief, I was almost too stunned to cabin at a desert hom[...]raphs of the Huff west of Dubois ID and was delivered by his mid-wife aunt, family.[...]Margaret Huff Seybold. He was the eleventh and youngest Grandfather William Huff was well over six feet. How son of Royal Sime[...]tay with their uncle Simeon Estes. His After all, it was the fad of the 1890s and 1900s, just as the mo[...]arrived in Glendale in 1879. Montie video camera is today. Grandfather William was very tall, moved to Beaverhead County in 1921 with his family and Montie was quite tall, son Donald is quite tall, and it looks attended schools at Red Rock and Dillon.[...]1925 in Dillon. Most families have myths but that one in the Dingley- Montie worked with his father growing potatoes in what Huff family is hopefully put to rest. is now the Rife addition and they lived winte[...] |
| He and Art renewed that friendship in the 1980s. In the Montie[...]ir first child, daughter Margaret Evelyn Dingley, was looked at him and several other lanky fourteen an[...]the class room and said, "This school would was born 29 Oct 1938 in Dillon. A third child, Marian be better off without some of you to slow it down." He was Elaine Dingley was born 03 Jan 1941 in Dillon, and a fourth tough ye[...]nt child, a son, Ronal Montrose Dingley was born two years literally and quit, but often spec[...]later 07 Mar 1943 in Dillon. have been like if that teacher had taken the time to get to Mo[...]rbage run where he found many abandoned treasures that retirement years . remain in the family to this day. He was a mechanic and He joined the CCC in 1935 and was stationed at Camp attendant at Johnnie[...]ring his retirement Because of his family, he was exempt from the military. years . He attended CCC[...]joining the CCC program, he met Marguerite it, the owner sold it to someone else, and Dingley Auto Marie Evans in[...]perated a service station Montie was the local dealer for Whizzer Motorized about wher[...]ngular lot at the later, about 1990 , he was contacted by a man in Helena who north edge of Di[...]has restored Whizzer bikes and was able to sell his[...]remaining Whizzer parts inventory. Dick Hansen was the[...]. The family album is filled with photos from fishing trips[...]to Trail Creek where the fishing was great and the property[...]owners friendly . Their marriage was rocky for years , and Marie Evans was born 15 Jan 1920 in British Columbia, a marital infidelity brought it to an unpleasant breakup in Canada, and ca[...] |
| [...]rade O1 Jan 1952 and loved spending time with his is superb.[...]a hasty so long and took a fruit. At one time . it was the largest family owned Greyhound bus b[...]on Montrose "Lee" 12 Lois Mary Bloor was born 13 Feb 1926 on a farm near Oct 1962; Emma Fr[...]1968; Shawn Anthony 28 May 1969; that befell several of her children. Lois's father, De[...]Montie managed to have a meal on each shift that Lois and Diana. Marian and Don divorced. Marian l[...]six-year-old Shirley to Dillon. Montie was soon challenged 1966 at Missoula and had a daugh[...]Lois and Montie's first child was Everett Monte, born 23 Ron and Jean married[...]and live near Emmett Feb 1953 in Dillon. He was tagged "Twerp" when he was ID. He is a long distance driver for Yellow Freight Lines about a year old and that name is the only one most of his and is a rock hound in his spare time. He has his father's friends and employers and even teachers knew him by. He gift of carpentry. He an[...]r at a time when Their second child was Billy Roy, born 12 Apr 1955 in memories were best put to rest. Dillon. Bill is the charmer of the family and now lives half-[...]The third child, another boy, was Myron Douglas[...]ley Dingley, born 04 Jan 1957 in Dillon. Myron was a career[...]The fourth child, still another boy, was Donald Jack[...]Dingley, born 12 Aug 1960 in Dillon. He is a career Air Force enlisted man and is stationed at Hill Air Force Base[...] |
| [...]he responsibilities of a growing family, and with was born 27 Mar 1966 in Dillon. She lives in Golconda[...]and was accepted in Nov 1955. They spent the next several[...]He was a master at knowing his way around the country.[...]bear to part with them. He was a pack rat by nature and he[...]About 1960 he purchased two lots in Dillon. There was[...]plumbing, but he moved the family into it and he and Lois[...]but each time he got an estimate, the amount One was a large blue sample case filled with costume[...]es from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, now was $20,000, and he sighed and replied, "I'll think on it." valuable in the collectors' market.[...]inside the front cover. He picture window was installed in the living room, Myron rescued a lar[...]0 West Bannack. from the dump. His estate donated it to the Beaverhead A golf ball hit the window and broke it into several large County Museum in his me[...] |
| Montie was so angry he could only see red for several minute[...]h of his wife, Lois. 1997, Twerp Dingley revealed that he lost the use of his golf The marriage was doomed from the start. clubs because brother Myron had borrowed them for he and Bea Shepard was born friend Gary to use. Thus, two promising futu[...]This was Montie's third[...]He was lonesome and knew she was a good cook. She was lonesome and[...]dance. She was a great[...]Wagon Wheel Cafe in Dingley was married.[...]School for 12 years, so there was little hope for privacy and freedom even though Montie was about to retire. Montie Dingley bringing in a pai[...]east cancer and had child or parent). She was raising a grandson, Kip, who was a mastectomy. She had a full recovery with no reo[...]cancer, but for the rest of her life, she feared that cancer money from the sale of a house but prefe[...]8, at age 52, some lots in Dillon, but he was "tight" and remembered in a hospital at Missoula,[...]at Depression and wasn' t about to share problems that killed her mother and several of her siblings. it with a wife who hadn't earned it. She was buried beside her father in the Dingley plot at[...]d home. Could he trust been married 26 years. She was sadly missed by her her? He filed[...]attorney's office, someone from that office called her and[...] |
| [...]age 78 in challenged her to write one that was better. January 1997. Her obituary omits this sto[...]lected "novel writing" as the attainable goal and it was part of Montie's life, for better or for worse.[...]s, buy a ream of paper, and get If ever there was a marriage that should have worked, it a typewriter." She borrowed a typewriter, bought a ream of was this one. They were only three years apart in age[...]r said, "Bacon frying .... write from ... but. .. it was not to be. for ten[...]breakfast appeared. Sally knew a woman was in the Montrose E. Dingley[...]The rest is history. The book was written and revised |
| [...]met knew a lot. Sally and discovered she was a non-smoking, liberal, He grew up[...]on Estes and Uncle Sim's experiences held a life- even though they lived a thousand miles apart.[...]o Montie as he explored the more primitive He was a yellow dog Democrat while Sally leaned more[...]of the Constitution to practice, especially when it came to censorship, morality, separation of church and state, and even gun control. They feel that Christians are as apt to be liberal as conservative and that politics can corrupt one's religious beliefs when[...]Davidson bikers. This risky stop was Sally's idea.[...]in Viola WI, Sally (who was driving) suggested they stop for[...]drive truck, and traveling a road that some in Dillon had told Montie and Sally[...]n May 1994. Sally didn't exist, but it did, and great uncle Sim Estes had Ref. 94.1906.Dingley taken that road to Bannack more than once. They drove[...]lore the history of the called Middle Creek ID. It was an emotional time for him. area. In 1986 Sally to[...]Jeep to Art outside Beaverhead County, yet Dillon was always his home Blade. Art promptly restored the Jeep and now drives it all and he compared each motel bed with his own bed in Dillon. over Dillon. Each time Montie saw Art in that truck, he He was a late bloomer. Over the years he'd kept his drooled with envy and regret, but was pleased that Art was eyes and ears open and soaked up the history of Beaverhead getting so much fun out of that truck. That Jeep was so[...] |
| popular that Sally used it as a getaway vehicle in a bank reproduced m[...]Sally continues that work. He was a founding member of the Dillon Authors[...]nearly all the meetings and workshops since that time, except in the last few months when he was too ill.[...]providing for a family. He was a special man and is still[...]Hospital in Seattle WA. His death was due to liver and[...]was buried in the Dingley plot next to his second wif[...]y suffered from debilitating clinical depression. That[...]since Montie's death, and it's been a rough time for Sally[...]moving to Indiana. Most of her furniture is already in a Ref.93.1323.Dingley.[...]istorical research and could produce goal that has eluded her since 1958 when she dropped out to samples of many of the early day artifacts and tools she was marry. unfamiliar with. He was always generous with his time in In he[...]me deeply involved in family painful lesson that life can be cut short suddenly and wants history[...]nd to live each day to the fullest. 1990 and was making plans for the third reunion in Aug 1995, which was held in his honor. He and Sally traveled[...]'d never known until his research. His one regret is that he never made it back to Lewistown ME where[...]ingley ancestors had settled in the 1700s. He was nonchalant about his Mayflower and[...]n "Sally" Logan Revolutionary War connections but was proud of his parents for having the fortitude to come west in the 1870s and Myron D. Dingley was born 04 Jan 1957, the third child 1880s. Many tim[...]orkshops with his wife. nursery @ $2. What is it today, forty years later? He donated several[...]y and has been stationed in San Diego reinforcing it with screws, four in each of the more than CA, Bremerton WA, Iceland, and Groton CT. 1,700 boards. He was always willing to do carpentry jobs Jo Ellen Logan was born 07 Feb 1962 in Carrollton MI for Sonj[...] |
| [...], which has caused some confusion in Troy is in the eighth grade this fall at Dillon Middle Dillon, but it's being worked out. Sch[...]her work and living in Dillon. Myron is adjusting to being[...]that they purchased several years ago , and have hopes[...]plans are open as he considers his options . He is a salesman[...]and is not rushing his future. He was with his father when[...]'s living room in Dillon. Brandy Jane Dingley, was born 16 Nov 1982 in Carrollton MO. Troy Lee Dingley, was born 13 Jan 1983 in Carrollton MO. The children a[...]loyd holding his father's hand. Lloyd, born 1928, was the year in October to get Sally and Myron Dingle[...]. year he flew home Ref.Dingley. from Iceland and was Myron P. Dingley was born 17 Sep 1900 in Lewiston successful.[...]ME while his family was visiting. He was the fifth child of Myron retired from the U.S[...]t Dillon Middle and Cape Elizabeth ME. When he was six months old, they School in June and is a freshman at Beaverhead County High ret[...] |
| [...]1959 and Eric Robert Kimmey born 02 Aug CA. Opal was born 03 Jun 1902 in Mt. Grove MO and[...]live in Dillon where they own and operate Dingley was born 07 Mar 1928 in Pico Rivera CA. He[...]ic Mort, his wife, and their three never married, was a hair dresser for years, and died at his daug[...]in Montana and he brought Wilma Ruby Dingley was born O1 Mar 1930 in Pico his young fa[...]ildren, were able to attend the While Opal was busy shopping, Myron took over the house reunion.[...]Hospital and is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Gardens in[...]was too old to live alone and that he should go into the rest[...]sent it to Leo. L-R: Donald, Phyllis, dad Myron F. Di[...]Ref 90. 7725.Dingley. Donald Eugene Dingley was born 12 Feb 1933 in Pico |
| [...]ad but the other driver broke his arm (the victim was also Montie and Sally's insurance agent), and Myr[...]1) Gertrude Elizabeth Drown was declared at fault for failure to yield. His b[...]William Harry Dingley was born 22 Feb 1895 at the Huff on him as he approac[...]He was the first child born to Royal Simeon Dingley and[...]own that straddled the Beaverhead River just south of Barr[...]horse won the Kentucky Derby in 1889) whose ranch was up[...]was called the Dingley School but officially the Barr[...]superintendent of schools for the school and it was granted[...]Riverside District. It opened again in 1911 and continued[...]of chores. The Dingley cabin was built by Roy Dingley, Ed[...]ots of cousins lending a hand. One of the cousins was[...]Gertrude Elizabeth Drown was born 03 Jul 1906 at Lima[...]was the brother of Daisy Drown who married H.F. Seybo[...]On 17 or 18 Oct 1917, Ed Drown was shot and killed in Dingley siblings Carrie Kammer[...]Bauguess). There are different opinions as to who was at and Myron just before his 94th birthday.[...]they all agreed that Bob Bauguess was gunning for Ed He grew frail and in the early[...]hadn't, but Ed was already dead 'when that fact was revealed great reluctance, but he grew wor[...] |
| [...]II, he joined the maintenance staff of planned to even the score with his father's killer's relatives.[...]ay Department where he worked at the Gertrude was eleven years old when her father was shot time of his death 13 May 1959 at Barr[...]with his partner, Ed Kenison. They never hit it rich but it Harry enlisted in the army during World War I[...]oon-like object, possibly from Japan. when Gertie was 17 and Harry was 28. When the militar[...]d the Their first child, Ruth Evelen Dingley, was born 23 Oct men, "Forget you ever saw this.[...]ren. Ruth lives in Dillon. Their second child was a girl, born 06 Nov 1924 at Dillon. The baby died two days later and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in the Huff plot[...]Re/89.1608.Dingley. Montie was very ill, he saw his brother in a halo but Harry[...]Did Montie see his brother Their third child was Edward William Dingley, born 02 Harry the[...]Garrett Dingley lives now. Their fourth child was Mildred Bernice Dingley, born 09 Oct 1927 at Rexb[...], had two lived in Dillon at 26 South Argenta. He was a long time children, George and[...] |
| Third child, John Calvin "Jack" Dingley, was born 28 Sister Nellie Dingley Russell was the family historian and Dec 1897 near Dillon, mo[...]ed in the East. Much of her at Rexburg ID. Mattie is the sister of Isaac Morris who material was lost when she died, but she shared a great deal m[...]sister, Hazel. John and Mattie had three of it with Montie. She also did beautiful ceramic work,[...]ey, born 24 Fourth child, Nellie Ann Dingley, was born 14 Jan 1899 Aug 1908 at Barrett Station n[...]r daughters, Russell, and married 13 Jan 1919. He was a traveling then moved to California aga[...]e died in Whittier 02 Nov 1982 at age 83. Son Jim is winter in Yuma AZ. Daughter Faye married Kyle Spaulding deceased. Jack lives in Whittier and is the father of rock and they lived in Hopkinsvi[...]ated her 89th birthday this year. metal rock band that has won awards in that segment of the music industry. Daughter Pa[...] |
| The Ditty photograph on the next page was taken after a lots of red hair and was always known as "Red". He had deer hunting trip, beside a 1928 Ford. Their home was three brothers and one sister. located[...]ospital. George Ditty, Jess's Evelyn McCord was born 10 May 1916 at Glenfield ND, brother, lived farther to the right. He was a rancher, mostly the daughter of Edward and M[...]ty and various other cities. The old-timers was just a few weeks old, her mother, two brothers and will remember his place as it had the "BIG RED BARN". sister left No[...]ur more boys In the Ditty home, the front room was partitioned off and and two girls were born at Ridgeway. was a candy store. It was a good business as all the students from the Norm[...]mily members are all deceased. The Atkeson family is related to Jess Ditty , Sam Ditty and George Ditt[...]all deceased. Glenna Younce, Babe Ditty's sister, is deceased; however, she worked for the Gilberts in[...]wagon and fed sheep for a neighbor. There was very little Red Dodd at Roy UT with the kids just before he was sent snow or rain so much feeding was needed. Lambing was a overseas in 1944. He insisted on volunteering even though disaster with only a 19 % lamb crop that year. When the he was "almost over the hill" and had three children. neighbor's son was old enough to herd, they lost their job. Ref.192.[...]On 12 Sep 1934, their daughter, Jackie, was born in Lloyd Dodd was born 09 Apr 1912 at Colony WY, the Mi[...]and Red worked come from Arkansas and his mother was born at Alzada at a sawmill seven miles from town. MT. When Lloyd was a small child, they moved from[...]ranch. He had tiny shack at the sawmill. It was a terrible winter with lots[...] |
| [...]k and have nine everything in their path. The sun was blocked out because grand-children. They live in Dillon. of the hordes of them. That ended another job. Jim was in the Submarines in the Navy for 22 years. His On 11 Nov 1936, their son, Jim, was born. That winter wife is from South Carolina. They have two sons, Kenny was spent in Alzada helping her brother-in-law feed h[...]ildren. They live in Virginia stock. All they had was thistles, with molasses from Belle Beach VA.[...]Jerry married Evelyn Nyhart of Twin Bridges. She is the They moved back to their homestead in the[...]years and also did a lot of an old Chevrolet with that $50 and two kids. fishing. He p[...]ite AZ. stands. On 31 Aug 1938, their son, Jerry, was born. Red sheared sheep, worked on several ra[...]rld Hans Dons Hansen War II, but that's another story in itself. Denmark was the motherland of Hans Dons Hansen,[...]America at the age of 15. His plan was aided by Berg Christensen who was his father's second cousin.[...]six days, for he said, "It was a fast boat."[...]When arriving in Dillon, Hans was met by Trudy[...]Due to Denmark patronymics, Hans was known as Hans[...]His first job in Dillon was operating a fan mill cleaning[...]grain. Hans disclosed, "this was where I first tried to chew[...]Copenhagen. " There was an older man feeding the fan mill[...]sampling the substance he said, "it made everything go[...]Hans was destined to be a rancher since he moved to a[...]1. the time when he was instructed to go and open the gate to[...] |
| [...]Hanna Bradshaw The cargo was dropped off and the ship began the trip home. Han[...]til San Francisco where he got off (he It was on the CL that Hans met Hanna Bradshaw. She may have jumped ship) in search of something better. He was eighteen and came from an Idaho dry farm which sh[...]joined hands in team. "Best hosses I ever drove," was his memory of the marriage, they had ma[...]soils, for soon fellow ranch employees. it wooed him back for good.[...]e took place 04 Jan 1927. In 1928, the new couple was known as the CL Ranch.[...]allowed only four people at a bar at one time. He tells of Due to an uninvited hail storm that summer, they Roy Jackson Sr. 's solution to this[...]planted. They would have starved for sure if it wasn't for people at one time instead of four.[...]both needed help. intoxicated for the first time. It began when a couple of The failed far[...]They rented the Millpoint Hotel which was a stage stop Following the death of both , he was asked to be a pall between Dillon and the Big Hole Valley. It was located in bearer. It was cold that winter, so after delivering the first the Gras[...]Sorensen, declared they had better year. It was not a money maker. The Great Depressionhad have a[...]and the pall bearers well along of the gas was supplied by Hanna who hauled it from Dillon the road to inebriation. They had qui[...]t properly. Hanna was a good trapper, taking mink and muskrat One s[...]ooze run to Dillon horses from the winter range . It was lovely weather when where he would buy a jug of bootleg whiskey for $3.00 a they left, but it turned nasty before they got back. Tom gallon, rebottle it in pints , and sell it for $1.50 a pint.. .not didn' t like to get off a[...]the pints or not. strolled into the barnyard, he was cold . In fact, he was so Though not exactly legal, it kept them from starving out cold that Hans had to call for help from the bunkhouse to[...]hrough the experience, Their next move was to a ranch on Rattlesnake Creek in though none the better for the wear. 1938. Its previous owner was Frank Hazelbaker, Sr. who Hans loved to tell the story of "the great race" which was had passed away from an allergic reaction to a[...]on to the Ford which he reverently named Flivver. It was deemed to business. In 1964, they had a[...]the hottest thing on wheels or legs. Well, there was a destroyed their barn and took the lives[...]horse collars. travel the road, so the challenge was made. The barn was over a hundred feet long with an enormous The[...]ing above the ground floor. An unfortunate making it to the ranch gate seconds before the Ford. When[...]the horse sail over the gate, he Hanna was the one in the family who viewed mechanical never even slowed down but drove right through the gate ,[...]ress. She bought their first tractor and dragging it all the way to the barn. Hans didn't remember[...]the field rather than tied who won the race, only that the gate lost for sure. to t[...] |
| She hired a cook when it came haying time so she could hay with the men. H[...]h till old age and health intervened. As a boy, I was told by those who worked beside her that she could outwork three men. She was very witty and ambitious in her younger days when her health was better. Hans, on the other hand, was not very mechanically minded. He bought one of those new-fangled three- wheelers but it bucked him off the first time he tromped on the g[...]his hoss, never trying the contraption again. If it Hotel at Mill Point stage stop, also known as Gray's Road House. In front of hotel is the Polaris didn't have a tail and Traxion Engine[...]6.Dingley. hair, he had a hard time understanding it. He was one of the last ranchers who trailed cattle to th[...]pasture on the Ajax ranch in the Big Hole, which was owned by Pete Peterson who later sold out to his[...]d Jack & Josephine Dougherty |
| [...]he business to Lloyd and Ray. Jack Dougherty was active in civic affairs in Dillon and served on the Dillon City Council. He was active in the Dillon Rotary Club and was an avid supporter of Western Montana College and promoter of the Beaverhead Chamber of Commerce. Josie was active in the Dillon Girl Scouts and served as its commissioner for many years. During World War II, she was Beaverhead Laundry and Dry Cleaning establishment[...]Ref.192.13. Community Train Service, which meant that every train passing through Dillon and carrying m[...]alls 06 Aug 1942. Evelyn graduated from personnel was met by this group of women and given care G[...]hy packages--cookies, candy, cigarettes, etc. She tells of Finance in Great Falls from 1937 until 1[...]morning train one Christmas when the was stationed stateside in Shelton WA. thermometer re[...]-time honeymoon, Evelyn stayed in Great Josie was an excellent seamstress and furrier and worked Falls and continued working while Mick was stationed in with her husband in the laundry and[...]business, Hawaii. During his tour of duty, he was assigned to a which was located at 29 E. Helena in Dillon.[...]is Dougherty Lynch Their first son, Michael, was born in Shelton WA where[...]Mick was discharged from the Navy in 1945 with a rank of[...]8 their second son, Daniel James "Mick" Doyle was born 11 Mar 1916 in Robert, was born in Great Falls. In 1948 Joe and Marg Roe Dil[...]e Roe Ranch at Red Rock and Valley ranchers. Mick was educated in Centennial Valley they accepted[...]Beaverhead County High School in ranch until it sold in 1979. Evelyn's house was the Dillon in 1933. He attended the University of Montana in gathering place on the ranch. She was the head cook and Missoula and the Great Falls Bu[...]bride-to-be, Evelyn, had many "fun" dates was always on and the door open to friends and family[...]ea in the hearse. While in Great Falls, Mick was involved in many community activities during he a[...]or his private pilot license. the ranch years. He was active in the Lima VFW post, Lima In 1941 Mick enlisted in the United States Navy and was swimming pool committee and the Lima School Boa[...]t school in Corpus Christi TX. He Mick was president of the Water Users Irrigation Company graduated from pilot training in 1942 and was commissioned which owned the water in the Lima[...]The Roe Ranch crew was always ready to help a Mick made a qui[...] |
| [...]. He married Martha Gomez, on the Roe Ranch until it sold in 1979. They retired to daughter of[...]Fluids as an engineer. Dan is single.[...]m 1973 Ref.183.04. until it was sold. He is currently principal of Powell County High School[...]Ernest Dubie was one of the homesteaders who came into daughter of[...]ship with his neighbors in the area. Anne. Robert is a student at the University of Montana.[...] |
| [...]a homestead at The Pole Patch on Timber Creek was several miles the head of the Blacktail[...]ut posts and poles for the P & 0 Ranch. The P & 0 was Margurite finished school in Dillon a[...]ator for many years. Later she met Amie the posts that Ernest and Ansle could cut and bring to them. B[...]heir daughter Arnette still lives Blacktail Creek was just a mile away so the women enjoyed in Dil[...]the valley, was found dead on the bank of the lake which is[...]but her husband heard the next day that she was not in[...]lake. It is not know what was the cause of her death. It is supposed that she decided· to return home the same day, that darkness overtook her, that she lost her way, or became sick[...]Ralph Duffner was born 06 May 1918, at Pine Grove Arnette Bender an[...]MT to Albert and Katherine (Boatz) Duffner. He was the Ref 183.07.[...]s for farming. Adel met Howard Kent while she was working at Barrett Ralph came to Butte i[...]of mines. Upon his arrival, he learned that a man had been 344 - Beaverhead History No. 2 |
| [...]lice attended Beaverhead County High School until it horseback and was really glad when the bear came out of the was tom down to build the new high school. Students w[...]d Lamar Moore came to the Diamond O Ranch was finished. She graduated in 1942, then attended co[...]the war. Then he went to work for the Whitworths that summer up Most of the boys attending were waiting for their call to the Sheep Creek, out of Dell. That winter he broke horses service. As Alice[...]illon and worked at Pete Lasich' s those days was letters, letters and more letters. Servicemen saddle shop during the day. It was at this time that Ralph could send their letters free or 6 cents[...]Alice was in a train wreck while traveling to California.[...]Ralph was in the motor pool and Quartermaster Corps at[...]Camp Stoneman which was the port of embarkation to the[...]Ralph was in limited service because he had sight in only[...]one eye. Alice was employed in the post exchange office at[...]Ralph was discharged 20 Feb 1946, after having been[...]a wooden chum that sat on a table. They gave butter to the[...]During this time, two daughters were born. Judy was[...]was born 11 Nov 1950; five years later, on Leslie's 5[...]birthday, Joyce was born 11 Nov 1955.[...]cattle, fenced and did irrigating. The Diamond O was sold Alice Duffner was born to Les and Ruby Staudenmeyer to the[...]winters. In 1958 they bought a ranch at Waterloo. It was 0 Ranch near the Point of Rocks. She atten[...] |
| miles west of Sheridan. They added to that ranch when They sold the ranch in S[...]slie decided after a short time at MSU in Bozeman that he Dillon and retired. They live on Buffalo D[...]Forsyth, Janet 1976 and lived at the Luke place. It was sold when the and David Armstrong live in Helena, Joyce and Tom Brehan Wilson place was bought in the Centennial. li[...]ught the Wilson place on Long Creek after leasing it for two years. Ralph and Alice Duffner[...] |
| [...]nd Dale. Dale died of leukemia on 17 Sep 1994 and is buried at Lee and Randy work in A[...]nd two children ranch outside Their son, Lon, is a salesman and lives in Boise with his Dillon[...]. Loren died of Chrone's disease in 1982. He is buried at[...]Melton. Jim is the son of Berniece Taylor Robinson and O[...]Harlin Robinson of Dillon. He was raised by his aunt and[...]illiam Eberline, married Ollie Bradshaw Dons. She was the daughter of Hans and Hannah Dons whose ranch was Nadine Eberline once owne[...]Nadine's parents when Lila Jean was three months old. A[...]Accord. They married 25 Mar 1944. He was stationed with[...]Station for three years; after that Ross went to work for the[...]UP Section Crew . He was the Canyon patrol between[...]died of lung cancer in Jun 1980 and was cremated. They[...]ne of Dillon MT. Ref 193.05. Billie is a Respiratory Therapist and Dorothy is a[...]died 14 Feb 1990 from a brain tumor and was cremated.[...] |
| [...]itchy feet. So it seemed that every winter some individual[...]For several years Helen was under the watchful eye of a[...]the "3 Rs" and history and geography in a manner that was[...]· Another of her favorite teachers was Jack Houseman, a[...]vigor and enthusiasm that books like Shakespeare, "The Tale[...]AZ. Charlie was Helen Hirschy 's baby sitter on the ranch.[...]Ref.196.04 Helen Hirschy was born in 1917 in the Big Hole Basin, Another favorite was an ex-bronc rider who took over |
| [...]airline pilot, flying for Alaska Airlines. Sandi is a very busy Gallatin Valley and in 1961 they move[...]ologists and have a private practice Helen thinks that in spite of progress, the country hasn't[...]. promote wonderful memories of her childhood and it will Laurie Eliel Thompson and her[...]fficiency and travels extensively in his work. He is also an[...]including guitar, bass and banjo. Laurie is involved in John Eliel[...]Tom Eliel is the only one of the eight who, along with[...]County. He is married to the former Joan Anderson of John Eliel is a direct descendent of one of Dillon's Alder, who is at present Justice of the Peace in Dillon. Tom ea[...]s as field representative for Montana AgriMet and is a grandfather), Leonard, Adolf and Frank, came or[...]permanent location, they Leslie Eliel is a songwriter and performing artist who is chose the Dillon area. The three older brothers a[...]live in St. Louis MO. Bill is a building trades instructor in John was enamored by southwestern Montana, as were[...]small ranch in Preston WA, near Seattle. Greg is a horse residence in southern California where John was employed (and people) trainer, speciali[...]ere born in Pasadena CA, and around. Tammy is kept busy planning, organizing and the third in B[...]on Long Island NY for Erik Elie! is a pilot in the Air Force and along with his nearl[...]writing, they are living in San Antonio TX. Erik is with the for four years. In 1954 when the Brownin[...]s A. & Lulu Elliott stayed in the operation until it ended in 1987. John and Jill still live on t[...]Bannack Stre~~- as possible. Much of John's time is devoted to part-time Mildred Elliott was born 31 Jan 1898; Morton's birth was· flight instruction at the Dillon airport.[...]always said 1898 and she should know. She is 98 now and John, the oldest, and his wife, S[...]San Francisco. children live in Redmond WA. John is a 20-year veteran[...] |
| I (Mary) was born 28 Jun 1907 in the home at 635 S.[...]eWayne, born 05 Jun Atlantic. Milton Amos Elliott was also born there 31 Jan 1949, was named after his grandfather Kress. Their second 1[...]son, Monte James, was born 09 Oct 1950. His doctor bill Soon after the Elliotts arrived in Dillon, Mrs. Elliott 's was $35 and the hospital bill for ten days was $50 for both parents, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wade , and family arrived Marj and Monte. Bruce Gordon was their third son, born and lived there for some ti[...]Dec 1952, where Don from Utica NY. Mrs . Ambrose was Lulu Elliott's sister. had a job as a ca[...]them. Their daughter, Kathleen Yvonne, was born 12 Jun 1955. Morton's son, Newell, was born in Dillon. He was Don and Marj had taken in boarders to[...]accident at work. Two daughters, when Kathy was born, there were nine people living in their Jacq[...]e born in Dillon. home. Don was promoted to sales manager in 1955 and Mildred[...]first home in Dillon in 1957. Cochrane My Tom was born in Billings , Jerry in Dillon, Nancy in Motors was sold to George Gleed in 1958 and Don was Seattle. Nancy died four and a half years ago of[...]r. Gleed in 1960, Amos A. Elliott, my father, was on the City Council, a went into partnershi[...]tive years. Hazeltine, and named it E & H Ford Sales. The George Farrells and son[...]from Twin in the fall of 1921 from Hardin. George was employed by Bridges, transacted ten acre[...]Don. Fred Chapman at the Dillon Steam Laundry. He was very Marj ' s father, who had been a c[...]home on what is now Laknar Lane. Donald L. Elliott[...]. Their daughter, Tanya Donald Leroy Elliott was born 23 Aug 1927 in Kenmare Jo, was born 12 Aug 1970, and their son, Kory Lee, was ND to Leo Lyon Elliott and Louise R. Elliott. Don[...]27 Jan 1972. Tanya's son, Chase Bradley Elliott, was parents owned a small ranch where he grew up with[...]Ricky Travis , was born 02 Apr 1996. Kress and Lani live small hotel[...]trol. He One of the family's favorite photographs is of all four[...]orn 04 Aug 1976. They bought the old hotel-gas he was discharged from the Navy. Marjorie (Marj) was[...]divorce in 1982, Monte was married for two years to Carol and Helen Elizabet[...]Pryce, who was from England. Jean Kress, was born 09 Jun 1926.[...]a station, sold magazines and cardboard closets, was a real[...]Charlotte is an itinerant Special Education teacher and[...] |
| [...]n 1996. They live in Dakota Street. It was a huge old house which at one time Nampa ID. Char[...]high school had been a boarding house. It had four bedrooms, large in 1994, attended the Se[...]living room and a glassed-in front porch that was like lived a short time in Troy AL, and returned to Grant to help another room. There was a small kitchen, not large enough her dad run the[...]. He married Maribel Gayosa There was a partial basement for the washer and dryer. Tobias, who is from the Philippines, 07 Jun 1986. They It was heated with a coal stoker and one time the furnace live in Yuma AZ, with their daughter, Kala Nicole, who was blew up. What a stinky mess. The fire dep[...]big fans to draw the smoke out, but everything was covered Kathy Elliott graduated in 1973 and m[...]Dansie had insurance Their daughter, Kandis Dawn, was born 02 Nov 1974. and had it cleaned and painted. Rent was $75 a month and After their divorce, Kathy married Buck Loomis and their our first heat bill was $ 100. So she gave us a break in the son, Kristopher Lee, was born 20 Jul 1979. Kathy and Buck rent du[...]on. Kandis married Jason Hoerning 12 Aug was from Hamilton, and I had gone to school with his[...]always figured I had more brawn than brains and that made[...]--Monte J. Elliott I didn' t realize that I was pregnant for the fourth time.[...]addition of Del and then Don and Bob Bacon. Kathy was Marjorie J. Kress Elliott[...]12 Jun 1955 at the old Barrett Hospital at 2 AM. It Memories was very exciting because we finally got our girl that we had wanted. Even the nurses and Dr. Juergens were thrilled that we had a daughter. She was a good baby and I kept her Donald Elliott cam[...]n 28 Dec 1952. We for several months. I was an easy touch. The following had the truck and ca[...]you are young, you think nothing of hard work and that was in Dillon we had to unload that night so Don could return WORK. I don't[...]Dillon in with the kitchen table, as the kitchen was too small for the 1957. It was located on East Morse Street. It was the only table and chairs. It wasn ' t a perfect setup but it was all Don house on the street at the time. There was a big empty field could find.[...]rew up playing there and Don's first paycheck was $227.40. He had sold several taking hikes up to the "footsies. " cars and was paid wages plus commission. We still owed a[...]he gave them treasures to and we moved in April. It was so nice to have a place for bring home.[...]They went to see him one Christmas morning. It had Don got his first demonstrator that year, a 1953 Ford. snowed all night and was still dark when they dressed to go. We were proud of that car. That gave me use of our car, a I didn't want[...]pair of shorts and a cookies and candy. It was still snowing when they left with shirt.[...] |
| their flashlight. Bruce was just five. They went single file, Don retir[...]gone about two hours. When they kept it for ten years. We sold out to K-P Mini-Storage in[...]ubmitted by daughter Kathy Elliott money. We sold that house in 1961 and built the pink house just a blo[...]A. Else house and present home. Camilla Gage was a real estate dealer in Twin Bridges[...]Jennie Lawrence and was a good friend of Don's. We had been looking at a piece of property north of town and she happened to have it Fred Arthur Else was born 24 Jul 1911 on his parents' on her listing. She offered to buy it for us and we could pay homestead located on a bend of the Big Hole River. He was her back, interest free, whenever we could. It was a prime the fourth of eleven children born[...]lse. In these early years, the family milked cows it in 1963 and we paid her off in 1965. We built the[...]r new house about the Putting up hay was a major project each summer with the same time that the new dealership buildings was going up. whole family helping. By the age of five, Fred was driving · Remelys wanted immediate possession of the pink house, so the team that raised the loads of hay on the old two-pole we moved six of us into the bunkhouse. There was just a derrick. As he grew older, he mov[...]ery night for Kathy and the Although haying was never one of his favorite times of the three boys had a little camp trailer that Remelys had loaned year, on his 75th birthday, he could say with pride that he us. They slept there for three months until the house was had not missed one for seventy years. done[...]children remember one haying season in the 1940s was completed in exactly ninety days, start to finish. We when he was reduced to driving a one-horse rake for a moved i[...]n December 18, 1965. while. That year he had severely burned both hands putting[...]bbons School, riding a pickup and we put signs on it that read, JOMAR 11 horse or driving a[...]miles down the river from his parents' home. He was an We finished in time for the new-car showing in[...]11 Scofield place, and named it the "Lazy E Ranch. Don did work on his p[...]g their cream and milk in such abundance one year that we couldn't pick them all. to Wisdom. Fred[...]ing himself. imaginable. His wife remembers that they were married on In later years, he sold the[...]We had a mile and a half of river frontage, which was a the mail Tuesday morning. haven for the d[...]exceptionally fine spring was located there, as well as an old[...] |
| [...]feet from the original, which along with the barn is years they added to the house and built various outbuildings. still being used. Water from the old spring is piped to both They acquired more land and built t[...]and retired but continued into a very fine herd. It was a lovely place, very isolated, to live there.[...]both worked in it each summer. Raising good rutabagas was[...]no family gathering was complete without a few games.[...]The office was on the second floor of the Poindexter[...]Vaughn-Ragsdale Department Store was on the street level.[...]California. He had commented, "This is where I'd sure like[...]all school just as their parents had. Fred saw to it that mountains he loved. Previously, he had practic[...]ways to improve their math Dillon he was DeMolay Dad. As a youth he was an skills.[...]tanding member of the Great Falls DeMolay. He was always generous with his family and took a Bob was born 20 Feb 1927 in Great Falls to John B. and sp[...]the region, helping them, Evelyn M. English. He was educated in Stanford and Great giving them work o[...]rom Great Falls high school in numerous occasions that without these drifting, homeless[...] |
| [...]en-1970, taken 1973. Ref 172.34. " He was discharged in the fall of 1946 and returned to Jaycees, the City Council, Police Commission, was president |
| [...]S to Blackwell, Oklahoma Territory. The homestead was Winter weekends would find the family riding (and Dad two and a half miles east of Blackwell OK. Fred was the fixing) snowmobiles and relaxing at the A-fra[...]nd brother-in-law, Harry and Luella Lane, Bob was very safety-conscious and a strong advocate of[...]a Montana's Traffic Safety Councils. A vehicle he was moved to Dillon, Fred had worked at the[...]their lives in a place of their dreams, for this is exactly what Dillon and Beaverhead County are for[...]1918 and was stationed at Camp Eustis VA. The Battery[...]27th Auxiliary was on a 24-hour alert to go to France and in[...]twelve hours they all got word that the Germans had surrendered. Fred was honorably discharged as Private 1st[...]in an oil boom town in Fredrick Archer Eudaily was born 11 Mar 1897 to J. Braman OK. Fred ca[...]hop in the Andrus Hotel 16 Apr 1928. He homestead that was claimed by his second oldest brother, owned and operated it until he sold it to Harold (Whitey)[...] |
| [...]a supervisor for the Welfare away 28 Apr 1963 and is buried at the Mountain View Department and served in that capacity until 1943. Jo was Cemetery in Dillon.[...]she met Fred Jo (Josephine) Darlington Eudaily was born 26 Jun 1905 Eudaily who came to boa[...]years. They married 18 Sep 1941 in Helena MT. Jo was two years old when her parents bought a homestead[...]Dillon on a mountain top in Chewaleh WA. When Jo was six years 18 Jul 1943, and Daniel Howa[...]high school and five years at the She was the only one to hold the office with a Doctorate[...]Degree in Forestry and Botany. Jo was active for many years in Eastern Star, American One year later she was accepted at Washington Legion an[...]ith a Jo passed away 09 Apr 1996 and is buried at Mountain View Doctorate Degree in Forestry and Botany. She was the first Cemetery in Dillon. woman in th[...]h Graves, Augustus F. Graeter. The house and land was sold to U. S. Government in 1934 for the present Dillon Post Office, built that year. Photo donated by Sadie Graeter Poind[...] |
| [...]duation from Townsend "Tom" Carpenter Fairbank was born in Dodge Beaverhead County High School[...]He died in 1948. He came to the 1921) is married to Judge Frank M. Davis. Virginia Foster[...](b. 22 Feb 1928) is the widow of Rodney Churchill Foster. Hattie Amelia Hunt Fairbank was born in Detroit Lakes Joan and Virginia live[...]92nd birthday in 1979; mother, Ann M., is now living at[...]Virginia Irene was the only home delivery at 700 E.[...]Growing up in Dillon was a real challenge and adventure[...]start of their dairy on what is now Laknar Lane. The dairy[...]len obtained a job in Ohio where her father, Joe, was They were parents of nine children: Charles We[...]WAVES as a nurse. Ruth and Virginia's college was put on 1909, lives in Moab, UT; Evelyn Elizabeth[...]times since World War II. For each there is a touch of Harlowton. There is no "s" in Fairbank. sorrow[...]e people call progress. The old house on Glendale is[...] |
| [...]n the corner of Glendale and Arizona (which was supposed to be off-limits to us). streets was purchased in 1926 from Findley Rowe. East Sledding on the hill was a great winter sport and many Glendale and Sebree[...]reets or concrete sidewalks. The irrigation ditch was lined stand covering those well-worn paths. on[...]nd went our ways, the lots which the The area was called "Dutch Flat" which included hay Fa[...]Most of the new construction to the northeast was started was moved from the east side lot in 1932 when Joe put[...]Mrs. Henry (Mary) Paddock. She died in 1946 and it flooded by water from Luther Smith's irrigated fi[...]e canal which began another surge of new homes in that area. bridge lived a Moore family. Mr.[...]mmers would take his cart the Faller girls; there was a great sense of freedom to through town[...]tands surrounded now by several homes and traffic that he those foothills. They were free of houses and[...]beauty of bloom in the summer. To the north was Stahl's Dairy, the original home at 400 The r[...]st, E. Morse, just before crossing the bridge is still standing. was always followed by quick descent with "many prickly Kitty-corner from Stahl's home was Luther Smith's. pear thorns in the derrier[...] |
| [...]llon stop around California Street. Dakota Street was then the last north-south street from town that was paved. The[...]es Quinn George French house still stands on what is now California Street.[...]E. Lyons Over the bridge at the end of Sebree was the Rumbaugh' s Raymond C. Fallon was born 20 Mar 1896 on a farm big house (today owned[...]near Hutchinson MN. He was the fourth of seven children Robert's house. Rumb[...]WWI. Shortly before the Armistice was signed, the brothers Run-Sheep-Run, Kick the Can,[...]in the train depot in St. Malo, France. This was the spot where carnivals pitched their wares[...]ne 10, 1919, when Glendale--the first to build in that block; it is presently a car[...]within half an hour of each repair shop. Next to it on the corner of Glendale and[...]other. Arizona stands a house that was the old Faller barn, moved[...]ils with fellow veteran, Eric Youngquist. friends was catching up with the Patterson ice truck when[...]ous sizes of ice boxes; they could grab the chips that[...]patchwork repairs. The Model T was able to make it up the It was a good life.[...] |
| [...]n after a Of their honeymoon, our dad said that after fighting a hard two-week trip over the Yell[...]years Located on Trapper Creek, the ranch was one mile west later that contact with the outside world consisted of a rad[...]cla road in Beaverhead with earphones on which he was able to pick up the late County. The ranch house was a four-room structure without evening broadcast c[...]w known as canola. Litchfield MN. Their happiness was short-lived when He spoke of sellin[...]ompany. During his years with Wisconsin Bell, Ray was recognized as a leading innovator in construction[...]ess than nine major construction job improvements that are used not only by our company, but by other co[...]hey lived in Appleton WI for many years where Ray was a founder and first president of the Appleton Cur[...]pastime. Ray died 12 Jan 1979 at age 82. He is buried in Mesa where Marge continued to reside.[...]turkeys and rabbits that we dressed and sold in Melrose or Gebhard Fas[...]d an eagle with one shot in the head The ceremony was performed in Melrose at St. John the using a .22 rifle because he was getting her chickens. Apostle Catholic Church by[...]aminer stated produce in town, but our mother was the only one in the they "departed for a wedding[...]e at home to receive the preserved, was eaten by us, so that although we didn't have felicitations of their la[...]sewed a lot of the clothes that we three girls wore. 360 - Beaverhead His[...] |
| [...]H.A. and St. Patrick School of spotted fever. She was very sick and her recovery was Nursing in Missoula. She married Bill[...]sing at St. Peter's every kid in the Melrose area was inoculated against this Hospital and he is serving his second term as a Justice on disease.[...]EA came to our area about 1939 and not long after that Mother and Dad moved to Dillon briefly[...]rom S.H.A. and St. Patrick School of Nursing. and is now occupied by the John Pecks. We still think of[...]mist for the yard by our parents are so large now that they can be Washington Public Power Suppl[...]st twenty years. They have five children and four was a very wise buy, because during the war years, his grandchildren. haying crew was primarily his young daughters. At this time, our[...]Edgar F. "Bud" Ferris was born 29 Oct 1914 in Dillon us because the ranch c[...]d Clara (Schuler) Ferris were ranching Mother was our 4-H leader for many years. She was[...]Pittsburgh railroad line was going through to Idaho at the About 1937 she took[...]time. When Bud was about 18 months old, the family she had gone by h[...]In 1916 his sister, Margaret F. (now Pyeatt), was born mills and bought, repaired and rented houses[...]lon at the home of the same midwife. sold. Mother was very active in the St. Francis Church[...]Landers. Betty was teaching at the Nelson schoolhouse, Dorothy[...]which was about a mile from Bud's home. It was located at They have three children and live in Missoula. She is[...]the comer of Highway 91 and Anderson Lane. Betty was retired from nursing and he is retired from the Montana[...]Molly Landers. Betty's father had died when Betty was caregivers in their later years.[...] |
| [...]dgar M. 28 Jun 1945, Steven 12 Dec until he was grounded by failing eyesight. 1949 and Mary Clare[...]In the mid 1970s Betty was diagnosed with cancer, thus With Bud ' s know[...]gan her long struggle with the disease. Much time was continued to operate the family ranch . H[...]ident of the Westside Canal for over 15 years. He was cancer at the age of 36. Betty passed away[...]after 25 years of fighting the disease. Later that same year, Canyon Dam, along with DeMar Taylor an[...]the East Pioneer This appreciation of irrigation was passed down from his Mountains. His fate remains a mystery as of this writing. father and he passed it on to his sons. In Ju[...]Bud's oldest son, Dave, is currently a pilot in Butte and[...]has six kids. Dick is a school teacher currently teaching in[...]V after several years of teaching in Dillon. Dick is[...]to his move to Nevada. Ed is also teaching in Nevada after[...]family of two girls. Mary's only son, Nick, is a student at[...]Hugh Milton Fleming was born 27 Jul 1880 Wichita[...]McNinch when the census was taken about a month before[...]he was born.[...]vers the Clark McNinch estate for $3,900. It adjoined land that went. Some of the boys went on to play college ball and his father had purchased and where he was residing . He Bud and Betty continued to be avid[...]m. They had four children back part of the ranch. That same year, he and Betty retired born on[...] |
| He was killed 11 Nov 1920 about three miles north of[...]ore his third son (and fifth 1884. child) was born. Hugh is buried in the cemetery at Lima, 3) Fl[...]rea Bonney Fleming Malcolm Fleming is descended from the Lords of the married Charles F[...]Castle Slane on The Boyne in Ireland and was related to the Charlie Brothers had a daughter ,[...]Lords, Earls, Viscounts and was the daughter of Archdeacon[...]vis Zealand was lost when the mines closed.[...]At this time, the sect of the House of David was seeking James Lewis Fleming was born at Conesus , Livingston people to jo[...]r MI, USA. Fleming and Elizabeth Clinton. When he was ten years old, They convinced Malcolm,[...]Simms 22 Apr and oldest son, William, that theirs was the way. Malcolm 1869 at Stark County IL where th[...]ora Davis 25 Dec 1878 at Malcolm was not allowed to leave at that time because of Wyoming, Stark County IL. The cen[...]y separated. Over the next McNinch. Maria McNinch was his oldest sister. three years[...]other sisters, Mary Kelley and Angeline was put to work in the kitchen of the sect and her yo[...]lies children were left on their own. Elizabeth was eight and were also in Wichita Falls. Bertha was three. This should be where Hugh Milton Fleming was born on Something happened (details unknown) and the family 27 Jul 1880. Their second son was born at Gainesville, was put out of the House of David to shift for themse[...]ged to stay together with the help first daughter was also born at Gainesville. Their next two of[...]orville CO. About that time, Malcolm came to America and when he The[...]located on the Red Rock David. Sophie was quietly sent back to New Zealand and River, and i[...]his land. In 1911 he put into a home. William was injured in a factory accident. bought another tract of 320 acres that was adjoining and also Instead of being taken to a hospital, he was put in an an additional 160 acres that was close to the land that he had asylum; therefore, Malcolm's two witnes[...]) Hugh Milton Fleming, born 27 Jul Life was hard for the family but Arthur and George[...] |
| [...]Elizabeth was still back east in Chicago, working and[...]attending the American Conservatory of Music. She was[...]n Argenta MT and vicinity. He stopped to see what was available to him. Malcolm was a graduate mining engineer and he stayed in Argen[...]good style. their daughter was born, he left and was never heard from. The net value of the mining they did from 1932-1937 was Bertha divorced him. $53,791.75 and en[...] |
| Malcom Fleming family L-R: Richard, mother Susan, Robert[...]lost their housed the old Methodist parsonage. It was a huge lot. home in Argenta. There was room for a barn, chicken house and tool shed.[...]an, their youngest daughter, In front of these was a log cabin; a big tree stood beside the Bertha,[...]The well supplied all their water. The coal shed was William, Arthur and Richard went back to New Zealand. beside the gate. In 1929 a garage was built for the Graham- Malcolm, George and Robert had taken out citizenship so Paige car that Sam bought. Half of the lot was a garden they stayed. During the Second World War[...]le trees down the middle; in the far the Army and was a sergeant in the tank corps in Fort Knox. comer stood the "outhouse." This part of town was called In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Geo[...]worked in some For many years, Pennington was custodian at the county large electrical plants b[...]h the Stimpson, going from farm to farm , which is where Granny help of his brother, George, and som[...]d three sons by a previous marriage, one the talc that is still being mined east of Dillon. of whom was Sam. His wife died in childbirth. He and Robe[...]le, Lydia, Cassie, Mary and He died there. George is buried in Dillon. Elizabeth and Charley wer[...]When Granny Ford was 55 years old, she took me (Irene 1914 was a very good year. Sam Ford moved his father,[...]and had children of their own. MO to Dillon. Ella was known to everyone as "Granny Ford".[...] |
| [...]My mother had suffered a stroke when she was seven[...]months pregnant with me. My oldest sister, Hazel, was[...]later. This was a huge burden--emotionally and financially[...]with two funeral bills to pay--but we did it.[...]Granny got to visit us when she was 79 years old and[...]desire was to fly to Missouri to visit her children t[...] |
| Dorothy Anne Davis was born 26 May 1919 in Quincy The annual Dude Ranchers' Convention is held in Sun IL, the daughter of Loren and Florenc[...]rked in the research department Staudenmeyer was born in 1943, Effie F. Smith Abrams in of CBS in[...]ter of Dillon , a graduate of Duke University. He was a five-year veteran of WWII who served in the Pac[...]n 2) June Roe Andrew (Andy) Forsythe was born in Melville MT in 1897 to Anders and Mary Ki[...]7L Ranch in the Centennial Valley was sold to Koch Centennial. Dagney cooked for cow[...]dor Cattle Company) in 1965. Andy and schoolhouse was the Ben Hart house. Isabelle "Tim" Doyle[...]oved to Clayton and Maude Kennedy's ranch. Lasich was the teacher.[...]1977. The Kennedy ranch was sold to Canyon Ranch (Leon children moved to Grea[...]McKinley , Margaret Roe Smith Moore June Roe was born in 1909, the third of five children[...] |
| [...]ter. Ref 174.16. Rodney Churchill Foster II was born 12 Sep 1929, the Rod Foster gradua[...]School in 1947 , did competitive skiing and was a member of |
| [...]Fred & Dora Francis Knievel. In Jun 1957 Rod was awarded a Mining Engineering My[...]d two girls , Hospital in Spokane 02 May 1972. He is buried at Melba and Della. Moun[...]rried Reece Armitage. They had two Rod was a person of determination and tenacity. A few[...]married, but had no children. high school buddies that Rod had told them he would marry My m[...]972, remained in Wallace. Theresa, the firstborn, was already married and living in the area. Son, Rod[...]ll went on to college. From 1973 to 1981 Virginia was Office Manager at the sales-service office of Gar[...]e they have incentive to come. Grandma Ann Faller is now in Parkview Acres Nursing Home; they enjoy vi[...]Foster's oldest daughter, Theresa Bean Voltolini, was killed in an auto accident in Aug 1988. She lived in Coeur d'Alene; she was born in Butte 22 Sep 1952. The other child[...] |
| [...]rren married Esther George Gleed Franks was born 03 Jan 1914 in Lima to Christensen. They had[...]Elza "Doc" Franks and Hazel Gleed Franks. He was the in 1929. Ivan married Kathryn and had Kenneth[...]hildren and preceded a sister, Olive Caroline; he was killed in 1939. Marie. Mary Ann was a niece of Dade Stephens, Sr., an aunt of Kathryn "Kate" Lucille Kajin was born 20 Oct 1915, the May Stewart and Moses Jardi[...]Mary, Albert and William. George Della. I (Melba) was born in Dillon in 1917. We lived in attende[...]ob at the Lima Cafe stage to Divide and back, and was a government trapper. owned by George Mile[...], White, Knudsen. My Sunday and music teacher was Mrs. B. R. Stevenson; Girl Scout Leader was Gwenlyn Ellwood. I remember the cold winters--win[...]Anna, Nicholas and Jordan, One day she was left alone to mind the cafe when two then divorce[...]him what they wanted. Mr. Mihelich informed her that lived a short time, then Debra, Rosemary a[...] |
| [...]Missoula, has three children; John, Marlene Kay, was born in 1935 and a son, George Gleed Madison and Scott who reside in Anacortes WA. Marlene Jr., was born in 1937.[...]orge worked for the Public 1957. Kenno is retired and Marlene has worked for the Works Admi[...]ed George passed away 23 Dec 1991, and is buried in from place to place by the road patrol.[...]dropped the two by four across the door to secure it. She grabbed an axe and stood at the side of the[...]They milled around the camp picking up everything that was loose. Was A Cowboy Thank God, Dad and his helper had ob[...]ck to camp . The Sam J. Freeman was born near Eureka CA on a wanderers left in haste when the two men showed up. peninsula that has since been washed into the ocean. Born Another occasion that will be remembered was when 25 Aug 1871, he was the first white child born the farthest George Jr. was playing inside the car and found a .22 shell.[...]learned to County, meeting all of the fine people that lived from the be a cowboy. Centennial Va[...]own in Smallhorn Canyon. In the summer Sam was a rider night baths in the old washtub.[...]on. George played the piano and saxophone and was a Sam married Ada Talent 03 Apr 1901 in Dillon MT. member of a dance orchestra that played throughout Marriage record[...]dances were held at the old two- 1920' s, it was published in the newspaper. Sam had a place story[...]1 of 3 schools in District No. 27 Blacktail money was in very short supply most everyone could find[...]river rock that marks Rosebud's grave. In 1955 he wrote a he had[...]his bucking horses to the Madison Square Garden was always on call.[...]as acting postmaster in Lima until 1962 when she was hired Even though he owned fine rodeo stock Sam was not a as the first clerk-typist the Forest Servi[...]of which was photographed in 1934 when he road a saddle after[...]bronc "Marble Head". Later Sam bought that horse and fishermen.[...] |
| [...]saddle horses, but usually only had one at a time that he[...]rode. If Sam saw a horse he liked, he bought it.[...]Freeman) decided to round up all the horses that ran free up[...]this was a good time to sell. There were about five cowboy[...]At that time, Sam was 79 years old and he was still the[...]Sam Freeman. He was very tall and stood ramrod straight. L-R: Sam Fre[...]hat In another ride, one of the young cowboys was saying with a flat brim and a pinched crown[...]r off completely any children of his own, but was the mentor of many young and rode the horse with[...]r, spurring all the time. During this ride, there was a information for this story. cowhide tied t[...]ort rope. Bob Meine remembered a time when he was a young boy[...]n traveling with his parents up Smallhorn Canyon, it was very cold and raining, the children were under a[...]tion from his parents and looked out. Sam Freeman was laying in the middle of the road, he had been buc[...]Florence Conway and stomped on by the horse he was riding. Sam had severe injuries to his chest. Anthony H. French was born 09 Nov 1867 in a mining Meines loaded him in their wagon and took him back to town, and it was only natural that he should follow the lure the Crampton cabin wher[...]has ranched, too, but he seemed Smallhorn Canyon. Though seriously injured, Sam did not never to ta[...]pan. door of the cabin and said, "Breakfast?" He was a tough He was born ilLBannack in the days when gold was the individual, he healed in one night from injuries that might territory's main attraction. His father,[...]of his own. and bought a place north of Dillon that later became part of The elder French was a Wisconsinite with desires to start the Pete and[...]reford cattle and raised bulls, and he News that gold could be found in the streams and gulches so[...]when the wagon train reached there. The upshot was that 372 - Beaverhead History No .2 |
| [...]tly after arriving in a 10-hour day. Ore was brought out of the shaft in buckets Bannack, Fren[...]about the size of half a barrel with a whim which was turned operation and decided to call this country[...]loon-keeper, Jim Harby, in 1870 and it was hauled by wagon to Dillon where it was shipped by moved to Argenta where he operated a s[...]rench's father also worked as a cabinet maker and was called upon to build a coffin for Henry Plummer, the renegade Virginia City sheriff who was hanged by Vigilantes in Bannack January 10, 1864.[...]Young French' s grade school education in Argenta was roundly spiced with miner's talk and dreams so he[...]16 freight car loads of ore were taken out during that time. French sold the claim in the 1950s. The bro[...]t may run for 100 yards , more or less , and when it ends it is time to pick a spot and start digging , French sa[...]ned and Flossie served as Argenta to pockets, and that often a vein of quartz would extend postmistress until it closed. Ref.146. 08. through one pocket to anothe[...]inch shaft some 60 feet before they quit working it. The shaft was When Tony French married Florence Co[...]rgenta where the according to the miner. "Mostly it depended on how much couple lived until[...]d 2,000 Gold Finch shaft. The dynamite or powder was tamped in sheep and had about 6[...] |
| [...]Argenta postmistress until it was closed. They retired to live Elizabeth[...]ew Wales and Mary Cavanaugh. George D. French was born in England, came to New They had n[...]to Australia and sailed with a large company for that their friends and neighbors in their little log[...]ter a largest house in Argenta. At present it is the home of Mr. three-month voyage.[...]acts as I know them firsthand. there and left for that destination. The French and Sanders were among th[...]ren, Mr. French set up a carpenter shop, since he was skilled in that trade, and also erected a brewery which he operat[...]ave died during an epidemic by friends. When it became known that the death was as so often occurred in those days. sudden, Coroner Egan was notified and is now making an George D. French had the contra[...]de caskets and investigation. On the result of that investigation will depend bury the five "Road Age[...]n the amount of friends believe the heart was attacked, causing sudden death. $42.50 is in the Beaverhead Museum, the original being on[...]Company and if Coroner Egan decides an inquest is not George W., then about fjve years old, tol[...]Ganier was 53 years old and had lived in Montana for "The morning after the triple hanging, I was told to go years. Until last summer he was employed by Frank with my sister, Margaret, to th[...]he went direct to the Big Hole daily meat supply. It was not seemly for a young lady to country to engage in trapping. It is understood he did well. appear on the streets of Bannack alone. I followed along a He is survived by a brother, Fred Ganier, who lives in[...]Bert Gaskill scared her so. I'll never forget that sight; there laid three Beaverhead C[...]st personal The French's last child, Anthony, was born in Bannack interest first. The Carrs[...]Argenta with grandparents and Frank Carr was my grandpa. his parents, grew to manhood there an[...]Way back in my brain, I seemed to recall there was a Conway, daughter of the manager of the Glendale smelter. newspaper in Glendale MT. I was able to find it in a book They had no children.[...] |
| The author was a great-granddaughter-in-law of Legh Adelaide Gelhaus, the last leaf on the tree, who was Richmond Freeman, an editor and publisher whose c[...]the next month by wagon. View Cemetery. She was fatally injured by a falling shotgun at Red Rock on Born in Melrose on 06 Jun 1906, she was the youngest 22 Aug 1879. Freeman stayed in Butte[...]and Melrose. The family moved to Dillon and that would be Index and the Inter-Mountain Freeman. There is also a her home the rest of her life. r[...]selling "The Butte Inter-Mountain" for She was a graduate of local schools and of Montana State[...]antus . The caption on For many years , she was an accountant with the Dillon the photo says The Atlantis was a "short-lived publication Audit Company, an[...]me accident in 1985 left her disabled. MT." There was also a Lima Ledger. I recall about the[...]te survivors. Her brother, 1930-1935 era it was east of the old highway and across Albert[...]ond , they will be building where the Lima Ledger was published , but I recall there waiting for Georgia and Bertie to drive up in their red no more about it. I used to visit Dad and Grandpa in Helena 19[...]. However, my first step into newspapering was in Utah when I sold the Ogden Standard-[...]hool to get me out during school hours when there was an "extra."[...]George moved to Dillon in 1936 with their County was killed near Armstead in the 1920s . It was white four children. Bill will always be remembered as "Mr. and was presumed to be an albino. However, it later proved Minnesota Woolens." He traveled[...]l the to be an Arctic wolf, a long way from home. It was neighboring areas , bringing winter[...]all about 1924-1925 going to the ranch of my was difficult and mail order shopping was popular. It is said grandpa, Frank Carr, west of Dell, near the mouth of Big if he heard that it had stormed in the Big Hole, he drove to Sheep C[...]rr Wisdom to see how much snow had fallen. was and was told he was tracking a wolf on the mountain Bill[...]in Mountain southwest of the ranch. He never got it. Fred was home at View Cemetery. Ida is remembered for her wonderful the time from schoo[...]now reside in Mesa AZ; Beverly Helming is living in Last Leaf on th[...] |
| [...]sent them all to colleges and universities. Harry was elected mayor of Dillon in 1903 and president of[...]Livestock ranch in the Ruby Valley. Amy Lees was born in southwestern Wisconsin of Scots heritage.[...]was born in Butte.[...]een watching Amy 's bank account. After realizing that vegetable garden and the raspberry patch. They all Amy was not one to squander her money , and being a no-[...]o put fear in the hearts of the Fred Waldorf, Amy was thrilled to discover that Harry was young Gilberts. interested in her ra[...] |
| [...]Harry's brother W. G. Gilbert own cabins on what was the Gilbert Livestock ranch. After Harry's de[...]942 while his father fought in Guadalcanal. house that Harry built for her.[...]ean and Wally made their home in Jack Gilbert was a great athlete. He was known all over Mankato MN, where Wally was president of the Midwest Montana as a champion go[...]the University of Coaches Bus Company. Jean was close to her mother's Chicago he was both a golf and a handball champion . He[...]gree from the University of Chicago and was vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad. pra[...]Jaax family often vacationed in Dillon and on the was never far from Montana in his heart, and his car[...]irrigation ditch where she was floating face down. Young Jack taught his nep[...]lly said Jack's clubs were decrepit but his swing was a off to play. Both survived the ordeal. Wally remembers it natural. Jack also taught his nephew, Jimmy Mount[...]One summer when the Jaax family didn't make it to a reminder that if he can catch trout with that, he is a great Montana, Lois phoned her sister Jean with the sad news that fisherman.[...]forgiven Lois for making her believe that her cousin, W. G. camping on the Ruby River. Jack[...]han Duke, the family dog. River they loved. There is a plaque bearing their names Jean an[...]in 1973. Their daughter, Rebecca Anne, was born in 1977. Northfield MN where she met her hus[...]941 in Atlanta GA. Soon after, Eric Waldo was born in 1981. He attends high school in[...] |
| [...]or Opportunities Workshops. Lois Anne Gilbert was the last person in her family to suffer from typh[...]vived the illness with a 75 % hearing loss, which was undiscovered until she was in high school. Lois attended Carlton College[...]46. Her cousin, Dorothy Ann Gosman Andersen, said that the rehearsal dinner foretold of a disastrous mar[...]e wiring caught on fire. As Alice Davis (Burgess) was about to sing, smoke poured from under the lid of[...]er with the rest of the fire department. The fire was put out. Lois and John survived the rehearsal[...]wedding. They moved to Santa Monica CA where John was an electrical engineer. Their daughter, Janet, was born in 1948 in Los Angeles. Their marriage disso[...]954. Their son, James Gilbert Mountjoy, was born 1958 in Dillon. Lois and Jim made[...]lon. Ref 032.07. raised Janet and Jimmy. Lois was dealt a severe blow by the death of her beloved b[...]ll to live and died at home in 1985. Jim Mountjoy is retired and still lives W. G. "Duke" Gi[...]hey Wilbur Gladstone "Duke" Gilbert was born at Wickes make their home in Manitou Springs CO. Janet is an artist MT in 1887, as were his brothers, Herbert Fox Gilbert and and Greg is an architectural millwright. Thomas Edward Gilbert. He was named after Wilbur Fisk Jimmy Mountjoy left D[...]the early Territory of Montana. Wilbur Sanders was a close Hole Guide for five years. He retu[...] |
| [...]operated as Gilbert Yeik (alias Davis) who was hanged at dawn 26 Aug 1921 , Livestock Company.[...]graduation in 1913 from the the same and operate it at Wicks MT (the present site of Universit[...]uch smelters ceased to operate. Later the smelter was moved and rebuilt at East Helena MT, where it is now reputed to be the most advanced smelter in th[...]d smelter, John R. Gilbert returned to Dillon and was employed at Bannack where he appropriated water a[...]oncho Villa. About the year 1900, John R. Gilbert was employed by W. A. Clark of Butte to build a smelt[...]Ref 198.22A. and the community of Dillon expected that all would die. The children were cared for by a h[...]k of Suzanne Gilbert Stahl. W. G. Gilbert was active in the Dillon for 36 years, serving as its[...]Livestock Company. He served ten terms He saw to it that the younger boys, Duke and Tom, and the as[...]mily Montana had about 26 million sheep and was the second formed Gilbert Livestock Company to op[...]of Michigan as lawyers in 1913. Duke Gilbert was thereafter elected county attorney of (continued on page 932) Beaverhead County and served in that capacity until Tom[...] |
| [...]r 13 years before working as Norman M. Giles was born 03 Jul 1906 in Albany MO, a Deputy C[...]e market for the brought him to Dillon MT when he was only three years old next eight years. When[...]e Business Service Officer. She retired in 197 4. it to the ground. (Editor's note: for more details a[...]The couple had two sons, Jack or "Skip," who was born the teacher boarded and roomed with his parents and in 1937, and Jim who was born in 1941. Jack married Lynn Norman could not[...]Giles household. who is married to Steve Stephens, has two children and l[...]Fred CO for over twenty-five years. Rife and was appointed to that position when Mr. Rife died.[...]--No name given He ran for Clerk of the Court and was elected to a two-year term in 1938 and was elected to two more full terms. In 1948 he was elected County Commissioner and served a six-[...]the sheep around Dillon Louis M. Gilman was born 01 Jan 1883 in Leavenworth during the winter[...]KS to Eva Stone Gilman and John Gilman. He was their Centennial Valley property and the sheep in the late 1940s. eldest child. His mother was a music teacher. He left home In 1950 Norm a[...]sh Market with the help of their sons. It was a sailing around the world several times. neig[...]people who helped stock with a premonition that something was terribly wrong with shelves and make deliveries.[...]m. She prayed all night for him until she felt he was safe. In 1958 Norman closed the market because he developed Later, she heard that he had been swept overboard during a an ulcerated[...], but he enjoyed the years, then he decided that he was going to Alaska to seek remaining twenty years of his life. He rarely complained his fortune. As he was traveling west, he stopped off in and took each d[...]He met Lulu Belle Palin who was a seamstress at Charles Theresa Dolezal was born 29 Apr 1911 in Shawano WI Niblack's Clothing Store. Lulu Belle Palin was born 18 Feb to John and Augusta Dolezal. The fami[...]re they homesteaded. Tress, as everyone was a farmer in Pierre SD. Elizabeth was a teacher and is knows her, attended the Ursuline Academy where sh[...]he came to work at 1913, in Pierre SD. She was 27 and he was 30. The Eliel's in 1935.[...] |
| [...]of people, but Louis and Lulu Belle May 1996. She was a nurse (R.N.) and was married to Carl shared what they had with ot[...]Louis Gilmore, born May 1917, joined the navy. He was killed in a car accident 04 Jul 1936. 4 & 5)[...]er and Martha Louise, were born 31 Mar 1922. Mary was a nurse (R. N.) and joined the army. She married[...]Carl was born 29 Apr 1903 to Beaverhead County[...].37. ranch north of Dillon. He was educated in the Dillon[...]tana State University. The other twin, Martha, was also a nurse (R.N .). She He took over manag[...]d Jessie managed the family ranch for eleven sold it. He was a blacksmith for the County Yards. The[...] |
| [...]were in mining and the livestock industry. He was instrumental in developing a tungsten mine on Sug[...]Philip Isadore was born 07 Mar 1897 to Isadore and[...]ere important in Carl and Jessie's lives. Carl was a member of the Montana Stockgrowers Association,[...]sociation, Dillon Elks and Masonic Lodges. Jessie was a member of Friendly Neighbors Home Demonstration[...]andchildren. Carl died in October of 1982. Jessie is now In 1918 he graduated from an a[...] |
| north of Dillon. He was an excellent horseman and broke married 05[...]o a canned and shipped to Europe and Russia where it was house opposite the Blaine School on Nor[...]During this time Florence sometimes worked house that there were not enough corrals to hold them and[...]he great numbers of workers needed in the Nelson, was born 30 Jul 1899 at their recently purchased a shipyards. Florence was a substitue teacher at the schools ranch nine miles north of Dillon. She was the third child set up in the housing units.[...]Although she walked with aid of a cane, she was active[...] |
| [...]where Ray was transferred by Mountain Bell Co. Philip Ray Giudici was born 26 May 1933, at Barrett The fa[...]ny, born 16 Apr 1965 . The children completed It was THE DEPRESSION and the family lived at the[...]e entered the U.S. Navy 01 Oct 1980 and is currently Olive Hotel and later at 1200 North Mai[...]ding line between Centerville and Walkerville. At that Dalene owned and operated the Nearly New Store at 310 time Phil worked in the mines and Florence was a housewife East Orr Street for nine years[...]military time. They still live at 635 South which was a government housing project for the shipyard Atlantic Street, Dillon. workers. There was no room in the Vanport school for any more fourth[...]ride of Virgil Given. When they moved west, house that was built over the cabin of Mr. Deacon, whose[...]nd Roy Given' s homestead on Barrett Creek. house was tom down in the early seventies and is the present Virgil was known for being able to build a cabin with a site[...]or Don marriage, Virgil Coulter Given, was born 20 Sep 1915. Wheat , and at the Benny Johnson and Carl Meine ranches. Margaret was born 14 Jul 1919 and Richard was born 11 Ray attended Idaho State College at P[...]e Davis and here Virgil built a four- Montana and was employed by Mountain States Telephone[...]at the surrounding ranches. Dalene K. Lessey was born 20 May 1938 in Arco ID , the Virgil, by now fondly called Jim, was the preacher. The fourth of five daughters of Dal[...]ervices always included many old gospel hymns and was father was a truck driver for Garrett' s Freightways[...]ilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad which ran Adelaide was a stay-at-home mother and wife. They resid[...] |
| [...]to teach in Armstead. During the flu epidemic that year, after tending to people who were ill, Cecil[...]orn 29 Oct 1949. Jim's work with the railroad was terminated when there was a train wreck adjacent to the Virg[...]mer School of Chiropractic. what was needed. After graduation in 1940, the Given f[...]y happy years there. mining was done by dredging on Grasshopper Creek and Vir[...]--Adele Sawyer underground mining was still flourishing. Coulter served as[...]ing World War II but the Virgil Coulter Given was always a very musical, war was over before he finished his training, so he didn'[...]ter supported his growing family by doing many he was known) could sing all parts of harmony. He played[...]e necessary repair, reassemble and presto! was never realized. The company ran out of money before They worked. All of his life, he was a "jack-of-all-trades" they could start the process. when it came to mechanics. He was very adept with Coulter[...] |
| outdoors was his playground and his love of the country gave him a knowledge of the area that was a great benefit David Glaus[...]Ramona Rouse 1950s, Coulter was one of the party to go in and help bring the pilo[...]d ability to get things done Ramona Rouse was born on the morning of 19 Jun 1954, with what was at hand served him well. to Emory and Adele Rouse. She was born in Butte at St.[...]Big Hole Valley. This ranch was where the first Beaverslide was made.[...]School in 1972. In the fall of that year she attended[...]David is the son of Warren and Rosamond Glaus. Warren[...]Grant Glaus was born 26 Feb 1977 and a daughter, Darann[...]Glaus was born 04 May 1981. Another son, Burke John, was stillborn 17 Mar 1980 after a full-term pregnancy[...]is buried at the Cardwell cemetery next to his grand[...]Warren Glaus, who was killed in an accident on a ranch in[...]At present, Ramona is the secretary at Parkview Ruth Pyle Given and Cou[...]rancher, Grant is a student at Montana Tech in Butte and[...]Darann is a student at Beaverhead County High School[...] |
| outdoors was his playground and his love of the country gave him a knowledge of the area that was a great benefit David Glaus[...]Ramona Rouse 1950s, Coulter was one of the party to go in and help bring the pilo[...]d ability to get things done Ramona Rouse was born on the morning of 19 Jun 1954, with what was at hand served him well. to Emory and Adele Rouse. She was born in Butte at St.[...]Big Hole Valley . This ranch was where the first Beaverslide was made.[...]School in 1972. In the fall of that year she attended[...]David is the son of Warren and Rosamond Glaus. Warren[...]Grant Glaus was born 26 Feb 1977 and a daughter, Darann[...]Glaus was born 04 May 1981. Another son, Burke John, was stillborn 17 Mar 1980 after a full-term pregnancy[...]is buried at the Cardwell cemetery next to his grand[...]Warren Glaus, who was killed in an accident on a ranch in[...]At present, Ramona is the secretary at Parkview Ruth Pyle Given and Cou[...]rancher, Grant is a student at Montana Tech in Butte and[...]Darann is a student at Beaverhead County High School[...] |
| [...]and Mae born 16 Mar 197 4 in Lewiston. Mary Jo was born 22 Aug moved to Dillon. Bill engaged in live[...]ee children, a son who died in infancy move was to a house with a big basement on a dry farm and[...]a small country school before it was decided she was too Brian Goff young and the school was not organized to teach Rebecca Hu[...]teacher was Mary Rouse. She started first grade in that[...]repeat second grade as this school was much more difficult[...]Louise, was born in Great Falls 03 Nov 1982.[...]ont door. Nicole took the move the hardest as she was[...]School (renamed the Dillon Middle School). This was a[...]and was expected to switch rooms for classes. By eighth[...]grade, school was becoming more comfortable.[...]volleyball for two years, and was on the Speech and Debate Rebecca "Bee" Meine Gof[...]daho she met Brian Goff whom Rebecca Jean Hull was born 06 Sep 1972 in Butte at St. she dated[...]got a job at Louis Hull and Bette Meine Hull. At that time her parents Microsoft in Seattle. In M[...]gy. The next move Rebecca and her parents made was to Brian Goff and Rebecca Hull marr[...]ith Gap MT where Rebecca's sister Cynthia Susann, was Dillon MT at St. Rose Catholic Chur[...] |
| [...]and Mae born 16 Mar 1974 in Lewiston. Mary Jo was born 22 Aug moved to Dillon. Bill engaged in live[...]ee children, a son who died in infancy move was to a house with a big basement on a dry farm and[...]a small country school before it was decided she was too Brian Goff young and the school was not organized to teach Rebecca Hu[...]teacher was Mary Rouse. She started first grade in that[...]repeat second grade as this school was much more difficult[...]Louise, was born in Great Falls 03 Nov 1982.[...]ont door. Nicole took the move the hardest as she was[...]School (renamed the Dillon Middle School). This was a[...]and was expected to switch rooms for classes. By eighth[...]grade, school was becoming more comfortable.[...]volleyball for two years , and was on the Speech and Debate Rebecca "Bee" Meine Go[...]daho she met Brian Goff whom Rebecca Jean Hull was born 06 Sep 1972 in Butte at St. she dated[...]got a job at Louis Hull and Bette Meine Hull. At that time her parents Microsoft in Seattle. In M[...]gy. The next move Rebecca and her parents made was to Brian Goff and Rebecca Hull mar[...]ith Gap MT where Rebecca's sister Cynthia Susann, was Dillon MT at St. Rose Catholic Chur[...] |
| [...]rles, with him when he went to check Gilbert. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. a[...]rs took only the amount of water they Gilbert and was born 12 Dec 1891 on the Gilbert Ranch[...]The Gosmans had one daughter, Dorothy Anne, who was born in 1923. Zetta Gosman died 03 Dec 1961. She was a past matron of Mizpah Chapter O.E.S., a member[...]ater married Donna Flanagan of Helena. Mr. Gosman was active in politics and was a State Senator from Beaverhead County for four terms. In 1952 he was elected Lt. Governor for the State of Montana. He[...]ighway Commission and State Board of Pharmacy. He was a State Chairman of the Republican Party and serv[...]of the Montana Pharmaceutical Association. He was a charter member of the Beaverhead American Legion Post and was Montana State Commander in 1939. He also served as a National Committeeman. He was a life member of Dillon Lodge #1554 B.P.O.E., a m[...]ad Shrine and Royal Order of Jesters, of which he was once a director. The face of the statue of the Legionnaire, which stands in Mountain View Cemetery, was made from a plaster of paris mask of George Gosma[...]the Gosman home. Mr. Gosman' s daughter remembers that it was a terrifying experience for the family because th[...]t get the mask off in time. Next, they had to see it floating in a washtub while it cured. George Gosman died 01 Sep 1981 and he[...]23 Jul 1960. He was 78 years old and is buried in the[...]untain View Cemetery in Dillon. George Graham was born 18 Dec 1882 to Thomas L.[...]I learned he was a good man who worked hard for his children from[...]family. I just wish there was more to say. He may be gone On 11 Jan 1936 Ge[...]granddaughter of Charles Graham and His job was to make sure that in a drought ranchers with[...]e oldest water rights got irrigation water first. It seemed that ranches with the oldest water rights were[...] |
| [...]2) Ray Young I was born in Dillon MT in Aug 1917. My older brother,[...]where I could work for my board and room. I made it the first year; then I had to find another place, which I did, but it was tough there. I stuck with it until Christmas my last year and they told me I c[...]r children. Back L-R: Al Kington, Elmer Young, at that time and Genevieve Metlen Jim Kington. Front L-R:[...]Carolyn Young, taken August 1996. found out and I was moved from Ref164.18. that place to Granny Hildreth ' s home. I finishe[...]had to from BCHS, I went to work at M.H. King's. It was good move again. for a cheap and inexp[...]ers ' Union and remained there until he got the I was ready to be married; the boss at the store wanted[...]two of us, we would just go hungry I was Mae Kington , had three children, eight, three an[...]four years old , when Lewis was on a train as a fireman that How times have changed: freeways, bigger and more had a run-in with another train and he was killed. expensive cars, credit cards, fast food eating places and I was alone for six years when I met Ray Young, many m[...]. years together. The one I enjoyed most was when we were It didn't stop me, as I love to travel. I took all t[...]an outhouse; the board they made the seat out of was so grandchildren and waiting for at least one more great- slivery you couldn't sit on it, so I took an old cotton blanket grandchil[...] |
| [...]Leota Graves, was born 23 Feb 1882. She attended[...]s , the younger child of Harry and Sylvia Graves, was born 12 Oct 1917 in Dillon. After graduating from[...]year at Gregg 's Business School in Chicago . She was close friends with Jane Stallings , daughter of her Aunt Lelah and Uncle Chan Stallings , who was three years younger than she. Dorothy married Roy[...]es, Dorothy lived a very full and happy life. She was an active member of the Ted Jacobs and mot[...]aged in charity projects behind the scenes, which was[...] |
| was little or no organized help for the unfortunate. He also attending Bannack card parties where pinochle was the game made generous contributions to the Episc[...]llings family and became fast tennis, golfed, and was a voracious and catholic reader and friends[...]sland in the Clark Fork River near the University is also dedicated to him. Like most women of her generation, Edith was primarily a homemaker and mother to three childre[...]ndolph and Marjorie. Her elder son, Ted, recalled that she was a loving parent and never raised her voice in anger. After Edith developed an illness that local doctors could not diagnose, A.R. and Edith[...]r. A.R. later told daughter-in-law, Rusty Jacobs, that this was the first such operation performed at Mayo and th[...]l staff finally based the fee on the model of car that A.R. drove. Edith never fully recovered from her illness and was frail and in poor health for many years. On 11 Ju[...]oungest child of Fielding Louis and Leota Graves, was born 06 Mar 1890. She attended Bannack school and[...]sister, Edith, and her husband, A.R. Archie was born 22 Sep 1915 to Maude Joy Green and Jacobs.[...]maternal Lelah grew to be a lovely woman and was acknowledged grandparents, Cora Barbour J[...]in the county. She had Glen (or Reichle as it was known then). He lived on the many suitors but cho[...]e used to finding her home and if by accident she was One day after seeing a circus in Dillon a[...]ose house, climbed up and jumped off. afghans and was a wonderful cook. She and Chan enjoyed[...] |
| didn't like him. Luckily he was small as the goose's wings Two children,[...]his arm but being a tenacious High and was an assistant football coach. Louise taught in fellow, he finished the game. The arm was tended to later. the primary grades. After t[...]r his extra money. He bought the business when he was Greens began traveling around the United[...]st Church. was active in a Meals on Wheels program and a Masonic[...]continues to make her home there. Archie was proud of his[...]who is a school psychologist. Between them, they have si[...]Lynn A. Gregory was born 10 Sep 1882 in New York;[...]Mr. Gregory was hired to be the director of the Dillon[...]shoe business while taking an active bandstand that was across the street from the present part in Dillon[...]on a cement platform served on the City Council, was active in the Elks and attached to the B[...]an orchestra from his private pupils rationed, he was ordered back to Dillon to reopen Green's wi[...]oup most of the time. Shoe Shop as he had renamed it. He ha[...] |
| [...]small salary and the parents paid a small fee. He was given a teaching position at the high school dire[...]ayed for most of the "a lot of history was lost when Ol' Cleve passed on. " basketball and football games, rodeos, and any group that My answer was, "That's your fault. You could tell it to wanted music.[...]h a professional He said, "Maybe some of that history is just as well teacher and a fiddling group made up[...]I've thought about those words a lot. It seemed like a Chapman, bass; and Grace Cashmore,[...]group dodge at the time and yet there was something else in it, too. entertained many organizations in Dillon and the surrounding Perhaps it was that history recorders, story writers and towns. He or[...]lly movie makers have always been known to change that time in the late 1930s because many of the boys w[...]eve Seafield told history to athletics and a band was badly needed. Dad and m[...]achers and other players to make a full group; by that land it concerns. We were interested because we live here[...]ed from the large school band this land. It is not that those who told the history to us which played for different school functions. Every year a wanted it to be lost; they didn't want it to be misused. carnival was held for a money-making project. The band The following is an account of a man who would bend the always dre[...]the old-timers. Some of them had inner helpers that kept for the evening concerts which were held for[...]a little money. George nights. A different theme was used each year, including Gronn lacked s[...]Scottish and Indian, for example. Mr. Gregory was one of the finest musical directors and[...]e helped in the Jackson MT area. The ranch is now known as the create many musicians who follow[...]He started another rustling operation with I was one of them, and I was his non-paid assistant Gorris , Salifsky[...]y they stole from Walker and Lillian Gregory was born 22 May 1883 in PA and died Beilenbur[...]Minnesota. to the Bitterroot. Gronn got wise that the law was about to Lillian always gave Lynn instructions on which dish he was catch Gorris and Salifsky with the veal. Gro[...]mping, fishing buy supplies and the wagon was empty. and hiking.[...]--Leone Cashmore Tayne that the horse had never recovered from that exhausting ride.[...]Lawrence rode the horse as a child. That makes the horse[...]That lasted only part of a twelve-month period[...] |
| [...]heares from a dam of water having built up behind it. The force of the ice and water can easily make k[...]ent to Bannack and 02 Aug 1891, their The road of that day went over Chalk Bluff (not down by son William Gannet was born. On 20 Nov 1893, they had the river). Gronn[...]s Thomas and Jonathan Sheares. Later, a There is a story that when he moved his saloon from this daughter, Florence Alice, was born in Hecla where her location to Squaw Creek, some of his friends helped. The father was a miner. She died at the age of two years in move[...]d nearly every sagebrush Melrose, where she is buried. Jonathan died at the age of in the area. This story came from Cleve, who told it for a 18 from being hit in the kidney area while riding through laugh, but he always hinted that there might be bottles still trees. He is buried at Glendale. The remaining family hidden i[...]Bessie Mae died at the Trapper Creek ranch. She was died and young Dave Law lived on old Dave's homes[...]born in England in 1868 and died in 1934 and is buried at Young Dave Law was not old Dave's son, but his nephew. Melrose. Young Dave was not an outlaw like his uncle, but a much William S. Grose died in a Butte hospital in 1932 and is different, milder kind of man. However, he did have buried in Melrose. He was born in England in 1849. problems with ownership[...]erty. Gronn, Gorris When William S. was a youth, he seems to have been a and Salifsky hel[...]orked in the mines in South America contesters to it by signing some legal documents as A[...]cabin where place. He needed money to get out of that jam, so Gronn, he lived while "proving up" still stood in 1988, though in Salifsky and Gorris approached young Dave with the poor condition. reminder that he'd been helped and now it was time for him It is told that Bessie "worked like a man" grubbing to help. He p[...]sagebrush on the land. During the years that the family law was passed that to have a saloon, you must have 20 live[...]ion in the winter, the entire population of Hecla it until he sold it to Matt Christiansen in 1922. woul[...]everyone would ride their sleds along the trail. It had County poor farm in Dillon, he returned to Sq[...]and looked after through the snow. The snow was so deep at times that it him as neighbors will do. Then he became ill agai[...]ied Nellie Louise Beall 24 May cuss", he'd say he was going to kill so and so from time to 1917. She was a daughter of Orren and Emily Hutchins time. The poor farm operators decided he was crazy and Beall. Nellie was born in Glendale in Mar 1892, attended moved him[...]ar 1921, and Harry William, born Jun 1925. He is buried in Anaconda or that area. We don't know Bill and Nellie live[...]ch on Cherry Creek where he came from or where he is buried. No one has which they purcha[...]ever mentioned a mate in his life. He apparently was single James Thomas served in World War[...]was discharged in May 1919. He returned home a[...] |
| [...]d a good singing voice and loved to about it. yodel. He lived at the rest home in Dillon at t[...]arly in the morning, to the delight of which was previously owned by Orren and Emily Hutchens pat[...]alike. Beall. It was partially homesteaded by the Bealls. Orren[...]agers. James T. told a story of later sold it to W.G. and Nellie Grose. this time:[...]his area from his birthplace in "When W. G. was a growing boy, he got a job delivering Kent[...]Gulch. In 1921 their first son, James Orren, was born. In attend the local dances, fighting with the local boys. They 1925 Harry William was born. Nellie helped her husband fought rough, "u[...]em back to Butte, thoroughly She was a devoted daughter and helped nurse her father b[...]oy in 1943. They are the fish during the season. It would drop people off and pick parents of[...]le River. The dance hall at this Dale. time was in a building next door to the present-day D-Club. Carol, born in 1944, is a registered X-ray technician and It burned.[...]ied David Waddell and James T. 's ore wagon is still on •the Trapper Creek later J.T.[...]ndon, England during WWI; apparently his sons ran it in Kenneth, born in 1946, graduated f[...]am and Percy Grose, a nephew of William S., was a butcher in upon his return started Grose[...]Moran Howard in May 1975. He has three when W.S. was alive and stayed awhile after his death.[...]Broadus, an electrical engineer, in 1968. Dorothy is Bessie Mabel Grose died 08 Jan 1938 of hard[...]U in Agricultural the service, he "did anything that would bring in a dollar" Business. H[...] |
| [...]ising their boys there. Richard Kjersom Grose is presently employed in Texas, William (Bill) lives[...]eter Grose, Krystyl and William S. (Willie). Gary is enrolled at Western Montana College for the fall quarter of 1988. Jim is in grade school at Twin Bridges.[...]h Margaret Sweeney Dave Hagenbarth was born 27 Jun 1901 in Spencer ID. He was the second of four children born to Frank J. and[...]f the time, the Wood Livestock Company failed and was liquidated in 1937. At that time, Dave started putting together his own outfi[...]ve Hagenbarth, born 27 Jun 1901 in Spencer ID. He was which had been part of Wood Livestock. With a wea[...]es to ride and the beautiful Margaret Sweeney was born 25 Jun 1916 in Dillon to forest and flowers to run through and enjoy. It was an ideal William and Lillie Sweeney of Sheep Creek Basin. She was spot for children in the summertime. As th[...]in October and winter approached, the family was always John, Peter and Mary. Margaret attended al[...]High School. As they Jackson School. In 1938 she was elected Superintendent of grew older, they[...]me in the summer Schools of Beaverhead County and was serving her second working at different jobs in the outfit, learning how it all term when she and Dave married in Aug 1945 in[...]rom the Hagenbarth summer home. Their winter home was in University of Notre Dame in 1971. Dillon since all the livestock was moved to the Glen area for During the 1950s[...]Dave and and improve his outfit. By that time, he was running both Margaret; David John on 16 Ju[...] |
| near the town of Glen. When the grass was ready in the freshman at BCHS. David Hagenbarth and Patricia Carrick spring, the move to Idaho was made and another summer of married in 1980. They have one daughter, Jessica, who is grazing started.[...]In about 1966 Dave's health began to fail. He was able Margaret has always been active in c[...]e died in Nov 1970 in an Idaho Falls hospital. He is Beaverhead County High School, on the Boar[...]ecision to sell the sheep and some She was a very active member of St. Rose Catholic landhol[...]increase the cattle numbers. Church and was a member of P.E.O. She still lives in Presently the winter operation is in Montana with the Dillon and remains activ[...]James Raining was a young man whose inner strengths[...]ruct the first Postal Service at Apex MT. He also was[...]James was twenty-four years old when he became the[...]of Frena Barnette. A lovely daughter named Laura was[...]James' second marriage was blessed with two children,[...]During the years that his children were growing up, he not L-R: Margare[...]only spent his days as Postmaster, but also was involved in Hagenbarth with son Jim, taken near K[...]in the early 1900s is still standing in the remains of the town[...]Marcus James, a junior at the 73. She was born in 1831 to the Kinney family of Univ[...] |
| [...]se years were in the Dillon Public School system. was 86 years old and had been born 18 Feb 1822 in New[...]ames ' s only brother, his senior by eight years, was born predatory animal hunter for the United Sta[...]With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Morgan was recalled All the men in the family were handy[...]position as a government trapper. Morgan is a life-time Brother Edward was very handy with a hammer and member[...]ing cabinets and American Legion. He is an active member of the Masonic building homes in[...]llon after a long, industrious life. He Hall, was born 28 Oct 1942. At the time of his birth, his was 81 when a massive stroke and chronic pneumonia ended father was stationed in Hawaii with the United States Army.[...]lon and Birch Creek schools, Beaverhead James was born in May 1862 in New Brunswick. His[...]received his Master's Degree in Fine Arts. He is presently Nine months later, his young sister[...]arried June Hughes; they influence on his in-laws was most apparent in the have a daugh[...]arriet Hall. naturalization files. George Haining was naturalized on 06 Roy Schuler Hall was born 05 Jan 1946. He attended Apr 1889, the day a[...]witness and gave years. Most of this time was spent in White Sands NM. his honor to be the best American citizen he was capable of After his discharge, he worked f[...]n Perry, Dillon MT Frank Charles Hall was born 14 Oct 1949. He attended[...]Chicago IL. He is currently employed at St. Patrick[...]ank married Bonna Graham, also Mildred Schuler was born 19 Mar 1912. Her parents, a medi[...]Hall and Leah Margaret Hall. They all Dillon. She was the firstborn of their five children:[...]Harriet, Harry R. "Bud," Lee and John. Mildred was born on her father's thirty-fourth birthday.[...]ng certificate from the Normal College; her class was the first one to be awarded a B.E. degree.[...] |
| [...]Mary A. McLaughlin William K. Hall was born 24 Oct 1887 in Illinois, and Mary W. McLaughlin was born 03 Jul 1937 in Butte to came to this area when he was a young man and worked for James and Ann[...]eaverhead County High Hall, or Mother Hall as she was affectionately called by her School in 1955. From her early years, Mary was interested many friends and patients, was born 12 Dec 1883 in South in the nursing[...]ok She remained active in her profession from that point on her clinical training at St. Vincent's Hospital in Billings. and was said to have been the oldest chiropractor in poin[...]Halls lived west of Dillon on River Road on what is now known as the Rainbow Ranch. Hall Street in the neighborhood is named after them. It was well known for its beautiful rock garden which the Halls built. It is said Dr. Hall would take the pickup out into the[...]ch she gave to her friends. Dr. Hall's office was in her home and it was open to her patients any time of the day or night[...]stand in front of so she could tell if their back was out of line. She was a very colorful and caring person. William Ha[...]he Post Office Department in 1942. For many years it was his job to meet the train and pick up the mail. H[...]e depot, hook onto an iron-wheeled wagon and take it to the train, load the mail and take it back to the depot, often in the middle of the nig[...]rse weather. A daughter, Betty Regina Louise, was born to the Halls in 1918. She married Blaine Doyel from Arkansas who was in the Dillon area working for the U.S. Forest Service with the Civilian Conservation Corps. He was transferred to Libby, then Missoula and eventuall[...]est Nelson, Tony Bramsman and Earl Opp. Interment was in the Mountain Mary Amanda McLaughl[...]home. She passed away Monday, 17 May 1954. Death was apparently due to a heart attack. She was stricken while doing After gradu[...]na, and Anna Tuesday and investigated. The house was unlocked and he Marie of Seattle, WA. Me[...]ked in and found her body on the floor. Interment was in Feb 1985 at the age of 43. at Mountai[...]othy Rebich Meine Hospital in Helena until it closed in 1973. She worked for[...] |
| [...]red nurse. Mary spends most of her spare Helen was born 23 Dec 1925 in Butte to Eldred W. and Sue ti[...]hildren. C. (Waite) Williams. She was raised in Butte and graduated[...]e joined the Metals Bank in Butte as a teller and was William Murray Hand[...]ame along and then William "Bill" Murray Hand was born 21 Aug 1924 in returned to work in 19[...]worked until her retirement in Nov 1990. During that He was reared in Glen and the lower Big Hole area and la[...]railroad railcar switching system was awarded to Bill during[...]He was active in civic and fraternal groups, and served[...]International for one term. He was a District Deputy for the[...]Helen was busy raising the family, being the Worthy[...]federal House of Representatives. Bill was successful in[...]stopping at every house that he did. He discovered that the[...]party encouraging folks to vote for him. That election he[...]to make it work. This project turned out to be one of[...] |
| [...]e University of Montana, Adele Corrine Hansen was born 17 Nov 1959 in Dillon. majoring in Acti[...]nal Junior and Senior Honor Society (to which she was Program and receiving a Graduate Teaching Assi[...]ass president, track , and and finding out that New York City was not where she intramural volleyball and basketbal[...]member of the illustrious Virginia City Players. It was a[...]In the fall of 1987, Adele was employed by Treasure[...]Theater. It would seem all the years of education had paid[...]in MCT's "Jack and the Beanstalk". She was fortunate to[...]remembered. When Adele graduated in 1978, she was awarded the In fall 1994, Adele fou[...]classic "It's a Wonderful Life."[...] |
| [...]nce then and plans to continue to Corolla FX that still runs well. She is ever grateful for the do so in the future. In her spare time, she even made her loving companionship of her two d[...]he mountains, and the love of her parents and It started with a little show revolving around the history knowing that tomorrow brings a new way of seeing life and of L[...]--Adele Hansen Board members' support, it promises to grow into something spectacular.[...]Amos Hansen was born in 1892 in Helsted, Denmark,[...]Danish name, he changed it to Amos--the name the cowboys[...]Anna Hansen (her maiden name) was born in 1895 in the[...]Denmark was not far from Helsted, but she did not know[...]United States in World War I. Amos was one of those[...]being honored. He met his bride-to-be at that party and they[...]or farm where the family was living at the time of the[...]child's birth. A daughter Astrid, was born in 1921 near Adele finds herself blessed in more ways than she can Deer Lodge; Mary was born in 1923 near Deer Lodge, count. Her parents[...]things to the the Dell ranch. Th~ir only son was born in 1934 at the Dell 404 - Beaverhea[...] |
| [...]ner (A-ner), his father's his name was Carl but he wanted to be called Cally. The christened name. It always takes an explanation how to t[...]ence in pronunciation, pronounce this Danish name that does not sound like it is wrote it with the Irish spelling of Kelly. And so he spell[...]took agriculture courses through high school and was grade one-room school at Dell and graduated from[...]by Dan Thurber, instructor in High School. Astrid was always frail and sickly and passed the agriculture department. Upon graduation, he was away in her early 20s . Mary earned a teaching de[...]During his senior year, he was selected for "Who's Who Anna joined the "cade[...]h school in 1945. When the war ended, the program was Organizations and honors listed includ[...]bcat Nursing School in Denver. For many years she was a Battalion; President Junior Cl[...]ed out of the sky and instantly killed Amos as he was walking back to his car from irrigation in the ha[...]Bozeman. Ref.146.11. Carl was born in 1915 on Horse Prairie, the fourth child[...]d Kristi Hansen. The diminutive of the name Carl is Cally, so from infancy he was known as Cally. His first job after graduation was at Swift and Company When he entered the[...] |
| [...]Club, " a Chris Overgaard Hansen was born in a ranch home on bachelor's haven.[...]1923, the fifth child of Carl His next move was to Billings and a traveling job, buying and Kristi Hansen. He was educated in the Dillon schools, wool for Wilkins[...]am, and established a home. A son, Joseph Daniel, was born there. Kelly served one term in the State Le[...]head the Farm-Home Administration in Montana. He was later fired in a cloud of political scandal.[...]eration, defended his policies and read in part, "Is it possible that these accusations were motivated by politicians s[...]Benson or the administration? Let's keep in mind that after all the hollering, no charges were filed ag[...]of Agriculture, FBI and the Senate, still nothing was proved. Hansen doubled the volume of the agency t[...]s he bought were something made of wool. He truly was "The Wool Man" of Montana during his prime years.[...]United States Army and was stationed at Ft. Richardson, AK. He was trained in ordnance and the medical corps. In[...]1, he married Lucille Swift in Palmer AK. Lucille was from Spokane WA and was working at Ft. Richardson Army[...]war against Germany, Chris was shipped to the European[...] |
| [...]Lottie was born 12 Jun 1886 at Cable MT to Henry and[...]was a rancher, carpenter and photographer. Two childr[...]third child, Christen Myrl, was born 07 Apr 1912 at the[...]f their first child. Following the war, Chris was discharged from the army and went into Civil Service where he was in charge of ordnance, which is the movement of all military supplies, personnel and equipment. The family moved to Salinas CA. He was active in the Episcopal Church and served as lay[...]e McIntosh Hansen and Groom Chris Hansen, Chris was born 20 Jun 1875, Thorup, Island of Aero,[...] |
| [...]tal apartments and their living Land was leased at Elkhorn Hot Springs around 1920. quarte[...]a Cadillac The family built a log cabin which was completed in 1924; car, driving cattle buyers around the county or for taxi a second cabin was built at Elkhorn later. Summers were service. His[...]had an alligator chasing a man. spent there. It was sold in 1935 when the family moved to It read, "If you need a ride, call Chris Hansen."[...]y purchased three lots at the comer of Dakota and It was a small house and Chris added two bedrooms,[...]ing, large cellar for fruit , Chris was a finish carpenter; he built and carved designs v[...]ymouth Rock hens. and decorations. He was an inventor, wheelwright, Three children were[...]were, "Anything half done is half ruined," and "Always[...]Lottie was raised by her mother, Sarah, who lived with[...]was artistic. She painted china, made Christmas cards[...]Albert was a sound equipment operator at the Hartwig[...]She was talented at decorating weddings, crafts, sewing a[...]Myrl was a certified public accountant. He worked at[...]auto body, trucked and drove cab. He is retired and living[...] |
| [...]raised chickens and sold eggs so their paths and was discharged in March 1946. He married Ruth[...]e. He had been eggs. I'm sure her mother was surprised at how many eggs a farmer, trucker, sal[...]they began using. carpenter and photographer. He is now semi-retired. On the last day[...]Donna Margie moved to Salt Lake City when she was sixteen. a ride home. Of course, she accept[...]years of high school were spent dating. Craig was very are: Steven, Wayne, Deward and Emily. She was a busy with wrestling and football. Donna was involved in homemaker. She died 31 Dec 1963 at ag[...]California and then moved to Helena where Craig was[...]Jamie Michele was born 01 Sep 1974 in Helena. She was the first grandbaby for Archie and Millie and the[...]While living in Bozeman, Ben Craig was born 17 Jun[...]Nick Jonathan was born 07 Mar 1980, and died 03 Jun Bride Donna Rae[...]ch 23,_ 1974. Ref 180.20. Lisa Marie was born 12 Dec 1981. Her birth was[...]Madrigal dinner. Craig Jonathan Hansen was born 30 Jul 1955, in Dillon In addition[...], horses, ducks , geese, turkeys, rabbits, Hayden was born 18 Sep 1956, in Butte to Archie Douglas[...]in 1965 purchasing the Hayden Holly Joy was born 12 Oct 1984. The family was doing family ranch north of Dillon (Bvhd Hist Vol[...]a custom-haying job in the Dell area. Craig was kind Craig's grandmother, Daisy May Koenig, li[...]their lives together when their eyes met as Donna was boarding the school bus when she was in the fourth grade. They smiled at each o[...] |
| [...]and Haydens present. Ref.180.19. Jake Steven was born 26 Jan 1987. Even though the Lima High School. Ejner volunteered for the draft in Jan |
| [...]wnee Leslie from Three Forks 12 Oct 1990. Russell is not married at this time. Steve married Stacy[...]home of Dillon, was born 09 Mar 1919, at a small ranch[...]the birth. Art could boast throughout his life that he was --Carla and Ejn[...]mother was not one to boast of the event. Art was destined[...] |
| [...]r, taken June 1996. Ref 173.10. Since there was no kindergarten, he finished five grades partic[...]to a much larger ranch of the Bulge where he was wounded. |
| [...]58 of his brother, Howard, who along with Leonard was operating the Hansen Livestock[...] |
| Harry E. Hansen was born in 1924, the youngest child of One[...]or his passenger on back, his brother Arthur, who was five years old when we moved to Medicine Lodge; that probably moaned and groaned more than he did. is where I grew up and went to school for seven year[...]y 1929, the family moved to a larger ranch school was then discontinued with only three pupils in it. headquartered on Medicine Lodge but with[...]and Homer and Pauline cattle. This was all new territory for the Hansen family and Harri[...]for just three pupils. It was there I met and married my wife, Jean Barck, a St[...]e, live with their families in the St. Paul area. It is nice to have them and our three grandchildren nea[...]ends in Billings and family in Beaverhead County. It is a great place to visit. This old heart always ski[...]Ref173.13. Howard Rasmus Hansen was born 04 Nov 1917 in While in[...]and Howard's dad thought he should have a |
| [...]chool, Howard chose not to attend high school, so it followed that he took a man's job Leonard Hans Hansen[...]ents allowed him to Leonard Hans Hansen was born in Dillon 08 Aug 1914 have a private log cab[...]o Danish immigrants Rasmus and Cecilie Hansen. He was family "outhouse".[...]ix children. The Hansen home, a His lifestyle was abruptly changed 22 Jan 1942 when his small[...]n, had no electricity nor number "came up" and he was inducted into the army at Ft. running wat[...].A. wanted running water, you could run and get it. " In other Bn 41 st Inf. Division as a Heavy Tru[...]and later his brothers. war and Howard's mission was completed. Howard returned to Dillon and home[...]22 Apr 1958 after a long illness with cancer. He is buried in the family plot in Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. A special memory that his son, Paul, has of his father was his love of horses. His favorite horse was called Big Red that Howard had bought from the Jones brothers. Paul[...]led wagon with blade salt and spend a day hauling it to the mountains to spread it to the cattle. Howard loved music and played[...]s John and Ben. Going to the 1st Lutheran Church was important to him and he made many friends[...] |
| [...]nical counterparts, Medicine Lodge. Although town was closer, secondary the automobile and[...]Beaverhead In the seventies, Leonard was joined in his ranching County High School , he li[...]Upon graduation from high school in 1933, he was awarded a modest Union Pacific scholarship. This period was the heart of the Great Depression and it followed that Leonard elected to return to the ranch to take the place of a man full-time. Due to eye problems, Leonard was denied enlistment for service in World War II. He[...]962 when they returned to Kalispell. Ranching was in Leonard ' s blood and he had little time for a[...]discovered a Danish girl , Hansine Petersen, who was working on the Tash Ranch. Not one to let a good[...]ine 08 Sep 1957. The sixth child of nine, Hansine was born 28 Aug 1930, to Hans and Hansine Pedersen, f[...]ard a decided advantage over other suitors, as he was able to speak and comprehend Danish. He could be[...]the Beaverhead County Museum. Ref 187.03. So it was that an adventurous trip to America for Hansine turned into a life-long venture. It soon followed that their life was blessed with a daughter, Karen Elizabeth, in 1959[...]Feb 1983. They have Retirement, however, was not a word easily found in either two children, d[...]rried 17 Jul 1994. They live in Hansine was able to indulge in her love of gardening and Dill[...]cliff near which Captains Lewis and Clark's Corps was known for its sheep. The sheep always came first.[...]1805. In the fall of 1995, they Leonard ' s adage was to take care of the stock first and then moved[...]sits proudly on the museum grounds. The cows, but it takes a damn smart man to herd sheep."[...]6 Leonard loved and treasured all animals but it seems that and was in use at the Hansen ranch until 1991. he[...] |
| [...]him as much as he Denmark, 16 Mar 1882. He was the youngest of six enjoyed the "work."[...]rother to his mother, he chronic lung disease and is buried in the Hansen plot in the arrived in Dil[...]Ras's pay was $25 a month. Later he worked for Frank[...]Frank Landon on the Blacktail. The venture was successful, Cecilie Knudsen[...]family and returned to Denmark so the partnership was[...]tions at leaving his birthplace and family · It was an exciting day 06 Nov 1907, when Ras became and[...]a twenty-year-old a naturalized citizen. He was sponsored by Frank Landon man named Rasmus Hansen[...]Cecilie was born 13 May 1890, to Jorgen Knudsen and[...]be known as the Frank Rebich farm. It is here that three of[...]the eighth grade. School was held every weekday, despite[...]miles to school by horseback. Later, when Leonard was[...]post office. It was on Medicine Lodge that the Hansens got Rasmus and Cecilie Hansen on thei[...]Hole. The Craver Ranch was purchased and renamed Rasmus Hansen was born to Hans Rasmus Hansen and[...] |
| [...]irs of John Peterson and Hansen Livestock Company was formed. That same year the REA strung the power lines for elec[...]joined the Danish Brotherhood Lodge 273 the year it was chartered in 1908, was a member of B.P.O.E. 1554, and both Ras and Cecil[...]rch 1946 upon Dick's discharge. Brundage. Wartime was not the ideal time for marriage but He received the American Area and Asiatic Pacific the couple decided it was for them. They made vows that Campaign Medals (1 Star) and the WWII[...] |
| Their first home in Dillon was at 427 South Atlantic. Ruth retired from wo[...]and they got a phonograph. Their first son, Eric, was born 2 Dec 1946. A ten- day hospital stay at that time cost $67.50. From Mar 1948 to 1952 they[...]a heavy equipment operator and a ditch rider. He was Ruth's dad helped with machinery and labor. Dick[...]or eight months. The called him "Mr. Fix-it". couple managed with their families' help. He is a talented whistler and harmonica player of hymns[...]Jones brothers. Their precious baby, Lorna Rose, was Ruth was a stay-at-home mother, caring for her children, s[...]ream fishing lighter work, clerking at Eliels and was a salesman for and being with family. Ele[...]r dancing, roller On 05 Mar 1953, son, Mark, was born. In Sep 1954 skating, swimming and[...]ings, the Pioneer Mountains, next 25 years. Craig was born 30 Jul 1955; Joel was Medicine Lodge or wherever the road l[...]. favorite transportation for years was a 1948 Willys "Little Dad and Mom shared in[...]e has sat on occasionally. The rest of the family is nearby. Their home more bleachers than any other[...]isits and special events. coached Little League, was a Boy Scout leader and led D[...] |
| time. Their contentment is home, where the Beaverhead locating bod[...]ildren from Dillon who died at Cabanatuan. He was Staff-Sergeant to enjoy. Their 50th wedding anniversary was a three-day John McGahan. He mentioned Cha[...]ground, sponsored by their six children. It was I said, 'Hello'. " complete with a mock weddin[...]ering of 42 people. Advice from the bridal couple was, "Patch the Patches" and "Bluebirds of Happiness"[...]oy Hansen In Jun 1974 a letter from Lyndora PA was placed in my mail box. It was addressed to Postmaster, Dillon MT. Bruce Watters[...]y I called Joe Buyan. His sister, Mary, was Roy's and my post office. I would like to hear fr[...]country school teacher in 1918-1920. Joe told me that Abie I responded and in return received an ac[...]00 men here in a two-month Roy Hansen was born in Bannack MT in 1911, the first period. In[...]ri or son of Carl and Kristi Hansen, and was raised on their dysentery, and the six-day Death[...]edicine Lodge branch school and at Grant. Roy. He was such a good boy. Everyone liked him. He The rest of his schooling was in Dillon. He graduated was always kidding. "[...]worked Abie Abraham's three-year tour of duty was to last nine as a waiter at Skeet's Cafe, the[...]to After the Civilian Conservation Corps was created by retrace the path of the Death M[...] |
| [...]reatening, he enlisted in the The house was so primitive that there was one water line army. After training and a waiting[...]gel Island only, to the kitchen sink, and it was frozen up whenever it CA, his troop ship set a zig-zag course across the Pacific was below freezing, which was all the time that they lived and landed him in the Philippine Islan[...]The bathroom had a toilet, and in order to flush it, nine months ahead of the Japanese surprise attac[...]over to the feedlot with a five-gallon During that period, he wrote many letters and sent gifts bucket and pour it into the back of the flush first. Gail of delicat[...]and liveable, but they were young and in love and it Short of stature and living a primitive life, they were was to them a palace. friendly, happy and loveable. Of the little children he The next home was on a ranch just north of "deadman' s wrote, "They[...]ight, the Philippines were abandoned . Roy Hansen was worked for Pfizer. only one of the tho[...]urgent cause Their first son, Jim Wade, was born 02 Mar 1970 in the elsewhere in the vast Pac[...]after he was born, took her final exams and graduated from At 4:30 in the afternoon 24 Jun 1942, Roy was killed by Western Montana College 14 Mar 19[...]ruck the barracks at Cabanatuan. to Arlee MT that summer and Gail taught kindergarten while Followi[...]rsity of Montana at Missoula and forces, his body was exhumed by the Abraham crew and drov[...]that was small but was their own, and Wade managed the In one of Abi[...]amily bought land book which had been missing all that time. How fortunate and moved their home onto Wade's grandmother's farm for me, and how thoughtful that he made the effort to locate which he leased[...]f Roy's interment Son, Greg Arthur, was born 20 Nov 1974 and their and the circumstances of his death---the personal touch that trailer house became quite crowded. Wade add[...]elivered milk to all the How fortunate for me that Postmaster Bruce Watters stores and to[...]e his knew my family and sent the letter to me. I was to hear normal waking hour. When they knew another baby was on again from Abie Abraham. In May of 1988 I rece[...]e following information: "The Janet Yvonne, was born 19 Jun 1976. Secretary of Defense has announced that the Prisoner of War Six weeks later, before the house was even completely medal, recently authorized by Congress, is now available for finished, they moved in. T[...]ply and what A growing family of that size consumes a lot of information to send. Subse[...]ust got bigger pans to cook in. A big information was received. It will be placed in the World garden and r[...]work 40 hours a week rather than the 80 to 90 he was[...]with JDL Construction of Sheridan. He was doing the same Wade D. Hansen, son of Ruth and Dick Hansen of thing, which was operating excavators, but working less Dillon, an[...]e and Gail improved the homesite Their first home was north of Dillon where Wade worked[...] |
| [...]up with them were from , an island with a fort on it, a "pirate" hill close by, big Jim's sister, Ze[...]es and a bonfire area for kids who want to "rough it" in Jim and Alta built a house on the[...]grassed-in dirt piles for wheelie jumping it bum down. Another home was built in 1948. One son, bikes for small grandchildren and on motorcycles when they James Terrell, was born 11 Feb 1939. They ranched in the get older.[...]valley, raising cows, sheep and goats. They said that was --Wade and[...]Jim was very close to his maternal grandmother, Lillian[...]Jim was very handy with tools, building picture frames,[...]recliner chair when_the nurse was sitting in it and really[...]with only 12 % vision. She said she was the first patient to[...]. 87-0422 (Ding Ley). James Frederick Hanson was born 08 Jul 1901 at Lima, |
| [...]frosty morning 11 Feb 1939, James Terrell Hanson was born. His parents, Alta Mae Nibley and James Fred[...]d had lots of puzzles, sheep, cattle and pigs. We even milked cows for a while books and crayons as his[...]sold the business to son, Danny. spending money. It was here he got his first car, a 1947 Terry s[...]heting and sewing and makes dolls. We spend Gayle was born 14 Aug 1940 and attended Sugar Salem some time restoring antiques that belonged to our parents High School. They dated w[...]dparents. in school; he graduated in May 1957. He was inducted into All our sons live close by;[...]mmer in California, Terry weekends, and Kenny is married to JoAnne Kercher and was shipped to Korea.[...]ldren were born: Danny Lee, 17 Apr 1984. He is his grandparents' pride and joy. 02 Mar 1960; Jam[...]Hanson, Twin Bridges MT On 20 Jun 1963, Terry was injured in a timber accident and was paralyzed on his right side and was in a coma for 30 days. He had to learn to[...] |
| [...]organization and joined it. In 1948 he became president of[...]1957 was elected to the state board of directors. In March[...]Ref.173.23. Bernard John Harkness was born 28 Feb 1925 in Dillon He had served[...]sister. In 1947 he found another slight interest that |
| We still live on the Muddy place, although we sold it in Ernest Bernard Harkness was born 03 Feb 1896 in 1988 . The place on Muddy Cre[...]Prescott KS, one of seven children. Ruth Kent was born on plan to grow hay there.[...]On 28 Feb 1925, a son, Bernard John, was born to them four are the children of Janice and[...]and 30 Jan 1927, a daughter, Bonnie Jean, was born. Ernest Richmond and Ely NV.[...]1987. In 1987 the Muddy Creek ranch was sold to Dr. John[...]Livestock land was sold to Amadeo F. Angelo of California.[...]Kansas and Wyoming. The area was becoming more[...]Chet was road supervisor for the county and homesteaded a[...]piece of land near Jackson. In that year his son, Jack, was[...]was born in Dillon.[...]James "Jim" was born 19 Nov 1909 in Butte to Cornelius Bon[...] |
| [...]se in the Flathead valley where they remained was an active member of the St. Rose Church and Knigh[...]arding school in While in business, Jim was interested in selling and Thompson Falls. The boarding school was the only place servicing commercial refrig[...]one year. Due to the depression of the 1930s, he was forced to quit school and returned to Moise to he[...]ation Company in Dillon from 1945 to 1961 when he was forced to retire due to ill health. James was a licensed pilot and served on the Beaverh[...] |
| [...]d a daughter, Nicole, and their son, Harlan, Jr., was born[...]his family was allowed to board the train to tell him good-[...]bye. It was the last time they were to see him. He died in Homer was born in Clay Center NE in 1881. His mother Camp Roberts CA on New Year's Eve 1943. There was an died six years later, leaving him and his four[...]epidemic of meningitis at Camp Roberts and Harlan was father, Franklin Proctor Harrison, to bring to Mo[...]rniture business in Anaconda. Pauline Meunier was the youngest of eleven children. There were three[...]his last name, St. Aubin, so they just shortened it to his first name Benjamin. Therefore, when Roseanna was married, her last name was the same as her young husband, Benjamin Meunier's, first name. Six years after Pauline was born, her mother died. Her father, who was a member of the Montana House of Representatives,[...]ldhood diseases. The girls were more fortunate in that regard. As they graduated, they all returned to l[...]Montana. Beatrice, the oldest, married a man who was a Ref173.25. bookk[...]boarding house. Since she weeks before he was to leave for his army duty in 1942. spoke only French, she was hired to teach the language at Four years[...]family, Robert, Jr., Jenny Lee, Jim and Joe. Jim was born Nuns residence during the school year and s[...]illon. Homer died in her sister's table. His name was Homer Harrison, and after 1961. Betty Lee w[...]s later, Homer and Pauline Thomas Richard was born in 1948, John-Paul or Jackie was bought a house on Kentucky Avenue to better accommodate born in 1950 and Cole Vincent in 1954. John-Paul died in their growing family. Their oldest son, Harlan, was born in 1952. Their father, Tom Pierce, died[...]Dillon. Pierce still lives on Horse Prairie. Cole is an electronics During the depression years, the[...]ome there. He to a used-furniture store and then was closed. graduated from Western[...]ng degree and began his first job in 1936 when he was retired when it was sold in 1990. only 18 years old. His first school was at Quartz Hill. The year that he taught at Crow Agency he met and[...] |
| [...]et his future wife, Ruth James Dwight Harrison was born 15 Oct 1915, to James Jackson. Afte[...]r Valley. Jackson where the post office is now. Dwight hauled logs Dwight is the only survivor of five children. Others were[...]ttle. Dwight and Ruth moved back to the Dwight was raised near the 1887 homestead of his ranch in 1941 along with their son, Wayne, who was born grandparents, Cooper and Olive Bordwine Harr[...]s family lived on Mason Creek where died that same year. Margaret Ruth (Sue) was born in 1942 the calving barns are now. His dad raised sheep at this and son, Daniel Dwight, was born in 1943. time. He vividly remembers wolves k[...]In 1948 they bought the Gilbert place which is north of and horse next to their home.[...]Bobby Harrison lived there. This place was used for calving[...]and a feed lot for wintering calves. It took about four days[...]Son, Ted James, was born in 1948 and John Allen in[...]original place. Part of Ruth and Dwight's home is the[...]Summers were always hectic for Ruth, as a cook was[...]teacherage was built. Many people have had the pleasure of[...]Ref.173.29. The ranch is now owned by Dwight and family, Wayne[...]da Pier and Ramona in Missoula. Steve is a retired school administrator and Quackenbush wh[...]burned, they moved to the old Judge place, which is where Dwight's son, Wayne, lives now. Dwight's dad, Jim, bought that place. Cooper passed away in 1920. At that time, Jim, his brothers and their wives, G[...] |
| [...]1) Darrel Weaver John was born in Dillon, the sixth child of J. Dwight and[...]2) Dan Novich Ruth Jackson Harrison. John is the fourth generation of the Harrisons in Beaverh[...]e graduated from grade Lucille Harrison was the first child born to Mr. and Mrs. school at th[...]He George Harrison of Grasshopper Creek. She was born Apr graduated from Beaverhead County High Sc[...]at John married Danna J. Scott in 1977. Danna was born Elkhorn Hot Springs and having the I[...]Millpoint School the first three grades. She was taught by Beaverhead County. She attended grade s[...]On 13 Oct 1936 she married Darrel Weaver. He was a Melissa Jeanne Harrison. They have made their h[...]arrison Ranch. years, Darrel was involved in drought relief efforts for the[...]Montana. In 1937 Darrel was reassigned to the Dillon[...]was then assigned to the Lolo District where t[...] |
| [...]e plans; the shortage of labor and materials made that venture impractical. In 1945 they moved to Wenatchee WA where Darrel was associated with his father in the dry cleaning bu[...]ere in Wenatchee for three years. Their next move was to a Lucille Harrison Weaver and her three young[...]the Martin Galiger Ranch in the Ruby Valley. Dan was born and raised on a ranch at Twin Bridges, not f[...]a twenty-acre tract of land, built a new home on it and still live there. Lucille's twin s[...] |
| [...]Sherrie was working at Hazelbaker Abstract and[...]ied 28 Feb 1954. William Dean "Bill" Harrison was born 02 Apr 1928 at After a short time they[...]go to the family ranch in Grasshopper Valley. He was the fourth work for Blaz and Zella, eventual[...]irst through the Zebarth ranch and then traded it for a place in the eighth grade. His folks moved[...]d Bill Beaverhead Valley in 1972. They sold it after five years started high school.[...]arines in 1946. Taking an early ranch was sold in 1985 and they retired. graduation, he lef[...]rrie have two children: Thomas Dean, born camp he was sent to Hawaii where he served until[...]He graduated in 1951 with a Lee Ann was born 02 Dec 1963, and married Brian Bachelor of A[...]Louise May Hartwig was born 04 Nov 1896 at Willis,[...]also was nominated for and received the honor for the most[...]died from heart disease which was the aftereffect of[...]Jul 1942 and bought the Chevron Service Station. It was while he owned moved to Tanasket WA. While there she worked in an the station that he and Harriet "Sherrie" Lugar were app[...]a while in Argenta and then on a ranch Sherrie was the second daughter of Blaz and Zella[...] |
| [...]farm in Idaho Falls. Murl was postmistress for three years[...]T. Peterson. It was located about two miles from town on[...]Son Ned was born in October.[...]A new house was built in 1932. It was about then that the job of caretaker was taken by Louis and Ada Dieterle who[...]e or Louise died 03 Mar 1980 at the age of 84 and is buried in New York Fur Exchange auctions.[...]Prices were below the break-even point. Fox farmers[...]market to rebound. Instead, it got worse and by 1948, all[...]ved to Phoenix in 1951. Son, Ned, Lamar Hatton was born in Kokomo IN in 1895, the graduate[...]Rigby ID, Lamar died 21 Aug 1988 at 93. He is survived by wife, where he raised bees until call[...]. great-grandchildren. M url was born in Provo UT in 1901, the eldest of si[...] |
| [...]Dan Hawkins Tommy Haw was a four-year-old Chinese orphan in San[...]ew had to be became so attached to his benefactor that he tried to call the best of all worlds. We wer[...]ch he lisped as "Tommy Haw." direction be it north, south, east, or west from home base. He later was widely known by that name. We had creeks to swim[...]t one of his acts upon One favorite place was those very cottonwoods and reaching the Beaverhead ranch was to use his jackknife on willows that line the Blacktail creek between the Orr the queu[...], "Orr They also floated the creek in tubes. It seems as though the Chinaman." His money was largely spent on ranches and water didn't run as high as it does now. mining. Tommy Haw owned ranches on Ratt[...]Jo Lee, daughter of Bill and Gerta Huber Mular, was He owned the former Jardine Rife Ranch and in lat[...]Aug 1959, at Barrett Memorial Hospital. She grew it was the property of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Dons .[...]College whose campus grounds The other ranch was sold to John Hull in 1905 for the allowed for lots of play whether it be riding bikes on the price of $15,000. The water right was the early 1870 to numerous sidewalks or runn[...]nt water 1875 right. Tommy Haw lived in the house that Mr. and sprinklers. Mrs. Frank C. D[...] |
| Dan, son of George and May Hawkins, was born 15 Feb After two years of employment at the Tribune, Jerry and 1959 in Kalispell MT. He was most likely to be seen Joan bought[...]Glen Smith, used to work trap lines on the river that ran along the base of the "M" heading towards the[...]The Hawkins have three children. Zia Marie (1985) was born in Columbus MT while Dan was a deputy sheriff and Jo Lee was a town councilperson and member of the Stillwater[...]ontana Department of Justice. Soren Koford (1989) was born the year of Montana's Centennial and Cheyenne Rose was born in 1992. Dan is a 1981 graduate of Montana State University with[...]e for modeling radio wave propagation. Jo Lee is a dental assistant and continues to dabble in var[...]businesses still operate, though under different owners.[...]llon and Tim Jones of Burley. the Dillon Tribune. It was a desire of theirs to return to Daniel[...]ldren, Jesse and Katie, both of Douglas. Joan was born in Sheridan to Lloyd and Anna (Dullea)[...]uby Valley. Her grandfather, Ed Wright, was born in Virginia City in 1866 . --Jerry Hawkins Jerry was born in Butte to Tom and Cecile Hawkins. His father was a Michigan native, moving to Butte shortly after the turn of the century. His mother, Cecile, was born in Dillon in 1893 to Charles and Cora[...] |
| [...]Cecile Perry Cecile Frances Perry was born 12 Dec 1893 in Dillon to Cora (Johns) and Ch[...]ile married Thomas Hawkins in Dillon in 1911. Tom was working as a printer on the Dillon Examiner and thus started a family tradition in the printing business that lasted for over 100 years with four sons followin[...]ing trade as a linotype operator. At one time she was one of only five Cecile Perry[...]Cecile was cremated, but her mother, father, one son,[...] |
| [...]Archie Douglas Hayden was born O1 Feb 1932 in Ruby[...]was born 20 Jan 1935 in Dillon to Nick and Josephine[...]ved as a captain in the U .S. Army during WWI. He was employed[...]December, 1955. Ref.181.01. was born in Cooke City MT in 1890, when his father, James Ballou Hawkins, was U.S. Marshal during the silver strike Arc[...]shington prior to WWI. He was honorably discharged in 1956 and returned to live[...]as Board Chairman until his death in 1962. Happy was While living in Butte, Donna Rae was born 18 Sep 1956, active in getting the Clark Canyon Dam built. The reservoir and Jo Lynn was born 10 May 1961. They lived in Butte behind the dam was named after him by Act of Congress. until[...]ridges. Kate served ironworking. Archie William was born 02 Jun 1968 in on the Dillon public school board and was a charter or 50- Dillon. He is the fourth generation of Haydens to be nam[...] |
| [...]This property is currently owned by Archie D. and Archie[...]on Laknar Lane. Later this property was sold to their[...]iam Hayden Road from Mr. Nelson. The property was known as the was born 24 Nov 1899 to "Hughes Ranch".[...]Mary Kingrey Hayden. Lucy is living with Archie and Millie.[...]ucy Martha Conklin was born 28 Jun 1911 in[...]l80.18. Sauerbier, was the owner of the S[...]l Valley where the Red Rock Lakes Wildlife Refuge is now located. (Bvhd Hist Vol 1). Glenn William was born 23 Sep 1930. Archie Douglas was born 01 Feb 1932, and Mary Alice was born 31 May 1934. In 1936 the family purchased[...]of Dillon. They raised Angus cattle. The property is presently owned by Glenn Hayden. More property was soon needed to supply their expanding[...]Centennial Valley on her 75th operation. Acreage was bought between the Beaverhead[...] |
| [...]1870s. The ranch was located one mile south of the Pipe Two events[...]n Wisdom in 1904. First, Organ. The main house was built in 1872 and used Southern Montana Telephone Company was born that year, continuously until 1963 when it was torn down to make way with but two telephones in[...]e Interstate Highway System. appearance 04 Jul of that same year. In the 1[...]sioner, died and a telephone company in 1944 when it boasted 154 customers, few years later part of the ranch was sold. and they truly had a job and a half on thei[...]ul settled gave much of the credit to Essie, "She was a worker. She in San Francisco where he mar[...]tana, built and operated The telephone office was in their house. It housed a what was originally known as the Canyon Resort but later m[...]re they had dances and around and a "potty chair" was permanently installed behind served dinners on[...]imes as many as ten parties to This orchestra was well known in the county at that time. a line, and they could call each other on t[...]he Helmings were the from Butte. The Pipe Organ was sold in 1945. monitors of the town. They knew or[...]urned to San Francisco and remained almost anyone was available on any day at any time. They unti[...]vice" for cattle buyers and over what was stil.l part of the old Henneberry Ranch, veterina[...]ere agents for Western Union and running it until 1966 when my mother died. Dad died in handl[...]ing telegrams. Long distance 1971 . ticketing was done using a Big Ben alarm clock. The ranch was leased out until 1989 when most of it was Workdays often lasted 14 to 15 hours. George[...]d the used to come home from work and while Essie was getting remaining few acres were also sold[...]e ate our dinner at the Michael B. Henneberry is buried at Deer Lodge. Michael switchboard , and w[...]Bruno CA. dial in 1959. By 1966, the dial system was completed and I lived most of my life in San Francisco, coming to in 1977 a microwave system was completed as their link to Montana for vacat[...]utside world. In 1983 the present upgraded system was Paul, Jr., was killed in World War II. completed and many major[...]ner and one of the very early pioneers of we know it today?[...] |
| [...]Kim and his wife, Rachel, often joked that only their son Cliff and Betty Henningsen came to Beaverhead County was born in the U .S.--Micah in Virginia. They claime[...]North Carolina. Bank and Trust Company. Cliff was later employed at Betty never kn[...]st Bank and retired from Norwest in 1979. was born in Dillon a few weeks after she passed on. T[...]eflected warmth, vitality and a love of life, she was known as a strict grammarian who was quick to voice displeasure at any abuse of the En[...]. Her ability to communicate those principles was graphically evident in the accomplishments of her[...]CHS over the years. After arriving in Dillon, it did not take Cliff and Betty long to fit in and c[...]and Bulldog supporter. Their second son, Tad, was an outstanding high school athlete. Many an evening was spent by Cliff and Betty following the Beavers in[...]d football fields all over Montana. After Tad was long gone from the high school scene, many could[...]tive but never the "sports nut" like her husband, was often quick to point out that after watching her husband coach and referee bask[...]Championships. With a twinkle in her eye, she was heard to say on a few / occasions that there was nary a statt runner-up trophy B[...]H" left this world 25 Aug 1991, and Cliff went to was spent entertaining friends in their home around a[...]rest of us to come. Henningsen family, once wrote that "Betty was particularly The card table is up, the cards have been shuffled, the skilled at cards and was considered among the Beaverhead' s chips have been counted and there is a ball game on the better bridge players--[...] |
| [...]yoming to Beaverhead County in 1947. Clarence was born 23 Apr 1905 in Gros Ventre WY and Alice was born 24 May 1912 in Rock Springs WY. The[...]Jackson area and worked on Hungry Horse Dam when it was being built. He had a lot of talent as Clarence &[...]n, Laverne, Lyla, Sara, and Betty. a handyman and was[...]aking them to shoeing them and LaVerne was born in Winton on December 3, 1936 and no one too[...]Illinois , in Rock Springs the old plunge before it was torn down to build the Diamond WY , and to BCHS[...], Jack Brenner, the Centennial Lyla was born 26 Dec 1938 in Winton. She started Livestock Association, and helping anyone that needed help. school in Idaho Falls where the family was living at the Clarence continued worldng with hor[...]l.1953 when they moved to Dillon where Warren was born in Winton WY July 10, 1934 . He went sh[...]inued to live and work in various Jackson when he was in high school and there was no bus at places in Dillon. Lyla and Albert ha[...]to college. Betty was born 24 Feb 1941 in Jackson WY. She starte[...] |
| [...]a in 1967 and they moved to Dillon in June is the third daughter of Elizabeth and Asa Willey, 1[...]ation at Gibbon School for the first six Sara was born 13 May 1942 in Jackson WY. She went[...]d Beaverhead High, then Butte Business Drug until it closed in 1993. She has one son, Terry Gene C[...]help at the ranch. That fall she went back to school for[...]50th wedding anniversary party. Arlo Herman is a native of Montana. His grandfather Tracy was the first born, in 1948, and spent his school arr[...]7. Arlo did a tour of duty in Viet Nam and was one of the lucky is the youngest of three.[...]e back. Tracy and Patti Hunter married in Joe was a casualty at the Battle of the Bulge, and June of 1976, and to that union a daughter, Kelli June, was Charlotte Byrer passed on at their home in Fairbanks, AK in born in 1978. They were divorced. Tracy is also in the car 1989. After Arlo's school years c[...]as Polson, in the Navy. A good share of his tour was spent aboard a Hamilton, Missoula. In 1980 h[...]and they now reside in Spokane WA. He works for that was located in the Manila area. His tour ended in[...]Kelli is attending college at Coos Bay OR. Returning to Dillon, he was employed at the Chevrolet garage and in 1958 he b[...]acy and David, parents June and Arlo Herman. Back is son Richard, taken 1966. Ref 164.05. 4[...] |
| Our second son, Richard, was born in 1949. He went to school in Dillon and att[...]L-R: Richard, Erin, David, Kelli. years ago. Rich is Sales Ref 196.05. Manager at Karl Tyler Chevrolet and Erin is a special education teacher at C. S. Josh is a seventh grader at Parkview Middle School Porter[...]Both Josh and Kenda are excellent students. years was a Cadet with the Sheriff' s Department. He marrie[...]he and Kelli moved back to Kalispell, where Scott is employed at Don K Chevrolet (yes, another car man) and Kelli is employed by Coral Herr[...]Looking Back at Bannack Breeanne is now a Junior at Sentinel High School , where she is an honor student and a two-year member of Who 's[...]ergast has only been in the Bicentennial Who. She is going to tour Washington, D.C. and the[...]g with an international tour since 28 Jun 1890; that was the year she was born in group.[...]hers in Sep 1956 and Her maiden name was Herr; her father came to Bannack he still resides[...]He and Georgia Owen Buchanan in 1863. He was a miner from Pennsylvania and married married in[...]and had Minerva Winters. Minerva's father was one of the first two children, Tobie and Sam Buchanan. Sam is a graduate settlers in the Horse Prairie[...]Tobie now resides in Whitehall with land that he homesteaded. her five-year-old son, Colter.[...]when asked about her early life, she said, "There was and a son, Josh, born in 1984. Both David and Georgia nothing different about it, just an ordinary life." have been employed by Ba[...]ls (formerly Pfizer) Coral ' s mother was one of the first teachers of the first for several years. David is furthering his education at school in Mo[...]edits each semester. He will "Bannack was really a lively town when I was a child," receive his BLS in two years. Both parents work 12-hour said Coral . "There was a lot of activity and a lot of people shifts; the[...]very busy pair. in town then. My dad was clean-up man on the dredges at Kenda is a sophomore at BCHS and has been working at that time. When the Nez Perce came through after the battle Anna's Oven in the summer and on weekends . She is also of the Big Hole, they killed severa[...]i Hill. Winters ranch. My dad was the one who warned the people[...] |
| were taken to the courthouse. As it turned out, the Indians never did come to the Ban[...]graduated from the college in Bozeman. The house that she was born in is still standing in Bannack; it's about four houses east of the Methodist Church.[...]ed John Pendergast in 1908, a miner in Argenta at that time. The mining in Argenta was mostly lead and silver. John and Coral lived ther[...]rrest, the son, lives in Dillon. Coral's grandson is Bill Allen, whose wife Donna was recently elected County Superintendent of Schools. Coral recalled that her sister, Alice, was County Superintendent of Schools back about 1904 or 1906. One thing that Coral remembered about her early life, she said,[...]p after the other miners or doing odd jobs. There was a very rich Chinese lady who came to town to visi[...]ck to China. But my dad soon put his foot down on that idea. I had my bag packed and I was ready to go. " When asked about her thoughts[...]From Indian raids to the Bicentennial Apartments is a long step in time, but Coral came through like[...]served during Korean Conflict 1951-1953. pioneer that she is, still smiling and happy, and saying, Ref.193.07. "mine is just an ordinary life."[...]d James Duncan of Melrose in Lila Jean Pixley was born 29 Jan 1932 in Fruita CO. Orofino in[...]Harkness. Lila Jean Pullman WA in 1991. He is a mechanic for John Deere Co. came to Dillon at t[...]nd Frank Loren joined the Navy in 1977 and was stationed May Perkins, in Dillon, Bon Accord and[...](Keene) Meier in Dillon 27 Mar 1981. He is a mineral and She graduated from BCHS in 1950[...]environmental driller for Tonto Drilling; Teri is a history Women's Army Corps (WAC) in Jan 1951. She was teacher They havetwo children,[...]ee years active duty and three Germany, where she was with the Army Medical Corps. years reserve duty with the Army. He lives in Melrose, is In Apr 1954 she married Lowell V. Hight, a fo[...]rved with distinction in Missouri, welder and she was a nurse in various hospitals and care[...] |
| [...]s, Barton and Dan Scott spent many Orofino ID. He was stationed in Ft. Lewis WA and later hours e[...]ion, home-made transferred to Stuttgardt where he was attached to UCOM rockets and any other scientific adventure they could dream Headquarters. He was killed in a motorcycle accident there up. While[...]de school, he liked to read about 10 Jul 1993. He is buried in the Diebert, Germany, airplan[...]1957 he convinced her he was Mister Right and they married 28 Dec of that year. Interest in science and the desire to[...]Ref 193.08. There was a lot of travel connected with the missile[...]in 1964 when 1991. They live in Dillon where Gene is a mechanic. They their oldest son became scho[...]would ever live. And it just may be ... they didn't mean it as Eathal Waters[...]a prophecy. They raised four sons there and now it is home[...]in Dillon, Ben. Brenda died in infancy. She is buried in Dillon. As was the sixth son of Emphrey William (Bob) and Bessie[...]n his parents' sheep ranches near Armstead, which is now located under[...] |
| [...]ne "Gene" Hildreth, son of Bob and Bess Hildreth, was born 09 Mar 1928 at Dillon. He spent his earliest[...]grade school. He graduated from BCHS in 1947. He was trucking cattle for Alvin Owen when he met and ma[...]of W. G. McMannis and Elsie (Ashworth) McMannis, was born at Dillon on 20 Oct 1929. She attended[...]ce. Ref 180.17. Apr 1949, purchasing the building that Alvin Owen and Walt Bastian had used as their tru[...]. was active in Spurs and pledged Delta Gamma Sorority,[...]graduated with a BA in Math and Art in 1971. She was an The Clark Canyon Dam construction started[...]anzer in September 1971, then went on of Armstead was vacated, as were the surrounding ranches.[...]The children went to school at Dell--Bernice was in the Bernice worked for the State Bure[...]d they rode specialist. Their son, Jonathan, was born December 24, the school bus to Lima, Bernice[...]r school. She received ranch on lower Sheep Creek was sold to Herman and Pat her Mast[...] |
| [...]nd CA in October In early 1945, Henry was drafted into the Army. Boot 1979. John worked in Social Services, Julie as a beautician. camp was in Texas and then he went to Oregon. While in The[...]Oregon, Henry began to learn how to fly. He was shipped lived with Bernice and Mike, caring for Bernice and Jon to the Philippines. When the ship was close to the while working evenings at a beauty shop. She cared for Philippine Islands, news came that the atomic bomb had Bernice until Bernice 's deat[...]been dropped on Japan. Henry was on the Island for six Julie had worked 18 yea[...]months before coming home again. fields and left it for health reasons. In 1987 she went to live[...]home from the Philippines, he with Bob Poad, who was in failing health and cared for him finish[...]other in August, Montana in 1948. The plane was used mainly on the ranch 1992. She practiced Zone[...]part-time to check sheep on the range. It was also used as the jobs in Home Health Care.[...]d Waltraude "Trudy" Hanna Krieger was born in the town MSU in Bozeman in 1979. He then[...]erica to visit and stay Their daughter, Jennifer, was born 27 Jan 1984 in Dillon. with her sist[...]ation and the family moved to Bottineau ND. Jesse was born there 27 Jul 1987. In 1988 Craig transferred[...]W. "Bob" and Bessie Olsen Hildreth (vol 1 pg 277) was born 28 Jun 1925 in Rochester MN when his father, E.W. , was in the Mayo Clinic. Bessie returned to the Hildreth ranch in Medicine Lodge soon after Henry was born. Henry spent all his time on the ranch including most of his schooling. He was taught on the ranch by his aunt, Alma Olsen, and[...]to Armstead for schooling the last two years and was taught by Vick Cushman. A couple of years after g[...]ed horsemanship and accounting. Work on the ranch was always his main priority. At age 12, Henry was the sheepherder with his brother, Bill, of 700 sheep. When Henry was 16, he started to break horses and at 17 he began[...]both ranches with their wages. Nothing in writing was made on any of these agreements, and thing[...] |
| [...]jewelry store and went in, and in front of Trudy was a row of rings. She then knew that Henry was proposing. On 28 Jun 1956 the day they were married, Henry was shearing sheep two hours before the service was to begin Henry Hildreth family. Back L-R: Henry J[...]en in 1961. The couple moved into a new house that Henry was Dalton Rolf was born in 1960. In 1966 Dalton passed building on t[...]tricity until 1960 and telephone in Van Andre was born in 1964. He married Monica 1983. Part of the ranch was leased-to-buy to Henry from Garrahan in 199[...]y picked up the original ranch Donna Ursula was born in 1972 and lives on the ranch. name Hildret[...]The first two years of Henry Jr.' s schooling was done at Daulton Hildreth (vol. 1 pg 278), who had[...]the ranch. When the Armstead School District was the late 1800s through the early 1900s.[...]l in Grant. The winters dropped. The old brand V5 was also picked up again from were sometimes ha[...]e ranch permanently. Beaverhead Livestock Auction that were also done to make Henry and Trudy a[...]and tourists to rent and that income helps to keep the ranch The cou[...] |
| [...]married. He was stationed in Honolulu and this is where 1) Ruth Ann Brown[...]Gail, was born 9 May 1956 in Honolulu. 2) Gene Winens Crampton Lowell was born 24 Mar 1930 in Dillon MT, the fourth son of[...]on the family ranch on Medicine Lodge. Hard work was an ethic in the Hildreth family. Many times work was the way of having fun. It was a way of being able to keep up with the older boy[...]f the place for a playground. One day when Lowell was about four years old, he saw a band of sheep go by. Thinking it was his dad's, he left the play hill and tried to cat[...]home to the family. Another time when Lowell was about nine, his dad let him bring the car home from the hay fields because haying was over and they were going to bring the rest of the[...]ere to park the car. As he crossed the bridge and was close to home, he saw his mom in the doorway watching him. Instead of watching where he was going, he kept his eye on his mother with a most pleased look, and he ran smack into the post that helped hold the Lowell S. Hil[...]That summer they came home to the family ranch at said to his mom, "Now don't tell anyone." But she was Armstead. On 21 Jul 1958 their son, Justin, was born. laughing so hard that the secret was soon out.[...]buy the Of the six boys in the family, Lowell was the most[...]Dam. He serious. He always earned good grades. He was able to go[...]Clark Canyon from his Dad. At this time he was ra1smg Lodge. Toe teachers during the boys' schoo[...]sheep but was leaning more to getting into cattle. were Agnes R[...]Bret, was born 27 Dec 1968 in Dillon. They divorced in the[...]Lowell's ranch was on a prize stretch of nver front and registered t[...]where fishing is excellent because of a warm springs nearby door the following week. College life was not for him.[...]ot. Also Clark Canyon Like most of his family, he is a constitutionalist an.d also is noted for its big game. The ranch became a[...] |
| [...]then to to try some new things. His son, Justin, is running the Beaverhead County with eight of their nine children and cattle and is looking for a ranch to buy. settled in what is now Bell Canyon by Dell. Their third Gail liv[...]. other sport events. Her stallion, Conquistador, is a USA Frank and Ella's oldest child, Fem[...]oodfellow Hildreth Horse Prairie. Her ranch was the last one before going into[...]Idaho. Darlene said that she lived on the morning side of[...]have been pulling together as a team ever since. Though they had extremely different childhoods, they had[...]sie, married the Hildreth's third child, Bob. Ray was Bob and Bessie's fifth son and was born 07 Oct 1932 in Barrett Hospital. He weighed[...]ents and no fighting among his brothers. Everyone was good to him. Family and cousins were his best friends. When he was five, he was admitted to the home school with his brothers.[...]eing able to work in the fields with his brothers was great and he was able to drive the derrick loads up on the haystac[...]came to Virginia City in a covered wagon in 1863. That year, she married Henry Randall, who haile[...] |
| [...]ted 8th grade from McKinley School in Butte which was the same school where her mother had graduated. I[...]in their life and Clayton, their oldest son, was born 27 Dec 1952 in I think we have the[...]trade my bad luck for anyone else's bad luck." That was Then Ray went to work in Armstead on a ranch for[...]bought Walter Their son, Grant, was born 15 Nov 1962 in Dillon and Scott's share of t[...]and went into Amber, their caboose, was born 25 Feb 1964 in Dillon. partnershjp with his[...]. compound broken leg and a run-away truck, it was time to It was a busy time for the Ray Hildreths . Their second change occupations. son, Bryce, was born 23 Sep 1954 in Dillon. On 29 Mar[...]1977 he and his sons, 1956, their daughter, Fern, was born in Dillon. Clayton and Bruc[...]r since. Ray has been instrumental in Bob Barrett was a good guy to the young folks. Later, the[...]adually built apartment houses. dam went in. It was hard rrusing sheep without their own land. One As of now, he is building a few more apartments and year they lost[...]hat and do the fun into their lambing sheep, and it snowed two feet during things in the hills. lambing. Their last hay stack burned down, and it seemed The couple has been active in politics on the federal, to go on and on. Darlene was feeling mjghtily depressed state a[...] |
| [...]Gisela Krieger Robert W. "Bill" Hildreth was born 31 Jan 1927 in Dillon MT, the son of E. W. Hildreth and Bessie Olsen Hildreth. He was raised on the family ranch on Medicine Lodge, Beaverhead County. In 1950, he was drafted into the Army. He was trained as a medic and was on his way to Korea when his orders were changed and he was sent to Germany instead. While stationed in Germany, he met and married Gisela Ella Krieger. She was born 31 Jul 1932 in Weinheim- Bergstrasse,[...] |
| [...]Gelhaus Bros., where he told people there that it was an Hester Rosemary, born 09 Jan 1954 in Butte. Married accident. He was conscious up to the last and showed to Daniel Qui[...]1960 in Butte. Married to Mr. Dahlman was almost crazed with grief over the Gregory Hegdal[...]. They have four children: accident and was in a pitiable condition when taken in hand Alexan[...]ers, Megan Hill were intimate friends. That the affair was an accident and Malorie. pure and simple is undoubted by anyone and Mr. Dahlman Krista Lo[...]arlie's father, Hon. Emerson Hill of Salmon City, was and Medicine Lodge until 1965. When Armstead was immediately notified by telephon[...]rina and at once for Armstead. At first he was desirous of having an trailer court for 21 years[...]ircumstances of the unfortunate affair, he stated that an inquest was unnecessary. Mr. Hill, though heart-broken --Ro[...]sela Hildreth over the loss of his son, took it stolidly and expressed his[...]Charlie, or "Chas" as he was familiarly called by friends, was a native-born Beaverhead boy and would have been[...]school. He was one of the best known and beloved young One o[...]hearted and true to the core, Chas . Hill was beloved by all Hill, one of the best known and hi[...]ed young men who knew him. of this county, was shot and fatally wounded by the[...]ident occurred at the old Reinhardt & He was a member of the Masonic Blue lodge at Lima and Wh[...]ral services which will be held there Dahlman who was leaving to look after MacArthur Bros.'[...]asked Charlie if he could get any cartridges for it. Mr. the county extend the deepest sympathy on their sad Dahlman noticed that there was one cartridge in the cylinder bereavement. and that it was in such a position that when the trigger was pulled it would fire, so he started to tum the cylinder to[...]dated 31 May 1911 The revolver was of the old hammerless type and to tum the cylinder he had to press on the trigger. In doing this, the weapon was accidentally discharged and the ball entered Mr. Hill's body. At the time, Mr. Hill was standing eight or ten feet away from Mr. Dahlman and to his left. Mr. Dahlman states that he had no idea that the gun was pointing in Mr. Hill's direction and that just after the report he heard Charlie exc[...] |
| [...]ith Wheelbarrow of Merchandise" Emerson Hill was born |
| [...]fter a long- distance courtship because she was serving in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps in De[...]they married in Salmon O1 Jan 1944. Ann Carl was born to Fred and Alice Carl on 27 Jun 1921, joini[...]A to find work in the war effort. Cattlewomen) was organized in 1952, Ann was elected the When the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was organized in first president of the Montan[...]San Francisco bound for training CowBelles. She was a member of the Montana Young in Fort Des Moines IA. After a year in the service, she Republicans , was a state officer, then became chairman of came hom[...]the Beaverhead Republican Central Committee and was their They began their life together on the J[...]re they were married. They 've In 1972 Ann was appointed by President Nixon to the lived there e[...]gave them the opportunity to learn and she was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Wester[...]in 1945. This became a life-long One and saw it to publication, a great experience. Also affiliation with Masonry that he enjoys today. He and Ann enjoyable for her is being asked to judge 4-H events, Junior also were[...]rthy Patron twice. throughout the area. She was awarded Outstanding Woman They are members of St.[...]Stockgrowers. He served on several committees and was Jann and Frederick' s school, 4-H and ath[...]leasure. They are now Cattlemen's Association. He was a director on the board of enjoying the activi[...]Hirschy . State Bank and Trust board. In 1971 he was named Trustee For many years Jack,[...] |
| [...]ration Big Hole residents. Living, working and was a new farming area west of St. Anthony ID. sharing in the Big Hole Valley is a gift and we are grateful Upon their arri[...]e" Hjort worked that winter, and in the summer of 1895 they 1[...]arry Stocker was born 29 Sep 1895. Their first child was a boy and he was christened Leonard Franklin Waldemar. John and To[...]stayed in Mt. Pleasant until Leonard was about a year old, Matenia Victoria Hjort, cal[...]then returned to Egin. Torie, was born 28 Sep 1875 at Fairview, Sanpete County UT. She was the fifth child and second daughter born to Willi[...]hool in Fairview and spent her early childhood in that area. Victoria remembered her mother telling how[...]consisted of bread and milk or lumpy dick (which was made by stirring flour into hot milk). Sometimes[...]Victoria's father owned two bands of sheep and he was a blacksmith and farmer by trade. One time as[...]Victoria learned how to milk cows and when she was about fifteen years old, she obtained a job as a[...]and three dollars a week. Every day Victoria was required to tum all the big round cakes of cheese[...]th. Victoria's older sister, Amelia, or as she was nicknamed, Mellie, had married Ephriam Davidson[...]Torie. Alvan Louis Waldemar was born 22 Mar 1897 at 458 - Beaverhead Hist[...] |
| [...]the Waldemars Waldemar home. Leo William Waldemar was born 09 Oct moved, so did the school[...]graze in the summer. 1900, their first daughter was born. She was christened Ina The family washing was done by Victoria and her oldest May Waldemar. A f[...]aw, Ephriam later, the washing task was made easier when the family Davidson, cutting hay[...]rairie MT. purchased a washing machine that turned with a crank. John liked the area and[...]ng the On 25 Aug 1908 another daughter was born. She was summer, John contracted putting up the wild hay f[...]be born to the family while living in Grant. She was pitched along the creeks in the meadows during th[...]doctor assist her in childbirth, for another son was born 23 Sep 1903 and was christened the closest doctor was sixty miles away at Dillon MT. Trevor Hyrum Walde[...]Sometimes a midwife was available, but most of the time, In the winte[...]of the fences on the ranches and John was very handy when it came to emergencies. He hay stacks on Horse Prair[...]to help in the winter work. With cauterized it with a hot burning iron. He never told anyone the[...]und all the time, Victoria had a lot of he was going to do it. cooking and extra washing to do.[...]Horse Prairie had no schools, so when Leonard was old Leonard, and his brother, Frank, were[...]o Mt. Pleasant UT to stay with his running it. Leonard and Frank fixed the old house and grandparents, the Waldemars, and attend school that winter. planted fruit trees and put in a gar[...]nard and Alvon both went to Mt. That same year on 18 Feb 1914 another boy was born to Pleasant. While living in Grant, two more[...]evor were operating the farm at Egin when Montana was made by wagon and horses. In 1907 there was World War I broke out. Leonard and Alvon[...]demar children attended two Victoria was expecting her last child and she was also taking seasons at this school. A season in t[...]are of her mother, Matenia Nielsen Hjort. Matenia was a four months. A larger school house was built in the village widow at this time and her health was failing. of Grant.[...]the farm in Egin, The winter the school house was used, Ina, John and and John and his tw[...]. Alvon got married and so a new school district was created and it was housed in returned to Montana as did Leona[...]idea of having the school in a stroke and was bedfast. Victoria took daily care of her[...] |
| [...]Everett "Tiny" Holden with. His name was Lyman Branson. Lyman and Ina married 19 Jan 1922,[...]ch. The purchased an old store in Grant and fixed it up for a home. chef in the restaurant was Tiny Holden! It was a great In 1926 when Ina's first child was 18 months old and her reunion for Major and Tiny. second child was 6 months old, she went to Grant to see her[...]ny invited us family at Christmas. Helen Waldemar was going to high to come to Squaw Valley CA, where he, as head chef, was school in Dillon. Helen came home for the holiday[...]er and exposed the entire family. Squaw Valley was host to the Winter Olympics in 1960. He Everyone in the family came down with the fever except was an impressive sight--about seven feet tall, weari[...]d Waldemar suffered an asthma attack and died. He was laid to rest 15 Mar in the Dillon cemetery. John was 27 days short of his 73rd birthday when he died.[...]evor, in Dillon, she fell and broke her back. She was hospitalized for five weeks. After she was released from the hospital, she went to stay with her son, Trevor, until she was well enough to ride with her daughter, Ina, to he[...]ff the road and hit an embankment. Victoria's hip was broken from the accident and she was taken to the hospital for two weeks. Upon her rel[...]er. After a long period of recuperation, Victoria was able to walk and move around again. At this t[...]rl to stay with Victoria in the daytime. Victoria was very independent and would not let the girl help[...]friend Tiny Holden (almost 7 feet tall), Victoria was not happy there and did not want to live. She[...]Ref166.06. Victoria was 88 at the time of her death. Her funeral was held at Dillon, and her remains were placed next[...]r, Lyston Dansie, who had been foreman death, she was survived by four sons and five daughters, of the Camp Bird Mine in Ouray CO, was ranching in twenty-eight grandchildren, fifty-sev[...]dvice on and five great-great-grandchildren. She was also survived a property he had found. The problem was that it was in by her youngest sister, Mae Volate Hjort Smit[...]Lyston went with Tiny and wrote us that there was more --Ina Mae Waldemar Branson Gr[...] |
| [...]ater, when we were living in Reno again, we heard that encouraged by their close friend, Sam Peters[...]mprobable name of John Bull) to find out if there was any and water, the Big Hole Basin. Charlie and Carl way to get possession of the vehicle. I was told to forget it, homesteaded at the foot of Squaw Mountain near Fox which and it would be dangerous to pursue the matter. was about twelve miles from Jackson. The old Ajax Mine Tiny' s life was never dull. He once told us that he had was located in the timber above the ranch. barely got[...]eventually acquired approximately 1,500 acres us it was not wise to coat a lead brick with gold and try t[...]ed horses, cattle, hogs and a few sheep. Hay sell it, because buyers were on to the scam and now tested was put up by using a two-pole derrick and later the beaver the brick by randomly drilling it. slide. Every fall[...]team and drove to Dillon for supplies; he was always[...]Hog and cattle butchering was an all-day job, but hogs[...]took longer because everything was used: headcheese was[...]ade from the head, feet were salted and some meat was cut Ben Charles Holland was born 04 Oct 1917 in Idaho and soaked[...]e wood stove. Lunch box socials were held Holland was born 23 Jul 1920 at home in Level ID to Harry[...]lter (Smoke) Paddock ranch. The Pahnish K-6 ranch was bought in 1964 from Floyd Skelton and the Joe Carroll ranch on Rattlesnake Creek was added in 1972. A feedlot was built at the Carroll ranch shortly after. As of 1[...]Alfreida Nilssen (Nelson) Holmen was born 25 Feb 1885 Carl "Charlie" Otto Holmen was born 26 Jan 1878 in[...]Gustav Erik was born in Sweden 11 Jun 1904; Victor was was born 09 Jan 1883 in Elmhutt, Sweden. Charlie, lea[...]being "tongue-tied," and Ethel Linea was born on May 11, thirteen days at sea, arri[...] |
| [...]operated the Dillon Creamery Dillon. She is buried in the family plot at Mountain View and la[...]orenson in 1956 and moved to Dillon. Alfreida was related to the Swedish singer and actress, Jenny Lind. Carl Linden, who was Alfreida's brother, never married. He was born Carl Nilssen and left Sweden using that name. But at the time he gained U.S. citizenship, he changed his name to Linden, which was apparently a family name, possibly on his mother'[...]mother Mary, taken 1950s. Ref 152.08. George was the youngest son of Joseph Benjamin Holt and Lillie Tinsley Holt Measom. He was born 23 Jul 1901 at Hamilton MT.[...]Riley from Butte in Mullen ID Mary Beatrice was the oldest of nine children born to 09 Dec[...]n, James Orr Shanholtzer and Mabel McFarland. She was Stephen Allen, was born in Wallace ID 07 Apr 1962. A born 21 Oct 190[...]family moved to daughter, Lisa Rae, was born 25 Mar 1963 in Butte. The Montana in the Gallatin Valley when she was six years old. Rileys were divorced in Feb[...]e married Jean Lemmons 24 Jun 1995 in Dillon. She was born 09 Jun 1943 and Joseph Orr was born 06 Nov is the daughter of George and Helen Lemmons of 1944 at Idaho Falls ID. Mary Beatrice was born 26 Aug Bakersfield CA. She gradu[...]e sold the Alaska college in May 1996 and is teaching in Wolf Point MT. Basin ranch and moved[...]en, Stevensville MT. Another son, George Tinsley, was born born 03 Nov 1987 in Missoula, liv[...]Nixa MO. passed away at the farm home. He was 49 years of age. Lisa Riley married Brad Creger of Lynchberg VA 16 Oct He is buried in the family plot at Covallis MT. 1987 in Dillon. A son, Cody Ray Creger, was born 27 Apr Bea operated the farm for a shor[...]. served with the Marines and is a Vietnam veteran. He On 06 Jun 1953,[...] |
| On 20 Mar 1971 a son, Joseph Edwin Holt, was born at Barrett Hospital in Dillon. Jed now lives[...]o. Joe and Linda are currently living in Lima. He is Corporation out of Houston TX. employed by the Lee Martinell Co. and Linda is a nurse's George T. Holt attended Weste[...]learned to build schools in Beaverhead County and is now a library clerk at saddles and Marie work[...]ce Nye Holt married Loma Lea (Hartwig) was born 26 Mar 1986 in Idaho Falls. George operates[...]nurse Craddock, in attendance. Steven Allen Holt was born 09 and is the coordinator of Barrett Memorial Hospital Home[...]Jane Boyle in Vancouver WA 22 Jun 1996. He is attending Veterinary School at Washington State[...]Mary Jane has an Elementary Education Degree and is current! y teaching in a pre-school in ne[...] |
| [...]One of his dogs, Coon, was especially intelligent. Jack Big Jack H[...]he pretended the wind had blown it away . He was known Jack was well known for his enormous and unusual simply as[...]the bet, he said, "Anyone want to bet I Hole. He was a giant[...]Jack was known to eat porcupine, squirrel, beaver, over si[...]mushrooms, even raw fish and clams. He once asked a weighing near[...]astonishment of those who watched. Jack was born in the[...]His size and boasting aside, Jack was a gentle and kind they were adopted by[...]necklace for a certain little girl. It looked like a miniature Overturf. Jack, log chain when it was finished--and how I wish I still had it! however, struck out[...]ranches on a trip to his cabin in Sagebrush Park. That boy, his way to the Big who is in his 80s now, considers that trip to be one of the Hole where he spent[...]ed him his gun and traps and let him read his It is not known many science magazines. Jack was indeed a hero in that just when he arrived young boy's eyes. in the Big Hole, but it Jack was a man of many talents, truly a jack-of-all- may h[...]trades . He was an excellent blacksmith and mechanic, could early[...]pictures himself. He wrote poetry. He was highly He went from ranch[...]money Big Jack Houseman. that he pulled with a Model T. He continued to visit v[...]Ref.138.09. ranches (where he was welcome to stay) and help out by the winter.[...]quire a was not fond of hard labor but didn't mind odd jobs.[...]his way of life. full name was John F. Houseman. He wrote poetry on an He to[...]r, living in a cabin he old antique typewriter that he had acquired somewhere. built in Clam Valley o[...]lonely life Jack chose as a miner and trapper, he was a social, friendly man. He visited the neighboring ranches often, staying a week or two at a time. He was usually on foot or on snowshoes in the win[...] |
| [...]In 1933 a son, John, was born who grew up in Dillon[...]Lumber & Coal Co. Later he managed it and in 1982 sold his interests in it and retired.[...]He met Rosella McQuillan who was a teacher at[...]and raised two children. Margy was educated here and at[...]Florida. She currently is a supervisor for a hospital and[...]Andrew was educated here and at Eastern Washington[...]University and is currently in business as a regional[...]lesman for several states, including Montana, and is[...]on, John, taken 1934. Ref 152.02. Cornelius was one of ten children, and after two years a[...] |
| [...]Simon was a wheelwright and a blacksmith at Fort Rosella[...]vren in Jun 1959 and taught until Jun 1961. After that I stayed home to raise our two adopted children,[...]ies. Both played basketball for the Beavers. Andy was awarded a basketball scholarship to Gray's Harbor[...]Social Work at Barry University in Miami FL, and is now Assistant Manager of case work in a rehabilitation hospital in Delray Beach FL. She is totally career oriented and likes to travel.[...]d Ray Howard, taken 1967. Ref 184.28A. Andrew is now married and he and his wife, Tammy , have two[...]nnie John, from a previous Esther was born 07 May 1909 at Four-Mile, located near marri[...]ana border. Her parents were John and Spokane. He is an account executive.[...]tly Diphtheria claimed two of them and one was born and died putting my time and energy into that endeavor. on the ship coming to[...]age 51 from appendicitis, Ray own pursuits since that time. and Esthe[...]construction work until he retired. Ray is 92 and still lives Ray S. Howard met his wife[...]Nelson from Wyoming. Betty is a retired school teacher and He said , "I fel[...]married William Clawson from Whitehall and is also a most of their lives in Dillon.[...]school teacher. She lives in Deer Lodge. Ray was born 30 Aug 1905 in Dawson County. Dawson[...]ison Jack, their only son, married Arletta Wright was changed to Richland County in 1914. He was the from Dillon. They live in Dillon. Jack is retired from the youngest of eleven children. Ray[...]ess. At this time, Ray has grandchildren Howard , was from Missouri and his mother, Eleanor Davis[...]-grandchildren living in the Dillon area. Howard, was from Indiana. They came to Montana and settled near Mondak which was located on the Montana-[...] |
| [...]3) Horace Griswold Ruth Esther Benedick was born 24 May 1905 in Plains MT. She came to Beaver[...]r, rode to school in a Cadillac each day. The car was too heavy to lift out of difficulties, so the family bought them a new Ford sedan because it could be lifted over bad snow drifts or out of mu[...]uated with a two- year teacher's credential which was called a lifetime certificate. Later she received[...]At that time a teaching position opened up at Dewey Flat[...]in the Big Hole Basin. Ruth was hired and stayed with an[...] |
| [...]about a Since Ruth had always thought it would be fun to do soda wonderful Buick car that traveled through Dewey Flat and fountain work, George was able to talk her into coming to could go 50 miles[...]and to Ruth at a local dance. The driver told her that he was George Huber married 24 Jun 1931 in Butte.[...]aughed because she didn't George Huber was born 13 Mar 1895 in Oppenau, know him and she had[...]n of getting married. Germany. When he was in the sixth grade, he was chosen After two years, Ruth left Dewey Flat a[...]to go to a higher math school. When he was 18 years old, California to visit her father. Then she went to Salt Lake it became obvious that Germany was headed for war. His City to continue her schoolin[...]orked on a truck farm and in coal mines. The work was They wanted her to return, so she signed her cont[...]they bought a car and headed west to Jackson Hole was hired at an Indian School in Niarada MT on the WY. They trapped beaver and muskrat in the area that is Flathead Indian Reservation. now Teton National Park. At that time it was owned by[...]George went to Bu~te and worked in the mines. He was[...]fire, that killed 168 men. Fortunately, George had hurt his[...]knee and was off work at the time of the fire. That incident[...]a convenience store and cabins. He was a partner with[...]lumber was sent by train to Dillon and the whiskey was[...]hotel complex was a fenced-in green yard for the children.[...]George even had a bear for a while which would climb up On[...]d also gamble on gave her a big box of candy. She was very embarrassed the outcome between G[...]cause every time he smiled, he flashed red gums. (It was During the thirties, Melrose was a very busy place. considered stylish at that time to paint one's gums with Montana Power was putting in poles and wires for mercurochrome.)[...]-crews were working on paving the road The man was George Huber, who owned the Melrose[...]se to Dillon. Hotel, Dining Room and Beer Parlor. It had a soda fountain Ruth and George prepar[...]at that time was W. Q. Kearns. 468 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]ne morning a moose came up close to Ruth when she was standing on the front porch of the hotel. Geo[...]ins along the creek, using logs from a dance hall that was next to the hotel . They were chinked with saplin[...]riswold, a Californian. He died in 1989. Ruth is 91 and presently lives in Napa CA. She told me this information, as she remembered it, during several telephone conversations in July a[...]ub jobs. Their first child Rebecca Jean Hull was born 06 Sep for 350 guests.[...]1972 at St. James Hospital in Butte. Louis was born 03 Nov 1947 in Havre MT to Michael[...]. Cynthia Susann, born 16 Mar Bette Lou Meine was born 18 Oct 1951 in Butte MT, the 1974 in[...]on. Meine. Bette attended the Nelson school until it closed in In early 1976 Louis we[...] |
| [...]purchased his first truck, Safeway where she is still employed as of 1997. later his second truck that he ran for almost fourteen years. In May 19[...]returned to hay hauling, even though the physicians said he[...]year at WMC and is attending MSU in Bozeman as of 1997.[...]The home-made skis that are mounted on the beams in[...]Clarence was one of the best on skis. He used his skis[...]The only access to the Centennial in winter was the In the fall of 1979 Cynthia started kinder[...]by a four- and the sheep business. Nicole Louise was born on Louis's horse team. 35th birthday,[...]e on horseback, going care of Nicole. They recall that their Dad knew how to fix from Lakevi[...] |
| [...]Blaine. Ref 193.14. . Blake William Huntley was born 26 Feb 1958 in Butte to |
| [...]llies, modeling , judging and soloing In 1949 she was Miss Montana and was crowned queen of the Junior National Ski champion[...]n Huntley, 1990. Ref 195.12. child, Sheryl Deane, was born 05 Aug 1952; second child, Patricia Gail, was born 02 Mar 1956; third child, Blake The other four children graduated from Beaverhead William, was born 26 Feb 1958; fourth child, Susan Lynn, County High School. Clayton was joined in ranching by his on 01 Apr 1959 a[...] |
| [...]difficult life was in the rest of the country due to the[...]nd Dad ' s first child, a son, Clayton Langford , was[...]Mother to Butte, but Jack Hirschy told me Dad was working bunkhouse, which did not have plumbing at that time . cattle at their ranch when some[...]he had Life on a ranch in the 1920s and 1930s was a lesson in a daughter. hard work and perse[...]so we The men butchered a nice fat steer, but it was up to would be close to school . Dad beca[...]le the quarters of beef and cut up the meat was always at the ranch for breakfast and then back i[...]f entree included in time for supper. chicken, it was her job to catch the beast, chop off its head, pluck the feathers and dress out the carcass. That is why Mom and Dad were very active in the social life of the fried chicken was considered such a treat. va[...]h maintained the Wisdom Library. own "Kalsomine". It came in powdered form in limited[...] |
| [...]he preparations which started a week married that fall, so he and Barbara were now on the ranch. before her turn to serve arrived. The house was always In 1961 Mom and Dad bought a[...]g special times such as branding, haying, Dad was active in the Masonic Lodge and served in all shipping the steers or whenever he was needed. its chairs. He eventually joined the Bagh[...]utte, they became very active in various and then was honored by being initiated into the Jesters.[...]Dad died in Mar 1991 at the age of 89. He was grateful for the full life he was afforded and was always proud of his[...]graduation he was employed by Boeing. After marriage to[...]years, but his heart was in Montana. After a summer on the[...] |
| [...]On 17 Jun 1978, she was united in marriage in a double[...]their son, Brett Douglas. Brett was born on 02 Mar 1986.[...]a stock broker and Susan is employed as a pharmaceutical[...] |
| [...]ranch since their father's Charles H. Husted was born 03 Sep 1915 in Dillon, the untimely dea[...]of few women who have been elected to this He was 77 years old when he died 33 Dec 1992 at St.[...]hildren. Rose Catholic Church officiating. He was preceded in death by his sister, Grace Beason,[...]ruman "Jack" and Estella Cecila (Hirschy) Husted, was[...]igh school in Dillon and Dolores "Dodie" Davis was the daughter of Floyd and a year at Balbo[...]ding Edythe Davis. Her parents died young and she was raised with his uncle, Charles Hirs[...] |
| In 1925 John Husted, ninth child of Jack and Esta, was Like other ranchers in the area, they gr[...]the past 60 years. One of the biggest was the coming of Dolores was born in 1931 in Boise ID to Edythe (Alder) and electricity to the Big Hole Valley. It changed the way things Floyd J. Davis. Edythe Alder was born in Utah and raised were built and the way work was done. There was running in the Salmon ID area. Floyd was born in Edina MO. As water because of e[...]le as well as power tools. and then to Dillon. He was employed by Ben at the Ford Another change was from four-legged horse power to the garage in bot[...]rs to ride. Bus prefers the four-wheeler; however it Montana College.[...]gging team in 1939. Dog is Mike, horses are Jack, Johnnie, Starr and[...] |
| [...]Dillon tractor museum. The 1942 Circle H tractor is still used environs could one find a bett[...]ivities? extensively in the hay season. John uses it to mow hay . So , thanks to the Laphams, m[...]me to talk to Dan about John and Dolores (who was also an avid skier) taught building for th[...]little new construction in the area for property is now owned by Huntley Ranches.[...]in the snow, so they had a carpenter, who was fast becoming a building contractor brother-in-la[...]me to visit Dan and his family, and Terry. Elaine is an Extension Agent for Oregon State bringi[...]The Ibey Construction Co. office was located adjacent to cleaning business in Billings. Donna is an RN, employed by the golf course, north of[...]ng closely at his side, doing the Feb 1977. Terry is a licensed beautician . They own and book[...]ranch along with their nephew , Vince. The ranch was purchased by Jack Husted in 1909. (See Bvhd Hist[...]e , Sybil Barber Ibey , and daughter, Sylvia, who was 11 years of age . They went to visit Dan's three[...]Ref146.27. The Ibey family was fond of the three aunts. Aunt Rose and Uncle Harr[...]pre-built homes, Dan constructed the a home. Dan was taken with the rugged western country.[...] |
| [...]by, David Roberts on lap of Daniel P. Company. He was also Ibey, Jackie Roberts Standing L-R: Dick Robe[...]had four children. Their first child, Danny, was killed in Aug 1976 in an attended the Univer[...]hool of Journalism. Captain Innes high school. He was a fine young man who was well liked first sailed as a seaman on th[...]oore & McCormack Steamship Company. Dillon. Craig is a building contractor and raises registered Ev[...]war they made their home in Swarthmore PA. David is involved in the cattle business and works at Barr[...]endersonville NC. He passed away in July 1980 and is Their fourth child, Susan, married Art Mautz[...]Christina, and they Cemetery in Dillon. He was a ·32nd degree Mason, make their home in West Linn OR. Art is a paramedic in belonged to the Elks and was a member of the St. Andrew Portland. Sylvia and D[...]--G. L. Innes, Polson MT doing painting and is active in community affairs and politics.[...]Gilbert Lyle Innes was born 02 Jul 1915 to Evans and Elaine[...]ol and studied Captain Evans George Innes, Jr. was born 14 Mar 1907 marine design fo[...] |
| [...]he war until moved to Sun City West AZ. Joe is a member of the 1950, Gilbert had a car dealership and garage business in Shriners and is a twenty-two-year member of Al Bedoo Las Vegas NV[...]nd has been world champions Fairbanks AK where he was involved with an association of six different[...]ia, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Japan, Ruth Innes was born 24 Apr 1900 in Dillon to Martin Spain, South[...]Margret Kerr Bryant James Leonard Innes was born 24 Nov 1907 and raised in Dillon. His parent[...]atilda Innes. William L. "Bill" Irvine was born 15 Oct 1872 at James attended school in Dill[...]Alex Irvine. Alex Irvine His first employment was with Eliel Brothers as a clerk operated a bakery in Livingston for many years. As a young and was promoted to assistant manager of the men's[...]Lee, born 04 Apr 1947. James died 01 Apr 1978 and is buried in Skylawn Memorial Park at San Mateo CA.[...]Innes 2) Elane Wirch Joseph Innes was born in Dillon 09 Jan 1910 to Evans and Je[...] |
| [...]ars, Bill and Margret engaged in During that time, Viola's daughters, Nancy and Sandy, as dair[...]rgret had one daughter, oldest son, Jim, was serving in the armed forces in Ruth Elizabeth, bo[...]ock ranch until 1989 when Margret Kerr Bryant was born 28 Apr 1875 in Scio OH, they sold the[...]have spent the winter months in Mesa AZ. she was a skilled hunter and marksman and would ride out[...]ff her horse in a morning of hunting. Margret was active in the Irvine & Cottom Company doing the b[...]) Viola Cantrell Sweeney Iver Kenneth Iverson was born on a homestead near Highwood MT 21 Aug 1917[...]repair that looked as if it couldn't be fixed. He claims his Missoula in 1954[...]929 Lake where the family built a cabin. The lake is still[...] |
| At the age of 77, Ken tried to move his Hudson (which was under repair) out of the garage by towing it with a motorbike. The motorbike went over[...]Ph.D Helen Hoadley Donald Tash Jackson was born in Bannack MT 28 Mar 1903, fourteen years af[...]moved with his parents to Twin Bridges MT when he was about four years old. He went to school in Twin Bridges and was graduated from high school there in 1921. He attended Montana State College and majored in chemistry, even though in Twin Bridges there had not been a course in ch[...]dley of Bozeman in Minneapolis MN 20 Jun 1930. He was subsequently employed at Hammermill Paper Company and became a vice president for that corporation. During his employment a[...] |
| [...]d to Columbus MT where Earl taught and Dorothy was born 27 May 1907 in Twin Bridges MT.[...]coached and became High Atwater's daughter's name was Dorothy, and although[...]On 05 May 1942 Earl was called to service. Dorothy Marie, Dr. Atwater reg[...]and even served as air raid warden.[...]was active in civic affairs. She was Cut Bank's first[...]was District President. She's always been active[...]Joan Carr was born 09 Nov 1949, at the Barrett Hospital[...]er brother years later, sister Jennifer Marlene was born, and their and her Uncle Homer Tash's children. Many of Dorothy's family was complete. fondest memories revolve around the fun[...]illon. While in junior Don in the horse and buggy was made more lively when high, they started having dances and the twist was very they raced with their Tash cousins, who live[...]n Bridges High School in extreme cold where it was below zero. The girls were not 1925. Her father h[...]mother allowed to wear pants to school unless it dropped below moved to Bozeman where they lived w[...]Dorothy entered Montana State College in 1925 and was Joan's dad had the Carr Coal and Fuel[...]appa Alpha fraternity. Through him, she met her that Joan's dad put on with the used oil. It was great place husband-to-be, Earl Robert Keyes, a d[...]Mountain, now a national service sorority, which was founded at Montana Maverick, on the bus every[...]th the little skier State. While in Bozeman she was on the all-college program. women'[...] |
| It was also fun to lay on the grass and try to figure ou[...]ved. John and Joan kept in close contact while he was in ranch ten miles north of Dillon where she spen[...]d back to Montana. middle of her junior year. She was in Porn Porn Girls, John went to wor[...]1982, they took over the ranch. John is the 4th generation[...]yearlings each fall. It has been a struggle but we are still[...]Jon. Was she ever a live wire and a delight. She knows[...]to operate all of her dad's haying equipment and is an excellent horseback rider. She is attending MSU in Bozeman and is working towards a Business Degree.[...]Marie Johnson 11 Apr 1997. He was accepted at MSU in[...]Jackie Lynn came to them in July. She was born 19 Jun 1979, and is a half sister to Jaime, but the girls are complet[...]In 1985 Joan was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She is still in full control, but everything is at a much slower[...]. Joan tires easily and her limbs are weak so she is[...]at Garrison. had started a wrestling program, and that was where she Robert Jackson married Elna McIntyre of Roundup. first saw him. She was a freshman and John a junior. She They had[...]n who still runs the family ranch; Dick, who is employed by his family's ranch. That was the beginning of the rest of her the Sta[...] |
| Eda Jackson married Jack Shepherd of Jackson. Eda was postmaster at Jackson until her retirement. The[...]daughter, Sue, lives in Missoula and a son, Dan, is a I building contractor in Pinehurst ID. i Ca[...]as the result of an accidental shooting when he was nine years old. After raising their family[...]ife. Jakov, known as "Yacha" to his children, was born in[...]e. Joyfully, Church in Dillon. he discovered that a girl he had often thought about and[...] |
| [...]He was a very good welder and lathe operator and could[...]his leg removed. He is now confined to a wheel chair and 2) Alvaretta[...]Alvaretta Pauline Maggie Hand was born 25 Dec 1919,[...]ue in Dillon. The building later Lee M. James was born 12 Jul 1917 to Henrietta St. John housed[...]several years. loved old machinery and collected it. In 1948 he and Hazel In 1970 after the death[...]the family home in Argenta and later bought it.[...]Everett was born 19 Apr 1921, and spept his early years[...]up Rock Creek when his father was furloughed from the NP[...]1970 moved back to Railroad traffic was a rush of troops, war materials, raw Argenta and[...]Highland Log Homes. Hanford WA. His dad was back firing on the Northern 486 - Beaverh[...] |
| [...]ct to run the County Farm insurance paid. that bordered their farm.[...]ollege and began teaching at Frances Holliday was born Thanksgiving Day, 24 Nov 19 in a s[...]three-months service, but the time was extended to regular[...]Australia and New Guinea for two years. This was a time[...]mother was in the hospital and my father had incapacitating[...]surgery on his knee. There was no help, so I gave up[...]except for the year spent in San Diego CA to try it out. During the summer of 1931, our barn was struck by On 02 Jun 1946, Everett and I[...]Downer's sawmill after a few years. He was the log Neighbors were generous and we moved[...]keep track of parts and learned water. The spring was down a steep bank. Army worms management of the business. It prepared him for buying the marched up our[...] |
| [...]pickup, Mike's trailer and tools, everything was gone. Sam lived at the farm. Jim had a heart defect, resulting in many was nine at the time. trips to Denver and then to May[...]ivingston where I stayed with the and sold it to Ken Rolandson in 1972, several years after chi[...]oved here in the fall of 1955. He rented he was associated with in the early years of the parent[...]nd family of dealers were close and worked to get it ready. He lived at the Andrus Hotel to hi[...]ted an office in Chan Stallings' building back of was a thriving business section with a hotel, ice cre[...]time, we spent a lot of time on the road, much of it between and Doris Holland. Doris led the choir. T[...]there when the Canadian Mounties performed There was no television and no all-consuming sports. There[...]ren went off, Everett jumped up and town is small. headed for the store as it was a great wooden building. It We showed at state fairs at Great Falls[...]beautiful Budweiser team being groomed and store it. The building had also been a wool storage locati[...]custom hay cubing. In 197 4 we bought Sam Jim was 25 pounds and 25 inches tall . I carried him or[...]led him in a red wagon for many miles, because he was building gooseneck trailers until the fal[...]We were half out of heart surgery in Feb 1957 and was left with a heart block business for some[...]In July 1990 Everett was appointed by the Beaverhead We bought our pre[...]ommissioners to serve on the Beaverhead County At that time nothing was between us and the foothills. The Museum Association board. He became president that fall meadowlarks nested next door. We loved it. Another child, when the president, Sally Dingley, stepped aside due to Sam, was born 14 Dec 1964. All the children went to personal reasons. He remained in that office until the by- school at Bagley, Mary Innes[...]until his death in Oct 1994 and was instrumental in the Holli graduated from West[...]children started college in Dillon. (Note: that project will go to bids Sep 1997.) the fall of 1996. He was excited by the history of this area and worked[...]n and moved tirelessly to record and save it. His map of the stage routes to Helena where he went to VoTech and now works for and stations is at the museum, as is his writeup on the Asarco and she teaches. They have three children; Kara, a project. It's proven invaluable for researchers who come to s[...]ry Smith and small son, Robbie, on He was active in the Republican Party, was the county 26 Nov 1973. On that Tuesday Jim died of an accidental chairman for several years, and was the driving force behind hanging; his serv[...] |
| [...]y and his mother grew and liberals of Dillon, few that there were. One year at the ill with diabetes. His parents' old house in Wisconsin was museum, he found himself surrounded by five liber[...]cal The situation in Wisconsin grew so bad that in 1928 Fred beliefs intact. He was definitely conservative and very had to l[...]vage what little he could from the old place. and was an avid reader, especially of history. He taught[...]up and many repairs had to be made. Fred was a good Court House and worked there and at home a[...]Fred also built a brooder house for May so that she could An enormous number of nitro pills k[...]se chicks into fryers for sale and a pig house so that he on 11 Oct 1994, his system failed. He died at[...]up the threads and will Fred's main crop was raising seeds for Roger's Seed learn to compute.[...]Company. However, in 1932, there was an extremely bad[...]ook a job as a cook at a ranch near Dell and Fred was Annie May Kallman[...]to tum the hogs and chickens out to feed on what was[...]Fred was obliged to get a loan from a local grocery store Fred E. Johnson was born in 1882 in Wisconsin. He owner in Dillon so that he could make ends meet and so that first came to Beaverhead County in 1912. He worke[...]the family would not lose the farm. Spur Ranch that was located on the east side of the railroad, I[...]crop. His pea crop made 45 bushels per acre. He was paid In 1915, Fred decided to take up a homestead in the highest prices for his peas and was able to pay off all of Beaverhead County. Not only did he return to Wisconsin to his debts; he even bought a new car. get his horses, household items[...]t and lived in the required "prove-up because it was larger and they lived there until the Dubois shack" on the homestead that was located near the Hog's place was sold in the late 1940s. Fred and May sold their B[...]illon in 1953. their first and only son, Sigfred, was born in the shack in All of Fred and May'[...]grade from the Nelson School north of Dillon. That A small crop of flax was harvested on the homestead that building has since been moved to Jackson MT. All of the first year; however, it did not provide enough to live on, so children[...]again. School. Elinor's class was the first to graduate in the new On the new[...]cken high school building in 1940. house so that they might have fresh eggs and chicken for the[...]est of her table. May used to tell stories of how it took her a while to years keeping busy by sewing for many friends; she even get used to the rattlesnakes that would invade the chicken made many a costum[...]pecially in the chicken nests. The homestead was water-poor, so in 1918 Fred pledged his homestead and possessions to borrow money so that he Beatrice Johnson could bu[...]ts near the Spur Ranch. The old "prove-up shack" was moved to the new Everett Martin irrigated farm. The shack was then divided into two rooms and a kitchen was added on. On this new farm, Fred and F[...]born 1919 May's first daughter, Bernice Evelyn, was born in 1918, near Dillon, married[...] |
| [...]--Elinor Johnson McCauley 21 years. He was a local flight instructor, spray pilot and[...]and was in Operation Desert Shield/Storm.[...] |
| [...]e pickup, driving through I, Michael Johnson, was born 25 Feb 1947, at Livingston the canyon of[...]l of coal smoke The first recollection I have is of the ranch east of filling the house because the stoker ran out. I was eight and Livingston, above the County Farm. I re[...]in the scoop shovel. I can still taste the rolls that Grandma Grace made for special dinners. I remembe[...]it out with old gunny sacks and water. Mike Johnson[...]l train I got for Christmas; I still have most of it. I College from 1967-1969. remember the large green cigars that my mother made my[...] |
| [...]I left college to run, if My other sister is Joellen Moon of Helena, who is you could call it that, the Dillon Ranch Supply (John Deere). marrie[...]trum, Phil Brown and my dad took over is attending school in Havre; and son, Sam, and daug[...]Sigfred, Fred and May Johnson's son, was born 1916 It took a year to eat my way out of that.[...]nd I married Mary Smith in 1973. Robbie Osler was 2 ½ at[...]lroad off and on for distribute Maverick trailers that were manufactured in Fort[...]several years and during the 1960s was employed by the McCloud, Alberta, Canada. We bega[...]sy as a homemaker. However, in 1954, building, as it had been moved in 1969 and never finished.[...]she was employed at the Alaska Native Health Service The[...]d worked there until she retired in 1978. Sig and that year, repairing equipment and trucks, sand blasti[...]s in the painting, working on rendering trucks (I was hungry then).[...]where they had lived since their home on The pay was good, the smell wasn't. Government Hill was ruined in the big 1964 earthquake. I drifted[...]daughters of her own. Stephanie is an airline stewardess and 4, 1986, as a mechanic[...]Jaime is a student at Arizona State University. Their son, I was laid off in Apr 1987, worked at the shop, was rehired[...]inor Johnson McCauley My regrets are few. One is not going with Denton Hughes to Australia in 1967[...]n Dec Chandler Wellington Stallings, Sr. , was born 25 Dec 1920 1995.[...]he I had two brothers, Jim, who died when he was 21, and Masonic Building in Bannack for se[...]Richardson of classes were held in a house that had been converted into a Conrad, who is married to Lee Richardson of Antelope. school. Their children are David who is moving to Butte; he is Jane has fond memories of growing u[...]lian of Washington; he has children the town was relatively empty, the local kids were free to Lisa and Christopher Terry. Son Cory is married to Alyce investigate the abandone[...]er days after school they Vermont; and Erin, who is attending Montana Tech in Butte. 492 - B[...] |
| [...]n Grasshopper Creek, sometimes all the was hired to cook for prisoners at the Beaverhead Cou[...]nfire. Jail which required that they move into an apartment As Bannack began[...]with and many hours were spent playing was hired as a secretary at Barrett Hospital. basebal[...]family moved to Dillon in 1931, the year that it was open, their store was particularly popular with the Jane entered sevent[...]rom Beaverhead County High and treats and was a welcome convenience for families who School. Ja[...]. "Slim" Johnson 01 Oct 1939. Their son, Darrell, was born Since 1980 Jane has worked for[...]After his week she works each month. Jane is an accomplished induction into the Navy on their[...]Bruce was driving and eleven-month-old Scott and Lee were[...]the outdoor life that he had enjoyed growing up.[...]Bruce was born 8 Sep 1938, the son of Alma Hauf and[...]Robert Jones. His father was a part-time farmer and an[...]Velda Lee was the eldest daughter of Jeanne LeClair and[...]to Billings and began their life together. Bruce was[...]ghes Slim served in the Pacific theater and was discharged from the service on Thanksg[...] |
| [...]Motor Supply employed Bruce as a parts clerk. He is now (1996) in his thirty-sixth year with the firm[...]ob English, a position she held for 17 years. She is now a master printer at Womack's Printing Place.[...]ey, age 14, and a daughter, Brooke, age 11. Scott is parts manager at Paul's Chevrolet and Susan is Director of Continuing Education at Western Monta[...]James H. "Jimmie" Jones College. Son Rob was born in 1964 and graduated from BCHS[...]Klea McKinlay with the class of 1982. His wife is Karo lee Thompson, daughter of Russell and Evelyn[...]and I (Karen) were the only children they had at that time. technician for a number of years. Karo lee is with the We lived with Grandpa and Grandm[...]ere settled into our own Brady, the youngest, was born in 1971. He graduated little home. Ji[...]the two-room brick schoolhouse in of his father, is with Montana Motor Supply Company. the fall of 1947. Mrs. Nellie Decker was the teacher. My Chantel is a senior at Montana State University working classmates that year were Bonnie Boone, Larry Fournier, toward a[...]eside at 558 Thomsen Avenue. The Decker was an excellent teacher. We really learned a lot hou[...]from the good foundation she built for us; it certainly family home is the focal point for the Jones families and bl[...]Growing up in Armstead was a lot of fun. We didn't[...]our own. Walking on the track rails or on barrels was[...] |
| [...]and the other owned by Sophia Guyaz five. It later became the first Rest Home in Dillon, opera[...]with us kids. movements. Our transportation was a narrow-tired bicycle We would go from one end o[...]riding the back fender. I guess material and when it got wet from breathing in it, it would Mom had to walk as Dad needed the bicycle to get to the freeze. It took us quite a while to go to every door in town[...]n below the cemetery on Oliver rewards were worth it. Lane was the next home for us. It wasn't compatible with In 1954 our family mov[...]loved the ranch as much as Dad did. Nancy (1954) was heart for those growing-up years in Armstead.[...]The State Bar, formerly Brundage Funeral Home, was he and his identical twin brother worked[...]at St. Rose Catholic not figure out how that guy could beat them to the top. Church with siste[...]ked the bottom and Tom got another $5 to This was the second double wedding held at St. Rose and[...]. for unknown reasons held on a Monday. The first was with At the end of the shift, Tom rode a s[...]ng Tom graduated from Western Montana College that same positions in Oroville WA, and did not[...]Master's Degree before starting Tom Jones Tom was born in 1939 in McAllister to William and[...]ge of 47 and did . Street. The mall-area floor is stone from Wolf Creek not expect two babies just minutes apart (Tom was the last). Canyon gathered and laid by the Joneses with the help of He was raised in the Madison Valley and attended schools[...]window of aspen trees which adorns the Donna was born in 1940 at Barrett Memorial Hospital to front of the building. Harry J. and Helen Andrus and was plagued with early Tom continued h[...]f Gentian Violet and tar to heal business. She is the designer for Western Montana College rashes,[...]r new and remodeled homes. or neighbors reporting that "your little girl got into Among her acc[...]City of Dillon. Donna's best friend was a little green rabbit which once Janet (1968) is the first-born to Tom and Donna. She floated down[...]in Art Education and presently treasured rabbit was retrieved from the water but lost for teaches[...]derful Christmas gift married in June 1996. was presented by Donna's children to her of th[...] |
| [...]James L. Keef Hansen. The youngest born is Brett (1977). He is an outdoorsman and has been successful in bow hun[...]0 years later. All Louise "Tootsie" was born 13 Feb 1940 in Dillon to Joe three display a[...]& Mary Malesich Rebich. She was the youngest of eleven[...]on in the same house her father had been born in. It with multiple injuries, especially to her left hand and arm. was a happy home shared with her seven remaining sist[...]h Frances Moran Carl Joseph Kambich was born 08 Sep 1898 at the family ranch of Stephen and Mary Kambich. He was their second child. Carl attended the local schoo[...]es. He built a very nice four-bedroom house which is still standing. Like his father, Carl helped many[...]the valley from the Vigilante Electric Co-op. He was a school trustee for many years, an election judg[...]ed for many years as a leader of the 4-H club and was much loved by all the members. In 1937 Carl m[...]03 Jul likeable personality and blue-violet eyes that constantly 1958. Ref 165.30. twinkled. He[...]little children would be clamoring around him. He was an excellent dancer and loved singing.[...]all eight years. while tending a newborn calf, he was severely kicked by the Enrollment ranged fr[...]ater caused his death 11 Oct 1965. Carl's funeral was one grades and did it very effectively with rarely a discipline of the largest held in Dillon at that time. He is still greatly problem. She was a kind, caring teacher who praised he love[...] |
| [...]ith an enrollment of approximately 300 students , it was a major culture shock after the one room school e[...]senior year, Louise met James L. "Jim" Keef. Jim was born 09 Mar 193 7 in Arkansas to Eugene & Dovie Keef. They moved to Butte when Jim was an infant where his father worked in the mines. Eugene died after a mining accident when Jim was six years old, leaving a wife and seven young chi[...]d Louise Rebich Keef family. Ref 165.28. where he was a freshman when he and Louise met. They marri[...]ts in Michigan, California, 1960. A baby , Mary , was born 14 Dec 1959. and Texas. Each June, Jim packed his young family in their Jim was hired to teach seventh and eighth grade science station wagon and went to school for two months. It was at the Bagley School for the 1960-61 school year.[...]amazing how much would fit in the back and top of that following fall , the new Dillon Jr. High was completed and station wagon. Summer 1970, Jim enrolled at the University Jim was transferred there to teach general science. While[...]Jr. 10 Jun 1961 and Julie on In 1973, Jim was offered the high school principalship in 01 Aug 1[...]s completing his Ed.D degree in 1976. Jim, family was homesick for Dillon, so they moved back the day[...]job related moves to Choteau MT, Jim' s contract was up. That summer, a Beaverhead County Richland WA,[...]WY. High School science teacher resigned and Jim was offered Their children are married and have children. the job. On 19 Aug 1963, while Jim was working at the Mary & Wally Dh[...]st Helena. annual Boys' State at Western, Patrick was born. Jim Jr. & Marti Kee[...]Julie & Craig Blockey live in Bozeman Ibey who was developing the Mountain View Addition[...]at Columbia Basin College in expanding Ibeyville that was made up of mostly young Pasco WA. She was-immediately hooked and became a full couples with small children. There was no paving for time student. One of the best teachers she had at CBC was several years and the streets turned into mud holes when it Bill Bruer, former high school principal and[...]he youngest of the in Dillon. family , was born at the old Barrett Hospital in the sa[...] |
| [...]1930s. where he and Louise presently live. Louise is a librarian in One of Maud's jobs every fall was to make out a list of the Basin Public Library. T[...]rovisions. She would buy potatoes by the ton. She was to visit with family and friends and look forward to building very proud of the fact that she never forgot anything. a retirement home on a corner of the ranch that has been in There was only one time that there was a slight problem. the Rebich family for 100 years and is presently owned by Clayton forgot to order[...]get it. Then he had to travel all the way back. Maud nev[...]anything about the incident, but she never forgot it[...]Maud. Eventually, Maud decided she Maud Coley was born in Virginia in 1894 . Her parents cou[...]ounced very clearly to Clayton Turney Kennedy was born in Ohio in 1892. Clayton that "she had cleaned her last duck!" Clayton's cousin, Ira, was living in Montana and suggested Clayton turned to the hired hands and told them "from that Clayton come join him. In 1910, they began a smal[...]ean 'em!" ranch in Centennial Valley. Their brand was the IK brand For their seven grandchi[...]Ira's death shortly after World War sure that the ranch was a secure and fun place to visit. The Two, Clayton[...]ana in 1915 with the idea of teaching house was always a place of great fun and excitement. schoo[...]mountains to climb and love to train there. There was a need for a teacher in Centennial share. In the early 1960s the ranch was sold, and Maud and Valley.[...], Maud and Clayton met at the Blake ranch. He was very they moved to Sheridan MT. shy. His first words to her were, "Do you think it is going Clayton died in 1971. As he lay dy[...]d up at her and said, "Maud, I couldn't have done it She was invited to teach in Bannack, the biggest and best without you." school system in Montana at that time. She made $110 a After Clayton[...]le with Ethel month. Clayton and Maud's courtship was almost totally by and then with Helen. Fro[...]Falls and Denver. At the time of her death, Maud was 102 Her father replied, "I trust her to make[...]moved into a two-room house with a sod roof. If it leaked, all they had to do was Helen Kennedy throw a shovelful of d[...]nd ironed with sad- they finally sold the ranch, it consisted of 10,000 acres. If irons. Grandpa worked for the Oregon Shortline Railroad the cattle market was good, they raised cattle. If the sheep in the roundhouse at Lima until the mining bug bit him. He market was good, they raised sheep.[...] |
| [...]elp their mother To say Naomi's mother was surprised would be putting with the younger children. it mildly. Jake was led from the house with a towel over his I sp[...]about the head. No harm had been done. Naomi was attending family, as I was her oldest grandchild and seemed to be[...]ing, graduating members . I had a great-uncle who was the town constable in 1928. While attending Montana State Normal College, even when I was in school. I had a great-aunt who cooked Naomi was appointed Deputy Superintendent of Schools 04 at[...]eth Survantus Martin, first of five children, was born 08 Dec 1906 to James Frederick and Almira Co[...]about cleaning his twelve-gauge shotgun. Suddenly it went off, blowing a hole through his mother's sewing machine. Not a word was said ..... and he continued cleaning the shotgun. In 1920 the family moved to Big Lake WA. It was here that Survantus lost his mother 22 Oct 1921. They retur[...]m Beaverhead County High School in 1928. Football was the sport of his life . He earned three letters i[...]he transferred to Fresno State in California. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Chi and was on the Far-Western Conference Champion football t[...]College in Dillon and graduated 09 Jun 1933. That afternoon in a garden wedding, Survantus and Naom[...]reth, Naomi Grace, seventh of eight children, was born 18 Apr[...]bread. One winter afternoon, while Naomi's mother was time the people of Bannack decided th[...]a merry-go-round. Survantus installed it to stand sturdy. snowballs on his shoes. As he would reach for a piece of The merry-go-round was still in use during the Bannack bread, Naomi would step back. So it went until Jake's Days of 1988. snowb[...]Down he During the summers, Survantus was Water Commissioner went. .. table and chai[...] |
| arrival of their firstborn. Winifred Naomi was born at the Barrett Hospital 28 Dec. Thus, the wh[...]taught at Jackson MT where during the summers he was Water Commissioner on the Moose-Swamp Creek and t[...]sided in White Sulphur Springs MT where Survantus was an Industrial Arts instructor and later principal[...]their family 22 Feb 1943 to Seattle WA. Survantus was a shipfitter for the shipyards during World War II. In 1945 he was employed by Sears as shipping dock foreman until[...]Anna Rebich I, Anna Rebich Kielhamer, was born 13 Jan 1923 to Veronica and George W. Rebich at the Rebich home ranch south of Dillon. I was the sixth of seven children: Frank[...]th my sister, Mary, while I finished my Ray is a Captain with the Redwood City Fire Department h[...]an Mateo High School and Kielhamer Biles is an Administrative Assistant for Hewlett entered P[...]Oakland CA, Packard and has worked for that company for the past 23 where I received m[...] |
| [...]From this union was born one son, James G. Knapp,[...]Anita was a housewife and mother first, but she also[...]family and was caring and kind. She crocheted many[...]together. One highlight was the trip they took to Alaska[...]Anita retired to their home in Dillon getting it prepared[...]Carl Knox James H. Knapp was born 08 Jun 1928 in Dillon, the[...]rgie Mae and Margaret Carl Knox's father was William D. Knox, born in 1892. Knapp. Jim or Jimmy was the name he answered to most of His mother was Ethel Anna Martinell (Bvhd Hist. Vol 1). the time[...]ild horses, broke Tash ranches and Dons ranch. He was well known by the them and sold them fo[...]lves off the cows, they served until 1948 when he was honorably discharged. His only brought 12 cents a pound. service was in the Pacific theater, Guam, China and Japan.[...]otes. They now had 80 head of handstands when she was a neighbor of his grandparents in cattle an[...]sheep. In 1938 they moved again, Argenta when he was a boy spending his summers there. down[...]e Al and Ruth Price place on Sage They teased him that he had to go around the world to marry Creek.[...]lant which produced 32-volt Anita Leota Riley was born 23 Sep 1932 in Argenta, the electricity[...]y 1949 in Butte. This is the site of the Knox ranch headquarters to[...] |
| [...]or the next five On 20 Jun 1982, the ranch was the setting for another years. There were very fe[...]rl Hyde were work. In Jan 1947, another homestead was bought, adding married. They have th[...]ranch. They have built a two-room log cabin "with was back to a house with a path-along and kerosene la[...]ames, born 15 Jun 1993. The rest of the house was added on as the family grew to Jay Tallent, son of Jay and Ella Tallent, old-time five children. Judy was born 29 Mar 1949, Tana on 22 Mar neighbors to W.D. and Ethel, is the only one of the early 1951, Karla on 16 Mar[...]Clarence was born 25 Aug 1897 to Godfrey and Keturah[...]Parish Koenig in Windsor CO. Daisy was born March 3,[...]1917 seeking employment and was hired by Hildreth[...]first home in nearby Reliance where he was mining for[...]ion Pacific Coal Mines. Their son, Boyd Hildreth, was[...]Daughter, Ruth Harriet, was born 21 Apr 1923. The[...]Their final move was made in Mar 1927 when Clarence, Tana (born 195[...]s and Holsteins. Milk prices varied. In 1934 milk was On 24 Jun 1978, Karla (born 1954) marri[...] |
| Clarence was instrumental in forming the Beave[...]ame sole owners in Sep 1932. The dairy route was sold in 1937, the wholesale business in 1941 . A daughter, Norma Jean, was born 02 Oct 1932. In 1943 they purchased[...]Ruth, Daisy Hildreth Koenig, son Boyd. Inset is daughter Norma ill health forced him (2 years old[...]ers in Arizona and Kathy, Kerry and Kim. He was employed at Vaughn- traveled around other western[...]. On discharge he leased the Chevron helping hand was given to family, friends and neighbors in St[...]s father, worked at mineral need. The family rule was work before pleasure. A man's engineering and for the Bureau of Reclamation. He was an word or handshake was as binding as the written word. ardent[...]ted years to Little League baseball, Clarence was hardworking. He called the farm "His Old and was instrumental in establishing scuba-diving classes. Rock Pile" but was proud and happy it was his. Clarence Boyd died at age 44 on 18 Oct 1966. was an expert rifleman and fisherman.[...]in While telling stories about "the Big One" that got away 1943. She married Richard "Dick" M.[...]Mark, Beaverhead River and up Medicine Lodge. He was an Craig, Joel and Adele. exception[...]ma married Don McCandless 06 Sep 1952. Daisy was well known for her beautiful flowers, gard[...] |
| [...]Antone "Tony" Fabian Kruljac (pronounced Kruletz) was born in 1891 in Yugoslavia. Mary Emma Krainjac (pronounced Krainatz) was born in 1902 in East Helena MT. Mary Rebich Krulj[...]slavia with her sons, Bert, Adolph and Emil. Tony was left in Yugoslavia; when younger, he herded the v[...]with first grade the southeast, and there was also some dry land south of numbers and he took t[...]Dave Miss Innes wrote a note for his aunt and that ended his Julius, Darlene Mary and Ruby Julya. Deceased are Arthur- formal education, even though he couldn't speak English. 1959, Nancy-19[...]ear they returned. Tony and Mary's first home was a small cabin in the canyon south at the[...] |
| [...]A. Vance Lackey was born 29 Aug 1883 in Mercer[...]cattle ranch. It was here that Vance formed his love for[...]grew up there and became a teacher. In 1906 she was[...]jac Bartol "Bert" Kruljac (pronounced Kruletz) was born in 1888. He was the oldest son of Mary (Rebich) and Bartol Kruljac, and was the brother of Adolph, Tony and Emil. A. Vance Lackey, homesteader north of Lima in 1920. He was a Corporal in Co. C-158th Infantry in World Ref 147.02. War I. He was killed in France 18 Oct 1918. His body was brought back to Dillon in Jan 1921. His name is the first World War I soldier in the Dillon cemet[...]Kansas. They The American Legion Bronze Medallion that was on his bought and ran a grocery business f[...]. grave for years became broken on the spikes and is now in However, Vance never lost his yearning t[...]The following is a synopsis of Leek's recollection of the[...]move to the homestead four miles north of Lima. It was --[...] |
| [...]back and forth from the ranch to town. It was that winter I[...]enough for him to prove up on it. Then we spent the winter[...]Butte where Dad worked in the mine and Bernadine was[...]Fern Thomas who was the granddaughter of the John Peters[...]g of 1917 in a Model T-Ford. Elsie Mueller was born 11 Apr 1920 in Chinook MT to We went north t[...]August and Louise Mueller, and as a youngster was active Bozeman MT where Dad found work. I remembe[...]n place. Virginia in her crocheted hat and dress. It was in Bozeman Kim, an only child, completed the[...]of candy. Beaverhead 7Up Ranch is a diversified operation. Summers, We moved to[...]d I Francis cut the hay, Charlie baled it. Francis assumed remember living by the state pen[...]keys and those who came for fresh g~~ceries back. It was at Grant that Grandma Sughrue holiday turkeys will reme[...]inted or not, have Dad tried to dryfarm grain. He was called up for the been entertained[...] |
| [...]away. Change was okay with Elsie IF she could see a better[...]situation resulting for the kids. Hers was always a positive[...]Elsie was on the Board of Directors for Beaverhead Wool[...]"Anyway, that's the way I see it. We've got to help each[...]were cared for by Pat and his three sons She was Beaverhead County's representative on the State[...]ate Leaders Council, and Charles M. Laden was one of the first draftees to be a member of the S[...]Fair began in 1950 W. and Francis. when Elsie was appointed superintendent of the poultry[...]ined his building, and in the years to follow she was superintendent brother Francis in anching on[...]her dedication and north of Dillon where he was living when he died 20 Nov inspirational leadersh[...]s, cook, clean up, and serve. They learned was born until his death in Apr 1980. manners[...] |
| [...]duty, the partnershlp was dissolved. John W. retained the[...]He loved animals and saw that they were properly cared for. Francis was a gentle man whose dry sense of humor[...] |
| [...]lon Tribune, 06 Sep 1884: Harvey Eugene Lake was born 31 May 1937 to James Mrs. L.[...]Dillon on O1 Aug 1960 to work at the who is a dentist, will soon open an office for the pract[...]Editor's note: A few years later, Blanche Lamont was |
| Oscar Gravely of Dell said that Tom was one of two who He died with his boots on, doing what he loved best-- he knew could do that. He would count by fives. Wood rounding[...]e Rattlesnake Ranch (Berg Christiansen Sheep Co.) that Tom bought in 1970. Wood also owned the property[...]--Marie Holt and Helen Larson that is now Hagenbarth Livestock at Glen. From Wood L[...]s first ranch on Blacktail Creek. In 1950 he sold that ranch and bought the McCarty Sheep Co. on the Big[...]In 1956 he married Helen Proctor. In 1960 he sold that ranch and bought the Diamond O north of Dillon[...]Morrison, was raised in Dillon, graduated from BCHS and bought[...]Frank was born in 1898 and was raised on a ranch north ranches and bought Bull C[...]Verl Morrison Lasich. Ref.147. 04. He was honored in 1974 with the distinguished recognit[...]nch and a director of the Federal Land Bank. He was greatly[...] |
| [...]get-togethers and for little family grocery store was located next to the Mary Innes many lovely dinn[...]children, they loved and were loved by their Bee" was the shopping center for grade school students for[...]Matthew Alexander Lasich was born 15 Nov 1903 at the[...]Rocks. He was the seventh of eight children born to George[...]Matt met Jessie Lee Violett in Dillon where she was[...]Montana State Normal School. Jessie was born 04 Oct 1907 in New Rockford ND and was raised in Liberty County[...]where her father, Lee Violett, was a dry-land wheat farmer.[...]pasture was obtained from brother, Rudy Lasich, and their[...]cattle drive to upper Stone Creek was an annual affair.[...]social activities. They were members of Frank was a civic-minded man. He was on the City the Old-Fashioned Dancin[...]picnics. They attended dances in love of his life was the Elk's Lodge. He joined Dillon nearby towns, including Armstead, which was to be covered Lodge #1554 in 1929 and held most o[...]Hawkins Reservoir in about 1965. local level. He was District Deputy and State President of[...]took pleasure from the gatherings in the Verl was an active member of the Order of Eastern Star,[...]d. Lady Elks, and bridge and pinochle clubs. Verl was a Matt and Jessie celebrated thei[...]Lasich and Vivian Womack's Jessie was the first of four in her family to reach a 50th "[...]wedding anniversary. The other three to reach that goal mouth-watering goodies.[...]MT, Nellie Violett Doornbos Most of all, Verl was a gracious hostess and wonderful of Sherid[...]9. pair with a wide circle of friends. Their home was a[...] |
| [...]n 1937 he established his own Peter W. Lasich was born in 1906 at his parents' ranch saddle and[...]probably 50 saddles. north of Dillon. His mother was Kathryn Lasich. He He operated this b[...]The Lasich ' s only daughter, Jo Kathryn, was born at the Pete Lasich and Isabell Doyle mar[...]ns Field GA on 10 Oct 1943. Isabell , called Tim, was to Dillon, Tim taught second grade at the Ma[...]tead and Bozeman Elementary Jo K. was cared for by her grandmother, Jo Doyle. Jo School. She received her diploma from MSNC in 1935 and K. was active in 4-H in grade school and high school. Sh[...]was their trip to the World ' s Fair in Seattle in 19[...]Jo was president that year and she and all the members[...]worked as a legal secretary in Sheridan MT, and is now a[...]Europe. Jo is globe-trotting on every vacation. One of her[...]best trips was to the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France,[...]Dillon at the age of 90 on 10 Dec 1996 and was buried at[...]ad Pete and mom Tim Afton Edith Lloyd was the youngest daughter of Walter Lasich. Ref 147.[...]Edwin Lloyd and Elizabeth Parkinson. She was born 25 Oct[...]1903 at Bannack. Her first year in school was attended at Bannack. Al Christy was the school teacher. Afton was Pete had started cowboying at an early age. O[...]he most interesting and exasperating experiences was breaking front of the class and stand b[...] |
| [...]wo-room bunk Sometimes cooking for that many people was house on the Lloyd ranch. One side of the bunk house was overwhelming. Situated close to the house on the ranch was used as a school for children from the surrounding ranches. a large hill. Afton would climb that hill every morning at 10 Lillian Jones was the school marm at the ranch. Seven a[...]-1942 Afton and Ed moved to Helena to The ranch was sold in 1916 and Afton's family moved to[...]920. She was a member of the Eastern Star. She served four[...]89. He passed away a few later. As of 1997, Afton is 94[...]Edwin Keith Lloyd was born 28 Dec 1901 to W.E. and[...] |
| [...]Roberts Food Store, for several years. He then was the first driver for the transport bus between[...]Lloyd ' s Laundromat, which he sold in 1974. He was an active member of Elks Lodge 1554 and Beaverh[...]never missed a monthly potluck dinner. He was an enthusiastic photographer who captured speci[...]lpoint school house in 1910. Standing in entryway is died in January 1984 at Dillon.[...]Walter & Elizabeth Lloyd family. Front is father Walter and son Edwin "Keith."[...] |
| Evelyn Lloyd was born 06 Mar 1900 on what is part of principal when Bill Bruer took a position at Western the Holland Ranch on Buffalo Creek. She was the first child Montana College. born to Elizabeth Parkinson and W .E. Lloyd. Bun was working at the high school that summer doing Evelyn attended schools in Wells[...]or to principal in one day. He enjoyed people and was Keith, attended the Bannack city school for one year. The a diplomat. An upset parent was often told to come back following year George Tas[...]at again the next day. By then, everything was much calmer. Mill Point. He was instrumental in promoting construction of a new[...]e the parents of three children. Jim, the She was then employed by her father, Walter E. Lloyd, oldest son, is a counselor at Big Sky High School in who operate[...]en he retired. Russ, the younger son, is principal of Target Range, a K-8 She went to[...]his wife, Micki, have two sold the business. She was then elected Beaverhead County children. Da[...]o 31 Dec 1946. grade in Dillon. She is married to Larry Skiles. Following that experience, she was the assistant nurse Bun died 27 Dec 1991. Joyce is retired from teaching and office secretary for Dr[...]indergarten and resides in Dillon. away. Then she was employed by Ben Davis of Davis Motor Company as h[...]tte owned by her brother, E.K. Lloyd. The laundry was sold 01 Jan[...]--Lowell Parkinson, Rexburg ID John was a nephew of James and Thomas Loughridge.[...]Ellen's 20th birthday. She was a daughter of Thomas Roe. Joyce Loucks[...]4 June 1891; Myrtle Mae (Mrs. J. Arthur McMahan), was born 25 Aug 1910, in[...]The property is now part of the Bridger Bowl ski area. 1927.[...]Thomas Dodson before moving in Dillon in 1955. He was hired as Loughridge, the fourth son of Po[...]were Montana pioneers. at BCHS. Coaching football was fun for him and he loved The brothers[...]0 as the the game. After one year of coaching, he was asked to be Colorado gold mines wer[...] |
| [...]me to join, as he served as a Carole was born 14 Mar 1932 at Ennis, the second child Lieut[...]nce (Daems) Krauss. She grew up in the Thomas was mustered out on October 8, 1864. He soon[...]s or joined him in Montana soon after. Little is known of James after he went to Montana with Thomas. He is enumerated on the 1870 Montana census in Beaverhe[...]rl Love enjoying retirement, taken 1994. Earl was born 24 Jan 1928 near McAllister. He was the Ref.191.20. third[...]and later bought and operated the Texaco service that time she homesteaded north of Dillon in the Birch[...]g the ranch in City to' the new gold strike. He was educated in Belgium in 1957.[...]on the family ranch north of Ennis and He was the first doctor in Virginia City. He served two[...]sessions in the Territorial Legislature and was one of the Army and served with the 1st Infantry[...]Great-grandmother, Marie Valtsin Daems, was born m worked on the ranch. He began working par[...]Daems from Soil Conservation Service in 1948 and was working full-time[...] |
| [...]ed in the Civil War. One they enjoy most is Dillon. They live north of town and brother becam[...]in Virginia City in 1863, and the fourth brother was drowned near Fort Benton with General Thomas F. M[...]e and Earl have three sons. The oldest, Gary, was born in 1952 in Ennis. He Blaz R. Lugar Jr graduated from MSU and is employed as the Senior Vice President at State Ba[...]ayla (18) and Shanny (14). Blaz R. Lugar was born 24 Sep 1904 in Brlog, Austria. Gary and Cathi's children are sixth generation residents of When he was five months old, his father left Austria for the[...]United States and it was not until 1913 that he and his Second son, Casey, was born in 1962. He graduated mother, Agnes[...]asar all of his life. The youngest son, Jeff, was born in 1967. He graduated Blaz attended[...]k. Blaz Sr lived on the homestead years old. Jeff is an instructor pilot with the Air Force at in a[...]ave taken many camping and horseback he was 16 years old. This was the extent of his formal trips in southwes[...] |
| Blaz was manager of the Idlewild Hunting Club when he[...]926 in Butte. mix dog called Sport. This was a very well trained dog that Zella was the third child of Fred I. and Lou Emma Jones[...]to retrieving ducks and also was the lead dog for Zella's dog She was born 15 May 1904 and grew up on a ranch in team that she traveled with in the winter. the upper Ce[...]ol winter. While at the Idlewild, a son was born on 30 Jan from 1910-1918.[...]ded the Doyle School to Henry's Lake ID. This was while they lived at the in 1919.[...]was about a mile from Lakeview. This mail line was[...]If anyone had a bronc or spoiled work horse it usually[...]ended up on Blaz's stage team. He was very good with[...]It was at this time the Government bought up all the[...]Refuge for the trumpeter swan. The Fitch ranch was sold,[...]Sunny Slope in the fall of 1937. The ranch was bought[...]pasture for years; consequently everything was in a state of[...]The house was log, with a dirt roof and very bad floors,[...]did was to build a corral so they could tum their horses[...]burning it. In the ten years they owned this place, they bui[...]haul saw logs home. This place was sold in 1947 along with Zella and Blaz Lugar[...]The intention was to move to Dillon until the girls[...]Dan Pendergast ranch on Swamp Creek was purchased. The Emma Hanson married John Neighbor and the family brand for this ranch was the "99" that Harry T. Martin from moved near Dillon on Rat[...]eek. While there the Monida once owned. It is still owned by Bill and Sherrie girls attende[...]62 and Blaz school for a year and a half. She tells about driving a horse and Zella retired to Di[...]ggy to Riverside and the entertainment of the day was Blaz was a very ·hardworking, get-things-done person.[...]Neighbors purchased the Beatty place. This place was sold Zella was equally as busy and ambitious. She was chief to Billy and Eileen Jones when t[...] |
| [...]for warmth. They were really in Jingle Bell Land was heated on the wood stove and the dishes washed an[...]t. " After a wild scramble for the lantern to get it After the move to the Big Hole, Zella acquire[...]o On 19 Jul 1953 when the wood stove was started for work on it were something else, but she usually prevailed[...]around came to help, but all they managed to save was[...]The ironic bit was the new fire truck for the Jackson Fire[...]Department was delivered about two weeks later. Once[...]that summer and put an old Butte City Lines bus next to it[...]to feed the hay crew in. Last thing on the table was the butter because on sunny days it was so hot it would be[...]thoroughly melted by the time supper was over. Once again Zella was cooking and heating water to do[...]and were in it to celebrate Christmas.[...]27 Nov 1977. Jeannette Marie was born 12 Feb 1961. She[...]nce and went to almost all Raymond M. Lynch was born in Butte MT on 11 Jan the dances in the Cent[...]1925, the son of Irene and Maurice Lynch. He was raised also members of the Old Timers Dance Club in Dillon. It in Butte and attended St. John's Parochial School and Boys' was after one dance at their place that Zella cooked breakfast Central High School. for[...]d ran the U.S. Navy and a few years later was re-called and off the road. The car went over the[...]an Conflict. He returned to Dillon and a big rock that kept it from rolling clear to the bottom of a was associated with his wife's father in the operatio[...]Josie A favorite way to go in the wintertime was with one of Dougherty and operated it for many years; the name was the sleds used on the mail line. These were the f[...]ont to look out and a hole cut under business. that for the lines to the team. There was usually hay on the Later, Ray and Lois pu[...]and were sole owners for many years until it closed in 1976. 520 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| Ray's life as a community servant began in 1957 when he was elected to the Dillon City Council. He served in that position for 14 years. Ray was the Mayor of Dillon from 1971 until 1982. From that position, he served as Jail Administrator for nine years. He was elected City Judge and finally was elected Justice of the Peace of Beaverhead County[...]olunteer fireman in Dillon for 22 Ray was a family man who taught his children the love years. He was Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars[...]dedication to the work at hand. He was a 'man for all Ray was a member of the Dillon Elks Lodge for 40 years[...]membered with pride by all he served 22 years. He was elected to the Hall of Fame at Western in[...]nd most of all by his family. Montana College and was also the recipient of the Lois Lynch was born in Butte on 09 Sep 1925, the Distinguished S[...]and Josephine Dougherty. After graduation He was appointed by Governor Tom Judge to the State[...]nt and the State Health to Dillon and was employed as a bookkeeper for her father Coordinat[...]ge Patch" and building of Beaverhead She was active in the St. Rose Parish, being a chairman V[...]orth side and construction of two present she is a volunteer at the Barrett Memorial Hospital. parks, one of which carries his name ... Ray Lynch Park. He was instrumental in promoting the Senior Citizens' pr[...]married on 0 1 Jun 1946 at St. Rose Parish. This was a double wedding, also uniting Lois's bro[...] |
| [...]ff 1955-1957 Harrison, which was torpedoed and sunk 300 miles off of[...]d the USS Missouri, where he Although Anaconda was his birthplace, John B. witnessed t[...]ended college, worked, and lived in Dillon off was away at war, both of John's parents passed away.[...]oved to Dillon where his sister, John's father was Duncan MacDonald Sr, a Scottish Ann, li[...]950, he met Helen Rebich, a young divorced mother was Anna Schmidt, American-born child of a German[...]ummer, but as the Korean War began to heat up, he was homestead in the Big Hole. called back into active duty in the Navy. He was sent to Their three children included John bor[...]in Dillon, Diego civil ceremony. John was soon given a medical where she has been a residen[...]At 6'3" tall and 230 pounds, John's size alone was[...]m to twist his knee. The prisoner, a trick rider, was on[...]her way to another rodeo the next day, but John was on[...]After that introduction to the teaching life, they taught in[...]1962, John earned his bachelor's degree 1939. He was twice wounded in naval engagements: aboard[...]mpanied by a very the battleship USS Idaho, which was bombarded by Japanese stubborn donkey in th[...]entry skills to restoring the old church in which was torpedoed by the Japanese.[...] |
| [...]Joseph Thomas Madden was born in Manchester CT on[...]whom resided at Polaris at that time.[...]played basketball for the Boston Celtics, a team that was[...]len and John were hired to teach in Lyle He was very proud of the ring he received as a member[...]. In spring 1965, John and of the Celtics at that time. Helen bought a farm near Lyle. They returned to Dillon for Joe was gassed during his service with the army during[...]the army and from his athletic participation. He was a of the possessions which had remained in Di[...]st of in a field near the house. A tractor he was using reared his life. The remaining time he[...], working as a car salesman. While in Dillon, was six weeks short of his 46th birthday. He was buried he either lived in the Andrus Hotel[...]Joe died at Fort Harrison on 14 Aug 1972 and is buried tnbute to John and presented his maste[...]next to his brother, To this day, "Big John" is widely remembered with love and Frank M[...] |
| [...]1972. She was a ten-year 4-H member. Barb attended[...]original ranch house where Ed was raised. A son, Kolby Ryan Malesich, was born 04 Dec 1980 in Sheridan. He is a sophomore at Beaverhead County High[...]is active in sports, FFA and 4-H and works on the fa[...]ranch. A daughter, Kapri Adelle Malesich, was born 14 Jun 1983 in Sheridan. She is an 8th grader at Dillon Middle School. She is active in volleyball and 4-H and is currently[...]Barb is a member of the First Presbyterian Church and[...]School District #10 in the Hot Lunch Program and is Joe Madden and niece, Maureen Carroll, at Kelly D[...]Philip James Malesich was born 01 May 1918 to John Edward Steven Malesich was born 29 Nov 1952 to and Angela Malesi[...]n (Vol 1 p 355). The first eight grades of school was the third of four children, including an older si[...]averhead County High School in Philip was the only child in the Malesich family to 1971 and[...]plant for the received a B.S. degree in 1976. He was a member of the Lockheed Co. in southern C[...]t of Malesich at the Malesich Ranch. Frances was one of five children Ranch Company which he and h[...]to Harrison and Josephine (Vezina) Coleman in Ed is a member of the Dillon Elks Club and First[...]n 14 Feb 1942, Philip and Presbyterian Church. He is chairman of the local Cenex Frances were m[...]side in Las Vegas where he Barbara Jean Marxer was born on 17 Jul 1954 in Great was a gunnery instructor. He was a superior marksman and Falls to Dale Edward and Shirley Lorraine (Enloe) Marxer. was a competitive shooter while in the service. Barb was the youngest of five children, including Richard[...], Linda Diane (Marxer) Knapp of Beaverton was discharged from the service at the end of[...] |
| [...]Their second child, Randy Coleman, was born in Dillon area with their daughter and engag[...]T, due to very poor signage Creek. The farm house was not equipped with electricity or where the new interstate highway was under construction, in running water. Water had t[...]electrical power and installed Richard Day was born 10 Apr 1951 in Dillon. He a butane refrigerator that made it easier to keep fresh food resides in Billings and is a long-time employee of A & I on hand.[...]blower. He is buried in Leadore ID next to his son, Randy.[...]xcept for addition of a few details, this history was prepared by Philip in January 1989 and was saved for[...]Rudolph, aka "Scotty" or on occasion, "Rudie", was[...]Malesich in Dillon MT. Scotty was the ninth child of a[...]Scotty attended the Drummey School, which was located[...]Rudie, as he was known by his teachers, received a[...]Scotty was thirteen years old and was at this point[...]was over, but he was an avid reader and very much enjoyed[...]who wrote about the cowboys and the west. He was also a[...]Scotty was eighteen when his father died of complications MT[...]World War II, it was decided he would petition the local Their first child, Nancy Lee, was born 29 Feb 1944 at[...]draft board for classification as 2-A and this was approved Dillon . She married Gary Stephens in Bo[...]03 Jul 1942. He was 26 years old. It was hard work to have two children, Heather Brooke an[...]keep things going until the war was over. live in Whitefish MT and are engaged[...] |
| [...]irplane in Scotty and Sally met when he was the proud owner of his about 1947 in partnership with Lee Shuler who had a farm airplane and she was the radio operator at the Beaverhead across the B[...]n neither had time to devote to flying. The plane was sold a they returned to Dillon after the wed[...]urned the building into a shop after the airplane was sold. family and friends.[...]the size of the ranch at that time was about 14,000 acres of[...]Prospecting was also a hobby and he became a rock hound.[...]Now the ranch is about 25,000 acres of deeded and leased[...]someone hired to help with all of the work. Often it would be a niece that would come for the summer. Sally[...]n Malesich Paddock Sarah, or "Sally" as she is known by most, was born on[...]egree in Home Lowell Lee Mallon was born 13 Jul 1922 to Millie and |
| [...]and lived with Larry for a year while their house was built;[...]ago and now live in Tumwater. Linda is a special education[...]Julie is a medical transcriptionist at the Bremerton Hospi[...]Dillon in 1991. In 1992 she was diagnosed with multiple[...]is now being controlled well with a new medication.[...]Lowell is semi-retired but still likes to keep his hand in[...]b 1952. James Nicholas Mansfield was born 26 Oct 1888 in Ref.18[...]WA 1904-1906. A bout of and Ebba Huntley. Since it adjoined the Mallon Ranch, it[...]at Gonzaga necessitated his return home to the was an excellent acquisition.[...]Although he had no formal training, he was an excellent back to Wise River to work on the[...]erine Louise Fuller 10 Sep 1977. Her long as it was in existence and doing most of the carpentry fo[...]ailroad and turned loose. This replenished a herd that had bought it. Since most of the ground was steep and not[...]wiped out in previous years. suited to haying, it was used for summer pasture. He was a longtime member of the National Stockgrowers[...]trustee for the Larry moved to Dillon to manage that ranch. Since Dillon Grant school district and was a board member at the time the 1 usually has wa[...]ould truck new Beaverhead County High School was erected. He was , the cows down there to calve them out.[...]r ranch. Jerry, Katie and their girls moved to it.[...] |
| [...]Margaret (Polly) in 1927. He died in May 1979 and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. Nevada Marie Wall was born in Ogden UT to Joseph and Beesy (Brady) Wall[...]Joseph J. Mansfield was born to James N. and Nevada[...]nity College and worked in a Nevada Mansfield was a charter member of the machine shop[...]built his She died 31 Dec 1977 in Dillon and is buried in the home on a tract of lan[...] |
| [...]Their daughter Rose Marie, who was born in 1928, Margaret "Polly" Mansfield was born 11 Aug 1927 to enjoyed all these[...]run to the window James and Nevada Mansfield. She was educated in local when the dog barked to see who was coming. schools and graduated from the University[...]ibby Junior High School for one year. In 1953 she was Wilda died of heart failure at 70 in 1[...]annack MT 10 Aug 1887, Edward Perry Marchesseau was the third of a family of 12. His parents were E[...]e Grasshopper Valley. Since Edward's father was involved in a freighting business, Eddie was the man of the house during his father's absenc[...]e ranching business, although his real interest was mining. He filed on several silver mines in the[...]r, Olive, who also took nurses' training. Wilda was born in Indiana PA 18 Mar 1895. She came from a[...]in the midst of the horrible flu epidemic. She was employed in a children's hospital in Seattle W[...]ora and Dewey Marchesseault. Ref 161.08. Wilda was called upon many times for medical assistance in[...]or the ranch. Robert Dewey Marchesseault was born in the The depression years of the 1930s[...]ncome, they sold products Marchesseault. He was the tenth child in a family of 1 such a[...] |
| Dewey went to the Scudder Creek School which was conveniently located right across the road from t[...]play with the Indian kids when Chief Tendoy, who was a friend of Dewey's father, would[...]play games, race their ponies, and I was born 08 Sep 1920 north of Dillon (where Ray and c[...]ver the gophers with Fay Nelson live) and was delivered by Mrs. Matt Plutt. A mud , put them on[...]ed as if they were moving and dancing around. That same year, there were so many forest fires in Elkhorn that the cattle grazing there had a thick layer of ash[...]and his brother Frank purchased the ranch and ran it in partnership. This dissolved in the 1940s w[...]at Polaris. Later on, when his older brother Ted was ready to retire and move to Hamilton, he purchased his ranch. This was also at Polaris. In 1964, he bought the Wayne[...]sa Berry were married 26 Mar 1929 in Butte. Cora was the oldest child of James D . and Sarah Berry. Her mother died when she was seventeen and she helped her father care for her[...]x). The sons continue to operate the ranch which is known as Marchesseault Ranch. Estelle[...] |
| [...]board said I could not be deferred because I was needed. I asked for three days and they said wh[...]My dad and a girl I knew met the train. I was glad to said, "I want to go in the Navy." They[...]ld run the second my father at Butte was Lorraine Fior. After I spent a few digger and I[...]get married 01 Aug 1946. My father and I I was called in October 1942 to report to Helena and th[...]y father and mother bought this property in 1939. It We shipped out of Bayonne NJ 10 Jan and to[...]ey opened up in front to put in tanks and Jeeps). It took sewer and to the city water. Weekends[...]t Christmas Eve 1948 our daughter, Diane, was born. In to the Philippine invasion. I left there in late 1945 when 1951 our son, Gary, was born. They both worked through Harry Truman had them drop the Big Bombs and that saved high school and did well and I in[...]docked at Oregon Ship Yard where I had worked. It was 1997. Brent Lane is going to UM in Missoula. He works Christmas Ev[...]00,000 The next day they said on the radio that there were 2,000 homes and also goes to his classes. His boss is very good to sailors from all over the western USA and people were him. Brent is able to pay for his college himself. Janet driving around to take us home for dinner. It was very nice. Lane has been able to pay a lot o[...]charged and got a ticket by train to Butte MT. That was a big surprise; it was 30 below zero and New Year' s Eve . I about froze because it had been 112 degrees in Manilla.[...] |
| [...]I was very proud of my grandmother and enjoyed[...]listening to her stories of childhood days. She was in Race[...]al and now works for a large group of lawyers and is office manager.[...]Kentucky Cash Grocery Jane Martin was born 05 Aug 1868 in Abbeford, Families - 532 |
| [...]Elmer' s early source of income was growing and selling Addie E. Calvert hay. After putting it up loose in the summer, he baled it[...]auled to Butte mines to feed the horses and mules that married 19 Jan 1893 in Rockport MO. The Orego[...]worked the mines both above and below ground. Hay was Line Railroad stopped in front of the Al Youn[...]a sheep during those early years but found it took too much man by the name of Godfrey that same year. time away from gr[...]gebrush to develop more hay The homestead was located on the Red Rock River about ground and irrigating . Grain was grown to help develop the one mile east of De[...]hay fields and provide additional income . Elmer was known This log cabin was lined with muslin on the inside and had as a[...]served as clerk of the Dell The ranch was expanded by purchasing various adjoining Scho[...]The Club brand (as it appears in the deck of cards) was[...]family). This was the start of the sheep operation in earnest.[...]had four children: Byron, born 1944; twins It was frightening for Addie to be alone in their cabin[...]en the Martinell Brothers partnership of 26 years was 1 begging for her fresh home-made bread. They w[...]and their sons acquired the Sheep 1 would tear it apart, eat it sitting on the front step, and then Cree[...] |
| [...]wife, Ethel, formed Lee This property was owned previously by Jim and Anna Martinell Compan[...]inells. mostly a hay base and not much pasture at that time, he Byron, Allen and Allen's wife, Yv[...]th, born 1977, Carlen, born 1979, Landon Station. It was formerly owned by George M. and and Krist[...]Byron and Kathleen live in the house that was built for[...]live in the original house that Elmer built for Addie in 1898.[...]The blue spruce tree that Elmer planted in the front yard was[...]as tall as his five-year-old granddaughter, Lois, that year in 1934. It is the only one of its kind along the river bottom[...]it was admitted to the Union, 08 Nov 1889. He bought his[...]homesteader named Godrey, the same year that he married[...]The ranch was inherited by the three sons and operated On 1[...]also includes the Handy homestead At that time Lee and Ethel (Hansen) and family where, iro[...]ritish Columbia) and their two 1935 and Babe Buck was her uncle. sons acqu[...]Helen Glaser in Lima Gobel and Buck/Handy places, was purchased on 21 Jun and their sons took[...]t, and his wife, Dorothy Ann Ferris of Dillon. At that time, they also purchased the (Peterson) l[...]Tex Creek until they left the away in January of that year. ranch and moved to Salmon ID in 1966. The land in the Centennial is used for summer pasture to Gordon and Glady[...]Gail Ann (born replace the pasture in Sheep Creek that was lost after the 1959), went to first grade at the Nicholia School before the partnership was dissolved. In 1980, still being short on family moved to Salmon. This was the last year the school spring pasture and hay land for the increasing numbers of was open. Bill (born 1961) and sister Kim (born 1962) were cattle , Lee Martinell Company purchased what was then too young for school. Students in S[...]own as the Tanner place west of the Dell airport. That bus to Lima for school. Before the bus bega[...]all, a 300-acre pivot sprinkler irrigation system was Sheep Creek in 1970, parents had to ta[...] |
| [...]like his grandfather, Elmer, had enjoyed . Gladys was a nurse-anesthesiologist while they Born 20 Apr 1897 at Bannack, Bertie was the daughter lived there. Their daughter, Marla, was born in 1970. In of Rufe and Montana (Nay) Mathews. Her mother was the 1978 they moved back to Sheep Creek and have[...]ad crossing accident at Dell 31 Jul 1976. Everett was on the ranch until his death 03 Jan 1980. The oldest daughter, Kari, is a veterinarian in Sidney, married to Craig Johnson. They have two sons, Ben and Cole. Susan lives in Missoula and has two children, da[...], Shelby. Gail Ann Treasurer, Bertie was elected to that office and during the married Dana Kisling and th[...]where following term served as deputy in that post. After working Gail is a speech pat~ologist. They have two daughters ,[...]e in Dillon. The youngest, Marla, She was a loyal and lifelong Democrat, seldom if e[...] |
| [...]1982 ceremony during which the WMC women's dorm was by the quiet, soft-spoken spinster. One friend remarked that officially redesignated "Georgia Mathews Residence Hall." the only time Bertie ever raised her voice was to a Those momentous occasions c[...]institution and those who attended and treasured it. Miss Mathews succumbed 08 Oct 1993 at the ag[...]her final years, denied vocal communication. She was less than a year away from reaching that rare century mark. Her entire life had unfolded w[...]Georgia would retain the stamina and character of that early-day mining camp while maintaining a lifelong pride in that heritage. She completed early schooling in Bannac[...]Treasurer in 1919, the first woman ever to occupy that post. Her major career, however, originated i[...]Second only to her love for the "Normal School" was her joined the staff of Montana State Normal College as loyalty to the Democratic Party. It is highly improbable that bookkeeper and, in recognition of leadership talents, she was she missed an election in more than 70 years. She was ever promoted to business manager just three year later. In 1942 insistent that "I always vote for the better candidate--not the[...]nal pinnacle with appointment as party. " It just so happened during that three-quarters of a dean of women, a position she[...]Her collection of donkey mascots was unbelievable--every Her achievements and hono[...]: size, every color, and in every room. It was an accepted first woman to serve on the vestry of St. James Episcopal fact among her many friends that if you wished to please Church, charter me[...] |
| She was an aggressive player and bidder and enjoyed few[...]long companions and many of their was a well-known sheep rancher in the Blacktail area.[...]ds in their back During the time that Julius worked there, Landon was able yard across from the college which they reve[...]Julius Mathias, the son of Otto and Mary Mathias, was progress throughout the[...] |
| [...]rsary celebration. Ref 175.03. Joseph Mautz was born at Apex 14 Dec 1912. His They[...]llon. After leasing the |
| [...]of eight siblings and a descendent of Henry Ford, was born 09 Oct 1895 in Taylorsville NC. During his e[...]was located 20 miles east of Lima on the north side o[...]the valley were hard and travel was impossible, Edith and[...]The only way to travel in the winter was by horse and[...]1956 when electricity was brought to the valley.[...]his 1925 Model T Ford purchased new Ranch was sold to Lee Martinell in June 1961. The lower for[...]Mayberry Ranch was sold to Frederick and Bernice[...]Boettecher 11 Aug 1977, and is now owned by Bob Dixon.[...]ring crews were fed delicious meals by Edith. She was in October 1933. The next year, Ralph continued o[...]alley and lived there for 12 years. Haying was done with horse-drawn machinery and a During this[...]ar from Monida to Lakeview with Ranch life was an around-the-clock job. Nothing was ever a team of horses and sleigh, and trap[...] |
| [...]Peterson Lewis and Dicksy Peterson Buhler. There was also a great love for their great- grandchildren,[...]pringer, Kyler Lewis and Kaytlynn Buhler. Pink was a member of the Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star in Lima and the Butte Shrine. He was Past Master of the Masonic Lodge. Edith was a member of the Elva Boardman Chapter Order of Ea[...]Lima and the Daughters of the Nile of Butte. She was Worthy Matron of Eastern Star in 1966 and initiat[...]1983 at the age of 87 in Dillon. Burial for both was at Mountain View Cemetery.[...]married 10 Jul 1930. Ref.161.03. Daniel Mayne was born 31 Mar 1907 in Thoeny, Valley County MT to M[...]n attended school in Scobey MT. As a young man he was employed on ranches and also worked as a carpenter. He was working in Centennial Valley when[...]s Hanson married in Dillon 10 July 1930. Lila was born 31 Jan 1907 in Lima MT, the fourth child[...]cDonald of Fred I. and Lou Emma Jones Hanson. She was raised on "Biker Gra[...]Diana Lynn Alley, born 03 Jul 1947 in Dillon, was the the Valley and also at the Riverside School n[...]a had one boy, Michael Dean, born 06 July was "Dynamite". She is the first grandchild of Joe and 1942 at Dillon. H[...]Dan passed away in Whitehall 31 Dec 1963 and is buried considered herself a junior deputy a[...]mes of cribbage. When he let her, 09 Feb 1987 and is buried in Dillon.[...] |
| [...]me of the stunned birds revive in the Deer Lodge. It was the kind of education most kids don't car and make a commotion. It was quite a scene, with John experience.[...]to the most interesting places. High school was somewhat less eventful, spread over Fifth grade was a country one-room school in the mountains[...]egrees at Western. Diana spent weekend with John. That year was punctuated by one two years at Wes[...]tree in the area. Another Elaine McAnally was born 07 Mar 1968 in Shelby and memory was of the time there was a huge rattlesnake behind Laurie Ann McAnally was born 05 Jul 1970 in Polson. the door in the outho[...]ability and is having fun with it, as well as having found a[...]graduation from Hermiston OR high school and was based[...]personalized plates that read KID AGN.[...] |
| [...]Blomquist ranch. Money was tight, but Truman had a plan. Verla Wilso[...]d lamb them and sell them, pay off the Truman was born 08 Mar 1922 and Verla was born 20 loan and have enough operating[...]to school, Truman decided he needed to know what was from there. Ironically, this lasted for one year and that band at the end of the road. He walked to Roberts[...]owboys, a couple of Beaverhead County and Dillon, that would last a lifetime. good dogs, and Verla driving the pickup and pulling the This was also the beginning of a dream to own a ranch and camp trailer, began the eight-day drive that brought the run a thousand head of cattle, a dream that would come true cattle from the Valley to the[...]Willard place (where Jeff and Tami start. He was a staunch supporter of the fair and a memb[...] |
| positions through the years. Truman was bishop or in the He met and married[...]Clothing Store in 1923. It was first located in the Andrus Verla died 07 Sep[...]o Bozeman in 1925 and opened a branch of where he was from, he was quick to reply, "Dillon, the McCra[...]T. Lee, as he was known to all, was bitten by the ski bug[...]sport. Soon there was a nucleus of 12 to 15 people and[...]the Dillon Ski Club operated it until the war in 1941.[...]nd hearty handshake. He never met a stranger and was always ready to help a neighbor. Verla ha[...] |
| [...]an a good operation in this part of the state and was instrumental in forming the for local skiers. The ski lift was hit by lightning and totally Northern Division Sk[...]ack from local businesses, rebuilt it into a fine ski area. It is now a college, he started the support and coachin[...]f Commerce's 1977. One of Dick's joys was to ski again with T. Lee on Little Skiers program[...]the new rebuilt area. of T. Lee's greatest joys was the success that the local skiers Dick returned to Dillon, f[...]T. Lee also found time to be Mayor of Dillon, was one Gaines and T. Lee and worked his way[...]rse. divorced in 1970. Phyllis was instrumental in forming the Dillon Volunteer[...]tal Auxiliary in Montana. In Dillon Dick was active in Jaycees, Chamber of tow and helped it gain its present position. She was a Commerce, Kiwanis and served as pres[...]and also the Division Ski Association and was on the National Board of Dillon Soroptomists. She[...]byterian One of Dick's pastimes was building and remodeling Church, the Dillon Ski Club and was a faithful helper to T. houses and building[...]nd spent four years McCracken cabin after it burned down. in the U.S. Marine Corps, attended U[...]ated in 1950. He worked Mountain and was awarded the Montana SBA "Man of the for th[...] |
| [...]procedures in the educational field. He was honored with by hunting, backpacking, pack trips,[...]Dorthianna Boka Dean Walter McDowell was born 03 Apr 1923 to Walter L. and Roberta (Bean)[...]services were available there . His childhood was spent at Monida where he attended the one-room school and graduated from eighth grade. He was the school's favorite student. He whittled wooden[...]graduating, in 1941, he enlisted in the Army and was assigned to the 414th Military Police at Fort Knox KY. From there he was sent with a convoy to North Africa to bring back[...]He served three and a half years in the Army and was discharged with the rank of Corporal. At th[...]ials, they accepted Another special interest was Indian artifacts. Through positions in Eltopia WA. This was a small rural school and the years of[...] |
| Dean was a Firearms Safety Instructor for twenty years. Dick graduated from Miles City High School. From He was a Lifetime Member of the National Education[...]ed 09 Aug 1993 from complications of diabetes and is buried in the Lind WA Cemetery. His wife, Dorothianna is a retired teacher and still lives in Lind.[...]He enlisted in the Army Air Force where he was a 1st[...]He was discharged in 1945 and entered the University of[...]Sarah Elizabeth "Sally" McGuire was born in Sappington[...]Mary L. (Elliott) McGuire of Ringling MT. She was the Ref167.15.[...]am L. "Bill" McGuire of Missoula. Billings MT. At that time the family consisted of Dick and Sall[...]ssoula under dog Boots and a cat Tim. A son, Tom, was born the the United States Cadet Nurs[...]nty years as a geriatrics nurse at Parkview Acres was District Manager of the Dillon District.[...]nter in Dillon. Richard David "Dick" McEldery was born in Miles City She ended her career[...]F. McEldery David John "Dave" McEldery was born in Missoula. He of Oroville WA and Ro[...] |
| Susan Marie "Sue" (McEldery) Poulton was born in Missoula. She married Larry Poulton of Wi[...]de in Malta MT. Richard James "Rick" McEldery was born in Miles City. He married Joy Barbieri. They[...]attle WA. Carole Ann "Cooky" (McEldery) Later was born in Miles City. She married Rick Later of Dil[...]on. Mary Candice "Candi" (McEldery) Whitworth was born his own law office in Dillon. For a[...]y had a son, Travis. Candi and Dick divorced. She is various young lawyers. In 1953 he formed[...]death . Thomas Michael "Tom" McEldery was born in Butte McFadden was regarded as an exacting legal scholar, and MT. He[...]negligence under the statutes providing that a guest riding by has two sons, Justin and Josh.[...]argued that, if negligence existed, it was up to the jury to[...]determine whether or not such negligence was gross. Theodore F. McFadden[...]ainst the sheriff for false arrest. The plaintiff was arrested in Beaverhead County but was transported across Theodore Francis McFadden was born 08 Dec 1898 in Silver Bow County w[...]Gibbons) County jail. The action was brought in Silver Bow County, McFadden. His father was a miner. Ted received his but on McF[...]and parochial schools in Beaverhead County was granted, which resulted in an appeal Butte MT an[...]McFadden successfully argued that, if there was false Admitted to the Montana Bar that same year, he formed imprisonment or false arrest, it occurred at the moment the the law partnership of McFadden & Zundel with a prisoner was arrested in Beaverhead County, and that no classmate, Wilbur Zundel. The firm was in Butte and he part or cause of action arose within Silver Bow County. remained in that association until 1923. The[...]were so He moved to Dillon where he at first was associated in important that it was reported with exhaustive annotation in practice[...]firm's name In the early 1950s, McFadden was principal attorney in was changed to Gilbert, Gilbert & McFadden at that time. a will contest wherein an executor of a will was replaced He continued in the partnership[...] |
| [...]a will contest. McFadden's argument, He was also a member of the Mining District Bar sustained in the Montana Supreme Court, was that under Association, BPOE, Knights of Colu[...]the local country club. His religious affiliation was with St. could contest a will was one who would succeed to some Rose Roman[...]ion of the estate if the will were set aside, and that an 1950s he served as chairman of a building-fund drive. executor who was not an heir was not such a person. In politics he was a Democrat. His favorite recreation This case, too, was reported in American Law Reports; was playing golf. He married Allie Hazelton 04 Aug 1927 it attracted wide attention and was argued in moot court in Dillon. She was the daughter of Adelphus Bartlett Keith competiti[...]ominic Ori. Dillon city attorney for 13 years. He was director of The Theodore F. McFadden di[...]Jennifer Maxine Bolick was born 15 Feb 1964, in Cut[...]Jonathan Carl Bolick, was born.[...]ana in April 1971 while waiting to join Alex, who was[...]Jennifer's teacher at the Mary Innes School was Mrs.[...]garden. She even got to take some baby chicks to school for[...]and making new ones. They even spent a couple of years in[...]Ankara, Turkey. Who would know that 18 years later she[...].147.21. father had been stationed in that country years earlier?[...] |
| [...]Ann Elliot 1990. Tater grew up in Idaho but was born in Izmir Turkey, while his parents were st[...]in the Ai; Jim, or better known as Mac, was born in Stony Kirk, Force. He was attending Montana State University when[...]College in Bozeman in 1907. In December of that year, just one week before He li[...]Fort Benton. L.D. Sharp was the father of Grant Sharp who They married[...]years and married Ann moved to Dillon. Jennifer is an insurance agent for Western Elliot 23 Nov[...]ed from Scotland with States Insurance and Todd is a sales representative for her family in[...]Beaverhead County in The house they live in was built in 1915 by Jennifer's 1938, taking up[...]here until Jim passed away in January the house was built, the place used to be an old stagecoach[...]e run by Simon Estes, known as Watson ranch was sold in 1956 to the Tanner family of Idaho. Sta[...]ive, Ann (Mrs. Their first child, Ty Van McKay, was born 10 Jun 1997. Don Bramlette)[...] |
Beaverhead County Museum Association, More History of Beaverhead County Part A (Pages 1-551) (1997). Montana History Portal, accessed 18/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/78578
