Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout (1921) (14798381323)

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Title: Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout ...

Year: 1921 (1920s)

Authors: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed

Subjects: Montana -- History Montana -- Biography

Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society

Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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children, namely: Henry, Mrs. Ereaux,Fred, Mrs. Margaret Ernest, Bertha and Louis.Mr. and Mrs. Ereaux have two children, Loraineand Victor. Mr. Ereaux is a product of the great West, andhaving passed through much of the formative periodof Montana feels a proprietary interest in the com-monwealth which would not be his if he had comehere after* everything had been settled, for he hashad the privilege of bearing his part in the greatwork, both as one of the historic cowboys andranchmen. Later he has rendered equally raluableservice as a business man, and has directed wiselyand efficiently the civic affairs of his ward as amember of the City Council of his municipality.It is more than likely in the years to come that hewill be called upon to exert himself to a still greaterextent, for the people need such men as he to rep-resent them in office. Edgar Lf.k, of Dodson, one of the early settlershere, came to this region in 1899 from Winterset,Iowa, having been born in that state, in Madison

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HISTORY OF MONTANA 985 County, on March 22, 1876. His father was Hamil-ton Lee, born at Utica, Ohio, September 25, 1854, ason of Elisha Bowman Lee, who took his family toIowa when Hamilton was ten years old. Subse-quently he became one of the early settlers of Kan-sas, and then, still later, went into Nebraska anddied near Great Bend a few years later. Elisha B.Lee married Ann Shields, who survived her husbandmany years and passed away at Great Bend in igi6,aged ninety-three years. Their children who reachedmature years were as follows: John, who is afarmer of Ness County, Nebraska; Mary, who mar-ried William Dabney, lives at North Platte, Ne-braska ; Hamilton, who became the father of EdgarLee; Martha, who married Daniel Bird, died inBarton County, Kansas; and Frances, who becamethe wife of Charley Gunn, of Great Bend. Elisha B. Lee was a whig and later a republican,and he furnished a son to the Union Army duringthe war between the North and the South.Physically he was a man of large

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