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) (14755550816)

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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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management of the TwinBridges Independent, and is now the responsibledirector of the affairs of that well known Montananewspaper. Mr. Rood was born at Faribault, Minnesota, Au-gust 29, 1881. His father. Nelson Rood, was bornat Christiania, Norway, in 1849, came to the UnitedStates when about twenty years of age, and hassince lived at Faribault, Minnesota, where he wasan early settler. He now lives retired. He is arepublican and a member of the Lutheran Church,and before coming to this country served in theNorwegian Army. William Elmer Rood is the onlyson and the youngest of three children. His sisterAgnes lives at home and his sister Elma is a pro-fessional nurse with home at Minneapolis and dur-ing the late war was an army nurse at Fort Snelling. William Elmer Rood was educated in the publicschools of Faribault and left school at the age ofsixteen to learn the printing trade in a local office.For one year he worked as a printer at Tacoma,Washington, for another year was editor of the
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AM(/X^^i>cA^y^^ // HISTORY OF MONTANA Oregon Observer at Grants Pass, and for a yearand a half did newspaper work at Park River, NorthDakota. He was also editor for one year of theEveleth News at Eveleth, Minnesota. On coming toMontana in 1913 Mr. Rood took up a homestead onthe McHessor Bench, eighteen miles south of TwinBridges. He still owns his homestead and a quartersection besides, and in the intervals of his dutiesas a newspaper man gives his active supervision tothis property. In 1918 he accepted a proposition fromthe stockholders of the Twin Bridges Independentto assume the editorship and business managementof that journal. The Independent was establishedin 1915, is a republican paper, and circulates inMadison and surrounding counties, being issuedevery Friday. The stockholders of the organiza-tion are A. J. Wilcomb, Al Weingard, of Waterloo,J. C. Siedensticker, of Twin Bridges, and J. R.Jones, a Twin Bridges attorney. Mr. Rood is clerk of School District No. 61.Politically