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) (14591720778)

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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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for the (ireat Northern Railway at Dod-son, holding the position for some time. He thenengaged in farming in Old Valley, in what is nowSheridan County, Montana, to which he devotedhimself until 1917, when he resumed his old voca-tion of telegraph operator with the Great NorthernRailway at Enid, Montana, where he now remains.Politically he is a stanch republican, while frater-nally he is a member of the Independent Order ofOdd Fellows and the Telegraphers Union. The subject of this sketch received his elementaleducation in the public schools of Faribault, Minne-sota, supplementing this by a thorough course inBrowns Business College at Faribault. When fif-teen years of age he entered the office of the Fari-bault Republican to learn the printing trade, andserved an apprenticeship of four years, for whichhe received $3 a week, in addition to which hereceived a bounty on the completion of his ap-prenticeship. Then, at the age of nineteen years,he entered the employ of the Badger Herald at
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HISTORY OF MONTANA 767 Badger, Minnesota, but at the end of a year he wentto Wagner, Montana. In the spring of 1899 ^r-Parsons went to Malta, Montana, and was con-nected with the Enterprise there for about ten yearsas foreman. During this period he took an activepart in the organization of Phillips County, of whichMalta became the county seat. He then came toHavre as night foreman of the Havre Promoter, adaily paper, and eventually became impressed withthe value of that paper as a desirable newspaperproperty. On June 15, 1919, in association with GailWilson, he bought the Promoter, which they con-ducted until January, 1920, when Mr. Parsons dis-posed of his interests in the Promoter and removedwith his family to Whitefish, a new railroad townin Flathead County, where he became connectedwith the mechanical department of the WhitefishPilot. On June 15, 1912, Mr. Parsons was married toBertha Neumann, who was born in Melrose, Minne-sota, the. daughter of John Neumann, a retiredfarmer of t