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) (14775194091)

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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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school of the com-munity. The first term was held in the residenceof William Meadors and was taught by Mrs. An-nette Meadors, who was succeeded by Mrs. Fair-field, she later becoming the wife of Granville Stew-art, one of Montanas important citizens. WalterKemmis was one of Mrs. Fairfields pupils, and hecompleted his schooling under her instruction. Mr. Kemmis, Sr., was an active citizen of hislocality in politics and other community mattersand voted as a republican. He spent the vigor ofhis life in old Dawson County and was in sym-pathy with the movement to create Richland County.His name is enrolled among the honored pioneers ofMontana and as one of its founders and upbuilders.His widow still resides in Sidney and has reachedthe age of seventy-one years. Thompson A. Kemmis, who was born in Wasli-ington County, New York, September 29, 1829, wasdescended from a colonial family of that region. Hewas a son of Samuel D. and Mary (Rood) Kem-mis. Samuel and Cornelius Kemmis, brothers, mi-
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HISTORY OF MONTANA 745 grated from Washington County, New York, andwintered at Detroit, Michigan, en route to Illinois,where they finally settled in Whiteside County. Itwas there that Thompson Kemmis grew to yearsof maturity and received his educational training.In 1853 he crossed the plains to California, but afterexperimenting with mining a short time he returnedto New York by the Isthmus of Panama, in 1856,and resumed his farming operations in Illinois.Just before the outbreak of the Civil war he movedto Nebraska, and at Omaha enlisted as a soldier inthe First Nebraska Cavalry. His services as a sol-dier were performed on the plains of the West,guarding stage lines, etc., from Indian attacks andthe depredations of the Sioux tribe. He was dis-charged in 1865, having escaped wounds. The wife of Thompson A. Kemmis, Jane E., is adaughter of John F. Betey, who migrated from hisnative state of Vermont to Iowa and became afarmer in Clinton County and later in the vicinityof Walker, Iowa.