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) (14778232212)

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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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anuary, I9I9>and gave the city a splendid administration of itsmunicipal affairs. The offices of Simpson & Truitt are in the Owen-house Building. Mr. Simpson is a republican andduring 1918 served by appointment as county com-missioner. He is a member of the MethodistChurch and is affiliated with Bozeman Lodge No.18. .A.ncient Free and Accepted Masons, Zona Chap-ter No. 12. Royal .■\rch Masons, St. Johns Com-mandery No. 12, Knights Templar, and BozemanLodge No. 463 of the Elks. He is an active mem-ber of the Chamber of Commerce. His firm ownsthe Senator Hoffman corner opposite the post-office at Bozeman. and Mr. Simpson makes hishome there, while his partner resides in the Ever-green Apartments. Simpson & Truitt own a ranchadjoining the Montana State College and the town-site on the south. This consists of 160 acres ofirrigated land. In 1880, at Columbus, Illinois, Mr. Simpson mar-ried Miss Lizzie C. Truitt, daughter of Sylvesterand Harriet (Woodworth) Truitt, both now de-
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HISTORY OF MONTANA 1179 ceased. Sylvester Truitt was born in Kentuckyin 1834, was an early settler in Western Illinoisand in iS8i moved to Kansas, where he continuedas a farmer and died at Ottawa in that state in1918. Air. and Mrs. Simpson have four children:Clyde A. was a graduate of the Gem City Busi-ness College at Quincy, was a bookkeeper for theMorris Packing Company and died at Agricola,Kansas, at the age of twenty-three; James Syl-vester finished his education in a business collegeat Lawrence, Kansas, and is on his fathers ranchwest of Bozeman; Ralph died at the age of _ tenyears at Agricola, Kansas; Mary Catherine is agraduate of the high school at VVaverly, Kansas,attended the Montana State College and is the wifeof Earl McMahon, a shoe salesman living at Boze-man. Samuel C. Ford. The quality that has distin-guished and permeated the entire administration ofSamuel C. Ford as attorney general of Montanahas been a moral courage that has kept him true tohis convictions and princ