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) (14755352896)

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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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hen he sowed a crop ofoats and harvested about thirty-five bushels to theacre on sod. The seed was sown on the 17th ofMay, and with the exception of a snow fall of twofeet three days after he had sowed the seed noother moisture came during the growth and develop-ment of the crop. In 1909 a more propitious seasonwas experienced, and in that year his oats made ayield of eighty bushels to the acre. The region of Dunlap Creek is now a settledcommunity, with roads and lanes running in everydirection, and the country is being rapidly convertedfrom a stock country to a mixed stock and farmingcommunity. In the early days of his residence hereMr. Wandell felt deeply the lack of school facilities.for the nearest schoolhouse was twelve miles dis-t.Tiit. the district running in another direction sixtymiles and touching the Missouri River on the Northwest. But this difficulty was overcome in the Wan-dell home by placing a governess therein, whilelater their daughter wa; sent to the Glendive School
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loSl.lll DI-.MA HISTORY OF MONTANA 757 and still later she attended the South Bend, Indiana,High School. She completed her educational train-ing in the normal school at Cedar Falls, Iowa. Mr. Wandell came to Montana from DelawareCounty, Iowa, his native state, his birth occurringin Clayton County April 21, 1857, and he grew up inthat locality and received his educational trainingin its public schools. His father, Ephraim Wan-dell, had located in Iowa as early as 1854, securinga claim of the public lands in Clayton County, andthere he passed the remainder of his life. In thattime he accumulated and developed a large farm,and he followed both farming and stock raising.His political support was given to the republicanparty, and he was a Universalist in his religiousaffiliations. In Cattaraugus County, New York, Mr.Wandell was married to Miss Angeline Tracy, whowas born in that locality, and she is now living inDelaware County, Iowa, at the age of eighty-sevenyears, surviving her husband,