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) (14591871228)

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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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a, forty miles away, for safetv.Mr. OBoyle remembers one incident of three whitemen being caught by the red men and burned todeath. Later several $20 gold pieces were raked outof the ashes. General How^ard, with a body oftroops, came over from Oregon, ostensibly to punishthe Indians, but as a matter of fact he was afraidto attack the redskins, keeping about two days be-hind them, in consequence of which the Indians, whoknew he was afraid of them, called him GeneralBehind Hand. Through subsequent years Mr. OBoyle has con-sistently given his support and influence to everymovement for the advancement and improvement ofhis communit), and he has lived to see it developinto one of the choicest and most picturesque sec-tions of the great Treasure State. He has neverregretted leaving his native land, for he has foundopportunities here not possible in his native land,and he has proved an honor to his adopted coun-try, enjoying to a marked degree the confidenceand good will of all who know him.
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VIR. AND MRS. JAMES OROYLE HISTORY OF MONTANA 977 Kosciusko Hamilton, M. D., the pioneer physi-cian of Dodson, identified himself with Montanain June, 1908, and established himself at Dodsontwo years later. He came to the state as physicianand surgeon in the United States Reclamation Serv-ice, beginning his work at Fort Shaw. He was nextat Babb, and then Malta, where he completed hisservices to the Government, following which he cameto Dodson, and is not only engaged in a medicalpractice but is also conducting a drug store. Doctor Hamilton was born in Union County, Ten-nessee, near Maynardsville, January 11, 1873, a sonof Ezra A. Hamilton and grandson of WilliamHamilton, a member of an old established Americanfamily of English origin. The Hamiltons were orig-inally farmers, and were always loyal in their sup-port of the Government, participating in all of thecountrys wars, and during that between the Northand the South espoused the Union cause, and someof them served in the Federal Ar