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) (14592081357)

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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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e Creek as an employe of Smith Ball, whilein the winters he did logging for Mel Trask andGraves for four years. For two years he wasproprietor of a hotel at Spring Mountain, Idaho,and then engaged in ranching on the head of theLemhi in Idaho. He remained in that locality tenyears, and Ijter transferred his ranching headquar-ters to the Big Hole Basin in Montana, and diedat Jackson in that community on September 15,1906. He was a democrat and a member of theCatholic Church. Charles Dishno married Septem-ber 17. i8s6. Rosella Little, who was born in Ver-mont in 1842 and is now living with her son Silas,the oldest of her children. Eliza, the second in age,died at Spring Mountain. Idaho, being killed by asnow slide on December 23. 1883. She married RockVezina and he is now living at Leadore.. Idaho.Julia died at Hancock. Michigan, in IQ14. wife ofAndrew Yell, also deceased. Mr. Yell was a con-tractor and builder and had the contract for thehardwood finish in the First National Bank Build-
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%^. c^.u^ HISTORY OF MONTANA 1187 ing at Dillon. Minnie, the fourth of the children,is the wife of Michael Proulx, a miner at Leadore,Idaho. Silas C. Dishno was educated in the public schoolsof Champion, Michigan, but at the age of fourteenbegan working in the woods with his father andlater in the mines of Northern Michigan. He wastwenty-one years of age when he came to Mon-tana in 1879 and for four years was associated withhis father in the contracting business on RattleSnake Creek. He worked in the mines around Ban-nack one year, spent two years in the mines ofSpring Mountain, Idaho, and a year and a half inthe smelters at Anaconda. For two years he wasalso in the mines where the present town of Gil-more, Idaho, now stands. Mr. Dishno began hiscareer as a cattle rancher in Idaho, but in July,1895, came to the Big Hole Basin of Montana, andhas been one of the chief factors among the agri-culturists and stockmen of that community for aquarter of a century. He owns 4,000 acres in aranc