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) (14778529495)

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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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put in the first saw mill onFlathead Lake. This mill was located on what isknown as Goose Bay, on the west shore of the lake.In the fall of the same year he moved to his ranchin Dayton Valley, where he remained for seventeenyears. In October, 1895, he was married to Clara Des-champs. Three of the four daughters with whichthey were blessed are now married, and a son, Dun-can A., who is now seventeen years old, is a studentin the high scliool. Nellie B. is now Mrs. GurdenH. Foy and has a son. Perry. Katie B. is now Mrs.Ire R. Cope. Stella M. is now Mrs. John P. Barryand has a son, Rodney. The third daughter, ClaraM.. died at the age of eleven years. Mr. ^McCarthy was employed for eight seasons inthe service of the United States Geological Survey,and while so engaged helped to establish the interna-tional boundary between the United States and Can-ada and also to map the Glacier National Park. In the summer of 1906, being a widower, he soldhis Dayton Valley ranch, and in November of the
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HISTORY OF MONTANA 997 same year he was married to Mrs. Malinea LalondBenson, who had two children, a daughter Violet,who is now Mrs. Roy Gill Sparke, and a son AndrewLee Lalond, of Seattle, Washington. From 1908 to 1916 Mr. McCarthy was engaged assales manager for a real estate firm selling largetracts of land located in various parts of the UnitedStates and Canada, and this afforded him an oppor-tunity for quite extensive traveling throughout thecountry. Among other successful transactions wasthe sale of a fifty-acre addition to Palm Beach, Flor-ida. It is known as the Palm Beach Heights Addi-tion and is now the most valuable residentialproperty in the city. This transaction netted him avery handsome profit. He was elected a justice of the peace of KalispellTownship in 1916 and in 1917 he received the ap-pointment as police judge, and is at present holdingboth these offices, having been re-elected in our lastgeneral election. Big of heart, genial in manner and thorough inwhatever he