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) (14778498415)

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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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ness of manufacturing soap and candles,moving his plant to Utica, New York. While liv-ing in the latter city he was employed as superin-tendent of the laying out the grounds of the UticaCemetery. His last years were spent at Utica,New York. A strong republican, he rendered hisparty and country valuable service in putting downthe Copperheads in his neighborhood during thewar between the North and the South, doing thisat great personal danger, his life oftentimes beingthreatened, Myron McDaniel attended the schools^ of Caze-novia, New York, and resided in New York Stateuntil the spring of 1880, when he came to Montana,making the trip by rail as far as Bismarck. NorthDakota, and from there up the Missouri River onthe steamer Far West to Belton. Montana. Hethen went with a mule team to Sun River, andfrom there traveled in company with James Austinin a wagon driven by hor.ses to the Chestnut Val-ley. Here he pre-empted 160 acres of land andengaged in raising dairy cattle, sheep and horses,
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A^^^^^^a..^ HISTORY Ol- MONTANA 945 and also conducted a saw-mill for about six years.During that period his cattle ranged from lOO to400 head, and his sheep about 1,000 head, but atpresent he has only about 350 head of sheep andthe same number of cattle. His horses now num-ber about 100 head. For about thirty years he hasbeen a breeder of Hambletonian horses, and isnow breeding the Percheron strain as well. Heprefers raising beef cattle. He owns 5,120 acresof land, 640 acres in the home place and the re-mainder situated on Sheep Creek. Mr. McDanielhas never cared for politics, but reserves to him-self an independence in voting, believing it to behis right to do so, as he is an American citizenof more than average intelligence. In addition tohis agricultural interests he is a stockholder in theRocky Mountain Fire Insurance Company, the Cas-cade Co-operative Association and in an oil concernat Cooper, Wyoming. On August 3, 1873, ^Ir. McDaniel was marriedto Elizabeth J. Bond, born at Ki