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) (14778203472)

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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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is activities. He has been a favorite speakeron many occasions, and has also reduced many ofhis thoughtful studies to writing. A synopsis andabstract of some of his writings has been publishedin a small booklet entitled After the War, andsome of his discussions betray a very keen analysisof fundamentals that vitallv affect the structure ofcivilization in America as elsewhere. The weddedlife of Judge Miller has been ideal, and to an un-usual degree they have been ■ bound together bycommon sympathies and aims. Major Fellows D. Pease. Eighty-six years ofage, and all but the first twenty spent in the farwest. Major Fellows D. Pease of Lodgegrass wasat the time of his death probably the only manin Montana who could tell from personal experienceand witness the main outline of events connectedwith the earliest white occupation of the territory.His life since before the Civil war was spent withinthe confines of Montana. He was on the groundlong before either the territories of Idaho or Mon-
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^A^ HISTORY OF MONTANA 1051 tana were a matter for serious consideration. In-dian fighter, Indian agent, friend and adviser,of thered men, steadily through all the years he has en-deavored to do justice to the original occupants ofthe land and promote the welfare of the two racesin their relations. Major Pease was born in Tioga County, Pennsyl-vania, March 16, 1834. His father, Oliver Pease, wasdescended from an Englishman who with two broth-ers were followers of Oliver Cromwell, and at thedownfall of their leader two were imprisoned. Theywere released by their sailor brother and brought toAmerica, landing on the Island of Marthas Vine-yard. The sailor brother married with the daughterof a chief of a tribe of Indians on the Atlantic coast,and from this union descended Oliver Pease, accord-ing to family tradition. Oliver Pease was a farmer,a faaatic Methodist, and widely known as thepraying evangelist farmer. It is not certain wherehe was born, but he moved from New York Stateinto Penn