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) (14778195902)

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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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tracts of farm land and possessed a veryaccurate knowledge of the values of land in thissection of the state. He has always enjoyed theabsolute confidence of all with whom he has haddealings and has been numbered among the repre-sentative men of his community. T. KoPSLAND. To a great extent the prosperityof the newer sections of the United States is dueto the honest industry, the sturdy perseverance andthe wise economy which so prominently characterizesthe foreign element, both those who have come di-rect from the European nations and their American-born children. They have entered very largely intoour great cosmopolitan population, and by compari-son with their old country surroundings thesepeople have readily recognized the fact that in theUnited States lies the greatest opportunities for theman of energy and ambition. And because of thismany have broken the ties of home and native landand have entered earnestly upon the task of gainingin the new world a home and a competence. Among
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^.JU>~=n.j=^ ^ /. i^JLy-i^i^f^^^^^ HISTORY OF MONTANA this class may be mentioned the Kopsland family,of whom T. Kopsland, a retired resident of Flat-head County, is a worthy representative and thehead of his family in this country, a man who hasperformed his full duty in every phase of lifesactivities in which he has engaged and who isnow enjoying the good will and confidence of allwho know him. T. Kopsland is a Scandinavian by nativity, hav-ing been born in Norway in 1850, and is the sonof Thomas and Karen Marie Kopsland. He waseducated in the schools of his native land, wherehe remained until he was nineteen years of age.In 1869, with a laudable ambition to improve hismaterial affairs, he immigrated, to the United States,landing in New York harbor on April 12, 1869.He at once went to Northeastern Iowa, to whichplace friends from his home land had precededhim, and there he obtained employment. Laterhe went to Minnesota, where he engaged in farm-ing and also in the buying and sell