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) (14755419046)

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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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on at the court house at Great Falls, and heis now the chief and duly elected county treasurer. Mr. .Andretta is a republican and is affiliated withthe Knights of Columbus. He married. SeptemberI, 1914, Mary Isabell Snyder. She was horn atKansas City, Kansas, a daughter of Winfield P.and Nancy (Whitehouse) Snyder, the fifth of theireight children, seven of whom are still living. Mrs.Andretta is a graduate with the class of 1911 fromthe Nurses Training School at St. Patricks Hos-pital in Butte. James P. Burns, present sheriff of CascadeCounty, is a veteran railroader and has been con-nected with the Great Northern Railway, with homeand headquarters at Great Falls, for over twenty-five years. He has also been interested in ranching,and is one of the most popular citizens of Cas-cade County, the best evidence of which is furnishedin the fact that he was elected sheriff on the demo-cratic ticket in a nominally republican strongholdof Montana. Mr. Burns was born on his fathers farm in Iowa
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-^M )^csLJi7^>u^ HISTORY OF MONTANA 835 County, Wisconsin, Decemlier 30, 1871, a son ofJames and Martha (Connars) Burns. His fatherwas born in Ireland and died in September, 1918,at the age of eightj-two, while his mother is anative of Wisconsin and is still living. Sheriff Burnsis the second in a family of four sons and fourdaughters. His father came to America when ayoung man by sailing ship, and was a pioneer set-tler in Iowa County, Wisconsin. That district wasthen new, raw and undeveloped, and he made a farmfrom the midst of the heavy timber and becamewidely known as a successful farmer and dairyman.He also was honored by his fellow citizens in localoffices, serving as assessor for several terms. Hewas a loyal democrat and in religion a Catholic. James P. Burns received his education in the pub-lic schools of Iowa County, Wisconsin, until he wasseventeen. For several years after that he operateda threshing outfit, but in 1893 moved to St. Paul,Minnesota, and entered the train