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Edirerlon Grandson \lllt;10Bv I IIWK q\ INNStandurri-Post Feature Editor‘Thre.us had been made thatanvone wotih! do sliot who dared%to i ai'♦ Mi S!i*i Spang.ed Banner, T:c threat. were bravado, bu omken horsemen at night often fued iv.iui mi shots at the Rod, White and B ue while cheer-ins dofi 1),, .That p.—age f o;n tta memoirs of one of S . d n e y Edgerton’sdaughtns was roe, led here Sat-urdav b\ the on.v grandson of Montana’s fiit territorial governor.Visiting here from Ryder wood, Wash . were Mr and Mrs. Herbert Kdgerton Rolfe Rolfe is 78, his wife 72 Rolfe * mother was Martha Edgnton, ixnn in Akron, Ohio, .i daughter of the man whom President \br ti n Lincoln named gove no of .Morgana Territory on !\Lt\ : 1804. when the Land of tin- Shuim;; Mountains achieved terr:to:\a status Hlt;oie, tv n m H'-iena, a Mon-Recalls Territorial Historytana territoriahst g ew up n an environment of Montana hi*lory. His father, Herbert P Rolfe w s an engineer and laid out the town of Great Falls for Pans Gibson, founder of the Electric City ll:s father also founded an I owned the Great Fa Is Leader and wvs a superintendent of schools inHelena.The grandson of Kdgerton and hr** wife met in Great FalH H s wife a native of New York, was8 yeai s old when she came to the Electric City with her parents The Rolfe* are parents of x children, have grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.Rolfe s mother, Martha Edger-ton who wrote conMderahle Montana history under the name of Mrs M K Pla.sMiian, was just 13 when she came *o the Treas ure Sfate with Gov Kdgerton w hen President Lineoln named Kdgerton chief justice of the Territory of Idaho Instead of being assigned to Lew i.ston. as heV n was *ent toBanriack.Roife recalls fron hi« mother'smemosa noifthat Kdgerton rcaii/ed ?tor v ■ theareaas*(iff»Mountains couldn'tIt1Direr roott\ernedas arartofIdahoTerr ♦ f a i ’ %Rolife said“Mygraridlathcr is ihe-frenu•ml)oredasbeige thefirstten ;ton.ai go\, ei nlt;»r of Mon*tana,buttisn'tso re d,.v re-» *a lielt;ci f 1 » o fi II)illhr■ anda rtfj:h« w Wilbur Ii-keSatiders.played a Joad-mgroleinsec utmgternmnalst a’8 forMlt;mtaniiKdgerton, a Ropijh ;( ai Continued Page 8. Co'w l soIhs IxJwihsiR( I l i; \\ \( u\|) \t.xlav amt (oniuht. I'arthMonriat lliuh iixlav 76. I* • wnijjht I. (Hie \*ar a^«* in
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The Montana Standard
Butte, Montana, US
Sun, Sep 13, 1964
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