Montana Pioneer Horse Buyer Shaped War Mounts
Johnny Conway emerges as Montana’s leading horse buyer, shipping 500 Madison county horses to an English buyer before selling to a British army, netting 18000 dollars. Prices rose from four to forty dollars per head as wars drew mounts for France Britain and Italy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Virginia City
Conway’s
Alder Gulch Society
Bob
Frank
Johnny
Billy Conway
Madison County
Johnny Conway
Billy
Billings
Sarpy Creek
Big Horn County
Ogden
Daly
Cheyenne
South Africa
Italy
France
Vessel named in honor of Montana reporter Connolly
A 7000 ton tanker built by Pennsylvania Shipbuilding at Gloucester New Jersey was christened with the name of John M. Connolly, a former Montana newspaper man. Connolly worked on the Butte Inter Mountain and Helena Daily Record before 1903, later in Denver, and died October 31 1916. His daughter christened the vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
John M. Connolly
Helena
Butte
Denver
Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Corporation
Glouster
N. J
Connolly
Ireland
England
Butte Inter Mountain
Helena Daily Record
State House
Record
Albert Hawkins
Portland Oregonian
Frank F. Farrar
The
Denver News
Fred Beckholdt
John C
Ex-Farmer Brothers Build Billings Empire
Two Swiss brothers, Christian and Peter Yegen, left Switzerland via Montana in a Westward move. They founded Yegen Bros Inc in Billings, building a department store, banking, livestock and land holdings, with annual sales over a million and interests across the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Montana
Christian Yegen
Peter Yegen
Yegen Bros, Inc
Pete
Chris
Anaconda
Butte
Gardiner
West
Mississippi bound river pilot Hy Beedle returns to war effort
Captain Hiram Beedle, known as Hy, leaves Montana to pilot freight boats on the Mississippi for the government. A veteran river man, he previously piloted in Alaska and the Yukon before the iron horse era reduced river service. He alternates seasonal stays between Montana and the north as spring nears.
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Hiram Beedle
Sam
Hy’’ Beedle
Montana
Billings
Home Sweet Home
Mississippi
Missouri
Iron Horse
North
Alaska
Yukon
Yellowstone
Registered nurses in state total 687
State survey by Miss Margaret Hughes for the American Nurses Association shows 697 registered nurses, 54 enrolled for Red Cross work, 13 hospital training schools, 261 total registrations, 57 graduates in 1918, 97 fall 1917 enrollments, 320 additional enrollment capacity for 1917-1918, 21 not registered, 9 graduates in 1912, 21 enrolled in 1917-1918.
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Montana
Margaret Hughes
Red Cross Nursing Service
American Nurses’ Association
Red Cross
National Nurses’ Association
Miss Hughes
West's first manufacturing plant was a Yellowstone whiskey distillery
Nearly eighty five years ago a whiskey distillery near the Yellowstone Yellowstone Missouri junction operated for less than a year. Kenneth MacKenzie of the American Fur Company opened the plant to supply liquor for trade with plains tribes, aiming to beat government liquor bans and support fur commerce. The operation moved up the Missouri, endured confiscations at Fort Leavenworth, and continued near the Montana Dakota line to bolster trading.
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West
Yellowstone
Montana
Treasure State
Missouri
North Dakota
Missouri River
Iowa
Illinois
Kentucky
American Fur Company
Thomas Biddle
Henry Atkinson
Kenneth MacKenzie
Fort Unico
MacKenzie
Maximilan, Prince of Wield
Fort Union
Miles City
St. Louis
Fort Leavenworth
London
England
Maximilian
Iowa River
Council Bluffs
Fort Pierre
Maximilan
Wyeth
Cerre
Fort Union Cone
Nathaniel J. Wyeth
William Clark
Indian Affairs
Pierre Choteau, Jr
Choteau
General Clark
Chateau
Red River
States
Indian Department
United States
Mississippi River
Dakotas
Trader MacKenzie and Mandan Corn Liquor Trade
The narrative notes MacKenzie placing a trader on independent footing and superiority over rivals, using Indian maize from the Mandan and Council Bluffs regions. It contrasts the Montana brand corn whiskey with other liquor, praising Mandan corn for its sweetness and palatability as pioneer traders and Indians received it.
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Council Bluffs
Montana
MacKenzie
Soldier Masons Organize Montana Army Lodge No 1
Members of the 168th regiment formerly the Second Montana have formed Montana Army Lodge No 1 under the Grand Lodge of Montana to serve Masons in the United States Army. The lodge will confer degrees on eligible soldiers and is governed by Montana lodge laws with demits issued when the regiment musters out.
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Masonic Fraternity
Montana
North Dakota
Kentucky
Army Lodge
Army and Navy
United States
Grand Lodge of
Grand Master
Union
Grand Secretary
Montana Rules Lodge
Montana Army Lodge
L. A. Foot
Jesse B. Roote
William O. Whipps
W. E. Olsen
Joseph P. Sternhagen
William Pippy
Ghost of Great Exploit Tied to Helena Soldier
Julius Barney of Helena and other Montana towns claim a role in General Funston's 1899 capture of Aguinaldo. Barney earned leave to join the expedition, later keeping silent on his participation to avoid punishment while Funston's escort gained lasting military glory.
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Julius Barney
Helena
Gen. Aguinaldo
Lewistown
Montana
First Montana Infantry
Fred Funston
Aguinaldo
Funston
Barney
Kansas
War Department
Glory
German-born farmer backs Red Cross and war effort
Klaas Andriesen of the Billings bench near Shepherd, born in Germany, refused to support the Teutonic allies during the war. He could not buy liberty bonds earlier, but after selling his crop he donated to the Red Cross the army Y M C A and camp recreation funds and spoke of taking a large bond subscription next loan.
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Klaas Andriesen
Billings
Shepherd
Germany
Red Cross
Army Y. M. C. A
Camp Recreation
Also Mentioned on This Page
Switzerland
South Dakota
Northern Pacific
Charley Bair
Forsyth
Christian Yegan
Congress
India
Soldier Masons
First Army
Grand Lodge of Montana
Chieftian
National Life Insurance Company of Montana Legal Reserve Company
Daly Bank
Butte, Mont
Eastern
Great Falls Brick & Tile Co
Great Falls
1St National Bank
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