The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-04-29
OUR CANDIDATES.
Lives Of the Men Who Comprise tho
Democratic City Ticket.

/ AAANH.N iohOc PtCoSulO ~ PIX
sen:ing herewith brief biographical
| sketches OF the leading candidates
upon the Democratic city ticket.
placed in nomination yesterday. 1t
will be observed that all thtse gem
tlenen haye risen in the world by
d;nt of their own exertions. They
are OF and belong to the great mass
of the population = plain, everyday
sort of business men, who are ready
to assume public position SIMPLY be-
cause they have been sought by the
people.
HENRY l.. FRANK
rhis gentleman heads the ticket.
He is n leading business nan uf
Butte. His life is u plain and un-
ev. n'tul one, marked only by at. Ring
business qualities and manly attri-
butes. Mr. Frank was bun in Iron
ton. Lawrence county, Ohio. in 1851.
In 1861 he removed with his parents
t. Cincinnati, in he schools of which
city he received his education. He
engaged in business for himself first
at Tit1iD, Ohio, where he was mer-
chandizing and whence he came to
Moi tana.. Before locating in Butte
he had visited New Mexico and
Colorado. finally settling here in
known. He stands high among ali
classes and folds the confidence Of
the business men to an eminent
degree. He is a bachelor and never
held public office. Never sought
office and would not have taken this
had it not come to him unsought and
unanimously. He has always been
an active Democrat, but when elected
will endeavOr to administer the
affairs of the city without reference
to party. He will be Mayor for the
whole people.
E. 4. NICHOLS.
Mr.. Nichols was born in bustling
Chicago before it bu,tlec, in lS41. He
was educated in the schools OF that
city, graduating from the high school
in due course. With the breaking
out of the wal he enlisted in the
Union army. entering the service AZ
private of Battery l., Second Illinois
Artillery. He served with that bat
terry throughout the war, from Shiloh
to Vicksburg and from Vicksburg to
the surrender. How we'll he served
is al lily demonstrated by the fact that
the private of 81 commanded the
battery, with the rank of Captain, al
the muster-out in 1861. The follow
ing year, 1866, he came West, locat-
iug for a seas IN in Idaho, later in
California and then returned to Chi
cago. In 1873 he cane to Montana
and located in butte. He is a man
of family and the father of five chill
! dren. He has been an exemplary
| citizen, as a brave soldier always is,
| and having been twice elected by the
| NJ pular vote, distinguished himself
as i faithful, honest and eftinient Off
| Ger. His record is his highest recon
mendation.
JERRY II. MCCARTHY.
This gentleman was the unani-
nous choice tfthe entire Democracy.
| and as the regular nominee Of the
| party for the office of City Marshal,
| presents a most crenitable record. Mr..
Mccarthy : native of New York,
having been born in ST. Lawrence
county, lived in Ca.ifornia for a
period of three years and came to
Montana in the winter Of 1867,
where he engaged in mining in Dia-
mond and Virginia City. In 1879
Re came to Butte and has been
| known in this vicinity rs elsewhere
| as a man of sterling integrity and
bust, ess capacity. AS City Council
| man he has served the leOple OF
Butte most c%reditatly for a period Of
two years. For the past two years
| he has been the efficient Chief of the
Fire Department of this city and hav-
ing an unblemished reputation, n
temperate, conscientious. and honor
able gentleman, in whom there re-
| poses the confidence Of thousands OF
Butte's pest citizens. All will agree
that no man O popular with the
people could have been selected TO
ill the office for which lie has been
nominated.
}. Il. RUSSELL.
The regular Democratic Nominee
for City Treasurer is u native of
kentucky, came to Montana at an
early day. and has long been identi-
fled with the interests of Butte and
Helena as a minister of the gospel.
Having been transferred from Helena
he came to this city and built the
Presbyterian church, and remained
its popular pastor until a year ago,
when be retired from the pulpit and
engaged in mercantile pursuits. Mi.
Russell is a young man, not over
thirty-tive years OF age, and has an
e,timable family, commanding the
love and RESPECT of all who know
them.
JOHN RI. CURTIS.
This gentleman. unsolicited by
himself, has been called ont as the
choice Of the people. M. Curtis was
born in County Cork. Ireland. and
/ came to this country at the early age
Of seven years, locating with his
parents in st. Louis, Mo-, where he
was educated and engaged in the
study OF law. Nineteen Years ag"
the I'd of April he came to Montana
| and st tiled in Helena, where he EN-
| gagged in the wholesale and retail
| grocery trade. After retiring from
business in that city he took II trip
f. ast on a visit and in the spring
of 1850 came to this city where
he has since resided. and been
actively engaged in the zeal estate
and mining brokerage business and
practiciDg as al a;tolne, -at-law. Mr..
Curtis is recognized as one of the so'ld
business men of this city, and char
acterized in business for his prompt
tDess and fidelity. He has complete
sabstracls of all titles in this and Deer
LIZ dye counties, and in this his
knowledge is second to none; was
| admitted to the bar in Butte city in
| August, 1882, and during his srjOurn
| here has made a brilliant success. No
| better representative as City Attol-
|! ney could have been found to pre-
| tect the interests of this community,
in the entire Northwest, and it is
| safe to u that in the coming contest
Mr.. Curtis will not be found the
hindmost.