The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-01-23
THE HOUSE.
Speaker of the House.
HON. JAS. e. CALLAWAY, OF MADISON
JAMES NJ. PAGE,

JAMES NJ. PAGE,
Republican member from the joint Repre-
sentative District of Beaverhead and Madi-
son counties, was born in Crawford county,
Pa in 1889. He moved while young to
Michigan, and was educated in the public
schools of that State and in business College
in Chicago He began surveying when sew
enteen years old, and has followed the pro-
fession ever since. At the outbreak of the
war he enlisted in the Sixth Michigan Cav
airy as a private, and after serving three
years was discharged a. a First Lieutenant.
During his service, on September q, 1868, he
and twenty three others were captured by
the enemy, and of this party all but himself
and another died While prisoner of war he
was in Libby, Belle Isle, Andersonvills, Mil
len and Savannah, living through twenty
months Of such imprisonment. He reached
Virginia City juno %, 1866, and has ever
since resided in Madison county, serving the
people of that county for twelve years as
County Surveyor, and filling 70. the same
period the position of Deputy United States
Mineral Surveyor. He is now engaged in
the ranch and stock business, and resides at
Twin Bridges. He has a wife aud four chill
dren, is a member of the Masonic and A. o.
U. w. fraternities and is brOther-in law to
the Methodist church.
B.F. POTTS,
Member from Lewis and Clarke county was
born in Ohio in 1886, and was educated in
Westminster College, Wilmington, Penna.
He studied and practiced law until the
breaking out of the rebellion, when he en-
tered the sd Ohio Infantry as Captain, and
in course of time was promoted to Lieuten-
ant Colonel Colonel, Brigadier General, and
was breveted Major General. His command
served in West Virginia, in the Vicksburg
compaign, the Tennessee campaigns under
Grant, the Atlanta campaign, the march to
the sea, ard thence to Washington, taking
part in the grand review at that city in the
summer of 1865, at which time Gen. Potts was
in command of division. He was mustered
out January ~, 1865, and resumed the prac-
tice of law in Ohio. He was a member of
the State Senate from 1867 to 1870, and in the
latter year was appointed Governor of Mon
tana, which position he filled twelve and
half years. He is married, resides in Helena,
and is engaged in the raising of fine horses
and cattle. He is not member of any secret
organization or church.
JAY WELLS,
Representative from Beaverhead county was
born in New York State in 1850, and received
his education in the public schools of the
State and in Business College. In 1868 he
went to California and engaged in sheep
raising, and in 1875 went to Alaska as a fur
trader, remaining there until 1880, when he
came to Montana and settled in Dillon. He
Is interested in the Birch creek mines, about
twenty miles from Dillon. He is married, is
a Mason, a Republican in politics, and inde-
pendent IN religion
w.o. sPEER, ~
The only Republican sen: to the Legislature
frem Silver Bow comfy, was born in Butler
county, Pa, in 1916, and removed at an early
age to Iowa. He received a common
school education, but after attaining his ma
iority he acquired for himself an academic
| and legal education, being admitted to the
bar in Davenport, Iowa, in 1874 He taught
| night school in Davenport while attending
High School, which clearly shows his deter
minaton and persistence. He came to Mon
tana in 1880 and located in Butte, where he
has since resided. He has taken an active
| part in all the political campaigns since he
was a citizen of the Territory, and in 1882
was the Republican nominee for District
Attorney in the Second Judicial District,
but the large railroad vote in Mlssoula
county made his election hopeless. He is a
| bachelor. a member of the I. o. o. F. and A.
| - A. IL. .-.1.
| West" He was a prominent candidate for
Speaker, but being defeated in the caucus
he acquiesced gracefully and at the meeting
Of the House nominated his opponent.
GEORGE r.. TINGLE,
Member from Dawson county, was born in
| Muskirgum, Ohio, and is forty eight years of
Of age. When fourteen years old he went to
| Wheeling, West Virginia, where he resided
until three years ago, being engaged in the
| Wholesale grocery business. For five years
he was Sheriff of the county in which Wheel
ing is located, was a member of the Board of
| County Commissioners and ofthe City Coun-
| Gil, and for nine years was Secretary Of the
| Democratic State Central Committee, and
his various public positions have given
him quite an extensive acquaintance among
the prominent men of the country. He has
made it a practice for many years to attend
the Democratic National Conventions, and
at the meeting of the National Committee
last spring introduced and secured the pas
sage of the resolution inviting the Terrific
rIes to send Delegates to the following Ma
tional Convention. He settled in Glendive
three years ago, and is engaged in the real
estate and live stock business He has wife
and four children, his oldest SON being a
graduate ef Harvard in the class of 1888, and
new one of the editors of the Erie PA
Dispatch The rest of the family are now
visiting the Exposition at New Orleans Mr..
TiBgle has been a Mason for twentyseven
years, and is member of the Episcopal
church.
| II. NJ. SLOAN,
Representative from Gallatin, elected to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death of VIM.
| III. Martin, was born in New Jersey, in 1851,
and was educated in the public schools of
Philadelphia, and in the higher schools con-
Quoted by the Quakers, his family being of
that faith. He engaged in the milling bust.
ness in philadelphia and pursued it until
August, 1888, when he removed to Montana,
settling in Livingston, where he went into
the stock and meat business. He has wife
and child, who are in Helena with him. He
is a Mason, Democrat, and of Quaker ten
dencies in religion, though not member OF
the society.
JOHN r. FoRBIs, ~
Member from Silver Bow, was born IN Mis-
souri, in 1856, and came to Montana with his
parents in 1864, the family locating in Hell
ena, where he attended the public schools
He studied law in Deer Lodge with Judge
Hiram Knowles, his present partner, and
was admitted TO practice IN 1877. He was q
member of the Legislature in 1879 and 1888
being in the House, where he was an efficient
member. He is the only member Of the
present House who ever before served in the
Montana Legislature. He is a Democrat
but very independent one, bachelor, and
member of no secret society or church.
JESSE II. TAYLOR,
Democratic member from Choteau coupty
was born in Kentucky in 1928, and was edu
Gated in Centre College, Danville, Ky. He
emigrated TO Illinois in 1sA9, and 70 Missouri
in 1886, being engaged in farming in those
States. In 1860 he went to Denver, Colorado
and In 1864 came to Montana, settling =
I.aw.;S anI rfarka couufv whera he mined