The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-03-06

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Hon. joseph X Toole. who became Mon.
| tanas Representative to Congress on the
| expiration of the term of Hon. Martin Ma
ginnis, on March 4th, Is the son Of Edwin
and lucinda F. Tosle, and was born in sa-
vannah, Andrew county, No., May IL, 1851.
| In 1857 his parents removed to st. Joseph,
NO., where he attended the public shoots.
When scarcely thirteen years old the allur-
| ing excitoments Of the West led him to Col
orado, but through the advice Of his brother
Warren, when he has steadfastly loved
above all men, and who was then located ut
Denver, he was induced to return to Mis-
souri, and continue his studies in the High
School at st. Joseph, until 1867, when he en-
tered the Western Military Academy at New
Castle, KY, school then being established
by Gen. E. Kirby Smith. Young Toole was
the first student enrolled in that school, was
made First Lieutenant, and continued such
until the close Of the second term, when he
concluded to take up the study Of Law under
the direction of Messrs. Webb & Barbour,
leading lawyers at New Castle. He remained
in their office nearly year, when his desire
to join his brother Warren, who In the
meantime had established himself In the
practice of his profession ut Helena, Mon
tana, induced him to leave Kentucky for
that place, where he arrived in May, 1869.
He was soon admitted to practice law aud
formed q partnership with his brother, which
still exists.
In 1872, at the age Of q, he was elected
District Attorney Of the Third Judicial Dis
trict Of Montana, comprised OF the counties
Of Meagher, Lewis and Clarke and Choteau,
and was reelected to that Office In 1874 with
out opposition, the Republicans making no
nomination. During his term OF sffice he
prosecuted to conviction, for the murder Of
Franz Warl, the two men William Steers
and William wheatley, who committed the
deed. These were the first men ever exc
cuted in Montana in pursuance Of the SEN
tencs of regular court
In 1881, Mr.. Toole was elected q member
of the Twelfth Legislative Assembly of Mon
tana, being elected as member of the Csun-
Gil from Lewis and Clarke county. When
the Twelfth Session convened he was elected
President of the Council-next to the highest
preferment within tile gift Of the people Of
Montana.
In 1888 he was elected q member of the
Constitutional Convention, which met in
Helena in January, 1884, to draft the Consti-
tuition fer the State Of Montana, which has
since been ratified by the electors of the Ter
ritory. .. ..
He was candidate fer nomination as Del
g gate to Congress before the Territorial
Democratic Convention, which met in Deer
Lodge Sept. %, 1884, and received the nomi-
nation on the frst ballot. He made the cam
paign against the Republican nominee. Hon.
Hiram Knowles, for eleven years Associate
Justice Of the Supreme Court of Montana,
and was elected Nov. 4, 1885, BY majority
of 100 votes in n fatal poll Of $500. Tho
rival candidates were personal friends, and
the campaign throughout was conducted by
the principals with courtly polteness and
fair mention.
1t is hardly necessary to say that Mr.. Toole
has always been Democrat. He has always
taken An active interest In the politics of the
Territory and may be said to have fairly
"won his spurs" He Is young man Of fine
mental composition and high attainments,
and possessing as he does the rare faculty Of
earnestness without offensiveness, he rallied
to his earnest support the young Democracy
Of the Territory while retaining the good
will of Republicans. Aside from his legal
business and official duties he has been inter-
ested for some years in mining operations
and stock growing, and has gathered sub
stance early in life. Personally he is quite
popular, having many friends and few enc
mics. Physically he Is type Of robust and
symetrical manhood, and as our portrait
shows, is as comely Of feature rs Of form.
He is industrious, careful and msthodioal
in his habits, and with his familiarity and
identity with the interests Of the Territory,
his legal training, his interest In public af-
fairs and his ambition, should, aud We be-
lieve will, make an efficient Delegate In
Congress.