The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-01-23
DEER LODGE MONTANA JANUARY 49, 1885,

uon last year. he Is member OF the M
sonic fraternity, is a bachelor, and is modest
in his religious views
WIN. W. MORRIS, -
Member from Madison county, and profni-
nent candidate for President of the Council,
was born in Liberty, Clay county, Mo, forty
four years ago, receiving his education in
the William Jewell College. After graduat-
ing he engaged in the drug business. In
June, 1864, he reached Montana and located
in Virginia City, where he has since resided,
being engaged in mining and other business.
He was Treasurer of Madison county for
seven years, and has already served three
terms in the Territorial Council. He has y
wife and three children.
WA. CHEssMAN,
Member of the Council from Lewis and
Clarke county, was born in Weymouth,
Mass, in 1880, receiving his education in the
common schools Of the State. When nine
teen years old he went "around the Horn"
to California, thus becoming a "49-er." He
engaged in mining, which occupation he
followed until 1865, in the meantime making
several trips to the States by the way of Pan
in Helena, where he has since resided and
pursued his old business of mining, and is
now running five hydraulics in the lower
part of the gulch below the city. Mr.. G. is
President of the Territorial Fair Association
He was a ember of the House in the 8th and
9th Sessions, and the extra Session of 1873, and
was In the Council two years ago. He is a
man of family, having a wife and two chill
dren; is a Mason, and Master of Helena
Lodge No. 3, and is Vestryman of St.
Peters Church, though not a communicate
WILL. KENNEDY,
Elected to the Council from Missoula county,
was born in Kent county, Maryland, in 1S45,
and is consequently in his fertieth year. His
fathers pI ofession, civil engineering, took
his family into several States in a few years,
and in 1857 they were located in Indiana
Shortly after the rebellion broke out the
present Councilman enlisted in the 52d Ind.
Inf, serving in that regiment few weeks
less than four years. After the close of the
war the rowing spirit which was his by in-
heritance and training, sent him to the far
West. and several years were spent in wan
derng through the Western States and Ter
ritories. In the spring of 1872, when in his
twcnty-Seventh year, he began learning the
trade of a printer, calling for which he had
a natural inclination. After a comparatively
short apprenticeship in Kansas office, he
started out as a tramp printer, which occu-
patton he has pretty thoroughly followed for
thirteen years, working as compositoy fore
man, and local and general editor in many
of the Northern, Southern and Western
States. In the spring of 1881 he came TO
Butte, since which time he has gravitated
between Butte, Deer Lodge and Missoula,
being connected with most of the papers in
those places, both in a typographical and
editorial capacity. He is a member Of the
Butte Typographical Union, and Of the
Grand Army of the Republic, being now on
his second term as Commander OF Robert q.
Winthrop Post, at Missoula. He is not very
religiously inclined, began his Republican
career with Fremont and Dayton, and 1t is
hardly necessary to say that he is a bachelor.
EDWARD CARDwELL,
Member from Jefferson, was born near Bel
fast Ireland, and is fftythree years of age.
He was educated in the high schools of his
1850. He had learned the trade of carriage
painter, and followed that occupation in
various parts of the State but in 1868 came
to Montana and engaged in mining at first,
and since has settled in the Boulder valley,
in Jefferson county, as farmer and stock
raiser. He was a member of the Council in
the Twelfth and Thirteenth Sessions. He is
a bachelor, has no church affiliations, and is
a sound Democrat.
FRANK X. ARMSTRONG,
The member from Gallatin county, was born
in Rockford, North Carolina. in 1851, NOV
ing to Kansas when he was ten years old.
He received his literary education at High
land University, Kansas, and his legal edu-
cation in the law department Of the Univer-
sity of Missouri, at Columbia, being mem
ber of the class of 1875. After graduating
he began practice in Atchison, Kansas, and
in 1876 was elected Prosecuting Attorney OF
Doniphan county on the Democratic ticket,
although the Republican ticket carried the
| county by 800 majority. At the close of his
| term he moved to Montana, reaching Boze-
man in January, 1879, locating there and re.
suming the practice of law. In the fall OF
| 1880 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney OF
the First Judicial District by 900 majority
| In December, 1881, he was married to Miss
Lora, daughter of DR.. Lamme, of Bozeman,
and is the father of children. He is a mem
ber of the Masonic fraternity, is liberal in
his religious views, and, though pro-
nounced Democrat, he is by no means a
rabid party man.
| JAMES FERGUS,
| Member from Meagher county, was born in
| Glassford, Scotland, October 8, 1913, and con
ssquently is over seventy-one years old, and
by eighteen years the Oldest member of the
present Council. He received an ordinary
| common-school education, and when nine
teen years old he emigrated to Canada
where he spent three years, learning the
trade of a millwrigbt. In 1885 he moved te
| the United States, working in Wisconsin
Illinois and Iowa, and engaged in various
| lines of business. In 1854 he went to Mime
sofa and laid out the town of Fergus Falls
| one hundred miles above the st. Anthony
| Falls. He was engaged in other business
enterprises, but finally met with financIa
| embarrassmepts, and after trip to Colorado
| he came to Montana, reaching here in 1862
He acted as the first Recorder Of Aide
Gulch, was the first County Commissions
appointed in the Territory, for Madison
/ county, served two terms as COMMISSIONS
for Lewis and Clarke county, represented
that county in the Legislature one.term, and
represented Meagher county In the Consti
tutional Convention last year. Mr.. Fergu
is President of the Society of Pioneer
of Montana. He is now engaged IL
raising cattle and sheep in Meaghe
county. He has been married for fort,
years, and his wife and four childrel
are all living. He has always been stancl
Republican, but liberal in his views, and th,
esteem in which he is held caused the Demo
Gratis to move his election as temporar,
President of the Council; but the old gentle
man declined the proffered honor on th'
ground that he had never presided over sucl
body, and did not understand the rule
necessary for such purpose. As Is wei
known, hs Is very liberal in his religion
beliefs.
Il STEPHEN DEwoLFE,
Member from Silver Bow, was born in Ten
nessee in 1884, receiving his literary educa
ton in jefferson College, Pa, and his lega