Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1913-03-27

the age of Is, it was considered advis-
able that the boy be taken to France, to
have his education perfected and Mrs.
Wibaux returned with the lad and has
! resided there ever since, Mr.. Wibaux
paying them a visit as frequently
as his business interests permitted
and always as often as once year.
Accepting the losses of the 'hard
winters and "dry summers with
the profits of the more favorable sea-
sons in a uniform spirit fortitude, Mr..
Wibaux continued in his business and
prospered until he at one time was the
largest individual owner of cattle in
the United States, but with the grad
ual decline of the range industry caus-
ed by the incoming agriculturist and
small stock raiser, he sold off his cattle
and addressed his -sagacity and bus
mess ability to other pursuits.
One of the first of these enterprises
in which he became engaged was the
State National Bank, which, without
any relation to the old Stockgrowers
bank, followed that institution in what
is now the Coggshall block at Sixth
and Main street, the block at that time
being known as the ''Stebbins block.
The State National was organized in
August, 1895, with Aaron Hirschfield
as president and Mr.. Wibaux as vice
president. In 1904 the Wibaux block
was built by Mr.. Wibaux, and the
State National moved its business in
to tt e new building which was at that
time far in advance in construction of
| anything in the city and to this day
| it is able to hold it's head up archit-
ecturally and in appointments among
even the best buildings that have since
been constructed.
From the vice presidency Mr.. Wi
baux was very soon elected to the pre-
sidency Of the bank and has been con-
tinued in that capacity at each succeed
ing annual election.
He closed out his cattle interests
five or SIX years ago, but he still re-
tains ownership cf the townsite of Wi
baux, in addition to which he was in
terested in real properties in Miles
City, and was director in the Amer
lean Bankers Insurance company of
Chicago.
His death was due to carcinoma of
the liver. When he left Miles City
shortly after the anniversary of his
birth last January, to secure expert
medical advice as to his condition, he
went with the best wishes and hopes
of the citizens for his early and COM
p;ete recovery, ard few, if any. real
lied the seriousness of his condition.
From time to time word came from the
bedside, and it was always hopeful,
but among those more intimate and
best informed the worst began to be
feared.
From an intimate friend of the de-
ceased it was learned that before he
left Miles City on this last sad trip. he
had provided that in event of his death,
his remains should be cremated and
the ashes sent to his former home at
Wibaux, where a bronze monument
should be erected marking his last
resting place.
/
Mr.. Wibaux was what in common
parlance Miles City alwaysY term
ed '.good man for the town. as,
in addition to being well liked social
ly and in his business associations, he
was liberal contributor to anything
that promised for the temporary pleas
ure or permanent welfare of the citi-
zens, and the erection of the splendid
building in which the State National
has its home was courageous move
marking faith in the town that per-
haps few of the citizens of great or lit
tie means at that time shared. Miles
City will always remember the name
OF Pierre Wibaux with mingled senti-
ments of love, honor and esteem. -
Miles City Journal.
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