The Ronan pioneer., 1917-08-03
M0NTANANS WITH
FAMOUS KINSMEN
MANY RESIDENTS OF TREASURE
STATE ARE BLOOD RELA-
TIVES OF NOTED MEN.
Desodndent of Sir Walter Raleigh
Lives in Butte; Ignatius Donnelly's
Son Former Montana Man; Teddy
Roosevelt Has Cousin in Politics
in Cascade County.

in Cascade County.
There are many men in Montana
illustrlOus personages in the history
of this and other countries.
Among these is A. G. Raleigh OF
Butte, who is a descendent of Sir
Walter Raleigh of Elizabethian fame
in English history, the man who in
troduced smoking tobacco to the
white race. Raleigh has in his pos
session a letter written by his famous
ancestor, deploring the custom OF
chewing the weed instead of smoking
it. and asking the British govern
ment to pass law making it fell
ony to chew tobacco.
Florence Van de Putte, manager
of the Park hotel at Great Falls, is
descended from Peter Stuyvesant, the
Dutch governor of New York who de-
fled the British. He has fine por-
trait of Governor Stuyvesant which
has been in the family since colonial
days.
Ignatius Donnelly, formerly a
Butte doctor, was the son of the not
ed Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota,
political boss of that state and the
author of Caesars Column, work
which attracted worldwide attention
because of the startling socialistic
theories advanced by the writer. He
was also the founder of the Baconian
theory of the authorship of Shake
speare's plays.
Expert on Coffee.
r. Of Nir-
ginia City and now resident of
Great Falls, who was supreme court
commissioner of Montana for some
time, traces his ancestry directly
back to Alexander Hamilton, one of
the first famous Americans.
Charles j. Coperharve of Butte,
managing editor of the Anaconda
Standard, is descended from Peter
Copenharve, famous Dutch eXplor-
er who was instrumental in securing
the island of Java for the Neither
lands. Mr.. Copenharve's later ances-
tors were famous coffee planters,
and the Butte man of that family is
probably the only authority in Mon
tana on the subject of coffee blend
ing, which for years has been his
hobby He has imported various
kinds of coffee from all parts of the
world for his own use and for expert
ments in blending.
T. ]. Hooking of Glasgow is di-
rectly descended from Alonzo Hook
ing, an owner of vast estates under
the British crown in New York state
before the revolution. Alonzo Hook
ing refused to sign the Declaration of
Independence because it meant the
confiscation of his property, in his
opinion. He afterward removed his
family to the western frontier in
Ohio, which was then inhabited only
by Indians. Hooking became the
first recognized authority on the Gus
toms, habits and the languages of
the American Indian, subject in
which his descendent in Montana to-
day is deeply interested.
Son of Malcolm Clark.
Horace Clark of Glacier is the son
of Malcolm Clark, the famous from
tiersman and fur trader, who was
killed by Blackfeet Indians in the
Prickly Pear canyon in 1869. NAL
colin Clark was trained at West Point
and was one of the big men in the
early history of Montana.
John B. Ritch of Lewistown is a
grandson of Hezekiah Bitch, a noted
South Carolina minister, who was a
leader in the rebellion in that state
during the administration of Andrew
Jackson. When Jackson threatened
to hang every land owner who was
connected with the uprising, Ritch's
ancestors fled to Georgia, where the
family has since resided.
Thomas Flavin, chief postoffice in
spector for the district including
Montana. is brother of a member of
the present British parliament, which
is so important an influence in the
conduct of the great war.
Ferdinand G. Roosevelt, county
auditor of Cascade county, is cous-
in of Theodore Roosevelt, and like
the colonel, is an excellent politician.
Mrs. j. K. Toole, widow Of the late
Governor Toole of Montana, is a
daughter of General Rosencranz oil
civil war fame.
Related to Creel.
George Creel of Lewlstown is a
cousin of George Creel, the husband
of Blanche Bates, who was recently
appointed by President Wilson as
IVA
censoring war news.
Alden ]. Bennett, the Virginia City
banker, is a direct descendent oil
John Alden, who was such a famous
figure in colonial days.
Calvin E. Hubbard, the Great Falls
abstractor, is member of the fam
Gus Hubbard family of New England.
One of his ancestors, while taking a
passage in a sailing ship from Lon
don to Asia Minor as scout for band
of missionaries, was captured by
Turks and kept in captivity by them
for number of years, during which
time he adopted their customs and
modes of living. Later he escaped
and managed to get aboard vessel
sailing for America.
We don't know much. But we do
know that if the skirts keep on get
ting shorter the cOrsets will have to