The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-14

!. Leader, labor paper. His fathe
: homesteaded in Rice county, Minneso
ia, where he was one of the earlies
. citizens. Mr. Morgan's two daugh
!, tiers are schOol-ma ANS, and he ha!
; two sons. He is president Of the
Grand Forks Trades and Labor c0un
Gil, organizer for the American Fed
! Grafton of Labor and member O.
!, the state executive committee Of the
federation.
Dorr H. Carroll. .-.
Dorr H. Carroll, former chairman OF
the board, was born in Aldamakee
county, Iowa, in 1874. He left lows
in 1891 for Gothenburg, Neb., after
graduating from the WaukOn high
school. In Nebraska he attended the
Wayne normal college, and then he
came to Minot, where he studied law
with Alfred 'Blaisdell, being admitted
to the North Dakota bar in 1908,
since which date he has practiced in
Ward county, where he served for
three terms as assistant states attOr.
ney He was state chairman Of the
late progressive party, is married,
and has two daughters and son
DOOthy, Elizabeth and Dorr, Jr.
r. ]. J. Montgomery.
R. j. J. Montgomery of Tappen, vice
chairman of the council was born in
Giranty county, Farmanagh, Ireland,
whittier his parents had removed from
Scotland, in 1865. At the age of IS
he came to America, locating in New
York city, where he found employ
ment in a wholesale grocery house,
where he remained five years, at the
end of that time going to California
and later to Illinois, where he spent
IS years farming in DeKalb county.
He came to North. Dakota 16 years
ago. He assisted in organizing the
North Dakota Farmers union in 1916
and was elected president. He has
since been twice reelected and is still
chief executive of the union. Mr.. Mont
gomery was one of family of 13
children, which has made him an un-
lucky number for "malefactors of
great wealth" and their like. In New !
York he organized the first indepen.
dent labor union outside of the Knights
of Labor. Until that time the boys
in the wholesale district had been 60.
ing on at 6 in the morning and work
ing through to ten. Montgomery got |
the clerks together, and they struck,
getting as result the then unheai1 |
of privilege of going on at 7 a. m.
and off at p. M, except on Saturday,
when they worked all night if nee
essary. In California he organized
the first longshoremen's union and he
has been active in the ranks of Or
gained farmers from the time he re.
turned to the soil. 4
Thomas Allan Box.
Thomas Allan Box, secretary Of the
North Dakota council Of defense, was
born in Wabasha, Mimi, so years ago,
and he came to North Dakota and
located on Red River valley farm
in 1873, being one of ten children
born to pioneer Minnesota couple.
In 1884 Secretary Box began life as
a messenger for the American Elk
press Co., running from Casselton to
the Pacific coast. Four years later
he went to Chicago as president of the
Waukesha Water Co., in which ca
pacity he remained until 1894. In 1906
having transferred his interests to
mining enterprises, he was elected
president of the Western Engineer.
ing Co., with offices in San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and
Mexico City. In 1912 he returned to
farming in North Dakota and he now
has 1900 acres under cultivation in
Cass county. He has two sons in
the service, Lieut.. Thomas Alan Box,
Jr., who volunteered from South AT.
RIGA with British contingent, secur
ing transfer to the American forces
after Uncle Sam went in. He is now
training aerial observers at the front
Sergt Byron D. Box, recently in the
signal corps at Camp Zachary Taylor,
KY, now is in the recruit.
ing service at Atlanta, Ca. The sec.
retary's parents settled in Minnesota
in 1859, and his father raised a COM
pany for home defense from the In
dams during the Cival war, when he
was commissioned captain in the un-
ion forces. Both are still living, hav
ing only recently celebrated their 63rd
anniversary
K. S. Ramsett.
X S. Ramsett of Fingal was born in
Dane county, Wis, April 20. 1854. At
the age Of two he accompanied his
parents to farm on the Bad Axe
river, where he grew up. At the ago
Of 20 he entered the uolic schools of
Viroqua, Wis, whence he graduated
three years later. He then spent
year at the University of Wisconsin,
which exhausted his pocketbook, ana
he came out to Minnesota for two
years farming and railroading, saving
enough money to put himself through
the Curtis business college at st. Paul
In 1882 he came to Bismarck as time
keeper for the boarding house where
workmen engaged in building the big
bridge across the Missouri were FED.
In the fall he became a clerk for
Yerxa, Emerson, Whitteley & Clark,