Biographies & Obituaries
Biographies and Obituaries contain close to the same information, they are presented together here and arranged according to surnames.
HUSBAND, William C, city attorney of Harlowton, organizer of the Farmer's National Bank of this city, and one of the best attorneys of Wheatland County is widely and favorably known throughout this part of the state. He was born at Guelph, Ontario, Camada, on February 23, 1882, a son of William N. and Agnes (McLagan) Husband, the former of whom was born at Hamilton, Ontario, Camada, in 1848, and the latter at Mitchell, Ontario, Camada, in 1854. Of their ten children nine survive, and William C. Husband is the second in order of birth. William N. Husband was a merchant tailor at Guelph, Ontario, Canada, where he lived until 1889, and then came to the United States and located at Hensel, North Dakota, where he was engaged in farming. Subsequently he went into a grain and agricultural implememt business at Hensel, North Dakota, and conducted it until his retirement in 1918. In politics he is a republican, and he served as county drainage commissioner for some time, making an excellent record in that office. In 1913 he was elected to the Lower House of the State Assembly, and re-elected in 1915, serving for two terms, and being connected with the introduction and passage of some important legislation.
William C. Husband attended the public schools of Pembina County, North Dakota, and the university of that state, from which he was graduated in 1907, having taken the legal course. That same year he was admitted to practice in the courts of North Dakota, amd was engage for a time in practice at Grand Forks. In the fall of 1908 he was admitted in the bar in Montana, and came to Harlowton in December of that year, since which time he has become one of the leading members of his profession in Wheatland County. Prior to the organization of Wheatland County Mr. Husband served as deputy county attorney of Meagher County for seven years, and is now serving his fourth consecutive term as city attorney of Harlowton. A republican, he has been extremely effective in the party organization, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicao in 1912. A booster for Harlowton, he has been president of the Commercial Club for two terms, and did and is doing much for the industrial and financial development of the city. For two years he was in executive charge of the Meagher County Fair Association, and largely responsible for the successful conduct of these exhibitions, which in his opinion are strong factors in promoting the community welfare and arousing local pride. There are few measures which come before the public in which Mr. Husband does not take an effective interest, for he is very public spirited and advanced in his ideas. The Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias hold his membership and receive his fraternal fealty.
On June 12, 1910, Mr. Husband was married to Miss Eva May Stevens, born at Russell, Ontario, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Husband have three children, namely : Gordon R., Jean Campbell and Evelyn Agnes.
As a lawyer Mr. Husband displays deep powers of thinking, and a thorough knowledge of the well-thinking, and a thorough knowledge of the well-founded principles of law, drawing his deductions logically from his premises. He treats law as a science, founded upon established principles, and because of his methods he receives a large share of the legal business of this region, for his clients know that their interests will be handled ably and fairly, and his uniform dignified procedure inspires the respect of his associates in the profession.
Mr. Husband has a wide and most favorable reputation as a trial lawyer ; in fact, a large proportion of his business is devoted to that branch of the law. This, however, would necessarily follow in line with his splendid abilities as an orator and public speaker, possessing as he does a forceful and at the same time time a convincing personality on any subject he has in hand.
~Source: Montana, Its Story and Biography: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Montana and Three Decades of Statehood, by Tom Stout of the American Historical Society, 1921
SIEBEN, Leonard, Assessor of Phenix Township, is a resident on section 28, of the same township. He was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Feb. 15, 1844. His parents, Joseph and Aboline Sieben, were also born in the same part of "Das Faderland." In 1852 the family removed to the United States, and the father made a location at first in Whiteside County. There they lived as renters until the death of the father. That event occurred Jan. 1, 1859. The death of the mother took place in Chicago a few months after coming to this country. Joseph Sieben was married again after the death of his first wife, and of the second marriage there was one child born. The first wife was the mother of seven children, all of whom are now living and are located as follows: John, the oldest, is a citizen of Loraine Township; Teresa is the wife of Henry H. Haniman, of Osco Township; Valentine is represented by a sketch in another part of this volume; Margaret is the wife of George Arnett, of whom a biographical notice is given elsewhere; Leonard is the next in order of birth; Henry lives in Montana; Jacob also resides in that Territory.
Mr. Sieben was a lad of 13 when his father died, and he was under the necessity of undertaking the settlement of the question of taking care of himself without aid, either in the merits of the problem or in the fact that presented itself with convincing force. He first obtained employment as a farm assistant in the vicinity where he had lived, but he was occupied there only a brief period. In 1864 he set out for the territories, and he went to that part of Idaho which is now named Montana. In company with three others he made the journey to the distant West over-land, and they traveled there in three months and seven days, lanmding at Virginia City.
He was first employed as a teamster and followed that occupation until the spring of 1866. He then bought a team and engaged in freighting goods between Fort Benton and Virginia City, to the city of Helena and to other towns in the interior which were then the sites of the mining camps. He operated in that line of business until the spring of 1870, when he went to Utah and there bought a herd of young cattle which he drove to Montana to sell. He devoted three years to the prosecution of that business and at the end of that time he settled in Meagher County, in Montana Territory, where he lived on a stock ranch until the fall of 1879. He then sold out and returned to the East, and soon after, in January, 1880, he bought a farm on section 28 in Phenix Township. This has since been his home and his field of operation as a farmer. He has improved the place and all its appurienances and has one of the most desirable places in the township. Mr. Sieben affords a good illustration of what a life devoted to worthy effort may bring forth. With nothing to aid him but a determination to make good use of his time in taking advantage of the opportunities afforded in a free land, where his privileges were not restricted beyond those of any other class, he has made his way to a position, not only of comfort and ease, but to one of confidence and trust in the gift of his fello-citizens. He was elected to the office of Assessor in 1884.
April 9, 1878, he was married to Sarah, daughter of Henry and Susan (Henney) Hines. She was born in the township where she now lives. To her and her husband four children have been born, and they are named as follows: Olive, Sylvia, Ira and Erie.
THOROUGHMAN, Thomas H., pioneer (1832-Dec. 24,
1896). Thoroughman studied law and was admitted to
the Missouri Bar in 1858, being appointed city
attorney of St. Joseph and then being elected
circuit attorney. He was commissioned in the
Confederate forces in 1862 with rank of colonel. In
1863 he was captured, imprisoned at Quincy,
Illinois, then paroled, when he went to Montana,
forming a law partnership with Alex C. Davis at
Virginia City. The firm later relocated at Helena.
Thoroughman was commissioned a Brigadier General in
the Montana Militia by acting governor Thomas
Francis Meagher in 1867, but after Meagher's death
was demoted to colonel by Governor Green Clay Smith;
his principal responsibility was the Gallatin
Valley, although there was no fighting against
Indians. In 1870 Thoroughman went to St. Louis where
he practiced law until his death. He was married
twice; the first marriage was before he went to
Montana and by it he fathered three daughters. He
married again at Virginia City and fathered five
children, including two sons.
~Source: "Meagher County News, Jan. 16, 1897", White
Sulphur Springs, Montana
TOOLEY, Clarence Phillip, merchant and statesman of Two Dot, Mont., was born Aug. 31, 1874, in Evanston, Wyo. In 1905-09 he was a member of the Montana state senate for Meagher county. ~Source: "Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography", by American Publishers' Association, 1914
TOOLEY, Clarence Philip, merchant, legislator,
was born Aug. 31, 1874, in Evanston, Wyo. He was
educated in the public and private schools of
Baldwinsville, N.Y. He is now a successful merchant
of Two Dot, Mont.; and prominently identified with
the business and public affairs of his city, county
and state. He was a representative in the eighth
general assembly of the Montana state legislature;
and was a member on several important committees. He
is now a member of the Montana state senate for
Meagher county for the term of 1905-09; and resides
in Two Dot, Mont. ~Source: "Herringshaw's National
Library of American Biography", edited by Thomas
William Herringshaw, 1914
