BIOGRAPHIES

James W. Geiger

JAMES W. GEIGER, treasurer of Sweet Grass county, is a young man of signal ability and is held in high esteem in his home county and town by reason of his sterling characteristics and genial personality.  Mr. Geiger comes of stanch old German lineage, his great-grandfather having settled in America in the early days, and located in one of the northeastern states.  His son David, grandfather of our subject, as numbered among the pioneers of Lancaster, Ohio, where was born Samuel M. Geiger, father of James W.  Samuel M. Geiger married Miss Delilah Reddington, who was born in Indiana, and they became the parents of four sons and one daughter.  In 1856 the father removed from Ohio to Adams county, Iowa, and there our subject was born March 4, 1871.  His father was there engaged in farming until 1861, when the thundering of rebel guns against the ramparts of old Fort Sumter aroused his patriotism and loyalty.  He enlisted in Company F, Twentieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front and remained in active service until the close of the war, when he received an honorable discharge.  John W. Geiger passed his youth in his native state and was educated in the public schools, completing a course of study in the high school at Marion.  In 1891, at the age of twenty years, he came to Montana and located in Big Timber, where he entered the employ of the Big Timber National Bank, remaining with that institution until January, 1898, when he entered upon the discharge of his duties as deputy recorder of Sweet Grass county, having been appointed thereto the preceding December.  This position Mr. Geiger retained until November, 1900, when he was elected county treasurer.  He has administered the financial affairs of the county with much ability.  In politics Mr. Geiger gives his support to the Republican party; fraternally he holds membership in the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, in which he holds the office of chancellor commander.  On October 4, 1894, Mr. Geiger was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Conklin, daughter of Aaron Conklin, of Detroit, Mich., in which beautiful City of the Straits she was born.  Mr. and Mrs. Geiger have one son, Master Harold, who was born November 29, 1896.

Source: Transcription from the book, Progressive Men of the State of Montana, author and publication date unknown, page 645, located on the website, Internet Archive (http://archive.org), accessed 13 August 2022.

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