. An illustrated history of the state of Montana, containing ... biographical mention ... of its pioneers and prominent citizens. er husband and little family. The year following his wifes death Mr. Monroe leasedhis farm and went to the mining district in the BlackHills, where he engaged in hauling quartz and lumberwith a twelve-mule team, and where he was quite suc-cessful. During this time he invested in property at GajCity and Central City, and also conducted a livery busi-ness. He returned to his farm in 1878. In 1883, afterremaining single eight years, he married Mrs. MaryPepworth, and si
. An illustrated history of the state of Montana, containing ... biographical mention ... of its pioneers and prominent citizens. er husband and little family. The year following his wifes death Mr. Monroe leasedhis farm and went to the mining district in the BlackHills, where he engaged in hauling quartz and lumberwith a twelve-mule team, and where he was quite suc-cessful. During this time he invested in property at GajCity and Central City, and also conducted a livery busi-ness. He returned to his farm in 1878. In 1883, afterremaining single eight years, he married Mrs. MaryPepworth, and since that date they have continued toreside in their valley home. In 1890 Mr. Monroe sold allhis land except six acres, realizing $300 per acre for it,and since then has lived on the interest of his after selling off his land he erected the handsome stoneresidence in which he resides. While he was engaged infarming Mr. Monroes chief products were stock, hayand grain, and to him belongs the credit of being thefirst man in the valley to raise alfalfa. He also gaveconsiderable attention to the raising of line / ^e^^^yi^^ /^v BISTORT OF MONTAMA. man, in coniiiiand of the State troops wlien thewords, Vigilance Committee, or the name Vig-ilante, were born in San Francisco, despised thisform of government from the first; and manyanother good man has, more quietly, perhaps,done tlie same. For my own part I watchedthis thing from the conception. I saw it spreadlike a prairie tire, smonldering for a time,breaking out afresh and in some remote place,and dying at last in the distance for want ofsomething to feed upon, in a piteous waj con-suming many good fields. I remember three farmers of Oregon, theonly men in a remote valley, had a quarrel. Charles W. Savage, proprietor of the McQueen House,the only first-class hotel in Miles City, is a native of theState of New York, and was born near Syracuse, in 1833,a son of Aaron and Caroline (Whitford) Savage. Hismother was bor
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