Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . MO>JiAMA. Till lik(^ a lonely forest tree Of leaf and ])raueli bereft,Of all the children God gave me Not one with mo is left. T often meet them in my dreams To wake in sad snrprise,To find no son or daughter there To wipe my weeping eyes. To you, my children, let me say, If yon should children sure to govern them with love But not with rods or fear. Ive had my many hopes and fears. Enjoyed much wit and fun, But ere the lapse of many years Mv race will have been run. —SAMPLE , Idaho Ty., November 26, 18S6. Judge Orr d
Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . MO>JiAMA. Till lik(^ a lonely forest tree Of leaf and ])raueli bereft,Of all the children God gave me Not one with mo is left. T often meet them in my dreams To wake in sad snrprise,To find no son or daughter there To wipe my weeping eyes. To you, my children, let me say, If yon should children sure to govern them with love But not with rods or fear. Ive had my many hopes and fears. Enjoyed much wit and fun, But ere the lapse of many years Mv race will have been run. —SAMPLE , Idaho Ty., November 26, 18S6. Judge Orr died at Blackfoot, Idaho, April 1, 1896, and hiswife died at the same place April 21,1899. Judge Orr had hosts of friends in every place that hedwelt. He was universally regarded as a man of the veryliighest probity of character. lie was an intelligent, influ-ential and up-right citizen, giving his best thought and ser-vices for the public weal. He was a fond and devotedhusband and father, a true and loyal friend, and a devoutChristian CALEB E. IRVINE. BIOGRAPHY- CALEB E. IRVINE. 475 cJudae Ualeb qa. Irvine,SOLDIER. PIONEER AND JURIST. No more interesting character ever lived in Montana thanwas Hon. Caleb E. Irvine, who died at his family residencein Anaconda, February Gtli, 1891, and at the time of hisdeath he was probahly the only man of whom it could besaid that he had lived within the boundaries of Montana dur-ing periods when the country was under the jurisdiction offive separate, independent commonwealths. Judge Irvine came to Fort Owen when that place waswithin the boundaries of the Territory of Oregon. Thecountry then became part of the Territory of Washington,then Idaho, next Montana Territory finally to be createdinto the State of Montana. Curious and interesting evolu-tions in governments. He was born in Robinson County, Tennessee, September4th, 1825. He bore the name of his father who was drown-ed, in March, 1825, in Mayficld Creek, Northwestern Ken-tuc
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