The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . libraiy bearing largely on the military history ofthe United States. HAUSER, Samuel Thomas, governor of Mon-tana, was born at Falmouth, Pendleton county, Ky.,June 10, 1833. He was
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . libraiy bearing largely on the military history ofthe United States. HAUSER, Samuel Thomas, governor of Mon-tana, was born at Falmouth, Pendleton county, Ky.,June 10, 1833. He was educated at schools in hisnative state, removing to Mis-souri in 1854, where he becameengaged as a civil engineer onthe Jilissouri Pacific railway andNorthern Pacific railway. In1862 he went up the Missouririver to Fort Benton, and pros-pected the upper Columbiawaters, returning to Bannackmines in the fall; the followingyear he explored the Lewis andClark route down the Yellow-stone. In connection with Langford, in 1865, Mr. Hau-ser opened a bank in VirginiaCity, Mon.,and also in that yearerected the first furnaces thatwere operated in the 1866 he organized the Firstnational bank of Helena, and theSt. Louis mining company, now known as the Hopemining company, at Phillipsburg. He built the firstsilver mill in Montana, and organized the first na-tional banks of Missoula, Butte, and Benton. He. constructed the branches of the Northern Pacific inMontana, now known as the Northern Pacific &Montana railroads. He also organized the Helena& Livingston smelting and reduction companj, andis its president. He is actively interested in stocksand various other enterprises, and is one of the pio-neers of Montana. His name has been identified withthe development of the state during the past twenty-five years, and much of its present prosperity is dueto his unusual energy, push, and enterprise. Duringthe pioneer days of Montana he had many thrilling experiences and narrow es
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