Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout ... . casting in hislot with the farmers of the Yellowstone Valley atSidney. He was born in Sweden, but came to theUnited States in childhood with his parents, andhe grew to mature years in Iowa. From that statehe went with the family to Utah, and about thetime he reached manhoods estate he made his wayto Montana. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Staf-farison are: Addie, wife of Frank Finlayson, ofFairview. Montana: George,* of Sidney; Marie
Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout ... . casting in hislot with the farmers of the Yellowstone Valley atSidney. He was born in Sweden, but came to theUnited States in childhood with his parents, andhe grew to mature years in Iowa. From that statehe went with the family to Utah, and about thetime he reached manhoods estate he made his wayto Montana. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Staf-farison are: Addie, wife of Frank Finlayson, ofFairview. Montana: George,* of Sidney; Marie, whobecame the wife of Mr. Ferris; Frank, of Sidney;Gwendolin, wife of Arthur Jorgenson, of RichlandCounty, and Inez, the youngest of the children and astudent in the Montana State Normal at Dillon. Twochildren have been born to bless the union of Mrs. Ferris, Ethel and Arnold Douglas, Jr. Howard G. Bennet. A resident of Great Fallssince 1901, present county attorney of CascadeCounty, Howard G. Bennet has divided his timebetween his profession as a lawyer and several busi-ness and official connections. Mr. Bennet was born at Port Jervis, Orange Coun-. -^^^^---^^ ^i^.,...^ HISTORY OF MONTANA 689 ty, New York, February 23, 1875, and representsa verj old and honored line of American Bennets were originally French were connected with the earliest history ofthe French lace making industry. On account ofreligious persecution they left France, went to Hol-land, and thence to England. James Bennet camefrom England to America and settled in the valleyof the Delaware River as early as 1668. Mr. Ben-nets grandfather was James Bennet, a New parents of Howard G. Bennet were Galen andElizabeth (Conkling) Bennet, both natives of PortJervis, New York, where they were born in theyear 1837. The father died at the age of seventy-five in 1912 and the mother in 1900. Elizabeth Conk-ling was a daughter of Dr. John Conkling, a NewYork state physician, wh
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