History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . nd in the public schools of his native in life he attended the First Pennsyl-vania State Normal school at Millersville, inLancaster county. He taught school in NewJersey during the winter of 1861-62, goingfrom there to Philadelphia, where heworked as a salesman in a retail and whole-sale dry goods store for the next two living in Philadelphia he served as amember of the Pennsylvania state militia in1863
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . nd in the public schools of his native in life he attended the First Pennsyl-vania State Normal school at Millersville, inLancaster county. He taught school in NewJersey during the winter of 1861-62, goingfrom there to Philadelphia, where heworked as a salesman in a retail and whole-sale dry goods store for the next two living in Philadelphia he served as amember of the Pennsylvania state militia in1863, which was engaged in repelling the reb-el invasion of that state, and was under fireat Carlisle when Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee burnedthe government barracks at that place andshelled the town. The gold fever struckhim in 1864 and he started for Montana. Onhis way there he stopped at Centreville,Utah, near Salt Lake City, and taughtschool during the winter of 1864-65. Hereached Montana in April of the followingyear. His first employment was in placermining in Last Chance gulch. He gave thiswork up in a short time, however, and be-gan clerking and keeping books for a gro-. .iDSEPH r. wooL^rAN. eery house at Virginia Citj, and later atHelena. Being industrious and frugal*inhis habits, he was able after a few years tointerest himself financially in a number ofditferent enterprises. He became interest-ed early in ranching and stock raising, butdid not give the business his personal atten-tion. He is at the present time, however,largely interested in sheep raising. For sev-eral years he was the owner of the leadingboot and shoe stoi-e in Helena. He is nowa member of the firm of Holme, Miller & Co.,which does an extensive hardware, miningmachinery and supplies, and tinware busi-ness in Dawson, Yukon Territory, Woolman has been a life-long Repub-lican, and taken an active interest in poli-tics. He represented Montana on the Cen-tennial commission of the Philadelphia Ex-position in
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