Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . .He was an ardent patriot, a most intense American. The wrongs of others excited his profoundest sympathy,his own he uncomplainingly bore. He had a noble inde-pendence, and he scorned mean things. He sought andwalked untrodden wavs, but thev were such onlv as hisconscience commanded. His form was manly, his counte-nance benignant and his voice as musical as Apollos lute. Gentle, kindly, charitable, friendly and just, his memoryis a precious heritage to be cherished by this Society, byhis contemporaries and by succeeding generations. The Soci
Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . .He was an ardent patriot, a most intense American. The wrongs of others excited his profoundest sympathy,his own he uncomplainingly bore. He had a noble inde-pendence, and he scorned mean things. He sought andwalked untrodden wavs, but thev were such onlv as hisconscience commanded. His form was manly, his counte-nance benignant and his voice as musical as Apollos lute. Gentle, kindly, charitable, friendly and just, his memoryis a precious heritage to be cherished by this Society, byhis contemporaries and by succeeding generations. The Society of .Montana Pioneers by its Executive Com-mittee adopts this memorial of its late President, and directs 45S HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MONTANA. that it be entered at large on its minutes and Lliat a copy bepresented to Mrs. Annie Caplice Rockwood, a daughter ofthe deceased.(Signed) MARTIN MAGINNIS,WILBUR F. SANDERS,EDWARD CARDWELL,J. F. BECK,CONRAD KOHRS, , Deeember 17th, HEV MAHLON GILBERT RECTOR DKER r,ODC5E, BUTTE, MINNESOTA. BIOGRAPHY-RT. REV. MAHLON NORRIS GILBERT, D. D. 459 Rt. Rev. l\/lah)lon |\|onris Giilbert u. U. By Bishop Tiittle. Mall]on Norris, the son of Norris Gilbert and Lncy(Todd), was born in the town of Lanrens, New York, March23, 1848. He was the yonngest of three sons, the oldesthaving died in infancy, and the second, Frederick, being hiselder by three years and now (1906) living in Lo Lo, Mon-tana. Norris Gilbert was a farmer and a commnnicant ofZion (Protestant EpiscopaTi Ghnrch, Morris, N. Y. Hisfarm was six miles or more from the village of Morris, andon the hills over towards the village of Laurens. Subse-quently he moved to a farm in the Butternut Valley, in thetown of Morris and three miles from the village of thatname. This was the Gill^ert home when I came to Morristo be the assistant minister of Zion Church, July 19, 18() at this time Norris Gilbert was the Senior Warden ofZion parish. The Rector, Bev.
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