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The journey was long, but well worth it for Eivind Nilssonn Rudi and Knut Rogne of Vesleroe, Norway. Their trip began in 1905. After leaving Norway their first stop was Liverpool, England, and then on to Hull, Canada where they boarded a train to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and finally crossed into the United States. From there, they boarded another train to Mondak, Montana, crossed the Missouri by ferry, went to a town called Java and then on to Fairview, MT. Both men filed on homesteads seven...
Joe Klasna came to Montana in1911, and took up a homestead ten miles north of Lane (Sec. 10-24-53) in 1913. In 1919 he married Helen Goss, and one year and one day later, Joseph was born. When Joe died in 1971, his son, Joseph inherited the homestead. Joseph and his wife, Leanora Petrik, farmed until their retirement in 2004, when the farm was passed to his son, Timothy and wife, Kim, who now raise wheat and cattle with their son, Dylan and wife, Whitney. When Joe Klasna first settled his...
Niels Norgaard and Lydia Christensen were the first couple to wed in the newly created Richland County. Their marriage license dated June 17, 1914 was issued only a month after Richland County was carved out of Dawson County on May 16, 1914. The county had not even had time to print its own licenses, thus the Fallon County crossed out and replaced by Richland. Niels was born in 1882 in Denmark and emigrated to America at the age of seven. He was a gymnastics teacher in Kenmare before coming to...
Originally emigrating from Denmark in 1910, Peter and Madisine Hendricksen along with their two daughters, homesteaded 160 acres NW of Sidney, MT in the community of Brorson. Emma, one of Peter and Madisines daughters, married Chris W. Rasmussen in 1920. Chris had emigrated from Denmark in 1908 and had homesteaded 320 acres in the Three Buttes Community. Their first child Curtis was born in 1922. In 1925, Chris and Emma moved to the Hendrickson farm in Brorson to help take care of Emma's...
After arriving from Ste. Clair, Quebec, Canada In September of 1909, Charles T. "aka Leo" and Emelda Prevost purchased their homestead in Lambert, Montana. Together with their six children: Marguerite, Charles, Joseph "Joe", Marie Anne, Bernadette and Laurant they began their life in Montana. In the beginning, Leo spent many grueling hours behind two teams of horses breaking up the sod and planting flax. He hauled lumber from Culbertson, Montana to build one of the first stick framed houses in...
Niels Norgaard homesteaded in the Brorson area in 1908, then moved and filed on the current farm, section 20, in January 1914. Niels married a neighbor, Lydia Christensen and together they had three children; Margaret, Ervin and Orvald. Niels retired from farming at age 74. Ervin and his wife Luella took over the farm which their son Daryl now farms. Ervin and Luella met in Tyler, MN when he went to visit relatives. They had an apartment in Sidney for a couple of years while Ervin worked at...
County Attorney 1914 - 1916: Herbert H Hoar 1917 - 1918: Carl L. Brattin 1919 - 1920: C.E. Collett 1921 - 1922: L.V. Ketter 1923 - 1924: Charles E. Collett 1925 - 1926: R.G. Wagner 1927 - 1930: Carl L. Brattin 1931 - 1934: John M. Lexcen 1935 - 1938: Lee B. Farr 1939 - 1942: John M Lexcen 1943 - 1950: Milton Anderson 1951 - 1954: J.C. Cottingham 1955 - 1990: Victor G. Koch 1991 - : J. Michael Weber District Judge 1914 - 1920: C.C. Hurley 1921 - 1944: Frank P. Leiper 1945 - 1946: Carl Brattin 1947 - 1960: FSP Foss 1961 - 1984: Leslie...
Herman Frederick Lange purchased the western half of his farm from the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1909 and the eastern half in 1910. In total, he purchased 640 acres. He used this land to grow wheat, barley and corn for his cows. He raised four boys and one girl on the farm. Herman actively farmed the land until the mid to late 1930s when his sons Leo and Herman took over. In 1939, Leo married Gertrude Mae Kennedy of Glendive and they had six children: four boys and two girls. In 1967, Leo's...
In 1901, Andrew J. Mercer (AJ) of Maryville, Missouri took a homestead east of the Yellowstone River – approximately six miles southeast of Sidney, MT. AJ was an aggressive entrepreneur. He owned bars, rented out his work horses on the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation System project and owned most of the block north of Main St and Central in Sidney. AJ met Florence Gardner, a graduate nurse from Croydon, England, while on a train hauling cattle from Sidney to Minneapolis. They married soon after i...
The year was 1910. Carl and Anna Bergstedt had begun their journeys in Sweden. Like so many immigrants of their time, they moved from place to place before settling and establishing their legacy on a homestead eight miles northwest of Savage, Montana. Carl arrived via stage coach and Anna and their two children arrived shortly afterwards. With no doctors in the area, Anna returned to Minnesota to give birth to their third child in 1910. Carl purchased three beautiful Percheron horses, farm...
I was born and raised on an Iowa farm where I worked for my board and room and a little spending money until I was 21 years old after which I received wages of $20 a month for a few months. But it didn't take me long to make up my mind that I would never own a farm of my own at that rate, so I asked for a week's leave and bought a round-trip homeseeker's ticket to Culbertson, Montana. I had seen an advertisement of homesteads there in an eastern paper. As my ticket allowed for stopovers, when I...
Farming and ranching built Sidney and have played a crucial role in the health of the community for the past 100 years. The faces of farming and ranching have changed in that time period, particularly the farming aspect of agriculture. Farming made an abrupt shift about 50 years ago when it moved from a resource and tradition enterprise to a science-based business. The science based aspect of farming has led to more reliable production and larger harvests, which translates to better food...
The Gossett Post Office was named for Dan Gossett by Mrs. Tom Bone, one of the early settlers on Gossett Flat; however, Gossett never lived in the immediate area. He was an old round-up boss from South Dakota. They came here in 1900, had no children. He acquired a ranch in 1901 that McPeak, the desperado, was killed. The Gossett Post Office was discontinued in 1913 and was transferred to the Charley Clark, Sr., home and called the Clark Post Office. Still later Skaar Post Office was established, and Gossett patrons received their mail on Skaar...
This is the history of Sioux Pass, a farming and ranching community half way between Sidney and Culbertson. Because this was the home of the Sioux Indian the pass in the divide was called Sioux Pass. Sioux Pass at one time consisted of general store, post office, dance hall, school, telephone switchboard, and church, located three miles south of the pass. The post office was established in 1907 and was located one and one-half miles north and one-half miles east of the pass in the divide. In...
The first account of Montana crude was in 1864 when an emigrant wagon train used naturally exposed crude to grease their wagon wheels near the Big Horn River. The state’s first oil well was drilled by Butte Oil Co. in 1901 near Kintla Lake which is now within Glacier National Park. According to a historical overview of mining in Montana compiled by the U.S. Forest Service, American Indians and fur trappers knew about oil seeps in that area and early-day prospectors wondered about the p...
In honor of Richland County’s centennial, and to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Richland County, the Lions Club is selling three Barbara Schaffner prints, individually at $25 or in sets of three for $50. The prints were commissioned by the Lions Club in 1988, just before Montana’s Centennial. There were only 250 numbered prints made of each one. There are about 45 complete sets and some individual prints remaining. The club also has belt buckles for sale at $25 each. Buckles and prints may be purchased at Seigfreid Agency Ins...
Sidney's birthdate goes back to the fail of 1888. The story goes that petition for a post office for the new townsite was held up until a proper name had been chosen. The name Eureka had been sent in before, but there was already had Eureka in the state. Mr. And Mrs. Walters and their six-year-old so, Sidney, were living in the home of Justice of the Peace, Hiram Otis, at the time. Judge Otis had grown very fond of Sidney, his young fishing partner. While he was making out the paper, he decided...
Only Section 22, Township 25, Range 58 can boast of the early homesteaders and old-timers of Upper Hay Creek in Richland County. Fairview , at that time, had its main street north of the Fairview Mill. Half of the business houses were on the east side of the street in North Dakota, and the other half of the city’s business establishments were on the west side of the street in Montana. The street was called State Street, it meant just that! The old stage coach driver could drive on either side of the street, or smack down the middle of the stree...
This community became known as Brorson around 1909. Pastor Niels Damskov was called in 1909 to serve the Danish Lutherans in the Sidney area and the area northwest of Sidney. He took a homestead 12 miles northwest of Sidney, and the first post office for that community was in his home. As the post office had to have a name, Pastor Damskov named it Brorson, after the famous Danish hymn writer, H. A. Brorson. Thus the community received its name, also the Brorson Church and the Brorson School. In 1916 the Brorson Church was built and was...
Newlon was named for William W. Newlon. Mr. Newlon with his wife and children arrived at Fort Buford in September 1879 aboard the steamship “Batchelor” with Captain Grant Marsh. Newlon was the first settlement in Dawson County, an area of over 13,000 square miles. People moved into the area in increasing numbers. Eighteen-eighty-one was a big year for the new community. Charley Adams arranged to teach school in his home. This was the first school in Dawson County. Sidney, five miles to the north, wa growing and prospering. Newlon bus...
Levi Turner, who had come to the Elmdale community before 1905, became postmaster in 1912. The Elmdale Post Office had been established by Mrs. C.P. Goodwin. She had chosen the name Elmdale because of all the large elm trees on their homestead. As more homesteaders moved in, a Star Route was developed and Levi found it necessary to spend much time helping his wife. A new lumber house with four bedrooms was built and the old log kitchen which served as a post office also housed a supply of...
The Epworth community was located on the Great Northern Railroad line eight miles west of Newlon. There was a section house and Gust Ahlquist was section foreman. The Epworth School was the community center. Picnics and other community activities were held at Epworth Grove. Families living at Epworth included Simards, Finks, Chisholms, Bakkens, Ahlquists and Lovstads....
Lewis Newlon, was the founder and promotor of Fairview. He was born December 15, 1878 at Lincoln, Nebraska, but to him, Montana was his home. He came to what was to be Fairview in 1903. He built a claim shack which was a bit larger than most claim shacks. It had five rooms and was built of sod. It was the first house built on the townsite of Fairview.\Various lines of industry were begun in the Fairview area before the coming of the railroad, which brought a real boom to the area. Mr, Newlon...
At one time buffalo roamed this area freely. Indians camped along its creeks and draws. The Three Buttes have always stook out as a landmark. In the early days, the buttes were used as a lookout by the Indians, government surveyors, artists and homesteaders. The school, post office, clubs and graveyard were named for this distinctive landmark. When there was no priest or minister available for young couples wishing to be married, they traveled by buggy or wagon to Williston, North Dakota or some similar place for the occasion. These were the...
The Four Mile Church was established in 1906. The Ladies Aid was organized March 26, 1906 at a meeting held in the Helm home with Mrs. John Helm as the first president....
