Identifier: montanaitsstoryb03stou (find matches)
Title: Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout ...
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed
Subjects: Montana -- History Montana -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ork, Ire-land, March 4, 1844, son of Jeremiah and Johanna(Clifford) Sullivan. While he came of an oldIrish family, his parents were poor, and in orderthe better to. provide for their large family theyimmigrated to America in 1849, establishing a newhome in Ontario, Canada. Both parents attainedto old age, the father dying at the age of eighty-sixand the mother at eighty-seven. Jeremiah was thefourth among twelve children, only one of whom isnow living. Jeremiah Sullivan had limited opportunity to at-tend school in Canada, and the numerous householdduties gave him a serious sense of his responsibilitiesat an early age. About the time he left school hewent to work in a country store at $6 a month andboard. Later his wages rose to $10 a month, .^tthe age of seventeen he went to Buffalo, New York,and for a time was employed as assistant cook on agovernment lighthouse tender, and subsequentlyworked on a steamer flying between Buffalo and Chi-cago. Mr. Sullivan had an interesting experience
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j^(U2yfiA^ C^^^^vc/i^tf,,^^^ HISTORY OF MONTANA 747 on the Mississippi River when that waterway wasa principal artery of traffic. He became cook of oneof the Mississippi River steamboats in 1862, andmade a number of journeys up and down theriver between St. Louis and New Orleans. Laterreturning to Canada, the winter of 1865 found him inOmaha, and on the nth of March he shipped assteward on the steamer Benton bound for the UppefMissouri. The boat landed him at Cow Island, Mon-tana, and by ox team he journeyed on to Fort Ben-ton, reaching that pioneer outpost on the 24th ofApril. Attracted to the mines of Helena, he jour-neyed on by ox team, and his first camp was at thehead of the present Broad Street in the capital, thenonly known as Dry Gulch. He did the strenuouswork and enjoyed the vicissitudes of fortune thatcame to the prospector and miner of that day. Inthe spring of 1866 he started with a party of aboutforty-five men for the Wind River country, ridinghis saddle horse and leadin

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