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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Powers were exhausted and gave up thestruggle. Returning home Curtis Adams became re-instated as his fathers assistant in the Sidney office. Burton S. .Adams married in Flathead County.Montana, in 1898, Miss Emma Eckelberry, a daugli-ter of a Union soldier of West Virginia, who camffrom Minnesota to Montana about 1889 and settledin Flathead County. The children of the Adamshousehold are Wm. Curtis. Lorena J., Walter B.,Earl J.. Louise E. and Ralph V. It will be seen in the foregoing brief review ofBurton S. Adams that his thirty years since he en-tered upon his professional career have been filledwith activities which count. A varied field has calledhim into service and his mark has been made uponboth continents of the Western Hemisphere. Hehas familiarized himself with his own country byexploring it where duty called, and he has mixedwith men of his profession who stand as monumentsto engineering achievement in the development of theNorthwest. He is yet young. There are other fields
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^\V . o/^-e^j^->n/iru5u— HISTORY OF MONTANA 729 waiting for his invasion on some important mission,and there is vigor of body and mind unimpaired tocope with whatever professional or other problemsof business to which he may be assigned. He yieldsto no man in interest in the solution of the futureproblems of the Yellowstone Valley, and while timetreads lightly upon him it will be his pleasure andpurpose to serve. Harry G. Ketch.\m is the editor and proprietorof the oldest newspaper in Richland County, theSidney Herald, which was founded in the year 1908as a weekly journal and a supporter of republicanprinciples. The paper was first established by LewisN. Barton and Frank J. Matoushek, but a short timelater this firm was succeeded by Mr. Barton, whocontinued as its owner and publisher until September,igog, when William H. Ketcham, an old-time news-paper publisher, purchased it and conducted it underthe same political principles as when it was founded.In igio Mr. Ketcham

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