Follow-up Letter to Missoulian Centennial Edition by Ruth Polleys Sale and Katherine Thrailkill Reardon – 8/10/1960
Follow-up to The Missoulian Centennial Edition – Letter from Ruth Polleys Sale and Katherine Thrailkill Reardon – 8/10/1960
Addenda
We, the undersigned, feel there are points of interest to some latter day Missoulians that would be of interest as a follow-up to your Centennnial edition.
1 Baron O’Keefe, whose grand-niece is Mrs. Howard Toole, has a great-grandnephew, John H. Toole, owner of the Toole Insurance Agency.
2 W. H. H. Dickinson, whose wife was Emma Slack, has a son, W. O. Dickinson of Missoula; grandson, Lamar of Kalispell, and great-grandson, Bill, who owns Dickinson’s Music Store of Missoula.
3 F. L. Worden, co-founder of Missoula, has, besides his grandson Bill Worden of Missoula, granddaughters, Louise Worden Shults and Jane Worden Muchmore of Missoula.
4 Maj. Washington J. McCormick has granddaughters Angela Weisel and Camilla Vance.
5 Judge Frank Woody’s daughter Alice resides at Kalispell.
6 Christopher P. Higgins grandson, Grant, resides in Missoula.
7 Maj. Michael McCauley has two daughters-in-law, and grand-daughters, Eleanor Honeycutt and Mary Louise McCauley McDonald, and grandson, Robert McCauley, who resides on the original homestead property on South avenue in Target Range.
8 Mr. Kelley, of Orchard Homes, had three children, Mamie Kelley Campbell, Ownie Kelley and Hugh Kelley, and grandchildren, Ursula Campbell, Frank, Mae and Hall, and six great-grandchildren residing in Missoula,
Catherine Kelley Pew, Dorothy Kelley Ogg, Owen Kelley, Hugh Campbell, Marijo Peterson and Cammie Peterson Smith.[1]
9 Maj. Peter Ronan, the early Indian agent for whom Ronan was named, has a daughter, Isabel, residing in Missoula.
10 Dr. Charles W. Lombard, the early dentist, has a daughter in Missoula, Mrs. Helen Lombard Seely, and a grandson, Tom Seely Jr.
11 One of Maj. John B. Catlin’s granddaughters is Alice Hershey Coffee, whose sons are John and Bill Coffee.
12 Thomas L Greenough has a daughter, Ruth Greenough Mosby, living in Missoula.
13 Thomas Hathaway has two daughters in Missoula. Gertrude Hathaway Duncan and Fan Hathaway Lucy, grandson Tom Duncan, and two great-grandsons.[2]
14 Judge Bickford’s daughter is Edith Bickford Murphy (Mrs. W. L.)
15 A. B. Hammond was an uncle of Walter McLeod and a great uncle of Olive McLeod Mulroney, Jean Richards Johns and Annie Richards.
16 A granddaughter of John Rankin is Dorothy McKinnon Brown (Mrs. Walter).
17 Mary Ford Logan, who was at the Ft. Missoula uprising, has a granddaughter, Jean Russell Wilcox, and great-grandchildren Warren and Judy living here in Missoula.
18 There is a story told about “One Eyed Riley,” and a certain little girl named Kate Reeves. Kate’s big cousin, Charlie Hall, threatened her with a boogie man, who happened to be “One Eyed Riley.” She climbed under the rungs of her father’s chair at the dinner table, in mortal fear of “One Eyed Riley.” He happened to go by and Charlie Hall invited him in. The Indian told Judge Reeves he would swap the little girl for a good dinner, and sat down to eat, with said little petrified girl under the chair. It wasn’t until years later that she found out he was a good Indian. Kate Reeves Thrailkill resides in Missoula with her daughter and granddaughter.
We apologize for any omissions or errors, but after all, our source has only lived in Missoula for 76 ½ years. –
Ruth Polleys Sale and Kathrine Thrailkill Reardon. Missoula.
The above letter appeared in The Daily Missoulian on August 10, 1960.
The Missoulian Centennial edition came out on July 27, 1960. Following is a link to most of its articles:
Mrs. Katherine R. Thrailkill died in Missoula on July 8, 1961. She was the daughter of Judge George W. Reeves and came to Missoula in 1884.
Ruth Polleys Sale was born in Missoula in 1913 and died in Polson in 2003. She was a daughter of Edgar Polleys and Bess Gould Polleys. She taught English at Paxson School in Missoula. Her father started Polleys Lumber Co in Missoula in 1910. Polleys Square in Old Sawmill District is named for him.
Their letter is greatly appreciated, omissions or not.
[1] Mr. Patrick Kelley actually had 6 kids. A daughter who stayed in Rhode Island and two more sons – Pat Jr., and William who became a sheriff of Missoula County. Patrick Sr. was one of 3 Kelley brothers who settled in Target Range. Families histories are not always easy to decipher, sometimes for some unusual and not always pleasant reasons. 3 of 4 of William’s known sons became priests, and 2 daughters became nuns.
[2] Thomas Hathaway was a bookkeeper for Eddy, Hammond Co. (Msla Merc.). From New Brunswick, like so many early Missoulians. He arrived in Msla in 1878.