Talk:List of mayors of Missoula, Montana

✓ Frank Hargrave Woody (1833 – 1912)

Frank H. Woody

✓ Henry C Myers (1855 – )

Henry C. Myers

✓ Thomas C Marshall (1851 – 1911)

Thomas C. Marshall

✓ John Peter Smith (1848 – )

John Peter Smith

✓ Dwight Harding (1834 – 1904)

Dwight Harding

✓ David D. Bogart (1860 – 1912)

David D. Bogart

✓ John L. Sloane (1847 – 1914)

John L. Sloane

✓ William Kennedy (1835 – 1904)

William Kennedy (Montana)

✓ John Martin Keith (1859 – 1929)

John M. Keith

✓ Francis Grant Higgins (1863 – 1905)

Frank G. Higgins

Henry W McLaughlin (1854 – 1912)

(obit)

• b. 06 Mar 1854 Pittsburg, PA
• d. 04 Jan 1912 (MT Vitals, and [1])
• Family (wife, 3 children)
• m. Rose J Gogerty(wife) Sept. 26, 1889 <daughter's marriage certificate in 1919> [2]
• c. Patrick C (son), Margaret M (daughter), Henry W jr (son), Mother and Father both from Ireland <1910 Census>

• raised in Scott, Sheboygan County, WI (obit)
• 1882 - moves to Montana
• 1889 - moves to Missoula
• 1889 - Superintendent of bridges and buildings for the Northern Pacific.
• Sept 1889 - marries Rose Gogerty
• McLaughlin Lumber Co. (McLaughlin & Co. Lumber) McCormick District [3]
• 1 May 1893 - 5 May 1895 -- elected in April began serving in May mayor of Missoula (Democrat)(The New North-west., April 15, 1893)(The Anaconda standard. (Anaconda, Mont.), May 01, 1893, )

<<<9/1893 referred to as mayor, 5/1894 as lumberman, 11/7/1894 elected sheriff (The Anaconda standard., November 08, 1894)>>>

• 1894 - 1898 -- Sheriff of Missoula County (first term 11/6/1894 - 1/4/1897)([4])
• 1899-1900 part of Missoula delegation (6th Legislative Assembly, House)
• McLaughlin was questioned before Congress about his involvement with Clark's Senate seat purchase. ([5])([6])([7]) (The Devil Learns to Vote, the Story of Montana)([8])(pic [9])
• 1900 - operated sawmill on south side
• Worked for W.A. Clark (Secretary of Western Lumber Company)[10][11]

• 04 Jan 1912 - Died at Murray Hospital in Butte where he had been being treated for throat cancer. ([12] Friends mourn his death)

(The bo)dy of H.W. McLaughlin, (for?) years a prominent citizen of Missoula, was brought home last night from Butte. He died there yesterday morning at the Murray hospital, where he had been for a week. He went to Butte to be treated for cancer of the throat, a disease with which he had been afflicted for several years. Mrs. McLaughlin was in Butte but Mr. McLaughlin's three children did not leave Missoula until yesterday morning, when they were notified of their father's condition.

A delegation of sorrowing friends met the body at the Northern Pacific depot. It was taken at once to the McLaughlin home on West Pine street.

H.W. McLaughlin was born in Pittsburg, Pa., on March 6, 1854. In 1882 he came to Montana and then to Missoula, where he had been a resident for 23 years at the time of his death. When he first came he was superintendent of bridges and building for the Northern Pacific. He went into the lumber business later, operating a sawmill on the south side, where the Clark mill now stands. He has been in the lumber or coal business since then.

Mr. McLaughlin had a long and honorable political career. In 1891 he was elected mayor of Missoula, in which office he served with distinction. In 1894 he was elected sheriff of Missoula county, to which office he succeeded himself. Before this time he was one of the city (al)dermen. In 1898 he was elected to (t)he state legislature. In politics he (w)as a democrat.

Mr. McLaughlin was a member of the (St.) Francis Xavier church.

(In) September, 1889 he was mar(ried) to Rose Gogerty, whose father was an old time Northern Pacific (ro)admaster. She and the three child(ren), Patrick C., H.(?)., J.(?)., and (M)argaret survive. A sister, Mrs. J. Clifford, resides at Lolo. ---

(M)issoulian, Missoula, Mont. of Jan. (?)th.

(From) the above we glean the fact (t)hat the deceased H.W. McLaughlin (w)as for many years a resident of (B)eechwood, town of Scott, this county, coming to that place when (a) (m)ere child and living there until (m)anhood.

The writer knew the deceased well (and) is not surprised at all the hon(ors) that were bestowed on him in (his) western home. He achieved everything that is merited, and to old time friends in Sheboygan county he will ever be remembered (as) an amiable person worthy of the (es)teem and friendship of those with (w)hom he came in contact. It was(onl)y a few years ago that he was (here)e on a very sad occasion bringing the remains of his mother from (Mon)tana to St. Michael's cemetery (in) the town of Mitchell for burial, (?) interred the same beside those of his father, Charles McLaughlin, who (pass)ed away several years ago. The (?) friends of the deceased, all neighbors and friends send their (sinc)ere condolence.

A Friend (1912)

Fredrick C Webster (1850 – 1927)

Missoula Cemetery

Adrew Logan (1856 – 1933)

Missoula Cemetery

Albert Miles Stevens (1856 – 1917)

Missoula Cemetery

Morris Chew Smith (1866 – 1942)

Missoula Cemetery

Fred C Morgan (1871 – )

• b.Mar 1871 -
• 1907-08 - (10th Legislative Assembly, House, Missoula)

(still single in 1910)

• 1909 Fred. C. Morgan, Supt. & Spl. Dis. Agt., United States Indian Agent (took census of Flathead Indians of Flathead, Agency, MT)
• 1910 - The Jocko Agency, under Agent Major Fred C. Morgan, was moved to Dixon and renamed the Flathead Indian Agency. Tribal membership was over 2,000.
• Likely same Fred C Morgan who worked as agent for Bureau of Indian Affairs at Jocko (Flathead) Agency between at least 1909-1915.

William H Reid (1855 – )

• b. 7/1855 in Canada from Irish parents
• about 1880 married.
• 1883 immigrated to US with wife Eliza (b. England) and daughter Hattie (b. Canada). Son William G. born in Minnesota. <<1900 Census>>
• 1899 Mason - Knights of Khorassan - Laurel No. 11
• 1911 election coverage <<The Daily Missoulian., April 04, 1911>><<The Daily Missoulian., May 18, 1911>>
• 1911 defeated after first election under the commission from of government<<The Enterprise., July 20, 1911>>
• 1920 still living in Missoula <<1920 census>>

✓ John M Evans (1863 – 1946)

John M. Evans

James M Rhoades (1864 – 1925)

• Alias James T Ashford
• bio 1922
• b. 6/1864 Ohio <<1900 Census>>
• d. Jan (Jul?) 1, 1925 Glendale, CA <<Index to Indian Wars Pension Files,1892-1926>>
• m. 10/21/1890 (Helen) Nellie Scott (b. 7/1871 in OK of Scottish blood) <,1900 Census>>
• ch. James William (b. 4/1891 in ND), Bessie (b. 10/1892 in MT)
• 1870 - age 6 - living in Paint Township, Highland, Ohio with Josiah 38, Mary E 36, Anna Belle 15, Louisianna 10, Mary Emma 3, and George Franklin 1 (10+ b. VA, 9- b. Ohio)
• 1881-85 military service <<Index to Indian Wars Pension Files,1892-1926>>
• 1899 - referred to as Grand Master James M. Rhoades of the A.O.U.W.<<The Billings gazette., December 05, 1899, Semi-weekly>>
• 1900 - Miles City <<1900 Census>>
• 1909 - "well-known real estate man is ill at his home on the south side with the [g]rip" (the flu) <<The Daily Missoulian., March 15, 1909>>
• 1909 - withdraws from Republican mayoral ticket, making Logan nominated by acclimation <<The Daily Missoulian., April 01, 1909>>
• 1909 - Real Estate and Insurance Dealer <<The Daily Missoulian., April 18, 1909, Morning>>
• 1910 - living in Missoula with wife Nellie, son and daughter <<1910 Census>>
• 1910 - brief bio and pic <<The Daily Missoulian., November 02, 1910, Morning>>
• 1910 - part of Republican ticket for county legislature <<The Daily Missoulian., November 08, 1910, Morning>>
• 1910 - Sells interest in Rhoades & Booth to Messrs. McIntosh and Fisher; goes to LA for health reasons <<The Daily Missoulian., December 09, 1910, Morning,>>
• 1912 - bio in endorsement <<The Daily Missoulian., February 25, 1912>>
• 1912 election results (primary) <<The Daily Missoulian., March 19, 1912>><<The Daily Missoulian., March 20, 1912, Morning>>
• 1912 election coverage (James A Rhodes) <<The Salt Lake tribune., April 02, 1912,>>
• 1913 - mayoral appointments and pic <<The Daily Missoulian., May 07, 1912>>
• 1913 - Recall Petition <<The Daily Missoulian., January 07, 1913, Morning>>
• 1913 - commentary on mayor <<The Daily Missoulian., February 20, 1913>>
• 1913 - hotel business dealings <<The Daily Missoulian., November 23, 1913>>
• 1913 - resignation prediction <<The Daily Missoulian., November 30, 1913>>
• 1914 - asks for resignation of Patrolman William E Sweeney. Rebuffed by Police Commissioner Houston<<The Daily Missoulian., January 01, 1914>>
• 1914 - Secrecy order <<The Daily Missoulian., February 05, 1914>>
• 1914 - Infighting with Commissioner Price <<The Daily Missoulian., February 26, 1914>>
• 1914 - charged with attempt to defraud <<The Daily Missoulian., February 28, 1914>> Settlement <<The Daily Missoulian., November 08, 1914>>
• 1914 - Mayoral Proclamation of making Missoula a clean town <<The Daily Missoulian., April 02, 1914>>
• 1914 - Candidate for Sheriff (Republican) <<The Ronan pioneer., August 14, 1914>>
• 1914 - Elks District Deputy <<The Daily Missoulian., December 19, 1914>>
• 9/28/1926 Son James marries (2nd time) Inez Johnson in Silverbow County (Paradise)

Andrew Moses Getchel (1860 – 1934)

Missoula Cemetery

Herbert T. Wilkinson (1864 – 1932)

Missoula Cemetery

William H Beacom (1865 – 1939)

• b. 6/1865 Canada (father Canada, mother N. Ireland) <<1900 Census>>
• d. 9/27/1939 <<Montana, Death Index, 1860-2007>>
• 1880 immigrates to US (not naturalized as of 1900) <<1900 Census>>
• m. about 1890 to Jennie
• 1896 - Union trustee (Missoula branch of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America) <<The Anaconda standard., January 13, 1896, Morning>>
• brief mention <<The Anaconda standard., February 16, 1898>>
• 1898 - built big house in South Missoula<<The Anaconda standard., February 13, 1898, Morning>>
• 1900 lives in Missoula as Carpenter with wife <<1900 Census>>
• 1909 - Union (Missoula Union No. 53 American Brotherhood of Cement Workers) representative
• 1910 living in Missoula with wife Jennie
• 1910 - lifelong Republican <<The Daily Missoulian., January 06, 1910>>
• 1910 - lit car on fire with cigar <<The Daily Missoulian., November 14, 1910>>
• 1912 - lost primary for city council <<The Daily Missoulian., March 20, 1912, Morning>>
• 1914 - appointed as street commissioner <<The Daily Missoulian., May 05, 1914>>
• 1914 - possibly connected to Miller Creek Saw Mill <<The Daily Missoulian., November 13, 1914>>
• 1914 soldier <<The Daily Missoulian., December 01, 1914>>
• 1914 - chairman of Christmass Tree committee <<The Daily Missoulian., November 24, 1914>>
• 1930 - living in Missoula with wife Jennie

Robert W. Kemp (1865 – 1939)

Missoula Cemetery

Ralph L Arnold (1887 – 1948)

Missoula Cemetery

Roy F Hamilton (1891 – 1970)

Missoula Cemetery

Dwight M Mason (1908 – 1974)

Missoula Cemetery

Juliet Gregory (1896 – 1990)

Missoula Cemetery

Ralph L Starr (1895 – 1961)

Missoula Cemetery

James A Hart (1909 – 1965)

• b.8/1/1909, Minnesota (468-05-8104)
• d.7/27/1965 <<Daily Inter Lake July 28, 1965>>
• 1947 - Moves to Missoula
• 1950 - Vice President and Cashier of The Western Montana National Bank <<1950 Sentinel>>
• June 28, 1954 - elected mayor (42 months)
• 1960 - President of the Western Montana National Bank <<Commercial West, Co, Volume 119, 1960>> (includes bio)

• 1965 (brief bio) James A. Hart, Missoula Banker, Dies At 56 MISSOULA -- Banker and businessman James A. Hart died Tuesday in a local hospital. He was 56. Hart was born in Minnesota and attended University of Minnesota. He came to Missoula in 1947. He was named vice-president of The Western Montana National Bank in 1950. <<Daily Inter Lake July 28, 1965>>

Walton Robert Lawson Taylor Jr (1916 — 2006)

• b. 1/31/1916, Norfolk, Virginia
• m. Luella Sophia Kieger
• d. 8/11/2006
• 1930 - living in Norfolk, VA with mom, dad, and younger sister. <<1930 census>>
• 1937 - graduated from William and Mary
• 1940 - Kansas City <<1940 Census>>
• 1941 - Kansas City, MO - Civic Secretary of the Chamber <<Kansas City Star 1/6/1941>>
• Zion, Ill City manager
• Hopkins, MN City Manager
• 1/4/1955 - 12/1956 (announced resignation) - Missoula City manager <<Billings Gazette 12/27/1956>>
• Superior, WI City Manager
• 1959 - Ogden, UT City Manager

• • <<3/4/1955 Daily Interlake>> Taylor spoke on the growth of the city manager form of government since its .beginning in Fort Sumter, S. C., in 1911. He pointed out that since this beginning, 35 per cent of the towns in the United States the size of Kalispell have adopted the city manager form of government and 32 per cent of the cities the size ef Missoula had also selected this form of government. Taylor pointed out that he was not attempting to tell the people of Kalispell what kind of government they should have, nor was he going to compare that form of city government with other types. He went on to show why a city would select the management form of government, showing that it is just "good business", for it' is patterned after business principles.

• • <<MONTANA LIBRARIES Vol. VIII luly 1955 No. 4 P.N. LA. CONFERENCE GEARHART-BY-THE-SEA, OREGON August 29-31, 1955 37th Annual Celebration of BOOK WEEK Theme: LET'S READ MORE November 13-19, 1955 KNOW YOUR LIBRARY MONTH November 1955 Issued Quarterly STATE LIBRARY EXTENSION COMMISSION Missoula, Montana>>

1. On April 12, 1955, the Board of Trustees of the Missoula

Public Library held its final meeting, and the five members tendered their resignations. Dissolved under Missoula's new Commission - Manager form of government, the board had functioned since April 5, 1894, when the city ordinance creating the library and providing for appointment of a library board was passed. In attendance with the board at its final meeting were Walton R. L. Taylor

• • Bio <<THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER OGDEN, UTAH, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1959>>

1. New Manager Already Fully at Home in Ogden All settled down into his new ???nieipal Building, or to the parking and new home--and ready to compare taxes and other bills with anyone--is Ogden's Virginia-born city manager, Walton R. L. Taylor. Mr. Taylor and his family are at home at 1528 Capitol, where he keeps a careful eye on the condition of the street, size of the utility bills, etc., just like all his neighbors up and down the street.

His office aides are already willing to nominate Mr. Taylor as the walkingest city manager in the history of Ogden. As one problem or another shows up, he's liable to put his long legs to work transporting him to some office in the lot where he can jump into an automobile and head for the trouble site. He and his helpers find only one disadvantage to these on-the-spot checks. There's always sure to be someone left behind in the waiting room at the manager's office who wonders how and where the manager spends his time!

A COMPLETE FAMILY

1. It's a complete family the Taylors have in their new home. Walton Jr., a midshipman in the U.S. Naval Academy, failed to pass a medical examination and is spending the summer working for the Southern Pacific on the Lucin fill project, He's looking forward to resuming his studies this fall at a "civilian" school where he will study chemical engineering. Others in the family are Mrs. Taylor, who claims St. Paul, Minn., as her home town; a daughter, Marcia, 17, and a son Charles.

Hired early this year, Mr. Taylor Is now in his fourth city manager post, the others being Zion, 111.; Hopkins, Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis; Missoula, Mont., and Superior, Wis. A native of Virginia, he received his education in the public schools there. His father served as Norfolk city manager from 1930 until his death in 1941. With his father interested in civic affairs, it was only natural when he entered William and Mary College that he should major in political science. He came out with a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1937. For a time he filled jobs of one kind or another for the state of Virginia. From 1941 to 1944 he was state civil service commissioner. Since then most of his time has been spent as a city manager.

RADIO HAMS

1. Both Mr. Taylor and his son Charles are Interested in ham radio operation, and both have their own call letters. In Superior Mr. Taylor sponsored an amateur radio operator's class for youths interested in the hobby, and helped with the teaching. The male side of the family Is not the only side interested in hobbies. Mrs. Taylor likes to paint and held a one-woman show at the Superior museum. She studied at the St. Paul School of Art. Marcia is interested and talented In music. She has been church pianist and organist and has also played for weddings and other special occasions. She also has played the baritone horn in her high school band. Knotty problems of administration keep Mr. Taylor busy for hours which occasionally run into as many as 60 in a week. But It's Interesting and challenging work, and you are generally sure of one thing--if you work one difficulty out, there'll be at least one more ready as soon as you're through.

• • <<OGDEN Standard-Examiner JANUARY 21, 1959>>

1. Council Taps Professional From Superior, Wisconsin WALTON R. L. TAYLOR From Superior To Ogden --(AP Wirephoto) Leaislafor
2. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI)- ... A Superior, Wis., man has been hired as new city manager for Ogden, M a y o r Raymond S. Wright disclosed this morning. He is Walton R. L. Taylor, currently the: city manager of Superior, a city of 36,000. He will be paid $12,000 yearly, $2,000 less than E. J. Allison, present city manager. Mr. Allison's current appointment runs out Feb. 1. He resigned in November.

The new 43-year-old city manager has worked in municipal government since 1937, first as an assistant city manager and since 1950 as a full-fledged city manager. Mayo Wright said Mr. Taylor was, in the opinion of the majority of City Council, the best of 34 candidates who applied. Several members of City Council personally interviewed him during a recent visit he made to Ogden. Mr. Taylor related by phone this morning he intended reporting for work "not later than March 1, perhaps sooner." First, he said he must dispose of his home in Superior.

2-MONTH SEARCH

1. His acceptance of the job ended a two-month-plus search by City Council in which not only the 34 applicants but many other potential managers were considered. Several of these were personally interviewed in Ogden. Mayor Wright said this morning that in addition to his $12,000 a year, Mr. Taylor will be paid $75 a. month for transportation. He will use his own car in city business. The new city manager was first an assistant city manager in Norfolk, Va. his home'town. He'has been city manager in Zion, 111.; Hopkins, Minn., an industrial suburb of Minneapolis; "Missoula Mont., and Superior.

EARLY EDUCATION

1. His early education was in public schools in Norfolk. He graduated from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. He took a bachelor of science degree in political science. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scho lastic fraternity. Mr. Taylor and his wife, a na tive of St. Paul, Minn., have two sons and a daughter. Walton Jr. 18, is a midshipman at the U.S Naval Academy. A daughter, Marcia, 17, is a high school senior and a son, Charles, 16, is a high school junior.

In his switch to Ogden Mr Taylor will be moving into a city with double the population of his present city. Superior has 300 city personnel. It has a budget of $2,600,000.., This compares with Ogden'sytroster of 374 employes and an annual budget of nearly 4 million dollars. By phone, Mr. Taylor told the Ogden Standard-Examiner toda the tax structures of the two communities differ considerably In Wisconsin more state aid is granted cities. "There the water system is privately owned; here it is city owned. There the city operates a museum; here it does not. He pointed out several other differences in administration of the two cities and then observed: "After my visit, I was quickly convinced Ogden is a wonderful city, with great promise. For me personally, the position offers a challenge . . . to continue the fine high level of governmental service in Ogden . . . and to be a member of that community."

• • obit <<Seattle Times>> Walton Robert Lawson TAYLOR, Jr. Born January 31, 1916 in Norfolk, VA; died August 11, 2006 in Shoreline. Survived by his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Preceded in death in 2001, by Luella S. Taylor, his loving wife of over 50 years. Walton moved to Seattle in 1964, where he was a resident of the View Ridge Neighborhood. He later retired from Boeing. He was an avid ham radio operator. Graveside Service will be held Monday, August 14th at 2:00 p.m. at Calvary Cemetery. Hoffner Fisher & Harvey The College of William and Mary, Office of the Bursar, PO Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187.

Published in The Seattle Times on Aug. 13, 2006

Alen Werth Cuthburtson (1919 — 1985)

• b. 5/17/1919 California <<California Death Index, 1949-1997>>
• d. 4/3/1985 Alameda, CA
• 6/1/1957 Missoula city Manager - 5/4/1959 (return to aldermanic form of government)
• brief bio <<Billings Gazette, 5/7/1957>>

1. Missoula Hires City Manager
2. Colorado Resident Will Arrive June 1 Wt Alan Werth Cuthbertson, 38, has been hired as Missoula's second city manager, the City Commission announced Monday. Cuthbertson is to arrive June 1. Missoula has had no manager since Jan. 1, when the resignation of Walton R. L. Taylor became effective. Taylor left to become manager of Superior, Wis. He was the city's first manager under the prevailing commission- manager form of government that took effect June 28, 1954. Until that time, the city had been governed by a three-man city council. Cuthbertson is a 1952 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in public administration. He also attended Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif. He was manager at Canon City 17 months and assistant manager at Anlioch, Calif., for two years.

Alan Bradley (1921 — 2005)

• • obit <<Missoulian 2/23/2005>>

1. Alan Bradley Sr.

MISSOULA - On Monday, Feb. 21, 2005, Alan Bradley Sr. passed away of natural causes at Hillside Manor.

Alan was born April 3, 1921, in Armstead to Taylor A. and Dell Hunsaker Bradley. Alan spent his early years in Armstead and later in the Dillon area. He was an outstanding athlete in high school and college, labeled "the best kid pitcher in Montana" by the Montana Standard in Butte and honored as a member of the Western Montana College Hall of Fame basketball team.

Alan married Ethel Mary Forrester on Dec. 12, 1942, and they recently celebrated their 62nd anniversary. They had four children, daughter, Elaine Kay (Robert) Sheridan of Missoula; son, Alan Jr. (Judy) of Missoula; son, Beau R. (Debra) of Twin Bridges; and daughter, Forey (Dan) Cederberg of Missoula. In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

After an honorable discharge from the Army Air Corps in 1945, Alan returned to Dillon and contracted to install electricity to many of the area ranches. This contract business evolved into Bradley Electric, which grew into Bradley Neon and moved to Missoula in 1952. Alan was mayor of Missoula from 1956 to 1959.

In 1962, it was time for a change of careers and Alan became a venture capitalist. In 1962, he founded Capital Investors Corp. in Missoula and was later elected president of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies. As a venture capitalist, his business took him and Ethel Mary to the Puget Sound area. After a successful career, he retired in 1982 . During retirement, he built two houses and resurrected Bradley Electric which he continued to operate until his 78th birthday.

Alan's greatest love and joy was his family. He enjoyed nothing more than following the many activities of his children and grandchildren. One of their fondest memories was seeing Dad leading the pack-string into the Bob Marshall Wilderness on his favorite mare, Forest Dawn. Later in life, he looked forward to annual trips with his grandchildren to baseball spring training in Arizona.

He and Ethel Mary returned to Missoula in 2001 to be closer to their family.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, at Garden City Funeral Home, 1705 W. Broadway, Missoula

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to the Missoula Chapter of the Alzheimer Foundation.

Arrangements are under the care of Garden City Funeral Home.

Walter A Cash (1921 – 2010)

Missoula Cemetery

Wes Waldbillig (1910 – 1981)

Missoula Cemetery

Leonard Melvern Roche (1914 — 2002)

• • obit <<Albany Democrat-herald July 08, 2002>>

July 08, 2002 12:00 am Oct. 25, 1914 -- July 1, 2002

Leonard Melvern Roche, 87, of Roseburg died Monday July 1.

Mr. Roche was born in Mount Vernon, N.Y. to James M. and Dorothy Pearce Roche.

He married Marjorie Roth on June 8, 1940, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Mrs. Roche preceded him death in 1996.

Mr. Roche served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was on the third wave to storm the beach at Normandy. He also saw duty in the Rhineland.

The Roches moved to New Jersey in 1946; to Missoula, Mont., in 1959; and to Roseburg in 1963. They later moved to Albany in 1968.

During his career Mr. Roche worked for the Douglas National Bank in Roseburg and Key Bank in Albany until his retirement in 1984. He served as Albany's mayor from 1997 through 1978.

He returned to Roseburg in 1996.

Mr. Roche enjoyed playing tennis, gardening and giving blood (10 gallons to the Red Cross) and volunteering.

He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the Masonic Lodge, United Way and S.M.A.R.T. reader volunteer.

He received the Silver Beaver Award from the Boy Scouts of America, was the mayor of Missoula, and was named Albany's First Citizen for 1977.

He is survived by son Kent Roche of Missoula, Mont.; daughters Lorna Jenks of Philomath and Pamela McCarley of Myrtle Creek; and grandchildren Eric Duncan, Sara Duncan and Aaron Jenks.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 13, at the First Presbyterian church in Roseburg with the Rev. Vickie Brown officiating. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that contributions in his name be made to the United Way. Private cremation rites were held.

Edward Leo Shults (1908 — 1984)

• b. 3/13/1908 Montana (father Victor L (MI), mother Clara A Blodgett (MT)) <<1930 Census>>
• d. 11/23/1984 in Missoula
• m. 6/25/1924 to Mary Olive Mclaughlin (daughter of E E Mclaughlin and Lizzie Carrol) <<Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950>>
• c. 1923/*1926 Dorothea Delia in St Regis, 1928/1931 Carolyn Fae (Carolyn not on 1930 census)
• m. 11/17/1939 to Beulah Louise Warden (daughter of Frank L Warden and Ida M Weightman)

• 1910 - in Ravalli County with family <<1910 Census>>
• 6/25/1924 married to Mary Olive McLaughlin in Hamilton
• 1920 - in Woodside, Ravalli County with familty <<1920 Census>>
• 1930 - living in Hamilton with wife Mary Olive (b. about 1907) and daughter Dorothea (about 1926)
• 1935 - living in Hamilton <<1940 Census>>
• 11/17/1939 married to Beulah Louise Warden in Missoula
• 1940 - living in Missoula with wife Louise (b. about 1909), working in forestry <<1940 Census>>

Howard Rolland Dix (1900 — 1997)

• b. 11/6/1900 in Shelburn, IN (father Edward E, Mother Anna M)
• d. 1/6/1997 in Woodburn, Marion, OR
• m. to Zula A

✓ Richard Gardner Shoup (1923 – 1995)

Richard G. Shoup

John Franklin Patterson, Jr.(1925 – 2006)

Missoula Cemetery

✓ George Turman (1928 – 2008)

George Turman

Robert E Brown (1918 — 2008)

• • obit <<Missoulian 1/14/2008>>

MISSOULA - Holding hands with the love of his life and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, Bob Brown slipped away peacefully on Jan. 11, 2008. He died of natural causes at Community Medical Center.

Robert Edward Brown, a career Marine officer and former Missoula mayor, was born on Oct. 7, 1918, to Charles Hughes and Ruth Heim Brown in Towanda, Penn. A child of the Depression, Bob worked his way through Syracuse University in upstate New York, at times babysitting, doing janitorial work, running a lunch counter, and waiting tables at a posh restaurant "on the hill." During summers, he worked at the bridge works in Elmira Heights, N.Y. In 1940, Bob received his bachelor's degree in political science.

A love affair spanning seven decades began in 1936 when Bob met Cidney Munn, a Helena girl visiting relatives in Elmira Heights. From then on, whenever Bob could steal time, he would hitchhike cross-country to Helena where Cidney ran a successful dance school.

In 1941, after a year of graduate school, Bob left Syracuse to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps. With a few months free before attending Officers Candidate School in Quantico, Va., Bob once again went West and found a seasonal job with the U.S. Forest Service. He left Helena as a Montana resident.

The romance between Bob and Cidney continued to blossom despite the obstacle of distance. After kamikazes sank Bob's aircraft carrier, the USS Hornet, he spent two hours in the open ocean before being rescued by a destroyer. Reassigned to the USS Bunker Hill as commanding officer of its Marine detachment, he awaited the new carrier's commissioning in Boston. Cidney joined him there and they married on June 20, 1943. Throughout World War II, Cidney joined Bob every time the Bunker came in for repairs in Bremerton, Wash.

After the war, Bob and Cidney settled into Marine Corps life, bouncing between his duty stations on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, with one short stretch in Oberlin, Ohio, where Bob helped close out the V-2 Navy college program. Their first daughter, Carol Cidney, was born in Oberlin in 1946, and a second daughter, Robin Claire, arrived in 1949 while Bob was stationed in Newark, N.J.

When the Korean conflict began, Cid and their children moved to Helena and Bob left for Chodo, an island off the coast of North Korea. There he commanded two South Korean battalions.

In 1961-62, Lt. Col. Brown headed the Marine contingent of the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) in South Vietnam. He grew to love the people and the landscape of Vietnam.

Bob retired from the Marine Corps in 1964 and moved home to Montana, choosing Missoula because the University of Montana was located here. From 1965 to 1972, he sold mutual funds for Investors Diversified Services, easily admitting that he "didn't earn much but made a lot of friends." He embraced Missoula as an active member of the Masons, Shriners, Missoula Kiwanis Club, Western Montana Military Officers Association, Missoula Republican Club, and First Presbyterian Church. Bob was a 50-year member of Masonic Lodge 13 and the Shriners.

He served as a Ward Four alderman from 1971 to 1973. When Mayor George Turman resigned, the council appointed Bob to succeed him. Bob resigned from IDS and was duly elected mayor, serving one term from 1973 to 1977. During his tenure as mayor, Bob supported Missoula's bikeway system and oversaw details to establish the Missoula Art Museum in the old Carnegie Library.

Following Bob's third retirement, Bob and Cidney spent four months traveling in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. More trips followed.

A Phi Beta Kappa at Syracuse, Bob was a lifelong learner, wanting to know the whys and wherefores of every experience. A dictionary and encyclopedia set were always at hand to answer questions. The military shorthand, "RTP" (Read the Problem), was a way of life at the Brown household.

Bob was preceded in death by his brother Porteus, granddaughter Carilee Matchett, and son-in-law Phil Tawney.

Survivors include daughters Carol Matchett of Van Cleave, Miss., and Robin Tawney Nichols of Missoula, and their husbands Larry Matchett and William Nichols; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Pastor Brian Marshall will lead a memorial service at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at First Presbyterian Church, 201 Fifth Ave. W., Missoula. Following the service, the Missoula City Police will escort a processional to the Fort Missoula military cemetery for a Masonic ceremony and burial with full military honors.

Honorary pallbearers are Bob's grandchildren and their spouses: Amanda and Craig Strong of Salem, Va.; Marci and Cory McEnaney of Missoula; Land and Glenna Tawney of Missoula; Chris Matchett and Lisa Holt of McDonough, Ga.; Mikal and Armand Begnoche of Bozeman; and Whitney Tawney of Portland.

In lieu of flowers, Bob asked that memorials be sent to the Shriners Hospital for Children-Spokane, 911 W. Fifth Ave., Spokane, Wash. 99204-2901.

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Robert Emerson 'Bob' Lovegrove (1943 — 2005)

• • obit <<Missoulian 10/26/2005>>

MISSOULA - Robert Emerson "Bob" Lovegrove, 62, died Sunday, Oct. 23, 2005, of complications from brain cancer.

Bob was born June 30, 1943, in Bridgeport, Conn., to Robert E. and Sylvia Tyack Lovegrove. He grew up in Albuquerque, N.M., where he graduated from Highland High School in 1961.

On July 25, 1964, he married Martha Robertson. They have four children and eight grandchildren.

Bob graduated from the University of Montana with a bachelor's degree in forestry in 1966. In 1967, he completed a master's degree in forest economics at Harvard University. Two years later, he obtained a doctorate in economics from Colorado State University.

He taught at Colorado State University, Adams State College and the University of Montana.

Bob moved with his family to Missoula in 1972. He worked for the U.S. Forest Service and Lambros Real Estate. After obtaining his CCIM certification and broker license, he opened Professional Real Estate and Professional Rental Services. He spent time developing and managing rental properties in Missoula. After being frustrated with the bureaucratic process at the city related to property development, Bob decided to run for mayor in 1985. He took office in 1986 and served a four-year term.

He spent 1992 through 1999 in Stevensville and was owner of a local hardware store and active in the Stevensville Civic Club.

Bob returned to Missoula in 1999, where he sold insurance. He was successful in a bid for a Ward 5 City Council seat in 2003.

Bob always chose to be active in his community. He was involved in Boy Scouts, Chamber of Commerce, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Rotary International and Rotary Youth Exchange program, and was a longtime member of the Western Montana Fish & Game Association, and served on a Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Advisory Board.

He loved Missoula and sought the best for the city in his political activities. He was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed hiking, camping and hunting.

Bob is survived by his wife, Marty of Missoula; daughter, Lisa and husband Chris Ward of Great Falls; son, Brian and wife Melissa Lovegrove of Little Rock, Ark.; son, Joe Lovegrove of Pablo; daughter, Carmen and husband Bob Zabel of Juneau, Alaska; and eight grandchildren.

He is also survived by stepfather, Phillip Owens of Albuquerque; and sisters, Susan Graziano of Milan, Italy, and Sara Lovegrove of Dallas.

A celebration in honor of Bob will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Missoula Valley Church. A private graveside service for the family will be held.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be sent to the Memorial for Bob Lovegrove, in care of First National Bank, 201 N. Main St., Missoula, MT 59802. This fund will be used for the promotion of Boy Scouts.

✓ Daniel Kemmis (1946 – )

Daniel Kemmis

Mike Kadas (1956 — )

b. 11/20/1956 in Roseburg, OR.

• Missoulian article on appointment <<Missoulian Dec 21, 2012>> HELENA — Mike Kadas, a former mayor and state representative from Missoula, will be the new director of the Montana Department of Revenue, Gov.-elect Steve Bullock said Thursday.

Bullock said Kadas brings diverse private and public experience to the post.

“Mike knows what it’s like to balance a budget and make payroll, and he’s got what it takes to maintain our strong fiscal position,” Bullock said. “I’ll look forward to working with Mike to making sure we take a balanced, responsible approach to managing the people’s money.”

Kadas, 56, served as mayor of Missoula from 1996 to 2006, managing a $100 million annual budget and overseeing hundreds of employees.

He previously was elected as a Democratic state legislator, serving from 1983 to 1997. He was a member of the House Appropriations, Local Government, and Business and Industry committees and worked extensively on school funding, property taxes and other tax issues.

Since 2008, Kadas has worked in various capacities for Rivertop Renewables, a Missoula company that makes products that are biodegradable and built from renewable plant sugars. Most recently, Kadas said he’s been the manager of facilities and corrosion inhibitors for de-icers.

After Bullock was elected, he sought applications from people interested in jobs such as department directors or members of the governor’s staff.

“I put my name out there as being willing and interested in helping out,” Kadas said. “This is where we ended up.”

Kadas said he’s pleased to be heading the Revenue Department.

“I’ve got a long history of working with state issues, particularly our taxation system, as well as our appropriation side of things,” Kadas said. “Those are real tangible assets in helping to develop consensus and get legislation passed and help what has often been a divided Legislature and executive get to some common ends and move the state forward.”

So far, Bullock has appointed the directors of the departments of Commerce, Corrections, Environmental Quality, Labor and Industry, Natural Resources and Transportation.

Bullock also has tapped Tim Burton to be his chief of staff and Ali Bovingdon and Kevin O’Brien to be his deputy chiefs of staff. Dan Villa will continue to serve as state budget director.

He has yet to appoint the directors of the departments of Administration, Agriculture, Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Military Affairs, and Public Health and Human Services.

• bio <<Montana Standard Dec 07, 2013>> Occupation: Director of the Montana Department of Revenue. Appointed by Gov. Steve Bullock and confirmed by Montana Senate.

Age: 57.

Birth date and place: Nov. 20, 1956, in Roseburg, Ore. Moved to Montana in 1979.

Family: He and his partner, Martha Newell, have two sons.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in economics-philosophy in 1992 and master’s degree in economics in 1996, both from the University of Montana.

Past employment: Worked as a carpenter, 1983-86; owned and operated small construction company, 1989-1996; elected mayor of Missoula and served from 1996-2006; Worked from 2008-2012 for Rivertop Renewables, a Missoula-based business producing biodegradable chemicals, most recently as director of special projects.

Military experience: None.

Political experience: Served as mayor of Missoula, 1996-2006. Served on the board of directors of the Montana League of Cities and Towns, 1998-2005, and as its president in 2003; elected and served as a state representative from Missoula, 1983-1997.

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• Article when leaving office <<Missoula Independent December 29, 2005 Missoula in the Rearview Mirror

An exit interview with outgoing Mayor Mike Kadas By Jessie McQuillan, photos by Yogesh Simpson>>

• Exit article Missoula Mayor Mike Kadas prepares to leave office after almost 10 years

Mike Kadas

✓ John Engen (1964 – 2022)

John Engen