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1859 Petition for Bitterroot County, Montana
The following data is extracted from Bancroft Works, Volume 31, History Of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, 1845-1889, Hubert H. Bancroft, 1890. The History Company, Publishers, San Francisco..
In the winter of 1859 a petition had been addressed to the legislature of Washington by the settlers of Bitterroot Valley and the Flathead agency, to have a county set off, to be called Bitterroot County. This petition had seventy-seven names attached, and chiefly these of the Mullan wagon-road company, who could hardly be called settlers, although a few names of actual pioneers are to be found among them. The petition does not appear to have been presented until the session of 1860-1, when two counties, called Shoshone and Missoula, were created out of the region east of the later boundary of Washington, the 117th meridian.
The list is as follows:
W. W. Johnson
J. A. Mullan
G. C. Taliaferro
J. Sohon
C. R. Howard
James S. Townsend
Theodore Kolccki
W. W. De Lacy
George H. Smith
Cyrus Spengler
A. J. Horton
William Lowery
A. E. D'Course
J. Cashman
William Plug
Charles J. Clark
Daniel F. Smith
Robert P. Booth
David Carroll
James Conlan
Isaac H. Rocap
Frederick Sheridan
W. L. Wheelock
John C. Davis
Thomas Hudson
W. Burch
D. Hays
John Carr
George Ruddock
Patrick Graham
Canhope Larard
John Larard
Joseph Tracy
William O'Neil
Patrick Mihan
James N. Heron
Edward Scully
M. McLaughlin
William Craig
William Hickman
J. C. Sawyer
A. J. Batchelder
A. L. Riddle
James McMahon
William Galigher
L. Neis
Zib. Teberlare
George Young
John Owens
W. D. Perkins
Richard Smith
Loars P. Williams
William Henry
William Proyery
C. E. Juine
D. M. Engely
J. B. Rabin
Thomas W. Harris
Henri M. Clarke
S. H. Martin
Jefferson Morse
James Gotier
Angus MacCloud
John De Placies
James Toland
P. Macdonald
E. Williamson
John Silverthorne
John M. Jacobs
John Pearsalt
Louis Claimont
Louis G. Maison
Narcisse Mesher
A. Gird
Joseph Lompeny
Richard Grant
Michael Ogden
Wash, Jour, House, 1860-1, 35-6.
Source: Bancroft Works, Volume 31, History Of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, 1845-1889, Hubert H. Bancroft, 1890. The History Company, Publishers, San Francisco.
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