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Missoula Mayors Interred at The Missoula Cemetery 2 3 This booklet was compiled and printed by the Missoula Cemetery as an informational booklet for individual use. The Missoula Cemetery is a department of the City of Missoula in Missoula, Montana. Questions and comments should be directed to: Missoula Cemetery 2000 Cemetery Road Missoula Montana 59802 Phone: (406) 552-6070 Fax: (406) 327-2173 Web: www.ci.missoula.mt.us/cemetery Visit our website for a complete interment listing, historical information, fees, cemetery information, and regulations. © 2008 Missoula Cemetery 4 Table of Contents Timeline: Mayors and Local History ................................................................................................ 6 Map: Mayors Burial Sites ................................................................................................................ 8 Frank Woody .................................................................................................................................. 10 Thomas Marshall ............................................................................................................................ 11 Dwight Harding ............................................................................................................................... 12 David Bogart ................................................................................................................................... 13 John Sloane .................................................................................................................................... 14 William Kennedy ............................................................................................................................. 15 John Keith ....................................................................................................................................... 16 Frank Higgins .................................................................................................................................. 17 Frederick Webster .......................................................................................................................... 18 Andrew Logan ................................................................................................................................. 19 Albert Miles Stevens ....................................................................................................................... 20 Morris Chew Smith ......................................................................................................................... 21 John Evans ..................................................................................................................................... 22 Andrew Getchell………………………………………………………………………………………….23 Herbert Wilkinson ........................................................................................................................... 25 Robert W Kemp .............................................................................................................................. 26 5 Table of Contents (continued) Ralph Arnold ................................................................................................................................... 27 Roy Hamilton .................................................................................................................................. 28 Dwight Mason ................................................................................................................................. 29 Juliet Gregory ................................................................................................................................. 31 Ralph Starr ...................................................................................................................................... 33 Walter Cash .................................................................................................................................... 34 Wesley Waldbillig ............................................................................................................................ 36 Richard Shoup ................................................................................................................................ 37 John Patterson ................................................................................................................................ 40 William Cregg ................................................................................................................................. 41 John Toole ...................................................................................................................................... 42 Credits ............................................................................................................................................ 44 Complete List of Mayors ................................................................................................................. 45 6 Mayors Interred at Missoula City Cemetery 1883: Town of Missoula incorporated and NP railroad arrived. Frank Woody 1883-1884 Thomas Marshall 1887: 1st City Hall was built. 1885 Dwight Harding 1887-1888 David Bogart 1888-1889 John Sloane 1889-1890 1889: Statehood, electricity 1883-1893 William Kennedy 1890-1891 arrived, City incorporated. John Keith 1891-1892 Frank Higgins 1892-1893 1893: Missoula County was divided into three counties. John Keith 1895: University of Montana 1895-1897 Frederick Webster 1897-? opened with 50 students. 1894-1904 Andrew Logan ?-1901 Albert Stevens 1901-1903 Morris Smith 1903-1907 1897: 25th All Black Bicycle Corp traveled to St Louis. 1902: The first library was built. John Keith 1907-1909 1905-1915 Andrew Logan 1905: Missoula County 1909-1911 John Evans 1911 High School was built. 1908:USFS established. Clark Fork River Flood. 1911: Aviation arrives. 1912: Higgins Ave was paved with bricks. Herbert Wilkinson 1916-1922 1916-1926 Robert Kemp 1926-1928 1918: Flu Pandemic 1920: The first public swimming pool was built. 7 Mayors Interred at Missoula City Cemetery 1932: Street cars were replaced with buses. Ralph Arnold 1934-1937 1927-1937 Roy Hamilton 1937 1937: Orange St. bridge built. 1941: USA enters World War II, Japanese, Italians interned at Fort Missoula. Dwight Mason 1937-1947 1938-1947 Juliet Gregory 1947-1949 1947: Community Hospital opened. First woman mayor. 1948: Parking meters installed. 1948-1958 Ralph Starr 1949-1954 1954: Local television broadcasts began. 1961-1964: Sewage treatment plant was Walter Cash 1959 - 1961 built. Wes Waldbillig 1961-1963 1959-1969 Richard Shoup 1967-1970 1960: I-90 was built through Missoula. John Patterson 1970 1970-1980 William Cregg 1977-1983 1972: Vietnam protests in Missoula. 1979: Last passenger train left Missoula. 1981-1991 John Toole 1983-1986 1986: Washington Grizzly Stadium opened. 1995: Missoula Carousel opened. 8 9 Meet Missoula’s Past Mayors **Note: Generally, all information provided in this booklet has been compiled from cemetery records, funeral records, obituaries, newspaper articles, and public documents located at Missoula County Records Management, Missoula County Clerk and Recorder, and the Missoula Public Library or the Mansfield Library collections. History information has also been collected from various websites. All effort has been made to note the individuals who have also donated research and/or photos to make these histories and biographies as complete as possible. 10 FRANK H WOODY Store clerk, Freighter, Miner, Editor, Probate Judge, Auditor, Attorney, Postmaster, County Clerk and Recorder, Deputy Clerk of District Court, Historian, Politician. Born. December 10, 1833 in Chatham County, North Carolina. Paternal side: Quaker descent, Maternal side: old Revolutionary family. Married. Lizzie Countryman in 1871. Lizzie was the daughter of Horace and Elizabeth Countryman, originally from California. Children. One son and three daughters Died. December 16, 1916 in Missoula from ‘nephritis’ (inflammation of the kidney). Early life. Farming with little educational advantages. 1851. Attended New Garden Boarding School (now Guilford College), a Quaker institute near Greensboro, North Carolina. 1852. Frank taught school in the east for a few years until he caught the fever to move Westward. He worked his way through Kansas, Utah, and Washington before joining a party of traders coming to the Flathead country (now Ravalli and Missoula Counties). Woody was paid $15 a month to drive an oxen team of supplies to Flathead country for trade with the Indians. Woody, Captain Christopher P. Higgins, and Francis L. Worden were three of the most prominent founding fathers of Missoula. Oct. 15th 1856. Frank arrived at Hell Gate River on Mullan Road today. He noted there were 300 lodges of Indians camped where Missoula now stands on the day he arrived. Missoula was at that time in Washington Territory. 1866. Woody was appointed to serve an unexpired term as clerk and recorder. He continued in this office until 1880 when he refused to fill the office. During his tenure, the office of clerk and recorder was combined with the office of probate judge. This allowed Woody Located in Grave 4, Lot 15, Block 26 to serve in two offices at the same time: Clerk and Recorder and Probate Judge. He was also the Deputy Clerk of the Second Judicial District Court of Missoula County for eight years. 1877. Frank was admitted to the Montana Bar as Missoula's first attorney. He was noted