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William Muth, from West Virginia. In 1873, Muth came to Helena,
Montana Territory. During the 1870s and early 1880s he was interested
in several mercantile establishments in Helena, Marysville, and
Belmont, including Conrad & Muth and Bach, Cory & Co. For a few
years he also ran the Helena-Marysville stage. In 1886 Muth established
a Helena real estate office in partnership with James P. Porter. Porter,
Muth & Cox established several subsidiary enterprises, including the
Helena Real Estate Co. and the Hotel Park Syndicate. Muth also served
in both the territorial and state legislatures. He also was territorial bank
examiner, Lewis and Clark County commissioner and under-sheriff,
and Helena city councilman.
Rev. A. M. Hough, from New York, he received his education at the
New York Conference Seminary in Schoharie County. He joined the
New York Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1851.
In 1864 Mr. Hough moved to Montana Territory as Superintendent of
Missions, remaining there four years, and established the Methodist
Episcopal Church in that Territory.
Samuel McLean, US Congressman. He attended Lafayette College in
Easton and became a lawyer in 1849. He was Carbon County District
Attorney from 1855 to 1860. In 1860 he was appointed Attorney General
of Jefferson Territory (later called Colorado). He moved to Bannack,
Montana Territory in 1862. In 1864 McLean was elected to be one of
Montana’s non-voting Delegates in the US House, serving one partial
term in 1865 and one full term from 1865 to 1867. He became President
of McLean Silver Mining Company in 1870.
Lyman E. Munson, appointed Associate Justice during the first term of
the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana held in Virginia City on
May 17, 1865. Author of, “Montana, its story and biography: a history
of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood”.
Lewis M. Burson, in September, 1843, was admitted to practice law
in Pennsylvania. In June, 1849, he sailed from New York around Cape
Horn to California and arrived in San Francisco. While in California
he served as District Attorney and represented Humbold County in the
Legislature in 1860. In 1866 he went to Helena, Montana Territory. And
later was Cornelius Hedges associate in law practice for a few years.
John Jay Hull, came to Montana in 1863, he served two terms as
Territorial Treasurer under Gov. Sidney Edgerton. He served as a
colonel in the Montana Volunteers of 1867. During the 1860s he
invested in numerous mining claims in Madison County and was one
of the founders of the Upper Missouri Mining Company. Hull became
a Master Mason in 1852 (PN) he affiliated with Virginia City No. 1
where he served as Worshipful Master and became Montana’s first
Grand Master.