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Edward Horsky, Helena City Attorney.
Sidney Edgerton, politician, lawyer, judge and teacher from Ohio. Ed-
gerton was elected to the United States House of Representatives in
1858. During the Civil War, Edgerton served in the Union Army as
colonel and also served as a U.S. Congressman. In 1863, Abraham Lin-
coln appointed him the first Chief Justice of the Idaho Territorial Court.
Edgerton lobbied for the creation of separate territories. Out of the Ida-
ho Territory, in 1864, Abraham Lincoln appointed Edgerton as the first
Territorial Governor of Montana. Brother Edgerton was a member of
Akron Lodge No. 83.
Henry D. Washburn, graduated from the New York State and National
Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He practice of law in
Newport, Indiana., and served as the county auditor from 1854–1861.
During the Civil War, serving as lieutenant colonel of the Eighteenth
Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry; promoted to colonel of the regi-
ment on July 15, 1862; brevetted as a brigadier general of volunteers on
December 15, 1864, and then as a major general on July 26, 1865. He
mustered out August 26, 1865. Washburn resumed to his law practice
and to politics. He was a member of Congress from February 23, 1866,
to March 3, 1869. He was appointed surveyor general of Montana in
1869. In 1870 he headed the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to
explore what would become Yellowstone National Park.
Gustavus Cheyney Doane, fought in the Civil War as a first lieutenant
with the Mississippi Marine Brigade. After the war Doane lived
in Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he was engaged in a mercantile
business and served as the mayor of Yazoo City. Doane participated in
every major Indian battle in Montana Territory. In 1870 he headed the
Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to explore what would become
Yellowstone National Park, leading three other expeditions into the
Yellowstone area. In 1884 Doane received his final promotion, to the
rank of captain, and was transferred with his battalion to the Presidio in
San Francisco. He served in Arizona Territory during the final pursuit
and capture of Geronimo.
Truman C. Everts, appointed by President Abraham Lincoln, Everts
served as the Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Montana Territory, a
position he held between July 15, 1864 and February 16, 1870. Everts
was part of the 1870 Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition exploring
the area which later became Yellowstone National Park. He became
lost for 37 days during the 1870 expedition, and a year later became
more widely known after writing his experiences during the expedition.
He was offered a superintendent position with the newly formed
Yellowstone park, but he declined since it did not include a salary.