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Walter Trumbull, the son of Senator Lyman Trumbull. Walter
Trumbull was a writer for the Helena Rocky Mountain Gazette and
the Overland Monthly. Trumball attended the U.S. Naval Academy
but he resigned his appointment at the conclusion of the Civil War. In
1870 he was employed under Truman C. Everts as an assistant assessor
of internal revenue for Montana Territory. He was a member of the
1870 Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition that explored the area
that would eventually become Yellowstone National Park. In 1879
Trumbull went to Zanzibar as assistant consul. Later Trumbull moved
to Albuquerque, NM, where he was admitted to the bar there, but found
the practice of law too strenuous and engaged instead in the mercantile
business until 1889, when he had to abandon all business activities
because of his health.
Samuel Thomas Hauser, worked as a civil engineer, working for
various railroad companies. He traveled west, arriving at Fort Benton
in June. In 1862, he had settled in Bannack. Along with N. P. Langford,
he organized a bank, S. T. Hauser and Company, in Virginia City in
1865. He organized the First National Bank of Helena the following
year, and opened Banks in Butte, Fort Benton, and Missoula. He was
a member of the 1870 Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition, active
in efforts to preserve the Yellowstone area, and his efforts helped see
the creation of the Yellowstone National Park. Hauser also became
involved in various mining companies. He joined with A. J. Davis and
Granville Stuart to form the DHS Cattle Company, which became the
Pioneer Cattle Company in 1883. In1884, he served as a delegate to
the Democratic National Convention. In July 1885, President Grover
Cleveland appointed him as the governor of the Territory of Montana,
but he resigned from the post after 18months. Brother Samuel T. Hauser
was a member of Helena LodgeNo.3.
Green Clay Smith, graduated from University, studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1852. From 1861 to 1863 Smith was commissioned
as a colonel of the Fourth Regiment of the Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry.
He later advanced to brigadier general of volunteers. In 1862, Smith was
elected to the thirty-eighth congress. Smith resigned from Congress in
July 1866 when President Andrew Johnson appointed him Territorial
Governor of Montana, which he served as from 1866 to 1869. After
he resigned, he moved to Washington, D.C. where he was ordained to
the Baptist ministry, the National prohibition Party nominated Smith
for President of the United States, receiving 9,737 popular votes in
the election. Smith was interred in Arlington National Cemetery in
Arlington, Virginia. Brother Smith was a member of Richmond Lodge
No. 25 where he had served as Grand Orator. In 1867 he affiliated with
Virginia City No. 1.