Born in Clarksburg, Virginia which is now in West Virginia.
Died in Fort Peck, Montana.
Brother of Granville Stuart.
The New North-west, Deer Lodge, MT, 8 Nov 1873
Funeral Ceremonies of James Stuart
Died at Fort Peck, Montana, Sept. 30, 1873, James Stuart, aged 41 years, 6 months and 23 days.
The body was deposited within the Fort and there remained until the arrival of his brothers, Granville and Thomas, who had started for Fort Peck on the first tidings of his illness, but reached there too late to see him alive. Disinterring the body it was placed in a metallic burial case and on Friday, Oct. 24th, the funeral cortege, consisting of Granville and Thomas Stuart, A.J. Simmons, Inspector Daniels, Capt. Dan W. Buck, W.B. Judd, J.X. Biedler, John Cochran, George Boyd, John G. McLean, and Abel Farwell, started on their tedious journey of 500 miles to Deer Lodge, where he had requested to be buried by the Masonic Lodge of which he was a member. The journey occupied twelve days, seven of them being through Sioux country. At one point 60 Sioux warriors suddenly appeared on the edge of a ravine close to them, and recognizing agent Simmons, approached and inquired the meaning of the procession. On learning the coffin contained the body of Po te-has ka (the Long Beard), each Indian dropped his head, clasped his hands and pressed them upon his mouth in their expressive sign language that a friend was dead. Arriving at Helena, the body was deposited during the stay at the Masonic lodge, and on Tuesday evening reached Deer Lodge, where it was placed under a Guard of Honor in the Masonic Lodge and remained until the hour of his funeral.
Headstone is well-worn, but in part it reads "Died, Fort Peck, Mont., Sep. 30, 1873." Fort Peck does not appear as a Montana city in the FAG database.
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'The New North-west,' Deer Lodge, MT
11 October 1873, Image 3:
DIED.
STUART -- At Fort Peck, Montana. September 30, 1873, James Stuart, of Deer Lodge, M. T., aged 41 years.
Thus has passed away one of the most prominent and most deservedly esteemed of the Pioneers of Montana - one whose name is linked inseparably and honorably with many of the early exploits in the settlement and civilization of Montana and which while memory endures will be synonymous for sterling merit, modest worth and chivalric courage. James Stuart, the elder of the four brothers, James, Granville, Samuel and Thomas, (three of whom were Pioneers of Montana) was born in Virginia, March 7, 1832. His parents removed from Virginia to Illinois, and thence to Iowa in 1846-7. In '52 James and Granville went to California, and for the next five years mined in Butte, Sierra and Siskiyou counties. In '57 they, with Rezin Anderson, started for this country journeying to the head of Malad with a considerable party who went thence to the States, while these three turned northward and went into winter quarters in '57-8 on the Beaverhead, six miles below Brown's Bridge, with Robt. Hereford, Jacob Mix, and Messrs. Michot and Morgan. The same winter, John Grant and father, James Grant, Thomas Pambrum, Robert Conrtway(?), and Antoine Perriere were in quarters on the Stinking Water, and there, with the party at Fort Owen, and the Fathers at St. Ignatius Mission, were the only whites in what is now Montana. In March the party started for Ft. Bridger. At what is now Junction Station on the Corrine road, James and Granville Stuart and Rezin Anderson left the party and came to Gold Creek, where they remained and prospected until June, getting good gold prospects, the first found in Montana. On June 1st they started to Fort Bridger and went thence to Camp Floyd, south of Salt Lake, where they sold their horses. James and Granville went thence to the States and Anderson returned here with a stock of goods. The Stuarts returned to Henry Fork and with Dempsey remained in that vicinity until the summer of '60, when James and Granville Stuart came to Salt River Valley, near the present Oneida Salt Works, and that fall returned to Gold Creek, built homes and during the summer of '61 prospected on Gold Creek and at other points around the Gold Creek mountains. So encouraging were the results that they wrote during the summer to Thos. Stuart, then in Colorado, and the letter being shown the stampede to Montana began the following spring. Among the first party who arrived were Col. Sam. McLean, afterwards Delegate in Congress, and Wash. Stapleton; among the second party were Conrad Kohrs, Joseph Brown, of Big Hole, and David Jones, Rattlesnake, and among the third party W. B. Dance, Messrs. King & Gillette, S. T. Hauser, Dr. McKellups and Joe Underwood. Thus prominently figured James Stuart in inducing the first tide of immigration to Montana. In the fall of '62, the Bannack diggings having been struck, James and Granville took a large band of cattle to that place and remained there until April '63, when James at the head of a dozen men, among whom were James N. York, Geo. Ives and Geo. Carhart, started on a most perilous and eventful prospecting trip into eastern Montana, traversing the Three Forks of the Yellowstone, the Rosebuds and Big Horn, on which latter river, near its mouth, they were attacked in the night by Crow Indians, three of the party being killed and four wounded, the survivors traveling thence by night until they reached the old Emigrant Road near Rocky Ridge, whence they returned to Bannack. In the fall of '63 W. B. Dance and James Stuart formed the copartnership of Dance and Stuart in Virginia (City), remained there until '65, when they removed to Deer Lodge and associated Worden & Higgins. The firm of Dance & Stuart dissolved in 1870. From 1866 to 1870 James Stuart was President and General Superintendent of the S. L. & M. M. Co., operating at Phillipsburg: in 1871 he was appointed Post Trader at Fort Browning, when he disposed of that interest and accompanied A. J. Simmons to the Sioux Agency at Fort Peck, where his thorough knowledge of Indian character, his excellent administrative abilities and cool nerve were invaluable assistants in the control of that warlike tribe. While Mr. Simmons was absent to conduct his successor to the agency, Mr. Stuart, who was in charge, was taken ill and died in eight days.
Mr. Stuart was Representative of Deer Lodge county in the legislature of 1864; was Sr. Warden of Flint Creek Lodge of A. F. & A. M., and later Jr. Warden of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Montana. He was a man of fine mental and physical organization, of liberal education, superior business qualifications, unblemished character and honored wherever known. He is one of the first, if not the first, of that brother-like band of Pioneers to cross into the unknown land - to seek the way for them as it were, as he had done before, into the undiscovered country, that he may welcome his comrades to better fields and brighter streams than yet their eyes have seen. To his brothers and to them the tidings of his death came most sadly, and the thousands who knew and esteemed him feel to-day sincerely that a good brave, generous and honorable man has been called beyond Death's portals into the deathless realms and presence of the ever living God.
Messrs. Granville Stuart, Thomas Stuart and Wm. H. Judd have gone to Fort Peck, we presume to bring up the body of James Stuart which was interred in within the stockade at Fort Peck.
Contributor: RunninonMT (49509864)
Died in Fort Peck, Montana.
Brother of Granville Stuart.
The New North-west, Deer Lodge, MT, 8 Nov 1873
Funeral Ceremonies of James Stuart
Died at Fort Peck, Montana, Sept. 30, 1873, James Stuart, aged 41 years, 6 months and 23 days.
The body was deposited within the Fort and there remained until the arrival of his brothers, Granville and Thomas, who had started for Fort Peck on the first tidings of his illness, but reached there too late to see him alive. Disinterring the body it was placed in a metallic burial case and on Friday, Oct. 24th, the funeral cortege, consisting of Granville and Thomas Stuart, A.J. Simmons, Inspector Daniels, Capt. Dan W. Buck, W.B. Judd, J.X. Biedler, John Cochran, George Boyd, John G. McLean, and Abel Farwell, started on their tedious journey of 500 miles to Deer Lodge, where he had requested to be buried by the Masonic Lodge of which he was a member. The journey occupied twelve days, seven of them being through Sioux country. At one point 60 Sioux warriors suddenly appeared on the edge of a ravine close to them, and recognizing agent Simmons, approached and inquired the meaning of the procession. On learning the coffin contained the body of Po te-has ka (the Long Beard), each Indian dropped his head, clasped his hands and pressed them upon his mouth in their expressive sign language that a friend was dead. Arriving at Helena, the body was deposited during the stay at the Masonic lodge, and on Tuesday evening reached Deer Lodge, where it was placed under a Guard of Honor in the Masonic Lodge and remained until the hour of his funeral.
Headstone is well-worn, but in part it reads "Died, Fort Peck, Mont., Sep. 30, 1873." Fort Peck does not appear as a Montana city in the FAG database.
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'The New North-west,' Deer Lodge, MT
11 October 1873, Image 3:
DIED.
STUART -- At Fort Peck, Montana. September 30, 1873, James Stuart, of Deer Lodge, M. T., aged 41 years.
Thus has passed away one of the most prominent and most deservedly esteemed of the Pioneers of Montana - one whose name is linked inseparably and honorably with many of the early exploits in the settlement and civilization of Montana and which while memory endures will be synonymous for sterling merit, modest worth and chivalric courage. James Stuart, the elder of the four brothers, James, Granville, Samuel and Thomas, (three of whom were Pioneers of Montana) was born in Virginia, March 7, 1832. His parents removed from Virginia to Illinois, and thence to Iowa in 1846-7. In '52 James and Granville went to California, and for the next five years mined in Butte, Sierra and Siskiyou counties. In '57 they, with Rezin Anderson, started for this country journeying to the head of Malad with a considerable party who went thence to the States, while these three turned northward and went into winter quarters in '57-8 on the Beaverhead, six miles below Brown's Bridge, with Robt. Hereford, Jacob Mix, and Messrs. Michot and Morgan. The same winter, John Grant and father, James Grant, Thomas Pambrum, Robert Conrtway(?), and Antoine Perriere were in quarters on the Stinking Water, and there, with the party at Fort Owen, and the Fathers at St. Ignatius Mission, were the only whites in what is now Montana. In March the party started for Ft. Bridger. At what is now Junction Station on the Corrine road, James and Granville Stuart and Rezin Anderson left the party and came to Gold Creek, where they remained and prospected until June, getting good gold prospects, the first found in Montana. On June 1st they started to Fort Bridger and went thence to Camp Floyd, south of Salt Lake, where they sold their horses. James and Granville went thence to the States and Anderson returned here with a stock of goods. The Stuarts returned to Henry Fork and with Dempsey remained in that vicinity until the summer of '60, when James and Granville Stuart came to Salt River Valley, near the present Oneida Salt Works, and that fall returned to Gold Creek, built homes and during the summer of '61 prospected on Gold Creek and at other points around the Gold Creek mountains. So encouraging were the results that they wrote during the summer to Thos. Stuart, then in Colorado, and the letter being shown the stampede to Montana began the following spring. Among the first party who arrived were Col. Sam. McLean, afterwards Delegate in Congress, and Wash. Stapleton; among the second party were Conrad Kohrs, Joseph Brown, of Big Hole, and David Jones, Rattlesnake, and among the third party W. B. Dance, Messrs. King & Gillette, S. T. Hauser, Dr. McKellups and Joe Underwood. Thus prominently figured James Stuart in inducing the first tide of immigration to Montana. In the fall of '62, the Bannack diggings having been struck, James and Granville took a large band of cattle to that place and remained there until April '63, when James at the head of a dozen men, among whom were James N. York, Geo. Ives and Geo. Carhart, started on a most perilous and eventful prospecting trip into eastern Montana, traversing the Three Forks of the Yellowstone, the Rosebuds and Big Horn, on which latter river, near its mouth, they were attacked in the night by Crow Indians, three of the party being killed and four wounded, the survivors traveling thence by night until they reached the old Emigrant Road near Rocky Ridge, whence they returned to Bannack. In the fall of '63 W. B. Dance and James Stuart formed the copartnership of Dance and Stuart in Virginia (City), remained there until '65, when they removed to Deer Lodge and associated Worden & Higgins. The firm of Dance & Stuart dissolved in 1870. From 1866 to 1870 James Stuart was President and General Superintendent of the S. L. & M. M. Co., operating at Phillipsburg: in 1871 he was appointed Post Trader at Fort Browning, when he disposed of that interest and accompanied A. J. Simmons to the Sioux Agency at Fort Peck, where his thorough knowledge of Indian character, his excellent administrative abilities and cool nerve were invaluable assistants in the control of that warlike tribe. While Mr. Simmons was absent to conduct his successor to the agency, Mr. Stuart, who was in charge, was taken ill and died in eight days.
Mr. Stuart was Representative of Deer Lodge county in the legislature of 1864; was Sr. Warden of Flint Creek Lodge of A. F. & A. M., and later Jr. Warden of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Montana. He was a man of fine mental and physical organization, of liberal education, superior business qualifications, unblemished character and honored wherever known. He is one of the first, if not the first, of that brother-like band of Pioneers to cross into the unknown land - to seek the way for them as it were, as he had done before, into the undiscovered country, that he may welcome his comrades to better fields and brighter streams than yet their eyes have seen. To his brothers and to them the tidings of his death came most sadly, and the thousands who knew and esteemed him feel to-day sincerely that a good brave, generous and honorable man has been called beyond Death's portals into the deathless realms and presence of the ever living God.
Messrs. Granville Stuart, Thomas Stuart and Wm. H. Judd have gone to Fort Peck, we presume to bring up the body of James Stuart which was interred in within the stockade at Fort Peck.
Contributor: RunninonMT (49509864)
Born in Clarksburg, Virginia which is now in West Virginia.
Died in Fort Peck, Montana.
Brother of Granville Stuart.
The New North-west, Deer Lodge, MT, 8 Nov 1873
Funeral Ceremonies of James Stuart
Died at Fort Peck, Montana, Sept. 30, 1873, James Stuart, aged 41 years, 6 months and 23 days.
The body was deposited within the Fort and there remained until the arrival of his brothers, Granville and Thomas, who had started for Fort Peck on the first tidings of his illness, but reached there too late to see him alive. Disinterring the body it was placed in a metallic burial case and on Friday, Oct. 24th, the funeral cortege, consisting of Granville and Thomas Stuart, A.J. Simmons, Inspector Daniels, Capt. Dan W. Buck, W.B. Judd, J.X. Biedler, John Cochran, George Boyd, John G. McLean, and Abel Farwell, started on their tedious journey of 500 miles to Deer Lodge, where he had requested to be buried by the Masonic Lodge of which he was a member. The journey occupied twelve days, seven of them being through Sioux country. At one point 60 Sioux warriors suddenly appeared on the edge of a ravine close to them, and recognizing agent Simmons, approached and inquired the meaning of the procession. On learning the coffin contained the body of Po te-has ka (the Long Beard), each Indian dropped his head, clasped his hands and pressed them upon his mouth in their expressive sign language that a friend was dead. Arriving at Helena, the body was deposited during the stay at the Masonic lodge, and on Tuesday evening reached Deer Lodge, where it was placed under a Guard of Honor in the Masonic Lodge and remained until the hour of his funeral.
Headstone is well-worn, but in part it reads "Died, Fort Peck, Mont., Sep. 30, 1873." Fort Peck does not appear as a Montana city in the FAG database.
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'The New North-west,' Deer Lodge, MT
11 October 1873, Image 3:
DIED.
STUART -- At Fort Peck, Montana. September 30, 1873, James Stuart, of Deer Lodge, M. T., aged 41 years.
Thus has passed away one of the most prominent and most deservedly esteemed of the Pioneers of Montana - one whose name is linked inseparably and honorably with many of the early exploits in the settlement and civilization of Montana and which while memory endures will be synonymous for sterling merit, modest worth and chivalric courage. James Stuart, the elder of the four brothers, James, Granville, Samuel and Thomas, (three of whom were Pioneers of Montana) was born in Virginia, March 7, 1832. His parents removed from Virginia to Illinois, and thence to Iowa in 1846-7. In '52 James and Granville went to California, and for the next five years mined in Butte, Sierra and Siskiyou counties. In '57 they, with Rezin Anderson, started for this country journeying to the head of Malad with a considerable party who went thence to the States, while these three turned northward and went into winter quarters in '57-8 on the Beaverhead, six miles below Brown's Bridge, with Robt. Hereford, Jacob Mix, and Messrs. Michot and Morgan. The same winter, John Grant and father, James Grant, Thomas Pambrum, Robert Conrtway(?), and Antoine Perriere were in quarters on the Stinking Water, and there, with the party at Fort Owen, and the Fathers at St. Ignatius Mission, were the only whites in what is now Montana. In March the party started for Ft. Bridger. At what is now Junction Station on the Corrine road, James and Granville Stuart and Rezin Anderson left the party and came to Gold Creek, where they remained and prospected until June, getting good gold prospects, the first found in Montana. On June 1st they started to Fort Bridger and went thence to Camp Floyd, south of Salt Lake, where they sold their horses. James and Granville went thence to the States and Anderson returned here with a stock of goods. The Stuarts returned to Henry Fork and with Dempsey remained in that vicinity until the summer of '60, when James and Granville Stuart came to Salt River Valley, near the present Oneida Salt Works, and that fall returned to Gold Creek, built homes and during the summer of '61 prospected on Gold Creek and at other points around the Gold Creek mountains. So encouraging were the results that they wrote during the summer to Thos. Stuart, then in Colorado, and the letter being shown the stampede to Montana began the following spring. Among the first party who arrived were Col. Sam. McLean, afterwards Delegate in Congress, and Wash. Stapleton; among the second party were Conrad Kohrs, Joseph Brown, of Big Hole, and David Jones, Rattlesnake, and among the third party W. B. Dance, Messrs. King & Gillette, S. T. Hauser, Dr. McKellups and Joe Underwood. Thus prominently figured James Stuart in inducing the first tide of immigration to Montana. In the fall of '62, the Bannack diggings having been struck, James and Granville took a large band of cattle to that place and remained there until April '63, when James at the head of a dozen men, among whom were James N. York, Geo. Ives and Geo. Carhart, started on a most perilous and eventful prospecting trip into eastern Montana, traversing the Three Forks of the Yellowstone, the Rosebuds and Big Horn, on which latter river, near its mouth, they were attacked in the night by Crow Indians, three of the party being killed and four wounded, the survivors traveling thence by night until they reached the old Emigrant Road near Rocky Ridge, whence they returned to Bannack. In the fall of '63 W. B. Dance and James Stuart formed the copartnership of Dance and Stuart in Virginia (City), remained there until '65, when they removed to Deer Lodge and associated Worden & Higgins. The firm of Dance & Stuart dissolved in 1870. From 1866 to 1870 James Stuart was President and General Superintendent of the S. L. & M. M. Co., operating at Phillipsburg: in 1871 he was appointed Post Trader at Fort Browning, when he disposed of that interest and accompanied A. J. Simmons to the Sioux Agency at Fort Peck, where his thorough knowledge of Indian character, his excellent administrative abilities and cool nerve were invaluable assistants in the control of that warlike tribe. While Mr. Simmons was absent to conduct his successor to the agency, Mr. Stuart, who was in charge, was taken ill and died in eight days.
Mr. Stuart was Representative of Deer Lodge county in the legislature of 1864; was Sr. Warden of Flint Creek Lodge of A. F. & A. M., and later Jr. Warden of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Montana. He was a man of fine mental and physical organization, of liberal education, superior business qualifications, unblemished character and honored wherever known. He is one of the first, if not the first, of that brother-like band of Pioneers to cross into the unknown land - to seek the way for them as it were, as he had done before, into the undiscovered country, that he may welcome his comrades to better fields and brighter streams than yet their eyes have seen. To his brothers and to them the tidings of his death came most sadly, and the thousands who knew and esteemed him feel to-day sincerely that a good brave, generous and honorable man has been called beyond Death's portals into the deathless realms and presence of the ever living God.
Messrs. Granville Stuart, Thomas Stuart and Wm. H. Judd have gone to Fort Peck, we presume to bring up the body of James Stuart which was interred in within the stockade at Fort Peck.
Contributor: RunninonMT (49509864)
Died in Fort Peck, Montana.
Brother of Granville Stuart.
The New North-west, Deer Lodge, MT, 8 Nov 1873
Funeral Ceremonies of James Stuart
Died at Fort Peck, Montana, Sept. 30, 1873, James Stuart, aged 41 years, 6 months and 23 days.
The body was deposited within the Fort and there remained until the arrival of his brothers, Granville and Thomas, who had started for Fort Peck on the first tidings of his illness, but reached there too late to see him alive. Disinterring the body it was placed in a metallic burial case and on Friday, Oct. 24th, the funeral cortege, consisting of Granville and Thomas Stuart, A.J. Simmons, Inspector Daniels, Capt. Dan W. Buck, W.B. Judd, J.X. Biedler, John Cochran, George Boyd, John G. McLean, and Abel Farwell, started on their tedious journey of 500 miles to Deer Lodge, where he had requested to be buried by the Masonic Lodge of which he was a member. The journey occupied twelve days, seven of them being through Sioux country. At one point 60 Sioux warriors suddenly appeared on the edge of a ravine close to them, and recognizing agent Simmons, approached and inquired the meaning of the procession. On learning the coffin contained the body of Po te-has ka (the Long Beard), each Indian dropped his head, clasped his hands and pressed them upon his mouth in their expressive sign language that a friend was dead. Arriving at Helena, the body was deposited during the stay at the Masonic lodge, and on Tuesday evening reached Deer Lodge, where it was placed under a Guard of Honor in the Masonic Lodge and remained until the hour of his funeral.
Headstone is well-worn, but in part it reads "Died, Fort Peck, Mont., Sep. 30, 1873." Fort Peck does not appear as a Montana city in the FAG database.
~~
'The New North-west,' Deer Lodge, MT
11 October 1873, Image 3:
DIED.
STUART -- At Fort Peck, Montana. September 30, 1873, James Stuart, of Deer Lodge, M. T., aged 41 years.
Thus has passed away one of the most prominent and most deservedly esteemed of the Pioneers of Montana - one whose name is linked inseparably and honorably with many of the early exploits in the settlement and civilization of Montana and which while memory endures will be synonymous for sterling merit, modest worth and chivalric courage. James Stuart, the elder of the four brothers, James, Granville, Samuel and Thomas, (three of whom were Pioneers of Montana) was born in Virginia, March 7, 1832. His parents removed from Virginia to Illinois, and thence to Iowa in 1846-7. In '52 James and Granville went to California, and for the next five years mined in Butte, Sierra and Siskiyou counties. In '57 they, with Rezin Anderson, started for this country journeying to the head of Malad with a considerable party who went thence to the States, while these three turned northward and went into winter quarters in '57-8 on the Beaverhead, six miles below Brown's Bridge, with Robt. Hereford, Jacob Mix, and Messrs. Michot and Morgan. The same winter, John Grant and father, James Grant, Thomas Pambrum, Robert Conrtway(?), and Antoine Perriere were in quarters on the Stinking Water, and there, with the party at Fort Owen, and the Fathers at St. Ignatius Mission, were the only whites in what is now Montana. In March the party started for Ft. Bridger. At what is now Junction Station on the Corrine road, James and Granville Stuart and Rezin Anderson left the party and came to Gold Creek, where they remained and prospected until June, getting good gold prospects, the first found in Montana. On June 1st they started to Fort Bridger and went thence to Camp Floyd, south of Salt Lake, where they sold their horses. James and Granville went thence to the States and Anderson returned here with a stock of goods. The Stuarts returned to Henry Fork and with Dempsey remained in that vicinity until the summer of '60, when James and Granville Stuart came to Salt River Valley, near the present Oneida Salt Works, and that fall returned to Gold Creek, built homes and during the summer of '61 prospected on Gold Creek and at other points around the Gold Creek mountains. So encouraging were the results that they wrote during the summer to Thos. Stuart, then in Colorado, and the letter being shown the stampede to Montana began the following spring. Among the first party who arrived were Col. Sam. McLean, afterwards Delegate in Congress, and Wash. Stapleton; among the second party were Conrad Kohrs, Joseph Brown, of Big Hole, and David Jones, Rattlesnake, and among the third party W. B. Dance, Messrs. King & Gillette, S. T. Hauser, Dr. McKellups and Joe Underwood. Thus prominently figured James Stuart in inducing the first tide of immigration to Montana. In the fall of '62, the Bannack diggings having been struck, James and Granville took a large band of cattle to that place and remained there until April '63, when James at the head of a dozen men, among whom were James N. York, Geo. Ives and Geo. Carhart, started on a most perilous and eventful prospecting trip into eastern Montana, traversing the Three Forks of the Yellowstone, the Rosebuds and Big Horn, on which latter river, near its mouth, they were attacked in the night by Crow Indians, three of the party being killed and four wounded, the survivors traveling thence by night until they reached the old Emigrant Road near Rocky Ridge, whence they returned to Bannack. In the fall of '63 W. B. Dance and James Stuart formed the copartnership of Dance and Stuart in Virginia (City), remained there until '65, when they removed to Deer Lodge and associated Worden & Higgins. The firm of Dance & Stuart dissolved in 1870. From 1866 to 1870 James Stuart was President and General Superintendent of the S. L. & M. M. Co., operating at Phillipsburg: in 1871 he was appointed Post Trader at Fort Browning, when he disposed of that interest and accompanied A. J. Simmons to the Sioux Agency at Fort Peck, where his thorough knowledge of Indian character, his excellent administrative abilities and cool nerve were invaluable assistants in the control of that warlike tribe. While Mr. Simmons was absent to conduct his successor to the agency, Mr. Stuart, who was in charge, was taken ill and died in eight days.
Mr. Stuart was Representative of Deer Lodge county in the legislature of 1864; was Sr. Warden of Flint Creek Lodge of A. F. & A. M., and later Jr. Warden of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Montana. He was a man of fine mental and physical organization, of liberal education, superior business qualifications, unblemished character and honored wherever known. He is one of the first, if not the first, of that brother-like band of Pioneers to cross into the unknown land - to seek the way for them as it were, as he had done before, into the undiscovered country, that he may welcome his comrades to better fields and brighter streams than yet their eyes have seen. To his brothers and to them the tidings of his death came most sadly, and the thousands who knew and esteemed him feel to-day sincerely that a good brave, generous and honorable man has been called beyond Death's portals into the deathless realms and presence of the ever living God.
Messrs. Granville Stuart, Thomas Stuart and Wm. H. Judd have gone to Fort Peck, we presume to bring up the body of James Stuart which was interred in within the stockade at Fort Peck.
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