The Dillon Tribune (MT), 13 Oct 1916
Alpheus Badgley, pioneer of Montana since 1864, died at his home at Bozeman Thursday, Sept. 28, of old age and paralysis. He was 80 years old. He came to the state 50 years ago, but after two years residence in the territory he returned to Illinois and did not again come to Montana until 1883.
Alpheus was born in the Badgley Settlement near Belleville, Ill., on Sept. 11, 1836. When gold was discovered in Idaho, he and a few friends, 12 in number, prepared an outfit of three wagons, each drawn by three yoke of oxen, and one yoke of cows. They left on March 28, 1864, and reached Virginia City on July 28. At Omaha they stopped a day to make their final purchase of supplies to serve them while crossing the plains.
Mr. Badgley mined some in Alder Gulch; he contracted and did some of the rock work on the first ditch running water into Helena. He rented a farm and farmed in the Bitter Root valley and returned to Illinois in Dec. 1967 at the request of his father, whom the doctors had given up to die. A company of ten built a flat boat at Fort Benton and floated down the river to Omaha. There they sold their boat and separated, going to their respective homes. In Illinois he married Emeline Little. At her death she left him two children. He afterward married Nancy Dixon and came back to Montana in 1883. He homesteaded a farm and has lived in or near Bozeman ever since.
Alpheus Badgley, pioneer of Montana since 1864, died at his home at Bozeman Thursday, Sept. 28, of old age and paralysis. He was 80 years old. He came to the state 50 years ago, but after two years residence in the territory he returned to Illinois and did not again come to Montana until 1883.
Alpheus was born in the Badgley Settlement near Belleville, Ill., on Sept. 11, 1836. When gold was discovered in Idaho, he and a few friends, 12 in number, prepared an outfit of three wagons, each drawn by three yoke of oxen, and one yoke of cows. They left on March 28, 1864, and reached Virginia City on July 28. At Omaha they stopped a day to make their final purchase of supplies to serve them while crossing the plains.
Mr. Badgley mined some in Alder Gulch; he contracted and did some of the rock work on the first ditch running water into Helena. He rented a farm and farmed in the Bitter Root valley and returned to Illinois in Dec. 1967 at the request of his father, whom the doctors had given up to die. A company of ten built a flat boat at Fort Benton and floated down the river to Omaha. There they sold their boat and separated, going to their respective homes. In Illinois he married Emeline Little. At her death she left him two children. He afterward married Nancy Dixon and came back to Montana in 1883. He homesteaded a farm and has lived in or near Bozeman ever since.
The Dillon Tribune (MT), 13 Oct 1916
Alpheus Badgley, pioneer of Montana since 1864, died at his home at Bozeman Thursday, Sept. 28, of old age and paralysis. He was 80 years old. He came to the state 50 years ago, but after two years residence in the territory he returned to Illinois and did not again come to Montana until 1883.
Alpheus was born in the Badgley Settlement near Belleville, Ill., on Sept. 11, 1836. When gold was discovered in Idaho, he and a few friends, 12 in number, prepared an outfit of three wagons, each drawn by three yoke of oxen, and one yoke of cows. They left on March 28, 1864, and reached Virginia City on July 28. At Omaha they stopped a day to make their final purchase of supplies to serve them while crossing the plains.
Mr. Badgley mined some in Alder Gulch; he contracted and did some of the rock work on the first ditch running water into Helena. He rented a farm and farmed in the Bitter Root valley and returned to Illinois in Dec. 1967 at the request of his father, whom the doctors had given up to die. A company of ten built a flat boat at Fort Benton and floated down the river to Omaha. There they sold their boat and separated, going to their respective homes. In Illinois he married Emeline Little. At her death she left him two children. He afterward married Nancy Dixon and came back to Montana in 1883. He homesteaded a farm and has lived in or near Bozeman ever since.
Alpheus Badgley, pioneer of Montana since 1864, died at his home at Bozeman Thursday, Sept. 28, of old age and paralysis. He was 80 years old. He came to the state 50 years ago, but after two years residence in the territory he returned to Illinois and did not again come to Montana until 1883.
Alpheus was born in the Badgley Settlement near Belleville, Ill., on Sept. 11, 1836. When gold was discovered in Idaho, he and a few friends, 12 in number, prepared an outfit of three wagons, each drawn by three yoke of oxen, and one yoke of cows. They left on March 28, 1864, and reached Virginia City on July 28. At Omaha they stopped a day to make their final purchase of supplies to serve them while crossing the plains.
Mr. Badgley mined some in Alder Gulch; he contracted and did some of the rock work on the first ditch running water into Helena. He rented a farm and farmed in the Bitter Root valley and returned to Illinois in Dec. 1967 at the request of his father, whom the doctors had given up to die. A company of ten built a flat boat at Fort Benton and floated down the river to Omaha. There they sold their boat and separated, going to their respective homes. In Illinois he married Emeline Little. At her death she left him two children. He afterward married Nancy Dixon and came back to Montana in 1883. He homesteaded a farm and has lived in or near Bozeman ever since.
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