Lincoln County

Some Troy Firsts

Taken from "Troy, Montana Yesterdays" no. 2

by Marjorie Pomeroy

Copyright 1981

• First home builder: Hiram Cartwright
• First prospectors (known): Thomas Baggs, William Doyle, Robert Atkins, James Freeman, Tom Austin, Bill Keeler
• First Railroaders:

  First roundhouse foreman: Chester "Highpocket" Smith, stepfather of Charles Cone

  First roundhouse foreman: Chester "Highpocket" Smith, stepfather of Charles Cone

  First section foreman: Andrew Halverson

  First station agent: Cooper

• First town: Lake City, 1891-1892, at confluence of Lake Creek and Kootenai River
• First Postmaster: Thomas H. Dobson at Lake City October 14, 1891, to May 3, 1893
• First School: Log building constructed 1894 (still exits as residence on Kalispell)
• First Church: June 1894 first minister visited followed in September by Rev. J. M. Eastland, Methodist Episcopal.
• First Church building: Methodist, completed and dedicated 1902.
• First Wedding: John J. Cummings and Anne M. Stanley, April 30, 1896, in log school house.
• First baby born: Douglas Leslie Wood, May 1894 born to Mr. and Mrs. David T. Wood.
• First newspaper: The Troy Times begun September 1894; editor George E. Shawler.
• First historian: Edith Louise Wood (Mrs.D.T. Wood): Informal manuscript history, unpublished.
• First County commissioner from Troy: E.L. Preston, Republican, who in 1894 defeated D.T. Wood, Populist.

*This page is being used with the gracious permission of the Author "Marjorie Pomeroy" for personal use only.

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