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elected upon the Democratic ticket to the Council in the session of 1878-79; was elected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and again honored by his party with a seat in the Senate in the first State Legislature. Senator Parberry has found mining and wool growing more profitable business than doctoring, as he is at present engaged in that business; was married in 1872.

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R. G. REDD, of Miles City, Custer County, was born in Knox County, Kentucky. After receiving a common school education he studied medicine at the Ohio College in Cincinnati, graduating in 1869; graduated from the Bellevue Medical College, New York, in 1871. He then entered upon the practice of his profession in Rock Castle County, Kentucky, and continued it for two years, when he entered the United States army as Acting Assistant Surgeon, where he continued between the years 1871-81, serving at various times through Kentucky, North and South Carolina at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, finally accompanying the Fifth Infantry to Fort Keogh in 1877. In 1881 he left the army and commenced practice at Miles City, where he has since re

mained, and now enjoys a large, growing practice. He was elected Mayor of Miles City in 1889, and now represents his county as a Democrat in the Senate. He is a single man.

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WILLIAM M. THORNTON, of Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, was born in Eutaw, Greene County, Ala., November 16, 1853; received a common school education in his native State; he has resided in Montana for five years and a half, and is well known in his county as the Cashier of the First National Bank of Anaconda. He was elected to the first State Senate by the Democratic party, and served his constituents in an able manner. Senator Thornton is a married man.

JAMES S. THOMPSON, of Livingston, Park County, is a native of New York, having been born at Burlington, that State, August 6, 1856. He is a graduate of the New York State Normal School. In 1879 he went to the Black Hills, where he secured a position as a clerk in a mercantile house at Lead City, and later became a clerk in the post-office at that place. He came to Montana

in 1882, and is now a prosperous merchant at Livingston and senior member of the firm of Thompson Brothers. He was elected by the Republicans to the State Senate in 1889. Mr. Thompson is a married man.

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JOHN JOSEPH FALLON, of Helena, was born at Hillsborough, Highland County, Ohio, June 24, 1854, of Irish-American parents; he received a common school education at his native town. He came to Montana twelve years ago, following the terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad during its construction through Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho, and has served in the various departments of railroad work for fifteen years. He was the first agent of the Montana Central Railway at Helena, assuming the duties upon its completion to that city, November 22, 1887; was transferred to the city office in May, 1888, with title of soliciting freight and passenger agent; left the employ of Montana Central in August, 1889, and accepted the position of General Agent of the C., R. I. & P. road for Montana; resigned C, R. I. & P. service November 30, 1890; on January 5th was elected Secretary of the Montana State Senate, and served during the second session. Mr. Fallon is a Westerner by acquaintance and experience, having been one of the advance guards in the march of railways to this region. During his service with the Union Pacific, 1879 to 1884, he was also agent for the Gilmer, Salisbury & Co.'s great overland stage line, and was its last agent in Helena.

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MILES FINLAN, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, is a resident of Butte; was born February 14, 1837, in Ireland; attended the public schools of Canada for four years, but studied and educated himself while working in the Nevada mines; went to California in 1857, and has lived in the West ever since; came to Montana two years ago from Nevada, where he had lived for a number of years; was Superintendent of Streets in Virginia City, Nevada, four years; was Sergeant-at-Arms in the House of Representatives in the session of 1889-90, and was elected to that same office in the Senate at the last session; was married to Miss Ellen Turner in 1872, at Virginia City.

THE MONTANA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

It was not until the breaking of the deadlock, which lasted through the entire ninety days of the first session of the State Legislature, and twenty-four days of the second session, that the membership of the House was definitely settled upon. It was then decided, by the compromise agreement, that the following men should constitute the House of Representatives:

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