Marcus Elser
Marcus Elser was born in Ohio, the 11th of June, 1852. His Father, Peter, and Mother, Susannah, moved to Indiana in the mid 50's where she died a few years later. His father married again. It wasn't like home to Marcus, so he left for the west in 1872 and landed in Wyoming. There he and another man cut railroad ties for about two years. A railroad was being built to Dillon, Montana. These ties were put in a water flume which ran 17 miles to the shipping point.
In 1874 he worked his way north to Montana and landed at the Point of Rocks (Beaverhead Rock) stage stop, which was not a regular stage station. Two miles south of there he went to work for a man by the name of James Mauldin, who owned a ranch. He worked for him several years. We know it as the Diamond O or Poindexter and Orr ranch. This was during the time when the Nez Perce Indians went on the war path from Idaho northeastward toward Canada. Mauldin got word they were coming down the Beaverhead River and, as they were short of horses, they vere stealing them wherever they could.
Mauldin rounded up his, more that a hundred head, and with Marcus and two others, rushed them eastward to the end of the Ruby Mountains in Senott Canyon and the Burnt Hollows. However, the Indians did not come this way.
Marcus quit Mauldin and joined his horses and wagons with those of Pete Hyndman . They went freighting in 1878 from Virginia City to Corinne, Utah, via Sheridan and Twin Bridges. They stayed at it until the railroad reached Dillon in 1878 or 1879. Then Hyndman quit. Elser kept on but with only 6 to 8 horses and 2 wagons, huling from Virginia City to Dillon. It just didn't pay so he quit in 1880 or1881,
In 1882 Marcus worked a small ranch of 160 acres he had bought from a man by the name of Hunter, who had failed to make the required improvements for homesteading. Later he homesteaded adjoining land, making it large enought to be profitable. In 1882, with hired help at $1.00 per day and room and board, he dug an 8 mile ditch to the river and decreed it in 1883.
His only farming equipment was an Oliver drilled walking plow with a wooden-framed steel peg harrow. He borrowed a drill and binder. Wheat was the main crop as it was only 2 miles to the flour and grist mill that still stands (Silver Spring Mill). It was powered with water ditched from Silver Spring that came to the surface on the pamsey ranch, know to all of us as the old Bock ranch, now owned by Frank Burgess.
Marcus Elser net and courted Augusta Montana Bock. She was said to be one of the first white girls born in Alder Gulch, on January 5, 1865. They were married in Twin Bridges by Mortimer J. Lott, Sr., Justice of the Peace, on the 19th day of November, 1885. From this union were born 6 children, of whom only two survive, Archie M., aged 87 on May 20,1974, and Ray O., 76. Ray twin Brother, Roy E., died February 21, 1952. Ida K. and Ina E. were twin sisters. Ida (Dauterman) died March 20, 1930 and Ina (McManus), August 8, 1962. Glenn Died in 1975, age 82.
Archie, Glenn, Ray, Roy and ida all had children, and they are located in different parts of the United States. After the death of his wife, Augusta, on January 24, 1910. Marcus realized he couldn't keep the ranch without he help, so he sold it in the fall of 1911 to Wm. Lenkersdorfer and Henry Seifker.
He bought a home in Sheridan along with other property. He owned the brick building now used as a garage by the Texaco service station. During prohibition days the building now occupied by the Texaco service station was called "Old Timers' Corner".
Marcus served two terms as Madison County Commissioner from 1896-1903. He was also appointed by Governor Glenn K. Toole to the Board of Trustees of what is now called the Children's Center, serving as long as Toole was governor. He died in 1927.
Written by Glenn G. Elser
Plublish in 1976-Pioneer: Trails and Trials
Madison County, Montana Pages 259-60
Marcus Elser was born in Ohio, the 11th of June, 1852. His Father, Peter, and Mother, Susannah, moved to Indiana in the mid 50's where she died a few years later. His father married again. It wasn't like home to Marcus, so he left for the west in 1872 and landed in Wyoming. There he and another man cut railroad ties for about two years. A railroad was being built to Dillon, Montana. These ties were put in a water flume which ran 17 miles to the shipping point.
In 1874 he worked his way north to Montana and landed at the Point of Rocks (Beaverhead Rock) stage stop, which was not a regular stage station. Two miles south of there he went to work for a man by the name of James Mauldin, who owned a ranch. He worked for him several years. We know it as the Diamond O or Poindexter and Orr ranch. This was during the time when the Nez Perce Indians went on the war path from Idaho northeastward toward Canada. Mauldin got word they were coming down the Beaverhead River and, as they were short of horses, they vere stealing them wherever they could.
Mauldin rounded up his, more that a hundred head, and with Marcus and two others, rushed them eastward to the end of the Ruby Mountains in Senott Canyon and the Burnt Hollows. However, the Indians did not come this way.
Marcus quit Mauldin and joined his horses and wagons with those of Pete Hyndman . They went freighting in 1878 from Virginia City to Corinne, Utah, via Sheridan and Twin Bridges. They stayed at it until the railroad reached Dillon in 1878 or 1879. Then Hyndman quit. Elser kept on but with only 6 to 8 horses and 2 wagons, huling from Virginia City to Dillon. It just didn't pay so he quit in 1880 or1881,
In 1882 Marcus worked a small ranch of 160 acres he had bought from a man by the name of Hunter, who had failed to make the required improvements for homesteading. Later he homesteaded adjoining land, making it large enought to be profitable. In 1882, with hired help at $1.00 per day and room and board, he dug an 8 mile ditch to the river and decreed it in 1883.
His only farming equipment was an Oliver drilled walking plow with a wooden-framed steel peg harrow. He borrowed a drill and binder. Wheat was the main crop as it was only 2 miles to the flour and grist mill that still stands (Silver Spring Mill). It was powered with water ditched from Silver Spring that came to the surface on the pamsey ranch, know to all of us as the old Bock ranch, now owned by Frank Burgess.
Marcus Elser net and courted Augusta Montana Bock. She was said to be one of the first white girls born in Alder Gulch, on January 5, 1865. They were married in Twin Bridges by Mortimer J. Lott, Sr., Justice of the Peace, on the 19th day of November, 1885. From this union were born 6 children, of whom only two survive, Archie M., aged 87 on May 20,1974, and Ray O., 76. Ray twin Brother, Roy E., died February 21, 1952. Ida K. and Ina E. were twin sisters. Ida (Dauterman) died March 20, 1930 and Ina (McManus), August 8, 1962. Glenn Died in 1975, age 82.
Archie, Glenn, Ray, Roy and ida all had children, and they are located in different parts of the United States. After the death of his wife, Augusta, on January 24, 1910. Marcus realized he couldn't keep the ranch without he help, so he sold it in the fall of 1911 to Wm. Lenkersdorfer and Henry Seifker.
He bought a home in Sheridan along with other property. He owned the brick building now used as a garage by the Texaco service station. During prohibition days the building now occupied by the Texaco service station was called "Old Timers' Corner".
Marcus served two terms as Madison County Commissioner from 1896-1903. He was also appointed by Governor Glenn K. Toole to the Board of Trustees of what is now called the Children's Center, serving as long as Toole was governor. He died in 1927.
Written by Glenn G. Elser
Plublish in 1976-Pioneer: Trails and Trials
Madison County, Montana Pages 259-60
Marcus Elser
Marcus Elser was born in Ohio, the 11th of June, 1852. His Father, Peter, and Mother, Susannah, moved to Indiana in the mid 50's where she died a few years later. His father married again. It wasn't like home to Marcus, so he left for the west in 1872 and landed in Wyoming. There he and another man cut railroad ties for about two years. A railroad was being built to Dillon, Montana. These ties were put in a water flume which ran 17 miles to the shipping point.
In 1874 he worked his way north to Montana and landed at the Point of Rocks (Beaverhead Rock) stage stop, which was not a regular stage station. Two miles south of there he went to work for a man by the name of James Mauldin, who owned a ranch. He worked for him several years. We know it as the Diamond O or Poindexter and Orr ranch. This was during the time when the Nez Perce Indians went on the war path from Idaho northeastward toward Canada. Mauldin got word they were coming down the Beaverhead River and, as they were short of horses, they vere stealing them wherever they could.
Mauldin rounded up his, more that a hundred head, and with Marcus and two others, rushed them eastward to the end of the Ruby Mountains in Senott Canyon and the Burnt Hollows. However, the Indians did not come this way.
Marcus quit Mauldin and joined his horses and wagons with those of Pete Hyndman . They went freighting in 1878 from Virginia City to Corinne, Utah, via Sheridan and Twin Bridges. They stayed at it until the railroad reached Dillon in 1878 or 1879. Then Hyndman quit. Elser kept on but with only 6 to 8 horses and 2 wagons, huling from Virginia City to Dillon. It just didn't pay so he quit in 1880 or1881,
In 1882 Marcus worked a small ranch of 160 acres he had bought from a man by the name of Hunter, who had failed to make the required improvements for homesteading. Later he homesteaded adjoining land, making it large enought to be profitable. In 1882, with hired help at $1.00 per day and room and board, he dug an 8 mile ditch to the river and decreed it in 1883.
His only farming equipment was an Oliver drilled walking plow with a wooden-framed steel peg harrow. He borrowed a drill and binder. Wheat was the main crop as it was only 2 miles to the flour and grist mill that still stands (Silver Spring Mill). It was powered with water ditched from Silver Spring that came to the surface on the pamsey ranch, know to all of us as the old Bock ranch, now owned by Frank Burgess.
Marcus Elser net and courted Augusta Montana Bock. She was said to be one of the first white girls born in Alder Gulch, on January 5, 1865. They were married in Twin Bridges by Mortimer J. Lott, Sr., Justice of the Peace, on the 19th day of November, 1885. From this union were born 6 children, of whom only two survive, Archie M., aged 87 on May 20,1974, and Ray O., 76. Ray twin Brother, Roy E., died February 21, 1952. Ida K. and Ina E. were twin sisters. Ida (Dauterman) died March 20, 1930 and Ina (McManus), August 8, 1962. Glenn Died in 1975, age 82.
Archie, Glenn, Ray, Roy and ida all had children, and they are located in different parts of the United States. After the death of his wife, Augusta, on January 24, 1910. Marcus realized he couldn't keep the ranch without he help, so he sold it in the fall of 1911 to Wm. Lenkersdorfer and Henry Seifker.
He bought a home in Sheridan along with other property. He owned the brick building now used as a garage by the Texaco service station. During prohibition days the building now occupied by the Texaco service station was called "Old Timers' Corner".
Marcus served two terms as Madison County Commissioner from 1896-1903. He was also appointed by Governor Glenn K. Toole to the Board of Trustees of what is now called the Children's Center, serving as long as Toole was governor. He died in 1927.
Written by Glenn G. Elser
Plublish in 1976-Pioneer: Trails and Trials
Madison County, Montana Pages 259-60
Marcus Elser was born in Ohio, the 11th of June, 1852. His Father, Peter, and Mother, Susannah, moved to Indiana in the mid 50's where she died a few years later. His father married again. It wasn't like home to Marcus, so he left for the west in 1872 and landed in Wyoming. There he and another man cut railroad ties for about two years. A railroad was being built to Dillon, Montana. These ties were put in a water flume which ran 17 miles to the shipping point.
In 1874 he worked his way north to Montana and landed at the Point of Rocks (Beaverhead Rock) stage stop, which was not a regular stage station. Two miles south of there he went to work for a man by the name of James Mauldin, who owned a ranch. He worked for him several years. We know it as the Diamond O or Poindexter and Orr ranch. This was during the time when the Nez Perce Indians went on the war path from Idaho northeastward toward Canada. Mauldin got word they were coming down the Beaverhead River and, as they were short of horses, they vere stealing them wherever they could.
Mauldin rounded up his, more that a hundred head, and with Marcus and two others, rushed them eastward to the end of the Ruby Mountains in Senott Canyon and the Burnt Hollows. However, the Indians did not come this way.
Marcus quit Mauldin and joined his horses and wagons with those of Pete Hyndman . They went freighting in 1878 from Virginia City to Corinne, Utah, via Sheridan and Twin Bridges. They stayed at it until the railroad reached Dillon in 1878 or 1879. Then Hyndman quit. Elser kept on but with only 6 to 8 horses and 2 wagons, huling from Virginia City to Dillon. It just didn't pay so he quit in 1880 or1881,
In 1882 Marcus worked a small ranch of 160 acres he had bought from a man by the name of Hunter, who had failed to make the required improvements for homesteading. Later he homesteaded adjoining land, making it large enought to be profitable. In 1882, with hired help at $1.00 per day and room and board, he dug an 8 mile ditch to the river and decreed it in 1883.
His only farming equipment was an Oliver drilled walking plow with a wooden-framed steel peg harrow. He borrowed a drill and binder. Wheat was the main crop as it was only 2 miles to the flour and grist mill that still stands (Silver Spring Mill). It was powered with water ditched from Silver Spring that came to the surface on the pamsey ranch, know to all of us as the old Bock ranch, now owned by Frank Burgess.
Marcus Elser net and courted Augusta Montana Bock. She was said to be one of the first white girls born in Alder Gulch, on January 5, 1865. They were married in Twin Bridges by Mortimer J. Lott, Sr., Justice of the Peace, on the 19th day of November, 1885. From this union were born 6 children, of whom only two survive, Archie M., aged 87 on May 20,1974, and Ray O., 76. Ray twin Brother, Roy E., died February 21, 1952. Ida K. and Ina E. were twin sisters. Ida (Dauterman) died March 20, 1930 and Ina (McManus), August 8, 1962. Glenn Died in 1975, age 82.
Archie, Glenn, Ray, Roy and ida all had children, and they are located in different parts of the United States. After the death of his wife, Augusta, on January 24, 1910. Marcus realized he couldn't keep the ranch without he help, so he sold it in the fall of 1911 to Wm. Lenkersdorfer and Henry Seifker.
He bought a home in Sheridan along with other property. He owned the brick building now used as a garage by the Texaco service station. During prohibition days the building now occupied by the Texaco service station was called "Old Timers' Corner".
Marcus served two terms as Madison County Commissioner from 1896-1903. He was also appointed by Governor Glenn K. Toole to the Board of Trustees of what is now called the Children's Center, serving as long as Toole was governor. He died in 1927.
Written by Glenn G. Elser
Plublish in 1976-Pioneer: Trails and Trials
Madison County, Montana Pages 259-60
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