Thomas M. Everett
Blaine County
History of Montana, Sanders, 1913

Thomas M. Everett is one of the successful and prominent men 
of Blaine County in which he has been located since the year 
1889, settling here when the county was known as Chouteau.  
He first engaged in ranching and was particularly successful 
as a breeder of horses and cattle.  His operations have not 
alone been confined to the ranch business, although he has 
given a generous share of his attention to that enterprise 
and has added very materially to his ranch holdings in the 
years that have passed, but he has  acquired a quantity of 
valuable city realty as well.  He organized the First National 
Bank of Harlem and is its president and he has so far won the 
confidence and esteem of his fellow men in this section of 
the country that he has served them four terms in the state 
legislature--two in the house and two in the senate.

Mr. Everett was born on Christmas day, 1865 at Princeton, 
Missouri, where he spent the early years of his life.  When 
he was but a lad his parents moved to Kansas, locating in 
Butler County and there he attended Baker University until 
1885, pursuing a course in literature.  He returned to 
Princeton after his graduation and remained there one year, 
in 1887 moving to Helena where for two years he engaged in 
contracting and building.  In 189 he came to Harlem and 
since that time his fortunes have been bound up in the great 
Treasure state of the union.

With regard to the parentage of Mr. Everett, he is a son of 
Hosea and Jane Bectcher Everett, natives of Ohio and now 
residing in Harlem.  The father retired from his farming 
activities some years ago and is passing his declining years 
in Montana.  They were the parents of nine children.  The 
eldest, Annie and Antoinette are twins.  Annie is the wife 
of Alonzo Ellis of Harlem and Antoinette is married to P.M. 
Bosley, also of Harlem; Josephine who married E.M. Kinney 
of Harlem was killed in an automobile accident; Melissa 
married W.E. French of Indianapolis, Indiana and there 
resides; John M. is engaged in ranching in Harlem; Lucy 
is married to G.M. Phillips of Harlem; Amos is a clergyman 
of Bozeman; Mary is the wife of C.E. Farnum, of Harlem; 
Thomas M. of this review was the fourth child of his parents.

He married Miss Addie Brewer of Maiden Rock, Wisconsin in 
1895.  They have no children.