Samuel H. Bosworth
History of Montana,by Joaquin Miller, 1894
USGENWEB Montana Archives
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Samuel H. Bosworth, proprietor of the American Hotel at Forsyth, 
Montana, was born in the state of 
Maine, in 1833, a son of Daniel and May (Huckins) Bosworth; his 
parents were pioneer settlers in the eastern 
portion of that state. His great-grandfather was a soldier in 
the War of 1812 and his father was a farmer and 
ship-builder.

Soon after attaining his growth to manhood, Mr. Bosworth of 
this sketch emigrated to the great West, where he 
had had a wonderful experience in the Rocky Mountain region 
during the settlement of the various Territories 
and the Subjugation of the many tribes in Indians. In 1879 he 
settled in Wyoming, at the summit of the Rocky 
Mountains (Sherman) where he conducted a hotel for three years, 
after which he engaged in livery business in 
Denver, Colorado, near the winter of 1882-83, when he came to 
Forsyth and entered upon his present business. 
In 1890 he was manager of the Grand Hotel at Billings, and has 
since been the proprietor of the American Hotel. 
He is widely and favorably known as a genial, first-class 
landlord. In 1855 in Main, he married Mattie Bailey, 
a daughter of Thomas Bailey, who was a prominent lumber man 
of that state. By this marriage there have been one 
son and a daughter.

George Bosworth, the son, was born in 1856, in the state of 
Maine, where he grew to manhood, receiving a 
common-school education. At the age of twenty-two years he 
entered upon a railroad business, on the Union 
Pacific Railroad between Cheyenne and Laramie. Working his 
way up, he first became conductor in 1880 on the 
South Park Railroad, running between Denver and Leadville. 
He has been connected with the Union Pacific Railroad 
ever since 1883, as conductor between Glendive and Billings.

He is a fine specimen of manhood and a genial gentleman. His 
sister Kate, is the wife of W.S. Becker, assistant
superintendent of the North Dakota branch of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad. 

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