Jesse Haston
History of Montana,by Joaquin Miller, 1894
USGENWEB Montana Archives
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Jesse Haston--On the corner of Eighth and Palmer Streets, 
Miles City Montana, is the beautiful and commodious residence 
of one of the leading cattlemen of Custer County--Jesse Haston. 
His home is surrounded with a beautiful and well-kept lawn.

He was born at Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri in 1841, and 
the son of Jesse and Elizabeth Haston. His father was a well-
to-do farmer who removed from east Tennessee to Missouri in 
1818 when the people of that state had still to live in forts 
to protect themselves from the Indians.

Jesse grew up on his father's farm, being educated at the 
common schools and at Central College, Fayette Mo. When of 
age he still remained on the old farm for a number of years, 
but later he engaged in purchasing and shipping tobacco, but 
not being very stout 
physically and having had financial reverses, he determined 
to try his fortune out West; so with poor health and as 
little money as health, in the year 1879 he turned his 
steps westward. On the first day of August 1879 at Camp 
Sheridan Nebraska, he entered the employment of the Niobara 
Cattle Company as a cowboy and the tenderfoot of the outfit 
and by hard work and always being faithful to the trusts 
confided to him, in a few years having passed through all 
the phases of cowboy life and the cattle business he became 
manager of the company. In 1890 at Holden Missouri he married 
Ida McMelan who was born in Toronto Canada and came with her 
parents to this country when a child. They have two bright 
little girls: Jessie May and Katharyn Seymour.


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