Augustus William Allie

History of Montana,by Joaquin Miller, 1894
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Augustus William Allie, a retired citizen of Avon, Deer Lodge 
County, Montana, was born in Prussia, December 25, 1849. 
Although a native of Prussia, his earliest recollections are 
of Cincinnati Ohio to which city he was taken when he 
was six months old and where the first nine years of his life 
were spent.  When he was nine years old he left home 
and went to Decatur and other places in Illinois and in 1859 
when only ten years old he started for Pike's Peak, 
Colorado, where soon after his arrival, he obtained employment 
in the Pollock House, the first hotel built there.  
Subsequently he went to the San Juan country and Mexico but 
returned to Pike's Peak and remained there until 1863, 
when he directed his course toward Boise City, Idaho. In the 
fall of that year he went to Oregon; returned to Boise 
City the next year and the following year he went to Oregon; 
then went to Colorado.  In the spring of 1865 we again 
find him en route for Idaho but meeting with misfortune at 
Salt Lake and losing all his possessions he was compelled 
to walk from there to Boise City. In 1866 he spent a short 
time in Montana, went from here to California and Oregon 
and that same year came back to Montana, and in this State 
he has since made his home.

For a number of years Mr. Allie has been engaged in mining 
operations and his earnest efforts in this direction 
have been crowned with signal success.  He was engaged in 
placer-mining in Deer Lodge county and worked a claim in 
Ophir Gulch near Blackfoot City for fourteen years.  In 1880 
he retired from active work and has since been enjoying 
the competency which is the reward of years of persistent 
labor.

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