Jud A. Hasley
History of Montana, Sanders, 1913

In business and general activities of citizenship, 
Anaconda has during the last quarter of a century had 
no citizen more prominent than Jud. A. Hasley.  He was 
born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 1, 1862, and got his 
education in the public schools of that city.  The trade 
of plumbing has been the basis of his entire business 
career and he was engaged in the installation of plumbing 
in large buildings of various cities throughout the 
northwest at a time when only the most modern private 
homes had any sort of equipment of this nature.  The 
learning of his trade and the earning of his first 
wages came together while he was serving his apprenticeship 
in Milwaukee.  His pay at the start was two dollars and a 
half per week and the money he gave to his mother.

After acquiring his trade and reaching the age of twenty 
one, Mr. Hasley spent several years as a journeyman in 
the original sense of the term.  For nearly a year he 
worked at St. Paul, then spent another six months in 
Kansas City, from there went to Omaha where he stayed 
three months and after that was at Denver for six months.  
While at St. Paul he worked on the plumbing contract for a 
new high school then being erected.  IN continuing his 
westward course from Denver, he took a very original 
method of travel and one very little employed then.  
He rose out of Denver on one of the old high-wheeled 
bicycles and with this vehicle performed the long 
journey through Salt Lake City to San Francisco, 
passing through the Yosemite Valley en route.  After 
a short stay in San Francisco, Mr. Hasley came on to 
Montana, arriving in Helena in November 1886, and has 
been a resident of the state ever since.  His first 
job was in placing the plumbing in Sam Ward's 
residence and then in the court house at Helena, 
where he remained nearly a year.  During the following 
year at Butte he installed the plumbing for W.A. Clark's 
house and the old court house.  At Missoula where he was 
located for six months, he put in the plumbing for the 
Florence Hotel.  The last stage of his journeyman career 
was Anaconda where he came to do the plumbing for the 
Montana Hotel.  This contract finished, he decided to 
made a permanent location here and opened a small shop.

Mr. Hasley was married in Butte August 29, 1888 to Miss 
Cora B. O'Niel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John O'Niel of 
Laclede Missouri.  Two children have been born to them: 
Edith M., now the wife of Frederick K. Brunton of Anaconda 
and William A., who is a student in the local high school.

The parents of Mr. Hasley, John B. and Catherine (Brunner) 
Hasley were both born in Switzerland and were married 
there.  Soon afterward they came to the United States 
and located at Milwaukee where the father spent the 
rest of his life.  During the Civil War he was a 
soldier for several year in the Union Army, and his 
body is now resting in the government cemetery at 
Milwaukee.  His death occurred when he was eighty-one 
years old.  The mother still survives and makes her 
home with a married daughter in Milwaukee.  Of the five 
children in the family, Jud A. is the youngest.

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