Allan R. Dearborn
Granite County
History of Montana, Sanders, 1913

Allan R. Dearborn, a prominent druggist in Phillipsburg 
and State Senator for Granite County is one of the 
businessmen of his city.  He has been a resident  of 
the state since 1886 and the greater part of the time 
in Philipsburg and he has witnessed the splendid 
growth and industrial progress of the state during 
the past quarter century, while he has contributed a 
generous part to  the life of the community.

Born in Cole County, Missouri, on December 14, 1856, 
Mr. Dearborn is the son of Dr. Ebenezer B. and Malinda 
R. (Burlingame) Dearborn.  The father was born in 
Vermont and in his young manhood settled in Missouri 
where he engaged in the practice of his profession.  
He died in 1857 and is buried in Missouri.  His widow 
survived him and passed away in Montana at the age of 
seventy-nine years.  She was the mother of three children 
by her first husband, of which number Allen R., the 
first born.  By her second marriage she had one son, 
Frank. W. Webster, who is a major in the United 
States army.

Allan Dearborn was given the advantages of a high 
school education and when he finished school at the 
age of sixteen he went into a drug store to learn 
the business.  He continued with that line of work 
more or less constantly until he came west, during a 
part of the time being engaged as a salesman for a 
drug line, covering a territory in Kansas, Nebraska, 
Missouri and Iowa.  He was about thirty when he came
 to Montana in 1886 and before he finally located in 
Philipsburg he spent some time in Helena and Missoula.  
When he decided to made Philipsburg his future place of 
residence, Mr. Dearborn established a drub store in the 
city which he has since conducted with all success.  
He is further interested in ranching and stock raising 
and has prospered in that line of business.

Mr. Dearborn was a member of the Philipsburg school 
board for eighteen years.  He is a lover of nature 
and is devoted to all manner of outdoor exercise.  
He is particularly fond of horses and as a rule keeps 
a fine lot of fast horses at hand.  He is unmarried.

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