George T. Sanderson Hill County History of Montana, Sanders, 1913 A resident of Montana for a quarter of a century and long prominent in public and business life at Havre, George T. Sanderson is one of the citizens who have done much for the development of this state since its admission to the Union. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, September 25, 1856. His father, John C. Sanderson, who was born in Ontario in 1830 and is still active in business, running a lumber yard at Jarvis, Ontario spent most of his career as a railway builder. He was for a number of years superintendent of construction for the Great Western and for other roads between Niagara Falls and Windsor. He married Mary Taylor, who was born in Ireland in 1833 and died at Jarvis in November 1893. She came to America when a young girl. George T. Sanderson, the oldest of their nine children, received his early education in the public schools at Galt, Ontario, where he spent most of his youth. He began the serious endeavors of life when still a boy and has been the architect of his own prosperous career. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to learn the machinists trade, spending four years with Goldie, McColloch and Company at Galt, after which he took a business course in a commercial college of London, Ontario. In 1879 he began learning locomotive works at Hamilton, and thence came west to Winnipeg as machinist and locomotive foreman in the service of the Canadian Pacific. With that railroad he spent six and a half years until the spring of 1887 when he became master mechanic on the Montana division of the Great Northern. For four years his residence was at Ft. Assiniboine, but since 1891 he has made his home in Havre. Mr. Sanderson continued in the railway service in the responsible post of master mechanic until November 1899, since which time he has been engaged in the land business. Mr. Sanderson's name is often mentioned in the history of his home city. He was one of the first public school trustees of the town, and when the city was incorporated in 1892 he was one of the first aldermen elected to the council. He also served as mayor during 1896-97 and in April 1912 was again elected alderman. He was vice president of the Havre Commercial Company seven years, is an active member of the Havre Commercial Club and has been especially instrumental in bringing people to Hill company and establishing them on government lands. Mr. Sanderson was married at Preston, Ontario, in 1882 to Miss Mary Smith, a native of Galt. They are the parents of three children: Mae is the wife of Judge W.P. Pyper of Havre; Georgiana is the wife of Dr. J.S. Almas of Havre and John is the present assistant city engineer of Havre.