LOUIS G. LAWRENCE, Leeson's Hist. of MT 1739-1885, Jefferson Co., MT USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. "List transcribed and organized by Ellen Rae Thiel, thieljl@aol.com All rights reserved." Copyright, 1998 by Ellen Rae Thiel. This file may be freely copied for non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved. LOUIS G. LAWRENCE - pg 1183 From Leeson's History of Montana 1739-1885 published 1885 SURNAMES FOUND IN THIS BIOGRAPHY: MICHELIN Louis G. Lawrence, Woodville was born in Canada, in the vicinity of Montreal, where he learned the blacksmith trade with his father. in 1870 he came to the United States, worked in Chicago one year and a half in a grocery store, during 1871 visited Canada, and returning to the United States worked in various capacities in the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. In 1880 he came to Montana and worked at his trade one year in the city of Butte, one year at Boulder; returned to Butte, and then moved to Woodville, where, in company with another gentleman, he opened a blacksmith shop, but soon returned to Butte remaining until September 1883, and re-established his present blacksmith and wood-shop at Woodville, Mr. Lawrence was married at Manchester, N. H., on the 17th of January, 1875, to Miss Leda Michelin, and has three children.