Louis K. Pool
Lake County
History of Montana, Sanders, 1913

The Pool family were pioneers of Montana and the name has 
been prominent in political life, business and professional 
affairs for forty years.  Louis K. Pool is a civil engineer 
with a large and growing practice at Polson and Vicinity.  
He was born in Radersburg, this state, March 20, 1887.

His father is Honorable Gustavus E. Pool, a well known 
Montana citizen now residing at Townsend.  a native of 
Missouri, he came to Montana in the early seventies, 
first settling in Jefferson County, represented that 
district in the first and second assemblies of the state 
legislature and for many years has been one of the 
influential democrats of Montana.  At the present time 
he is justice of peace in Townsend, where he is proprietor 
of the Townsend Drug Company. He married Eldora Morgan, who 
represents another prominent pioneer name.  She was born in 
Illinois but came to Montana when four years old.  Her 
father, Walter R. Morgan, immigrated to the Northwest in 
the early sixties, coming up the Missouri River to Fort 
Benton and settled at Diamond.  For a number of years he 
was engaged in mining which was the chief industry of 
that period and later homesteaded at the foot of Confederate 
Gulch.

Louis K. Pool who was the second in a family of five 
daughters and three sons, received his early education 
in the Broadwater County schools and then took his 
technical course at the State College in Bozeman, 
where he was graduated with the degree of civil engineer 
in 1910.  In June of the same year he located at Polson, 
succeeding to the practice of A.D. Maynard and has since 
built up a large practice from official and private 
sources.  He is the city engineer of Polson and is also 
owner of a homestead of one hundred and twenty acres, 
four miles from Polson.  On June 3, 1912 he married Miss 
Gretchen Fiske, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Fiske, 
Helena Montana.