Edward Warren Toole
History of Montana,by Joaquin Miller, 1894
USGENWEB Montana Archives,maintained by burns@asu.edu

Edwin Warren Toole, one of Montana's most eminent lawyers, 
was born in the Savannah, Andrew County, Missouri on the 
24th of March 1839. His parents, Edwin and Lucinda Shepard 
Toole, emigrated from the state of Kentucky to Missouri in 
1837 and settled at Savannah, at which place they reared a 
large and highly respected family, most of whom are still 
living and residing in Montana. Edwin Toole was a lawyer 
by profession, was over twenty years Clerk of the District 
Court of his county and resigned his position before coming 
to Montana some eight years ago. His life has been a most 
exemplary one, and now in his eighty-sixth year retains to 
a very extraordinary degree his vigorous mental faculties 
and physical health. All his brothers and sisters, six in 
number, are still living. Our subject's mother died in her 
seventy-seventh year.Edwin Toole, the oldest living son of 
his father's family, was reared in his native town and was 
educated in public schools and in the Masonic College at 
Lexington, Missouri at which place the Hon. S.B. Elkins 
and himself represented the Philologian Society and the 
Hon W.Y. Pemberton, now Chief Justice of the state and 
the Hon. Jerry Craven, ex-member of Congress from Missouri 
represented the Erodelphia Society. He came to Montana in 
1863 where he hassince been engaged in the practice of his 
profession and during all these years he has been connected 
as counsel with most of the prominent lawsuits of the 
county, meeting with marked success and gaining a most 
enviable reputationas one of the most able and talented 
lawyers of the state. Among the important cases in which 
he has recently appeared may be mentioned the noted Davis 
will case, St. Louis Mining Company vs. Montana Company 
Ltd, involving the extension of the famous Drum Lummon 
Lode; and Northern Pacific Railroad Company vs. Richard 
P. Barden et al: upon the decision of the latter depended 
the right to millions of acres of valuable mineral lands 
within the limitsof the railroad grant. In this case he 
was employed by Hon. Martin Maginnis, Land Commissioner 
for the State, in favor of the interest of the miners and 
against the railroad company.

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