SILVER BOW COUNTY, MONTANA	
George M. Bourquin, United States District Judge for Montana
Transcribed by:  Lorene Frigaard		

Extracted from A Newspaper Reference Work:  Men of Affairs 
and Representative Institutions of the State of Montana, 1914.
Compiled for the Newspaper Editors of Montana, Published 
under the supervision of the Butte Newswriters' Association.

George M. Bourquin, United States District judge for 
Montana, was born on June 24, 1863, near Tidioute, Penn.  
He is of French ancestry.  His father, Justin Bourquin, 
having been born in Switzerland, and his mother, Celestine 
Bourquin, nee Ducray, in France.

They came to the United States in their youth, met and 
married, and became the parents of ten children, of whom 
George is the ninth.  His father was a blacksmith and farmer.

George attended the common schools of his native state, 
and at the age of 17 years, taught therein.  In 1881 he  
went to Aspen, Colo., whence several brothers had 
preceded him.  There and at Leadville he was employed 
alternately as cowboy, miner and smelterman.  In 1884 
he emigrated to Butte, Mont.  There he labored as a 
millman and hoisting engineer.

In 1888 he was republican candidate for clerk and recorder 
of Silver Bow county, failing of election.  In 1890 
President Harrison appointed him receiver of public 
money at Helena, and he served therein four years.  
Having commenced the study of law in 1889, he was 
admitted to the bar of Montana in 1894.

From the latter date to 1890 he practiced law in Helena, 
then removing to Butte, where he followed his profession 
until 1905.  He was elected district judge for Silver 
Bow County in the campaign of 1904, and administered 
the office four years.  He then resumed the practice 
of law in Butte, therein continuing until appointed 
United States District judge by President Taft in 
March, 1912.

The judge's official residence is Butte.

He was married in 1891 to Miss Mary M. Ratigan of Butte, 
and three children have been born to them-Geo. R., Marion 
M. and Justin J.

Of fraternal orders, the judge is a member of the Knights 
of Pythias and of the Woodmen of the World.

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