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Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA



 


Notizen:
Wikipedia 2015:

Miles City is a city in and the county seat of Custer County, Montana, United States. The population was 8,410 at the 2010 census.

History:

After the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, the U.S. Army created forts in eastern Montana, including one where the north-flowing Tongue River flowed into the east-flowing Yellowstone River. The first fort was known as the Tongue River Cantonment or the Tongue River Barracks and was founded on August 27, 1876. A second, permanent fort was constructed on higher ground two miles to the west of the mouth of the Tongue and this became Fort Keogh.

Fort Keogh (named after Captain Myles Keogh, one of the battle dead, whose horse, Comanche, was the lone survivor of Custer's command) started as a few rough winter cabins, but grew into a moderate sized western fort, from which its commander, General Nelson A. Miles, effectively brought the remaining "uncontrolled" Native Americans into subjugation during the last decade of the 1800s.

Nelson Miles said that "whiskey caused him more trouble than the Indians" and, after tiring of drunken soldiers causing problems during the winter campaign, evicted the sutlers who provided "liquid stock" in the spring of 1877. Moving two miles due east of the Tongue River Cantonment, these early merchants founded the first Miles City. Although fondly referred to as "Milestown," the first post office and first official plat both called the town "Miles City." When the old cantonment moved two miles west, the town literally picked up and followed, moving to the current site. The last occupants of Old Miles City stayed on until 1900 but the new community was the one that grew.

Before the town itself was founded, George Miles, the nephew of General Miles, who had accompanied his uncle on the western expedition and served in the quartermasters office, bought a herd of sheep, the first of many commercial enterprises in his involvement with the core founders of the town.

Livestock speculation brought thousands of cattle to the open ranges in the late 1880s, the railroad was extended through the area, and Texas drove numerous cattle to Miles City to fatten them on free grass and move them to where they could be loaded on trains bound for the slaughterhouses in Chicago.

Miles City established a municipal electric utility around 1887 and it was a source of civic pride (as any city would have towards its own utilities) until a traveling employee of Minnesota Northern Power (predecessor of MDU Resources Group, Inc.) told the city council "the emperor has no clothes;" i.e., the system was far less efficient and in worse shape than they thought. The city council eventually put the question to the voters who instructed the city to sell the utility. By this time, the people with the Montana Power Company (now NorthWestern Energy's Montana division) became aware of this and were soon locked in an epic battle with Minnesota Northern over the franchise. A franchise election was held to determine who would serve Miles City on June 28, 1927. Minnesota Northern won by a scant 16 votes.

Miles City experienced rapid growth until the 1920s and 1930s, but became overshadowed by the upstart upriver town of Billings, which was at the cross roads of transportation routes, and it became a banking center, oil refining center, and medical service center and is now the largest city in the state.

The publicly owned Miles City Municipal Airport is located less than two miles (3 km) from town. Notably, it was the site of an early scheduled airline crash, involving Northwest Airlines Flight 1, which caught fire and crashed shortly after takeoff in January, 1939.

Ort : Geographische Breite: 46.4083362, Geographische Länge: -105.84055820000003


Geburt

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Geburt    Personen-Kennung 
1 Irion, Charles Henry  10 Mai 1907Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I136850
2 Brockel, Barbara Alvina  9 Mrz 1911Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I169387
3 Hieb, Allwin  22 Jan 1916Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I86258
4 Waldow, Albert  26 Mai 1917Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I144968
5 Schlenker, Alvin  18 Dez 1918Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I141144
6 Steinert, Esther L.  24 Jun 1920Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I113511
7 Waliser, Katherine F.  30 Mrz 1923Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I147139
8 Fowler, Leo Clyde  22 Sep 1926Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I12686
9 Ballensky, Norma Jean  28 Jun 1933Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I7525
10 Brandner, Velma Mae  18 Mrz 1938Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I117984
11 Brandner, Verne Arthur  2 Mai 1939Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I117985
12 Ballensky, Alan Glenn  26 Sep 1939Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I7527
13 Halfa, Jane Marie  19 Jan 1947Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I254897
14 Brendt, Edward Thomas  7 Feb 1952Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I136855
15 Rath, Philip Gerad  23 Jan 1967Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I254895

Tod

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Tod    Personen-Kennung 
1 Ballensky, George  1916Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I7466
2 Ziegele, Anton  10 Jun 1916Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I195844
3 Kirschenmann, Anna Maria  25 Aug 1923Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I45370
4 Brandner, Velma Mae  18 Mrz 1938Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I117984
5 Ziegele, Jakob  14 Aug 1938Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I195853
6 Walth, Gottlieb C.  1945Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I91455
7 Neuhardt, Johann Valentin  7 Mrz 1950Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I264995
8 Eberhardt, Christine  17 Feb 1952Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I264996
9 Ohlhäuser, Jacob  2 Sep 1953Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I144966
10 Basham, Lemma Cornelia  29 Okt 1960Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I117972
11 Schlenker, Julius  30 Okt 1960Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I141141
12 Krohn, Matilda  24 Dez 1963Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I111704
13 Oster, Georg Adam Sr.  Jan 1964Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I238365
14 Irion, Charles Henry  3 Mrz 1970Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I136850
15 Schlepp, Theodore  11 Okt 1973Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I99848
16 Schlepp, Pauline  24 Feb 1977Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I94587
17 Heitz, Elisabeth  29 Sep 1977Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I141142
18 Schock, Emma  13 Jan 1981Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I241274
19 McWilliams, Dean Ralph  7 Jun 1986Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I254892
20 Bollinger, Arthur Otto  9 Nov 1986Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I254881
21 Schlepp, Mathilda  18 Nov 1986Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I94957
22 Christman, Elmer Daniel  19 Mai 1987Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I105878
23 Naaß, Christina  17 Feb 1988Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I144965
24 Dalke, Theodore F.  11 Nov 2003Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I111702
25 Waldow, Albert  12 Mai 2007Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I144968
26 Ohlhauser, Ferdinand  30 Jan 2008Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I145006
27 Walz, Mary  29 Mrz 2008Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I111701
28 Delmeire, Neoma Angela Irene  2 Okt 2008Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I169411
29 Ohlhauser, Lydia  1 Mai 2013Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I144967
30 Moos, Emilie Magdalina  14 Jun 2014Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I133911
31 Rath, Levi Roland  29 Okt 2016Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I254890

Beerdigung

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Beerdigung    Personen-Kennung 
1 Oster, Georg Adam Sr.  Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA I238365

Eheschließung

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   Familie    Eheschließung    Familien-Kennung 
1 Waldow / Ohlhauser  15 Jun 1941Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA F47453
2 Redfield / Carter  27 Dez 1946Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA F3116
3 Boley / Walz  7 Jul 1955Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA F35477
4 Litsis / Ferrie  2 Aug 1958Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA F48730