P a g e 6 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r Fatherland, born in Goldewin, near the town of Gustrow, August 16, 1850. During his thirty years of life in his native country he was principally engaged as agricultural superintendent of large farms, which required a special education in agriculture, horticulture and a general knowledge of stock, his education being obtained in Germany by private tutoring and in the public schools. As his occupation required his moving in the best and most extravagant society, and finding that he was unable to lay up a bank account, Mr. Grabow decided on emigrating to America, locating at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1880. While here he did service with the Standard Oil company, subsequently joining a colony who went to Glen Ullin, North Dakota, and engaged in ranching. Being dissatisfied in his location here, he took up his active business at Livingston, Montana, in the spring of 1884. For six years he was engaged as a general laborer, accumulating sufficient capital, thereby, to engage in business for himself, which consisted of a general lodging house, with restaurant and liquor refreshments, and was known as the Tivoli. Just west of the city Bauman and Grabow run a building brick factory, but when the panic of 1893 came Mr. Grabow moved farther up town, locating his Tivoli permanently at the corner of Main and Callendar streets. In May, 1898, Mr. Grabow was elected as secretary of the Flouring Mill, and in October, 1899, his office was absorbed in the general manager. In the spring of 1895 he was elected alderman for the First ward under Mayor Beley’s administration. He was married to Miss Lizzie Burmester of Spokane, Washington, in 1890. He is an active member of the Sons of Hermann, being the present secretary. His family consists of three sons and one daughter, and belong to the Lutheran church. Frank Huot. The present miller of the Livingston Flouring mill was born in 1850 at the junction of the Mississippi river and Lake St. Croix, Wisconsin, now the city of Prescott. When three years old the family moved to Trimbell, Wis., where the father was engaged in the saw-mill industry. When twenty- seven years of age the subject of this sketch embarked in business for himself by purchasing a flour mill of C. W. Hackett, of St. Paul, but in the spring of 1877 high water destroyed everything while in a flourishing condition. Mr. Huot now removed to Lac Qui Parle county, Minnesota, and established the first flour mill in that county. After a stay of some two years there he was temporarily located at Watson, Minnesota; Desmet, South Dakota, and Parker, South Dakota, in quest of a suitable location, finally accepting the management of the Nickel Plate Roller mills at Oakdale, Nebraska. After five years of ser vice at this place, and with a good record behind him, Mr. Huot again started in business for himself by leasing a mill at Springhill, Montana. After re modeling the mill, and after establishing a good custom, the mill burned and everything went up in the flames. William Grabow
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