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A biography/family history fo Robert C. Currie, Ryegate, MT, is included in "Montana, Its Story and History", Vol 3, pages 686 & 687.
Robert C. Currie was born, 23 Sep 1850, sixth of seven children of Robert L. and Agnes (Gardner) Currie. Robert L. Currie was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, in 1810. Agnes was born, 17 Apr 1820, in Southern England. Robert L. was a marble cutter by trade. The family immigrated to the US and settled in Dubuque, IA, in 1840. In 1849, Robert L. went to California where a year's work in the gold fields netted him a small fortune. Afterward, he returned east and died in Dubuque, IA. The last two years of his life were spent in Nashville, TN, where he was employed on the construction of the state capitol building. Robert L. and Agnes had seven children: John (the eldest, died in England in infancy), Jane L. (Mrs. Henry A. Goodrich, Colesburg, IA); John G. (b. 1842, St. Louis, MO, came to Helena, MT, in 1866, later placer miner at Butte); Agnes (Mrs. Abraham Nunemaker, South Dakota); Mary Ann (died at age 16), Robert C. (Ryegate, MT); Sarah Ann (died in infancy).
Agnes survived Robert L. by many years and died at Colesburg, IA, in 1905. At the time she was the widow of Thomas Brock, a stone cutter and native of Scotland who died at Colesburg, IA, in 1869. The only child of Thomas & Agnes Brock: Franklin M. Brock, a wheat rancher near Ryegate, MT.
Robert C. Currie was educated in Delaware county, IA, and attended Colesburg High School. At about age 20 he left school and began learning the brick maker trade at Dubuque. Returning to Colesburg, he bought a half interest in a pottery plant but at the end of five years he sold it and acquired a farm in Colony Township in Delaware county. He farmed there for 19 years, owning another farm in Missouri. In 1898, he moved to Colesburg and served two terms as mayor. In the spring of 1907 he moved to California and spent a year at Los Angeles, then returned to Iowa for a year. In the spring of 1909 he located to a homestead in the Big Coulee Valley of MT (in what is now Musselshell county). He proved up his claim and lived on it for four years before selling it and moving to Ryegate, MT. He was a stockholder in the Ryegate Creamery, was a justice of peace, and was elected to two terms as mayor of Ryegate. He had served as justice of peace in Colesburg, IA, as county assessor of Colony Township for 10 years, and as town marshall and constable for a number of years. At one time he was an Iowa school teacher.
In 1876, Prairie du Chien, WI, Robert C. Currie married Miss Isabelle M. Bolsinger, born in Colesburg, IA, daughter of P.C. and Margaret (Wiggins) Bolsinger. P.C. was born in 1816 in Pennsylvania and moved to Iowa about 1846. He was a merchant, a landowner, and operated grist mills at Colesburg and Jefferson, IA. The Bolsinger family originated in Germany but were colonial settlers of Pennsylvania. Margaret Wiggins was born 1826 at Wooster, OH, and died at Colesburg, IA, in 1902.
Children of Robert C. and Isabelle Currie: John (Ryegate, MT), Ezra Cordel (Mrs. Manuel Wiltsie), Alba Jane (Mrs. Sidney Walker, Colesburg, IA).
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