Pioneer stories

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: North Dakota State Library 2013
• Subjects: Brant; Canada; Dougherty; Sinclair; Peace River; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/4385

Page 34 HISTORY OF THE DOUGHERTY FAMILY friends and was never happier than when entertaining them—which he di<j in a most hospitable manner. He never married but always managed t^ have a group of young folks about him, among these were the two Hebde^ boys who had recently come from England. The Hebden's spent a great deal of their time hunting, the game bein^ plentiful, the sloughs full of ducks, and brant so numerous they were lik^ white clouds. Mr. and Mrs. John McHugh who were the nearest neighbors, their lan<} joining the Berridale on the north tell many stories of Lord Berridale'^. kindness. He never failed to stop on his way to town driving to the doo). in his buckboard and inquiring whether they had any commission for hirn ar.d was ever solicitious of the welfare of his help. He sold the Berridale in 1906, and returned to Scotland and made many improvements for the tenants on his estate and on the castle in Aberdeenshire. But the lure of America called him back and he returned to th^ Peace River territory in Canada, later moving to California, where he was secretary of a copper mining corporation and lived quietly at the hotel Balboa in Los Angeles. He received fatal injuries in a traffic accident and was buried in the beautiful Hollywod cemetery. Tho a resident of Los Angeles three years only three persons know that John Sinclair was a direct decendant of Robert Bruce and was in reality the 17th Earl of Caithness, Lord Berridale and Baronet of Nova Scotia. A man of mystery, his memory is cherished for his sterling qualities, being a good builder and a true pioneer. To return to the Dougherties, Lawrence bought the reaper of Sinclair and paid for it out of that fall's crop. Charlie Dougherty, the oldest twin, never took to farming. He was something of a carpenter, and he drifted west, spending several years in Spokane working at his trade. He later bought real estate in Spokane, and made some money at the time of the boom in the west. Later he went to Alaska, and went out prospecting. He made good in this line, and at one time he owned several tracts of land in and near Spokane, and also owned mining interests in Alaska worth $70,000.00. At this time he came home and built new buildings on the farm for his parents. These buildings were built in 1895, and were the pride of the family, being much different from what they had been accustomed to. Charlie returned to the west in a short time, returned to the mining work, lost some money, then made good again. This went on several years, then his health failed and about 1910 he came home, worn out, sick, and broke. He never recovered his health. He died in Lakota in 1915, penniless, and is buried in the Lakota Cemetery beside the father and mother whose last days were made easier through his provision for them. In the 90's Jack and Lawrence bought their first threshing rig, and they teP of conditions then as compared with present times. A threshing day began a five A. M. and the machines were still running at nine P. M. Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.