Louis Accola (1850 - 1942)

Born 3 Sep 1850 in Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Died 29 Dec 1942 at age 92 in Bozeman, Gallatin Co., MT

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Biography

(written by David Miller) During his youth, Louis Accola attended private school in St. Louis. The Accola family left Muscatine, Iowa by covered wagon in the spring of 1866. They were members of a train that included 300 wagons and about 1,000 persons arriving in the Gallatin Valley the fall of that same year. The Accola's settled on the West Gallatin about 8 miles west of Bozeman. The The first winter the family lost all its stock except for one head. The next year their crops were destroyed by grasshoppers. As a result of these hardships, Louis and his father John set out on horseback for California to seek a better place to live. They traveled to southern California and Mexico, then decided the country was better back in Montana and returned to the Gallatin Valley after about a year. The year following their trip, the Accola family was visited for two weeks by Samuel Clemens (known as Mark Twain), who was seeking material for a book. During the first few years spent on the Gallatin, Louis and his brother August freighted their produce to Last Chance Gulch, the mining camp at Helena. While living here the family was visited every year by Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce Indians of Idaho, as they traveled to and from their hunting trips on the Musselshell and the Yellowstone. In the early 1870's Louis and August homesteaded on land in the Pass Creek area, 25 miles north of Bozeman, where the home ranch is still located. They also owned and operated ranches in Hardin, MT and Alberta, Canada. After Louis and Fannie were married in 1886, they made their home on the ranch in Pass Creek until 1905 when he retired from active farming and cattle raising and moved to Bozeman. Their first home was at 402 South 3rd Avenue. Then in 1910, they purchased a home at 725 Willson Avenue where Louis resided until his death in 1942.

• Fact: Burial (December 1942) Bozeman, Gallatin, Montana, United States

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 09 June 2016, 23:40), entry for Louis Accola(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:9SLZ-472); contributed by various users.
• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9SLZ-472 : accessed 2014-12-01), entry for Louis Accola, submitted by dhwright2728649.