William H Norton
American
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1847/00/00 | William H Norton is born in Illinois. | Born | |||||
| 1863/00/00 | Age of 16, William H Norton runs away from home to fight in the Civil War. | Life | |||||
| 1864/12/00 | William H Norton fights for the Union during General William T Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia. | Union Soldier | Sherman's March to the Sea | ||||
| 1866/00/00 | W H Norton searches for gold in the placer fields near Virgina City, Nevada. | Work | |||||
| 1875/00/00 | Horace Countryman and W H Norton establish a trading post, Still-water, just west of modern Columbus. | Work | Columbus, MT | Montana | |||
| 1876/00/00 | Dexter Clapp finds Norton selling vile liquor, aka Sheep Dip, to the Crow Indians from his trading post along the north side of the Yellowstone River. Clapp has the area classified as a reserve, closes the store and makes Norton an employee of the Agency. | Work | Columbus, MT | Montana | |||
| 1876/07/02 | Special Correspondent Mr W H Norton dispatches a courier, presumably the Mr Countryman, with the story of Battle of the Little Bighorn to the Helena Herald newspaper in Helena, Montana. | Journalist | Battle of the Little Bighorn | ||||
| 1876/07/04 | HELENA DAILY HERALD EXTRA - A TERRIBLE FIGHT, Gen Custer and his Nephew KILLED, The Seventh Cavalry cut to pieces The Whole Number Killed 315 From our Special Correspondent Mr W H Norton, Stillwater, MT, July 2nd, 1876. | Journalist | Battle of the Little Bighorn | ||||
| 1877/00/00 | W H Norton and his new wife Eliza Labey work as employees of the Crow Agency for a couple years. Charles H Barstow, agency clerk, will state in his notes that W H Norton enjoyed unusual popularity among the Indians and white people alike. | Work | Crow Agency | Montana | |||
| 1888/00/00 | When the north side of the Yellowstone River adjacent to the Crow Indian Reservation is reopened for white settlement, W H Norton files a homestead claim on 160 acres which will later become the town of Columbus, Montana. | Home | Columbus, MT | Montana | |||
| 1889/00/00 | William H Norton, the first Territorial representative for Yellowstone County, is reelected to the same post when Montana becomes a state. | Work | |||||
| 1899/00/00 | W H Norton, by this time nicknamed Colonel Norton, subdivides part of his land for homes and businesses and begins laying the foundation for a new house of his own. | Home | W H Norton House | Columbus, MT | |||
| 1915/11/00 | William H Norton dies. | Died |
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