"John Normile is an old time Montana resident, has been in the state thirty years, was a rancher and cattle man for many years in Carbon County, and is now proprietor of the only hardware and lumber business in Boyd... Mr. Normile was born at Cleveland, Ohio, June 29, 1869. His father, Michael Normile, was born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1844, and came to the United State about 1863. for several years he was employed as an engineer by the Standard Oil company at Cleveland. In 1875 he moved to Northeast Missouri, and for about forty years was a farmer in the vicinity of Edina, but is now living retired in that town. He married Elizabeth Scanlon, who was born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1911. John is the oldest of a large family of children...: Kate, who died at age of eighteen; Elizabeth, living with her father at Edina; James, a confectioner at Seattle, Washington; Joseph, who died at the age of eight years; Michael, who is an under sheriff of Carbon County and lives at Red Lodge; Mamie, a trained nurse at St. Louis, Missouri; Charles, a farmer at Edina; Levena, a stenographer employed at St. Louis; Leo, a farmer at Boyd, Montana, and Frank, who was an American soldier and particopated in the great Battle of Argonne Forest and returned to the United States in 1919. John Normile was aobut six years old when his parents moved to Knox County, Missouri...Oncoming to Montana in 1888 he was employed one year on a farm near old Gallatin. For six months he was on railroad construction work at Cheney, Washington, and for three years worked in a sawmill at Bozeman, Montana. In 1892 he came to the Crow Indian Reservation in Carbon County, homesteaded 160 acres, proved it ip and made it his home for twelve years before he sold it. There he started in the cattle business and up to 1910...was one of the prominent livestock men of Carbon County. Mr. Normile bought a general merchandise store at Boy in 1910. but sold it after three years. He established his prsent business in 1915, the only hardware and lumber esblishment in Boyd... .... Mr. Mormile married at Billings February 23, 1910, Miss Agnes Ross. Her mother is Mrs. Mary Ross of Red Lodge. for six years Mrs. Normile was superintendent of the school of Carbon County..." p.250 Montana, its story and biography : a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood Chicago: American Historical Society, 1921