"The M.H. & W.E. Crowley company is know far and wide as one connected with the vital industry of agriculture...Michael Henry Crowley, the senier member of this firm of brothers, was born at Grafton, Ohio, on Feburary 2, 1872, a son of James Crowley, a native of County Clare, Ireland, where was born on February 2, 1818. He died at Logan, Montana, in June, 1919. Until he was seventeen years old James Crowley lived in his native county, but left it to enlist in the British Army and fought in British India all through the Sepoy rebellion, during which campaign he was wounded three times and received a medal for carrying off two wounded officers from the battlefield during heaby fire. This medal has three clasps, and is among the cherished possession of his family. He was at the siege of Lucknow and at Koilkonda, India, and then returned to Ireland, was married in County Clare, after which he and his wife came to the United States, arriving here in 1859, and for five years thereafter he was engaged inwroking in the rolling mill at Portland, Maine....He moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and continued working in rolling mills until 1869, when he bought a farm at Grafton, Ohio. Oil was later discovered on his farm...and he sold it, realizing a comfortable fortune. In 1876 he went to Knox County, Missouri, and and bought a farm, in which he lived for five years, then sold it at a profit, and in 1882 came to Montana and was a rancher in the Logan district until his death. He was...a Roman Catholic...His wife bore the maiden name of Maria Bennett, and she was born in...the same county as he, and she died at Logan, Montana. Their children were as follows: John H., who is a rancher of Saint Peter's Mission, Cascade County, Montana, was born in Ireland; Patrick, who was born in Scotland, where his parents spent a year, is a business man of Seattle, Washington; Mary, who was born at Portland, Maine, married C.M. Wilson, a rancher of Logan, Montana; Ellen, who was born at Portland, Maine, lives at Helena, Montana; James, who was born at Portland, Maine, is a carpenter and builder of Butte, Montana; Margaret, who was born at Cleveland, Ohio, married John B. Sloan, was a pioner of Montanat, and now is an extensive rancher and stock raiser ... near Logan, Montana; Catherine, who was born at Grafton, Ohio, married Joseph M. Malin, an extensive rancher...Of the lgan district; Michael H...; and William E...mentioned...below [born March 17, 1875 at Grafton OH]. .... In 1900 [Michael] Crowley was married...[for the first time, with his wife dying after the birth of one child in 1903]. On Feburary 8, 1910, Mr. Crowley was married to Miss Stella Coleman, a daughter of Michael and Margaret (Corcoran) Coleman. Mr. Coleman was born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1850, and died at Miles City, Montana, in 1913, having come to Montana in 1879. He first lived at Miles City, and was in the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad company. Mr. Coleman's wife was born in Kentucky in 1851, and died at Livingston, Montana, in 1901. Mrs. Crowley attended Butte Business College...Her brother-in-law, J.W. Goodall, was foreman of the stock at the Roosevelt Ranch at Medora, North Dakota, during the time the late Colonel Roosevelt was engaged in ranching. Mr. and Mrs. M.H. Crowley have the following children: Margaret, who was born October 17, 1912; and Robert, who was born on July 12, 1916. .... William E. Crowley was married to Mary Donaghy born at Ogden, Utah, and their children are...: William...born in May, 1912; Mary Virginia...born in December, 1913; June...born in June, 1916; and Raymond...born on June 21, 1918." pp.994-95 Montana, its story and biography : a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood Chicago: American Historical Society, 1921