Perry W. (Bud) McAdow was born in Kentucky to Scottish immigrants early in the Nineteenth Century. As a young man, went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush. One of the best known of the early Montana gold mining men and was at Gold Creek, Bannack, Virginian City and Maiden. One of the first settlers at Coulson and then Billings. Perry created a streetcar connection between Coulson and Billings. He married the widow Clara Tomlinson in 1884. They moved to Detroit about 1890. Their former Victorian styled home in Detroit, now the Parish House for the First Unitarian-Universalistic Church, was listed on the National Register on December 14, 1976. See the Yellowstone Genealogy Forum website for a complete biography. Mr. McAdow was a founder and first president of the Punta Gorda Bank of Florida. He died in 1918. Marian McAdow, the second wife of Perry McAdow, sold their Punta Gorda, Florida property in March, 1925 - See Buys Florida Property, Charleston Daily Mail, March 15, 1925.
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See the Yellowstone Genealogy Forum website for a complete biography. See Buys Florida Property, Charleston Daily Mail, March 15, 1925.
