Isaac Mooring, b 1831, was a carpenter from Yorkshire England, He married Ann Colby, about 1854 and immigrated to Canada as a cabinet maker in 1859. He was in the militia in Eastern Canada at the time of the Fenian uprising in 1866. Issac moved to Somonuak, Iowa where his wife died in 1871 of typhoid fever. He and his son Charles left for Nebraska in 1880 to do carpenter work on a house and barn for a homesteader and followed the Union Pacific railroad to Salt Lake City. Issac and Charles followed William to Flathead.
According to Nellie Mooring Wiles autobiography, Isaac came to the Flathead Valley in 1881, with his son Charles. He homesteaded for 160 acres of land. He and Nellie built this cabin together, including getting the logs and cutting the shakes. The cabin was located on Mooring springs (or meadows). Isaac developed a severe infection in the leg, went back to U P for 1 or 2 yrs then returned to the Flathead area in 1888 where he built north of the Mooring home. He stayed at the same location until 1902 when the wiles home was built. He then moved into the vacated cabin and roomed there until his death on Jul 13, 1913.
Charles did not stay in Montana, preferring to return to Iowa, but Isaac's son, William homesteaded with Isaac. William was originally engaged in various activities, chiefly work with stock on the upper Missouri. When he was told of a valley in northern Montana so hemmed in by mountains that no railroad could enter he exclaimed, "that is the place I am looking for." William said he wanted to "get as far as possible from all railroads" following a chest injury on an UP job. He settled in Flathead in 1884 where he was engaged in ranching and stock-raising. William acquired a 900 acre ranch south of present day Columbia Falls. In 1994 he married Minnie Gardner. By the early nineteen hundreds, Minnie and William built a home which was called the "Hurricane Hall". Following Minnie''s death he married Louise Burris and lived for a number of years in Kalispell.
According to Nellie Mooring Wiles autobiography, Isaac came to the Flathead Valley in 1881, with his son Charles. He homesteaded for 160 acres of land. He and Nellie built this cabin together, including getting the logs and cutting the shakes. The cabin was located on Mooring springs (or meadows). Isaac developed a severe infection in the leg, went back to U P for 1 or 2 yrs then returned to the Flathead area in 1888 where he built north of the Mooring home. He stayed at the same location until 1902 when the wiles home was built. He then moved into the vacated cabin and roomed there until his death on Jul 13, 1913.
Charles did not stay in Montana, preferring to return to Iowa, but Isaac's son, William homesteaded with Isaac. William was originally engaged in various activities, chiefly work with stock on the upper Missouri. When he was told of a valley in northern Montana so hemmed in by mountains that no railroad could enter he exclaimed, "that is the place I am looking for." William said he wanted to "get as far as possible from all railroads" following a chest injury on an UP job. He settled in Flathead in 1884 where he was engaged in ranching and stock-raising. William acquired a 900 acre ranch south of present day Columbia Falls. In 1994 he married Minnie Gardner. By the early nineteen hundreds, Minnie and William built a home which was called the "Hurricane Hall". Following Minnie''s death he married Louise Burris and lived for a number of years in Kalispell.