O'Malley, Dominick John, 1867-1943

Dominick J. O'Malley was born in New York City in 1867. His father, Dominick O'Malley, fought in the Civil War with New York's 69th Regiment and remained in the military in New York City after the war until he was transferred to Fort Concho near San Angelo, Texas, in December 1866. The elder O'Malley underwent surgery for the removal of a minie ball in New York in 1869, but died from the effects of the surgery in early 1870. D.J. O'Malley's mother, Margaret, remarried a soldier, Charles H. White, who was transferred to Fort Dodge, Kansas, in 1872, and then to Fort Larned, Kansas, in 1873. In 1875 White was discharged and traveled to Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, where he secured work as a carpenter. The family joined White and moved soon thereafter to Fort Sanders near Laramie City, Wyoming, where White had enlisted in the Second U.S. Cavalry.

In September 1877, the White family moved to Fort Keogh, Montana Territory. White was discharged in 1881 and disappeared in the fall of that year never to be seen again by his family. Margaret White and her children moved to Miles City and Dominick started work as a horse wrangler for an officer named Logan, who ran cattle on the range near the Little Dry Creek. Logan was bought out in 1881 by the Niedringhaus brothers of St. Louis, Missouri, who ran the Home Land and Cattle Company, or, N Bar N. O'Malley worked for the N Bar N until 1896, when it was bought by McNamara and Marlow. Between 1881 and 1896 he drove cattle from Texas to Montana and worked in various capacities including horse wrangler, as part of the range crew, and as representative, or "rep", someone who worked the ranges outside the main range of the company.

...