Charles M. Bair (1857–1943) was an early railroading businessman who also became one of the largest sheep ranchers in the United States.
On Christmas Eve of that year, he married Mary Jacobs in Chicago, Illinois and brought her back to Helena, where they lived until 1891.
Mary Bair, Charles' wife, gave birth to their youngest daughter, Alberta, at that homestead on July 15, 1895.
[6] In 1898, he sold his flock and went to Alaska, where he became a millionaire selling machinery to miners participating in the Klondike Gold Rush.
The site he claimed grew into a small oil town that was afterward named Bairoil, Wyoming.