Individual Details

Marriage

Photo in the Society section of the Montana Standard - 28 Sept 1930

MRS. CLAYTON W. MAXWELL, an attractive bride of recent date, who, before her marriage, was Miss Gladys Jaap of this city. Mrs. Maxwell was honor guest at a bridge luncheon Saturday at the Silver Bow club, —portrait by Gibson.

Article in the Salt Lake Tribune, Aug 13 1930 :
Cathedral Wedding - Clayton Maxwell, member of the editorial staff of the Montana Standard, Butte, was married to Miss Gladys Jaap, Butte schoolteacher, Monday night at St Mark's Cathedral. The ceremony was performed by the Rt Rev Arthur W Moulton, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Utah. The couple will make their home in Butte after a honeymoon.

Death

Montana Standard Jan 8 1962

Clayton W. Maxwell, 59, for more than 33 years a Butte newspaper-
man, died suddenly in Chicago, Sunday night. Maxwell suffered a heart attack. • He had been under treatment for a heart ailment since last October when he was hospitalized in Butte. Accompanied by his wife, Gladys, he left Butte to spend the Christmas holidays with his daughter, Mrs. Douglas Beauchamp, in Minneapolis. They went to Park Forest near Chicago to spend the New Year holiday with another daughter, Mrs. Harold Treweek. The Maxwells had planned to leave for Butte Monday afternoon. They were in Chicago checking out their baggage for the train trip when Maxwell suffered the heart attack. He was rushed to a hospital in a fire ambulance which had been summoned with a resuscitator. He died on the way. The family home in Butte is at 832 Zarelda.

Maxwell, one of the veteran news editors of Montana, joined the Old Butte Miner staff in 1928. Shortly after when the Miner became the Montana Standard Maxwell went over to that paper and remained with the Standard and The Butte Daily Post since. He served as reporter on all the beats in the Mining City and as state editor of the Standard, news editor of the Butte Daily Post and since the merger of the Post and Standard as news editor. He was born in Marysville, early day mining camp near Helena, and had been a resident of Butte since 1903. He was married in Butte Gladys Jaap in August, 1930. The newsman was a member of the St. John Episcopal Church. He was affiliated with Masonic groups of Butte and was a member of the Butte Exchange Club and Elks Lodge. Deeply interested in the affairs of the Big Butte community, where he had lived many years, Maxwell had helped to organize the Big Butte Volunteer Fire Department and served as its first chief. He was Executive Secretary of the Silver Bow County Volunteer Fire Council since its formation. He was a member of the Butte Press Club and was among its earlyday presidents. A veteran of World War I, he was considered the youngest volunteer for army duty from Silver Bow County. He was a member of the Butte Organization of Butte Barracks Veterans of World War I. He saw service overseas. Besides his wife and two daughters, he is survived by a brother, Nelson Maxwell of Spikane, who has been spending the holidays and a vacation in Dillon.

The body will be brought to Butte.