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Simeon R. Buford papers, 1872-1911
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Buford, Simeon R., 1846-1905
- Title
- Simeon R. Buford papers
- Dates
- 1872-1911 (inclusive)18721911
- Quantity
- 48 linear feet of shelf space
- Collection Number
- MC 260 (collection)
- Summary
- Simeon R. Buford was a Virginia City, Montana, merchant, stage line operator, and rancher. Papers include incoming correspondence (1872-1911) and outgoing correspondence (1878-1906) concerning his various business enterprises, and with family and friends. In addition, there are financial records (1872-1912), legal documents (1879-1903), and other records. There are subgroups for Buford's political activities (1886-1904), for his brother C.H. Buford (1884-1909).
- Repository
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Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Simeon R. Buford was born on a farm in Lewis County, Missouri, on March 2, 1846. He was the third of fifteen children of Wellington and Amanda (Staples) Buford. In 1865 he drove an ox team across the plains to Virginia City, Montana Territory. He established a freighting business driving ox teams between Virginia City and Fort Benton. With the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad he shifted his freight business to the profitable Virginia City to Corinne, Utah, route. In 1872 he began working as a clerk in the Raymond Brothers store. Using experience gained in this job, he opened his own store in 1878 in partnership with Henry Elling. S.R. Buford and Company became the largest store in Virginia City, gradually expanding its trade from wholesale groceries and liquor to general merchandise. Buford and Elling were close personal friends and became partners in other enterprises as well as the store. Buford was one of the founders of the Elling State Bank and served as its president after the death of Henry Elling in November 1900. The two men also operated a hardware store under the name Elling, Knight and Buford and were partners in a stage line, a horse and cattle ranch in Custer County, and hay and sheep ranches at Valley Garden and the #9 Ranch in Madison County.
During the Nez Perce War of 1878, Buford served under General Howard at the Battle of Camas Creek. In politics, Simeon Buford was an active Democrat. He was a member of the 1889 Constitutional Convention and served in the 1891 and 1893 Legislatures. In the Senate he promoted the location of the State Orphanage at Twin Bridges. For fourteen years he headed the Madison County Democratic Central Committee. Simeon Buford was also active in several fraternal orders, including the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
Simeon R. Buford's younger brother Charles H. Buford (1860-1926) assisted his brother in his freighting business and had a livery stable in Virginia City. He took over the mercantile business, under the name Buford Mercantile Company, on the death of his brother.
On January 4, 1877, Buford married Kate Cooley, daughter of William A. Cooley. The couple had eight children of whom four survived to adulthood: Henry W., Effie, Simeon R. Jr., and Ruth. Simeon R. Buford died January 15, 1905.
Henry W. Buford, (b.1878) oldest son of Simeon R. Buford, was an active participant in his father's business helping to run the store and managing the Valley Garden Ranch.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
This collection documents the transition of Virginia City, Montana, from mining camp and territorial capital to marketing center for the ranching and mining region of Madison County and southwest Montana.
The major portion of the collection consists of incoming correspondence (1872-1911) and outgoing correspondence (1878-1906) of Simeon R. Buford and of several of his business enterprises. The businesses include S.R. Buford and Company general mercantile; the Buford Horse and Cattle Company; Buford and Elling cattle business; The Virginia City and Sappington Stage Line, his sheep ranches at Valley Garden, Norwegian Gulch, and #9 Ranch; and Buford's postal contract. The largest portion of the correspondence is with merchandise suppliers and with rural customers. There is considerable correspondence with the managers of the Valley Garden and #9 Ranches concerning operation of the sheep and hay businesses.
Financial records include cash books (1881-1920), cash sales books (1880-1897), general ledgers (1878-1914), journal/daybooks (1880-1905), and documenting the day-to-day operations of the S.R. Buford and Company store. In addition there are bills of lading and freight bills (1878-1911) from several freighting companies and railroads. These document who the drivers were, what merchandise was transported by what route, and how much it cost. There are also invoices, orders, price lists from wholesale suppliers, receipts, and other scattered records.
The Simeon R. Buford Political Subgroup consists primarily of correspondence (1886-1904) concerning Buford's service in the Constitutional Convention and Legislature and his work for the Democratic Party.
The Charles H. Buford Subgroup consists of incoming correspondence (1885-1886, 1905-1909) primarily concerning his handling of the financial affairs of R.N. Hawkins.
The Buford Stage Lines Subgroup includes items from the Montana Stage Company, the Virginia City and Red Bluff Stage and Express Company, and the Virginia City and Sappington Stage Line, all owned by S.R. Buford and Company.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.
Preferred Citation
Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arranged by subgroup and series. Some material housed in Manuscript Volumes and Oversize Box. See inventory below for more information. NOTE: Volumes are not arranged in numerical order. See shelf listings in Manuscript Volumes.
Location of Collection
13:4-2Location of Collection
7:3-5 (Oversize Box 47)Location of Collection
147:3-3 (Volumes)Preservation Note
Some material extrememly fragile. Access restricted to use copies for portions of collection. See inventory below for more information.
Acquisition Information
Acquisition information available upon request
Processing Note
The Simeon R. Buford Papers are a portion of the manuscript material collected by Charles Bovey in Virginia City. Bovey and his staff intermingled the papers of Buford, Henry Elling, Flora McNulty, and others, and arranged the correspondence by town of origin. The original provenance of the records was thus destroyed. The staff of the Montana Historical Society Archives has attempted to restore the original order of the papers, but many errors are possible. It is not known how Buford maintained his correspondence files. There is no way of knowing whether he kept the files of his various businesses and personal interests separate or interfiled them. It is probable that, like most 19th century businessmen, he kept incoming correspondence in letterboxes, arranged alphabetically within a variety of date spans depending on the quantity of correspondence. It was decided to arrange the letters entirely by alphabet to maintain continuity of individual correspondents. There are several peculiarities to the arrangement that researchers should be aware of:
Buford died in 1905. After his death his brother and son continued the business under the name Buford Mercantile Company. Records of the company before and after Buford's death are intermingled since the business was continuous.
Buford carried on several other businesses in conjunction with the store. He was a partner in Henry Elling's bank and in his hardware store; he had a stage and express business; he had a sheep ranch with headquarters at several locations; and he had a horse and cattle business. Correspondents wrote to Buford addressing the letters to him as an individual or under any one of the various corporate names, without regard to which of the businesses were involved. Correspondents, including family and friends, often intermingled business and personal matters in the same letter. For this reason all of the correspondence has been interfiled.
The one exception is Buford's political correspondence which has been filed separately as the SIMEON R. BUFORD POLITICAL SUBGROUP.
The incoming correspondence includes a small number of outgoing letters, primarily those returned by the post office as not deliverable and those in which the correspondent wrote his reply on the original letter.
The subgroup for Charles R. Buford includes some of his personal business correspondence, but also includes some Buford Mercantile Company correspondence.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
S.R. Buford Business and PersonalReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Biographical Material |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1 / 1 | Biographical sketches and obituary |
undated |
Incoming Correspondence |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1 / 2 | American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company [Helena] |
1893-1898 |
| 1 / 3 | American Cereal Company [Chicago] |
1894-1906 |
| 1 / 4 | American Cigar Company [New York] |
1905, 1908 |
| 1 / 5 | American Clydesdale Association |
1893-1895 |
| 1 / 6 | American Sheep Breeder and Wool Grower [Chicago] |
1898-1901 |
| 1 / 7-10 | American Tobacco Company [New York] (primarily
circular letters) |
1891-1910 |
| 1 / 11 | American ... (includes American Baking Powder
Association, American Cattle Growers Association, American Institute of Bank Clerks,
American National Bank of Helena, American National Live Stock Association, American
Reciprocal Tariff League, American Short-Horn Breeders Association, American
Spectacle Company) |
1891-1910 |
| 1 / 12 | Anaconda Copper Mining Company |
1903-1909 |
| 1 / 13 | Anderson, Bumby and Kirby; Bumby and Kirby [Silver
Star: merchants] (see also Blackman and Bumby; Joseph Kirby) |
1879-1881 |
| 1 / 14 | Arbuckle Brothers [San Francisco: coffee merchants] |
1896-1910 |
| 1 / 15 | Armitage family [Ennis and Indian Creek] (includes
C.H., E.O., Mabel, M.N., Rommel) |
1893-1904, undated |
| 1 / 16 | Armour Packing Company; Armour and Company [Kansas
City; Chicago; Butte] |
1885-1910 |
| 1 / 17 | J.K. Armsby Company [San Francisco: commission
merchants] |
1898-1906 |
| 1 / 18 | S.C. Ashby and Company [Helena: agents for Mitchell
wagons] |
1880-1891 |
| 2 / 1 | Henry Ayotte [Valley Garden Ranch] |
1898-1901 |
| 2 / 2 | Ayres Brokerage Company [Sioux City, Iowa] |
1906-1909 |
| 2 / 3 | Ab-Al (includes Sumner Abernathy, L.R. Alderson,
Jeff Allingburg, Eli Allen, F.B. Alley, Allivine Company, W.M. Alward) |
1880-1910 |
| 2 / 4 | Am-Ay (includes Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company;
Apex Company; N. Armstrong; Miles Arnold; Associated Wool Growers Company; J.C. Auld
and Company; Aultman, Miller and Company; Aurora Distilling Company; Aurora Wool
Scouring Mills; W.S. Austin; E.E. Ayers) |
1880-1910 |
| 2 / 5 | Baker and Harper [Butte: civil engineers] (includes
Thomas T. Baker and James H. Harper) |
1887-1899 |
| 2 / 6 | J.H. Baker [Lyon]; John Baker [Helena] |
1887-1908 |
| 2 / 7 | Thomas Baker [Helena] (re rental property) |
1891, 1899-1900 |
| 2 / 8 | Barnes, Lewis and Company [Salt Lake City: general
mercantile] |
1888-1895 |
| 2 / 9 | Jacob Bauer [Ennis; Meadow Creek] |
1893-1904 |
| 2 / 10 | Bemis Brothers Bag Company [Minneapolis]; Bemis
Omaha Bag Company [Omaha] |
1897-1910 |
| 2 / 11 | Benepe-Owenhouse Company [Bozeman: grain elevator] |
1893-1902 |
| 2 / 12 | Bennett Brothers Company [Butte: agricultural
implements] |
1887-1896 |
| 2 / 13 | A.M. Berry; Ida Berry [Meadow Creek] |
1879-1899, undated |
| 2 / 14 | George B. Bess [Meadow Creek: postmaster] |
1886-1897 |
| 2 / 15 | Binghamton Wagon Company [Binghamton, N.Y.] |
1892 |
| 2 / 16 | William Black [Black's Ranch] |
1875-1891 |
| 2 / 17 | Blackman and Bumby; G.W. Blackman [Silver Star:
merchants] (see also Anderson, Bumby and Kirby) |
1879-1880 |
| 2 / 18 | Blackman and Griffin [Ogden, Utah: seed merchants] |
1900-1902 |
| 2 / 19 | Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Company (includes M.E.
McDowell and Company, agents) |
1886-1907 |
| 2 / 20 | Helen K. Blackmer [Willow Creek] (re Bert Ford) |
1902 |
| 2 / 21 | Blodgett Milling Company [Janesville, Wis.] |
1901-1908 |
| 2 / 22 | J.C. Boardman [Ennis] |
1889-1904 |
| 2 / 23 | Robert T. Boatman [Dillon; Home Park: horses and
mules] |
1893-1905 |
| 2 / 24 | Dan Bock; J.C. Bock [Point of Rocks; Laurin] |
1894-1899 |
| 2 / 25 | A. Booth Packing Company; A. Booth and Company
[Salt Lake City: fish merchants] |
1903-1908 |
| 2 / 26 | John T. Borrell [Moore's Creek; Valley Garden, et
al.] (re ranch business) |
1894-1895 |
| 3 / 1 | A.M. Bower; Alton G. Bower [Ennis] (re egg
business) |
1880-1909 |
| 3 / 2 | Bowles Live Stock Commission Company [Chicago] |
1904-1905 |
| 3 / 3 | W.N. Bowman [Ferguson] (re sale of oats and
purchase of supplies) |
1896-1903 |
| 3 / 4 | Bozeman Milling Company |
1900-1910 |
| 3 / 5 | M.J. Brandenstein and Company [San Francisco: tea
importers] |
1896-1909 |
| 3 / 6-8 | A.F. Bray [Butte: wholesale grocer] |
1895-1908 |
| 3 / 9 | L.S. Briggs [Ennis: sheep breeder] |
1897-1905 |
| 3 / 10 | Bronner family [Meadow Creek] (includes S.M.,
Catherine, C.F.) |
1886-1905 |
| 3 / 11 | E.G. Brooke; C.W. Brooke [Whitehall] (re purchase
of supplies) |
1877-1895 |
| 3 / 12 | William Brookman [Ruby] (re purchase of supplies) |
1901-1909 |
| 3 / 13 | P.J. Brophy and Company [Butte: wholesale and
retail grocers] |
1889-1905 |
| 3 / 14 | Bryant family [Home Park] (includes Dave; J.B.;
M.D.; S.H.) |
1886-1902 |
| 3 / 15 | L.E. Buell [Bozeman] (re freight shipments) |
1893-1897, undated |
| 3 / 16 | Buffalo Specialty Manufacturing Company [Buffalo,
N.Y.] |
1902-1904 |
| 3 / 17 | Clarence A. Buford; Charles H. Buford (brother) |
1888-1902 |
| 3 / 18 | Effie Buford (daughter) |
1899-1903 |
| 3 / 19-20 | Henry Buford [Virginia City; Valley Garden; Norris]
(son; re school, ranch, Buford and Curteman stable) |
1893-1901 |
| 4 / 1-4 | Henry Buford [Ennis; Valley Garden] (son; re ranch) |
1902-1904, 1908-1910 |
| 4 / 5-7 | Joe L. Buford [Ennis; #9 Ranch] |
1897-1904, undated |
| 4 / 8 | Kate Buford (Mrs. S.R.) |
1887, 1893-1902 |
| 4 / 9 | Simeon R. Buford (while in Constitutional
Convention and Legislature; re store business) |
1889, 1893 |
| 4 / 10 | Simeon R. Buford (while out of town; re store
business and rheumatism treatment) |
1879, 1886, 1896-1901 |
| 4 / 11 | Wellington and Amanda Buford [Colony, Mo.]
(parents) |
1872-1876, 1885 |
| 4 / 12 | Buford family (includes Bess, George, J.H., Loss,
M.F., Nannie, R.W., Sam, Sarah) |
1872-1904 |
| 4 / 13 | Buford and Curteman [Norris: stables] (Henry Buford
and Walter Curteman: see their names also) |
1900-1902 |
| 4 / 14 | Buford and Leinenweber [Alder: hardware] (Charles
H. Buford and George P. Leinenweber: see their names also) |
1903-1906 |
| 4 / 15 | S.R. Buford and Company (to S.R. Buford while he
was out of town; correspondents include Lawrence Hauck; R.N. Hawkins; J.H. Powell) |
1888-1904 |
| 5 / 1 | A.N. Bull; Horace Bull [Ennis] |
1888-1900, undated |
| 5 / 2 | F.S. Burch and Company [Chicago: wool growers'
supplies] |
1895-1896 |
| 5 / 3 | Burger family [Meadow Creek; Joliet] (includes
Elmer; Oscar; Ralph; William) |
1892-1899 |
| 5 / 4 | G.W. Burns [Ennis] |
1888-1899 |
| 5 / 5 | Butte Potato and Produce Company |
1905-1910 |
| 5 / 6 | Butte Wholesale Grocery Company |
1906-1910 |
| 5 / 7 | Butte ... (includes Butte and Montana Trading
Company; Butte Broom and Brokerage Company; Butte Electric Railway Company; Butte
Paper Company; Butte Wholesale Meat Market) |
1888-1910 |
| 5 / 8-9 | Ba (includes Bailey and Barton, Ennis; Baldwin and
Stevenson, Butte; W.R. Baldwin, Lyon; R.T. Ballard, Helena; George A. Barnard, Lyon;
G.W. Barnes, Norris; H.E. Barney; W. Barton, Valley Garden; R.P. Bateman, Butte;
Martin Battle, Home Park) |
1876-1910 |
| 5 / 10 | Be (includes Henry Ward Beecher Memorial Committee;
William M. Bell and Company, Pittsburgh; John Bennetts, Ennis; Berg Hardware
Company, Townsend) |
1878-1910 |
| 5 / 11 | Bi-Bl (includes N.J. Bielenburg, Deer Lodge; Big
Blackfoot Milling Company; Billings Sugar Company; F.M. Blackford; Bliss Syrup
Refining Company, Kansas City; Blue Grass Canning Company, Owensboro, Ky.) |
1876-1908 |
| 5 / 12 | Bo (includes John J. Bogert, Monitor Mine; Boise
Fruit Growers Association; John L. Boland Book and Stationery Company, St. Louis,
Mo.; The Board of World's Fair Managers of the State of Montana; Bordon's Condensed
Milk Company; Thomas J. Bouton, Billings livestock; J.J. Bowker, Los Angeles; James
E. Boyd, Omaha; Bozeman Implement, Carriage, and Harness Company) |
1879-1908 |
| 5 / 13 | Br (includes A.L. Brewer, Radersburg; Charles
Broodwell, Ennis; R.S. Brooks and Son, Ogden livestock; M.L. Brown, Blackhawk,
Colo.; George A. Bruffey, Fish Creek) |
1878-1910 |
| 5 / 14 | Bu-By (includes Joseph W. Buck, Ennis; Mrs. John H.
Bulger, Argenta; Lewis Bullerdick, Sheridan; Bunker and Cochran, Livestock
Commission Merchants, Chicago; George F. Burton, Willow Creek; Butler Brothers,
Chicago; J.A. Butler, Grand Rapids, Mich.; James G. Butler Tobacco Company, St.
Louis, Mo.) |
1873-1910 |
| 5 / 15 | California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company |
1901-1909 |
| 5 / 16-17 | California Powder Works (see also: Oscar White) |
1880, 1886-1905 |
| 5 / 18 | Cameron family [Ennis; Cameron] (includes A.B.;
Mrs. A.B.; James B.) |
1893-1904, 1910 |
| 5 / 19 | Cantrell family [Dillon; Home Park] (includes
William; L.M.; Mary E.) |
1888-1903 |
| 6 / 1 | Carpenter and Thompson [Butte: fruit and produce] |
1901-1903 |
| 6 / 2 | Elmer J. Carter [Missoula: manufacturers' agent] |
1898-1908 |
| 6 / 3 | V.B. Case [Meadow Creek] |
1889-1897 |
| 6 / 4-5 | Castle Brothers [San Francisco: wholesale grocers] |
1878-1905, 1910 |
| 6 / 6 | Chase and Sanborn [Chicago: tea and coffee] |
1903-1908 |
| 6 / 7 | Dan T. Chapman [Dillon] (successor to Sebree,
Ferris and White) |
1889-1890 |
| 6 / 8 | J.W. Chowning [Ennis: general mercantile] (also
includes C.W. Chowning) |
1899-1910, undated |
| 6 / 9 | J. Shepherd Clark and Company [New York: "El
Comercio"] |
1906-1907 |
| 6 / 10 | John E. Clark [Butte] (agent for Royal Baking
Powder) |
1894-1897, undated |
| 6 / 11 | John Clarke [New York: spice merchant] |
1901-1902 |
| 6 / 12-13 | Clay, Robinson and Company [Chicago; South Omaha:
livestock commission] (includes range livestock and sheep newsletter) |
1888-1908 |
| 6 / 14 | R.E. Cobb [St. Paul, Minn.: produce] |
1901-1904 |
| 6 / 15 | Code, Elfelt and Company [San Francisco:
condiments] |
1879, 1886-1891 |
| 6 / 16 | Coffman family [Rutledge, Mo.] (cousins: includes
C.M.; M.A.; Hugh; Lutie) |
1885-1901 |
| 6 / 17 | S. Cohen and Company [Helena: cigars] |
1893-1896 |
| 6 / 18 | G. Cohn Company [San Francisco: liquor and tobacco] |
1879, 1886-1905 |
| 6 / 19 | M.G. Cohn and Company; Louis S. Cohn [Butte:
produce, fruit and cigars] |
1889-1909 |
| 6 / 20 | W.H. Collier [Butte; Puller Springs] |
1886-1897 |
| 6 / 21 | Collins Land Company; J.B. Collins and Company; The
Collins Company [Helena: real estate] |
1899-1907 |
| 6 / 22 | Columbus Buggy Company [Columbus, Ohio] |
1890-1905 |
| 7 / 1 | Joseph Comley [Ennis, #9 Ranch, Valley Garden,
Pony] |
1896-1902 |
| 7 / 2-3 | W.H. Comley; Nan Comley [Valley Garden] (Nan was
S.R. Buford's niece) |
1900-1904, undated |
| 7 / 4 | F.B. Connelly [Butte: manufacturers' agent] |
1904-1910 |
| 7 / 5 | Philip Conrey; Conrey Placer Mining Company [Alder] |
1896-1905 |
| 7 / 6 | Continental Oil Company |
1879-1910 |
| 7 / 7 | Continental Tobacco Company |
1899-1904 |
| 7 / 8 | Cooley family [Madison] (includes W.A.; W.N.;
Jennie; the Cooleys were S.R. Buford's in-laws) |
mostly undated |
| 7 / 9 | Cooney Brothers; Cooney Brothers and Walsh [Butte:
merchandise brokers] (F.H. Cooney; Howard C. Cooney) |
1896-1909 |
| 7 / 10 | Cooperative Building Plan Associates [New York:
architects] |
1899-1902 |
| 7 / 11 | George F. Cope [Washington Bar; Los Angeles] |
1879-1902, undated |
| 7 / 12 | Cornwall and Brother [Louisville, Ky.: candles] |
1879-1880 |
| 7 / 13 | Corporation Auxiliary Company (re spying on
American Federation of Labor) |
1904-1908 |
| 7 / 14 | William Courtney [Miles City: livestock broker]
(includes weather reports) |
1897-1901 |
| 7 / 15 | Clarence A. Crane [Warren, Ohio: maple products] |
1902-1908 |
| 7 / 16 | Francis Cropper Company [Chicago: liquor] |
1898-1906 |
| 7 / 17 | Crosby and Meyers [Chicago: wholesale cheese] |
1905-1907 |
| 7 / 18 | Crowell and Nuckolls; W.J. Crowell [Dillon:
grocers] |
1889-1899 |
| 8 / 1 | Cudahy Packing Company [Butte; South Omaha] |
1881, 1892-1910 |
| 8 / 2 | Cuddy Cheese Company [Sheboygan, Wis.] |
1905-1907 |
| 8 / 3 | W.F. Cummins [Helena: tailor] |
1895-1896 |
| 8 / 4 | George C. Cummock [Meadow Creek] |
1879-1896, undated |
| 8 / 5 | Samuel Cupples Woodenware Company [St. Louis, Mo.] |
1880, 1884-1905 |
| 8 / 6 | Cutler and Gilbert; D.G. Cutler and Company
[Duluth: building materials] |
1892-1909 |
| 8 / 7 | Cutting Packing Company; Cutting Fruit Packing
Company [San Francisco] |
1878-1900 |
| 8 / 8 | Ca (includes Emilio Cabanzon y Cia, Havana cigars;
A.P. Callahan and Company, Chicago; G.J. Calvert, Meadow Creek; C.G. Cambron, San
Francisco; William M. Camble, Alder; Carbon County assessor; Joe Carder, Valley
Garden; M.W. Carman, Butte; J.T. Carroll, Butte; J.I. Case Plow Works, Racine; Casey
Candy Company, Butte; J.F. Castlett, Missoula) |
1880-1910 |
| 8 / 9 | Ce-Ci (includes Central Brokerage Company, Chicago;
Ceylon Planters Tea Company, New York; Chavez and Ramirez, Havana cigars; Chicago
Drovers Journal; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company; Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railway Company; J.K. Cilley and Company, New York) |
1879-1908 |
| 8 / 10 | Cl (includes Henry Clews and Company, New York;
Jack Clifford, Ennis; J.H. Clough, Chicago) |
1879-1905 |
| 8 / 11 | Cob-Col (includes W.H. Coffin Fish Company,
Seattle; Frank Cole, Meadow Creek; H.E. Coleman, Salt Lake City; Colorado Smelting
and Mining Company, Butte; Columbia School of Poultry Culture, Waterville, Ky.) |
1879-1910 |
| 8 / 12 | Com-Con (includes W.N. Conley, Ennis; J.T. Connor;
J.H. Conrad and Company, Billings; John M. Conway, Lyon) |
1887-1905 |
| 8 / 13 | Coo-Cow (includes H.M. Coons, Ennis; Walter Cooper,
Bozeman; A.V. Corry, Butte; Cortland Wagon Company, Cortland, N.Y.; R.T. Courtney,
Norris; William F. Covely) |
1879-1909 |
| 8 / 14 | Cr-Cu (includes Crescent Creamery Company, St.
Paul, Minn.; Crescent Macaroni Company, Davenport, Iowa; R.B. Crouch and Company,
Chicago; "E.B.C.") |
1874-1908 |
| 9 / 1 | Daems family [Virginia City; Ennis; Madison Valley]
(includes Henry; Paul; L.S.; Mary) |
1889-1910 |
| 9 / 2 | Dallemand and Company [Chicago: liquor] |
1886-1907 |
| 9 / 3 | A.J. Davidson and Company [Helena: saddlery and
wagons] |
1879-1897 |
| 9 / 4 | A.M. Davidson [Cameron] |
1894-1910 |
| 9 / 5-6 | Davidson Grocery Company [Butte] |
1897-1910, undated |
| 9 / 7 | Davis and Company; John E. Davis [Butte: wholesale
grocer] |
1886-1896 |
| 9 / 8 | Davis ... (includes D.J. Davis, Ennis; Doug Davis,
Blackfoot, Idaho; E.U. Davis, Cameron; Oscar Davis, Ennis) |
1881-1910 |
| 9 / 9-12 | J.W. Decker [Valley Garden; McAllister] |
1896-1904 |
| 9 / 13 | Deering Harvester Company [Chicago] (Montana agents
include E.C. Drum; A.G. West) |
1898-1902 |
| 9 / 14 | Delafield, McGovern and Company [Chicago: raisins
and salmon] |
1888-1901 |
| 9 / 15 | Diamond Wall Finish Company [Grand Rapids, Mich.] |
1893-1908 |
| 9 / 16 | Albert Dickinson Company [Chicago: seed merchant] |
1901-1908 |
| 9 / 17-18 | Dillon Implement Company |
1883-1904 |
| 9 / 19 | August Dipple [Portland, Ore.: agent for Winona and
Harrison wagons] |
1897-1906 |
| 9 / 20 | Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company [Peoria,
Ill.] |
1893-1895 |
| 10 / 1 | Dodge and Starkel [Chicago: fish commission] |
1905-1907 |
| 10 / 2 | Dodson, Fisher, Brockmann Company [Minneapolis:
harness and saddlery] |
1902-1910 |
| 10 / 3 | Philip Dodson [Bozeman: tobacco] |
1883-1890 |
| 10 / 4 | Drummond Tobacco Company [St. Louis, Mo.] (includes
Denver agent Aloys Jacobs; see also Aloys Jacobs) |
1880-1899 |
| 10 / 5 | M.P. Dunham [Cameron] |
1889-1895 |
| 10 / 6 | Dunigan family [Puller Springs] (includes Agnes,
J.C., Julia: also spelled Donigan) |
1887-1903 |
| 10 / 7 | John Dunn; R.W. Dunn [Ennis; Rockvale; Red Lodge] |
1887-1901, undated |
| 10 / 8 | Dr. W.D. Dunn; Mary Dunn [Black's Ranch] |
1880 |
| 10 / 9 | E.I. DuPont de Nemours Power Company |
1907-1910 |
| 10 / 10 | F.W. Dustan (agent for Sprague, Warner and Company
and others) |
1903-1910 |
| 10 / 11 | Da (includes C.L. Dahler, Helena; Eph Davidson,
Ennis; E.H. Davison, Bozeman; Day and Company, Salt Lake City) |
1879-1910 |
| 10 / 12 | De (includes Deere and Webber Company, Minneapolis;
Delaney and Anderson, Silver Star; T. Denoon and Company, Butte; Deputy and
Staudaher, Dillon; Dewey, Gould and Company, Boston) |
1879-1910 |
| 10 / 13 | Di (includes Diamond Match Company, Chicago; J.E.
Dickey, Rochester, Mont.; Dillon Furniture Company; S.R. Dillon, Lyon) |
1886-1904 |
| 10 / 14 | Do-Dw (includes Pat Dorby, Sheridan; Michael Doyle
and Company, Rochester, N.Y.; Ben F. Drake and Company, Billings; J.F. Drew, Meadow
Creek and Valley Garden) |
1880-1910 |
| 10 / 15 | John B. Egan [Ennis; Billings: agent for Griggs,
Cooper and Company] |
1902-1910 |
| 10 / 16 | M. Ehrman and Company [San Francisco: wholesale
grocer] |
1888-1906 |
| 10 / 17 | Eichengreen and Kennedy [Chicago: wool dealers] |
1895-1896 |
| 10 / 18 | Henry Elling [Virginia City] (includes condolences
to S.R. Buford on death of his partner Elling) |
1879-1900 |
| 10 / 19 | Henry Elling, Banker [Virginia City] |
1889-1900 |
| 10 / 20-21 | Henry Elling and Company [Sheridan: merchants] (see
also: predecessor O.F. Parmeter and Company) |
1890-1908 |
| 10 / 22 | Elling and Hyndman [Sheridan: flour mill] (see
also: Silver Spring Roller Mills; Archie Hyndman) |
1887-1902 |
| 10 / 23 | Elling family [Ennis] (includes Horace, Karl, Mary,
Theodore, William) |
1886-1902 |
| 11 / 1 | E.M. Ellis (re proposed Sunday closing law) |
1897-1898 |
| 11 / 2 | James H. Ellsworth [Washington, D.C.: attorney for
mail contractors] |
1894-1902 |
| 11 / 3 | Energy Food Company (includes agents from many
cities) |
1906 |
| 11 / 4 | William Ennis [Ennis: grocer] |
1880-1905 |
| 11 / 5 | A.J. Erickson |
1871-1892 |
| 11 / 6 | Evans family [Ennis; Washington Bar] (includes
Emma, George, James G., Joseph, Noah, Susan, William) |
1891-1908 |
| 11 / 7 | Evans-Snider-Buel Company [South Omaha: livestock
commission agent] |
1897-1906 |
| 11 / 8 | E (includes J.B. Edwards, Pony; Electric Wheel
Company, Quincy, Ill.; Herman Engelke, Harlem, Mont.; Ed N. Eno, Butte; S.R. Ervin,
Ennis; Frank M. Eshleman, Wyoming) |
1879-1910 |
| 11 / 9 | Felton and Son [Boston: rum] |
1905-1907 |
| 11 / 10 | R.A. Ferguson [Ferguson; Pony: general mercantile] |
1900-1905 |
| 11 / 11 | Finch family [Norris; Sand Creek] (includes John
J.; Loren; Marie) |
1895-1900 |
| 11 / 12 | Fine Brothers [St. Louis, Mo.: cigars] |
1882-1894 |
| 11 / 13 | Fish Brothers Wagon Company [Racine, Wis.] |
1886-1907 |
| 11 / 14 | W.B. Fisher [Pony; Revenue Mine] |
1886-1896 |
| 11 / 15-16 | Fitzgerald family [Valley Garden] (includes Frank
M.; Ella; R.E.; Stout) |
1892-1904, undated |
| 11 / 17 | Samuel Fletcher; William Fletcher [Meadow Creek] |
1883-1905 |
| 11 / 18 | Folger, Schilling and Company; J.A. Folger and
Company [San Francisco: coffee] (includes 1 letter re San Francisco earthquake) |
1880-1909 |
| 11 / 19 | Fond du Lac Cheese and Butter Company [Wis.] |
1904-1907 |
| 11 / 20 | A.J. Fort; H.T. Fort [Harrison; Ferguson] |
1894-1900 |
| 11 / 21 | Fort Scott Sugar and Sorghum Syrup Company [Kansas] |
1905-1906 |
| 11 / 22 | R.H. Foster; H.U. Foster [Red Bluff] |
1880-1901 |
| 11 / 23 | Franklin, MacVeagh and Company [Chicago] (see also:
G.D. Lounsbery; Sleeper and Flanley) |
1892-1910 |
| 11 / 24 | C.C. Fuller Company [Bozeman: wholesale fruit and
produce] |
1891-1892 |
| 11 / 25 | R.E. Funsten, Dried Fruit and Nut Company [St.
Louis, Mo.] |
1903-1907 |
| 11 / 26 | L.C. Fyhrie and Company [Dillon: general
mercantile] |
1880-1891 |
| 11 / 27 | Fa-Fe (includes Fairbanks, Morse and Company, St.
Paul, Minn.; Hiram Faris, Lewis and Red Bluff; Farrell and Varney, Ennis; James H.
Feber, Dillon; Federal Reporter, New York; Felix and Marston, Chicago) |
1880-1907 |
| 12 / 1 | Fi (includes Financial Red Book of America; A.J.
Firkins, Norris; First National Bank, Dillon; A.A. Fisher, Revenue Mine) |
1878-1906 |
| 12 / 2 | Fl-Fo (includes James Floyd, Ennis; Aaron Flynn,
Red Bluff; Force Food Company, Buffalo, N.Y.; Lewis L. Fowler, Cameron) |
1876-1908 |
| 12 / 3 | Fr-Fu (includes Birdie Fraser, Ferguson; W. Frese
and Company, San Francisco; James A. Frisbee, Bozeman; Lewis Fullhart, Silver Star;
Fulton Market, Butte) |
1878-1909 |
| 12 / 4 | E.J. Gainan [Philippines] (re service in
Spanish-American War) |
1898-1899 |
| 12 / 5 | H.F. Galen's Stage Line; H.F. Galen Stage and
Express Line |
1879-1882 |
| 12 / 6 | Gallatin Valley Milling Company [Belgrade] |
1903-1904 |
| 12 / 7 | B. Gallick [Butte: liquor and cigars] |
1898-1907 |
| 12 / 8 | James Galusha [Sheridan; Ramshorn] |
1879-1900 |
| 12 / 9 | Garry Iron and Steel Company [Cleveland] |
1897-1907 |
| 12 / 10 | Charles L. Gay [Crockett, Calif.] (re location of
his father William Gay) |
1903 |
| 12 / 11 | Joseph Geoghegan [Salt Lake City: merchandise
broker] |
1901-1903 |
| 12 / 12 | John Gibb; Gibb and Rhoades [Miles City: livestock
broker] |
1901-1903 |
| 12 / 13 | Gibbs Candy Company; Gibbs Preserving Company
[Boston] |
1897-1906 |
| 12 / 14 | Gibson family [Meadow Creek; Florence] (includes
Fred L.; Guy; Mrs. E.B.) |
1894-1907 |
| 12 / 15 | C.M. Gilbert; J.B. Gilbert [Pony; Red Rock] |
1880-1892 |
| 12 / 16-18 | J.F. Gilchrest [Ennis; Valley Garden; #9 Ranch] |
1892-1899 |
| 12 / 19 | John Gilfoil [Twin Bridges] |
1880-1886 |
| 12 / 20 | Thomas P. Gillespie [Salt Lake City; Rossland,
B.C.] (includes clipping re his murder in Nye County, Nevada) |
1895-1896 |
| 12 / 21 | Gilmer family [Ennis; Jeffers] (includes C.; E.;
Will C.) |
1891-1910, undated |
| 12 / 22 | Goetschius family [Laurin; Sheridan; Alder]
(includes Charlotte; J.F.; Lee) |
1880-1905 |
| 12 / 23 | Ed Gohn [Virginia City]; P.H. Gohn [Pony] (nephew
of S.R. Buford) |
1888-1903 |
| 12 / 24 | Goin family (includes Ed; R.H.; S.R.] |
1879-1902 |
| 12 / 25 | Goodhart-Hartman Company [Chicago: liquor] |
1894-1909 |
| 12 / 26 | Gordon Brothers Dairy; Gordon Dairy Ranch [Meadow
Creek] |
1886-1910 |
| 12 / 27 | Great Western Cereal Company [Chicago] |
1902-1908 |
| 12 / 28 | Wallace W. Green [Ennis: livery stable] |
1900-1905 |
| 13 / 1 | Griggs, Cooper and Company [St. Paul, Minn.:
wholesale grocers] |
1895-1910 |
| 13 / 2 | W.R. Guile [Norwegian Gulch] |
1900-1901 |
| 13 / 3 | Ga-Gh (includes Gans and Klein, Butte; August Gast
Bank Note and Lithographing Company, St. Louis, Mo.; Gates and Snow, Helena; M.A.
Gedney Pickling Company, Minneapolis) |
1880-1910 |
| 13 / 4 | Gi-Gl (includes Paris Gibson, Great Falls; Joseph
Glasser, Sheridan; Glenwood Canning Company, Glenwood, Iowa; Globe Tobacco Company,
Detroit) |
1883-1908 |
| 13 / 5 | Go-Gu (includes William Golls, Ennis; Jeff Gowin,
Jefferson Valley; Arthur P. Greeley, Washington, D.C.; J. Gregory, Sacramento; H.L.
Griffin Company, Ogden, Utah; Griffin and Shelley, San Francisco; Mrs. J.J. Grim,
Carlin, Nev.; A. Guckenheimer and Bros., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Gutmann and Rice, New
York) |
1879-1909 |
| 13 / 6 | Joe I. Haines [Red Bluff; Meadow Creek] |
1878-1905 |
| 13 / 7 | William Hamilton [Valley Garden; Home Park] |
1893-1900 |
| 13 / 8 | Hammond Packing Company; G.H. Hammond Company
[Chicago; Butte] |
1897-1908 |
| 13 / 9 | J.E. Hample [Butte: hides, tallow, wool] |
1888-1903 |
| 13 / 10 | M. Hanley; Paul Hanley [Sheds Bridge] |
1878-1880 |
| 13 / 11 | Hannah and Hogg [Chicago: liquor] |
1904-1905 |
| 13 / 12 | Hardwood Manufacturing Company [Minneapolis: burlap
bags] |
1903-1910 |
| 13 / 13 | H.C. Harrison; Mrs. H.C. Harrison [Harrison, Mont.] |
1878-1899 |
| 13 / 14 | Charles Hartman [Washington, D.C.: Montana
Congressman] |
1894-1899 |
| 13 / 15 | John L. Hartman; Mrs. John L. Hartman [Ennis];
Simon Hartman [Virginia City] |
1889-1902 |
| 13 / 16 | D.T. Haskett [Butte: agent for Reid, Murdoch and
Company] (see also: Reid, Murdoch and Company) |
1889-1900 |
| 13 / 17 | Hawkins and Higbee [Washington Bar; Meadow Creek:
lumber dealers] (J.C. Hawkins; E.P. Higbee) |
1889-1902 |
| 13 / 18 | R.N. Hawkins [Pony] |
1886-1901 |
| 13 / 19 | P.D. Hayward [Lewis] |
1878-1881 |
| 13 / 20 | Helvatia Milk Condensing Company [San Francisco] |
1902-1907 |
| 13 / 21 | D.J. Hennessy Mercantile Company [Butte] |
1896-1910 |
| 13 / 22 | Henningsen Produce Company [Butte] |
1899-1910 |
| 13 / 23 | William Henry [Meadow Creek] |
1888-1895 |
| 13 / 24 | H.M. Herrin and Company [Butte: commission
merchants] |
1894-1895 |
| 13 / 25 | Herman Heyneman [San Francisco: tobacco] |
1899-1903 |
| 14 / 1 | R.J. Hillier; Hillier and Thomas [Philadelphia:
cigars] |
1891-1910 |
| 14 / 2 | A.M. Holter Hardware Company [Helena] |
1901-1906 |
| 14 / 3 | Hoover and Allison Company [Minneapolis: twine and
cordage] |
1900-1903 |
| 14 / 4 | George A. Hormel and Company [Austin, Minn.: pork
packers] |
1900-1908 |
| 14 / 5 | H.S. Howell [Helena] (re Weisenhorn wagons) |
1891 |
| 14 / 6 | W.J. Hunt [Sabastapol, Calif.: fruit] |
1879-1903 |
| 14 / 7 | S.W. Hurst; Hurst and Olds [Red Bluff] |
1878-1881 |
| 14 / 8 | Israel A. Hutchins [Lyons] |
1889-1911 |
| 14 / 9 | Homer F. Hutton [Madison Valley; Ennis] |
1880-1904, undated |
| 14 / 10 | Archie Hyndman [Sheridan] (see also: Elling and
Hyndman; Silver Spring Roller Mills) |
1880-1904 |
| 14 / 11 | Ha-Hap (includes G.F. Hadzor, Norris; D.M. Hagerty,
Red Bluff; John A. Hall, Ennis; Hamburger Brothers, Chicago; Hugh Hamilton, Ennis;
Hans Hanson, Martinsdale) |
1878-1907 |
| 14 / 12 | Har-Hay (includes Peter Harding, Puller Springs;
L.A. Harkness, Pleasant Valley, Idaho; John H. Harper, Butte; Willis Harwood, Willow
Park; Hayner Distilling Company, St. Paul, Minn.) |
1876-1909 |
| 14 / 13 | He-Hi (includes Robert Hedge, Washington Bar;
Helena Hardware Company; S.C. Herbst Importing Company, Milwaukee, Wis.; J.R.
Heryford, Norwegian Gulch; Emerson Hill, Red Rock) |
1879-1908 |
| 14 / 14 | Ho (includes Sim Holstein, Deming N.M.; D.W.
Horner, Heppner, Ore.; Howard Publishing Company) |
1873-1908 |
| 14 / 15 | Hu-Hy (includes Hughes and Langley, New York; Hull
and Fitch, Oskaloosa, Iowa; J.R. Hunter, Ferguson; C.W. Hutton, Constantine, Mich.;
George Hyer, Meadow Creek) |
1880-1910 |
| 14 / 16 | Idaho Falls Milling Company |
1900 |
| 14 / 17 | Iler and Company [Omaha: liquor] |
1879-1901, undated |
| 14 / 18 | International Harvester Company (formerly Deering
and McCormick companies) |
1902-1910 |
| 14 / 19 | Inter-state Live Stock Commission Company (includes
lists of sales of western cattle) |
1891 |
| 14 / 20 | N.J. Isdell; Isdell Mercantile Company; [Norris;
Pony] |
1872-1901 |
| 14 / 21 | I (includes Illinois Sewing Machine Company;
Implement Age; Indiana Bicycle Company; International Law and Collection Company;
International Mining Congress; Inter-State Irrigation Association) |
1881-1910 |
| 15 / 1 | P.V. Jackson [Sterling; Red Bluff; Norris] |
1881-1901 |
| 15 / 2 | Aloys Jacobs "Horseshoe Jake" [Denver: tobacco
agent] (see also: Drummond Tobacco Company) |
1891-1904 |
| 15 / 3 | O.W. Jay; Helen Julia Jay [Pony] |
1893-1902 |
| 15 / 4 | Jeffers family; Jeffers and Switzer [Ennis]
(includes J.B.; M.D.; Mrs. T.E.) |
1889-1910 |
| 15 / 5 | B.J. Johnson Soap Company [Milwaukee, Wis.] |
1904-1905 |
| 15 / 6 | Johnson ... (includes E.S. Johnson, Helena; Fred S.
Johnson, Norris; J.H. Johnson, Norris; John E. Johnson, Ennis; W.L. Johnson,
Sterling) |
1889-1908 |
| 15 / 7 | Jones Fruit Company [Butte] |
1906-1908 |
| 15 / 8 | Jones of Binghamton [Binghamton, N.Y.: scales] |
1905-1907 |
| 15 / 9 | Jones ... (includes D.N. Jones, Ennis; R.E. Jones,
Chicago; W. Northey Jones, Livingston) |
1879-1906 |
| 15 / 10 | Justice, Bateman and Company [Philadelphia: wool
commission] |
1899-1908 |
| 15 / 11 | Ja-Je (includes Hy S. Jacobs, Salem, Idaho;
James-Force Company, San Francisco; P.H. James, Washington Bar; Jameson, Hevener and
Griggs, St. Paul, Minn.; Jefferson Valley Trading Company, Whitehall) |
1880-1911 |
| 15 / 12 | Jo-Ju (includes Johnston Harvester Company,
Batavia, N.Y.; William H. Jordan and Company, Gloucester, Mass.; John Judge, Home
Park; Joseph I. Judy, Marshall, Mo.) |
1884-1908 |
| 15 / 13 | Keenan and Sons [Chicago: live stock commission
merchants] (includes lists of sales of western cattle) |
1892-1894 |
| 15 / 14 | Keller family [Ennis; Cameron; Jeffers] (includes
E.A.; E.E.; Bert) |
1894-1910 |
| 15 / 15 | J.F. Kelly Company [Butte: fruit] |
1889-1896 |
| 15 / 16 | Kennett Mining Company [Virginia City; Ennis] |
1897-1903 |
| 15 / 17 | Fred J. Kiesel and Company [Ogden, Utah; terminus
Utah Northern Railroad: bank and groceries] |
1878-1880 |
| 15 / 18 | C.M. Kiggins [Boise, Idaho] |
1901-1905 |
| 15 / 19 | Grace Kimberley [Stuart, Iowa] (re Virginia City
school) |
1902 |
| 15 / 20 | Frank B. Kirby; Alpharetta Wright Kirby [Cameron] |
1891-1902 |
| 15 / 21 | Joseph D. Kirby [Silver Star] (see also: Anderson,
Bumby and Kirby) |
1878-1880 |
| 15 / 22 | James S. Kirk and Company [Chicago: soap] |
1879-1891, 1895, 1909 |
| 15 / 23 | Kleinschmidt and Brothers [Helena: groceries and
hardware] |
1879-1896 |
| 15 / 24 | Conrad Knievel [Butte: produce merchant] |
1901-1908 |
| 15 / 25 | S.K. Knox [Revenue, Mont.] |
1893-1896 |
| 15 / 26 | Ka-Ke (includes Mary Keeler, Sterling; Keith
Brothers and Company, Chicago; William B. Kelly, Chicago; Kennedy Furniture Company,
Butte; John Kennedy, Sterling; Keokuk Canning Company, Iowa) |
1879-1910 |
| 15 / 27 | Ki-Ky (includes Morris H. Kilmer, Cameron; F.H.
Kingrey, Adobetown; H.L. Kingsley, Helena; Charles Kinkead, Home Park; Perry P.
Kline, Helena; Albert B. Knight, Butte; Henry Knippenberg, Glendale; Charles A.
Skodle, Butte) |
1879-1910 |
| 16 / 1 | Henry B. Lake [Norris] |
1888-1902 |
| 16 / 2 | Gertie Lancaster [Los Angeles] (former fiancee) |
1873-1876 |
| 16 / 3 | W.D. Langford [Ennis] |
1899-1902 |
| 16 / 4 | C.M. Larimore [Home Park] |
1893-1894 |
| 16 / 5 | George Lawrence Company [Portland, Ore.: saddlery] |
1905-1910 |
| 16 / 6 | H.L. Lee [New York: tobacco] |
1899-1900 |
| 16 / 7 | James Levy and Brother [Cincinnati: liquor] |
1886-1894 |
| 16 / 8 | G.T. Lewis [Twin Bridges] |
1879-1880 |
| 16 / 9 | Lievre, Fricke and Company [San Francisco; Butte:
tea and coffee] |
1889-1896 |
| 16 / 10 | Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company [St. Louis, Mo.] |
1891-1899 |
| 16 / 11 | M.F. Lindon [Butte] |
1901-1904 |
| 16 / 12 | Livingston and Company [San Francisco: liquor] |
1879-1910 |
| 16 / 13 | Lockey's Steam Cracker Bakery; Richard Lockey
[Bozeman] |
1878-1880 |
| 16 / 14 | Long family [Ennis] (includes C.W.; James; Richard;
T.B.; Walter; William) |
1890-1904 |
| 16 / 15 | Perry Longfellow [Meadow Creek; Pony] |
1892-1902 |
| 16 / 16 | P. Lorillard and Company [Jersey City, N.J.:
tobacco] |
1886-1899 |
| 16 / 17 | G.D. Lounsbery; Lounsbery, Casey and Lanphier
[Butte: manufacturers' agent] |
1902-1910 |
| 16 / 18 | George A. Lowe [Salt Lake City: agent for Schuttler
wagons] |
1879-1899 |
| 16 / 19 | Johnson Lowe [St. Charles, Ill.: collie breeder] |
1901 |
| 16 / 20 | William S. Lowe [Ennis: groceries] |
1889-1900 |
| 16 / 21 | John J. Lowe [Red Bluff] |
1888-1898 |
| 16 / 22 | Luce and Luce [Bozeman: attorneys] (re land
application) |
1887-1888, 1894 |
| 16 / 23 | George P. Luckhardt [Oregon, Mo.: fruit grower] |
1886 |
| 16 / 24 | M.D. Lytle [Home Park] |
1899-1908 |
| 16 / 25 | La (includes William Lambert, San Francisco; David
Landreth and Sons, Philadelphia; Laramie Broom Works, Ogden, Utah; P.A. Largey and
Company, Iron Rod; C.X. Larrabee, Brook Nook Ranch and Fairhaven, Wash.; J.B.
Laurin, Laurin, Mont.) |
1876-1907 |
| 16 / 26 | Le (includes Leader Washboard Company, St. Louis,
Mo.; L.E. LeBolt, Butte; A.A. Leland, Johnson, Vt.; Leopold, Solomon and Eisendrath,
Chicago; J.H. Levy, Washington Bar and Ennis; George M. Lewis, Myersberg) |
1879-1909 |
| 16 / 27 | Li-Ll (includes Lincoln Poultry, Butter and Egg
Company, Lincoln, Neb.; Lincoln Union Stock Yards; Lindsay and Company, Helena;
Little Missouri Horse Company, Gladstone, N.D.; A. Livingston, Belmont Park; W.W.
Livingston, Bozeman; M.R. Lloyd, Pony) |
1878-1909 |
| 16 / 28 | Lo-Ly (includes Lofton and Thompson, California
Gulch; John Lovell, Dillon; Lufkin Stock Yards, Chicago; T.J. Lynch, Adobetown;
George H. Lyon, Lyon, Mont.; I.L. Lyon, Dillon) |
1878-1910 |
| 17 / 1 | MacDonald family [Revenue, Mont.] (includes A.G.;
D.H.; Hugh; J.A.; Mrs. J.A.; W.G.) |
1889-1894, undated |
| 17 / 2 | E.G. Maclay and Company; Overland Freight Line
[terminus of Utah Northern Railroad] |
1878 |
| 17 / 3 | Macondray and Company [San Francisco: tea
importers] |
1879-1905 |
| 17 / 4 | Madison County government |
1887-1904 |
| 17 / 5 | Malad Co-operative Company [Malad, Idaho: general
mercantile] |
1896-1904 |
| 17 / 6 | H.C. Manley [Ennis] |
1893-1909 |
| 17 / 7 | W.D. Manley [Pony] |
1886-1902 |
| 17 / 8 | William Mann Company [Philadelphia: blank book
manufacturer] |
1894-1905 |
| 17 / 9 | Maplehurst Kennels [McLane, Pa.; collie breeder] |
1901 |
| 17 / 10 | William Marr [Pony, Virginia City] |
1881-1898 |
| 17 / 11 | Frank C. Marshall and Company [Chicago: importers] |
1905-1907 |
| 17 / 12 | I.M. Marshall [Ferguson] |
1902-1904 |
| 17 / 13 | Marshall-Wells Hardware Company [Duluth] |
1908-1910, undated |
| 17 / 14 | J.C. Maslin [Butte: agent for Sprague, Warner and
Company] |
1890-1896 |
| 17 / 15 | L.B. Mattison [Salt Lake City: agent for Mitchell
wagons] |
1879-1881 |
| 17 / 16 | R.F. May [Bozeman] |
1880-1881 |
| 17 / 17 | May family [Ennis] (includes Bert; E.A.; U.J.) |
1886-1910 |
| 17 / 18 | J.H. McAllister [Meadow Creek; McAllister; Malad,
Idaho] |
1886-1904, undated |
| 17 / 19 | McAllister family [Meadow Creek; McAllister]
(includes James; J.A. McAllister; Alex McAllister) |
1886-1908 |
| 17 / 20 | W.H. McAtee; McAtee and Gilmer [Ennis; Norris] |
1896-1904 |
| 17 / 21 | Mack M. McColley; Mrs. J.M. McColley [Ennis] |
1886-1899, undated |
| 17 / 22 | McCord-Brady Company [Omaha: wholesale grocers] |
1892-1895 |
| 17 / 23 | Pat McCoy [Ennis] |
1887-1903, undated |
| 17 / 24 | McDonnell family [Cameron; Meadow Creek; Ennis]
(includes A.J.; Felix; J.F.; Patrick; Terrence) |
1888-1909 |
| 17 / 25 | M.E. McDowell and Company [Philadelphia: tobacco] |
1880-1889 |
| 17 / 26 | J.A. McIntosh [Boise, Idaho] |
1902-1904 |
| 17 / 27 | John McKelvey; Little Kid Mining Company [Norris;
Washington Bar] |
1890-1896 |
| 17 / 28 | William McKimens [Ennis] |
1880-1889 |
| 17 / 29 | W.F. McLaughlin and Company [Chicago: coffee] |
1894-1908 |
| 17 / 30 | James McMillan and Company; McMillan Fur and Wool
Company [Minneapolis] |
1890-1906 |
| 17 / 31 | Fred Mercer [Twin Bridges; Ennis] |
1893-1897 |
| 17 / 32 | Merchants and Shippers Agency [Chicago] |
1891-1896 |
| 17 / 33 | Merchants Produce Company [Butte] |
1904-1908 |
| 17 / 34 | Metropolitan Meat Market; Tinsley and Hanson [Pony] |
1900-1903 |
| 17 / 35 | Metzel family [Puller Springs] (includes Alex;
Charles; Frank; L.A.; T.A.; W.O.) |
1892-1904 |
| 17 / 36 | Meyer, Bannerman and Company [St. Louis, Mo.:
saddles] |
1902-1907 |
| 18 / 1 | Michalitschke Brothers and Company [San Francisco:
tobacco] |
1881-1905 |
| 18 / 2 | Michener family [Meadow Creek] (includes E.F.; Guy
C.; Lewis) |
1881-1901 |
| 18 / 3 | Michigan Buggy Company [Kalamazoo, Mich.] |
1899 |
| 18 / 4 | George R. Milburn [Miles City: attorney] |
1898, 1903 |
| 18 / 5 | Miller and Hart [Chicago: packing house] |
1902-1906 |
| 18 / 6 | A.G. Miller [Valley Garden; Twin Bridges] |
1893, 1898, 1900 |
| 18 / 7 | Louis Miller [Ruby] |
1892-1902 |
| 18 / 8 | E.H. Mills [Sabastapol, Calif.: fruit] |
1904-1905 |
| 18 / 9 | Mitchelhill and Ramsey; Mitchelhill and Company
[St. Joseph, Mo.: seed merchants] |
1896-1906 |
| 18 / 10-11 | Mitchell and Lewis Company; Mitchell-Lewis Motor
Company [Racine, Wis.: wagons, automobiles] |
187_, 1886-1910 |
| 18 / 12 | William Mitchell [Ennis] |
1886-1902 |
| 18 / 13 | Moline Plow Company; Minnesota Moline Plow Company;
Western Moline Plow Company |
1895-1910 |
| 18 / 14 | Monopol Tobacco Works [New York] |
1904-1908 |
| 18 / 15 | Montana Commission Company [Butte] |
1893, 1902-1903 |
| 18 / 16 | Montana Hardware Company [Butte] |
1899-1909 |
| 18 / 17 | Montana Implement Dealers Association |
1899-1903 |
| 18 / 18-20 | Montana Mercantile Company [Dillon] (correspondents
include O.M. Best; W.A. Jones) |
1893-1909 |
| 18 / 21 | Montana Stock Growers Association (includes letters
re strays sold) |
1886-1902 |
| 18 / 22 | Montana Wool Growers Association |
1895-1908 |
| 18 / 23 | Montana [government] (includes Bureau of
Agriculture, Labor and Industry; Auditor's Office; Register of State Lands; Recorder
of Marks and Brands; State Orphans' Home; Board of Stock Commissioners;
Veterinarian's Office; Board of World's Fair Managers) |
1887-1908 |
| 18 / 24 | Montana ... (includes Montana Anchor Fence Company,
Helena; Montana Boy Consolidated Mines Company, Newhouse; Montana Children's Home
Society; Montana Dressed Meat Company, Anaconda; Montana Grocers Association;
Montana Live Stock Commission Company, Helena; Montana Mineral Water Company, White
Sulphur Springs; Montana Retail Lumbermen's Association; Montana Vinegar Works,
Butte) |
1896-1908 |
| 19 / 1 | D.H. Montgomery [Helena] (re Western Union Mail and
Stage Company; Helena Live Stock Exchange) |
1886-1890 |
| 19 / 2 | O.P. Moore [Cherry Creek] |
1879-1898 |
| 19 / 3 | H.E. Morier Produce Company [Butte] |
1906-1908 |
| 19 / 4 | J.E. Morse [Dillon] (re cooperation among implement
dealers) |
1886, 1900 |
| 19 / 5 | A.H. Motley Company [Reidsville, N.C.: tobacco] |
1894-1897 |
| 19 / 6 | Ed F. Murphy [Butte: agent for Sprague, Warner and
Company and other companies] |
1899-1909 |
| 19 / 7 | Maa-Man (includes Madison Valley Butter Company,
Ennis; J.C. Mahony, Silver Star; Mandeville and King, Rochester, N.Y.; Mantle Lamp
Company of America; Lee Mantle, Washington, D.C.) |
1873-1909 |
| 19 / 8 | Mar-May (includes T.B. Marquis, M.D., Ennis; Martin
and Page, Glendale; Massasoit Whip Company, Westfield, Mass.; J.A. Masters, Laurin;
Frederick Maurer, San Francisco) |
1879-1910 |
| 19 / 9 | Mc (includes Con McClurg, Summit; Alex McKay,
Sheridan; McKinley National Memorial Association; John McVoy and Company, Chicago) |
1878-1909 |
| 19 / 10 | Me (includes Meaker and Cochran, Spokane, Wash.;
E.J. Meier, Cameron; T.S. Merchant, Healdsburg, Calif.; Merchants National Security
Insurance Company) |
1878-1909 |
| 19 / 11 | Mi (includes Minnesota Harvester Works; Minnesota
Canneries Company; Missouri Valley Milling Company, Mandan, N.D.) |
1886-1909 |
| 19 / 12-13 | Mo (includes Charles Monigan, Gaylord; Moos and
Company, New York; Nelson Morris and Company, Chicago; Morris State Bank, Pony;
Mound City Vinegar Company, St. Louis, Mo.) |
1876-1910 |
| 19 / 14 | Mu (includes Theodore Muffly, Helena; Mumm and
Novotny, St. Paul, Minn.) |
1879-1906 |
| 19 / 15 | National Biscuit Company [Helena; Chicago] |
1898-1913 |
| 19 / 16 | National Live Stock Association |
1899-1904 |
| 19 / 17-18 | C.D. Neubary [Ekalaka; Miles City] (re horse and
cattle ranch) |
1891-1904, undated |
| 19 / 19 | New Voice Publishing Company [Chicago] (re
prohibition literature) |
1902-1906 |
| 19 / 20 | Nichols, Dupee and Company [Boston: wool dealers] |
1894-1901 |
| 19 / 21 | Seraphin Nicolas [Twin Bridges] |
1885-1900 |
| 19 / 22 | Sam M. Nixon [Butte: merchandise broker] |
1887-1896 |
| 20 / 1 | Henry Nordinger and Company [New York: coffee] |
1903-1907 |
| 20 / 2 | Norris Mercantile Company |
1902-1909 |
| 20 / 3 | Northern Pacific Railroad/Railway Company |
1891-1910 |
| 20 / 4 | Northern Pacific Railroad/Railway Company [Alder]
(agents include W.F. Behrns; W.C. Dodd) |
1902-1910 |
| 20 / 5 | Northern Pacific Railroad/Railway Company [Butte:
Traffic Dept.] |
1892-1910 |
| 20 / 6 | Northern Pacific Railroad/Railway Company [Helena] |
1887-1903 |
| 20 / 7-8 | Northern Pacific Railroad/Railway Company [Norris]
(agents include O.L. Miller; O.N. Darling; also includes Northern Pacific Express
Company) |
1890-1905 |
| 20 / 9 | Northern Pacific Railroad/Railway Company
[Sappington] (agents include R.F. Welliver; W.D. McClellan) |
1893-1902 |
| 20 / 10 | Northern Pacific Railroad/Railway Company [Twin
Bridges] (agent W.A. Rowland) |
1900-1908, undated |
| 20 / 11 | Northern Pacific Railroad/Railway Company
[Whitehall] (agents J.R. Williams, H.N. Kennedy) |
1891-1895 |
| 20 / 12 | Northern Pacific Railroad/Railway Company
[miscellaneous Montana] |
1884-1903 |
| 20 / 13 | Northrup, King and Company [Minneapolis: seed
merchants] |
1900-1906 |
| 20 / 14 | A.W. Noyes [Pony] |
1900-1902, undated |
| 20 / 15 | Na (includes Richard Nason, Laurin; National Bank
of Cuba; National Carriage Dealers' Protective Association; National Conference of
Charities and Correction; National Protective Association; National Wool Growers'
Association; E. Naumburg and Company, New York) |
1887-1910 |
| 20 / 16 | Ne (includes W.M. Naegle Livery, Sale and Feed
Stable, Dillon; Nebraska Futurity Stake; T. Glover Neiler, Silver Bow; Nevada and
Utah Exploration Mining Company, Norris; Clarence Newbury, Home Park) |
1886-1908 |
| 20 / 17 | Ni-Ny (includes Norris Livery and Feed Stable;
Northern Rock Island Plow Company, Minneapolis; Northwestern Implement and Wagon
Company, Minneapolis; Northwestern Steel and Iron Works, Eau Claire, Wis.) |
1879-1910 |
| 21 / 1 | Charles F. Oliver [Valley Garden] |
1884-1896 |
| 21 / 2 | James F. Oliver [Ennis] |
1880-1897 |
| 21 / 3 | Oliver family [Meadow Creek; Ennis] (includes
Francis N.; John; William) |
1893-1909 |
| 21 / 4 | Oliver Chilled Plow Works [South Bend, Ind.] |
1902-1909 |
| 21 / 5 | Ed J. O'Neill [Butte: manufacturers' agent and
merchandise broker] |
1897-1906 |
| 21 / 6 | J.E. Oppenheimer [Butte: jobber of produce] (see
also Ryan and Newton Company) |
1892-1902 |
| 21 / 7 | Ordenstein and Company [San Francisco: tobacco] |
1879-1881 |
| 21 / 8 | Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company |
1888-1900 |
| 21 / 9 | Oregon Short Line Railroad Company (agents: E.M.
Stewart; T.E. Smith) |
1897-1900 |
| 21 / 10 | Oregon Wholesale Grocers' Association (re unfair
competition from California canners) |
1905 |
| 21 / 11 | John Ormiston [Meadow Creek] |
1888-1901 |
| 21 / 12 | D.M. Osborne and Company [Salt Lake City:
harvesting equipment] |
1884-1887 |
| 21 / 13 | O (includes Oakland Preserving Company; David
O'Brien, Pony; William O'Brien, Sheridan; L.B. Olds, Red Bluff; Hugh O'Neill, Home
Park; Oregon City Woolen Mills; Oregon Produce Company; William O'Sullivan, Helena) |
1878-1907 |
| 21 / 14 | Paris, Burghardt and Allenburg Live Stock
Commission [Chicago] (includes lists of Western livestock) |
1892 |
| 21 / 15 | O.F. Parmeter and Company; Elling, Parmeter and
Scott [Sheridan] (see also successor Henry Elling and Company) |
1887-1889, 1893 |
| 21 / 16 | Passmore Paper Company [Butte] |
1901-1906 |
| 21 / 17 | Erastus Paugh [Ennis; Jeffers] |
1888, 1893-1910 |
| 21 / 18 | Paul family [Willow Creek; Harrison] (includes
A.W.; Bill; Ella; J.M.; L.W.) |
1872-1874, 1896, 1899 |
| 21 / 19 | Paxton and Gallagher [Omaha: jobbing grocers] |
1886-1907 |
| 21 / 20-22 | C.H. Peck [Sterling; Red Bluff: postmaster,
merchant, banker] |
1876-1900, undated |
| 21 / 23 | Peel family [Red Bluff; Ennis] (includes Dick;
Martin; William; Peel and Hanley) |
1879-1893 |
| 21 / 24 | J.C. Peppard [Kansas City, Mo.: seed merchant] |
1889-1908 |
| 21 / 25 | Perkins and Smith [Glendale: dry goods merchant] |
1879-1880 |
| 21 / 26 | Charles T. Perry and Company [Helena: soap and
candle manufacturer] |
1891-1906 |
| 21 / 27 | Peycke Brothers Company [Omaha: fruit and produce
commission] |
1889-1892 |
| 21 / 28 | Ben Pickens [Ennis] |
1893-1898 |
| 21 / 29 | Charles Pietsch [Mill Creek; Sheridan] |
1879-1880, undated |
| 21 / 30 | C.M. Pinckney; Etta Pinckney [Washington Bar;
Meadow Creek] |
1886-1901 |
| 22 / 1 | Piper family [Ennis; Meadow Creek] (includes B.R.;
Clem; Georgia; Kate; Lud; Price; Sadie) |
1894-1903 |
| 22 / 2 | Thomas Plotney; H.C. Plotney [Red Bluff] |
1880-1881, 1903 |
| 22 / 3 | T.W. Poindexter and Sons; Poindexter and Orr;
Dillon Cash Grocery Company [Dillon: general merchandise] |
1882-1894 |
| 22 / 4 | Portland Rice Milling Company [Portland, Ore.] |
1900-1903 |
| 22 / 5 | Postum Cereal Company [Battle Creek, Mich.] |
1901-1908 |
| 22 / 6 | Roland Potter [Billings] |
1891-1894 |
| 22 / 7 | J.H. Powell [Virginia City] (employee of S.R.
Buford and Company); C.A. Powell [Boise, Idaho] |
1896-1902 |
| 22 / 8 | T.C. Power and Company; T.C. Power Company [Helena:
agricultural implements; mining machinery] |
1879-1905 |
| 22 / 9 | George W. Powers [Home Park; Miles City] |
1896-1900 |
| 22 / 10 | Powers family [Puller Springs] (includes B.F.;
F.C.; Mary) |
1888-1903 |
| 22 / 11 | Joseph E. Prindle [Ennis] |
1894-1899 |
| 22 / 12 | E.M. Prouty and Company [South St. Paul, Minn.:
livestock commission] |
1899 |
| 22 / 13 | Prudential Book Company [New York] |
1901-1902 |
| 22 / 14 | Amos Purdum; Purdum and Shannon [Salisbury: general
mercantile] |
1879-1881 |
| 22 / 15 | Pa (includes Pacific Coast Steamship Company;
Pacific Manifolding Book Company, Emeryville, Calif.; Page and Son, Portland, Ore.;
Parchen Drug Company, Helena; A.M. Parker, Sappington; W.L. Parkinson, Washington
Bar; D.D. Patten, Three Forks; R.A. Patterson Tobacco Company, Richmond, Va.) |
1879-1911 |
| 22 / 16 | Pe-Pf (includes Pease and Steffens, Bozeman; C.W.
Pendarvis, Puller Springs; Lewis Penwell and Company, Helena; James F. Pershing,
Chicago) |
1880-1910 |
| 22 / 17 | Ph-Pl (includes Pigott and Muffly, Virginia City;
Willis Pike Raisins, Fresno, Calif.; George F. Pitts, Meadow Creek; M.D. Platner,
Elliston; Plymouth Cheese Company, Plymouth, Wis.) |
1879-1908 |
| 22 / 18 | Po (includes E.M. Pollinger, Salisbury; Pond and
Urlin, Glendale; G.W. Pope, Red Bluff; Porter Brothers and Company, San Francisco;
S.L. Potter, Ennis) |
1878-1908 |
| 22 / 19 | Pr-Pu (includes Pratt Food Company, Philadelphia;
Price Flavoring Extract Company, Chicago; W.A. Priest, Ferguson; J.L. Prouty, New
York; H.C. Ptomey, Summit; C.W. Purcell, Washington Court House, Ohio; Puyallup and
Sumner Fruit Growers' Association) |
1879-1908 |
| 22 / 20 | Q (includes Anna Quantic, Revenue Mine; Thomas B.
Quaw, Sheridan) |
1893-1903 |
| 22 / 21 | Rabbitt and Nevin [Butte: commission house] |
1907-1909 |
| 22 / 22-23 | Charles A. Race [Norwegian Gulch ranch; Red Springs
ranch] |
1900-1905 |
| 22 / 24 | Racine Wagon and Carriage Company; Racine Sattley
Manufacturing Company [Wis.] |
1902-1908 |
| 22 / 25 | W. Raymond and Company; Winthrop Raymond [Butte;
Sheridan: general mercantile] |
1886-1904 |
| 22 / 26 | W.H. Raymond; Belmont Park Stock Farm [Puller
Springs] |
1887-1903 |
| 22 / 27 | Reall and Company [Philadelphia: bank] (re stock
offering in Marconi Wireless Telegraph company and trans-Atlantic transmission) |
1906 |
| 22 / 28 | Charles Rebstock and Company [St. Louis, Mo.:
liquor] |
1879-1880 |
| 22 / 29 | Redfern family [Laurin] (includes A.J.; Eugene;
Frank) |
1896-1904 |
| 22 / 30 | W.A. Reel [Pony; Norris]; W.R. Reel [Sterling] |
1872-1903 |
| 22 / 31 | C.E. Reese [Home Park] |
1891-1894 |
| 22 / 32 | James R. Reid [Butte: hides and wool] |
1887-1892 |
| 23 / 1 | Reid, Murdoch and Company [Chicago and Butte:
wholesale grocery] (includes W.A. Ridgeway, agent; see also: D.T. Haskett) |
1889-1909 |
| 23 / 2 | W.H. Remington [Washington Bar; Meadow Creek] |
1893-1903, undated |
| 23 / 3 | Retail Merchants' Association of Montana |
1906 |
| 23 / 4 | Ervin A. Rice Company [Chicago: mince meat] |
1903-1908 |
| 23 / 5 | Charles Rich [Bozeman] |
1880-1881 |
| 23 / 6 | C.J. Richter; Mary Richter [Meadow Creek;
Washington Bar] |
1880-1900, undated |
| 23 / 7 | Charles Rippe Tent and Duck Company [St. Louis,
Mo.] |
1886-1906 |
| 23 / 8 | John Roberts [Harrison] (re Virginia City and
Sappington Stage Line; also includes William and George Roberts) |
1887-1904 |
| 23 / 9 | Rock Island Plow Company (successor to B.D. Buford
and Company) |
1886-1908 |
| 23 / 10 | Roderick Lean Manufacturing Company [Mansfield,
Ohio: agricultural implements] |
1899-1906 |
| 23 / 11 | E.A. Rogers [Dundee, Mich.: collie breeder] |
1901 |
| 23 / 12 | H.D. Rossiter [Sheridan: general mercantile] |
1889-1895 |
| 23 / 13 | Royal Milling Company [Great Falls] |
1893-1910 |
| 23 / 14 | Ruby Valley Lumber Company; Ruby Valley Mercantile
Company |
1902-1906 |
| 23 / 15 | Ryan and Newton Company; Ryan and Virden Company
[Butte: wholesale fruit and produce] |
1902-1909 |
| 23 / 16 | Ra (includes Dr. P.J. Ragan, Logan, Utah; J.B.
Rank, Ekalaka and Miles City; Nicholas Rath and Company, New York; Charles Raymond,
Red Bluff) |
1879-1911 |
| 23 / 17 | Re-Ri (includes William Rea Jr., Billings; D.N.
Reber, Forsyth; H.B. Reed and Sons, Woodstock, Vt.; William Reese, Red Bluff; Joe J.
Reeves, Radersburg and Gallatin City; H.M. Reynolds, Dillon; H.S. Riblett, Ennis;
F.C. Rice, Ennis; W.A. Ridgeway) |
1878-1907 |
| 23 / 18 | Ro (includes Roddis and Thrall, Omaha; A.N.
Rodgers, Laurin and Ruby; Louis Romey, Red Bluff; Rosenbaum Brothers and Company,
Chicago; Rosenberg Brothers and Company, San Francisco; Ross-Dier Mercantile
Company, Big Timber) |
1872-1910 |
| 23 / 19 | Ru-Ry (includes A.B. Rudolph and Company, St. Paul,
Minn.; Russell-Miller Milling Company, Minneapolis; Edward Ryan, Boise, Idaho) |
1875-1910 |
| 23 / 20 | San Jose Fruit Packing Company |
1879-1896 |
| 23 / 21 | S.J. Sangwin [Red Bluff; Meadow Creek: blacksmith]
(also includes daughter Sadie) |
1878-1903 |
| 23 / 22 | M.M. Sappington [Sappington, Mont.] |
1893-1900 |
| 23 / 23 | William F. Saul [Tacoma, Wash.: merchandise broker] |
1905-1906 |
| 23 / 24 | Saunders family [Ennis] (includes James W.; William
M.; Theodore) |
1879-1906 |
| 23 / 25 | E.R. Sawtelle [Ennis] |
1888-1904 |
| 23 / 26 | George Schabarker; Kate Schabarker [Meadow Creek] |
1894-1903 |
| 23 / 27 | Dr. John C. Schapps [Pony: collie breeder] |
1901 |
| 23 / 28 | A. Schilling and Company [San Francisco: coffee]
(includes circular letter re 1906 earthquake) |
1886-1907 |
| 24 / 1 | E. Schneider and Company [Chicago: candles] |
1886-1904 |
| 24 / 2 | William Schotten and Company [St. Louis, Mo.:
coffee and tea] |
1905-1907 |
| 24 / 3 | Schultz Brothers Company [Duluth: saddlery] |
1904-1906 |
| 24 / 4 | Theodore Schweitzer and Brothers; J.A. Schweitzer
[Meadow Creek] |
1889-1893 |
| 24 / 5 | Frank Searle [Ennis] |
1897-1903, undated |
| 24 / 6 | Sebree, Ferris and Holt [Utah and Northern Railroad
terminus: general mercantile] |
1879-1880 |
| 24 / 7 | Sebree, Ferris and White [Dillon: general
mercantile] (see also: B.F. White) |
1881-1891 |
| 24 / 8 | Frank Selby [Ennis] |
1888-1903 |
| 24 / 9 | Daniel Severns; James R. Severns [Meadow Creek] |
1879-1894, undated |
| 24 / 10 | Shannon Brothers and Company [Chicago: livestock
commission merchants] |
1895, 1903-1907 |
| 24 / 11 | Dan Shelton [Meadow Creek] |
1880-1891 |
| 24 / 12 | C.W. Sherwood; Maggie Sherwood [Sand Creek] |
1900 |
| 24 / 13 | Samuel C. Shingleton [Meadow Creek] |
1880-1902 |
| 24 / 14-17 | Thomas Shirley [Valley Garden Ranch] |
1879-1905 |
| 24 / 18 | Shoenberger family [Meadow Creek] (includes John;
Mrs. John; Mrs. M.) |
1880-1905 |
| 24 / 19 | Frank Shriver [Ennis] |
1893-1906 |
| 24 / 20 | George A. Shufeldt [Oak Park, Ill.; Valley Farms;
All Right Mine] |
1894, undated |
| 24 / 21 | Sideman, Lachman and Company [San Francisco; New
York: cigars] |
1880-1894 |
| 24 / 22 | Silberman Brothers [Chicago: wool] |
1895, 1905-1906 |
| 24 / 23 | Simmons Hardware Company [St. Louis, Mo.] |
1878-1890 |
| 24 / 24 | Charles Simpson (re conditions in New Denver, B.C.) |
1889, 1897-1899 |
| 24 / 25 | Sleeper and Flanley; W.B. Sleeper [Butte: agent for
Franklin, MacVeigh and Company] |
1898-1899 |
| 24 / 26 | Smith ... (includes Smith Brothers Commission
Company, South Omaha; Smith, Haas and Company, Chicago; Isaac Smith, Logan, Utah;
Smith and Murphy, Green Bay, Wis.) |
1880-1908 |
| 24 / 27 | Smith ... (includes O.G. Smith, Madison Valley; Ray
Smith, Ennis; S.R. Smith, Ennis) |
1878-1907, undated |
| 24 / 28 | J.B. Snapp; Ida Snapp [Home Park; Ledford] |
1880-1898 |
| 24 / 29 | Southmayd family [Summit, Mont.; Ann Arbor, Mich.]
(includes LeRoy; Sarah; W.C.; S.R. Buford was guardian of Sarah's children) |
1879-1893 |
| 24 / 30 | Don O. Spalding [Meadow Creek: sheep breeder] |
1889-1901 |
| 24 / 31 | Spaulding and Merrick [Chicago: tobacco] |
1889, 1902-1906 |
| 24 / 32 | Spear, Meade and Company [San Francisco: commission
merchant] |
1879-1880 |
| 25 / 1-2 | Sprague, Warner and Company [Chicago: wholesale
grocers] (see also: Fred Dustan; J.C. Maslin; Ed F. Murphy) |
1878-1910 |
| 25 / 3 | James Spray [Ennis] |
1895-1901 |
| 25 / 4 | Spruance, Stanley and Company [San Francisco:
liquor] |
1878-1894 |
| 25 / 5 | St. Charles Condensing Milk Company [St. Charles,
Ill.] |
1895-1908 |
| 25 / 6 | Stacey Cheese Company [Little Falls, N.Y.] |
1905 |
| 25 / 7 | Standard Oil Company |
1879-1883 |
| 25 / 8 | Stein, Hirsh and Company [Chicago: starch works] |
1902-1908 |
| 25 / 9 | Stewart ... (includes Charles, Red Bluff; John W.,
Ennis; William, Pageville) |
1893-1896 |
| 25 / 10 | Stoker family [Red Bluff] (includes Herman; John
H.; Joe) |
1893-1896 |
| 25 / 11 | Stone-Ordean Wells Company [Duluth: wholesale
grocers] |
1898-1910 |
| 25 / 12 | Amos Storey [Cameron] |
1901-1905 |
| 25 / 13 | Mark W. Stout [Ennis; Jeffers] |
1893-1904 |
| 25 / 14 | Strohmeyer and Arpe [New York: importers] |
1897-1905 |
| 25 / 15 | W.R. Strong and Company [Sacramento: fruit and
nuts] |
1879-1892 |
| 25 / 16 | Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company [South
Bend, Ind.; Portland, Ore.: carriages and wagons] |
1894-1899 |
| 25 / 17 | E.C. Stultz [Ennis; #9 Ranch] |
1899-1900 |
| 25 / 18 | Swift and Company [Chicago; South Omaha; Butte:
meat] |
1898-1910 |
| 25 / 19 | A.W. Switzer; Mrs. Elizabeth Martin Switzer [Ennis]
(see also Jeffers and Switzer) |
1876-1902 |
| 25 / 20 | M.A. Switzer; Nellie Switzer [Ennis] |
1878-1903 |
| 25 / 21 | Tavner B. "Tim" Switzer; Mrs. T.B. Switzer [Ennis] |
1893-1904 |
| 25 / 22 | Sa (includes Salem Press Company, Salem, Mass.;
Salesmanship magazine; San Francisco Fuse Manufacturing Company; San Francisco Trade
Journal; Sanitary Fruit Company, Red Bluff, Calif.; L. Sarvin and Company; George H.
Savage and Company, Dillon) |
1884-1908 |
| 25 / 23 | Sc (includes John H. Scanland, Butte; Schacht,
Lemcke, and Steiner, San Francisco; Schmit Brothers Trunk Company, Oshkosh, Wis.;
Alex Scott, Pony; D.B. Scully Syrup Company, Chicago) |
1879-1910 |
| 26 / 1 | Se-Sh (includes E.O. Selway, Dillon; Shafter Mining
Company, Virginia City; A.E. Shaw, Helena; Shaw and Stiver, Norris; Shawhan
Distillery Company, Kansas City, Mo.; Sherman's Piano House. Butte; Jack Short,
Norris; Mrs. C.A. Shott, Ruby) |
1878-1909 |
| 26 / 2 | Si-Sl (includes Loyd F. Sidener, Maud, Mo.; W.A.
Simon, Meadow Creek; Skabcura Dip Company, Chicago; Sleepy Eye Milling Company,
Sleepy Eye, Minn.) |
1880-1907 |
| 26 / 3 | Sm-Sq (includes Smurthwaite Produce Company, Ogden,
Utah; H.H. Snow and Company, Helena; C. Soullier, New York; South Omaha Live Stock
Exchange; Southern States Magazine; Southwestern Ranch and Colonization Company, El
Paso, Tex.; E.H. Sparrell, Norris; Jack Spaur, Dillon; David L. Spencer, Ennis;
Sprague and Rhodes, New York; Mrs. B.J. Squires, Meadow Creek) |
1876-1909 |
| 26 / 4 | St (includes I.S. Stafford, Pony; Robert Stalcup,
Norris; Stallman and Fulton Company, New York; Achille Starace, New York; Staver
Carriage Company, Chicago; Steele, Johnson and Company, Omaha; Stern and Saalberg
Company, New York; State Mineral Land Commission; E.R. Stiles, Meadow Creek; Stock Growers Journal, Miles City;
L.E. Stringham, Dillon) |
1879-1910 |
| 26 / 5 | Su-Sy (includes J.W. Sutherland, Willis; A.H.
Sutton, Shambow; Jack Swingle, Valley Garden; Henry Swisher, Home Park) |
1880-1911 |
| 26 / 6 | John S. Talmadge Company; Dan Talmadge's Sons
[Houston; New Orleans: rice] |
1901-1910 |
| 26 / 7 | A.W. and C.E. Tanner [Red Bluff; Bozeman: general
mercantile] |
1881-1897 |
| 26 / 8 | T.T. Taylor [Sheridan] |
1880-1903 |
| 26 / 9 | Thomas Publishing Company [New York: business
directories] |
1902-1908 |
| 26 / 10 | F.E. Thompson; Thompson Fruit Company [North
Yakima, Wash.] |
1901-1910 |
| 26 / 11 | Thornton Brothers; E.L. Thornton; Maggie Thornton
[Ennis; Jeffers] |
1893-1907 |
| 26 / 12 | Thuet Brothers [Chicago: livestock commission] |
1900-1905 |
| 26 / 13 | Todd family (re death of Lockwood M. Todd of
Virginia City) |
1894 |
| 26 / 14 | C.B. Towers; Towers and Collins [Miles City:
livestock and real estate] |
1895-1904, undated |
| 26 / 15-17 | George L. Tracy [Butte and Helena: wholesale
grocer] |
1888-1911 |
| 26 / 18 | John P. Trout [Ennis; Lake, Idaho] |
1893-1900 |
| 26 / 19 | Twin Bridge Lumber Company |
1899-1906 |
| 26 / 20 | Ta-Th (includes F.C. Taylor and Company, St. Louis,
Mo.; Thomas Thexton, Ennis; Thomas and Armstrong, Glendale; H.M. Thomas, Sheridan;
Harry Thompson, Ennis; Joseph Thompson, Burbank, Calif.; O.A. Thorp and Company,
Chicago; F.M. Threadgill Cigar and Tobacco Company, Lynchburg, Va.; Abe Thurgood,
Harris Gulch) |
1877-1911 |
| 26 / 21 | Ti-Tw (includes Ricknor-Lyon Tailoring Company, St.
Louis, Mo.; Tillmann and Bendel, San Francisco; D.W. Tilton, Butte; J.J. Toler,
Resort, Idaho; W.H. Tracy, Bozeman; B.F. Troxell and Company, Troxell and Williams,
Omaha; George H. Tully, Butte; C.P. Tureman, Magdalen; David W. Tuttle, Fish Creek) |
1880-1910 |
| 27 / 1 | Union Bank and Trust Company [Helena: agent for
United States Fidelity and Guarantee Company] |
1900-1906 |
| 27 / 2 | Union Pacific Railway; Union Pacific System |
1879-1896 |
| 27 / 3 | United States. Dept. of Agriculture |
1894-1901 |
| 27 / 4 | United States. Post Office (re postal contract) |
1881-1903 |
| 27 / 5 | United States. [government] (includes Census
Office; Forest Service; Geological Survey; Indian Service; Internal Revenue; Land
Office; Weather Bureau) |
1887-1910 |
| 27 / 6 | Utah and Northern Railroad [Dillon] (agent F.T.
Collins) |
1892-1895 |
| 27 / 7 | U (includes W.M. Ulm, Ennis; Union Carriage
Company, St. Louis, Mo.; Union Mercantile Company, Helena; Union Selling Company,
Minneapolis; United Cigar Makers' Company, Philadelphia; United States Canning
Company, Buffalo, N.Y.; United States Printing Company, Cincinnati; Utah Selling and
Storage Company) |
1881-1907 |
| 27 / 8 | Charles Van Brocklin [Red Bluff] |
1893-1896 |
| 27 / 9 | A. Van Dyke [Sheep Camp; Ennis; Valley Garden] |
1894-1898 |
| 27 / 10 | Vetter family [Ennis; Jeffers] (includes Charles;
Earnest; John) |
1896-1904 |
| 27 / 11 | T.H. Vincent; Allen Vincent [Meadow Creek] |
1888-1907 |
| 27 / 12 | H.C. Vinson; Brook-Nook Stock Ranche [Home Park] |
1896-1905, undated |
| 27 / 13 | V (includes B.E. Vaill, Bozeman; O.B. Varney,
Ennis; C.L. Vawter, Helena; E.D. Vert, Hyrum, Utah; Richard B. Vickers, Sheridan;
T.H. Vinter, Germantown, Pa.; Von Bremer, MacMonnies and Company, New York) |
1880-1906 |
| 27 / 14 | Martin Wagner Company [Baltimore: produce] |
1905-1906 |
| 27 / 15 | W.J. Wait [Red Bluff; Pony: drugs and tobacco] |
1879-1880 |
| 27 / 16 | G.W. Wakefield; Wakefield and Hopkins; Northern
Pacific Hotel [Bozeman] |
1879-1885 |
| 27 / 17 | Walsh and Craft [Butte: wholesale brokerage] |
1897-1902 |
| 27 / 18 | O.B. Walton [Washington Bar; Meadow Creek] |
1887-1902 |
| 27 / 19 | Max Waterman [White Sulphur Springs] |
1900 |
| 27 / 20 | George S. Watkins [Ennis] |
1892-1901 |
| 27 / 21 | Charles J. Webb and Company [Philadelphia: wool
commission] |
1894-1895 |
| 27 / 22 | Weisenhorn Carriage Manufacturing Company [Helena] |
1891-1898 |
| 27 / 23 | Wells and Nieman [Schuyler, Neb.: millers] |
1889-1897 |
| 27 / 24 | John Wells [Glendale] |
1894-1900 |
| 27 / 25 | Henry N. Weppler [Logan, Mont.; Valley Garden] |
1894-1900, undated |
| 27 / 26 | Wheeler, Fisher and Company [Chicago: paper bags] |
1893-1900 |
| 27 / 27 | Whillden, Smith and Company [Philadelphia: wool
commission] |
1893-1894 |
| 28 / 1-2 | B.F. White [railroad terminus: forwarding and
commission house] (see also: Sebree, Ferris and White) |
1878-1880 |
| 28 / 3-4 | Oscar W. White [Butte: agent for California Powder
Works; Kenyon-Connell Company] |
1886-1902 |
| 28 / 5 | Whitney family [Ennis] (includes Arthur; Earl; Ida;
Otis; Tom) |
1891-1902 |
| 28 / 6 | T.L. Wilkins [Ennis] |
1889-1901 |
| 28 / 7 | Ed Williams [Revenue] |
1894-1899 |
| 28 / 8 | Williams ... (includes Charles R. Williams, Puller
Springs, Sheridan; E.E. Williams, Ferguson; Fred A. Williams, Kennett; George
Williams, Puller Springs; J.W. Williams, Red Bluff; Elizabeth Williams, Puller
Springs; Ned Williams, Red Bluff) |
1882-1910 |
| 28 / 9 | J.H. Willman [Billings; Butte: tea] |
1892-1893 |
| 28 / 10 | Willson family [Bozeman] (includes Davis; Lester) |
1878-1889 |
| 28 / 11 | R.G. Wilson [Norris: general mercantile] |
1896-1901 |
| 28 / 12 | Robert B. Wilson [Boise, Idaho] |
1891-1896 |
| 28 / 13 | Joseph Wing [Billings: wool] |
1895-1901 |
| 28 / 14 | Wolf, Becker and Company; Simon Wolf and Company
[Chicago: raw furs] |
1887-1893 |
| 28 / 15 | Wonderly family [Puller Springs] |
1887-1903, undated |
| 28 / 16 | Wood Brothers [Chicago; Omaha: livestock commission
merchants] |
1894-1908 |
| 28 / 17 | Wood Live Stock Company [Spencer, Idaho; Salt Lake
City] |
1899-1903 |
| 28 / 18 | John E. Woodworth [Cameron] |
1896-1899 |
| 28 / 19 | J.W. Wooley (driver on Sappington stage) |
1901-1904 |
| 28 / 20 | Sanders C. Word [Ennis]; Word, Elling and Stewart
[Red Bluff] |
1878-1896 |
| 28 / 21 | Tom Wright [Ennis] |
1903-1904 |
| 28 / 22 | Wa (includes Walker and Devlin, Home Park;
Wallerstein Produce Company, Richmond, Va.; James Walsh Mercantile Company, Helena;
Warden and Oxnard, Pittsburgh; N. Warmington, Helena; Herman Warner and Company,
Chicago; Warner Sugar Refining Company, Chicago; Washington Apple Company, Spokane;
Tom Watson's Magazine) |
1872-1908 |
| 28 / 23 | We (includes Henry Wear, Meadow Creek; Webber
family, Sheridan; Jake Webster, Bozeman; Wells, Fargo and Company; Western Champagne
Manufactory, Milwaukee, Wis.; Western Pneumatic Horse Collar Company, Omaha; Western
Sales Book Company, Portland, Ore.; Joseph Weston and Company, Atchison, Kan.; O.E.
Weymouth, Whitehall) |
1878-1911 |
| 28 / 24 | Wh (includes W.C. Whaley, Townsend; A.F. Wheat,
Twin Bridges; B.A. Whitman, Meadow Creek; Whitman and Barnes Manufacturing Company,
Chicago; Charles Whitmyer, Meadow Creek) |
1879-1906 |
| 28 / 25 | Wi (includes F.H. Wilcomb, Laurin; Dick Wilsey,
Puller Springs; Mrs. A.E.K. Wilson-Green, Ennis; O.B. Wingate, Ennis; Winona Wagon
Company; Wisconsin Milk Condensing Company) |
1880-1906 |
| 28 / 26 | Wo-Wy (includes Fred H. Wolverton, Sheridan; Wood,
Curtis and Company, San Francisco; C.F. Woodman, Butte; Woolson Spice Company,
Toledo; John Work, Bozeman; John S. Worthington Company, Denver) |
1879-1910 |
| 28 / 27 | Y |
1879-1909 |
| 28 / 28 | Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution [Logan,
Utah] |
1894-1897 |
| 28 / 29 | Z (includes Charles Ziegler, Twin Bridges; L.F.
Zimmerman, Rochester, Mont.; Zittloson Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Mo.) |
1881-1907 |
| 28 / 30 | Unidentified |
1878-1906 |
Outgoing Correspondence |
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| Box/Folder | ||
| 29 / 1-3 | Letterpress books |
1878 May- 1883 April |
| 30 / 1-3 | Letterpress books |
1883 May- 1888 February |
| 31 / 1-3 | Letterpress books [fragile: water damaged] |
1888 March- 1892 January |
| 32 / 1-4 | Letterpress books |
1894 February- 1898 May |
| 33 / 1-4 | Letterpress books |
1898 May- 1901 August |
| 34 / 1-3 | Letterpress books |
1901 August-1906 January |
Court Papers |
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| Box/Folder | ||
| 35 / 1 | Subpoenas, court receipts, garnishments |
1880-1901 |
Financial Records |
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| Box/Folder | ||
| 35 / 2 | Account book (alphabetical) |
1889-1891 |
| 35 / 3 | Account book: Charles Simpson |
1893-1894 |
| 35 / 4-5 | Account statements (alphabetical) |
1894-1900, 1905 |
| 35 / 6 | Affidavits of shipment |
1901 |
| 35 / 7 | Assays |
1891-1910 |
| 35 / 8 | Bank books |
1901-1905 |
| 35 / 9 | Bank deposit slips |
1894, 1902-1907 |
| 35 / 10 | Bills of lading: Central Pacific Railroad |
1878-1880 |
| 35 / 11 | Bills of lading: Chicago and North-Western Railway
Company |
1878-1910 |
| 35 / 12 | Bills of lading: Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad |
1878-1891 |
| 35 / 13 | Bills of lading: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad |
1878-1902 |
| 35 / 14 | Bills of lading: Iler and Company via Union Pacific
Railway [scattered] |
1878-1897 |
| 35 / 15 | Bills of lading: E.G. Maclay and Company; Overland
Freight Line |
1878 |
| 35 / 16 | Bills of lading: Missouri Pacific Railway Company
[scattered] |
1880-1889 |
| 35 / 17 | Bills of lading: Northern Pacific Railway Company |
1887-1909 |
| 35 / 18 | Bills of lading: Pacific Coast Steamship Company |
1902-1908 |
| 35 / 19-20 | Bills of lading: Sebree, Ferris and Holt / Sebree,
Ferris and White |
1880-1883 |
| 35 / 21 | Bills of lading: Southern Pacific Railroad |
1880-1909 |
| 35 / 22 | Bills of lading: Steele, Johnson and Company via
Union Pacific Railway |
1878, 1880 |
| 35 / 23 | Bills of lading: Union Pacific Railroad Company /
Union Pacific System |
1878-1891 |
| 35 / 24 | Bills of lading: Utah Central Railroad |
1878, 1880 |
| 36 / 1 | Bills of lading: Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific
Railway Company |
1880 |
| 36 / 2-4 | Bills of lading: B.F. White |
1879-1881 |
| 36 / 5 | Bills of lading: A-W (also includes shipping
receipts) |
1878-1909 |
| 36 / 6 | Buford Ditch Company account |
1897 |
| 36 / 7 | Buford Horse and Cattle Company bank book |
1899-1905 |
| Volume | ||
| 1-5 | Cash books #1-5 |
1881-1910 |
| 6-7 | Cash books |
1916-1920 |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 37 / 1-7 | Cash sales books |
1880-1885 |
| 38 / 1-6 | Cash sales books |
1885-1890 |
| 39 / 1-6 | Cash sales books |
1890-1893 |
| 40 / 1-7 | Cash sales books / counter cash books |
1893-1895 |
| 41 / 1-6 | Cash sales books / counter cash books |
1895-1897 |
| 42 / 1 | Cash sales books |
1897 |
| 42 / 2 | Checkstub books |
1894-1898 |
| 42 / 3 | Customer ledger #1 |
1879-1881 |
| Volume | ||
| 8-21 | Customer ledgers #4-18 |
1883-1912 |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 42 / 4-6 | Customer order books/daybooks #1-3 |
1878-1879 |
| 43 / 1-2 | Customer order books/daybooks #4-5 |
1879-1880 |
| Volume | ||
| 22-84 | Customer order books/daybooks #6-65 |
1880-1898, 1902-1904 |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 43 / 3 | Customer order books/daybooks: Alder Branch |
1887 |
| 43 / 4 | Daybook [not part of main set] |
1879 |
| 43 / 5 | Freight bills: E.G. Maclay and Company |
1878 |
| 43 / 6 | Freight bills: Northern Pacific Railway Company |
1890-1911 |
| 43 / 7-9 | Freight bills: Union Pacific Railway / Utah
Northern Railway via B.F. White |
1879-1880 |
| 43 / 10 | Freight bills: Union Pacific Railway via Sebree,
Ferris and White |
1881 |
| 44 / 1 | Freight bills: Union Pacific Railway via Sebree,
Ferris and White |
1884-1889 |
| 44 / 2 | Freight bills: B-W [scattered] |
1878-1902 |
| 44 / 3 | Gaugers' certificates (re liquor testing) |
1878-1911 |
| Volume | ||
| 85-92 | General ledgers #A-C, E-F, H, J-K |
1878-1882, 1884-1890, 1892-1895, 1899-1904 |
| 93 | General ledger: Alder branch store |
1911-1914 |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 44 / 4 | Insurance |
1892-1901 |
| 44 / 5 | Inventory: Montana Sheep Company (Flatwillow Ranch) |
1885 |
| 44 / 6 | Invoices: American Tobacco Company |
1902-1912 |
| 44 / 7 | Invoices: A |
1878-1912 |
| 44 / 8 | Invoices: Bemis Bros. & Co. / Bemis Omaha Bag
Company |
1878, 1902-1909 |
| 44 / 9 | Invoices: B |
1878-1912 |
| 44 / 10 | Invoices: California Powder Works |
1888-1904 |
| 44 / 11 | Invoices: Chinese merchants |
1887-1892 |
| 44 / 12 | Invoices: C |
1878-1912 |
| 44 / 13 | Invoices: Dodson, Fisher, Brockmann Company,
saddles |
1902-1912 |
| 44 / 14 | Invoices: D |
1878-1910 |
| 44 / 15 | Invoices: Elling and Hyndman, flour mill |
1890, 1892 |
| 44 / 16 | Invoices: Elling, Knight and Buford / Elling and
Knight, hardware |
1895-1904 |
| 44 / 17 | Invoices: E-F |
1878-1902 |
| 44 / 18 | Invoices: O.D. French / French and Thomas |
1879-1903 |
| 44 / 19-22 | Invoices: G-L |
1878-1912 |
| 44 / 23 | Invoices: Madison Valley Butter Company |
1908-1909 |
| 44 / 24 | Invoices: M. Mailand, boots and shoes |
1895-1904 |
| 44 / 25 | Invoices: Marshall-Wells Hardware Company |
1900-1912 |
| 44 / 26 | Invoices: M |
1878-1912 |
| 44 / 27 | Invoices: National Biscuit Company, Helena |
1901-1909 |
| 44 / 28 | Invoices: N-P |
1878-1912 |
| 44 / 29 | Invoices: Patten and Lambrecht |
1878-1880 |
| 44 / 30 | Invoices: C.W. Rank and Company, druggists and
stationers |
1898-1904 |
| 45 / 1 | Invoices: Ryan and Newton Company, fruit and
produce |
1902-1909 |
| 45 / 2 | Invoices: R |
1878-1908 |
| 45 / 3 | Invoices: Sprague, Warner and Company |
1878-1908 |
| 45 / 4 | Invoices: S-U |
1878-1902 |
| 45 / 5 | Invoices: Robert Vickers and Company |
1880-1904 |
| 45 / 6 | Invoices: V-W, unidentified |
1878-1902 |
| 45 / 7-8 | Journals #1-2 |
1878-1880 |
| Volume | ||
| 94- 103 | Journals #3-11, 15 |
1880-1890 1898-1899 |
| 104- 108 | Journal/daybooks #J17-J21 |
1900-1902 |
| 109 | Journal #23 |
1904-1905 |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 46 / 1 | Memoranda of purchases |
1884 |
| 46 / 2 | Memorandum of stamps (re liquor taxes) |
1880, 1894-1906 |
| 46 / 3 | Montana Dept. of Agriculture, Labor and Industry
questionnaires on cost of living [blank] |
1894-1900 |
| 46 / 4 | Orders for wagons: Fish Brothers Wagon Company;
Mitchell and Lewis Company |
1896-1901 |
| 46 / 5 | Pay checks: Flatwillow Ranch (A-O) |
1888 |
| 46 / 6 | Pay slips and pay checks: Valley Garden and Home
Ranch [scattered] |
1893-1902 |
| 46 / 7 | Payroll: sheep shearing |
1895 June |
| 46 / 8 | Petty ledger sheet |
1903 |
| 46 / 8a | Price book |
circa 1890 |
| 46 / 9 | Price lists: Armour and Company; Armour Packing
Company [Butte: meat] |
1899-1908 |
| 46 / 10 | Price lists: Davidson Grocery Company [Butte] |
undated |
| 46 / 11 | Price lists: dynamite |
1902 |
| 46 / 12 | Price lists: Gallatin Valley Milling Company |
1905-1909, undated |
| 46 / 13 | Price lists: Henningsen Produce Company [Butte] |
1905-1909 |
| 46 / 14 | Price lists: Hormel and Company [Butte: meat] |
1906-1907 |
| 46 / 15 | Price lists: Lindsay and Company [Helena: wholesale
fruit and produce] |
1895, 1909 |
| 46 / 16 | Price lists: J.E. Oppenheimer [Butte: fruit and
cigars] |
1891, 1893 |
| 46 / 17-18 | Price lists: Ryan and Newton Company; Ryan and
Virden Company [Butte: grocers] |
1905-1909 |
| 46 / 19 | Price lists: Union Mercantile Company [Helena] |
1887-1889 |
| 46 / 20 | Price lists: A-S |
1887-1909 |
| 46 / 21 | Price quotations by S.R. Buford and Company |
1892-1893, undated |
| 46 / 22 | Promissory notes [scattered] |
1879-1908 |
| 46 / 23 | Receipts [scattered] |
1879-1909 |
| 46 / 24 | Sales summaries |
1899-1901 |
| 46 / 25 | Scale slips (re grain and coal hauled) |
1909 |
| 46 / 26 | Tax bill [Yellowstone County]; blank tax
assessments forms [Custer County]: Elling and Buford |
1890-1894 |
| 46 / 27 | Tax bills, receipts, and assessment lists [Madison
County; Pony; Virginia City] |
1872-1909 |
| Volume | ||
| 110 | Wagon freight book |
1898-1903 |
| oversizebox-folder | ||
| 47 / 1-4 | Wholesale liquor dealer's book (lists receipts and
disposal of liquor, gauger's reports, etc.) [Oversize Box; Vol. 1 is photocopy; Vol. 1a is
restricted due to fragility] |
1878-1884 |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 48 / 1 | Wool memo books |
1897-1899 |
| 48 / 2 | Miscellaneous: S.R. and Kate Buford personal |
1876-1902 |
Legal Documents |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 48 / 3 | Business licenses |
1879, 1908-1910 |
| 48 / 4 | Tax sales |
1896-1897 |
| 48 / 5 | Miscellaneous (includes agreements, application for
sheep grazing permit, bills of sale, mortgages, notice of water right) |
1881-1903 |
Printed Materials |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 48 / 6 | Commercial newsletters (re livestock, hides and
furs, wool) |
1889-1908 |
Speeches |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 48 / 7 | Speech at dedication of St. Paul's Elling Memorial
Church |
1903 March |
Subject File |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 48 / 8 | Fraternal orders: Ancient Order of United Workmen
(AOUW) |
1885-1904 |
| 48 / 9 | Fraternal orders: Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks (BPOE) |
1898-1904 |
| 48 / 10 | Fraternal orders: Independent Order of Odd Fellows
(IOOF) |
1900-1903 |
| 48 / 11 | Rheumatism cures |
1894-1904 |
| 48 / 12 | Spring Creek ditch |
1891 |
Miscellany |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 48 / 13 | Contents of wallet/memo book (includes memos,
receipts, clippings, etc.) |
circa 1886 |
| 48 / 14 | Death claims paid by New York Life Insurance
Company (includes several Montana people) |
1895 |
S.R. Buford Political Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Incoming Correspondence |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 48 / 15 | W.A. Clark [Butte] |
1892 |
| 48 / 16 | W.A. Clark [Virginia City: county attorney] |
1891-1897 |
| 48 / 17 | Montana Board of Sheep Commissioners |
1897-1903 |
| 48 / 18 | Montana Board of Stock Commissioners |
1887-1891 |
| 48 / 19 | William Morris (re state institution for Twin
Bridges private normal school; salary bill) |
1891 |
| 48 / 20 | Miscellaneous: A-W |
1886-1904 |
Financial Records |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 48 / 21 | Bank statements and cancelled checks: Madison
County Democratic Party |
1900-1902 |
Subject File |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 48 / 22 | American Bimetallic League |
1892-1893 |
| 48 / 23 | Capital fight |
1892-1894 |
| 48 / 24 | Constitutional Convention |
1889 |
| 48 / 25 | Democratic Party |
1886-1904, undated |
| 48 / 26 | Legislature: correspondence |
1887-1903, undated |
| 48 / 27-28 | Legislature: bills (includes State Normal School,
State Orphanage, Board of Stock Commissioners, livestock liens, state seal, road
petitions, election districts, obscenity, liquor sales, county officials' salaries) |
1891, 1893, undated |
Miscellany |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 48 / 29 | Election returns, political brochures, clippings,
etc. |
1891-1898 |
Charles H. Buford Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Incoming Correspondence |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 49 / 1 | A-B (includes T.M. Adams, W.M. Alward) |
1885-1886 |
| 49 / 2 | Buford family (includes D.J.; Henry; N.L.) |
1886-1905 |
| 49 / 3 | Simeon R. Buford |
1884-1886 |
| 49 / 4 | C-G (includes James E. Callaway, I. Carder, Frank
Conway, George F. Cope, Henry Elling, Thomas J. Galbraith, F.A. Guiler) |
1885-1886, 1905-1909 |
| 49 / 5 | R.N. Hawkins |
1885-1886 |
| 49 / 6 | H-K (includes N.J. Isdell) |
1885-1886, 1906-1909 |
| 49 / 7 | Billy Marr [employee of S.R. Buford and Company] |
1885 |
| 49 / 8 | M-P (includes Northern Pacific Railroad, John F.
Olliffe, C.M. Pinckney) |
1885-1886, 1905-1909 |
| 49 / 9 | Rosenbaum Brothers and Company [Chicago: livestock]
(includes lists of western livestock shipments) |
1906-1907 |
| 49 / 10 | R-W (includes Peter Reoder, Thomas Shirley, N.P.
Stilson, T.H. Vinter) |
1885-1908 |
Court Papers |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 49 / 11 | In the matter of the Estate of R.N. Hawkins:
creditor's claim |
1885 |
Financial Records |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 49 / 12 | Bank book: assignee for R.N. Hawkins |
1885-1887 |
| 49 / 13 | Daybook: assignee for R.N. Hawkins |
1885 |
| 49 / 14 | Ledger: assignee for R.N. Hawkins |
1885 |
| 49 / 15 | List of customers and time book |
1885 |
| 49 / 16 | Miscellaneous (includes bank statements, invoices,
receipts) |
1885-1886, 1908 |
Buford Stage Lines (Montana Stage Company; Virginia City and Red Bluff Stage and Express Company; Virginia City and Sappington Stage Line) Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Financial Records |
||
| Box/Folder | ||
| 50 / 1 | Agents' monthly statement: Virginia City and Red
Bluff Stage Company |
1893 November |
| 50 / 2 | Cash book and passenger lists: Virginia City and
Red Bluff Stage and Express Company |
1882-1902 |
| 50 / 3 | C.O.D. and advance charges: Virginia City and Red
Bluff Stage and Express Company |
1891-1902 |
| 50 / 4 | Fare rates: Virginia City and Red Bluff Stage and
Express Company |
1891-1902 |
| 50 / 5 | Fare rates: Virginia City and Sappington Stage Line |
1893-1901 |
| 50 / 6 | Freight and express book: Montana Stage Company,
Mrs. E.C. Pinckney, agent |
1890-1896 |
| 50 / 7 | Journal Virginia City and Sappington Stage Line |
1898-1902 |
| 50 / 8 | Monthly statement: Virginia City and Sappington
Stage Line |
1899 December |
| 50 / 9 | Waybills: Virginia City and Sappington Stage Line |
1899 December |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Agricultural implements--Trade and manufacture--Montana--Virginia City
- Capitals (Cities)--Montana
- Chinese--Montana--Virginia City
- Coffee trade--Montana--Virginia City
- Farmers--Montana--Madison County
- Freight and freightage--Montana--Madison County
- General Stores--Montana--Virginia City
- Grocery trade--Montana--Virginia City
- Horse Industry--Montana--Madison County
- Liquor industry--Montana--Virginia City
- Postal service--Montana--Virginia City
- Ranches--Montana--Madison County
- Retail trade--Montana--Sheridan
- Retail trade--Montana--Virginia City
- Sheep dogs--Montana
- Sheep ranches--Montana--Madison County
- Wholesale trade--Montana--Virginia City
Personal Names
- Buford, Simeon R., 1846-1905 (creator)
Geographical Names
- Butte (Mont.)--Commerce
- Cameron (Mont.)
- Dillon (Mont.)--Commerce
- Ennis (Mont.)--Commerce
- Flatwillow Ranch (Mont.)
- Helena (Mont.)--Commerce
- Madison County (Mont.)--Commerce
- Madison County (Mont.)--Politics and government
- Meadow Creek (Mont.)
- Norris (Mont.)--Commerce
- Pony (Mont.)--Commerce
- Puller Springs (Mont.)
- Red Bluff (Mont.)
- Sheridan (Mont.)--Commerce
- Silver Star (Mont.)--Commerce
- St. Paul's Church (Virginia City, Mont.)
- Utah--Commerce
- Valley Garden Ranch (Mont.)
- Virginia City (Mont.)--Commerce
- Wyoming--Commerce
Finding aid prepared by Ellie Arguimbau
2006
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