Templeton Family papers, 1886-1994

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Templeton Family
Title
Templeton Family papers
Dates
1886-1994 (inclusive)
Quantity
3.8 linear feet
Collection Number
Mss 701
Summary
The collection contains correspondence, speeches and writings, scrapbooks of Payne Templeton pertaining to his years as an educator and his service in World War II and during the German occupation. The collection also contains a small amount of Templeton family history, two scrapbooks by Payne's daughter, Patricia, and 3 diaries written by Payne's wife, Gladys.
Repository
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library
University of Montana
32 Campus Dr. #9936
59812-9936
Missoula, MT
Telephone: 406-243-2053
library.archives@umontana.edu
Access Restrictions

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and The University of Montana-Missoula.

Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Born in Era, Texas, May 25, 1894, Payne Templeton accompanied his family to Missoula in 1912 and entered the University of Montana. He was graduated in 1916 with a degree in Law and a minor in English and History. During his attendance at the University he also took courses in Education and in 1916 taught in St. Regis, Montana. He went on to teach in Virginia City, Montana and then to Shelby where he was hired as Superintendent of Schools. He was Principle of Sweetgrass County High School in Big Timber, 1921-1924; Principal of Flathead County High School, 1924-1936; and Superintendent of Schools in Helena, 1936-1943. He had taken and passed the state bar exam in 1918, but never practiced. In 1931, he received a Master of Arts degree in Education from the University of Chicago. In 1943 he entered the U. S. Army and served in the Military Government in Europe from 1944 to 1946. He returned to Germany in 1947 and served as Chief of the Education Branch of Military Government and as Land Commissioner for the Province of Wuertemberg-Baden. He served in this position until 1942 when he became advisor to the Teacher Education ICA Mission to the Philippines. After only one year in the Philippines, he became advisor to the government of the Republic of China for Overseas Chinese Education on Taiwan. He went on to serve in a similar capacity in the Dominican Republic, Columbia and El Salvador. He retired to Arizona in 1963 and died in Sun City, Arizona, April 5, 1970.

Payne Templeton was married to Gladys Lewis on an unknown date. At the time of the 1930 census they had four children: Mary, Marjorie, David and Patricia. Gladys was born on 3 October 1893 in Howard, Montana and died on 3 June, 1956 in Taipeh, Formosa, China. Patricia was born on 3 February 1925 in Kalispell, Montana and died in 2007.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The bulk of this collection consists of the correspondence and writings of Payne Templeton, and records of his military service and his service as an educator in Germany following World War II. The collection also includes typescripts of three diaries of his wife, Gladys; scrapbooks created by his daughter, Patricia Templeton; and family photographs and documents including typescripts of correspondence exchanged by Hugh S. Lewis of eastern Montana and his future wife, Mary Jones of New York, in the late 1880s.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and any other applicable statutes. Copyright in "One Man's Life" held by Payne Templeton's heirs; non-exclusive rights to "One Man's Life" transferred to the Archives by Patricia Templeton in 2000.

Preferred Citation

[Name of document or photograph number], Templeton Family Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This collection has been divided into four series.

Series I: Payne Templeton, 3.2 linear feet, 1916-1988

Subseries 1: Biographical materials, 1 folder, 1918-1962

Subseries 2: Correspondence, 0.4 linear feet, 1923-1963

Subseries 3: Speeches and Writings, 0.6 linear feet, 1946-1988

Subseries 4: Scrapbooks, 1.2 linear feet, 1916-1986

Series II: Gladys Lewis Templeton, 0.2 linear feet, 1905-1952

Series III: Patricia Templeton: 0.2 linear feet, 1956-1994

Series IV: Miscellaneous, 0.2 linear feet, 1886-1961

Custodial History

This collection was in the position of Patricia Templeton, daughter of Payne and Gladys Templeton, until its transfer by Patricia's nephew and executor of her estate, Walter Haight, to the Archives in 2006.

Acquisition Information

Donated to the Archives by Walter Haight in 2006.

Processing Note

The materials in this collection were received in two accessions. Payne Templeton's reminiscence, "One Man's Life," had been donated to the Archives in 2000 by Patricia Templeton. The second accession of six boxes, was received by the Archives in 2006. This portion of the collection arrived with little discernable original order. The majority of the materials were then arranged chronologically by format and series were designated by creator. Legal documents belonging to the donor, Walter Haight, were removed from the collection.

Separated Materials

A copy of "They Came and Stayed: Rosebud County History" was removed from this collection and added to the department's monograph collection.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I :  Payne Templeton, 1916-1988Return to Top

3.2 linear feet
Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 1: Biographical Materials
1 folder
1918-1962
Box/Folder
1/1
Biographical material
1918-1963
Subseries 2: Correspondence
0.4 linear feet
1923-1963
Box/Folder
1/2
Correspondence
1923-1939
1/3
Correspondence
1943
1/4
Correspondence
January-March, 1944
1/5
Correspondence
April-June, 1944
1/6
Correspondence
July-August, 1944
1/7
Correspondence
September-October, 1944
1/8
Correspondence
November-December, 1944
1/9
Correspondence
January-March, 1945
1/10
Correspondence
April-June, 1945
1/11
Correspondence
July-October, 1945
1/12
Correspondence
November-December, 1945
1/13
Correspondence
1946
1/14
Correspondence
1948
1/15
Correspondence
1950-1951
1/16
Correspondence
1952
1/17
Correspondence
1953
1/18
Correspondence
1954
1/19
Correspondence
1955-1956
1/20
Correspondence
1957
2/1
Correspondence
1958
2/2
Correspondence
1959
2/3
Correspondence
1960
2/4
Correspondence
1961
2/5
Correspondence
1962-1963
Subseries 3: Speeches and Writings
0.6 linear feet
1946-1988
Box/Folder
2/6
Notes on France while at school in New Haven
1943
2/7
Germany
1946-1947
2/8
Germany
1948
2/9
Germany
1949
2/10
Germany
1950
2/11
Germany
1951
2/12
Germany
1952
2/13
Germany
1956 and circa 1960
2/14
Germany
undated
2/15
Philippines
1953-1955
2/16-17
One Man's Life, handwritten notebooks
undated
3/1
One Man's Life, handwritten draft
undated
3/1
One Man's Life, handwritten draft
undated
3/2
One Man's Life, bound final
1986
3/3
One Man's Life, revised
1995
3/3
One Man's Life, errata
undated
Subseries 4: Scrapbooks
1.2 linear feet
1916-1986
Box
OS1
Montana
photographs, clippings, correspondence
1916-1968
OS2
Family history and miscellaneous
photographs, correspondence
1925-1986
OS2
Family history and miscellaneous
photographs, correspondence
1916-1968
OS3
Military Service and years in Germany
photographs, clippings, correspondence. Includes information about Gladys
1943-1953
OS4
Chief of Education Branch, U. S. Military Government, Wuertemberg-Baden, Germany
Correspondence, writings, passports
1947-1953 and 1984

Series II:  Gladys Lewis Templeton, 1905-1952Return to Top

0.2 linear feet
Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
3/5
Poetry
1905-1913
3/6
Diary (typescript)
per introduction to transcript, diary covers the last semester of Lewis' sophmore year and 1st semester of her junior year at the University of Montana in Missoula. She lived in Craig hall and in the Prescott house. It also covers her attendance at the Pan-Pacific Fair in San Francisco,
1915
3/7
Diary
1948
3/8
Diary
1950
4/1
Speeches and Writings
1950-1952

Series III:  Patricia Templeton, 1956-1994Return to Top

0.2 linear feet
Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
4/2
Scrapbook
includes passports and photographs
1956-1975
4/3
Scrapbook
Letter about Columbia, illustrated with photographs, postcards and stamps, to Patricia from Ofelia Jaramillo
October 1961
4/4
Last Will and Testament
1994

Series IV:  Miscellaneous, 1886-1961Return to Top

0.2 linear feet
Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
4/5
Templeton and Lewis genealogy
includes copy photographs of ca. 1880s originals
1983 and undated
4/6
Crawford family / Gladine Lewis Crawford papers
1911-1970
4/7-8
Correspondence, Hugh S. Lewis to Mary Jones Lewis, typescripts
Hugh S. Lewis is writing from several locations in Montana including Putnam, Horton, Forsyth, Custer, and Emmels Creek, Montana
1886-1890
4/9
Correspondence, Mary Jones Lewis to Suna, typescripts
Mary Jones Lewis is writing from Horton, Montana and Howard, Montana to her sister in New York
1888-1897
4/10
Annotated map of Luxemburg
1941
4/11
Clippings
1922-1961
4/12
Photographs
1900-1960
4/13
Notes removed from a copy of the publication "They Came and Stayed: Rosebud County History"
undated
4/14
Certificates or acknowledgements for Payne Templeton (in Spanish)
1960 and undated
5/1
Miscellaneous publications and reports about educational systems
“Educational Developments in the United States,” 1951; “Sovietization of the Public School System in East Germany,” 1951; “Information on Education Around the World,” 1959; “Welfare, Assistance and Problems in Germany Today,” 1950; “History of U.S. Educational Activities in Western Germany Under the Office of the U. S. High Commissioner for Germany,” 1951; “Brief History of the Program Now Being Conducted by the Education Mission at Honduraa, C. A.,” 1959; “ICA – Servicio Education Program, The Dominican Republic,” 1959; “Improving Farming for Economic Security,” 1st Regional Curriculum Development Workshop, Pangasinan Normal School, Bayambang, Pangasinan,1955
1950s
5/2
Annuals
Sweetgrass County High School, 1922; Flathead County High School, 1936; Lewis and Clark County High School, 1937
1922, 1936-1937

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany
  • Women college students--Montana--Missoula--Diaries

Personal Names

  • Lewis, Hugh S.--Correspondence
  • Lewis, Mary Jane Jones--Correspondence
  • Templeton, Gladys Lewis, 1893-1956
  • Templeton, Patricia June, 1925-2007
  • Templeton, Payne, 1894-1970

Corporate Names

  • Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone). Office of Military Government. Education and Cultural Relations Division.
  • State University of Montana (Missoula)--Students--Diaries
  • United States. Army--Foreign service--Germany
  • United States. Army--Officers
  • University of Montana--Missoula--Alumni and alumnae

Family Names

  • Templeton family--Archives

Geographical Names

  • Germany--History--1945-1955

Form or Genre Terms

  • Family papers

Titles within the Collection

  • One Man's Life