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William M. Nichols papers, 1914-1966
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Nichols, William M. (William Morse), 1881-1957
- Title
- William M. Nichols papers
- Dates
- 1914-1966 (inclusive)19141966
- Quantity
- 10 linear feet of shelf space
- Collection Number
- MC 292 (collection)
- Summary
- William M. Nichols was president of the Yellowstone Park Company, the H.C. Child Corporation, the Spanish Creek Ranch, and other enterprises. Papers include general correspondence (1946-1957); financial records; minutes of the Yellowstone Park Company (1955-1962); and an extensive subject file (1914-1966) maintained both by Nichols and by his son John Q. Nichols, concerning the various corporate and financial affairs of the Nichols and Child families.
- 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
-
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
William Morse Nichols was born December 1, 1881, in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of William Ford Nichols (1849-1927) and Clara Quintard Nichols (b. 1857). He had three siblings: John W. Nichols, who became Bishop of Shanghai; Clara Nichols Mills; and Margaret Nichols Clark. While Billie--as he was always known by family and friends--was a young child, the family moved to San Francisco, where William Ford Nichols was appointed Episcopal Bishop of California. William briefly attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1897 to 1899. He then was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He graduated in 1903 and became a second lieutenant in the 11th Cavalry, assigned to Yellowstone National Park. He resigned in 1905 to work for the Engineering Division of the Northern Pacific Railway. In 1907 he left the employ of the railroad to work as secretary to Harry W. Child, president of the Yellowstone Park Transportation Company. That same year he married Child's daughter, Ellen Dean Child. Nichols gradually moved up in the company administration, becoming assistant to the president in 1915. During World War I Nichols served as a major in supply and ordnance roles in the U.S. Army. He did not serve overseas. In 1927 he took over active management of the company from his ailing father-in-law. On Child's death in 1931, Nichols succeeded him as president. Under his presidency the various concessions in Yellowstone National Park--including the Yellowstone Park Transportation Company, the Yellowstone Park Hotel Company, and others--were merged to form the Yellowstone Park Company. William Nichols continued active management of the company until the mid 1940s when his older son, John Q. Nichols, gradually began to take over active management. In December 1956, William Nichols resigned as president of the company to take the position of chairman of the board of directors. John Q. succeeded him as president. In addition to his Yellowstone Park Company holdings, Nichols was active in the H.C. Child Corporation, the H.C. Child Trust, the Spanish Creek Ranch (Flying D Ranges, Inc.) the Green Meadow Farm, and numerous real estate ventures in Gardiner, Montana, and La Jolla, California. William M. Nichols and his wife E.D.C. "Dean" Nichols had three children: Adelaide, John Q., and Dean. Nichols died August 6, 1957, in Yellowstone National Park. Ellen Dean Child was born in 1885, the daughter of Harry W. Child and Adelaide Dean Child. Her aunt was Maria Dean, pioneer woman doctor of Helena. Her brother Huntley Child and nephew Huntley Child, Jr., were active in the management of the Yellowstone Park Company. She married William M. Nichols in November 1907. Maintaining households in Yellowstone in the summer, La Jolla, California, in the winter and Helena, Montana, in the spring and fall, Dean became active in social and charitable activities in all three towns. She donated the Adelaide Child Laboratory to St. Peter's Hospital, Camp Child to the YMCA, and money to the City of Helena for the building of Beattie Memorial Park. In addition she was instrumental in the formation of the Green Meadow Country Club. She was active, with her husband, in the management of the H.W. Child Corporation and H.W. Child Trust, and served briefly as president of the Yellowstone Park Company after the death of her husband in 1957. E.D.C. Nichols died in October 1966. Adelaide Nichols, daughter of William M. and Ellen Dean Child Nichols, was born in 1909. In 1930 she married Michael Casserly. They had two children Joan and Mariana. Adelaide later married Herrick Low, who was very active in the management of the Nichols' investments. She died in Burlingame, California, January 9, 1998. John Quintard Nichols was born in 1910. He attended Harvard University and Kelsey-Jenney business college. After graduating he worked briefly for the Wood, Struthers and Company investment firm before joining his father's company. He rose from dishwasher to transportation agent to auditing office clerk from 1935 to 1937 and then became Secretary-Treasurer in 1938. During World War II he was a captain in the U.S. Army Air Force and served in Leyte and the Philippines. In 1946 he returned to the Yellowstone Park Company. He became president in 1956, and then succeeded his mother after her brief term as president following the death of William M. Nichols. John Q. Nichols died in February 1980 in La Jolla, California. Dean Nichols was born in 1914. He trained at the Yale University School of Medicine, receiving his M.D. in 1942. He interned at Baltimore City Hospital and received further training at the Mayo Clinic. During the late 1940s and early 1950s he practiced as a dermatologist and radiologist in Helena. He also practiced medicine in Texas, California, and Arizona. He died in Phoenix, Arizona, on January 25, 1973. Harry Wilbour Child was born in San Francisco in 1857. He attended prep school in Massachusetts to prepare for Harvard, but went to work in a wholesale clothing house in Boston instead. He returned to San Francisco, where he worked as a broker with his father. He did not like the business and left California for Montana. During the early 1880s he managed mines at Gloster and Gregory for A.J. Seligman, and in 1888 moved to Great Falls to manage a silver smelter. After it closed in 1890, he moved to Helena. He took over operation of the Yellowstone Park Transportation Company on the death of his brother-in-law Silas S. Huntley in 1901. That same year the company acquired the Mammoth Hotel from the Northern Pacific Railway. H.W. Child built the hotels at Upper Basin, Grand Canyon, Fountain, Yellowstone Lake, and Mammoth. The Yellowstone Park Transportation Company owned 800 horses and 500 coaches. These horses were raised by Child in partnership with Charles Anceny at the Flying D Ranch. Child married Adelaide Dean. They had one daughter Ellen Dean Child and one son Huntley Child. Harry W. Child died February 4, 1931, in La Jolla, California.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Collection consists primarily of general correspondence files (1946-1957) of William M. Nichols; and subject files (1914-1966) that were maintained over the years by Harry W. Child, William M. Nichols, and John Q. Nichols. The correspondence files consist of personal letters between Nichols and a wide circle of family and friends, many of whom were also business associates. While the emphasis of the files is personal, they contain many letters concerning the operation of the various companies and concerning Yellowstone National Park management issues. The subject files contain correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other materials organized into broad topical categories. In addition there are financial records (1914-1957) consisting principally of audit reports for several of the companies; and tax records. There are a few legal documents, and miscellaneous other records.
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 series. Some material housed in Archives Map Case. See inventory below for more information.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection
Biographical Materials Return to Top
Container(s) | Description |
---|---|
Box/Folder | |
1 / 1 | Biographical materials (includes obituaries of
William M. Nichols, Ellen Dean Child Nichols, and Harry C. Child; genealogical charts;
application forms; correspondence) |
General Correspondence Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
1 / 2 | Col. James M. Adamson |
1956 |
1 / 3-5 | Horace M. Albright (former director of National Park
Service; includes description of visit by New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey) |
1946-1957 |
1 / 6 | Army and Navy Club, Washington D.C. |
1955-1957 |
1 / 7 | A (correspondents include Frank A. Allen, American
Red Cross, Anderson Motors, Walter Arnholt, G.F. Ashby) |
1946-1948 |
1 / 8 | Dr. Otto Barkan |
1945-1957 |
1 / 9 | Sen. Frank A. Barrett |
1948-1955 |
1 / 10-13 | Hilda Barringer (re management of La Jolla house) |
1946-1957 |
1 / 14 | Fern Bernard |
1948 |
1 / 15 | Boys' Clubs of America |
1947-1955 |
1 / 16 | Howard B. Brown |
1946-1955 |
1 / 17 | Burlingame Country Club |
1949-1954 |
1 / 18-20 | B (correspondents include E.W. Bache, Jesse G.
Baldwin, Peter Bettledorf, Anthony Bliss, Gerald Clark Brant) |
1946-1957 |
1 / 21 | Dale Carnegie |
1947-1948 |
1 / 22 | Adelaide Casserly and family (daughter; see also
Herrick Low) |
1946-1956 |
2 / 1 | Adelaide Dean Child (Mrs. Harry W. Child) (includes
estate materials) |
1946, 1949 |
2 / 2 | Huntley Child (Sr. and Jr.) |
1946-1954 |
2 / 3 | William Christie (Christie Company, clothing) |
1946-1955 |
2 / 4 | Church Divinity School of the Pacific |
1946-1956 |
2 / 5 | City Dye Works (re carpets) |
1946-1948 |
2 / 6 | Margaret Nichols Clark (sister) |
1949-1956 |
2 / 7 | Committee for Constitutional Government |
1946-1952 |
2 / 8 | Helen Connors |
1946, 1948 |
2 / 9 | Continental Oil Company (includes Willis Johnson) |
1950-1956 |
2 / 10 | J.R. Coogan (re La Jolla house landscaping) |
1949-1950 |
2 / 11 | Albert Cotsworth (Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad |
1948-1953 |
2 / 12 | N.J. "Jack" Croney |
1946-1952 |
2 / 13 | Edward Cunningham (J.M. Forbes and Company) |
1948 |
2 / 14 | C (correspondents include Elizabeth Carpenter, The
Cody Club, Will Cooper, Eleanor Chittenden Cress) |
1946-1957 |
2 / 15 | Bill Daugherty (Yellowstone Park Company; Desert Inn,
Palm Springs, California) |
1947 |
2 / 16 | Davis and Clifton (Burlingame, California, realtors) |
1946-1950 |
2 / 17 | Arthur E. Demaray (associate director, National Park
Service) |
1946-1949 |
2 / 18 | Desmond's (re chauffeurs' uniforms) |
1949-1957 |
2 / 19-20 | U.S. Representative Wesley D'Ewart |
1948-1957 |
2 / 21 | Minnie Jean Dobie (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) |
1954 |
2 / 22 | Don Doig (Automobile Club of Southern California) |
1947-1955 |
2 / 23 | Dale E. Doty (includes National Right to Work
Committee) |
1956-1957 |
2 / 24 | Lewis W. and Peggy Douglas |
1947-1956 |
2 / 25 | Newton B. Drury (National Park Service director) |
1947-1950 |
2 / 26 | D (correspondents include John Henry Kelso Davis,
Detroit International Bridge Company, Thomas E. Dewey, Charles D. Dickey, W.E.
Diefenbach, U.S. Senator Henry C. Dworshak) |
1946-1957 |
2 / 27 | Eastman Kodak Company |
1952-1957 |
2 / 28 | U.S. Senator Zales N. Ecton (includes planned display
of Declaration of Independence) |
1948-1950 |
2 / 29 | Dr. George Eusterman (Mayo Clinic; re Dean Nichols'
fellowship) |
1946 |
2 / 30 | E (correspondents include Sam Eagle, Eleanor M.
Ecker, Roe Emery) |
1948-1956 |
3 / 1-3 | First National Bank and Trust Company, Helena (re
investments, safe deposit, etc.; correspondents include L.S. Hazard, Fred Heinecke,
Walter Brutsche) |
1946-1957 |
3 / 4 | Harry FitzGerald, Inc., Furnishers to Gentlemen |
1945-1949 |
3 / 5 | Claire Flint |
1952 |
3 / 6 | F (correspondents include Farmers Creamery, John W.
Fisher, U.S. Representative Orvin B. Fjare) |
1946-1955 |
3 / 7 | Richard E. Gaines (La Jolla painting contractor) |
1946-1952 |
3 / 8-10 | Hugh D. Galusha (accountant) |
1946-1956 |
3 / 11 | Max Goodsill (Northern Pacific Railway Company) |
1946-1957 |
3 / 12-13 | Vernon Goodwin (Yellowstone Park Company; includes
discussion of proposal to open park to winter use) |
1946-1954 |
3 / 14 | Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company |
1946-1954 |
3 / 15 | Grand Teton Lodge and Transportation Company (Jackson
Lake Lodge) |
1952-1953 |
3 / 16 | Ulysses S. Grant III (re original act establishing
Yellowstone National Park; visit to Park) |
1947-1955 |
3 / 17 | Frank Gray |
1947-1948 |
3 / 18 | G (correspondents include Augustine James Gagliardo,
Claude Gardner, Gateway Hiawatha Boys Club, Robert Everett Gillespie, Glacier Park
Company, Edmund B. Gregory) |
1946-1957 |
3 / 19 | Warren A. Hall (W.A. Hall and Company, Gardiner) |
1951-1957 |
3 / 20 | Bernard O. Hallin (Yellowstone Park Company; includes
Pete and Thomas Hallin) |
1946-1956 |
3 / 21-22 | C.A. Hamilton (Hamilton Stores Inc.; includes
material on rivalry with Yellowstone Park Company) |
1946-1957 |
3 / 23 | Trevor O. Hammond (re First National Bank and Trust
Company; Independent Coal and Coke Company) |
1948-1952 |
3 / 24 | Jule M. Hannaford |
1946-1952 |
3 / 25 | Hansen Packing Company (correspondents include
Charles E. Woolfolk, D.J. Driscoll, J.V. Keyes) |
1946-1954 |
3 / 26 | Fred Harvey, Dagget Harvey, Byron Harvey (re Fred
Harvey enterprises in several national parks; includes information on Don Tresidder) |
1948-1955 |
4 / 1 | Jack Ellis Haynes, Isabel Haynes (re photography
business) |
1946-1957 |
4 / 2-3 | Howard H. Hays (Glacier Park Transport Company) |
1946-1957 |
4 / 4 | Fred Heinecke (see also First National Bank and Trust
Company, Helena) |
1949-1956 |
4 / 5 | Helena Community Chest |
1950-1956 |
4 / 6 | A.T. Hibbard (Union Bank and Trust Company, Helena) |
1946-1957 |
4 / 7-9 | Wetmore Hodges (Hodges Research and Development
Company; re proposal for containerization of shipping and other inventions; also
includes William B. Nichols) |
1946-1957 |
4 / 10-12 | Hotels (re Nichols family travel arrangements) |
1946-1957 |
4 / 13 | Colonel Marion W. Howze (re arrangements for Joan
Casserly's attendance at West Point dance) |
1950 |
4 / 14 | H (correspondents include Ansel F. Hall, Fred Haller,
Nancy Clark Hammond, Foster Hannaford, U.S. Representative William Henry Harrison,
Robert M. Henry, Hillside Improvement Company (La Jolla), DeWitt V. Hutchings) |
1946-1957 |
4 / 15 | Lord Inverchapel (re visit to Park) |
1946 |
4 / 16 | George H. Johnston |
1955-1956 |
4 / 17 | J (correspondents include Maude Jackson, W.L.D.
Jackson, Georg Jensen Inc., Joe Joffe, Edna Crawford Johnson, Fred T. Johnston (Lassen
National Park), Jordanian embassy) |
1946-1957 |
4 / 18 | Dr. Edmund L. Keeney |
1953-1955 |
4 / 19 | Marianne Casserly Kennan (grand-daughter) |
1954-1957 |
4 / 20 | Karl Kenyon (Security Trust and Savings Bank, La
Jolla) |
1946-1956 |
4 / 21 | Kern County Land Company (John T. Pigott) |
1947-1951 |
4 / 22 | Dr. Otto Klein |
1948-1957 |
4 / 23 | Michael Kley (re poem "The Grand Old Gal of
Yellowstone") |
1954 |
4 / 24 | K (correspondents include Daisy Killman, T.S. King,
Dr. Melvin H. Knoeff, Robert Koppe) |
1946-1957 |
5 / 1 | La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club |
1947-1957 |
5 / 2 | La Jolla Country Club |
1947-1953 |
5 / 3 | Philip M. and Helen Lansdale |
1946-1957 |
5 / 4 | Letters of introduction |
1947 |
5 / 5 | William Loeb (Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader;
Associated Newspapers, Inc.) |
1953-1954 |
5 / 6 | Herrick and Adelaide Low (see also Adelaide Casserly) |
1956-1957 |
5 / 7 | L (correspondents include various La Jolla
businesses, I.H. Larom, Ludwig Liebwein, Life magazine, Livingston Community Hospital
Association) |
1946-1957 |
5 / 8 | General Douglas MacArthur (re Remington safe and
visit to Park by son) |
1948-1954 |
5 / 9 | R.J. MacDonald house |
1947-1950 |
5 / 10 | Machin Shirt Company |
1950-1956 |
5 / 11 | Madame Butterfly (clothing store) |
1949-1955 |
5 / 12 | McDermott Fruit Company |
1946-1952 |
5 / 13 | T.B. Miller Company (insurance; correspondents
include T.B. Miller, George Miller) |
1947-1957 |
5 / 14 | Charles F. and Clare Mills (Clare was W.M. Nichols'
sister) |
1946-1957 |
5 / 15 | Wayne Moffitt |
1957 |
5 / 16 | Montana Automobile Association |
1947-1956 |
5 / 17 | Montana Club |
1946-1957 |
5 / 18 | Charles C. Moore (C.M. Ranch) |
1949 |
5 / 19 | Ed Moorman |
1946-1954 |
5 / 20-22 | M (correspondents include Melvin E. Magnuson,
Marshall Field and Company, Douglas McLellan and Associates, A.T. Mercier, Merck and
Company, Rudolph Mikolich, Mission Garage, Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph
Company) |
1946-1957 |
5 / 23 | National Geographic Society |
1949-1956 |
5 / 24 | Emil E. Nelson (Northern Pacific Railway; includes
notice of death of Jule Hannaford) |
1948-1952 |
5 / 25 | Major L.B. Nelson (includes article "U.S. Army
Hotelmen in Paris") |
1945-1946 |
5 / 26 | Clara Quintard Nichols (mother) |
1926 |
5 / 27-28 | Dr. Dean Nichols (son) |
1946-1957 |
5 / 29 | John Q. Nichols (son) and John Q. Nichols Jr. |
1946-1955 |
5 / 30 | William Ford Nichols (nephew) |
1952 |
5 / 31 | Nichols family |
1950-1953 |
5 / 32 | Northern Pacific Railway Company (includes Emil E.
Nelson) |
1947-1957 |
5 / 33 | N (correspondents include National Council of the
Churches of Christ re ministry in Park, National Parks Association, J.C. Newsome and
Company, Norwegian embassy) |
1946-1957 |
6 / 1 | Hilmer Oehlmann (Yosemite Park and Curry Company) |
1946-1954 |
6 / 2 | O (correspondents include Captain H.D. Oberdorfer,
U.S. Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Out-of-Town Shop, Oxford University Press) |
1946-1951 |
6 / 3 | Harry Pence |
1948-1956 |
6 / 4 | Frank H. Phipps |
1948 |
6 / 5 | Glenn Phipps |
1949-1954 |
6 / 6 | Atherton and Joan Phleger (grand-daughter) |
1954-1956 |
6 / 7 | Ralph Pierson |
1956-1957 |
6 / 8 | Hal and Betty Pomeroy (neice) |
1946-1956 |
6 / 9 | H.A. Poole (re Quintard family genealogy) |
1947, 1957 |
6 / 10 | Allen M. Pope |
1948-1957 |
6 / 11 | Trev and Ellie Povah (Hamilton Stores Inc.; Ellie was
Nichols' niece) |
1948-1957 |
6 / 12 | P (correspondents include Pacific Camera Store,
Pacific Coast Record, Richard Payment, Kathryn K. Power, Mary Power, Thomas C. Power) |
1946-1957 |
6 / 13 | Julianna Quest (re CARE) |
1949 |
6 / 14 | Alice M. Quintard Estate (aunt) |
1946 |
6 / 15 | Q (correspondents include Gene Quaw, Quintard
Hospital) |
1947, 1951 |
6 / 16 | Railroads (re travel plans, lost luggage, etc.) |
1946-1957 |
6 / 17 | Readers digest (re subscription problems due to
multiple households) |
1947-1956 |
6 / 18 | Allen B. Ripley |
1946-1953 |
6 / 19 | Dorsey R. Rodney |
1947-1951 |
6 / 20 | Edmund B. Rogers (Yellowstone National Park
superintendent) |
1946-1957 |
6 / 21 | Helen Russell Rogers |
1947-1953 |
6 / 22 | Erling Rohde Plumbing Company (re La Jolla residence) |
1946-1956 |
6 / 23 | R (correspondents include Meyer Rankin, John D.
Rockefeller Jr., Winthrop Rockefeller, Victor Rossetti, Esther Roth) |
1946-1957 |
6 / 24 | St. Peter's Hospital; St. Peter's Parish, Helena |
1949-1953 |
6 / 25 | Richard H. Sanger |
1947-1953 |
6 / 26 | San Diego Union and Tribune |
1950-1954 |
6 / 27 | Frank J. Schermann |
1954-1956 |
6 / 28 | Major General Julian Schley (see also U.S. Military
Academy, West Point, reunion) |
1949-1957 |
6 / 29 | Security Trust and Savings Bank, La Jolla (Karl
Kenyon, Millard W. Smith) |
1947-1956 |
6 / 30 | Fred Sheriff (Sieben Ranch Company) |
1946-1954 |
6 / 31 | Dr. James W. Sherrill (Scripps Metabolic Clinic) |
1947-1954 |
6 / 32 | Sonotone Corporation (re hearing aids) |
1949-1954 |
6 / 33 | Squires Shirt Company |
1949 |
6 / 34 | Frank Stone |
1946-1949 |
6 / 35-36 | S (correspondents include Ah Sam, City of San Diego,
U.S. Representative John P. Saylor, Dr. F.R. Schemm, Charles Scribner's Sons, Shodair
Hospital for Crippled Children, J. Henry Smith, S.H. "Beau" Smith, Southern Pacific
Company) |
1946-1957 |
7 / 1 | Oliver G. Taylor (National Park Service supervisor of
concessions) |
1947-1950 |
7 / 2 | Marie McRae Temple |
1956-1957 |
7 / 3 | C.P. Tomlinson |
1951-1956 |
7 / 4 | Thomas Topping Company (re insurance; Lucille
Topping) |
1947-1957 |
7 / 5 | Donald B. Tresidder (Stanford University) |
1946 |
7 / 6 | Trinity College |
1947-1957 |
7 / 7 | T (correspondents include Charles P. Taft, Tanner
Motor Tours, Time Magazine, Hillory Alfred Tolson, Treman King and Company, C. Russell
Turner Jr., Tweeds and Weeds, Eldon J. Tyson) |
1946-1957 |
7 / 8 | U.S. Military Academy, West Point, reunion (Julian
Schley, John S. Upham, et al.) |
1947-1948 |
7 / 9 | U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Alumni Federation;
Association of Graduates of U.S.M.A. (also includes Interim Committee of West Point
Graduates reports on violations of honor code) |
1949-1956 |
7 / 10 | U.S. Naval Training Center, Commissioned Officers
Mess |
1950 |
7 / 11 | University Club, New York |
1952-1954 |
7 / 12 | Colonel John S. Upham |
1948-1951 |
7 / 13 | U (correspondents include U.S. News and World Report,
United Air Lines, United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, U.S. Adjutant General,
U.S. National Park Service) |
1946-1957 |
7 / 14 | C. Van Tassel |
1947-1957 |
7 / 15 | Charles Vandenhook |
1954-1956 |
7 / 16 | V (correspondents include Nina Valliant, Venture
Petroleum Corporation) |
1946-1953 |
7 / 17 | James A. Wales |
1946-1957 |
7 / 18 | Wall Street Journal (re subscription problems due to
multiple households) |
1956-1957 |
7 / 19 | Taylor B. Weir |
1946-1956 |
7 / 20 | U.S. Senator Burton K. Wheeler |
1946-1949 |
7 / 21 | David White Sales Company |
1950-1951 |
7 / 22 | Talbot Wildman (Wildman and Company, liquors) |
1946-1950 |
7 / 23 | Conrad L. Wirth (National Park Service, including
possible sale of hotels) |
1948-1957 |
7 / 24 | Wood, Struthers and Company (includes James Marshall,
Cornelius Bliss, A. Oakley Brooks) |
1946-1954 |
7 / 25 | W (correspondents include Rollin D. Weary, Martha
Weathered Shops, Albert B. Wells (uncle), William Wiggins, Wilcoxson's Confectionery
Company, Winterthur Museum, Dean Witter, U.S. Representative Charles A. Wolverton) |
1946-1957 |
7 / 26 | Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone Park Church
Committee, Yellowstone Park School Board |
1946-1947 |
7 / 27 | Yew Char |
1946 |
7 / 28 | Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) |
1952-1956 |
7 / 29 | Y (correspondents include Yale University, Robert M.
Yoder, Dan Young) |
1946-1953 |
7 / 30 | Trudy Zabriskie |
1947-1948 |
7 / 31 | Z (correspondents include Captain William J. Zalesky,
Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI)) |
1946 |
Diaries Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
8 / 1-9 | Diaries (re daily schedule of activities, persons
met, weather, etc.) |
1933-1945, 1947-1954 |
Financial Records Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
9 / 1-4 | Audit reports: Child and Anceny (Flying D) |
1914-1923, 1927 |
9 / 5-6 | Audit reports: Flying D Ranges Inc. |
1930-1942 |
9 / 7 | Audit reports: Gallatin Gateway Townsite |
1931, 1935 |
9 / 8 | Audit reports: La Jolla Company |
1941, 1949 |
9 / 9 | Audit reports: Salesville Mercantile Company |
1922 |
9 / 10 | Balance sheets: J.D. Veach Company |
1924 |
9 / 11 | Dividends from Yellowstone Park Company stock |
1951-1955 |
9 / 12 | Employee bonus lists: Yellowstone Park Company |
1946-1956 |
9 / 13 | Expense accounts for travel |
1946-1957 |
9 / 14 | Expense distribution |
1948-1954 |
9 / 15 | Insurance |
1947-1954 |
9 / 16 | Inventories: liquor |
1947-1956 |
9 / 17-18 | Invoices (scattered) |
1946-1957 |
9 / 19 | Invoices: Yellowstone Park Company (primarily wine
cellar) |
1954-1956 |
9 / 20-21 | Salary as Yellowstone Park Company president (pay
check stubs) |
1943-1955 |
10 / 1 | Taxes: gift tax RESTRICTED
|
1949-1954 |
10 / 2-14 | Taxes: income (William M. Nichols and Ellen Dean
Child Nichols) RESTRICTED
|
1945-1957 |
10 / 15-16 | Taxes: income (Ellen Dean Child Nichols) RESTRICTED
|
1958-1966 |
11 / 1 | Taxes: Property (Broadwater County: Wild Cat claim) RESTRICTED
|
1955 |
11 / 2 | Taxes: Property (Gallatin County: Spanish Creek Ranch
(Flying D)) RESTRICTED
|
1945-1959 |
11 / 3-4 | Taxes: Property (Lewis and Clark County: Helena
house) RESTRICTED
|
1919-1957 |
11 / 5 | Taxes: Property (San Diego County, California: La
Jolla house) RESTRICTED
|
1926-1929, 1945-1957 |
11 / 6 | Taxes: Property (San Mateo County, California:
Hillsborough house) RESTRICTED
|
1946-1955 |
11 / 7 | Taxes: Social Security on household employees RESTRICTED
|
1952-1957 |
11 / 8 | Miscellaneous (includes Yellowstone National Park
expenditures; income distribution from Nichols/Child companies; La Jolla Company) RESTRICTED
|
1935-1955 |
Legal Documents Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
11 / 9 | Miscellaneous (includes purchase of property in
Hillsborough, California; sale of portion of trust property by Ellen Dean Child
Nichols to John Q. Nichols) |
1937, 1953 |
Subject Files Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
12 / 1-3 | Automobiles (re licensing, maintenance, etc.) |
1946-1957 |
12 / 4 | Birth certificates (correspondence about obtaining
certificates for several family members) |
1957 |
12 / 5 | Bricker Amendment (re foreign treaties) |
1953-1954 |
12 / 6 | Burglaries of Helena house |
1953-1954 |
12 / 7-11 | H.W. Child Corporation (holding company; includes
information about the management of the company, investment of its funds, and its
subsidiary companies) |
1931-1962 |
12 / 12 | H.W. Child Corporation and Yellowstone Park Company
reorganization plan |
1959-1963 |
12 / 13 | H.W. Child Estate |
1946 |
12 / 14-15 | H.W. Child Trust (trust fund set up to benefit
descendants of Harry W. Child; it was major stockholder of H.W. Child Corporation) |
1935-1955 |
13 / 1-4 | H.W. Child Trust (trust fund set up to benefit
descendants of Harry W. Child; it was major stockholder of H.W. Child Corporation) |
1956-1958 |
13 / 5 | Huntley Child, Jr. |
1938-1942 |
13 / 6 | Maria Dean Foundation (re investments of) |
1957-1958 |
13 / 7 | Dishwasher (re purchase and maintenance) |
1948 |
13 / 8 | Bessie Ferguson House (7958 Prospect Avenue, La
Jolla, California) |
1950-1962 |
13 / 9 | 555 Fuller Avenue Building Corporation (audit) |
1955-1960 |
13 / 10 | Hugh Galusha (accountant) |
1951-1955 |
13 / 11-14 | Gardiner Townsite (re real estate holdings; includes
materials of Harry W. Child) |
1920-1940 |
14 / 1-8 | Gardiner Townsite (re real estate holdings) |
1941-1964 |
14 / 9 | Gardiner Townsite (lot register) |
1920s-1960 |
Oversize Folder | ||
1 | Gardiner Townsite (maps and plats) (Oversize: see Archives map case) |
1933-1947 |
Box/Folder | ||
14 / 10-11 | Vernon Goodwin (partner in Yellowstone Park Company
and its predecessors) |
1941-1948 |
14 / 12 | Vernon Goodwin Estate (Margaret Goodwin) |
1954-1958 |
14 / 13 | Vernon Goodwin, Jr. ("Ted") |
1955-1959 |
15 / 1 | Newell Gough, Jr. (re Nichols family business
affairs) |
1957-1966 |
15 / 2 | Green Meadow Farm (Harry W. Child; also includes
Elliston Farm (Camp Child)) |
1923-1930 |
15 / 3-7 | Green Meadow Farm |
1931-1944 |
Oversize Folder | ||
2 | Green Meadow Farm (maps) (Oversize: see Archives map case) |
1922, undated |
Box/Folder | ||
15 / 8-10 | C.A. Hamilton; Hamilton Stores Inc. |
1928-1945 |
16 / 1-2 | C.A. Hamilton; Hamilton Stores Inc. (includes joint
operation agreement) |
1946-1955 |
16 / 3 | Fred Harvey, L.W. Scott (includes report on operation
of Yellowstone Park Company) |
1960-1961 |
16 / 4-5 | Jack Ellis Haynes (re photograph business) |
1937-1956 |
16 / 6 | House at 705 Harrison Avenue, Helena |
1956 |
16 / 7 | House at 1802 Floribunda, Burlingame, California |
1953-1956 |
16 / 8 | Insurance |
1954-1957 |
16 / 9-10 | Investments |
1934-1944 |
17 / 1-4 | Investments |
1945-1952 |
17 / 5-6 | Investments: Ellen Dean Child Nichols |
1952-1956 |
17 / 7 | Investments: William N. Nichols |
1952-1957 |
17 / 8 | Investments: William N. Nichols stamp collection |
1932-1944 |
17 / 9 | Investments: stocks and bonds held by H.W. Child
Corporation, H.W. Child Trust, Spanish Creek Ranch, Yellowstone Park Company, William
M. Nichols, and Ellen Dean Child Nichols |
1955 |
18 / 1-2 | Investments: records of stocks, bonds, etc. (small
ledger books) |
1922-1961 |
18 / 3 | Leases (correspondence, legal documents, etc., re
lease of state land) |
1922-1927 |
18 / 4-7 | E. Herrick Low (re finances of the various companies) |
1957-1965 |
19 / 1-5 | Clara Quintard Nichols Estate |
1937-1946 |
19 / 6-8 | Ellen Dean Child Nichols |
1954-1966 |
19 / 9 | John Quintard Nichols |
1947-1956 |
19 / 10 | William M. Nichols (death; includes sympathy cards,
obituaries, etc.) |
1957 |
19 / 11-13 | William M. Nichols Estate |
1957-1962 |
19 / 14 | William M. Nichols Memorial Fund (at Mammoth chapel;
includes lists of contributions by employees) |
1957 |
19 / 15 | William M. Nichols military record (World War I) |
1917-1919 |
20 / 1 | Charles E. Perkins (correspondence with Harry W.
Child) |
1923-1930 |
20 / 2 | Anna K. Pryor (Pryor Stores) |
1934-1952 |
20 / 3-10 | Spanish Creek Ranch (Flying D Ranges; managed by
Archie Martin) |
1929, 1942-1948 |
21 / 1-9 | Spanish Creek Ranch (Flying D Ranges; managed by
Archie Martin) |
1949-1962 |
Oversize Folder | ||
3 | Spanish Creek Ranch (Flying D Ranges; maps;
architectural drawings of alterations of Vogel Ranch House) (Oversize: see Archives map case) |
1954, undated |
Box/Folder | ||
22 / 1-7 | C.P. Tomlinson (re his contract to try to sell
Yellowstone Park Company) |
1951-1958 |
22 / 8-10 | Taylor B. Weir |
1939-1947 |
23 / 1-5 | Taylor B. Weir |
1948-1956 |
23 / 6 | Taylor B. Weir (re proposed legislation) |
1948-1949 |
23 / 7 | Western Hotels Inc. (re possible purchase of
Yellowstone Park Company) |
1961 |
23 / 8 | George Whittaker |
1934 |
Oversize Folder | ||
4 | George Whittaker (Yellowstone Park Store;
architectural drawing of gas station) (Oversize: see Archives map case) |
1934 |
Box/Folder | ||
23 / 9 | Wood, Struthers and Company (C.N. Bliss re
investments) |
1951-1957 |
23 / 10-12 | Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission (re proposal to
purchase Yellowstone Park Company; includes correspondence; report of Duff, Anderson,
and Company; clippings) |
1955 |
24 / 1 | Yellowstone Park Company |
1950, 1958-1962 |
24 / 2-3 | Yellowstone Park Company (re financial holdings) |
1952-1964 |
24 / 4 | Yellowstone Park Lines |
1938-1960 |
Miscellany Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
24 / 5 | Adelaide D. Child deed to La Jolla property; will |
1939, 1945 |
24 / 6 | Humorous stories, etc. |
undated |
24 / 7 | Itineraries for William M. Nichols and employees'
travel |
1948-1956 |
24 / 8 | William Ford Nichols will; memorial edition of The
Pacific Churchman |
1921, 1924 |
24 / 9 | Notebooks; address books |
undated |
24 / 10 | Isaac Quintard will and codicils |
1856-1882 |
24 / 11 | Veratina Oil Company stock certificates |
1901 |
24 / 12 | "Who gets what" (if H.W. Child Corporation liquidated
and Yellowstone Park Company stock sold) |
1950-1953 |
24 / 13 | Miscellaneous (includes Yellowstone Park Company
stationery, Jack and Isabel Haynes greeting packet, Western Conference of National
Park Concessioners meeting agenda, itinerary of Franklin D. Roosevelt visit to Park) |
1937-1954 |
Transfers Return to Top
Container(s) | Description |
---|---|
Box/Folder | |
24 / 14 | Lists of photographs transferred to the Photo
Archives |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Bricker Amendment
- Hotels--Montana
- Investments
- Land companies
- Parks--Montana
- Postage stamps as an investment
- Ranches--Montana
- Real estate business
- Stamp collecting
Personal Names
- Nichols, William M. (William Morse), 1881-1957 (creator)
Geographical Names
- Burlingame (Calif.)
- Camp Child (Elliston, Mont.)
- Child-Anceney Ranch (Bozeman, Mont.)
- Flying D Ranch (Mont.)
- Gallatin Gateway (Mont.)
- Gardiner (Mont.)
- Green Meadow Farm (Helena, Mont.)
- Helena (Mont.)
- La Jolla (Calif.)
- Spanish Creek Ranch (Mont.)
- Yellowstone National Park--Leased departments, concessions, etc.