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Hub-Thisteds Records, 1891-1965

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Hub-Thisteds
Title
Hub-Thisteds Records
Dates
1891-1965 (inclusive)
Quantity
6.5 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
MC 300
Summary
Hub-Thisteds was a Great Falls, Montana, clothing store. Collection consist of financial records (1891-1965), including general, account, and personal ledgers; inventories; payrolls; sales records; balance sheets, and miscellany. There is one ledger for the company's branch store in Barker, operated as Silver and Company.
Repository
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
Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

The Hub clothing store in Great Falls, Montana, was established in 1890 by Andrew Thisted and Timothy Brosnan. From 1891 to 1892 the partners also owned a grocery in Barker, operated under the name of Silver and Company. After the death of Brosnan in 1897 the Hub was operated solely by Andrew Thisted. When his sons came of age, he brought them into the business and ran it as a co-partnership under the name Andrew Thisted and Sons. The business, which also included Thisted's ranching and real estate investments, was incorporated in 1928. In 1956 the name was formally changed to The Hub-Thisteds. The store closed in 1964. Andrew Thisted was born in Laurdal, Norway, on June 20, 1864, the next to youngest of 9 children of Nels and Helen (Kalberg) Thisted. He learned the mercantile trade as a clerk in a store in Christiana [Oslo], Norway. In 1886 he moved to Chicago, where he worked in the mercantile business for two years before moving to Great Falls, Montana, in 1888. In 1890 he opened the Hub Clothing Store in partnership with Timothy W. Brosnan. They built the store into the largest clothing store in the city. After Brosnan's death in 1897, Thisted continued the business on his own, eventually bringing his sons Norman and Walter into the business. In addition to the clothing business, Thisted invested in several ranches, was president of the Lincoln Land and Livestock Company, and owned a susbtantial amount of real estate in Great Falls. Socially he was a member of the Scandanavian Brotherhood, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Cascade Lodge of the Masons, the Electric Club, and the Merchants' Association. As a Republican, he served for 10 years on the Great Falls school board. Andrew Thisted married Augusta Anderson in 1894. The couple had five children: Norman, Violet, Walter, Helen, and Karl. Andrew Thisted died October 12, 1926. Timothy W. Brosnan was born in Athens, Ohio, on December 13, 1854, the son of John and Kate (Neehily) Brosnan. His mother died when he was four. Timothy and his father moved frequently around the east and south. In 1881 Brosnan went west to Leadville, Colorado, and then to Helena, Montana. He returned east in 1882. In 1889 he arrived in Great Falls, and went into business with Andrew Thisted. In addition to The Hub, Brosnan invested in mining properties in Barker and a ranch near Great Falls. Brosnan was elected as a Populist to the 1895 and 1897 Montana Legislative Assemblies. Even though he was a merchant, he was active in the Knights of Labor. In 1897 he married Mina Beushleim. The couple had three children: Florence, Katherine, and Gerald. Timothy Brosnan died August 13, 1897.

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Content Description

Records consist almost exclusively of financial materials. Included are balance sheet/profit and loss statements (1891-1922), registers (1954-1965) of deliveries and mail orders, account ledgers (1891-1903), general ledgers (1891-1921), suppliers' ledgers (1913-1928, a personal ledger (1908-1927) of Andrew Thisted, payrolls (1939-1945), records of merchandise (1937-1964), sales records (1943-1964), stock control sheets (1950-1966), and stock inventories (1949-1951) There is a subgroup for the Silver and Company grocery in Barker, owned by Thisted and Brosnan. It contains a ledger (1891-1892).

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

by subgroup and series

Acquisition Information

Acquisition Information:

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection


2004

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