MZFCollection0127.xml Guide to the Carl M. Yerrington, How Shall Montana Counties Handle Their Tax Deed Land?circa 1937 Yerrington (Carl M.), How Shall Montana Counties Handle Their Tax Deed Land? Kim Allen Scott, 2015 Montana State University-Bozeman Library
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Finding aid written in English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition) Montana State University-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
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Collection 0127, MtBC, us Yerrington, Carl M. (1885-1974) Carl M. Yerrington, How Shall Montana Counties Handle Their Tax Deed Land? circa 1937 1 item The Carl M. Yerrington, How Shall Montana Counties Handle Their Tax Deed Land? essay concerns the disposition of land whose ownership reverted to county governments as a result of the previous owner’s failure to pay property taxes. As a result of the “bust” of homesteading claims in eastern Montana starting around 1918, significant acreage had become abandoned when farmers could no longer afford to either pay their taxes or even stay on the land. The management of these parcels fell to the county governments, and Yerrington’s essay proposes solutions to the problem as well as its detailed description. Collection materials are in English Biographical Note

Carl Maurice Yerrington was born in Kansas City, Kansas on December 31, 1885. He moved to Montana sometime before 1918 and lived for a time in Fergus County. He eventually lived in Billings and served as a county commissioner for Yellowstone County during the 1940s. He also worked as a regional land appraiser with the U. S. Indian service and, starting in 1954, served as the county manager for Petroleum County in Winnett. Yerrington moved to Florida where he died at Winter Park on June 6, 1974.

Yerrington’s essay concerns the disposition of land whose ownership reverted to county governments as a result of the previous owner’s failure to pay property taxes. As a result of the “bust” of homesteading claims in eastern Montana starting around 1918, significant acreage had become abandoned when farmers could no longer afford to either pay their taxes or even stay on the land. The management of these parcels fell to the county governments, and Yerrington’s essay proposes solutions to the problem as well as its detailed description.

This collection is open for research.

A typewritten essay by Yerrington was donated to Montana State University by Doris Wilson of Bozeman, Montana in the summer of 1964.

This collection was processed 2015 August 18

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