Montana Historical Society
Archives
MC 55a
Power, Charles Benton,
1868-1953
Charles Benton Power papers
1870-1971
10 linear feet of shelf space
Charles Power (1868-1953) was a Helena, Montana, attorney
and businessman, and son of Thomas C. Power. Collection (bulk, 1870s-1950s) includes
incoming correspondence (1881-1953), diaries (1929-1949), subject files, and miscellany.
There are also subgroups for family members and for several businesses of Power's.
2:6-3
English
Charles Benton Power was born in Dubuque, Iowa, on November 9, 1868, the only child of
Thomas C. Power and his wife Mary Flanagan Power. While Charles was still an infant, his
father moved the family to Fort Benton, Montana, where he established a steamboat and
mercantile empire. The family moved to Helena in 1878.
Charlie, as he was always known, graduated from Georgetown College in Washington, D.C., in
1888. He got a second bachelor's degree from Columbia College in New York in 1891 and a law
degree from Columbia Law School in 1893. He practiced law in Helena for two years, before
going to work in his father's enterprises, including T.C. Power and Brother, the American
National Bank, and the various ranches. Eventually he took over management of these
companies, and became president on his father's death in 1923.
In December 1902, Charles Power married Mabel Larson, niece and adopted daughter of Peter
and Margaret Larson. The Powers had three children: Margaret Power Drum Carrick (b. 1904),
Benton Power (b. 1907), and Jane Power Tobin (b. 1912). Mabel Power died July 4, 1918. In
1943 Charles Benton Power married Pauline McGuire Ely. He died November 15, 1953, six days
after his 85th birthday.
Papers consist primarily of personal papers of Charles Benton Power, including incoming
correspondence (1881-1953), diaries (1929-1949), minor financial records and legal
documents, school notes and records (1880-1893), subject files, miscellany, and
clippings.
The Charles Benton Power Estate Subgroup (1953-1960) includes general correspondence of
co-administrators Blanche Mares and C.M. Wall, court papers; financial records, and subject
files.
There are family subgroups for Power's wife Mabel Larson Power, his son Benton Power, his
daughters Jane Power Tobin and Margaret Power Drum Carrick, and for the Flanagan Family.
There are also business subgroups for T.C. Power and Brother, T.C. Power Company, Benton
Group of Mines, Benton Hardware Company, Benton Transportation Company, Big Sag Land and
Livestock Company, Faith Mining Company, Helena Building and Realty Company, Phoenix
Development Company, and Unit Petroleum Company.
This collection inter-mingles closely with the Thomas C. Power Papers (MC 55). The two
collections should be used together, as many subgroups appear in both collections. See
"Seperated Materials" under the Administrative Information below.
Arranged by subgroup and series. Some material housed in oversize folder in archives map case. See
inventory below for more information.
Collection open for research.
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.
Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers.
Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.
Acquisition information available upon request
Artifacts transferred to Museum. See inventory below for more information
For other related material see the Guide to the Thomas Charles Power papersMC 55, and the Guide to the Thomas C. Power papersMC 55b, at the Montana Historical Society.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the Montana Historical Society
Archives catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places
should search under these terms.
Power, Charles Benton,
1868-1953
Power, Thomas C. (Thomas
Charles), 1839-1923
Fort Benton (Mont.)--Commerce
Fort Walsh (N.W.T.)
Helena (Mont.)--Commerce
Missouri Headwaters State Park (Mont.)
Neihart (Mont.)--Industries
Rock Creek Ranch (Wolf Creek, Mont.)
Brownstone Quarry (Mont.)
PN Ranch (Mont.)
Rogers Pass (Mont.)
Surprise Mining Claim (Mont.)
Aberdeen-Angus cattle--Montana
Quarries and quarrying--Montana
Steamboats--Missouri River
Montana
Ranching
Mines and Mineral
Resources
Transportation
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection
Charles B. Power
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 1
A (correspondents include Dan Allen, American
National Bank, Roy E. Ayers)
1902-1946
1 / 2
Benton Baker
1938-1951
1 / 3
Frayne Baker
1944-1951
1 / 4
I.P. Baker (re early Missouri River steamboats)
1925
1 / 5
Morris A. Bealle (re his book on Georgetown
University football)
1947
1 / 6
Blaine family (includes Major John, Ella, Louise)
1888-1909
1 / 7
Daniel Brereton (reminiscent letters and writings
re his experiences in Montana)
1881-1945
1 / 8
Joseph W. Brown (re Chief Many Tail Feathers)
1926
1 / 9
B (correspondents include A.L. Babcock, Margaret C.
Bach, Maggie C. Beattie, Ned Beebe, Belder-Evans Company, Effie Bennett,
Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills, Mother Bonaventura, Cora Brant, W.J. Butler, Butte
Mines Band)
1885-1941
1 / 10
Steve Carpenter
1888-1935
1 / 11
Margaret and Ike, Earl of Carrick (Margaret Power's
second husband; includes first Trans-Atlantic air mail service from Ireland; see
also Margaret Power, Margaret Drum)
1939, 1947
1 / 12
Columbia University, Class of 1891 alumni (includes
two circular letters from Dwight David Eisenhower)
1922-1931
1 / 13
A.B. Cook (re Wellington Rankin's race for
governor)
1928
1 / 14
Isabella "Belle" Cory
1891-1893
1 / 15
C (correspondents include John H. Charles, J. Burke
Clements, J. A. Collette, Fritz Collins, Congressional Country Club, Joe Conway,
Lydia Corwin, W.E. Cullen)
1886-1950
1 / 16
Margaret Power Drum (letters from London; see also
Margaret Power, Margaret Carrick)
1936
1 / 17
William D. Dwyer
1949-1951
1 / 18
D-E (correspondents include Victor Day, Wesley A.
D'Ewart, I.W. Dixon, Mary L. Doane, Dong Goo Fun, Carl E. Dudley, Lulu Ellis, Lara
P. Ellis, Cecelia D. Everett)
1890-1949
1 / 19
Bishop George J. Finnegan
1929-1931
1 / 20
First National Bank and Trust Company
1936-1937
1 / 21
May Flanagan
1928-1946
1 / 22
May Franklin
1892-1898
1 / 23
James H. Fullwood (London, England, re his early
years at Fort McLeod and Fort Walsh)
1935-1940
1 / 24
F (correspondents include Catherine Fischer, Thomas
C. Fitzpatrick, Mina [?] Thibault Flanagan, Geraldine Forbis, Arthur Ford, Lee M.
Ford, Nathaniel Ford, Florence Fortune, Nannie Fortune)
1901-1949
1 / 25
Georgetown College classmates
1888-1889, 1938
1 / 26
Robert Golden (in prison for theft from Rock Creek
Ranch)
1944
1 / 27
G (correspondents include Bishop J.M. Gilmore,
Gilpatrick Cabin Fund [Pioneer Cabin, Helena], Great Northern Railway Company)
1926-1950
1 / 28
John D. Holliday
1900
1 / 29
Right Reverend Dr. Norbert C. Hoff
1932-1934, 1940
1 / 30-33
Maud Van Buren Holme ("Old Squire")
1891-1895, 1902
1 / 34
Norman B. Holter
1888-1889, 1932
2 / 1
H-J (correspondents include [---] Hancock, Maud B.
Harlow, Florence C. Hill, Clara H. Holter, Florence J. Holter, William H. Hunt,
Ernest Immel, Ira Ingraham, C.J. Jones)
1885-1950
2 / 2
John Walter Kearny, Jr.; Lucy Kearny (a few
addressed to "Jane")
1888-1897
2 / 3
Helen Keller (circular letters for American
Foundation for the Blind)
1946-1950
2 / 4
J.A. Kelton (proposing marriage)
1934
2 / 5
Mathilde Kessler
1900-1902
2 / 6
Kinna family (includes C.J., Norma, P.)
1883-1889
2 / 7
Bror Kronstrand (Stockholm, Sweden)
1910, 1949-1950
2 / 8-9
Mabel Larson [see also Mabel Larson Power]
1901-1902
2 / 10
Rae Lewis
1894-1899
2 / 11-13
Amelia Bauces Lieber
1900-1901
2 / 14
L (correspondents include Ulric LaChapelle, Thomas
B. Lantry, Bessie O'Brien Lantry, Margaret Larson, Harry Lehr, Lewis and Clark
County Clerk and Recorder, Louise Lieber, Joseph P. Lyman)
1893-1944
2 / 15
Gus MacDonell
1891-1892, 1926
2 / 16
Leo Martin (Society of Jesus, includes information
on Power house in Dubuque, Iowa)
1943, 1949
2 / 17
T.L. Martin
1916, 1919
2 / 18
Clifford and Agnes McNamara
1943-1944
3 / 1
Lurene Miller Meehan (re history of PN Ranch)
1934-1935
3 / 2
James Milford
1894
3 / 3
Addie and Frances Murphy (daughters of John T.
Murphy)
1894-1901
3 / 4
M (correspondents include L.E. Maguire, John W.
Mahan, Harry Martin, Effie Bennett Martin, George N. McCabe, R. McCormick,
Washington J. McCormick, Mary Livingston McDonald, F. McKinney, William L.
McLaughlin, C.H. McLeod, Montana Children's Home and Hospital, Montana Newspaper
Association, Montana Power Company, Mount St. Charles College, Mae Mount)
1883-1951
3 / 5
New York World's Fair, Inc.
1938-1939
3 / 6
Grace Nutting [?]
1884-1885, 1950
3 / 7
N (correspondents include Estelle Walsh Nagle, Ray
Nagle, Notre Dame University)
1930-1950
3 / 8
Leo Orschel (re P.S. Donovan and Walter Lindsay)
1941-1942
3 / 9
O (correspondents include O'Connor for Senator,
M.G. O'Malley)
1932, 1947
3 / 10
Hattie S. Pashley (re architectural work done on
T.C. Power residence by Willet and Pashley)
1903, 1935-1936
3 / 11-16
Benton Power (re work at Hughesville mine,
Georgetown College, visit to London, travel around the world)
1925-1931
3 / 17-20
Jane Power (re College of Sacred Heart, Dominican
College, visit with Margaret in London; see also Jane Power Tobin)
1921-1939
3 / 21
John W. "Jack" Power (re army life)
1942-1944
3 / 22-23
Mabel Larson Power [see also Mabel Larson]
1903-1904
4 / 1-10
Mabel Larson Power
1905-1914
5 / 1-4
Mabel Larson Power
1915-1918
5 / 5
Margaret Power [see also Margaret Power Drum;
Margaret Carrick]
1908, 1926, 1930
5 / 6
Mary G. Power (mother)
1907-1918
5 / 7
P-R (correspondents include Harry H. Parsons,
Walter T. Parsons, May Bell Patenaude, Lucia Peary, Annie Howard Pendleton, William
Power and Company, Wellington D. Rankin, Republican Party, J.G. Rex, J. Ritter,
Sallie Roberts, Anita D. Rosencrans, Estelle Royce)
1888-1952
5 / 8
Society of Montana Pioneers, Sons and Daughters of
Montana Pioneers (includes memorial on death of T.C. Power)
1923-1950
5 / 9
Elizabeth (Mrs. J.W.) Stewart (aunt), Margaret
Stewart
1926, 1935
5 / 10
S (correspondents include Saint Vincent Academy,
James U. Sanders, James Willard Schultz, Hugh L. Scott, Christine Shannon, Lydia
Corwin Sharpe, Celia Simmons)
1890-1943
5 / 11
Eleanor Blaine Thompson
1895-1902
5 / 12
Tom Tobin, Jane Power Tobin (see also Jane Power)
1943-1948
5 / 13
Father J.G. Tougas
1924-1939
5 / 14
E.B. Trail (re Missouri River steamboat history,
includes typed copy of Benton log, 1881)
1940
5 / 15
T (correspondents include Frederic Taylor, Ella H.
Thatcher, Caroline Thornton, Butte H. Tipton)
1892-1947
5 / 16
Vaughan-Rhys family (includes Gwen, T.J., Hilma)
1939-1945
5 / 17
E.E. Wenner
1928
5 / 18-21
Winifred Wyard
1890-1892, 1900
5 / 22
W (correspondents include Elizabeth Duer Walker,
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wallace, Robert Bruce Wallace, Walsh for Senator Club, Father
Weber, Nellie Darling Webster, Mamie C. Wheeler, Wong Ling)
1889-1950
5 / 23
Samuel B.M. Young (includes obituary)
1924, undated
5 / 24
Unidentified
1890-1951
Outgoing Correspondence
6 / 1
Miscellaneous (includes several long reminiscent
letters)
1875, 1932-1951
Miscellaneous Correspondence
6 / 2
Daniel Brereton to Agnes McNamara
1941
6 / 3
Open letters from Frank J. Edwards to O.M. Lanstrum
re Helena politics
undated
6 / 4
Arthur Ford to Nathaniel Ford (re death of T.C.
Power)
1923
6 / 5
Fritz Haynes
1949
Court Papers
6 / 6
Elizabeth Tuttle vs. [heirs of Peter McLear
including Charles B. Power]
1933
Diaries
6 / 7-9
Diaries (many include weather clippings)
1929-1930, 1933-1938
6 / 10
Diaries [typed excerpts]
1939-1949
Financial Records
6 / 11
Banks: American National Bank
1900-1914, undated
6 / 12
Banks: statements of condition, B-S [scattered]
1883-1889
6 / 13
Bills: Montana Club
1903
6 / 14
Bills: miscellaneous
1913-1918
6 / 15
Household and personal expenses
1949-1950
6 / 16
Ledger (personal)
1936-1952
6 / 17
Life insurance annuity
1935
6 / 18
Taxes
1944-1950
RESTRICTED
School Notes and Records
7 / 1
Helena Public Schools report cards
1880-1883
7 / 2-4
Georgetown College class notes and exams
1883-1889
7 / 5
Georgetown College expenses
1884-1888
7 / 6
Georgetown College report cards, miscellany
1883-1888
7 / 7
Columbia College report cards, miscellany
1890-1891
7 / 8-11
Columbia Law School class notes
1892-1893
7 / 12
Columbia Law School moot court cases
1890-1891
7 / 13
Columbia Law School miscellany
1892-1893
Subject File
8 / 1
Julian Anderson reception at Montana Club
1938
8 / 2
Arcade Building
1937
8 / 3
Spruille Braden
1947
8 / 4
Broadwater Hotel
1931, undated
8 / 5
Chicago Motor Car Company (re Packard automobiles)
1907-1914
8 / 6
Dog pedigrees
1912-1913
8 / 7
Frank J. Edwards (includes letter to Franklin D.
Roosevelt, article on Clark-Daly feud)
1941-1942
8 / 8
Elks Club (includes membership list, dues receipts,
memorial service program, newsletter, clippings)
1898-1941
8 / 9
Arthur Ford (New York City civil engineer, son of
Nathaniel Ford, T.C. Power's coachman)
1950
8 / 10
Fort Benton Centennial celebration
1946
8 / 11
Grand juries in Helena, 1887-1888 (re identities of
people in old photographs in newspaper)
1941
8 / 12
Founders Club Headwaters of the Missouri State
Monument
1950
8 / 13
Helena water bond election
1929-1930
8 / 14
Henry and Larson Lumber Company
1934
8 / 15
John D. Holliday death (partner in Escallier Sheep
Company)
1939
8 / 16
Holter family (includes Norman B. Holter talk at
Montana Children's Home and Hospital banquet)
1947
8 / 17
Margaret Larson's death (includes obituaries,
sympathy letters, etc.)
August 1924
8 / 18
Missouri River navigability hearing
1946
8 / 19
Montana Historical Society
1928-1929, 1952
8 / 20
Overland telegraph line history by William Simpson
(includes early telegram)
undated
8 / 21-24
Benton Power's death (includes clippings, sympathy
letters, lists of cards, etc.)
March 1932
8 / 25-26
Charles B. Power residence: 309 North Ewing
(includes construction bills for Howard Pew, William A. French and Company bills for
furnishings)
1907-1908
1
Charles B. Power residence: 642 Dearborn
(renovation and grounds blueprints) [Map Case]
1913
8 / 27-29
Charles B. Power residence: 642 Dearborn
(renovation estimates and bills: George H. Carsley, architect, miscellaneous, A-W)
1913
8 / 30-31
Charles B. Power residence: 642 Dearborn
(furnishing bills: Marshall Field and Company; Blair Kinkaid, etc.)
1913-1914
8 / 32
Charles B. Power residence: 642 Dearborn
(inventory)
1928
9 / 1-2
Charles B. Power residence: Rock Creek Lodge north
of Wolf Creek (correspondence with architects R.C. Reamer; Donovan and Rhoads)
1910-1913
9 / 3-4
Charles B. Power residence: Rock Creek Lodge north
of Wolf Creek (construction notes and specifications)
1910-1912
2
Charles B. Power residence: Rock Creek Lodge north
of Wolf Creek (blueprints by R.C. Reamer and by Donovan and Rhoads) [Map Case]
1911
9 / 5-9
Charles B. Power residence: Rock Creek Lodge north
of Wolf Creek (construction and furnishing bills, B-W)
1912-1913
9 / 10
Charles B. Power residence: Rock Creek Lodge north
of Wolf Creek (construction payrolls and board bills)
1912
9 / 11
Charles B. Power residence: Rock Creek Lodge north
of Wolf Creek (construction checkstubs)
1911-1913
9 / 12
Charles B. Power residence: Rock Creek Lodge north
of Wolf Creek (Indian pictographs on ranch)
1926-1927
9 / 13-15
Mabel L. Power's death (sympathy letters, cards,
etc.)
July 1918
9 / 16
Margaret Power's marriage to Frank Goss Drum
1928
9 / 17
Red Tomahawk
1928, undated
9 / 18
Rogers Pass controversy (re routing of Great
Falls-Missoula highway)
1936-1938
9 / 19
Sesqui-Centennial exhibition (American
independence)
1926
9 / 20
Travel: California
1912
9 / 21
Travel: England and France (expenses)
1913
9 / 22-23
Travel: Jamaica
1916, 1920
9 / 24
Vigilante Parade (includes lists of floats,
clippings)
1939
9 / 25-26
Wedding to Mabel Larson (includes acceptances of
invitations, trip expenses, lists of gifts, etc.)
December 1902
Writings
9 / 27
"The First Aberdeen-Angus in Montana"
1949
9 / 28
"PN Ranch: historical data in connection therewith"
circa 1950
Miscellany
10 / 1
Almost-engagement to daughter of Marcus Daly
(unidentified note of congratulations)
undated
10 / 2
Birthday greetings
1929-1940, undated
3
Certificates (includes Columbia Law School degree,
admission to Montana Bar, appointment as honorary colonel in Montana National Guard) [Map Case]
1893, 1940
10 / 3
Christmas gift lists
1909-1920
10 / 4
Coat of arms, etc.
1923, 1931
10 / 5
Consecration of Cathedral of St. Helena
1924
10 / 6-7
Deaths of friends (cards, etc.)
1924-1951
10 / 8
Dinner and dance programs
1880s- 1890s
10 / 9
Eulogies by Rev. D.B. Price
1931-1932
10 / 10
Robert H. Fletcher outfitting brochures
undated
10 / 11
Installations of Leo T. Martin, George J. Finnigan,
Most Reverend Ralph Leo Hayes, Emmett J. Riley
1921-1945
10 / 12-16
Invitations to weddings, dances, at-homes, etc.
1880s- 1940s
10 / 17
Liquor price survey
1936
10 / 18
Lists of capitalists
undated
10 / 19
Montana Club membership list
1919
10 / 20
Montana Liquor Control Board ration cards and
residential permits
1944-1945
11 / 1
Dan P. Mumbrue writings (includes "Carlsbad
Caverns: A Description," "An Easter Thought," "Friends," "The Old Home Town," "Our
Road," "Should I Be Afraid?")
1941-1943
11 / 2
Poems (includes anonymous poem on Jeannette
Rankin's vote against World War I, two poems by Scotty Sheriff on strike of sheep
shearers, "In Montana: a Land of Contrasts," etc.)
1919-1946, undated
11 / 3
Poems (political, mostly re Franklin D. Roosevelt)
undated
11 / 4
Poems (by Martin Maginnis re Japan, Ireland,
missionaries)
1901, undated
11 / 5
"A Railroad Real Estate Deal of Conscience: A Story
of Sinister Financial Jobbery an Excellent Field for Investigations," by Secretary
of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield
circa 1908
11 / 6
Recipes
undated
11 / 7
St. Helena Cathedral musical programs
1937-1938
11 / 8
General Terry's order to George Armstrong Custer
[typescript copy]
1876
11 / 9-10
Wedding announcements from friends and relatives
1884-1949
11 / 11
"Westward Ho to Fort Walsh in 1879" by George
Shepherd
undated
11 / 12
Miscellaneous (includes membership cards, tickets,
programs, jury summons, etc.)
1889-1950, undated
Clippings
11 / 13
Banks
1926-1941
11 / 14
"Echoes from the distant past," by M.G. O'Malley
[series of historical articles]
1941, 1947
11 / 15
Fort Benton buildings and history
1929-1950
11 / 16
Helena buildings and history
1920s- 1950s
11 / 17-18
History (wide range of topics)
1920s- 1950s
11 / 19
Mining
1920s- 1950s
11 / 20
Missouri River steamboats
1909, 1924
11 / 21
Obituaries: A-Z
1930s- 1950s
11 / 22
People
1930s- 1940s
11 / 23
Politics
1930s- 1940s
11 / 24
Benton Power's auto accident which killed Thomas
Nangle
December 1931
11 / 25
Thomas C. Power and T.C. Power and Brother
1918-1927
11 / 26
Scenic, travel etc.
1926-1949
11 / 27
Weather
1920s- 1950s
Charles B. Power Estate (co-administrators Blanche
Mares and C.M. Wall)
General Correspondence
12 / 1
A-G (correspondents include Nancy Allinson, Bogy
Mercantile Company, Columbia University Alumni Federation, First National Bank and
Trust Company, May G. Flanagan, Joseph B. Gary, Guardian Life Insurance Company)
1953-1958
12 / 2
Paul Hollenstein
1955
12 / 3
H-S (correspondents include Home Life Insurance
Company, Mining Association of Montana, Walter Oehncke, Mrs. William Schimpf)
1953-1968
12 / 4
E.G. Toomey
1953-1959
12 / 5
T-U (correspondents include Thomas D. Tobin,
Tri-City Oil Company, U.S. Internal Revenue Service)
1953-1967
12 / 6
C. Howard Walden
1953-1958
12 / 7
C.M. Wall
1958
Court Papers
12 / 8
Appointment of Thomas D. Tobin as guardian for
Judith, Jane Lynn, and Thomas B. Tobin
1950, 1958-1959
12 / 9
Bequest receipts
1955-1959
12 / 10
Claims filed against Estate
1954
12 / 11
Pauline Ely Power vs Estate (and related cases)
1954-1959
12 / 12-13
Quiet title cases
1953-1960
12 / 14
Petitions for probate of will (includes copy of
will)
November 1953
12 / 15
First accounting
1959
12 / 16
Final accounting and decree closing Estate
1960
Financial Records
12 / 17
Receipts and disbursements
1953-1960
12 / 18
Sums advanced to Pauline Eby Power
1946-1954
13 / 1-2
Tax returns and working papers
1953-1960
RESTRICTED
13 / 3
Trial balances
1953-1960
13 / 4
U.S. Treasury bills
1957-1958
13 / 5
C.M. Wall fees
1957-1960
Legal Documents
13 / 6
Quit claim deed, mortgage
1956, 1957
Subject Files
13 / 7
Bismarck, N.D., real estate (includes some C.B.
Power letters, 1944-1947)
1944-1959
13 / 8
Cascade Milling and Elevator Company
1943-1954
13 / 9
Insurance
1952-1962
13 / 10
Inventories
1953-1959
13 / 11
Rev. Leo T. Martin claim
1953-1958
13 / 12
Mining: Brownstone Quarry
1957-1958
13 / 13
Mining: Bullion and Pine Tree lodes
1940-1969
13 / 14-15
Mining: Ming's Bar
1889-1971
13 / 16
Mining: O'Connor, Sadie, and Susie lodes
1907-1963
13 / 17-18
Mining: Surprise Mining Claim (includes
correspondence, history by Carl J. Trauerman)
1901-1967
14 / 1
Mining: Surprise Mining Claim (includes legal
documents; maps in OVERSIZE FOLDER 3)
1901-1931
14 / 2
Mining: Yellowstone Mining Company (Castle Mining
District)
1893, 1939-1959
14 / 3
Montana Opera House
1955
14 / 4
Powhold Company
1953-1958
14 / 5
Real estate: Helena (re Getchell and Childs placer
claim, lot E)
1916-1957
14 / 6
Real estate: Helena (re Gold Block, Power Block,
Diamond Block; includes prospective buyers)
1954-1957
14 / 7
Real estate: Manhattan, Mont.
1954-1972
14 / 8
Rock Creek Ranch Company
1947-1958
14 / 9
Safety deposit box
1954, 1959
14 / 10-16
Toole County land (includes correspondence, escrow
agreement, oil and minerals, abstracts of title, taxes, legal documents)
1926-1962
RESTRICTED
14 / 17
T.C. Power Company
1954
14 / 18
T.C. Power and Brother
1956-1959
Miscellany
14 / 19
Lists of corporate reports filed and expiration of
corporate charters (lists all C.B. Power companies)
1927, 1943
14 / 20
Notes by Blanche Mares re management of C.B.
Power's affairs
1951-1953
Clippings
14 / 21
Re death of C.B. Power, Estate, friends, etc.
1953-1958
Mabel Larson Power (Mrs. C.B. Power)
Incoming Correspondence
15 / 1
American Poets' Ambulances in Italy (re memorial
for poet Alan Seeger)
1917
Financial Records
15 / 2
Bank statements
1914-1915
Miscellany
15 / 3
Address book
undated
Benton Power (Charles Benton Power, Jr.)
School Notes and Records
15 / 4
Hawthorne School, Mount St. Charles College high
school dept. report cards, etc.
1917-1925
15 / 5
Georgetown University report cards, graduation
1925-1929
Miscellany
15 / 6
S.S. Belgenland world cruise photograph list
1931
15 / 7
Miscellaneous (includes speech on World War I,
Society of Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers membership)
1917, 1926
Jane Power Tobin
Incoming Correspondence
15 / 8
Branson G. Stevenson (re etching entitled
"Springhill, Helena")
undated
School Notes and Records
15 / 9
St. Helena Parochial School, St. Vincent's Academy,
H.H. Hirschfeld piano lessons
1919-1929
15 / 10
Dominican College
1930-1931
15 / 11
College Montmorency, France
1931-1932
Miscellany
15 / 12
Miscellaneous (includes letter of introduction from
her pet dog, Society of Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers membership, Thomas
Tobin certificate)
1925, 1926, 1952
Margaret Power Drum Carrick
Incoming Correspondence
15 / 13
Miscellaneous (correspondents include Mary G.
Power, Charles B. Power)
1916-1925
School Notes and Records
15 / 14
Notebook, report cards
1915, 1921
Miscellany
15 / 15
Cruise
1924
15 / 16
Wedding to Frank Goss Drum
1924
Clippings
15 / 17
Society items
1922-1923
Flanagan Family
Financial Records
15 / 18
Taxes: Dubuque, Iowa
1842-1872
RESTRICTED
Legal Documents
15 / 19
Miscellaneous (includes marriage certificate of
Mathew Flanagan and Mariam McNamara, Margaret Carmady vs. Mathew Flanagan, estate
papers of Mathew Flanagan, agreements)
1836-1866
T.C. Power and Brother
Financial Records
16 / 1
Ledger (includes many of the Power companies)
1921-1935
16 / 2-3
Memo books (include many of the Power companies)
1902-1915
16 / 4
Sale of cattle
1919
16 / 5
Miscellaneous (re sale of furs, robes, general
merchandise, etc.)
1870s
16 / 6
Miscellaneous (removed from minute book)
1942-1943
Legal Documents
16 / 7
Contract with Parlin and Orendorff Plow Company
1914
Organization
16 / 8
Bylaws
1917
16 / 9
Minute book
1917-1940
17 / 1
Minute book
1941-1943
17 / 2
Minutes (draft, different from final)
1942-1943
17 / 3
Stock certificates
1928-1929
T.C. Power and Brother [fictitious company for C.B.
Power]
Financial Records
17 / 4
Journal
1944-1953
17 / 5
Ledger
1944-1953
17 / 6
Trial balances
1949, 1951
T.C. Power Company
Financial Records
18 / 1
Ledger
1914-1931
18 / 2
Montana Oil Company price quotes
1915-1916
Organization
18 / 3
Minute book
1896-1931
18 / 4
Miscellaneous (removed from minute book)
1896-1931
Subject Files
18 / 5
Contract with Peter Schuttler Company (to sell
their wagons; includes contract, correspondence, financial records)
1916-1917
18 / 6
Contract with U.S. Army Quartermaster's Office (to
supply oats for the army in the Philippines; includes contract, correspondence,
financial records)
1912-1913
18 / 7
Hay contracts (includes contract, correspondence,
financial records)
1916
Miscellany
18 / 8
Radio spot advertisements re history of Fort Benton
1931
Benton Group of Mines
General Correspondence
19 / 1
Miscellaneous (includes Walter M. Leuthold, Gwen
Vaughan-Rhys, American Metal Climax, Inc.)
1959, undated
Financial Records
19 / 2
Trial balances
1949-1950
Benton Hardware Company
Interoffice Correspondence
19 / 3
T.C. Power and Brother to J.B. Rauch (re affairs of
Benton Hardware Company)
1924
Legal Documents
19 / 4
Deed and bill of sale
1917
Organization
19 / 5
Articles of incorporation, bylaws, etc. (some
removed from minute book)
1899-1928
19 / 6-7
Minute books
1899-1936
19 / 8
Stock certificates
1899-1927
Benton Transportation Company
Miscellany
19 / 9
List of steamboats compiled by I.P. Baker
1923
19 / 10
Steamboat logs: Benton, 1881; Mandan, 1905
1881, 1905
Big Sag Land and Livestock Company
Interoffice Correspondence
19 / 11
Wallace Kingsbury and James Butler to J.W. Chivers
1918-1925
Financial Records
19 / 12
Journal
1917-1925
19 / 13
Ledger
1917-1925
Organization
20 / 1
Stockholder journal
1893-1925
20 / 2
Stockholder ledger
1896-1919
Miscellany
20 / 3
Lists of land, etc.
1912-1932
Faith Mining Company
General Correspondence
21 / 1-2
Miscellaneous (correspondents include Montana
School of Mines, Thomas D. Tobin, Blanche Mares, T.J. Vaughan-Rhys, Gwen
Vaughan-Rhys McBride, Elon Davis, Montana State Forester, John H. Risken, Montana
State Board of Health re pollution of Belt Creek, Montana Bureau of Mines and
Geology, H.J. Anderson,
1946-1970
Financial Records
21 / 3
Assay certificates and ore settlements
1900-1964
21 / 4
Insurance policies on compressor
1962-1966
21 / 5-6
Journals
1930-1953, 1967-1974
21 / 7-8
Ledgers
1930-1953, 1967-1974
21 / 9
Montana Industrial Accident Board/Workmen's
Compensation Division insurance
1951-1974
21 / 10
Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission
payroll reports
1950-1953
21 / 11
Taxes
1953-1977
RESTRICTED
21 / 12
Trial balances
1934-1974
21 / 13
Miscellaneous (includes financial statements,
invoices, etc.)
1930-1974
Legal Documents
21 / 14
Miscellaneous (includes leases, management
contracts, quit claim deeds, etc.)
1967-1977
Organization
21 / 15
Annual reports of corporation
1965-1974
21 / 16
Liquidation of company
1974
22 / 1
Minute book (includes bylaws)
1925-1958
22 / 2
Minutes [loose, incomplete]
1963-1968
22 / 3
Stockholder lists
1927-1958
Reports
22 / 4
Report on Faith Mining Company, by Mason W. Rankin
(includes related correspondence, and map of workings; claim maps in OVERSIZE FOLDER
3]
1954
Subject Files
22 / 5
Amex Exploration, Inc.
1973-1980
22 / 6-7
Annual assessment work (includes interoffice
correspondence about operation of mine, etc.)
1950-1978
22 / 8
Lease operation by Harry J. Anderson and Peter
Antonioli
1967-1973
22 / 9
Lease operation by Gwen Vaughan-Rhys McBride
1963-1968
22 / 10
Lease operation by Roy and Alfred R. Thorson
1963-1964
22 / 11
Pollution of Belt Creek by Block P Mine
1925, undated
22 / 12
Prospective buyers: American Smelting and Refining
Company
1958-1960
22 / 13
Prospective buyers: miscellaneous
1958-1961
22 / 14
Unpatented claims: reports to U.S. Forest Service
1959-1961
Miscellany
22 / 15
List of mining claims
1967
Clippings
22 / 16
Great Falls Tribune article re Monarch
1960
Helena Building and Realty Company / Power Block
Court Papers
23 / 1
Alice E. Feldman vs. Helena Building and Realty
Company (injury suit)
1951-1953
23 / 2
Minnie Tannant vs. Helena Building and Realty
Company (re death of her daughter Helen June Tannant, 13-year-old elevator operator)
1943-1952
Financial Records
23 / 3
Audit reports
1954-1961
23 / 4-7
Cash books
1920-1931
23 / 8
Gold block and V Building bonds
1900
23 / 9
Insurance policies
1953-1954
24 / 1
Journal
1927-1928
24 / 2-3
Miscellaneous (includes tax receipts, bond coupons,
rent lists, trial balance sheet)
1916-1971
RESTRICTED
Legal Documents
24 / 4
Mortgage papers
1938, 1955
24 / 5
Sale of properties to Thomas D. Tobin [he operated
them as Power Block]
1955-1958
24 / 6
Title examination
1938
Organization
24 / 7
Dissolution of company
1957
24 / 8
Minutes
1942, 1951-1957
Subject Files
24 / 9-10
Diamond Block
1923-1966
24 / 11
Insurance (includes fires)
1938-1956
24 / 12
Tenants: Army-Navy Stores
1967-1971
24 / 13
Tenants: Hugo Dobler Adjusters
1933-1972
24 / 14
Tenants: Helena Office Supply
1933-1969
24 / 15
Tenants: Dorothy Osborne
1958-1961
24 / 16
Tenants: John Risken
1956-1970
Phoenix Development Company
General Correspondence
25 / 1
Miscellaneous (correspondents include Blanche
Mares, Union Bank and Trust Company, Holter Realty Company, Lester H. Loble, Thomas
Topping, Lucile Topping, Polar Refrigeration)
1952-1956
Financial Records
25 / 2-3
Insurance (re buildings at Main and Lawrence
Streets, includes fire of 1950)
1927-1957
25 / 4
Trial balances and audits
1949-1956
Legal Documents
25 / 5
Miscellaneous (includes mortgage, options,
etc.)
1951-1955
Unit Petroleum Company [non-incorporated]
Organization
25 / 6-7
Stock certificate books
1920
Transfers to other programs
Transfers
25 / 8
List of artifacts transferred to Museum