MZFCollection0869.xml Guide to the Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company Records1910-1938 Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company Records 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
P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT 59717-3320 United States Phone (406) 994-4242 Fax (406) 994-2851 http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ University Archivist spcoll@www.lib.montana.edu
Collection 0869, MtBC, us Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company Records 1910-1938 3 cubic feet The Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company Records consist of financial ledgers, daybooks, and other business records of the various Livingston based Lehrkind operations, including firms that were absorbed by the company such as the Park Bottling Works and the Livingston Ice Company. Collection materials are in English Biographical Note

Julius Lehrkind was a German immigrant who came to America in 1860. He opened a brewery in Davenport, Iowa, with his brother, Fred. There he married Emelie Lambach and had six children. Fred married Emelie's sister, Bertha, and had four children. Fred and Bertha died young, so Julius and Emelie took charge of their children. Emelie died in 1897. Julius married Emelie's niece, Lina Lambach, in 1899 and they had a son. Julius died in 1922. Julius sold his brewery in Iowa and moved to Bozeman in March 1895, bringing his extended family and a crew of experienced brewers with him. He bought the Spieth and Krug Brewery that same year, moved it to the north end of town, and renamed it the Bozeman Brewery. During Prohibition, the Lehrkinds ran the Lehrkind Coal and Pure Ice Company out of the building and had branch operations in Livingston, Montana to which most of the records in this collection pertain.

Primarily financial records of the various Livingston based Lehrkind operations, including firms that were absorbed by the company such as the Park Bottling Works and the Livingston Ice Company.

This collection is open for research.

Financial ledgers, daybooks, and other business records pertaining to the Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company were donated to Montana State University by Chan Libby of Livingston Montana on June 10, 1970. This collection was subsequently reported to the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections and assigned entry number 79-676.

This collection was processed 2015 June 5

 Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company -- Archives Beverage industry -- Montana -- History Business and Corporations Montana Business records -- Montana 1 Livingston Ice Company

(2 ledgers)

 Daybook 1908 1910 Account Book 1910

(very few entries)

 Order books 1919 1923 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931

1928 (2 books); 1929 (3 books); 1930 (2 books); 1931 (5 books)

 2 Order books 1932 1922 1934 1935 1935-1936 1934-1937 1936 1937 1938

1922 (2 books); 1934 (3 books); 1935 (2 books); 1936 (2 books); 1937 (2 books); 1938 (4 books)

 Park Bottling Works: customer book 1929 Lehrkind Coal Company and Park Bottling Works: telegraph duplicate book 1938 Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company, duplicate scale book 1934-1938 3 Ledger: Coal and Ice 1922-1927 Coal reports 1935-1938

(shows types of coal sold)

 Ledger: ice 1922-1928 1933-1937 1938

(3 books)

 Park Bottling works: Ledger 1925-1932 Park Bottling works: account ledger 1933-1938