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Merchants National Bank
(Helena, Mont.)
Merchants National Bank records
1865-1903
90 linear feet of shelf space
The Merchants National Bank of Helena, Montana, was
originally established as L.H. Hershfield and Co. in Virginia City, Montana Territory, and
for many years operated as L.H. Hershfield and Bro. It went into receivership in 1897.
Records (1865-1903) consist of correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and
organizational materials. There are subgroups for the White Sulphur Springs Association and
for the United Hebrew Benevolent Association.
6:6-1
English
German
Yiddish
The Merchants National Bank of Helena was originally founded by Lewis H. Hershfield as a
private bank in Virginia City, Montana Territory, under the name L.H. Hershfield & Co.
Lewis H. Hershfield was born in Oneida County, New York, on August 21, 1836. After spending
a few years in St. Louis, Missouri, working for a wholesale notion house, he moved to
Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1859. He stayed there only briefly, moving on west to follow the
Pikes Peak gold rush to Colorado with an ox train of goods. Hershfield remained in Central
City, Colorado, until 1864 when Montana's gold rush called him north. In Salt Lake City he
loaded 26 wagons with trade goods and travelled to Virginia City, arriving July 3, 1864. He
sold his merchandise to Monroe Salisbury for gold dust which he used to set up a gold
trading business. This he eventually formalized as the banking house of L.H. Hershfield
& Co. When the gold excitement shifted to Helena, Hershfield left his partner A. Hanauer
in control of their Virginia City business in November 1865, and centered his own efforts in
establishing a bank in Helena. At first he located his Helena bank on Bridge Street, but as
that location declined in importance he opened a branch bank on Main Street. Thus for a
brief period during 1867, L.H. Hershfield & Co. operated three banks. However, the
Bridge Street office was closed in late 1867 and the Virginia City office in August 1868. In
1867 Lewis Hershfield's younger brother Aaron Hershfield came to Helena to work in the bank.
The following year, when Hanauer closed the Virginia City office, Aaron was brought into the
business as a full partner to replace Hanauer, and the name of the business was changed to
L.H. Hershfield & Bro. Lewis served as president and Aaron as cashier until Aaron
resigned in 1895. In 1882 the Hershfields received a national charter for their bank under
the name Merchants National Bank, with an increased capitalization of $150,000. They also
began expanding their investments into mines, and into various banks around the state. At
various times they held interest in the Bank of Northern Montana in Fort Benton, the First
National Bank of White Sulphur Springs, the First National Bank of Kalispell, and the State
National Bank of Miles City. Aaron Hershfield was especially active in these outside
investments, serving as an officer of several of the banks. In February 1897, faced with the
rapid withdrawal of money by depositors following the failure of the First National Bank of
Helena, the Merchants National Bank suspended operations and accepted a receivership. Eugene
T. Wilson was appointed as receiver for both the Merchants and the First National Bank.
Wilson completed the lengthy process of winding up the banks' affairs in 1903. Believing the
Hershfield brothers to be criminally liable in their management of the bank, Wilson
supported an indictment which was filed against them. However, in August 1900, Judge Hiram
Knowles directed their acquittal due to lack of evidence. Lewis H. Hershfield died in New
York City on December 4, 1910, and his brother Aaron died in the Lewis and Clark County poor
farm on June 27, 1918.
Records of the Merchants National Bank and its predecessors L.H. Hershfield & Co. and
L.H. Hershfield & Bro. include incoming correspondence (1864-1897); outgoing
correspondence (1866-1869, 1871-1873, 1876, 1879-1897); court papers (1864-1897); financial
records (1865-1897), including ledgers, depositors daily balances, cash books, etc.; legal
documents (1861-1896); organizational materials (1882-1897) including articles of
association, minutes, etc.; a subject file (1868-1896) concerning the bank's various
investments, L.H. Hershfield's Republican Party activities, etc; and miscellany (1866-1894).
The Merchants National Bank Receivership Subgroup contains incoming and outgoing
correspondence (1897-1903) of receiver Eugene T. Wilson; court papers (1897-1901); financial
records (1897-1898, 1902); and an agreement (1901). In addition, there are smaller subgroups
for the United Hebrew Benevolent Association (1879-1885); and for the White Sulphur Springs
Association (1883-1896) concerning operation of the resort hotel.
Arranged by subgroup and series. Some material housed in Manuscript Volumes. see inventory below for
more information.
Collection open for research.
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Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers.
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Acquisition information available upon request
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.
Merchants National Bank
(Helena, Mont.)
Belmont (Mont.)
Cable City (Mont.)--Industries
Elliston (Mont.)
Fort Benton (Mont.)--Commerce
Helena (Mont.)--Commerce
Marysville (Mont.)--Industries
Ontario Mining District (Powell County, Mont.)
Virginia City (Mont.)--Commerce
White Sulphur Springs (Mont.)--Commerce
Banks and banking
Gold mines and mining
Hotels
Jews
Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Lewis and
Clark County
Political parties
Railroads
Service organizations
Townsites
Montana
Business, Industry, and Labor
Government and Politics
Jewish Americans
Mines and Mineral Resources
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection
Merchants National Bank
Incoming Correspondence [L.H. Hershfield and Company,
Virginia City]
1 / 1-2
L.H. Hershfield and Company, Helena
1866
1 / 3
G-W (correspondents include John A. Gaston; H.
Holter; Isett, Kerr and Company; Langdorf and Rosenstein; Sam Schank)
1866
1 / 4
A-H (correspondents include S.W. Batchelder,
Francis R. Bice, L.M. Black, Bohm and Molitor, N.J. Bond, A. Cohen, George A. Dunn,
Oliver Durant, H. Ellis, J.D. Farmer, First National Bank of Washington D.C., John
Freeland, Ben Hillman, John Herrmann, C.C. Honsel)
1867
1 / 5-8
L.H. Hershfield and Company, Helena
1867
1 / 9
Isett, Kerr and Company
1867
1 / 10
M.H. Insley re Montana Volunteers
1867
1 / 11
K (correspondents include W.H. Kaster and Company;
Charles Henry Kauffmann [in German]; H. Kirkendall; T.H. Kleinschmidt; Knauth,
Nachod and Kuhne; Adam Kuhn)
1867
1 / 12
S. Landsberg [some in German]
1867
1 / 13
N. Leavitt
1867
1 / 14
L-R (correspondents include Langsdorf and
Rosenstein, Lewis and Phillips, Leon Loeb, A.K. McClure, L. Mayer, Thomas Francis
Meagher, T.D. Melius, J.S. Osbourn, Christian Pfuhl, William Phillips, M. Rudolph,
Matt Ryan [some in German])
1867
1 / 15
Thomas C. Stevens
1867
1 / 16
S-W (correspondents include J. Stenger, Julius
Stern, Samuel Sykes, Louis Vogel, Henry Wolfsohn)
1867
1 / 17-18
L.H. Hershfield and Company / L.H. Hershfield and
Brother, Helena (correspondents include Aaron Hershfield and A. Hanauer)
1868
1 / 19
B-Z (correspondents include Ben Bachman; N.J. Bond;
Herman Clark; A.F. Heath; C.C. Huntley; Isett, Kerr and Company; W.H. Kaster;
Knauth, Nachod and Kuhne; F.D. Milner; Miners National Bank of Salt Lake City;
Thomas C. Stevens; Louis Vogel; N. Zemansky)
1868
Incoming Correspondence [L.H. Hershfield and Company,
Helena]
2 / 1
Hershfield family
1864
2 / 2
C,J (correspondents include Colman and Holtenbach;
A. Jacobs)
1865
2 / 3
B-C (correspondents include Bank of California,
William Chumasero, A. Cohen)
1866
2 / 4
John S. Collins
1866
2 / 5
Oliver Durant
1866
2 / 6
Charles Friedrichs
1866
2 / 7
F-H (correspondents include James R. Gould,
Herrmann and Star, Holladay and Halsey, C.C. Huntley)
1866
2 / 8-9
L.H. Hershfield and Company, Virginia City
1866
2 / 10
Hershfield family
1866
2 / 11
Isett, Kerr and Company
1866
2 / 12
K-M (correspondents include Knauth, Nachod and
Company; W.C. Lobenstein; Leon Loeb [in German]; C.W. Marden; M. Morris)
1866
2 / 13
N. Mitchell [cousin]
1866
2 / 14
Nounnan, Orr and Company
1866
2 / 15
N-P (correspondents include Newlan and Weary bank,
Frank Petchner [in German])
1866
2 / 16
William Rosenfeld
1866
2 / 17
R-W (correspondents include Joseph Ringolsky, L.
Slavick, Thomas C. Stevens, John Van Camp, Benjaman Wisebach [several in Yiddish])
1866
2 / 18
A-E (correspondents include W.A. Atlee, Bohm and
Molitor, O. Bonney, Rodman Carter, William Chumasero, W.A. Clark, John Dudley,
Oliver Durant, H. Ellis)
1867
2 / 19
Charles Friedrichs
1867
2 / 20
F-H (correspondents include Stiles French, G.
Goldberg, Hershfield and Mitchell, M. Herzog, C.C. Huntley)
1867
2 / 21-24
L.H. Hershfield and Company, Virginia City (A.
Hanauer)
1867
2 / 25
Isett, Kerr and Company
1867
2 / 26
I-J (correspondents include A. Israel, Edward C.
Jacobs)
1867
2 / 27
William Kiskadden (Miners National Bank, Salt Lake
City)
1867
2 / 28
K-R (correspondents include W.H. Kastor; Charles
Henry Kauffman [in German]; Knauth, Nachod and Kuhne; Langsdorf and Rosenstein; S.
Levy; Lewis and Phillips; Edward Lobach; Leon Loeb [in German and Yiddish], Macoy
and Herwig; C.W. Marden; Nounnan, Orr and Company; Joseph Ringolsky [in Yiddish]; W.
Roberts; J. Rosenthal)
1867
2 / 29
William Rosenfeld
1867
2 / 30
Thomas C. Stevens
1867
2 / 31
S-Z (correspondents include Stoker and Company,
Samuel Sykes, U.S. Treasury, N.B. Warner, James W. Whitlatch, N. Zemansky)
1867
Incoming Correspondence [L.H. Hershfield and Brother]
3 / 1
A-B (correspondents include J.W. Allry, Ben
Bachman, I.G. Baker and Brother, John P. Bruce)
1868
3 / 2
S. Cameron (Cable City)
1868
3 / 3
Rodman Carter (Cable City)
1868
3 / 4
C-H (correspondents include William Chumasero, S.
Content, Davis and Thoroughman, E.M. Dunphy, Charles Friedrichs, Frederick B.
Goddard, A. Hanauer, Alonzo Hastings, J.B. Heller, Hershfield and Mitchell, Martin
E. Hogan, H.H. Houston, S.S. Huntley)
1868
3 / 5-7
L.H. Hershfield (from New York and elsewhere); and
L.H. Hershfield and Company to him
1868
3 / 8-9
Hershfield family and others to L.H. Hershfield in
New York and elsewhere
1868
3 / 10
L.H. Hershfield and Company, Virginia City (Lester
W. Roys, A. Hanauer)
1868
3 / 11
Isett, Kerr and Company (Watson B. Farr)
1868
3 / 12
I-M (correspondents include A. Israel, C. Jandorf,
Louis Kayser, Hugh Kirkendall, William Kiskadden, Langsdorf and Rosenstein, Adolphe
Low and Company, Montana Territorial Secretary James Tufts)
1868
3 / 13
N-Z (correspondents include Northrup and Chick;
Joseph Ringolsky [in Yiddish]; Philip Rothschild; Charles Rumley; Schwabacher
Brothers; Thomas C. Stevens; Sussfield, Lorsch and Company; Tootle, Leach and
Company; U.S. Treasury Department; P.H. Way; N. Zemansky)
1868
3 / 14
A-B (correspondents include I.G. Baker and Brother,
Bank of California)
1869
3 / 15
S. Cameron (Cable City)
1869
3 / 16
Sol Content
1869
3 / 17
C-G (correspondents include Charles W. Cannon,
Rodman Carter, J.C. Chance, E.H. Durfee, Henry Elling)
1869
3 / 18
L.H. Hershfield [from New York]
1869
3 / 19
H-L (correspondents include A. Hanauer; Charles
Hendrie; Hershfield and Mitchell; C.C. Huntley; Hussey, Dahler and Company;
Langsdorf and Rosenstein; J.C. Leonard and Company)
1869
3 / 20
M-R (correspondents include William S. Marshall,
James H. Mills, Titus Molitor, Montana Territorial Secretary W.S. Scribner, Northrup
and Chick, Omaha National Bank, C.K. Peck, Thomas C. Power, Isaac Rosenstein)
1869
3 / 21
S-W (correspondents include Wilbur Fisk Sanders,
Cole Saunders, N.N. Sensenderfer, Thomas C. Stevens, N.H. Wood)
1869
3a / 1
B-H (correspondents include Frank Baird, I.G. Baker
and Brother, J.R. Bill, S. Cameron, E.W. Carpenter, E.M. Dunphy, Leonard Franz [in
German], A. Hanauer, H.J. Harris, Susy Hershfield, Hershfield and Mitchell)
1870
3a / 2
J-Z (correspondents include Knauth, Nachod and
Kuhne; Julius Levy; W.C. Lobenstein; L. Loeb; C.C. Miller; J.L. Miller; James H.
Mills; Northrup and Chick; A. Pierstorf; Sol Star; W.D. Waunn; N. Zemansky)
1870
3a / 3
A-I (correspondents include D.A. Bentley, E.W.
Carpenter, E.M. Dunphy, Fort Shaw, Henry Greenbaum and Company, A. Hanauer, Hiram J.
Harris, Hershfield and Mitchell, C.C. Huntley, S.S. Huntley)
1871
3a / 4
J-W (correspondents include Hugh Kirkendall, M.D.
Ledbeater, J.A. Monks and Sons, Northrup and Chick, Louis Rothschild, G.A. Wolf)
1871
4 / 1
A-L (correspondents include I.G. Baker and Brother;
Bank of California; S. Cameron; Carney, Carrett, Fenlon and Company; Clough and
Wheat; E.M. Dunphy; James Glendenning; S.S. Huntley; Iler and Company)
1872
4 / 2
M-W (correspondents include Montana Territorial
Treasurer and Secretary, Northrup and Chick, C.K. Peck, B.W. Ragan, Josef Szawloski,
U.S. Army Department of Dakota, Solomon Weil)
1872
4 / 3
B-C (correspondents include Henry N. Blake, A.
Bradbury, Edward Brassy, H. Cook, Austin Corbin)
1873
4 / 4
S. Cameron
1873
4 / 5
D-F (correspondents include E.M. Dunphy, First
National Bank of Salt Lake City)
1873
4 / 6
C.C. and S.S. Huntley
1873
4 / 7
H-W (correspondents include Iler and Company, E.N.
Ingersoll, G.F. Ingram, C.S. Jones, Conrad Kohrs, Martin Maginnis, James H. Mills,
Montana Territorial Treasurer, Samuel V. Niles, Northrup and Chick, W.H. Sutherlin,
John White, Worden and Company)
1873
4 / 8
A-C (correspondents include Mary Aaron, S. Cameron,
E.W. Carpenter, William A. Clark)
1874
4 / 9
Donnell, Lawson and Company
1874
4 / 10
D-K (correspondents include C.L. Dahler, E.M.
Dunphy, Ellis and Davis, Hershfield and Mitchell, Fred J. Kiesel and Company)
1874
4 / 11
W.C. Lobenstein
1874
4 / 12
L-W (correspondents include Justus Loeber [in
German]; Charles A. Moger; William Muth, Samuel V. Niles; Stephani, Hart and
Company; Strasburger and Sperling; G.G. Symes; John White)
1874
4 / 13
A-C (correspondents include Alliance Mutual Life
Assurance Society, Anglo-Californian Bank, D.A. Bently, Henry N. Blake, E.L. Bonner
and Company, A.E. Bradbury, S. Cameron, G.H. Campbell, E.W. Carpenter, W.F.
Chadwick, William A. Clark, William Coleman, Thomas F. Coryell)
1875
4 / 14
Donnell, Lawson and Company
1875
4 / 15
D-G (correspondents include Norman Diefendorf, J.E.
Dougherty, Ellis and Davis, William Groshon)
1875
4 / 16
W.L. Hall; Hall and Boerum (?)
1875
4 / 17
Hershfield family
1875
4 / 18
C.C. and S.S. Huntley
1875
4 / 19
H-R (correspondents include James L. Hamilton; Tim
Henderson; E.A. Ingersoll; W.C. Lobenstein; Fred Loeber; James H. Mills; Morehead,
Sellar and Company; Thomas C. Power; N.G. Prewitt; J.C. Ricker; J.C. Robinson)
1875
4 / 20
Strasburger and Sperling
1875
4 / 21
G.G. Symes
1875
4 / 22
John White
1875
4 / 23
A-C (correspondents include Anglo-Californian Bank,
I.G. Baker and Company, L. Behm, S. Cameron, Caplice and Smith, E.W. Carpenter,
Albert Chaxel, William A. Clark, T.E. Collins)
1876
4 / 24
D-H (correspondents include James Fergus, Ike
Greenhood, J.W. Guthrie and Company, W.L. Hall, H.R. Hammond, Nicholas Hilger, S.S.
Huntley)
1876
4 / 25
K-P (correspondents include Fred J. Kiesel and
Company, Kountz Brothers, William MacNaughton, James H. Mills, Missoula National
Bank, Montana Company Ltd., Charles T. Mussigbrod [in German], C.K. Peck)
1876
4 / 26
Sol Star
1876
4 / 27
Strasburger and Sperling
1876
4 / 28
G.G. Symes
1876
4 / 29
S-W (correspondents include R.N. Sutherlin, Union
Pacific Railroad Company, P.S. White)
1876
5 / 1
A-C (correspondents include D.A Bently, P.B. Clark,
Continental Insurance Company, Crow Agency)
1877
5 / 2
S. Cameron
1877
5 / 3
E.W. Carpenter
1877
5 / 4
T.E. Collins
1877
5 / 5
D-G (correspondents include Donnell, Lawson and
Company; A. Dusold; Henry Elling; First National Bank of Utah; George Follett and
Company; J.W. Guthrie and Company)
1877
5 / 6
C.C. and S.S. Huntley
1877
5 / 7
H (correspondents include W.L. Hall, John Hamilton,
A. Hanauer, R.N. Hershfield, Joseph Hirshberg)
1877
5 / 8
K-R (correspondents include Fred J. Kiesel and
Company; Kountz Brothers; Leopold Marks; W.C. Lobenstein; P.W. McAdow; Charles D.
McLure; James H. Mills; Murphy, Neel and Company; Charles J. O'Brien; Raymond
Brothers; H.J. Rosencrans)
1877
5 / 9
Sol Star
1877
5 / 10
Strasburger and Sperling
1877
5 / 11
G.G. Symes
1877
5 / 12
S-W (correspondents include Theodore Shed, Court
Sheriff, Charles C. Shoyer, W.J. Stephens, R.N. Sutherlin, J.A. Viall, E.N.
Williams, Lester S. Williams, Frank H. Woody)
1877
5 / 13
A-C (correspondents include Anglo-Californian Bank,
Chauncey Barbour, D.A. Bently, W.F. Chadwick, Charles Clark, P.B. Clark, Clough and
Wheat, N.J. Cramer)
1878
5 / 14
S. Cameron
1878
5 / 15
E.W. Carpenter
1878
5 / 16
T.E. Collins
1878
5 / 17
D-G (correspondents include Henry Elling, First
National Bank of Portland Oregon, E. Grisar and Company, J.W. Guthrie and Company)
1878
5 / 18
S.S. Huntley
1878
5 / 19
H-I (correspondents include W.L. Hall, R.N.
Hershfield, Joseph Hirshberg, S.L. Holzman, J.O. Hussey, George W. Irwin)
1878
5 / 20
K-R (correspondents include Fred J. Kiesel and
Company, Conrad Kohrs, Kountz Brothers, L.F. LaCroix, W.C. Lobenstein, P.W. McAdow,
McCormick and Hardenbrook, Walter McDermott, James H. Mills, Missoula National Bank,
Joseph Ringolsky, P.C. Ruy)
1878
5 / 21
Sol Star
1878
5 / 22
Strasburger and Sperling
1878
5 / 23
G.G. Symes
1878
5 / 24
S-W (correspondents include Phil M. Saunders, C.W.
Sutton, Samuel Thompson's Nephews, E.W. Toole, Union Pacific Railroad Company,
Nathan S. Vestal)
1878
5 / 25
A-C (correspondents include Alderson and Son,
Belmont Mining Company, P.B. Clark, J.B. Cleveland)
1879
5 / 26
S. Cameron
1879
5 / 27
E.W. Carpenter
1879
5 / 28
T.E. Collins
1879
5 / 29
D-G (correspondents include J.E. Dougherty, Henry
Elling, Henry Foster, E. Griser and Company)
1879
5 / 30
Hirshberg and Nathan (Joseph Hirshberg and A.
Nathan)
1879
5 / 31
H-R (correspondents include W.L. Hall, John Healy,
S.E. Hoffman, S.L. Holzman, S.S. Huntley, Fred J. Kiesel and Company, Hugh
Kirkendall, Kountz Brothers, S.W. Langhorne, S.E. Larabie, I.S. Mullaly, Penobscot
and Snowdrift Consolidated Mining Company, Raymond Brothers, John H. Rumping)
1879
5 / 32
Strasburger and Sperling
1879
5 / 33
S-W (correspondents include Cole Saunders, G.G.
Symes, Mrs. William F. Wheeler, Philip W. Woodward)
1879
6 / 1
A-B (correspondents include G. Abbot, David
Allistor, Anglo-Californian Bank, Belmont Mining Company)
1880
6 / 2
Bank of Northern Montana (Collins, Duer and
Company; T.E. Collins)
1880
6 / 3
E.W. Carpenter
1880
6 / 4
T.E. Collins
1880
6 / 5
C-K (correspondents include W.F. Chadwick; J.D.
Conrad; Conrad and Muth; Donnell, Clark and Larabie; J.E. Dougherty; Paris Gibson;
Gray, Dewey, Gould and Company; E. Grisard and Company; W.L. Hall; D.C. Holbrook;
Huntley and Clark; Kountz Brothers)
1880
6 / 6
Fred and Herman Loeber
1880
6 / 7
M-R (correspondents include J.F. McClintock;
Penobscot and Snowdrift Consolidated Mining Company; Raymond, Harrington and
Company)
1880
6 / 8
Strasburger and Sperling
1880
6 / 9
S-W (correspondents include J.C. Savage, Sol Star,
Olivia A. Stephens, G.G. Symes, Utah and Northern Railway Company, E.H. Ward, B.F.
White)
1880
6 / 10
A-B (correspondents include Rufus K. Allerton,
Joseph Allin, Anglo-Californian Bank, L. Auerbach, Richard P. Barden, Berry
Brothers, G.N. Bryant)
1881
6 / 11
Bank of Northern Montana (Collins, Duer and
Company)
1881
6 / 12
Belmont Mining Company (L.C. Trent, William
Pearson, Walter McDermott)
1881
6 / 13
E.W. Carpenter
1881
6 / 14
C-L (correspondents include G.T. Cadge, Central
Pacific Railroad Company, H. Cohen [in Yiddish], Frank Cole, Conrad and Muth, F.D.
Cooper, J.E. Daugherty, Paris Gibson, J.W. Guthrie, W.L. Hall, S.S. Huntley, Ira
Ingraham, Christina Klane, Kountz Brothers, Fred Loeber, E.L. Lowe)
1881
6 / 15
M-R (correspondents include J.F. McClintock, N.T.
McClintock, S.S. McIlhenny, A.E. Mayhew, Alex Harding, Oberfelder Brothers and
Company, William Parberry, Penobscot and Snowdrift Consolidated Mining Company, W.M.
Rank and Company)
1881
6 / 16
Sebree, Ferris and White (B.F. White)
1881
6 / 17
Strasburger and Sperling
1881
6 / 18
S-W (correspondents include J.C. Savery, Sol Star,
William H. Todd, J.H. Wilson, Thomas Wright)
1881
6 / 19
A-B (correspondents include George Abbot, Belmont
Mining Company, Berry Brothers)
1882 January-June
6 / 20
Bank of Northern Montana (Collins, Duer and
Company)
1882 January-June
6 / 21
C-G (correspondents include George Cadge, Conrad
and Muth, E.A. Culver, Harper Dougan, William T. Ford, E. Grisar and Company)
1882 January-June
6 / 22
Hoge, Brownlee and Company
1882 March-June
6 / 23
H-R (correspondents include W.L. Hall, George L.
and Frances Harvey, W.C. Hill, Francis B. Ives, Fred C. Macartney, J.H. McKnight and
Company, A.E. Mayhew, Meagher County, F.R. Merk, W.D. Nicholas, James E. Rily)
1882 January-June
6 / 24
S-W (correspondents include J.C. Savery; Sebree,
Ferris and White; Smith Brothers; Sol Star; Steele and Company; John A. Stemple;
W.J. Stevenson; Strasburger and Sperling; George Toston; E.W. Toole; Ed Trebilcock,
U.S. Controller of the Currency authorizing Hershfield to establish national bank;
James W. Walker; Frank Wells)
1882 January-June
Incoming Correspondence [Merchants National Bank]
7 / 1
A-B (correspondents include L. Auerbach, D.J.
Bailey, M.A. Bigford and Company, Nelse Bump)
1882 July-December
7 / 2
Bank of Northern Montana (Collins, Duer and
Company)
1882 July-December
7 / 3
C-K (correspondents include E.W. Carpenter;
Donnell, Clark and Larabie; William Eldridge; W.L. Hall; Henry M. Hill; Hoge,
Brownlee and Company; S.S. Huntley; Joslyn and Morse; Keokuk Wind Engine Company;
B.C. Kingsbury; Kountz Brothers)
1882 July-December
7 / 4
M-W (correspondents include William F. Mattingly;
Meagher County; Andrew Muir; W.D. Nicholas; Rand, McNally and Company; Sebree,
Ferris and White; Steele and Company; G.G. Symes; J.F. Taylor; Ed Trebilcock; U.S.
Controller of the Currency re chartering of Merchants National Bank; Wells, Fargo
and Company)
1882 July-December
7 / 5
A-B (correspondents include J.C. Adams, Allen and
Lewis, Amazon Mining Company, L. Auerbach, Bank of Meagher County, E.T. Barnum Wire
and Iron Works, Ralph Berry, S.S. Berry, M.A. Bigford and Company, Mrs. M.F. Bishop,
H.L. Boon, John S. Bowman and Company, Nelse Bump)
1883
7 / 6
Bank of Northern Montana (Collins, Duer and
Company)
1883
7 / 7
C-J (correspondents include A.H. Clambey; Thomas
Cooney; J.E. Dougherty; Byron DeWitt; Donnell, Clark and Larabie; Dunham and
Maloney; A.W. Fox; Paris Gibson; Henry Guyer; A.J. Hall; Herring and Company safes;
Hoge, Brownlee and Company; W. Hollingsworth; Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder;
T.A. Johnson; Joslyn and Morse)
1883
7 / 8
Kountz Brothers
1883
7 / 9
K-L (correspondents include Hugh Kirkendall,
Kleinschmidt and Brother, John Largent, George A. Lowe)
1883
7 / 10
The Montana Company Ltd.
1883
7 / 11
M-R (correspondents include P.W. McAdow; Lee
Mantle; Meagher County Treasurer J.F. McClintock; J.H. Moe; W.D. Nicholas; J.P.
Panton; William Parberry; J.G. Pickering; Procter and Gamble oil department;
Quicksilver Mining Company; Rand, McNally and Company bankers directory; Raymond,
Hamilton and Company; C.B. Richard and Company)
1883
7 / 12
W.J. Stevenson
1883
7 / 13
S-U (correspondents include Sebree, Ferris and
White; D.L. Shafer; J.J. Shimmick; N.B. Smith; Sam Snyder; Spencer, Mayn and
Heitman; Steele and Company; Oscar Stephens; T.E. Stevens; Pierce Ten Eyck; Utah and
Northern Railway Company)
1883
7 / 14
White Sulphur Springs Association (Arthur Sias;
Charles Mayn)
1883
7 / 15
W-Y (correspondents include George A. Wells, A.G.
White, A.A. Wilson, Frank H. Woody, Yanz and Howes, S.P. Young)
1883
8 / 1
Amazon Mining and Smelting Company (J.L. Waggener)
1884
8 / 2
A-B (correspondents include Allen and Lewis;
Anglo-Californian Bank; Arthur and Bonnell; J.A. Bailey; Bank of Meagher County;
D.W. Beach; Louis Belenger; Bennett Brothers; S.S. Berry Jr; F.A. Bickford; M.F.
Bishop)
1884
8 / 3
Bank of Northern Montana (Collins, Duer and
Company)
1884
8 / 4
C-G (correspondents include Castletown, George
Cadge, E.W. Carpenter, Clark and Larabie, H. Clark and Company, Colorado National
Bank, Continental National Bank, John Schuyler Crosby, W.E. Cullen, Byron DeWitt,
J.E. Dougherty, Finkelnburg and Rassieur, Ford Brothers, Herman Freiler, August Gast
and Company, Oliver Goyette)
1884
8 / 5
D. Holzman
1884
8 / 6
H-L (correspondents include Hall, Harrington and
Company; Hoge, Brownlee and Company; Hoge, Daly and Company; H.J. Jacobs; T.A.
Johnson; Johnson and Leonard; Max Kabaker; Martin Kalbfleisch's Sons; W.A. Kelly;
Kountz Brothers; John W. Lowell Company)
1884
8 / 7
The Montana Company Ltd.
1884
8 / 8
M-P (correspondents include Alex McMaster, Franklin
MacVeigh and Company, John R. Miller, W.B. Mumbrue, D.S. Phelps, J.G. Pickering,
R.S. Price)
1884
8 / 9
R-S (correspondents include J.B. Randol; Ryan
Brothers; A. Sands; J.C. Scott; Sebree, Ferris and White; D.L. and Donna P. Shafer;
Nat C. Shoyer; Arthur W. Sias; James R. Sias; Nathan Silverman; N.B. Smith; Max
Sklower; E.S. Sperling; Sol Star; W.J. Stevenson)
1884
8 / 10
Spencer, Mayn and Heitman
1884
8 / 11
T-Z (correspondents include W.H. Tracy, U.S.
Controller of the Currency, W.T. Vaughan, B.F. White, Samuel Wilkinson, Zeigler and
Carson)
1884
8 / 12
A-B (correspondents include Walter Adams,
Anglo-Californian Bank, Arthur and Bonnell, A.L. Bancroft and Company, Bank of
Meagher County, L.D. Beary, Louis Belanger, Henry N. Blake, Bozeman National Bank,
Julian F. Burd)
1885
8 / 13
Bank of Northern Montana (Collins, Duer and
Company)
1885
8 / 14
C-G (correspondents include E.W. Carpenter, H.
Clark and Company, Colorado National Bank, Continental National Bank, John Schuyler
Crosby, Moses Daggett, Byron DeWitt, J.E. Dougherty, William T. Eldridge, First
National Bank of Dillon, First National Bank of White Sulphur Springs, Frankford
Steel Company, Herman Freiler, J.D. Gildart)
1885
8 / 15
D. Holzman
1885
8 / 16
H-J (correspondents include Hanck Brothers; J.A.
Harvey; Joseph Hirshberg; Hoge, Daly and Company; H.T. Jacobs; John T. Jefferis,
T.A. Johnson)
1885
8 / 17
K-L (correspondents include Max Kabaker; Knauth,
Nachod and Kuhne; Kountz Brothers; H.L. Lowndes)
1885
8 / 18
The Montana Company Ltd.
1885
8 / 19
M-R (correspondents include Meagher County Probate
Judge B.W. Badger; William Morris; W.B. Mumbrue; Murphy, Maclay and Company;
National German American Bank; H.H. Nelson; W.D. Nicholas; S.F. Ralston; Winthrop
Raymond; T.S. Reed; George Richards; Thomas Rose)
1885
8 / 20
S (correspondents include A. Sands; J. & W.
Seligman and Company; D.L. Shafer; Sharp Brothers; Silurian Mineral Spring; Nathan
Silverman; R.E. Slawson; Smith and Maddox; Joseph Smyser; Sowles and Miller;
Spencer, Mayn and Heitman)
1885
8 / 21
T-W (correspondents include Charles F. Tallmadge;
Ann Thomas; Willis Thorpe; W.E. Tierney and Company; A. Tonn; U.S. Controller of the
Currency; Ferd Wehn; Wells, Fargo and Company; Jospeh Wolf)
1885
9 / 1
A-B (correspondents include Walter Adams; Charles
Anceney; Anderson County Deposit Bank; Anglo-Californian Bank; Arthur and Bonnell;
Aurora Smelting and Refining Company; Edward Balbach and Son; Bank of Northern
Montana; Belgrade Grain and Produce Company; Boise City National Bank; F.W.
Bookwalter; Bozeman National Bank; Edward Burns)
1886
9 / 2
Louis Belanger
1886
9 / 3
C-E (correspondents include Fred Cameron; Chrystie
and Janney; H. Clark and Company; Clark and Larabie; LaFayette Cole; P.C. Conroy;
Byron DeWitt; Paul Eutice)
1886
9 / 4
First National Bank of White Sulphur Springs (James
H. Moe)
1886
9 / 5
F-G (correspondents include Foy Sisters; Fraser and
Chalmers; Paris Gibson; Helena Goldberg; T.C. Gray; Guyer Hot Spring Hotel)
1886
9 / 6
D. Holzman
1886
9 / 7
H-L (correspondents include Hall, Harrington and
Company; T.J. Hanck; Francis E. Harvey; Fred Harvey; R.N. Hershfield; Joseph
Hirshberg; Hoge, Brownlee and Company; Hoge, Daly and Company; John T. Jefferis;
D.J. Kennelly; Kountz Brothers; H.L. Lowndes)
1886
9 / 8
Meagher County Probate Judge B.W. Badger
1886
9 / 9
The Montana Company Ltd.
1886
9 / 10
M-R (correspondents include George H. McGeer; J.R.
Marks; M.E. Milner; William Morris; National German American Bank; H.H. Nelson; W.D.
Nicholas; Porter, Raymond and Company; F.H. Putnam; Thomas B. Quan; W.R. Ralston;
Rand, McNally and Company bankers directory)
1886
9 / 11
S-T (correspondents include St. Peter's Hospital;
A. Sands; J. & W. Seligman and Company; D.L. Shafer, Theodore Shed; N.B. Smith;
N.B. Solmer; Spencer, Mayn and Heitman; Frank L. Benepe; Stetson and Post Mill
Company; J.E. Stevens; Stock Growers National Bank; J.F. Taylor; E.J. Thomas; Edwin
Trebilcock)
1886
9 / 12
U-W (correspondents include U.S. Controller of the
Currency; Thomas H. Vinter; George A. Wells; Wells, Fargo and Company; B.F. White;
R.P. Whiton)
1886
9 / 13
Charles Anceney
1887
9 / 14
Anglo-Montana Mining Company Ltd.
1887
9 / 15
A-B (correspondents include Walter A. Adams; A.H.
Andrews and Company; Anglo-Californian Bank; Arthur and Bonnell; Bailey and
Billings; Bank of Northern Montana; Bank of Spokane Falls; Bozeman National Bank;
Burns and Martin)
1887
9 / 16
Louis Belanger
1887
9 / 17
Belgrade Grain and Produce Company
1887
9 / 18
C-G (correspondents include George T. Cadge; D.H.
Churchill; William A. Clark; Clark and Larabie; Colorado National Bank; Consolidated
National Bank of San Diego; O.G. Cooper; Dallemand and Company; Byron DeWitt; A.G.
Edwards and Son; Eyl and Company; First National Bank of Dillon; First National Bank
of White Sulphur Springs; George E. Fischer; Dominick Freiler and Son; Gilbert and
Taylor, Architects; Paris Gibson; Guyer Hot Spring Hotel)
1887
9 / 19
H-L (correspondents include Hall, Harrington and
Company; T. Hanlon; Frances E. Harvey; Hecht Brothers and Company; Julius Hirshberg;
Hodgson and Stem, Architects; Enoch Hodson; Hoge, Brownlee and Company; Hoge, Daly
and Company; S.L. Holtzman; Huntley and Clark; Charles E. Hurd; Joseph Johns; Joseph
Knapp; Knauth, Nachod and Kuhne; Kountze Brothers; H.S. Krigbaum; H.L. Lowndes)
1887
9 / 20
The Montana Company Ltd.
1887
9 / 21
M (correspondents include Roger McCaffery, H.G. and
S.H. McIntire, Henry M. Martin, J.R. Marks, Meagher County Probate Judge B.W.
Badger, J.H. Moe, William Morris)
1887
9 / 22
N-R (correspondents include National German
American Bank, W.S. Negus Mercantile Company, H.H. Nelson, W.D. Nicholas, H.G.
Niedermeyer, John W. Norris, William Parberry, Pennsylvania Lead Company, David S.
Phelps, Potter and Chandler, A.K. Prescott, W.R. Ralston, George Richards, H.C.
Rothe)
1887
10 / 1
S (correspondents include N.T. Sabin; J. & W.
Seligman; Mrs. D.P. Shafer; Theo. Shed; Nathan Silverman [partly in Yiddish];
Spencer, Mayn and Heitman; Stock Growers National Bank of Cheyenne)
1887
10 / 2
T-Z (correspondents include J.F. Taylor, A. Tonn,
U.S. Controller of the Currency, E.A. Vickery, A.M. Wells, George A. Wells, John
Willard, Otto Zwietusch)
1887
10 / 3
Anglo-Montana Mining Company
1888
10 / 4
A-B (correspondents include Walter A. Adams,
American Bank Reporter, Charles Anceney, Anglo-Californian Bank, Arthur and Bonnell,
F. Auerbach and Brother, Bailey and Billings, Bank of Northern Montana, John Barnes
and Sons, Louis Belanger, L. Berridge, Bozeman National Bank,
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company)
1888
10 / 5
Belgrade Grain and Produce Company
1888
10 / 6
C-G (correspondents include E.W. Carpenter, John B.
Clayberg, D.H. Churchill, Colorado National Bank, Continental National Bank, Edward
F. Crosby, Ferdinand Dell, A.G. Edwards and Son, First National Bank of White
Sulphur Springs, Dominick Freiler, George D. Green)
1888
10 / 7
H-L (correspondents include Hall, Harrington and
Company; J.C. Hanrahan; N.W. Harris and Company; Hecht Brothers and Company; H.O.
Hilkox; Hodgson and Stem, Architects; J.C. Hopper; George W. Howe; S.S. Huntley;
Knauth, Nachod and Kuhne; Kountz Brothers; Richard Lockey)
1888
10 / 8
The Montana Company Ltd.
1888
10 / 9
William Morris
1888
10 / 10
M-R (correspondents include F.T. McBride; James J.
Mayne; H.H. Nelson; David S. Phelps; Pinkerton and Company; W.R. Ralston; Rand,
McNally and Company bankers directory; J.L. Randall; George Richards; Herbert
Rundle)
1888
10 / 11
S-Y (correspondents include Sylvester Sands;
J. & W. Seligman and Company; Theo. Shed; Spencer, Mayn and Heitman; L. Sutor
Company; D.H. Talbot; U.S. Controller of the Currency; Thomas H. Vinter; Harriet
Young)
1888
10 / 12
A-B (correspondents include Alhambra Flume and
Mercantile Company; American Banker; Anglo-Californian Bank; Arthur and Bonnell;
Edward Balbach and Son; Bank of Northern Montana; J.R. Barrows; L. Barridge;
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company)
1889
10 / 13
Belgrade Grain and Produce Company
1889
10 / 14
C-E (correspondents include D.H. Churchill;
Continental National Bank; N.N. Davidson; Detroit Safe Company; A.G. Edwards and
Son)
1889
10 / 15
F-H (correspondents include J.A. Featherman; First
National Bank of White Sulphur Springs; Louis S. Fiske and Company; Dominick Freiler
and Son; Louis Friedmann; Granite Mountain Mining Company; F.E. Harvey; Heins and La
Farge, Architects; Joseph Hirshberg and Company; Hoge, Brownlee and Company; D.
Holzman; J.C. Hopper; C. Humphrey; S.S. Huntley)
1889
10 / 16
I-L (correspondents include N.J. Isdell; Jefferson
County; Kellogg, Johnson and Company; Knauth, Nachod and Kuhne; Kountz Brothers;
Kraus, Mayer and Stein; Lilienthal and Company; Matthew Luce)
1889
10 / 17
The Montana Company Ltd.
1889
10 / 18
M-N (correspondents include Montana Stage Company;
B. Morse; Guss Mumberg; National City Bank of Boston; National German American Bank;
H.H. Nelson; P.N. Newton; W.D. Nicholas)
1889
11 / 1
O-R (correspondents include Max Oberfelder;
Pennsylvania Lead Company; Thomas H. Pleasants; Charles Pryor; W.R. Ralston;
Ramsdell Brothers; George Richards)
1889
11 / 2
Spencer, Mayn and Heitman
1889
11 / 3
S-T (J. & W. Seligman; Theo. Shed; N. Silverman
[in Yiddish]; S.L. Simpson; Charles Starrett; Geo. D. & L.A. Thomas; J.F. Thomas;
C.W. Turner)
1889
11 / 4
U.S. Treasury Department; Controller of the Currency
1889
11 / 5
U-Y (correspondents include Ubet Hotel; U.S. Assay
Office; Charles K. Wells; Wells, Fargo and Company Express; John Wilson; Harriet
Young)
1889
11 / 6
A-B (correspondents include Anglo-Californian Bank;
F.L. Bacon; Balbach Smelting and Refining Company; Bank of Fergus County; Louis
Belanger; W. Berkin; Bi-Metallic Mining Company; Frank Brow;
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company)
1890
11 / 7
Belgrade Grain and Produce Company
1890
11 / 8
C-F (correspondents include J.M. Campbell; E.W.
Carpenter; Thomas H. Carter; D.H. Churchill; Citizens Electric Light Company; O.E.
Chilseth; S.R. Commander; A.J. Davidson; Elizabeth Mining Company; Henry Elling;
J.A. Featherman; First National Bank of White Sulphur Springs; Dominick Freiler)
1890
11 / 9
G-H (correspondents include J.T. Galvin; Henry
Girard; Golden Leaf Ltd.; James B. Goss; Granite Mountain Mining Company; J.D.
Guillow; Russell B. Harrison; Heins and La Farge, Architects; Joseph Hirshberg and
Company; W. Hussey)
1890
11 / 10
I-L (correspondents include Inter State National
Bank; Knaud, Nachod and Kuhne; Kountz Brothers; C.E. Le Munyon; Preston H. Leslie;
W.G. Lewis; William Lewis and Company; William C. Lobenstine; Lombard Investment
Company)
1890
11 / 11
The Montana Company Ltd.
1890
11 / 12
M (correspondents include John McBride; Charles D.
McLure; Maitland, Phelps and Company; J.R. Marks; Edward P. May; Missoula County
Treasurer; Missoula Publishing Company; William Morris; B. Morse; S.C. Mulligan)
1890
11 / 13
N-R (correspondents include H.H. Nelson; Archibald
M. Peckham; W.B. Penny; Thomas H. Pleasants; H.H. Potting; A.K. Prescott; S.F.
Ralston; W.R. Ralston)
1890
11 / 14
S-T (correspondents include Mrs. N. Scheyer [in
German]; George H.L. Sharp; N. Silverman [in Yiddish]; S.L. Simpson; Spencer, Mayn
and Heitman; Spokane National Bank; A.N. Spratt; Charles Starrett; Stockmen's
National Bank; William B. Taylor; Thompson and Slater; Frank L. Thresher)
1890
11 / 15
U-Z (correspondents include U.S. Controller of the
Currency; U.S. Surveyor General; Yellowstone Mining and Smelting Company; Mrs. L.
Zembsch)
1890
11 / 16
B-C (correspondents include Bayliss and Robinson;
Belgrade Grain and Produce Company; Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and
Silver Mining Company; Botsford and Williams; Thomas H. Carter; Combination Mining
and Milling Company; Continental National Bank; A.R. Coopman; Harry E. Curtis)
1891
11 / 17
F-L (correspondents include Isi Fischer; Golden
Leaf Ltd.; Granite Mountain Mining Company; Great Northern Railway Company; Joseph
Hirshberg; Kootenai County, Idaho, Treasurer; C. Eugene Le Munyon; Henry Lindlahr;
Lombard Investment Company; Riddley Lumley)
1891
11 / 18
M-W (correspondents include The Montana Company
Ltd.; H.H. Nelson; Northwestern Bank/W.C. Whipps and Company; H.J. Rosencrans;
Robert B. Smith; G.C. Swallow)
1891
11 / 19
B-W (correspondents include N.E. Benson; Kounze
Brothers; Roger McCaffery; Samuel H. McDonald; W. McKendrick; J.A. McKnight;
Manhattan Malting Company; Merchants and Miners Bank of Philipsburg; Pinkerton's
National Detective Agency; White Sulphur Springs Hotel/Max Sklower)
1892
11 / 20
A-M (correspondents include Bank of Fergus County;
Frank H. Elmore; C.S. Farnsworth; Fort Belknap Indian Agency; F.E. French; Great
Northern Railway Company; McConnell, Clayberg and Gunn; I.D. McCutcheon; William
McKendrick; T.F. Mathias; Zeph. F. Meloche; Merchants and Miners Bank of
Philipsburg; Merchants Bank of Livingston; Merchants National Bank of Great Falls)
1893
12 / 1
A-M (correspondents include Anderson Brothers;
George O. Eaton; E.D. Edgerton; F.E. French; J.W. Hartwell; J. Hirsch)
1894
12 / 2
J-U (correspondents include M. Jacobs; Wilfred
Jevons; Joe Kauffman; W.J. Kennedy; Keyser, Fisler and Company; C.J. Kinna; Jennie
Kimball; Knauth, Nachod and Kuhne; Kountz Brothers; E.A. Larock; A.C. Logan; Frank
Longmaid; J. Henry Longmaid; M.H. Luther; Pinkerton and Company detective agency;
Thomas M. Pleasants; U.S. Collector of Customs, Fort Benton; U.S. Controller of the
Currency)
1894
12 / 3
B-F (correspondents include J.A. Brown; Commercial
Exchange Bank; First National Bank, Kalispell; Fort Belknap Indian Agency; Herman
Freyler)
1895
12 / 4
H (correspondents include H.A. Hamilton; Richard A.
Harlow; John H. Harris; N.W. Harris and Company; W. Thomas Hart; J.W. Hartwell; The
Helena Canal; Joseph Hirshberg and Company; George B. Hopkins; S.S. Huntley)
1895
12 / 5
J-L (correspondents include H. Jacobs; Jay Hawk and
Lone Pine Consolidated Mining Company; Wilfred Jevons; Joseph Johns; Sadie F. Jones;
W.J. Kennedy; Knauth, Nachod and Kuhne; Martin Koons; Kountz Brothers; E.A. Larock;
A.C. Logan; J. Henry Longmaid; Lump City Townsite Development and Mining Company;
M.H. Luther)
1895
12 / 6
The Montana Mining Company, Ltd.
1895
12 / 7
M-Y (correspondents include Montana Coal and Coke
Company; William Morris; H.H. Nelson; W.H. Nichols and Brother; North American Trust
Company; Northern Pacific Railroad Company; C.C. Young)
1895
12 / 8
A-B (correspondents include Anglo-Californian Bank;
F.W. Bacorn; Bank of Fergus County; N. Belanger; Big Timber National Bank; Anna C.
Buckley; Burke Brothers; C.F. Bushong)
1896
12 / 9
C-D (correspondents include E.W. Carpenter; A.C.
Carson; Thomas H. Carter; Choteau Mercantile Company; Henry Clews and Company; John
B. Clayberg; Robert Coburn; The Commercial National Bank of Salt Lake City;
Continental National Bank; Stephen Cook; Thomas Coonan; William D. Coppernall;
Oliver Curtis; Deer Lodge County)
1896
12 / 10
E-F (correspondents include E.D. Edgerton and
Company; Henry Elling; First National Bank of Billings; First National Bank of
Kalipsell; Mrs. O.D. French)
1896
12 / 11
H-K (correspondents include Hall and Bennett
Bankers; W. Thomas Hart; Frank G. Higgins; Frank E. Hirsch; Alice Houghton; Duncan
Hunter; R. Hynes; Jake Kauf; [Jennie] Kimball Opera Comique Company; Knauth, Nachod
and Kuhne; Kountz Brothers)
1896
12 / 12
M-R (correspondents include Andrew Miles; Montana
Mining Company Ltd.; G.H. Mullery; Northern Pacific Railroad Company; H.B. Palmer;
M.D. Pearsall; Pixley and Abell's Circular; Thomas B. Quaw)
1896
12 / 13
S-Z (correspondents include Speyer and Company;
State National Bank of Miles City/Aaron Hershfield; Stock Growers National Bank of
Miles City; F.F. Stotko; Strain Brothers; U.S. Indian Service; R.A. Walker; J.W.
Williams)
1896
12 / 14
B-F (correspondents include [?] Calcott; Fourth
National Bank of the City of New York)
1897
12 / 15-24
Telegrams
1866-1880
13 / 1-10
Telegrams
1881-1889
Outgoing Correspondence
14 / 1-21
Letterpress copies
1876-1893
15 / 1-6
Letterpress copies
1894-1897
15 / 7
Letterpress book (Thomas P. Bowman, assistant
cashier)
1895-1897
15 / 8
Letterpress book (Aaron Hershfield, cashier)
1883-1893
16 / 1
Letterpress book (L.H. Hershfield, president)
1882-1893
16 / 2
Letterpress book (I. Salhinger teller)
1886-1887
16 / 3-4
Letterpress book (telegrams)
1888-1893
17 / 1
Letterpress book (telegrams)
1896-1897
Court Papers
17 / 2
Farmers Loan and Trust Company vs. Northern Pacific
Railroad Company
1896
17 / 3
Merchants National Bank vs. Greenhood, Bohm and
Company
1892-1895
17 / 4
Northern Pacific Express Company vs. Merchants
National Bank; miscellaneous cases
1887, 1866-1897
17 / 5
Protests of drafts
1875
17 / 6
Receipts for court costs
1864-1880
Financial Records
1
General and individual ledger (Virginia City)
["Ledger B"]
1866-1867
2-3
General and individual ledger (Bridge Street,
Helena)
1866-1868
4
General and individual ledger (Lower House, Helena)
1866-1869
5
General and individual ledger ["Old Ledger"]
1866-1868
6
General and individual ledger ["B"]
1868-1869
7-7A
General ledger ["New Ledger"]
1869-1873
8-10A
General ledgers B-D and indexes
1877-1883
11-18A
General ledgers A-H and indexes [Merchants National
Bank]
1882-1891
19-27
General ledgers I-Q (includes index)
1891-1897
28-60A
Individual ledgers and indexes
1868-1897
61-89
Depositors' daily balances
1867-1897
90-94
General account daily balances
1883-1897
95
Cash book [Virginia City]
1866
96-105
Cash books
1866-1884
106- 123
General cash books
1883-1897
124- 153
Depositors' cash books
1882-1897
18 / 1
Assay account book
1887-1889
18 / 2
Assay reports
1869-1880, 1888
18 / 3
Asset list
circa 1867
18 / 4-4a
Bank books (includes "Helena for the Capital"; The
Casino; Penobscot and Snowdrift Consolidated Mining Company; Montana Lodge Record,
Homestake Mining Company; Commission on Public Buildings; Helena Book Club; Montana
Council #1213; Wong Gee; Charley Lin)
1881-1897
154
Bills receivable
1866-1868
18 / 5
Blank forms
undated
18 / 6
Bond and warrant register
1872-1885
18 / 7-10
Bullion memoranda (gold)
1865-1882
18 / 11
Bullion memoranda (silver)
1874-1881
18 / 12
Certificates of deposit
1879
18 / 13
Checkbook [blank]
circa 1880-1882
18 / 14
Checks and drafts (L.H. Hershfield, Banker)
1866-1867
18 / 15
Checks and drafts (L.H. Hershfield and Company,
Virginia City)
1866-1868
18 / 16
Checks and drafts (L.H. Hershfield and Company,
Helena)
1867-1868
18 / 17
Checks and drafts (L.H. Hershfield and Brother)
1868-1881
18 / 18
Checks and drafts (Merchants National Bank)
1882-1893
18 / 19-20
Checks and drafts (other banks)
1866-1881
19 / 1
Clearings
1888-1889
19 / 2
Collection record
1866-1870
155- 161
Collection registers
1870-1897
19 / 3
Collections
1888-1889
162- 169
Correspondents ledgers
1891-1897
19 / 4
Cost of equipping bank [also includes assays and
miscellaneous, 1867-1870]
1866
19 / 5
Counter book (re interest credits)
1882-1883
19 / 6
Credit tickets
1879
20 / 1
Day book (re transactions with other banks)
1893
170
Demand certificate register
1886-1896
99
Deposit and check register [included in Cash book,
1873, Volume 99]
1868-1869
171
Deposit and check register
1869-1871
20 / 2
Deposit tickets [samples]
1866-1881
20 / 3
Depositor comparison
1896
172
Discount index
undated
173- 176
Discount registers
1878-1889, 1895-1897
177- 178
Discount ticklers
1894-1897
179
Draft register (New York banks)
1896-1897
180
Draft register (Chicago banks)
1896-1897
20 / 4
Dust return book (re gold dust)
1877-1878
20 / 5
Foreign draft memoranda
1866-1868
20 / 6
Gold bullion charges
1878-1880
20 / 7-9
Gold dust cash books
1866-1868
20a / 1-4
Gold dust cash books
1868-1878
20b / 1
Gold pool record book
1877-1882
20b / 2
Gold memoranda
1872-1881
20b / 3
Gold reports (Nounnan, Orr and Company)
1866
20b / 4
Hides and peltries (re fur trade)
undated
20b / 5
Insurance policy
1891-1897
20b / 6
Interest and discounts book
1890
180a
Invoice of drafts drawn #1-189
1866-1867
21 / 1
Journal (includes lists of wagon goods from Salt
Lake City to Virginia City)
1864-1865
21 / 2
Journal (L.H. Hershfield personal; also includes
gold reports, 1867-1877)
1864-1867
181
Journal ("Day book" for Bridge Street house,
Helena; also includes assets and liabilities, August 3, 1868)
1866-1867
182
Journal ("Day book" for Bridge Street house and
Main Street house, Helena)
1866-1873
183
Journal ("H & H Journal" for Bridge Street
house, Helena)
1867-1868
184
Journal ("Ledger" for Virginia City)
1866-1868
185
Journal ("H & H Cash Book" for Virginia City)
1866-1868
186
Journal (for Virginia City)
1868
21 / 3
Journal ("Blotter" for Helena)
1875-1879
187
Journal of transactions with other banks
1893-1894
188- 188a
Liability ledger and index
1895-1897
189a
Liability ledger index [no ledger]
undated
21 / 4
Lists of promissory notes given to Greenhood, Bohm
and Company
1888
21 / 5
Note and bill register
1889-1897
190
Note register
1889-1897
21 / 6
Railroad remittance book
1895-1896
21a / 1-2
Receipt books [scattered]
1866-1897
21a / 3
Receipts (Holladay Overland Mail and Express
Company gold bullion shipments)
1866-1867
21a / 4
Receipt book (Northern Pacific Express Company gold
bullion shipments)
1886
21a / 5
Receipt book (Pacific Express Company gold bullion
shipments)
1885-1886
21a / 6-8
Receipt books (Wells, Fargo and Company gold
bullion shipments)
1868-1879
22 / 1-3
Receipt books (Wells, Fargo and Company gold
bullion shipments)
1877-1879, 1885,1888
23 / 1
Reports to U.S. Controller of the Currency
[scrapbook of newspaper clippings]
1882-1895
204
Safe deposit vault register
1890-1894
22 / 4
Receipts and bills (Virginia City house)
1866-1868
22 / 5-8
Receipts and bills (Helena house)
1866-1869
22 / 9-14
Receipts and bills (miscellaneous)
1871-1896
22 / 15
Receipts and bills (legal fees)
1893-1897
22 / 16
Receipts and bills (N.P. Walters detective agency)
1892
191- 192
Reconciliations
1892-1895
193- 203
Remittance registers
1878-1892
23 / 2-9
Statements (includes Bank of California; Fourth
National Bank, New York; L.H. Hershfield and Company; Isett, Kerr and Company;
Miners National Bank, Salt Lake City; Northrup, Chick and Company, New York)
1868
23 / 10
Taxes
1870-1896
23 / 11-14
Tellers cash books
1869, 1887-1890
24 / 1-3
Tellers cash books
1890-1891, 1895-1896
25 / 1
Tellers cash books
1896-1897
25 / 2
Time and demand certificate register
1883-1890
205- 207
Time certificate registers
1882-1897
208- 213
Trial balance books
1891-1893
214
Warrant register
1871-1874
/
Warrant register [see Bond and warrant register,
Box 18, Folder 6]
1872-1885
215
Warrant register
1888-1897
25 / 2a
Wool sales
1897
Legal Documents
26 / 1
Thomas P. Bowman miscellaneous
1895-1896
26 / 1a
Contract with U.S. Army Department of Dakota to supply
Fort Shaw
1874
26 / 2
Draft of agreement among Helena banks
1870
26 / 4-5
Lewis H. and Aaron Hershfield miscellaneous
1883-1893
26 / 6
L.H. Hershfield and Brother miscellaneous
1867-1874
26 / 6a
Indemnity bonds
1870-1892
26 / 7-9
Licenses (L.H. Hershfield and Company, Virginia
City and Helena; L.H. Hershfield and Brother)
1866-1881
26 / 10
Merchants National Bank miscellaneous
1884-1896
26 / 11
Proposal to do carpentry work on bank
circa 1867
26 / 12
Miscellaneous
1867-1894
Organization
26 / 13
Articles of Association (Merchants National Bank)
1882
26 / 14
Directors' correspondence
1895-1897
26 / 15
Minute book
1882-1897
26 / 16
Resolutions, proxies, etc.
1894-1897
Subject Files
27 / 1
Phineas H. Adams Jr.
1889
27 / 2
Anglo-Montana Mining Company Ltd.
1886
27 / 3
Bank of Northern Montana articles of co-partnership
1880
27 / 4
Big Ox Mining and Reduction Company
1891-1894
27 / 5
Big Timber School District bonds
1891-1892
27 / 6
Benjamin C. Brooke Estate, William Muth
administrator
1891-1896
27 / 7-8
Cable Mill (includes costs and ledger)
1868
27 / 9
Francis Harvey ranch
1883-1894
27 / 10
Miners National Bank of Salt Lake City (includes
stock certificates)
1867-1868
27 / 11-13
The Montana Company Ltd. (includes legal documents
and bullion letters)
1880-1893
27 / 14
Montana Realty Company (includes articles of
incorporation)
1880-1893
27 / 15
Henry Nelson ranch
1893-1896
27 / 15a
New bank building
1889-1890
27 / 16
Pearl Silver Mining Company (Aaron Hershfield
trustee)
1888
27 / 17
Red Mountain Tunnel and Mining Company
1885
28 / 1-4
Republican Party (includes correspondence,
financial records, list of executive committee members, etc.)
1868-1872
28 / 5
Sapphire and Ruby Company of Montana Ltd.
1891-1892
28 / 6
Townsend property (DeWitt and Noah)
1889-1895
28 / 7
Trapper Mine
undated
28 / 7a
Yellowstone Park Company
1891-1896
Miscellany
28 / 8
Calling cards, etc.
undated
28 / 9
Cypher books for coded telegrams
undated
28 / 10
Detective investigation of Aaron Hershfield
1894
28 / 11
Aaron Hershfield's flute music book
1866
28 / 12
List of mining claims
1866-1868
28 / 13
Plan of property in Block 30, Lot 7, Helena
Townsite
circa 1867
29 / 1-2
Signature books
1869-1887
216
Signature book
1889-1891
Merchants National Bank Receivership (Eugene T. Wilson)
Incoming Correspondence
30 / 1
A-L (correspondents include Charles H. Allen, Louis
Bacon, Robert C. Billings, H.E. Bonner, First National Bank of Missoula, Frank W.
Lewis, William C. Lobenstine)
1897-1901
30 / 2
M-O (correspondents McConnell and McConnell,
Charles D. McLure, Meagher County Attorney Max Waterman, J.G. Foster Moale, S.H.
Mosher, J.H. Murphy, Austin North, Will O'Keefe, M. O'Rourke)
1897-1901
30 / 3
D.R. Peeler (First National Bank, Kalispell)
1898-1901
30 / 4
P-S (correspondents include Charles E. Patterson,
L.M. Rumsey Manufacturing Company, Archibald A. Schenck, Bertha Seligman, John
Shelton, Max Sklower, Sutherlin Brothers, W.R. Sweeney)
1898-1899
30 / 5
G.M. and J.B. Southmayd (Ontario Mine)
1898-1902
30 / 6
C.B. Towers (Ontario Mine)
1901
30 / 7
U.S. Treasury Department
1897-1898
30 / 8
I. Parker Veasey
1899
30 / 9
V-W (correspondents include O.H. Warren, F.C.
Webster, William S. Whaley, B.F. White, Peter R. Wild)
1898-1900
30 / 10
W.C. Whipps (First National Bank, Kalispell)
1898
30 / 11
Telegrams
1898
Outgoing Correspondence
30 / 12-21
Letterpress copies
1897-1903
Court Papers
30 / 22
Transcript of judgement
1901
30 / 23
Miscellaneous
1897-1901
Financial Records
/
Cash book [contained in back of White Sulphur
Springs Association cash book, 218]
1897
30 / 24
Checkstubs
1902
217
Collection register
1897
30 / 25
Receipts and bills (legal fees)
1897-1898
30 / 26
Miscellaneous
undated
Legal Documents
30 / 27
Agreement (re purchase of Ruby Silver Lode Mining
Company)
1901
United Hebrew Benevolent Association
Incoming Correspondence
31 / 1
William Munter
1883
Financial Records
31 / 2
Receipts and bills
1884-1885
31 / 3
Reports of Secretary and Treasurer
1879-1885
Organization
31 / 4
Constitution and bylaws
1885
White Sulphur Springs Association
Incoming Correspondence
31 / 5
A-D (correspondents include Anderson Brothers and
Company, Bank of Meagher County, J.S. Brewer, Fred Bubser, E.W. Carpenter, Dunham
and Maloney)
1883-1893
31 / 6
First National Bank, White Sulphur Springs
1885-1891
31 / 7
F-R (correspondents include Arthur F. Fowler, M.J.
Hall, E.R. Hamilton, T. Hanlon, H. Hepner, Aaron Hershfield, P.H. Maloney, Meagher
County Clerk Louis Rotwitt, J.B. Phillips, J.G. Pickering, Presbyterian Church,
Charles Riar)
1883-1891
31 / 8
Max Sklower
1886-1891
31 / 9
Spencer, Mayn and Heitman (Anton Spencer, Charles
Mayn, Louis Heitman)
1884-1892
31 / 10
S-W (correspondents include B.R. Sherman, N.B.
Smith, R.N. Sutherlin, Thompson and Maddox, Rudolf Von Tobel, The West Shore re
article)
1883-1895
Outgoing Correspondence
31 / 11
Letterpress book
1884-1893
Financial Records
218
Cash book
1885-1888
31 / 12
Checks
1883-1885
31 / 13
Estimated cost of gravity water system
undated
219
Ledger
1883
31 / 14
Ledger [also includes bounty claims, 1896-1897]
1885-1887
31 / 15-17
Receipts and bills
1883-1896
31 / 18
Miscellaneous
1884-1885
Legal Documents
32 / 1
Miscellaneous (includes contract to build brick
bath house, deeds, leases, agreement to build addition to White Sulphur Springs
Hotel including floor plan)
1883-1891
Organization
32 / 2
Stock certificates (blank)
circa 1880-1889
32 / 3
Stock ledger
1883-1898
Miscellany
32 / 4
Block/lot book
undated
32 / 5
Specifications for a brick bath house at hot
springs
undated
32 / 6
White Sulphur Springs water ordinance
1891