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James Fergus Family Papers, 1857-1971

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Fergus, James, 1813-1902
Title
James Fergus Family Papers
Dates
1857-1971 (inclusive)
Quantity
5 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
MC 28
Summary
The James Fergus Family papers are divided into four subgroups: James Fergus; Andrew Fergus; Fergus Live Stock and Land Company; and miscellaneous. Papers (1857-1971) include biographical materials, incoming correspondence, outgoing correspondence, general correspondence, financial records, legal documents, subject files, and miscellany.
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
Access Restrictions

Collection open for research.

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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Biographical Note

James Fergus was born October 8, 1813, in Lanarkshire, Scotland. At the age of nineteen he emigrated to Quebec and, three years later, to the United States. He lived in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota where he built and managed saw mills, powder mills, a foundry, and a paper mill, and invested in property. James Fergus married Pamelia Dillin in Moline, Illinois in 1845. The couple had four children: Andrew (b. 1850), Mary Agnes, Luella (married Stephen Collins Gilpatrick), and Lillie (married Frank H. Maury). While in Minnesota in the late 1850s, Fergus became involved in politics and ran for office. In March 1860 he journeyed to Pike's Peak where he unsuccessfully prospected for gold until he returned to Minnesota in September 1861. In the spring of 1862 Fergus traveled with the Fisk Expedition to the Beaverhead gold mines near what was to become Bannack, Montana Territory. Moving to Virginia City in 1863, Fergus had modest success in finding gold. He was elected to serve as judge of the first miners' court and as the city's first recorder, and was appointed the first county commissioner for Madison County. Fergus' family, including his recently married daughter Mary Agnes and his new son-in-law Robert Stavely Hamilton, joined him in Virginia City in 1864. Fergus moved to Helena in 1865, where he engaged in ranching and was elected to two terms as county commissioner and one term in the territorial House of Representatives. Fergus' son Andrew was much involved in the ranching business; he officially bought (for one dollar) one-third of the stock in 1878, and, in 1879, acquired one quarter of James Fergus' property, livestock, and farm machinery. In 1880 James and Andrew Fergus bought land in the Judith Basin on Armells and Box Elder Creeks, and Andrew started ranching there. James Fergus and his wife Pamelia joined Andrew the next year. Eventually they raised cattle, horses, and sheep, and also did some farming. The ranch operation became one of the biggest in the territory, operating first under the name of James Fergus and Son (established in 1879) and later as the Fergus Live Stock and Land Company (established in 1895). James Fergus was elected as a delegate from Meagher County to the 1884 Constitutional Convention and to the territorial Council where he was instrumental in the creation of Fergus County. Pamelia Dillin Fergus died in 1887. James Fergus died in 1902. Andrew Fergus married Hazel Akley in 1910 and continued to ranch at Armells until his death in 1928.

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Content Description

Papers. 1857-1971. 5 linear feet. This collection is divided into four subgroups: James Fergus; Andrew Fergus; Fergus Live Stock and Land Company; and Miscellaneous. The James Fergus Subgroup includes biographical material (undated); incoming correspondence (1860-1900, undated) consisting of both personal and business correspondence; outgoing correspondence (1861-1899, undated), including letters to family, friends, and newspaper editors; financial records (1857-1897, undated), consisting of two ledgers of the Cone Butte and Moccasin Roundup (also referred to as the Moccasin and Cone Butte Roundup) which was a local cattlemen's association organized in 1884 for which Fergus served as secretary and president; legal documents (1884-1910); subject files (1889-1904), concerning the distribution of James Fergus' estate and the purchase of John H. Ming's horses; writings (1876-1892); miscellany (1858-1898, undated), including notebooks which include a wide variety of entries such as a list of fruit trees planted, descriptions of daily events, a list of hired men, costs of purchases, shopping lists, etc.; and clippings (1899, 1900, undated). The Andrew Fergus Subgroup includes incoming correspondence (1881-1918, undated) containing both business and personal correspondence; outgoing correspondence (1886-1916); court papers (1910, 1919); minor financial records (1878-1911); legal documents (1879, 1906-1916) which are primarily crop leases; and miscellany (1879-1900), consisting primarily of notebooks which include brief entries of daily activities and counts of cattle by brand. The Fergus Live Stock and Land Company Subgroup includes general correspondence (1908-1923); financial records (1859-1931); legal documents (1895-1934); minutes (1895-1931); and miscellany (1898-1908). The subgroup contains material which pertains to James and Andrew Fergus' business interests including small amounts of financial material concerning James Fergus' business in Minnesota and the Fergus' ranching operations near Helena and in the Judith Basin. In addition to this financial material, the subgroup contains a small amount of correspondence and legal documents which concern the Company generally. Correspondence and legal documents which are addressed or pertain specifically to James or Andrew Fergus are filed in the appropriate subgroup. See particularly the correspondence in the Andrew Fergus Subgroup from Harry H. Marks. The Miscellaneous Subgroup is divided into eight series: incoming correspondence (1884-1912, undated), which is primarily personal correspondence of the Fergus and Gilpatrick families; outgoing correspondence (undated) of George Gilpatrick; miscellaneous correspondence (1887-1912), neither to nor from the Fergus family, or unidentified; financial records (1870-1872); legal documents (1898, 1921,1929); writings (undated); miscellany (1881-1931); and clippings (1870-1928, undated).

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

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.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged by subgroup and series

Location of Collection

1:3-2

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request

Separated Materials

One map has been transferred to the Library Map Collection. Photographs have been separated to the Photo Archives.

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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

  • James Fergus

    • Biographical Materials

    • Incoming Correspondence

      • Description: A (includes American Society for Psychical Research; Ancient Order of United Workmen [AOUW]; O.L. Anderson)
        Dates: 1885-1892
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Bank of Fergus County
        Dates: 1887-1894
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: William Berkin
        Dates: 1885-1888
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: B (includes J.C. Bain; S.L. Bennett; J.J. Bowles; Broadwater, McNamara and Company; H.P. Brooks; R.D. Brown; Massena Bullard)
        Dates: 1881-1897
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: C (includes W.D. Cameron; William Cantrell; T.H. Carter; Daniel M. Crowley)
        Dates: 1884-1894
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: D (includes George Dillin; James Dillin; W.T. Dillin; L.B. Divers; John Dolan; Richard Dunn)
        Dates: 1882-1892
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: E (includes Mary Earle; R.S. Ells; N.M. Erickson; A.M. Esler)
        Dates: 1885-1889, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Andrew Fergus
        Dates: 1885-1894
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Pamelia Dillin Fergus
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 10
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: William Fergus
        Dates: 1884-1888, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 11
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Fergus County Argus (Charles S. Fell and J.M. Vrooman)
        Dates: 1884-1889
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 12
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: F (includes George H. Fairchild; Fergus County; First National Bank, Helena; Freethought, a Liberal Journal; Freethought Federation of America)
        Dates: 1885-1894
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 13
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Collins Gilpatrick; George Gilpatrick; S.C. Gilpatrick
        Dates: 1887-1889
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 14
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Luella Fergus Gilpatrick
        Dates: 1882-1892
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 15-17
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: G (includes Charles Gardner; Henry Gardner; [N.J.?] Giltinan; J.A. Goodhue)
        Dates: 1885-1894, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 18
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Mary Agnes Fergus Hamilton
        Dates: 1887-1888, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 19
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Sten Hanson
        Dates: 1894
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 20
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: H-J (includes R.S. Hamilton; Robert Hamilton; Thomas M. Hamilton; Russell B. Harrison; Cornelius Hedges; Sewell S. Herrick; David Hilger; William Huntley; Judith Cattle Company; Judith Wool Growers Association)
        Dates: 1885-1894, 1900
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 21
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: K-L (includes William Kidd; James J. Kimberling; Newton L. Landru; Mattie S. Lawrence; Theodore Lindsey)
        Dates: 1885-1889, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 22
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Lillie Fergus Maury
        Dates: 1885-1889, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 23
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: M (includes P.W. McAdow; J.H. McKnight and Company; D.A. Meagher; John O. Ming; Montana Recorder of Marks and Brands; Montana Board of Stock Commissioners; Montana Stockgrowers Association; Thomas F. Morgan; Phillip J. Moule)
        Dates: 1885-1894
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 24
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: N (includes National State Historical Publishing Co.; Dora Neill)
        Dates: 1888-1889, 1894
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 25
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: T.C. Power (includes T.C. Power and Co.; T.C. Power and Bro.; Power Mercantile Co.; and personal)
        Dates: 1885-1894
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: P-Q (includes William W. Parrott; J.L. Perkins; Frank Pick; W.G. Preuitt; A.C. Quaintance)
        Dates: 1887-1892
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: N. Richardson
        Dates: 1887-1894
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Lew Roberts
        Dates: 1885
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: R (includes Roberts and Glassman, Cheyenne Saddle Shop; Albert Ronne; Nettie Rosenbaum; Louis Rotwitt)
        Dates: 1885-1894
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: W.F. Sanders
        Dates: 1885-1888
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Granville Stuart
        Dates: 1885-1888
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 7
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: S (includes T.C. St. Amour; Daniel Searles; Katty Shea; A.C. Shufelt; James D. Slater; Frank E. Smith; W. and T. Smith, Geneva Nursery; W.L. Steele; George Stephens; Cyrus Stiles; Julian Stuart; Mary Stuart; R.N. Sutherlin)
        Dates: 1882-1894
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: T (includes J.K. Toole; C.B. Towers; Eugene Townsend; C.A. Tuttle)
        Dates: 1885-1900, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 9
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: U-V (includes Joel Vigus; Rudolf Von Tobel)
        Dates: 1889-1894, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 10
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: W (includes Wade, Toole and Wallace; John D. Waite; William Wallace; James Walsh; John E. Wasson; Marion F. Wheeler; Frank Wocasek)
        Dates: 1884-1894
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 11
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Unidentified fragments
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 12
        Location: James Fergus / Incoming Correspondence

    • Outgoing Correspondence

      • Description: Miscellaneous (includes Andrew Fergus; Pamelia Fergus; William Fergus; Conrad Kohrs; W.F. Sanders; letters to editor)
        Dates: 1861, 1883-1887
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 13
        Location: James Fergus / Outgoing Correspondence
      • Description: Miscellaneous (includes Granville Stuart; J.L. Stuart; Katty Shea; Janet Simpson; T.C. Power; J.C. McNamara; McLaughlin; Moccasin and Cone Butte Roundup; John Brooks; letters to editor)
        Dates: 1888-1899
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 14
        Location: James Fergus / Outgoing Correspondence
      • Description: Miscellaneous (includes M.H. Watson; letters to editor; unidentified)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 15
        Location: James Fergus / Outgoing Correspondence

    • Financial Records

    • Legal Documents

      • Description: Abstracts of title, agreements, bill of sale, etc.
        Dates: 1884-1910
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 2
        Location: James Fergus / Legal Documents

    • Subject Files

      • Description: James Fergus' funeral and the distribution of his estate
        Dates: 1902-1904
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 3
        Location: James Fergus / Subject Files
      • Description: Purchase of John H. Ming horses (includes correspondence with John O. Ming; E. Swope; Jack Rowley; Thomas C. Bach; lists of horses)
        Dates: 1889-1892
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 4
        Location: James Fergus / Subject Files

    • Writings

      • Description: "Leaf of Diary...Fiske Emmigration Party, 1862"; "Memorandum for Luella"; "What to leave behind me for Brother"
        Dates: 1876, 1889, 1892
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 5
        Location: James Fergus / Writings
      • Description: Memoranda re proposed legislation, Council Chambers
        Dates: 1884
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6
        Location: James Fergus / Writings

    • Miscellany

      • Description: Notebook
        Dates: 1858
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 7
        Location: James Fergus / Miscellany
      • Description: Notebooks (2)
        Dates: July 1879- November 1880
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 8
        Location: James Fergus / Miscellany
      • Description: Notebooks (2)
        Dates: November 1880- July 1882, July 1883- August 1887
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 9
        Location: James Fergus / Miscellany
      • Description: Notebooks (2)
        Dates: April 1880- April 1886, January 1889- July 1893
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 10
        Location: James Fergus / Miscellany
      • Description: Notebook
        Dates: September 1893-August 1894
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 11
        Location: James Fergus / Miscellany
      • Description: Memo on cattle; Does Ranch memo; list of lands owned; interview re defeat of Granville Stuart; etc.
        Dates: 1881-1898, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 12
        Location: James Fergus / Miscellany

    • Clippings

      • Description: Miscellaneous
        Dates: 1899-1900, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 13
        Location: James Fergus / Clippings

  • Andrew Fergus

    • Incoming Correspondence

      • Description: A-B (includes E.C. Abbott; Frank Anderson; Bean Brothers)
        Dates: 1884-1916
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 14
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: C-D (includes L. Capprelli; C.J. Carey; George Caulfield; Cook-Reynolds Company; Roy C. Cromer; J.Q. Cunningham; Robert O. Deming)
        Dates: 1884-1916
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 14
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: James Fergus
        Dates: 1885-1889, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Pamelia Dillin Fergus
        Dates: 1881
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 2
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: F (includes Nellie H. Fergus; First National Bank of Lewistown; J. Fisher; D. Foreman)
        Dates: 1892, 1910-1918
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 3
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Luella Fergus Gilpatrick
        Dates: 1887-1912, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: G-L (includes George Gilpatrick; Clarence Grove; R.E. Hamilton; Agnes Fergus Hamilton; Hilger Commercial Club; David Hilger; Hilger Loan and Realty Company; Grace Hunton; Judith Club; Lewistown Employment and Commission Agency)
        Dates: 1887-1916
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 5
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Harry H. Marks
        Dates: 1910-1911, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 6
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Lillie Fergus Maury
        Dates: 1887, 1889
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 7
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: M-R (includes Lena Marsh; Carrie Martin; Claude Maury; George Osborne; Harold Osborne; Lewis Penwell; T.C. Power; A.L. Randall; Rank Russell)
        Dates: 1887-1918
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: Ada E. Stephens
        Dates: 1886-1893
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 9
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: S-Y (includes Josie Skagg; W.B. Smith; J.L. Stuart; John Thomas; William O. Ulrich; Fan Van Nort; A. Wistervelt; Martin Wold; Finn Wyant; unidentified)
        Dates: 1887-1916, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 10
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Incoming Correspondence

    • Outgoing Correspondence

      • Description: Ada E. Stephens
        Dates: 1886-1889
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 11
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Outgoing Correspondence
      • Description: Miscellaneous (includes J.L. Stuart; Lillie Berntheisel; George Osborne; U.S. Land Office; R.S. Hamilton; E.C. Abbott; family members)
        Dates: 1886-1916
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 12
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Outgoing Correspondence

    • Court papers

      • Description: U.S. vs. Henry E. Pollard; New York Bargain Store bankruptcy
        Dates: 1910, 1919
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 13
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Court papers

    • Financial Records

    • Legal Documents

      • Description: Agreements, contract, crop leases, etc.
        Dates: 1879, 1906-1916
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 15
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Legal Documents

    • Miscellany

      • Description: Notebooks (2)
        Dates: April 1879- February 1881, Jan-June 1883
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 16
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Miscellany
      • Description: Notebooks (2)
        Dates: June 1880- March 1884, 1883
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 17
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Miscellany
      • Description: Notebooks (2)
        Dates: January 1886- August 1888
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 18
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Miscellany
      • Description: Notebooks (2)
        Dates: September1888- June 1889, September1899- September 1900
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Miscellany
      • Description: Miscellaneous (includes Montana Club invitation; gravestone inscription; map of air corridors east of Billings)
        Dates: 1889, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 2
        Location: Andrew Fergus / Miscellany

  • Fergus Live Stock And Land Company

  • Miscellaneous

    • Incoming Correspondence

      • Description: To Hazel Akley Fergus (correspondents include Viola Cole; U.S. Land Office)
        Dates: 1912, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 4
        Location: Miscellaneous / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: To Pamelia Dillin Fergus (correspondents include Luella Fergus Gilpatrick; James Dillin; Mrs. D.P. Shafer; U.S. Land Office)
        Dates: 1884-1889
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 5
        Location: Miscellaneous / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: To William Fergus (from R.S. Tingley)
        Dates: 1885
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 6
        Location: Miscellaneous / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: To Luella Fergus Gilpatrick (correspondents include Ada Stephens; Collins Gilpatrick; George Gilpatrick; James Fergus; Lilly Fergus Maury)
        Dates: 1886-1889
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 7
        Location: Miscellaneous / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: To Stephen Collins Gilpatrick (correspondents include Charles Cram; R.S. Ells)
        Dates: 1886-1899
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 8
        Location: Miscellaneous / Incoming Correspondence
      • Description: To Mary Agnes Fergus Hamilton (from Mary E. Dow)
        Dates: 1888
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 9
        Location: Miscellaneous / Incoming Correspondence

    • Outgoing Correspondence

    • Miscellaneous Correspondence

    • Legal Documents

      • Description: Julius D. Daniothy will; William H. Cluver will; William Fergus will
        Dates: 1898, 1921, 1929
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 12
        Location: Miscellaneous / Legal Documents

    • Maps

      • Description: List of maps transferred to Library map collection
        Dates:
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 13
        Location: Miscellaneous / Maps

    • Photographs

      • Description: List of photographs transferred to Photo Archives
        Dates:
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 14
        Location: Miscellaneous / Photographs

    • Writings

      • Description: Biographical sketch of Pamelia Dillin Fergus by Luella Fergus Gilpatrick [in OVERSIZE FOLDER]; biographical sketch and obituary of Stephen Collins Gilpatrick
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 15
        Location: Miscellaneous / Writings

    • Miscellany

      • Description: Notebook (includes cattle counts by brand, daily entries briefly describing ranching activities, lists of purchases of food and ranching supplies)
        Dates: April-September 1892
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 16
        Location: Miscellaneous / Miscellany
      • Description: Notebooks (one includes lists of tasks to accomplish, lists of purchases; the other includes count of cattle by brand taken for the Cone Butte and Moccasin Roundup)
        Dates: 1897-1898
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 17
        Location: Miscellaneous / Miscellany
      • Description: Quotes; notes; story on John Eaughbough by John K. Standish, Platteville, Wisconsin; school reception program
        Dates: 1881, 1910-1931
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 18
        Location: Miscellaneous / Miscellany

    • Clippings

      • Description: Gilpatrick family, etc.
        Dates: 1971, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 19
        Location: Miscellaneous / Clippings
      • Description: Scrapbook (includes poetry; funeral notices; obituaries of James Fergus, Pamelia Dillin Fergus, Andrew Fergus, and Ellen Farrar Hauser; writings by James Fergus; Gilpatrick Family items)
        Dates: 1870-1928
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 20
        Location: Miscellaneous / Clippings

Finding aid prepared by MHS Staff
2004

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