MZFCollection1307.xml Guide to the William A. Patt Papers 1890-1926 Patt (William A.) Papers Kim Allen Scott, 2009 Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Montana State University-Bozeman Library
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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 1307, MtBC, us Patt, William A. (William Andrew), 1860-1954 William A. Patt Papers 1890-1926 .2 linear feet The William A. Patt Papers consist of William Patt's weather journal, transcriptions of the journal and biographical notes prepared by Sam Eagle, as well as original and copy photographs of the Patt and Kerzenmacher families, their ranch, friends, an 1886 hunting party which may include Theodore Roosevelt, and Monida, Montana. Collection materials are in English Biographical Note

William Andrew Patt (1860-1957) was born on January 21, 1860 in Central Falls, Rhode Island. He came west around 1878 and established a ranch in the Upper Madison Valley along Grayling Creek in 1885. He worked off the ranch occasionally as a builder in both Idaho and Yellowstone National Park and also guided hunting parties which traveled through the area. One of these hunting parties in 1886 may have included Theodore Roosevelt. In 1889, Patt married Emma Kerzenmacher in Helena, Montana. The couple eventually had nine children. Patt was asked by the "Montana Park and Hotel Society" in Helena to keep a journal recording weather conditions in the Upper Madison Valley. Every two weeks he transcribed his diary entries and mailed them to the Society. In 1897 the Patt family left Montana for Pleasant Valley (Humphrey) Idaho and their ranch was taken over by Mrs. Patt's brother, Peter Kerzenmacher. The entire place was flooded by Hegben Lake around 1914. William Patt died in Pocatello, Idaho on June 6, 1954.

The papers consist of: William Patt's weather journal containing entries from January 1 through October 5, 1890; transcriptions of the journal and biographical notes prepared by Sam Eagle of El Cerrito, California in 1980; original and copy photographs of the Patt and Kerzenmacher families, their ranch, friends, an 1886 hunting party which may include Theodore Roosevelt, and Monida, Montana.

This collection is open for research.

Journal and photographs created or collected by William Andrew Patt were donated to Montana State University by his youngest daughter, Emma Katherine Patt Roscoe of Stockton, Californian on September 25, 1980.

This collection was processed 2009 May 27

 Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Eagle, Sam Kerzenmacher family-Photograph collections Patt family-Photograph collections Peyton family Madison Valley (Mont. and Wyo.)-Climate Monida (Mont.)-Photographs Hunters-Madison Valley (Mont. and Wyo.)-Photographs Ranches-Madison Valley (Mont. and Wyo.) Weather diaries-Madison Valley (Mont. and Wyo.) Environmental Conditions Ranching Montana Photographs 1/1 Weather journal 1890 January 1 - 1890 October 5 1/2 Journal transcription 1/3 Biographical and photograph notes 1/4 Photographs, Patt family and ranch. #1 William A. Patt family 1904 #2 Emma and Roseanna Patt #3 Susie, Frank, and Andrew Patt #4 William A. Patt with dead elk #5 Patt ranch circa 1890 #6 Patt ranch circa 1890 #7 Ice cutting crew, W.A. Patt, foreman, Humphrey, Idaho 1906 #8 Ice cutting crew near Patt ranch 1906 #9 Elk calves on Patt ranch 1895 1/5 Photographs, Kerzenmacher family and ranch #10 Peter Kerzenmacher 1890 #11 Peter and Lulu Kerzenmacher 1920 #12 Fred Kerzenmacher 1916 #13 Helen Darling Kerzenmacher 1910 #14 Kerzenmacher family 1916 #15 Kerzenmacher family 1917 #16 Kerzenmacher ranch 1916 #17 Kerzenmacher ranch 1914 #18 Kerzenmacher ranch 1914 #19 Kerzenmacher ranch 1900 #20 Kerzenmacher ranch 1910 #21 Peter Kerzenmacher 1926 #22 Peter Kerzenmacher 1926 #23 Fred Kerzenmacher 1926 #24 Walter Kerzenmacher 1926 #25 Lulu and Fred Kerzenmacher 1906 1/6 Photographs, Family friends and places #26 Red Canyon, Grayling, Montana 1895 #27 Monida, Montana 1908 #28 Monida, Montana 1910 #29 Joe Stubb 1890 #30 Joe Stubb 1886 #31 Sam Burnside and Bill Culver 1890s #32 Mrs. Sam Burnside 1890s #33 Oliver "Snowshoe" Johnson 1895 #34 Hunting party 1886

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