Montana Historical Society
Archives
MC 288
Rankin, Wellington Duncan,
1884-1966
Wellington D. Rankin papers
1904-2008
1909-1969
16 linear feet of shelf space
Wellington Rankin was a Helena, Montana, attorney, rancher,
state attorney general, associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court, U.S. district
attorney, and Republican National Committeeman. He also ran unsuccessfully for Governor,
U.S. Senate, and U.S. House of Representatives. This collection includes personal papers of
Wellington Rankin and of several family members including Jeannette Rankin, political files,
records of several businesses he owned, records of his ranch operations, and case files and
other materials of his law practice. Some law office materials are RESTRICTED due to
attorney-client privilege.
14:7-6, 60:4-6
149:4-6 (Volumes)
English
Biographical Note:
Wellington D. Rankin was born in Missoula, Montana, on September 16, 1884, the son of
pioneer Missoula businessman and rancher John Rankin and his wife Olive Pickering Rankin, an
early Missoula County school teacher. His oldest sister Jeannette became the first woman
elected to the United States Congress in 1916. He had four other sisters: Harriet, Mary,
Edna, and Grace. Wellington remained a source of financial security for his sisters
throughout his life.
After graduating from the University of Montana with a degree in science in 1903,
Wellington attended Harvard University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1905 and a law
degree in 1909. He also studied at Oxford University from 1905 to 1906. John Rankin's death
in 1904 left the young Wellington in charge of his father's multiple businesses and
properties even as he continued his education.
Rankin began his law practice in Helena in 1909, in the offices of Thomas J. Walsh and
Cornelius B. Nolan. He opened his own office in 1911. He specialized primarily in industrial
accident cases, representing many workers injured in mines and on the railroads. He thus
took on as opponents many of the largest corporations in the state. Other cases included
contested inheritances, land disputes, and divorces.
Rankin first became involved in politics in 1914 when he ran unsuccessfully for the
legislature on the Progressive Party ticket. Two years later he was financier and campaign
manager for his sister Jeannette in her successful bid for the U.S. House of Representatives
as a Republican. Wellington's wealth and political connections were instrumental to
Jeannette's victory in 1916 and again in 1940. In 1920 Wellington Rankin was elected Montana
Attorney General and served in that post until 1924 when he was appointed to fill a vacancy
on the Montana Supreme Court. After an unsuccessful run for governor in 1928, Rankin was
appointed U.S. district attorney by President Calvin Coolidge, and was reappointed by
Herbert Hoover in 1930. Rankin ran unsuccessfully for public office several more times,
including U.S. Senate in 1942 and 1948, and U.S. House of Representatives in 1952. Following
these defeats Rankin became involved in non-electoral political leadership, serving on
state, regional, and national committees of the Republican Party through the 1950s and
60s.
In addition to his law practice and his political campaigns, Rankin was also involved in
numerous business ventures. Most important were his ranching businesses. In the 1930s he
began acquiring large ranches, including the Avalanche Ranch, the Birch Creek Ranch, the
Stafford-Floweree Ranch, the Miller Brothers Ranch, and the 71 Ranch. At the height of his
ranching success in the early 1960s, he owned about a million acres. He sold the Miller
Brothers property to a Blaine County grazing association in 1964. At the time of his death
he still owned about 600,000 acres.
Rankin was also a partner in the Placer Hotel and the Weiss Café/Mint Bar in Helena, the
Montana Ready-Mix Company in Missoula, and numerous oil and mining properties.
Rankin married Helena socialite Elizabeth Wallace in 1910, although the couple separated
less than a year later. In 1956, Wellington married Louise Replogle, a member of his law
firm. Neither marriage produced children. Rankin died June 4, 1966, at the age of 81.
Personal and professional papers. 1909-1969 (bulk). This collection is organized into six
subgroups relating to different aspects of Rankin's life: personal (1912-1966), family
(1937-1969), politics (1914-1962), ranches (1925-1967), businesses (1911-1968), and law
practice (1909-1966). These are further subdivided into secondary subgroups and series, as
appropriate. See the arrangement note, below, as not all boxes containing materials from the
same subgroup are physically grouped together.
Wellington D. Rankin's personal subgroup includes correspondence (1912-1966) with a wide
range of family, friends, romantic partners, business colleagues, political associates and
Christian Science practitioners; minor financial records (1911-1965); minor legal documents
(1930-1957); subject files concerning his Missoula properties, a Butte electric franchise,
and other topics; miscellany, including greeting cards; and clippings concerning Christian
Science and other topics of interest to Rankin.
The Rankin family subgroup consist primarily of letters among family members Mary Rankin
Bragg, Louise Replogle Rankin Galt, Grace Rankin Kinney, Edna Rankin McKinnon, and Jeannette
Rankin. See note on separated materials, below, regarding Jeannette Rankin materials.
Wellington D. Rankin's political subgroup include records from his compaigns for various
offices and service on the Republican National Committee. There is also a large body of more
miscellaneous correspondence and subject files relating to various aspects of local and
national politics, 1914-1962.
Rankin's ranches included the Avalanche, Birch Creek, A.B. Cook, Moss Agate,
Stafford-Floweree, Miller Brothers, and "71" ranches. Records include correspondence
(1925-1945, 1958-1965) with and about employees and about the purchase of various ranch
properties; employment records including payrolls (1938-1959) and employment contracts
(1937-1967); financial records; legal documents (1921-1969) consisting primarily of bills of
sale and receipts for livestock, land, and equipment; subject files on timber harvesting,
grazing, and various properties; and miscellany.
There are relatively minor subgroups for some of Rankin's various business ventures,
including ABC News, the Brazier Brothers Company candy business, the Grand Hotel Company in
Billings, the Helena Hotel Company, the Montana Ready-Mix Company cement plant in Missoula,
the Pittsburgh Block Company, the Red Rock Producing Company, the Sherman Music Company, the
Weiss Café/Mint Bar, and files concerning many of Rankin's mining investments including
correspondence and assay reports, and annual reports on several mines.
In terms of quantity, the largest subgroup is Rankin's law practice records. Some of this
material is restricted due to attorney-client privilege, including client correspondence,
and portions of some case files; however, much is open to research. Open correspondence is
mainly with other attorneys and public officials and mainly concerns routine legal matters
such as the scheduling of cases for trial. Other topics include the building of Rankin's law
library and equipping of his office. Case files (predominantly 1911-1925, but also some from
the 1940s-1960s) cover the diversity of Rankin's practice and give a picture of his
effectiveness as an attorney. In addition to the case files, the law office subgroup
includes financial records of the law practice; legal documents, including Rankin's
contracts with his clients; a subject file on the Montana Trial Lawyer's Association; and
miscellany including jury lists (1926-1933) for Billings, Butte, Great Falls, Helena, Havre,
and Missoula.
There are two very small subgroups for personal papers of Rankin's law partners Charles L.
Zimmerman and Arthur P. Acher.
This collection was acquired and processed in two phases, the first prior to 1999 and the
second in 2020. The 2020 additions were organized to match the intellectual arrangement of
the preexisting collection, but it was impractical to physically interfile the new and
original materials. Materials from the 2020 addition are therefore grouped at the end of the
collection (boxes 24-40), arranged in subgroups that parallel the original material.
Within each series, correspondence has generally been arranged by last name of the
correspondent and other materials have been arranged chronologically. Notes on the
arrangement of individual folders are added in brackets when appropriate.
Materials in this collection were received in a disorganized state and significant
custodial intervention was required to render the collection accessible to researchers.
Original order is noted when possible by quotation marks on folder titles. Note also that
much of Rankin's correspondence prior to the 1940s bear evidence of a filing plan which
assigned a numerical system to law office correspondents and broad subject categories to
other correspondence, namely "Political," "Ranch," and "Misc." Since this filing system
appears to have been applied inconsistently and no index has survived, it was not practical
to reconstruct the original file plan. Surviving file numbers are, however, noted in
brackets on folder titles.
Collection is open for research. Some law office materials are RESTRICTED due to
attorney-client privilege. A few personal and employee records are RESTRICTED due to
personally identifiable information.
The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and
makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission
must be obtained from the Research Library before any reproduction use. The Society does not
necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases,
permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
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
Some previous restrictions were revaluated and removed in 2020.
This collection originally held more material from Jeannette Rankin that were removed in
2020 to the expanded Jeannette Rankin collection (MC 147). This collection still contains
correspondence between Jeannette and her siblings, but not records documenting her separate
activities.
Photographs, printed material, and artifacts were transferred to Photo Archives, Library,
and Museum respectively
Jeannette Rankin papers, 1912-1971 MC 147. Montana Historical Society Research Center,
Archives, Helena, Montana.
Montana Attorney General's Office Records, 1893-1969 RS 76. Montana Historical Society
Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.
Rankin Family Papers, 1888-1946 Mss 280. University of Montana, Mansfield Library,
Archives and Special Collections, Missoula, Montana.
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.
Bars (Drinking
Establishments)--Montana--Helena
Cemeteries--Montana--Helena
Courts--Montana
Elections--Montana
Horses--Training.
Hotels--Montana--Helena
Industrial accidents--Montana
Labor laws and legislation--Montana
Labor unions--Montana
Lumber trade--Montana--Meagher County
Mines and mineral resources--Montana
Montana--Politics and government
Music stores --Montana--Helena
Railroads--Litigation--Montana
Ranches--Montana
Restaurants--Montana--Helena
71 Ranch (Mont.)
Avalanche Ranch (Mont.)
Birch Creek Ranch (Mont.)
Crowley Ditch (Madison County,
Mont.)
Gold Finch Mine (Mont.)
Golden Curry Mine (Elkhorn,
Mont.)
Helena (Mont.)--Commerce
Kalispell (Mont.)--Population
Madison Dam (Mont.)
Missoula (Mont.)--Commerce
Moss Agate Ranch (Mont.)
Placer Hotel (Helena, Mont.)
Sourdough Mine (Mont.)
Stafford-Floweree Ranch (Mont.)
White Pass (Mont.)
Lawyers--Montana --Helena
Montana
Labor
Unions
Mines and Mineral
Resources
Political
Campaigns
Politics and
Politicians
Ranching
Detailed Description of the Collection
Wellington D. Rankin personal and estate subgroups
Wellington D. Rankin personal
Biographical Material
1 / 1
Obituaries and other biographical material on
John Rankin, Olive Pickering Rankin, and Wellington D. Rankin
1904, 1947, 1966
General Correspondence
1 / 2
A (correspondents include Arthur P. Acher, Bill
and Flossie Akins, Harold L. Allen, American Civil Liberties Union, Cedor B.
Aronow, J. Hugo Aronson, S. Austin)
1928-1965
1 / 3
Philip R. Barbour
1946, undated
1 / 4
Belden-Evans Company (re dress shirts)
1942-1964
1 / 5
Jane E. Beyerlin
1927
1 / 6
Mary Rankin Bragg [sister] and daughter Mary Jane
Bragg and son Kenneth Bragg
1928-1961
1 / 7
W.R. Britt (re oil leases)
1962
1 / 8
B (correspondents include David A. Baker, Charles
S. and Mildred Baldwin, Willis T. Batcheller, D.A. Batchoff, O.A. Bergeson, Herman
J. Bitto, John W. Black, Henry Bowersmith, Herbert A.B. Brady, Dorothy Brown,
Howard D. Brown, Lewis Brown, Brown's Ranch Supply, Duncan Burnet, Harry L. Burns)
1923-1965
1 / 9
A.B. Cook, Hervey Cook, Gloria Cook
1928, 1942, 1950
1 / 10
Coes and Young (re custom made shoes)
1924-1964
1 / 11
H.M. Cordua
1922-1944
1 / 12
C (correspondents include Lew L. Callaway,
Citizens Medical Reference Bureau against compulsory medicine, Edith G. Clinch,
Ada S. Coffman, Columbia University, C.H. Cooper, Gary Cooper, sympathy telegram
to Alice Cooper re death of Gary Cooper, Artlie Cullen)
1920-1966
1 / 13
F.L. Dunne Company (re custom made suits)
1934-1955
1 / 14
D-F (correspondents include Harry Darby, Robert
C. Dempsey, Dude Ranchers Association, John V. Dwyer mayor of Mike Horse, Hugh M.
Egan, Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugural invitation, Farmers Union Central Exchange)
1940-1965
1 / 15
James D. Graham (re Yellowstone Cooperative
Association; Laundry Workers International Union, Livingston)
1920, 1925-1927
1 / 16
Marjorie Graves
1931-1954
1 / 17
G (correspondents include Vaughn Gardner, Howard
C. Gee, Fred L. Gibson enclosing poem on Truman administration by Morrie Ryskind,
R.H. Glover, Bonnie Greer, Mrs. Eriel Gustafson)
1922-1965
1 / 18
Fritz F. Haynes
1949-1966
1 / 19
H-J (correspondents include Tom Haines, Lucille
Haneline, Hazel L.M. Hanson, Oscar C. Hauge, Fred Heinecke, Helena Federal
Business Association, Peggy Henrick, Gilbert J. Heyfron, Ronald Higgins, Ethel
Hitchcock, Nora Hokenlobe(?), J. Edgar Hoover, James G. House, Mary Elizabeth
Huber, Ingersoll Watch Company, Amelia Jones, Rosalie Jones)
1915-1965
1 / 20
Grace Rankin Kinney [sister] and sons John Kinney
and Tom Kinney, Jr.
1933-1954
1 / 21
Tom Kinney; Findell and Kinney Lumber
Manufacturers
1920-1924
1 / 22
H.G. Kleinschmidt
1922, 1925
1 / 23
K (correspondents include Jule Harrington Kane,
Robert L. Karr, Bill Keeley, Claire Kellogg, Sophia Kutschied)
1945-1965
1 / 24
Letters of recommendation: A-W
1942-1953
1 / 25
Lester H. Loble (re Fraternal Order of Eagles)
1943
1 / 26
L (correspondents include Bob Larson, Thomas J.
Leonard, conscientious objector; Lewis Historical Publishing Company, re
biographical sketch; Line family; Loyal Order of Moose; R.O. Lunke)
1932-1963
2 / 1
Edna Rankin McKinnon [sister] and daughter Janet
McKinnon
1929-1966
2 / 2
Montana State University, Missoula / University
of Montana (includes carillon bell donation in honor of Olive Pickering Rankin)
1953-1966
2 / 3
Montana (correspondents include Montana
Cattlemen's Association, Montana Children's Home and Hospital, Montana Federation
of Labor, Montana Governor, Montana Supreme Court)
1944-1964
2 / 4
M (correspondents include Elsie MacDonald, Louise
MacDonald, Rabbi Moshe M. Maggal, C.O. Marcyes, J. Norman Matthews, Arthur
Mattson, Rose Mayes, Carl McFarland, Hattie McGregor, Henry Meloy, Metaphysical
Science Association, Lee Metcalf re biographical data on Jeannette Rankin, Daniel
N. Miles, City of Missoula, William P. Mufich, Charles A. Murray, W.D. Murray)
1927-1965
2 / 5
N (correspondents include National Academy of Law
Enforcement, National Economic League, Helen Nelson, C.W. Noyes)
1932-1965
2 / 6
Jerome Paulson
1937-1945
2 / 7
re George P. Porter, State Auditor
circa 1920-1929
2 / 8
P-Q (correspondents include E.J. Pauly, A.A.
Pelletier, Lewis Penwell, Mrs. Ray Pesante, Mrs. Edna Peterson re Jeannette
Rankin's pacifism, William Pippy, James A. Poore Jr., Ida Scott Powell, Quaker
Oats Company)
1933-1965
2 / 9-10
Jeannette Rankin (re family matters, politics,
war in Europe, peace work in India, life in Georgia, trips to Latin America)
1932-1964, undated
2 / 11
R (correspondents include Ann Reid, Edgar P.
Reid, Bernard J. Reilly, Bert K. Replogle, Edith Replogle, Louise Replogle, Mrs.
Locke F. Richardson, Loretto Roberts, W.B. Rogers, Rose Rossbach)
1927-1966
2 / 12
Harriet Rankin Sedman [sister] (includes birth
certificate for her husband John Ellis Sedman, 1880)
1927-1965
2 / 13
Paul Stark Seeley (re Christian Science)
1957-1964
2 / 14
Maria Soubier (re Christian Science)
1955-1964
2 / 15
Claude and Wilma Stieb
1963
2 / 16
Sure Shot Oil and Gas Company
1921
2 / 17
S (correspondents include Mrs. Fred Schneider,
Ward A. Shanahan, O.H.P. Shelley, Mrs. W.A. Sherlock re Jeannette Rankin, Cameron
Sherwood, Arthur Solberg, Ralph L. Starr, Helena Stellway, Charles L. Stevens, Tom
Stout, Pat C. Sullivan, George Surber, Abbie Swift)
1923-1966
2 / 18
K. Ross Toole and M.C. Wren (re proposed oral
history interview)
1965-1966
2 / 19
F.R. Tripler and Company (re hats)
1953-1964
2 / 20
T-V (correspondents include R.C. Tarrant, Paul
Temple, Transwestern Life Insurance Company, Charles L. Tyman, U.S. Internal
Revenue Service, Cora E. Van Deusen, Lydia Vessey)
1927-1965
2 / 21
Elizabeth Wallace (re Germany and German
character)
circa 1913
2 / 22
Luella A. Watson (re petition for White Pass
road)
1927
2 / 23
W-Z (correspondents include Guy S. Wade, P.J.
Wallace, Thomas J. Walsh, Western Montana Marble and Granite Company, O.B. Wiren,
A. Wirin, Clarence Wohl, S.L. Young)
1916, 1925-1963
2 / 24
Unidentified: Ellis [Sedman] (re Christian
Science)
1940, undated
2 / 25
Unidentified: miscellaneous
1935-1958
Miscellaneous Correspondence
2 / 26
Correspondence neither from nor to Wellington D.
Rankin
1938-1963
Court Papers
3 / 1
Memorial for Charles N. Pray by U.S. District
Court, Great Falls
1963
Financial Records
3 / 2
Applications to reduce taxes on National Bank of
Montana building [it burned January 9, 1944]
1933, 1937, 1944
3 / 3-4
Bills and receipts [scattered]
1932-1965
3 / 5
Helena apartment rentals
1942
3 / 6
Income taxes
1942
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
3 / 7
Insurance
1931-1934
3 / 8-9
List of checks paid
1941, 1955, 1960-1965
3 / 10
Personal property sold by George Ramsey to
Wellington Rankin
1918-1919
3 / 11
Tax recapitulation: vehicles
1952-1957
Legal Documents
3 / 12
Miscellaneous (includes bills of sale, deeds,
leases, agreements, etc.)
1930-1957
Subject Files
3 / 13
Butte electric franchise
1930
3 / 14
Carbon monoxide in homes
1930-1939
3 / 15
Hupmobile purchase and service
1932-1934
3 / 16
Missoula real estate (A.B. Cook Estate holdings
acquired from F. Hervey Cook in March 1936)
1930-1947
3 / 17
Missoula real estate (Olive Pickering Rankin
holdings, including family home)
1932-1946
3 / 18
Property owned by Rankin (includes descriptions
of urban, ranch and mining properties)
circa 1940
3 / 19
Rudy Furnace contract (re delinquent payments)
1932-1935
Miscellany
3 / 20
Greeting cards
1940-1965, undated
3 / 21
Miscellaneous (includes radio talk by
unidentified person re Warm Springs Hospital; memorial on death of Burke Clements;
last statements of miners killed in mine accident)
undated
Clippings
3 / 22
Christian Science editorials
circa 1932
3 / 23
Miscellaneous (includes Rankin promotion to
corporal, obituary for Jim Taylor, "A Tribute to Montana," Joseph Ford
reminiscence, Gene Tunney heavyweight champion, Gary Cooper)
1918-1954
Wellington D. Rankin estate
General Correspondence
3 / 24
Miscellaneous (re claims on estate, etc.)
1966, 1969
Financial Records
3 / 25
List of checks
1966-1967
3 / 26
Miscellaneous (includes list of stocks owned by
Rankin, claims, receipts, etc.)
1966-1969
Rankin family subgroups
Rankin family patriarch John Rankin moved to Missoula, Montana from London, Ontario,
in 1869 and established himself as a carpenter, contractor, and entrepeneur. He married
local school teacher Olive Pickering in August of 1879. Six of John and Olive's children
survived to adulthood: Jeannette (born June 11, 1880), Harriet (born February 21, 1883),
Wellington (born September 16, 1884), Mary (born August 30, 1888), Grace (born November
25, 1891), and Edna (born October 21, 1893).
Materials in this subgroup originate with Rankin family members other than Wellington.
Correspondence between these individuals and Wellington are included in the previous
subgroup.
Mary Rankin Bragg
Incoming Correspondence
4 / 1
Jeannette Rankin; Edna Rankin McKinnon
1958
Louise Replogle Rankin Galt
Incoming Correspondence
4 / 2
B-W (correspondents include Mary Rankin Bragg,
Clifton Coleman, Errol F. Galt, Helena Fire Department, Helena First Inc., Patrick
F. Hooks, Jeannette Rankin, Edith Replogle, Burton K. Wheeler, unidentified)
1955, 1966-1969
Outgoing Correspondence
4 / 3
Letter to Dr. Joanne Bodner
2008
Miscellany
4 / 4
Attorney's appointment book
1967
4 / 5
Miscellaneous (includes bill of sale, attorney
license, invitation of inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower)
1953, 1966, 1968
Grace Rankin Kinney
Incoming Correspondence
4 / 6
Jeannette Rankin
undated
Edna Rankin McKinnon
Incoming Correspondence
4 / 7
Jeannette Rankin (re South America); unidentified
1955-1956, 1961
Olive Pickering Rankin
Incoming Correspondence
4 / 8
Mrs. Ed O. Priddy; Elizabeth Eastman
1937, 1939
4 / 9
Miscellaneous
1939
Political subgroups
Wellington Rankin had a life-long fascination with politics and would ultimately run
for higher office a total of nine times, once successfully:
1914
House of Representatives (at-large). Ran as Progressive (Bull Moose Party).
Lost general election to incumbent Democrats Thomas Stout and John M.
Evans.
1920
Montana Attorney General. Won.
1922
US Senate. Lost Republican primary to Carl W. Riddick.
1924
US Senate. Lost Republican primary to Frank B. Linderman.
1928
Montana Governor. Won Republican primary. Lost general election to John E.
Erickson (D).
1934
US Senate (special election following death of Thomas J. Walsh). Lost
Republican primary to Scott Leavitt.
1942
US Senate. Won Republican primary. Lost general election to James E. Murray
(D).
1948
US Senate. Lost Republican primary to Tom J. Davis.
1952
House of Representatives (1st District). Won Republican primary. Lost general
election to Lee W. Metcalf (D).
Records of Rankin’s 1928 campaign for governor mostly consist of records of the Montana
Weekly Republican Press Club run by Thomas F. Rucker. This organization worked with
editors of Republican-aligned newspapers to run advertising, coordinate messaging, and
gather information about local political sentiment. This subgroup contains information
on Joseph M. Dixon’s (unsuccessful) Senate campaign as well as Rankin’s gubernatorial
campaign. Other campaign subgroups contain only the records of Rankin’s campaign
organizations (e.g. the “Rankin for Senator Club” in 1942). However, correspondence
files include communications with and about other important political figures including
Burton K. Wheeler, George M. Bourquin, James E. Murray, Sam C. Ford, Jeannette Rankin,
Gladys Knowles, and Robert A. Taft.
Miscellaneous political
General Correspondence
5 / 1
Francis Flinn (enclosing letters to Harry L.
Burns re B.K. Wheeler)
1946
5 / 2
Frank F. Hayes
1932, undated
5 / 3
Gladys Knowles (Republican National
Committeewoman)
1941, 1952-1956
5 / 4
A.J. Lowary to John Oliver (re Tower-Lyle Senate
race)
1925
5 / 5
Mary O'Neill
1917-1921
5 / 6
Rita Shields
1941-1963
5 / 7
Burton K. Wheeler
1958-1964
5 / 8-9
Chronological
1922-1962
5 / 10
Letters requesting recommendations for federal
jobs, including military: B-W
1941-1944
5 / 11-12
Letters requesting recommendations for state jobs
in Sam Ford administration: A-Y
1940-1941
Financial Records
5 / 13
Receipts for Governor's reception
1947 January
Printed Material
5 / 14
"Progressive Manifesto," by H.L. Maury; "How to
achieve higher price levels and prosperity," by A.G. McGregor; "The Changing party
pattern," by Paul T. David
1932-1933, 1956
Speeches
5 / 15
Campaign speeches by Wellington D. Rankin
1928-1932, 1952
5 / 16
Speeches (fragments and drafts, most probably by
Rankin, some may be by other people)
undated
5 / 17
Campaign speeches for and against Wellington D.
Rankin
circa 1934-1948
5 / 18
Speeches by others (includes "The 1930 tariff and
the farmer," by William Williamson; "Hobson's choice between government ownership
and bankruptcy of the railroads," by Samuel Untermyer; three untitled speeches by
Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay; "A report on the Bureau of Land
Management's mining activities," by W.G. Guernsey; untitled speech by Under
Secretary of the Interior Clarence A. Davis; Lincoln Day dinner speech by Ted
James)
1930-1966
Subject Files
5 / 19
Campaign for Governor (includes correspondence,
flyers, clippings, etc.)
1928
5 / 20
Campaign for U.S. Senate (includes petition for
nomination, reports by Edna Rankin McKinnon)
1934
5 / 21
Campaign for U.S. Senate (includes petition for
nomination, correspondence, flyers)
1942
1
Campaign for U.S. Congress campaign poster
(Oversize: see Archives map case)
1942
5 / 22
Campaign for U.S. Senate (includes
correspondence, flyers, etc.)
1948
5 / 23
Campaign for U.S. Congress (includes
correspondence, flyers, etc.)
1952
1
Campaign for U.S. Congress campaign poster
(Oversize: see Archives map case)
1952
5 / 24
Sam Ford campaign (includes correspondence,
flyers, etc.)
1944
5 / 25
Garrison post office appointment
1955-1958
5 / 26
Labor (includes correspondence with labor unions,
speeches in support of labor, etc.)
1946-1952, undated
6 / 1
Legislation (includes proposed bills on a variety
of topics)
1919, 1932-1949, undated
6 / 2
Reappointment as U.S. district attorney
1929-1930
6 / 3
Republican Party (includes circulars, position
statements, etc.)
1926-1965, undated
6 / 4
Republican National Committee (includes
correspondence, brochures, etc.)
1952-1959
6 / 5
Republican State Central Committee (includes
correspondence, brochures, etc.)
1932, 1946-1963
6 / 6
Republican Western Conference (includes
resolutions, drafts, etc.)
1946-1959
6 / 7
Silver policy (includes "Monetary history of the
United States"; "The silver question," by Burton K. Wheeler; statistics;
legislation; etc.)
1933, undated
6 / 8
Workmen's Compensation acts
undated
Miscellany
6 / 9
Appointment of Ernest C. Steel to Public Service
Commission by Lieutenant Governor Ted James
circa 1965
6 / 10
Governor Roy E. Ayers press release re
presidential reception
1934
6 / 11
"Brief on [Burton K.] Wheeler and [Thomas J.]
Walsh, document 1, Letter from a Western liberal to an Eastern friend" [possibly
written by Harlow Pease]
circa 1926
6 / 12
"Information for drys" (records of candidates on
prohibition issue)
1932
6 / 13
Lists of Republican Party workers, county
committeemen, etc.)
1932-1938, undated
6 / 14
Political wagers
1952, undated
6 / 15
Poll list: Kalispell
1952
6 / 16
"Present method of taxing mines"
undated
6 / 17
Sen. Thomas J. Walsh plaque dedication by Charles
E. Pew
circa 1944
6 / 18
Miscellaneous (includes memorabilia, satirical
writing, etc.)
undated
Clippings
6 / 19
Congressional pension bill
1942
6 / 20
Miscellaneous
1928-1966, undated
Ranch subgroups
Biographical Note:
Rankin’s ranching enterprise began in 1927 with the purchase of the Avalanche Ranch
near Helena. In 1935 he began expanding, starting with the Cook Ranch in Broadwater
County. 1944 brought additional purchases in Meagher County, including the Birch Creek,
Moss Agate, and Catlin properties. After stepping back from electoral politics in the
1950s Rankin focused more attention on land acquisition, adding the 71, Lingshire, and
Wieglow Ranches in 1954, and the massive Miller Ranch in 1958. For a brief period in the
1960s Rankin owned or leased well over one million acres, making him the largest private
landowner in the state and one of the largest in the country. Rankin sold the Miller
Ranch in 1964, significantly reducing the size of his land empire.
This subgroup includes correspondence, employee-related records, financial documents,
and various subject files. Rankin closely tracked all ranch expenses, evidenced by
detailed weekly purchase records from the early 1960s. Unfortunately, few ledgers
showing monthly and yearly finances have survived. Subject files cover a variety of
topics including ranch purchases, cattle sales, wartime rationing, and the importation
of Mexican laborers through the Bracero program.
Ranches
General Correspondence
7 / 1
Jim Coffee
1959
7 / 2
Jim Daniels
1958
7 / 3
Farmers Union Oil Company
1960
7 / 4
Larry Fleming
1959
7 / 5
Jack E. Galt
1958
7 / 6
Hall and Hall Inc. (mortgage company)
1963-1965
7 / 7
Harvey L. Hardin
1958-1960
7 / 8
Delbert Herron
1959-1960
7 / 9-10
Calvin E. McDonald
1951, 1958-1961
7 / 11
Miller Brothers (includes Chris Miller, Lloyd B.
Shelhamer, Ted Westin; re purchase of Miller Brothers' ranch)
1960, 1962
7 / 12
Harvey O'Connor
1958-1961
7 / 13
John Rothfus
1931-1933
7 / 14
Dominick Rush (?)
1958, undated
7 / 15
Don Woods
1958
7 / 16-17
A-Y
1958
Employment Records
7 / 18
Contracts to break horses, A-W
1947-1965
7 / 19-21
Employee contracts, A-Y
1950, 1962-1967
8 / 1-2
Employee purchases
1956, 1959-1965
8 / 3
Employee wage receipts, A-Y
1948-1951
8 / 4-6
Payrolls and timebooks (includes Avalanche, Birch
Creek, Cook, and Moss Agate ranches)
1938-1941, 1944-1945, 1954-1956,
1959
Financial Records
8 / 7
Account book
1965-1966
8 / 8
Applications for reduction of taxes on ranch land
1941-1944
8 / 9
Appraisal report: Francis V. Pauly Ranch, Harlem
1964
8 / 10
Bills and invoices (scattered)
1951-1966
8 / 11
County taxes
1960-1967
8 / 12
Miscellaneous (includes hay purchases, inventory
of cattle, farm expenses)
1965-1966
Legal Documents
8 / 13
Affidavits re operation of Rankin ranches
1958, 1969
8 / 14
Bills of sale: F. Hervey Cook and Lena Cook
1933-1937
8 / 15
Bills of sale: horses, cattle and sheep
1927-1964
8 / 16
Bills of sale: real estate and equipment
1926-1964
8 / 17
Hay contracts
1926-1966
8 / 18
Miscellaneous
1921-1969
Maps
8 / 19
Map to Avalanche Ranch
undated
Subject Files
8 / 20
Downer Lumber Company timber harvesting and
stumpage sale
1954-1960
9 / 1
"A.A. Knowles land matter" (re Canyon Ferry
homesite)
1945-1946
9 / 2
"Kesselheim" (re Jap Stewart Ranch)
1948-1949
9 / 3
M.L. Lane Sheep Company (re contract made with
Wellington D. Rankin and F. Hervey Cook)
1930-1933
9 / 4
Miller Brothers property
1960-1964
9 / 5
George Sinton livestock exchange
1953
9 / 6-8
Stafford-Floweree Ranch mortgage (correspondence
with Albert I. Loeb and Loeb Estate; statements of account)
1926-1944
9 / 9
Taylor Grazing Act
1934
9 / 10
"U.S. Forest Service grazing permit matters,
etc."
1939-1966
Miscellany
9 / 11
Notebooks
1958, undated
9 / 12
U.S. Weather Bureau climatological data for
Montana
1942-1943
9 / 13
Miscellaneous (includes lists of land and leases;
inventories of cattle; resolution re livestock parity prices; real estate
advertisement for Climbing Arrow Ranch, Three Forks)
1917-1964, undated
Business subgroups
ABC News
Employment Records
9 / 14
Payroll
1947
Financial Records
9 / 15
Invoices
1950-1951
Brazier Brothers Company
General Correspondence
9 / 16
Chronological (correspondents include A.R.
Brazier, Oliver M. Holmes, Great Falls Commercial Club; re removal of candy
factory from Helena to Great Falls)
1913-1914
Legal Documents
9 / 17
Agreements (re building of factory at Great
Falls, and enforcement of contract)
1914
Miscellany
9 / 18
Miscellaneous (includes subscription of Great
Falls businessmen to support move of plant to Great Falls; clippings; list of
Great Falls Commercial Club members)
1914, undated
Grand Hotel Company, Billings
Financial Records
9 / 19
Audit reports
1963-1964
Helena Hotel Company [Placer Hotel]
General Correspondence
10 / 1
Miscellaneous (correspondents include Hugh Egan
and Company, International Hotels, Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission,
Lewis and Clark County Treasurer)
1959-1968
Employment Records
10 / 2
Payroll
1954, 1959, undated
Financial Records
10 / 3
Daily revenue and statistical reports [scattered]
1954-1959
10 / 4-6
Financial and operating statements
1947-1948, 1953-1960
10 / 7
Tower Motel summary of operations, etc.
1956-1965
Legal Documents
10 / 8
Miscellaneous (includes deeds; lease, including
architectural drawings)
1939, 1959, 1963
Organization
10 / 9
Outstanding stock
1956
Clippings
10 / 10
Re ____ Krause acquisition of Placer Hotel
[incomplete]
undated
Montana Ready-Mix Company
General Correspondence
10 / 11-12
Miscellaneous (correspondents include Basil Hunt,
Fred Heinecke, Noble Company, C.I.T. Corporation, George Jessen, W.E. Burton)
1955-1958
Employment Records
10 / 13
Payroll
1957
Financial Records
10 / 14
Bills, invoices, etc.
1955-1958
10 / 15-16
Financial statements
1957
10 / 17
Miscellaneous (includes balance sheets, taxes,
etc.)
1954-1965
Pittsburgh Block Company
Financial Records
10 / 18
Applications to reduce taxes on Pittsburgh Block
1937-1943
10 / 19
Balance sheets
1936, 1941
Rim Rock Producing Company
Financial Records
10 / 20
Ledger
1950-1954
Sherman Music Company
General Correspondence
10 / 21
Musical instrument suppliers: A-W
1955-1956
10 / 22
Radio stations (re advertisements)
1954-1956
10 / 23
Miscellaneous (correspondents include Ray Briggs,
Cascade Public Schools, Father Conran, Orvin B. Fjare, State Board of
Equalization, Montana Music Educators Association, Montana Record Publishing
Company)
1955-1956
Financial Records
1-5
Journals
1946-1954
Weiss Café / Mint Bar
Employment Records
11 / 1-4
Payrolls
1947-1952
Financial Records
1
Analysis of income and expense (Oversize: see
Archives map case)
1950-1952
11 / 5
Insurance, banking records [scattered]
1949-1952
11 / 6
Inventory: fixtures
undated
11 / 7-8
Inventory: food
1948
11 / 9
Journal: gambling
1947-1949
11 / 10
Unemployment compensation returns; U.S. tax
returns
1955-1956
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
Legal Documents
11 / 11
Agreements: Gene Robertson, Buford Miles, and
Fred Fox
1949
Miscellany
11 / 12
Last Chance Turf Club minutes
1947
11 / 13
Plans and specifications
1947-1948
1
Plans and specifications (Oversize: see Archives
map case)
1947-1948
Mines
General Correspondence
11 / 14
Chronological (correspondents include Arthur L.
Sheppard, L.O. Goodman, Elmer W. Watson, George E. Hurd, H.C. Packer, J.H. Shober,
J.A. Nelson, Mines Financing Syndicate, Clark Canyon Gold Mining Company, O.T.
Wedemeyer, B.B. Bales, Paul S. Seeley, Thomas Westgard, Willis T. Batcheller, L.E.
Griffith, Hub Mining Company, Marysville Gold Mining Company; topics include
Sourdough Mine, Golden Curry Consolidated Mining Company, Doggett Claim, Last
Chance Dredging Project, Virginia Consolidated Mining Company, Vosberg Mining
Company, Ontario Placer, Avalanche Gulch placers, Bald Butte mine)
1926-1951
Assay Reports
11 / 15
Assay reports (includes Crystal Mine, Lone Tree
Mine, Lexington Dump, East Helena tailings, Gould Mine, Peck Mill, Mitchell Gulch,
Bachelor Mine, Sourdough, and unidentified mines)
1933-1941
Legal Documents
11 / 16
Mining claims, annual representation work, etc.
(includes Snow Shoe, Nugget, and Alma claims)
1933-1950
Reports
11 / 17
"Conditions at the time pumps were pulled at Gold
Finch Mine"; Park Utah Consolidated Mines Company statement; Sunshine Mining
Company annual report
1938. 1951, 1961
Subject Files
11 / 18
Red Eagle Gold Mining Company (includes lease
agreement; drillers field logs, Avalanche Gulch)
1936, undated
11 / 19
Ruby Gulch Mining Company (includes
correspondence, annual reports)
1938-1942
Law practice subgroups
Biographical Note:
Rankin’s law practice remained a stable source of income from 1909 until his death,
financing much of his political and business ventures. Already accomplished as a sole
practitioner, in 1927 he partnered with Arthur P. Acher. Soon after the partners opened
an office in Helena’s Pittsburgh Block. Charles L. Zimmerman served as a limited partner
from a branch office in Butte, handling cases that originated in Silver Bow County from
1937 to at least 1945. Louise Replogle became the firm’s third permanent partner in
1951, several years before she and Rankin were romantically involved.
Records in this subgroup are primarily correspondence and case files, mostly from the
early period of Rankin’s law practice (1910s-1920s). All direct correspondence between
Rankin and his clients that relate to legal matters is restricted. Rankin’s filing
system, however, did not differentiate between clients and non-clients. During
processing, some third-party correspondence relating to legal cases but not protected by
attorney-client privilege have been removed to nonrestricted subject files.
Rankin's law practice
General Correspondence
12 / 1
Capt. J.M. Adamson, collection agent
1911-1925
12 / 2-3
Client correspondence: A-Z
1915-1966
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
12 / 4
Law book publishers: American Law Book Company
1915-1922, 1944
12 / 5
Law book publishers: Bancroft-Whitney Company
1935-1953
12 / 6
Law book publishers: Lawyers Cooperative
Publishing Company
1913-1952
12 / 7
Law book publishers: West Publishing Company
1935-1963
12 / 8
Law book publishers: miscellaneous
1915-1951
12 / 9
Law books: second-hand
1915-1935
12 / 10
Legal correspondence: Great Northern Railway
attorneys (re cases against railroad)
1913-1926
12 / 11
Legal correspondence: William Waugh
1933-1936
12 / 12-13
Legal correspondence: miscellaneous attorneys
1915-1965, undated
12 / 14
Legal correspondence: re scheduling of cases,
status, filings, etc.
1913-1918
12 / 15
Office equipment vendors
1935-1940
12 / 16
Prisoner letters
1926, 1959, 1965
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
Case Files [correspondence in files is restricted]
13 / 1-1a
Tony Abel case
1911
[1a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 2
Agnes Ashton vs. Maurice Howe Ashton
1920
13 / 3
Mrs. E. Barton vs John Brodus
1914
13 / 4
John Beck application for writ of habeas corpus
(re Danish citizen claiming exemption from draft)
1917
13 / 5
Frank Benchina vs. American Smelting and Refining
Company and Industrial Accident Board
1917
13 / 6
Castie Betor vs. John A.B. Carbis (re slander)
1920
13 / 7
W.S. Bliss vs Solomon L. Bright
1921
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 8-8a
August Blomer vs. Bankers Insurance Company
1918
[8a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 9
Isack Boman vs. Anaconda Copper Mining Company
circa 1911-1912
13 / 10
Paul Bowers vs. Helena Light and Railway Company
1919
13 / 11
Arthur L.B. Brooke vs. American Smelting and
Refining Company
1912
13 / 12
Robert Brown vs. American Smelting and Refining
Company
1913
13 / 13
Henry Bruckert case
1915-1921
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 14-14a
Charles H. Buck vs. Merchants Life and Casualty
Company
1917-1918
[14a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 15
Rose A. Cameron vs. Angus W. Cameron
1920
13 / 16-16a
Catherine Cannon vs. Henry Cannon
1914
[16a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 17-17a
Capital Commission Company vs. Paul Whitelaw
1917-1920
[17a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 18
John A.B. Carbis vs. Blibal Betor and Cassidy
Betor
1918-1922
13 / 19-19a
E.A. Carleton vs. Charles Peterson, Mitchell
Peterson, and Walter Peterson
1910-1914
[19a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 20
Carstens and Earles, Inc. vs. Anna E. Nett and
Edward S. Anderson
1916
13 / 21-21a
Bridget Cavanaugh Estate
1915
[21a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 22-22a
Catherine Christensen vs. Walter Garrison
1913-1914
[22a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 23-23a
A.W. Church vs. Anna E. Nett
1918
[23a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 24
Robert H. Claflin vs. Schurmeier Wagon Company
1910-1911
13 / 25-25a
A.J. Clark vs. John V. Karns
1914-1915
[25a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 26-26a
Frank Conley vs. Arthur Higgins and Gerald
Higgins
1915-1923
[26a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 27
Bridget Conroy vs. Patrick J. Conroy
1920-1921
13 / 28
Charles H. Cooper and Alice L. Cooper vs. Peter
H. Romer and Mary Romer
1918-1920
13 / 29-29a
Oliver Courville vs. Ollie Spurgeon
1914
[29a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 30-30a
H.L. Curn vs. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railroad (re Red Tunnel)
1917
[30a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
13 / 31
Johannah Eslick Curtis vs. Mathe Curtis et al.
circa 1920
13 / 32
Bert Cushing vs. American Smelting and Refining
Company
1914-1915
14 / 1-1a
G.W. Densley vs. T.B. Story and L.P. Work
1917-1918
[1a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
14 / 2
Nina Detrick vs. Homer Detrick
1912
14 / 3
J.N. Dier vs. F.M. Smith and Aldridge Smith
1918
14 / 4
Isabel Dolenty vs. Jesse D. Ballard
1913
14 / 5
Edward E. Dresser vs. Leonora Dresser
[RESTRICTED]
1914
14 / 6
M.L. Duckett vs. Moses Biggs (includes testimony
of Dr. Pearl Hubert Brown in State vs. Biggs)
1915
14 / 7-7a
Stuart Eaton vs. A.W. Miles
1920-1921
[7a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
14 / 8
George Edden vs. Helena Light and Railway Company
1914-1917
14 / 9
Gus Elstrom vs. Northern Pacific Railway Company
1909-1912
14 / 10-10a
Annie Erb vs. Thomas H. Harris and M.V. Conroy
1915-1917
[10a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
14 / 11-11a
Otto Erickson vs. Three Forks, Helena, and
Madison Valley Railroad Company and D.F. Shull and A.B. Bennett
1913-1919
[11a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
14 / 12
Pearl M. Estep vs. Merlin Estep
1918
14 / 13
C.H. Fagan and Joseph A. Lemkie vs. J.W.
Hardgrove
1913
14 / 14-14a
Anna F. Fellers vs. Rebecca DuRand (re
Harlowton-DeRand Irrigation Project)
1920-1921
[14a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
14 / 15
Albert Fieler vs. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railway Company
1913
14 / 16
Harry Fitzpatrick vs. C.E. Fryberger and Monarch
Mining and Power Company
1920
14 / 17
Edith Flavell vs. F.L. Cole, G.L. Cole, et al.
(also includes G.L. Cole vs. Cyril Cross, administrator of Estate of Adelea Merry)
1919-1920
14 / 18-18a
John W. Flynn vs. Butte, Anaconda and Pacific
Railway Company
1917-1918
[18a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
14 / 19
Rose Ford by her guardian ad litem Joseph Ford
vs. Helena Light and Railway Company
1917
15 / 1-2
Forestvale Cemetery Association vs. Helena
Cemetery Association, et al.
1919-1922, undated
1
Forestvale Cemetery Association vs. Helena
Cemetery Association, et al. maps (Oversize: see Archives map case)
1919-1922, undated
15 / 3
Carl E. Foss petition for clemency
circa 1920
15 / 4
E.B. Fugier and W.L. Eckley vs. Bankers Insurance
Company
1917-1921
15 / 5
Joe Gabel vs. L.B. DePratu
1918-1921
15 / 6
Helen O. Garrett vs. Harry J. Garrett
1920
15 / 7-7a
Henry Gebhardt vs. Charles J. Humphrey (re
Princess Theater, Helena)
1915
[7a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
15 / 8-8a
Nellie Gordon and J.A. Gordon vs. Great Northern
Railway Company
1922-1926
[8a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
15 / 9-9a
L.E. Goughnour and O.R. Taylor vs. Lawrence
Bearland
1927
[9a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
15 / 10
H.M. Grey and Winnifred Moon vs. Northern Pacific
Railway Company
1917-1918
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
15 / 11
John Haas case
1916
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
15 / 12-12a
James Hamilton vs. Helena Light and Railway
Company
1913-1914
[12a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
15 / 13
John Hansen vs. Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget
Sound Railroad
1912-1913
15 / 14
Minnie Hansen, executrix of Estate of Rasmus
Hansen vs. Huie Pock
circa 1917
15 / 15
Samuel T. Hauser Estate vs. R.H. Kleinschmidt, et
al.
1915-1920
15 / 16-16a
Nels Hegg vs. Carl Harris and Joseph Harris
1915
[16a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
15 / 17
Helena Bottling Works vs. Basile Brothers
1917
15 / 18
City of Helena vs. Pat P. Smith
1916-1917
15 / 19
Helena Retail Merchants Exchange cases
1916-1917
15 / 20
Charles Henry vs. Northern Pacific Railway
Company
1912-1913
15 / 21
Christie Herron vs. Milford Herrin
1920-1926
16 / 1
Ronald Higgins (re Estate of Gerald Higgins)
1915-1921
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
16 / 2
George Hill vs. Anaconda Copper Mining Company
1912
16 / 3-3a
James Hiscox vs. P. Baxter
1919-1920
[3a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
16 / 4-4a
Andy Hober vs. Keating Gold Mining Company
1913-1914
[4a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
16 / 5
Herbert Hoogfleet petition (for discharge from
liability for military service)
1917
16 / 6
W.R. Hopkins vs. State of Montana (re speedy
trial)
undated
16 / 7-7a
John Hossfeld vs. Toston Percheron Horse
Association
1908, 1913-1914
[7a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
16 / 8
John E. Howard Estate
1914
16 / 9
Walter Howard habeas corpus
1910
16 / 10
A.J. Hulse vs. Northern Pacific Railway Company
1911-1913
16 / 11
Ada Louise Hurd homestead application
1916
16 / 12
George J. Hyatt vs. William S. Burton and Peter
J. McHugh
1916
16 / 13
In the matter of the perpetuation of testimony of
M.M. Fowler et al. (re Northern Pacific Railway Company boycott of Dr. W.A. Peek)
1911
16 / 14
Art E. Jeffers vs. Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint
Paul Railway Company
1920-1921
16 / 15-17a
Genevieve Jeffers vs. Chicago, Milwaukee and
Saint Paul Railway Company
1918-1921
[17a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
16 / 18
Andy Johnson vs. Three Forks, Helena, and Madison
Valley Railway Company and D.F. Schull and ___ Bennett
1918-1921
16 / 19
Chris Johnson vs. Great Northern Railway Company
1927
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
16 / 20
Gjertine Pauline Torgerson Johnson vs. United
States Gypsum Company
1912-1913
16 / 21
Louis O. Johnson habeas corpus
1925
16 / 22
S.B. and Lilly Kahnweiler vs. Northern Pacific
Railway Company
1914
16 / 23
Tom Kari vs. Anaconda Copper Mining Company
1912
17 / 1-2a
J. Kaufman vs. Mutual Oil Company and Frantz
Corp.
1923-1924
[2a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
17 / 3
William Keating, State Auditor vs. Allen D.
Tuffold et al.
1916
17 / 4
Jesse R. Keene vs. Basil B. Miller
1916
17 / 5
Ada H. Kelley case (re smallpox)
1915
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
17 / 6
Gladys Kelly vs. James H. Kelly
1919
17 / 7-7a
Percy W. Kelly vs. Emil C. Flenzer
1918-1921
[7a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
17 / 8
Milton Kibler vs. Great Northern Railway Company
1916-1921
17 / 9
Barbara King vs. Helena Light and Railway Company
1913-1914
17 / 10
Klein and Bourne Company vs. Jake Tyanich and
Simo Radmilovich
1918-1919
17 / 11
Albert Kleinschmidt vs. E.D. Vosburgh (includes
Vosburgh vs. American Smelting and Refining Company, Kleinschmidt et al.)
1913
17 / 12-14
Ellen Kleinschmidt, Albert Kleinschmidt, and R.A.
Kleinschmidt vs. American Mining Company and R.H. Kleinschmidt and Amelia
Kleinschmidt
1916-1919
[14 is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
17 / 15
Rudolph Kufeld vs. American Smelting and Refining
Company
1914
17 / 16-16a
Louise Kusek vs. American Brewing Company
1914-1915
[16a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
17 / 17-17a
James J. Langan vs. M.J. Sullivan, C.E. Alsop,
Butte Association of Credit Men
1913-1914
[17a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
17 / 18
Peter Larkin vs. Northern Pacific Railway Company
1911-1913
18 / 1
Erick Holner Larson petition
1915
18 / 2
Ray Larson habeas corpus
1918
18 / 3
Walter Larson vs. Josephine Schauby
1912
18 / 4
Jerry Lawler vs. Bald Butte Mining Company
(includes agreements and assay reports)
1907-1909
18 / 5
Andy Lebon vs. Northern Pacific Railway Company
1912
18 / 6
Felix M. Lee vs. Northern Pacific Railway Company
1921-1926
18 / 7
Otto Lehman property
1916
18 / 8-8a
Tony Lerotich vs. American Smelting and Refining
Company
1914
[8a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
18 / 9
R.E. Leslie vs. Joe Miehle
1916
18 / 10
Herman Lindstrom vs. Penobscot Mining Company
1914
18 / 11
Genevieve Lippert vs. Peter Peterson
1919
18 / 12
Edward W. Little vs. Katherine Churchill
1915-1916
18 / 13
Dennis Lorden vs. Northern Pacific Railway
Company
1917-1918
18 / 14
Joe Lowe and Louis Price [Joe Lowe Company] vs.
Brazier Brothers Company
1915
18 / 15-15a
R.O. Lunke disbarment
1919
[15a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
18 / 16-16a
Leonard Lynn vs. Mrs. Gregory
1915
[16a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
18 / 17-17a
N.A. Mattice vs. Antony Munding, Charles B.
Power, and Sidney Miller, Register of State Lands
1918-1922
[17a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
18 / 18-18a
Mary Ann McMillan vs. Montana Coal and Iron
Company
1916
[18a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
18 / 19
Melzner vs. Northern Pacific Railway Company
undated
18 / 20
Elizabeth Meyer vs. Jessie Patchell
1916
18 / 21-21a
Herman Mikkila Estate vs. East Butte Copper
Mining Company
1914-1916
[21a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
18 / 22
Montana Industrial Accident Board claims
1916-1917
18 / 23
Frances Neal vs. William R. Neal
1914
18 / 24
Minnie Otten vs. Northern Pacific Railway Company
1914-1917
18 / 25
Ethel Marie Peel vs. Hennessey Company
1920
18 / 26
Simon Pepin Estate
1918
18 / 27
Elsa A. Perry vs. Sarah Jeffries et al.
1917-1922
19 / 1
Peter Peterson, Administrator of Estate of Jack
Peterson vs. Genevieve Lippert Jacobson
1917-1921
19 / 2-2a
Samuel Philbrick Estate
1920, 1931
[2a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
19 / 3
Philippi vs. Gagnon Company
1920-1923
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
19 / 4
Wellington D. Rankin vs. Helena Light and Railway
Company
1914
19 / 5-5a
Hanna Rautinainen vs. Northern Pacific Railway
Company [Walter D. Hines, U.S. Director of Railroads]
1919-1920
[5a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
19 / 6
John E. Remitz vs Yellowstone Park Hotel Company,
Yellowstone Park Company, Yellowstone National Park Transportation Company
1923-1925
19 / 7-7a
Leslie Robertson vs. M.A. Piper
1917-1919
[7a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
19 / 8
Sam Robinson vs. Evaristo LeMire
1920-1921
19 / 9
W.R. Rogers vs. New Hub Store
1913-1918
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
19 / 10
John Rothfus vs. Crow Creek Irrigation District
1923
19 / 11
John Rothfus vs. Hartford Fire Insurance Company
1920-1921
19 / 12
John Rothfus vs. Joe Stockburger
1923-1924
19 / 13
Minnie Rothfus vs. Albert Mandoli
1919-1923
19 / 14
Tony St. Peter vs. Anaconda Copper Mining Company
1927
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
19 / 15
Olive Sanders vs. Gus Rivers
1914-1915
19 / 16
H.B. Schock vs. Thomas J. Dolan
1918-1920
19 / 17
Johana Serich vs. Roy Hitchcock et al.
1916
19 / 18
Myrtle Seth vs. Robert Johnson
1925
19 / 19
O.H.P. Shelley vs. Mergenthaler Linotype Company
1924-1925
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
19 / 20
Sheridan County matter
undated
19 / 21
Joseph E. Smith Estate
1920-1923
19 / 22
Matt Smith vs. American Smelting and Refining
Company
1920-1921
19 / 23
State vs. Hattie Bulen (re Christian Science)
undated
19 / 24
State vs. D.E. Rainville (jury instructions only)
1920-1921?
19 / 25
State vs. Mrs. A.L. Scott (re Christian Science)
1914
19 / 26-27
State vs. Charles Stevens
1919-1921
20 / 1
State ex rel. E.N. Brandegee as guardian of the
person and estate of Mary Murphy vs. J.M. Clements as judge of ...District
Court...Lewis and Clark County
1916
20 / 2
State ex rel. Charles Evert Evans vs. [State
Board of Land Commissioners]
1916
20 / 3
Frank Storer vs. Butte Lumber Company
circa 1910
20 / 4-5
Celia Tapio vs. Helena Light and Railway Company
1914-1916
20 / 6
Thiel Detective Service Company vs. Park County
and Frank Arnold
1916-1919
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
20 / 7
William Turnbull vs. Charles Kessler
1920-1923
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
20 / 8
Alva J. Vinton vs. [Meagher County School
District 6]
1915-1916
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
20 / 9
J.G.G. Wilmont and Robert R. Sidebothem cases
1917-1921
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
20 / 10-10a
James W. Wing vs. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railway Company
1921
[10a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
20 / 11
O. Winterton vs. John McGinnis[?]
1916
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
20 / 12
Miscellaneous cases (mostly fragments and
unidentified)
1913-1925
20 / 13
Cases against A.G. Barnes Amusement Company,
Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows Inc. et al. (re violation of
union contract)
1939
20 / 14
A.W. Bartley vs. Great Northern Railway Company
1933
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
20 / 15
A.B Cook Estate: reports, final account, petition
for distribution
1929-1932
20 / 16-17
John Crowley et al. vs. Montana Power Company et
al. testimony (re Crowley Ditch and Madison River Dam)
1939
20 / 18
William Grills will
1935
20 / 19
Suits re Helena typhoid epidemic
1929
20 / 20
Walter C. Lehman vs. A.M. Stendal, d/b/a Stendal
Transportation Company
1951
20 / 21
Katie McConnell Estate
1941
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
20 / 22
Ed Miller vs. Wilfred Murphy
1949
20 / 23
L.F. Morgan Estate
1933
21 / 1
In the matter of declaring ... and ... neglected
children
1962-1963
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
21 / 2
Margaret G. Reid will
1941
21 / 3
Ringling Isles Inc. vs. Meagher County et al (re
Totterdale Estate)
1945
21 / 4
W.B. Rogers vs. H.R. Spooner et al. (includes
City of Havre)
1933
21 / 5-5a
Andrew Jackson Splawn Estate
1957-1962
[5a is RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
21 / 6
State vs. Albert V. Searle
1955
21 / 7
State vs. Calvin Simon, et al.
circa 1952
21 / 8
State vs. Allen Woosley
1945
21 / 9
Tax appeal cases
1939
21 / 10
Veterans Welfare Commission of the State of
Montana vs. Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans
1963
21 / 11
Miscellaneous cases (mostly fragments and
unidentified)
1931-1963
21 / 12
Case citations, etc. (mostly fragments and
unidentified)
undated
21 / 13
Notes re cases
undated
21 / 14
U.S. Attorney appeal briefs (appellants include
Mike Chetkovich, George Doran, Paul Fall, Thomas A. Grigg, May Hosiery Mills,
Charles E. Meagher, Dan T. Murphy, Murray Hospital, George Robson, Edward Ryan)
1929-1933
Financial Records
21 / 15
Financial statements: Rankin and Zimmerman
1947
21 / 16
Industrial Accident Board claims unpaid
1937-1938
21 / 17
Partnership income taxes: Rankin and Zimmerman
1937-1945
21 / 18-19
Partnership receipts and expenditures: Rankin and
Zimmerman
1937-1944
21 / 20
Receipt book: Wellington D. Rankin
1937-1940
Legal Documents
22 / 1-15
Appointment of Wellington D. Rankin as attorney:
A-R
1933-1962
23 / 1-5
Appointment of Wellington D. Rankin as attorney:
S-Z
1919? 1934-1965
23 / 6
Partnership agreement: Rankin and Zimmerman
1937
23 / 7
Miscellaneous (primarily belonging to clients)
1901-1955
Speeches
23 / 8
Portion of closing argument in unidentified case
undated
Subject Files
23 / 9
Montana Trial Lawyers Association (includes
articles of incorporation, bylaws, correspondence, legislative files)
1965
Miscellany
23 / 10
Application for admission to practice before
Interstate Commerce Commission
1944
23 / 11
Client list
1937-1940
23 / 12
Comparative negligence (House bill)
undated
23 / 13
Court lists [?] (Billings, Butte, Great Falls,
Helena, Missoula)
1927-1930
23 / 14
Jury lists (grand juries: Butte, Great Falls,
Helena)
1926-1933
23 / 15
Jury lists (trial juries: Billings, Butte, Great
Falls, Havre, Helena, Missoula)
1926-1933
23 / 16
Jury lists
1948, 1950
23 / 17
List of law books submitted to Helena Bar
Association for purchase by county library
1915
23 / 18
Rules of practice (15th and 18th Judicial
Districts)
1917, undated
Law partner Arthur P. Acher
General Correspondence
23 / 19
W.E. Kohl (re re-appointment as liquor dealer)
1940-1941
23 / 20
Miscellaneous (correspondents include Capitol
City Rescue Mission, Bill Dolena, Jeannette Rankin)
1968, undated
Miscellany
23 / 21
Notary record book
1959-1960
Law partner Charles L. Zimmerman
Miscellany
23 / 22
Naval commission application
1944
23 / 23
Separation sheets for photographs, maps, and
published materials transferred to other programs.
Wellington D. Rankin personal subgroup [60:4-6]
Wellington D. Rankin personal
Correspondence
24 / 1
Mary Rankin Bragg [sister] and Mary Jane Bragg
[niece]
1939, 1947-1948
24 / 2
Walter Caverly [cousin]
1912-1913
24 / 3
"Charlotte"
1930-1936
24 / 4
Gloria Cook
1929-1931
24 / 5
Gael Garfield
1920
24 / 6
"Georgia"
1939
24 / 7
Ruth Greenough
1916-1942
24 / 8
Ann Harrington
1937
24 / 9
"Helena"
1919, 1931-1938
24 / 10
Grace Rankin Kinney [sister]
undated
24 / 11
"Marian"
1944-1947
24 / 12
Hattie McGregor
1935-1936
24 / 13
Dorothy McKinnon [niece]
undated
24 / 14
Edna Rankin McKinnon [sister]
1919-1953
24 / 15
Marjorie McLeod
1933
24 / 16
Miriam McLeod
1934-1948
24 / 17
Olive Pickering Rankin [mother]
1935, 1946
24 / 18
Emma Ruhl
1933
24 / 19
"Sally"
1930
24 / 20
Ellis Sedman
1913-1941
24 / 21
Carolyn Stetson
1927
24 / 22
Job seekers
1912-1913
24 / 23-24
Miscellaneous (1-2) (correspondents include: A.G.
McGregor, U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, E.D. Chester, John B. Murphy,
M.E. Lutey, Mike Mansfield) [alphabetical]
1910s-1950s
Financial Records
24 / 25
Financial records
1911, 1933
Political subgroups [60:4-6]
1928 campaign
Correspondence
25 / 1
Non-Montana Weekly Republican Press Club
(correspondents include Harriet Sedman, William Ruffcorn, Warren E. Hall)
1928
25 / 2-3
MWRPC: general, filed by newspaper (1-2)
[alphabetical]
1928
25 / 4
MWRPC: "Frank Hazelbacker"
1928
25 / 5
MWRPC: "Scott Leavitt"
1928
25 / 6
MWRPC: incoming (correspondents include the
Montana State Press Association, Joseph M. Dixon, the Montana Republican State
Committee, the Western Newspaper Union, the Hammond Printing Company, W.E. Harmon,
Frank A. Hazelbaker) [alphabetical]
1928
25 / 7
MWRPC: outgoing [chronological]
1928
25 / 8
MWRPC: survey letters, filed by county or
community [alphabetical]
1928
Financial Records
25 / 9
Montana Weekly Republican Press Club
1928
Printed Material
25 / 10
Montana Weekly Republican Press Club
1928
Clippings
25 / 11
Montana Weekly Republican Press Club
1928
Miscellany
25 / 12
Montana Weekly Republican Press Club
1928
1934 campaign
Correspondence
26 / 1-2
General (1-2) (correspondents include Henry J.
Angermeier, Jean Kabrich, John E. Kennedy, Charles E. Avery, H.O. Vralsted, Walter
F. George, Charles E. Mahoney, J.W. Speer, David N. Nyquist, L.A. Foot, Howard C.
Gee, Daniel J. Burke) [alphabetical]
1934
26 / 3
Form letters
1934
26 / 4
Jeannette Rankin (outgoing)
1934
26 / 5
Hattie Sedman
1934
Financial Records
26 / 6
Miscellaneous financial
1934
1942 campaign
Correspondence
26 / 7
General A-D (correspondents include: R.A. Armour,
F.R. Alexander, F.B. Alexander, Russell White Bear, O.P. Balgord, Charles S.
Baldwin, Rose C. Bresnahaw, Byron DeForest)
1942
26 / 8
General E-K (correspondents include: Marie
Erdahl, Louis C. Flaherty, Glen W. Faulkner, Sam C. Ford, Howard C. Gee, Henry R.
Green, Mrs. A.C. Herbst, John E. Kennedy, Gladys Knowles)
1942
26 / 9
General L-T (correspondents include: Charlie
McCarthy, Earl F. McGinnis, Earnest W. McFarland, Edward Mason, Joe Montgomery,
Joseph W. Martin, James E. Murray, Gerald P. Nye, Fred Padbury, Robert A. Taft)
1942
26 / 10
General U-Z (correspondents include: V.F.W. Post
1634, Mrs. D.S. Wilker, Kenneth S. Wherry, Fred J. Ward)
1942
26 / 11
Miscellaneous
1942
Financial Records
27 / 1
Official statement of campaign expenses (Federal
Corrupt Practices Act)
1942
27 / 2
Account statements
1942
27 / 3
Receipts, miscellaneous
1942
Press Releases
27 / 4
Newspaper
1942
27 / 5
Radio
1942
Printed Material
27 / 6
Miscellaneous
1942
Speeches
27 / 7
Speeches
1942
Subject Files
27 / 8
Newspapers: correspondence (sampled)
1942
27 / 9
"Newspapers: solicitations, etc."
1942
Miscellany
27 / 10-11
Miscellany (1-2)
1942
Clippings
27 / 12
Clippings
1942
Republican National Committee
Correspondence
27 / 13
General (correspondents include: David S.
Ingalls, Robert A. Taft, Arthur E. Summerfield, Laughlin E. Waters, Douglas
Whitlock, Montana State Republican Club, Jim Annin, Thad Hutcheson)
[chronological]
1951-1958
Printed Material
27 / 14
"The Montana Republican." Republican State
Central Committee
1956
27 / 15
"Washington Newsletter." National Federation of
Women's Republican Clubs
1951-1958
27 / 16
Pamphlets: USGPO
1951-1957
28 / 1
Pamphlets: U.S. Steel Corporation
1950s
28 / 2
Pamphlets: miscellaneous
1951-1962
28 / 3
Miscellaneous printed material
1948-1957
28 / 4
List of printed materials weeded
Subject Files
28 / 5
Eisenhower administration public relations
talking points
1953-1955
28 / 6
RNC Research Division: reports, miscellaneous
1948-1952
28 / 7
RNC Research Division: election reports
1952, 1953
28 / 8
"Republican aims and purposes"
1952-1958
29 / 1
"Republican items (for national convention)"
1952 (bulk)
29 / 2
"Statements by Republicans et al"
1951-1954
29 / 3
"Senator William F. Knowland"
1955-1957
29 / 4
Republican Western Conference
1955, 1957
29 / 5
Young Republicans National Convention
1963
Miscellany
29 / 6
Committee member lists
undated
29 / 7
Miscellany
undated
Miscellaneous political
Correspondence
29 / 8
Miscellaneous correspondence (correspondents
include B.K. Wheeler, George M. Bourquin, Melvin Hoiness) [chronological]
1914-1941
Speeches
29 / 9
Miscellaneous speeches
undated
Subject Files
29 / 10
Appointment federal attorney [alphabetical]
1925-1926
29 / 11
Nonpartisan League (D.C. Dorman)
1918-1922
Miscellany
29 / 12
Political miscellany
undated
30 / 1
Political miscellany
undated
Clippings
30 / 2
Miscellaneous political
30 / 3
List of newspapers and periodicals weeded
1924-1952
Ranch subgroups [60:4-6]
Ranches
Correspondence
30 / 4
General (correspondents include: Jefferson County
Board of Commissioners, John A. Fallman, Montana Stockgrowers Association, James
T. Harrison) [alphabetical]
1925-1945
30 / 5
Billings Live Stock Commission
1936-1937
30 / 6
Newspaper advertisements for employees
1943
Employment Records
30 / 7
Employee contracts
1937-1942
30 / 8
Employee wage receipts [alphabetical]
1943-1944
Financial Records
30 / 9
Ranch purchase records (sampled)
1943-1944
30 / 10
Purchase forms: Ballard Ranch
1961-1965
30 / 11
Purchase forms: Birch Creek Ranch
1961-1967
30 / 12
Purchase forms: Camp 18, Catlin Ranch, Cazier
Ranch
1961-1967
30 / 13
Purchase forms: Hand Ranch, Hinsdale Ranch
1961
30 / 14
Purchase forms: Kolstad Ranch, K.R.M. Ranch,
Lingshire Ranch
1961-1966
30 / 15
Purchase forms: Miller Ranch
1961
30 / 16
Purchase forms: Moss Agate Ranch, Noble Ranch,
O'Conner Ranch
1961-1966
31 / 1
Purchase forms: Savage Ranch, Seventy One Ranch
1961, 1964
31 / 2
Purchase forms: Seventy One Ranch, Steven's Camp,
Sumatra Ranch, Weingart Ranch
1961, 1965-1966
31 / 3
Ranch receipt forms (sampled)
1961
31 / 4
Miscellaneous administrative
1940s-1960s
31 / 5
Cattle purchase, sale, and transport
1936-1946
Legal Documents
31 / 6
Miscellany
1930s-1940s?
Subject Files
31 / 7
Purchase of Border Collie
1935
31 / 8
Brown Brothers Lumber account (sampled)
1935-1939
31 / 9
Carl Sherrer bad check
1937
31 / 10
Jack Main liability claim
1938
31 / 11
USDA Agricultural Conservation Program
1939-1943
31 / 12
Purchase of cattle tags
1939
31 / 13
Census forms
1940
31 / 14
Cal Dixon bad check
1942
31 / 15
Truck purchase: correspondence
1942-1945
31 / 16
Truck purchase: forms
1943-1945
31 / 17
Mexican ranch labor
1944-1945
31 / 18
War rationing: gas, rubber, etc. (sampled)
1944-1945
31 / 19
Sam Stoyanoff grass exchange
1950-1951
Miscellany
31 / 20
Ranch miscellany
1938-1943
Business subgroups [60:4-6]
The Havre Daily Promoter
Correspondence
32 / 1
General (correspondents include: F.F. Brown,
O.H.P. Shelley, J. Burke Clements) [chronological]
1917-1918
32 / 2
R.G. Linebacher
1916-1926
Legal Documents
32 / 3
Contract
undated
Helena Hotel Company
Financial Documents
32 / 4
Insurance policy
1961
National Bank Building
Correspondence
32 / 4
Insurance policy
1961
Financial Records
32 / 6
Rent payment and receipts
1937-1943
Legal Documents
32 / 7
Miscellaneous
undated
Subject Files
32 / 8
T.B. Miller Insurance account
1939-1941
32 / 9
Unemployment Compensation Commission
1939-1943
32 / 10
Conversion to apartments
undated
Miscellany
32 / 11
Miscellany
1940s
Real Estate
Correspondence
32 / 12
General
1911-1913
Miscellany
32 / 13
Miscellany
undated
Weiss Café / Mint Bar
Correspondence
32 / 14
General (Gene Robertson. Correspondents include
Mike Mansfield) [alphabetical]
1945-1947
Employment Records
32 / 15
Employee pay receipts
1948
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
32 / 16
Insurance application Marian Gene Robertson
1945
[RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
Financial Records
32 / 17
Financial statements
1944-1947
32 / 18
Insurance policies
1946-1955
32 / 19
Inventories
1946-1949
32 / 20
Ledgers
1949-1951, undated
Legal Documents
32 / 21
Miscellaneous legal
undated
Subject Files
32 / 22
"Application for the Adjustment of Ceiling Prices
O.P.A."
1946
32 / 23
"First National Bank and Trust Co. Liquor in
Storage"
1945
32 / 24
"Lease: Mint Great Falls"
1945
32 / 25
"The Mint Great Falls O.P.A. Price Adjustment"
1946
32 / 26
"Treasure State Associates: liquor purchases and
sales"
1947
32 / 27
"Treasure State Associates: Montana Liquor
Control Board invoices and correspondence"
1947
Miscellany
32 / 28
Miscellany
undated
Mines
Correspondence
33 / 1
General
1911-1913
33 / 2
Stanley R. Foot and Arthur G. Prichard
1938-1941
Financial Records
33 / 3
Assays
1942
Legal Documents
33 / 4
Agreements
1939-1940
Reports
33 / 5
Reports
undated
Law practice subgroups [60:4-6]
Rankin's law practice
General Correspondence
33 / 6
American Educational Alliance [#179]
1916
33 / 7
American Surety Company
1916
33 / 8
Frank R. Arnold [#178]
1915-1925
33 / 9
A. Sulka and Company [#173]
1916-1917
33 / 10
Edith Bagan
1915-1916
33 / 11
Belden and DeKalb [#174]
1916-1917
33 / 12
Anson H. Bigelow
1915-1916
33 / 13
G.B. Christian
1913
33 / 14
Clerk of District Court, Deer Lodge
1912
33 / 15
Clerk of District Court, Missoula
1916, 1923-1925
33 / 16
Clerk of District Court, Butte
1912-1917
33 / 17
Clerk of District Court, Kalispell [#182]
1915-1917
33 / 18
Clerk of Circuit Court of Appeals, San Francisco
[#169]
1916-1925
33 / 19
Samuel H. Cone
1916
33 / 20
C-R-C Law List Company 1912
1912
33 / 21
Benjamin Dean
1914-1917
33 / 22
John M. Evans [#171]
1913-1919
33 / 23
H.A. Frank, R.F. Gaines, and Earle F. Angell
[#186]
1917-1921
33 / 24
Fred L. Gibson and Vard Smith [#39]
1918-1925
33 / 25
E.H. Goodman [#64]
1917-1923
33 / 26
Albert W. Heidel
1913-1915
33 / 27
John Herring and Otto Lehman
1916
33 / 28
Elmer E. Hershey [#59]
1914-1917
33 / 29
Dan Heyfron [#27]
1916
33 / 30
Gerald Higgins
1916
33 / 31
H.H. Holloway
1915
34 / 1
Clifford F. Holt [#18]
1916-1919
34 / 2
Honorable Mayor and City Council of Helena [#65]
1914-1915
34 / 3
Job applicants [#151]
1920-1929
34 / 4
Jones and Jones
1921-1926
34 / 5
James E. Kelley [#44]
1917-1922
34 / 6
John I.F. Langan [#170]
1916
34 / 7
Ben B. Law [#37]
1915-1926
34 / 8
Maddox and Church
1925
34 / 9
Martin and Zimmerman
1916
34 / 10
Maurice P. Murphy
1915
34 / 11
A.H. McConnell and R.E. Underwood
1913
34 / 12
Robert Midtling [#152]
1915-1918
34 / 13
The Montana Commercial and Labor League [#148]
1916
34 / 14
W.E. Moore
1915
34 / 15
Nelson and Moore
1913-1914
34 / 16
E.M. Niles [#164]
1915-1919
34 / 17
Norris, Hurd and Rhoades [#50]
1920-1925
34 / 18
Preston and Thorgrimson
1915
34 / 19
J.D. Sanders [#187]
1914-1915
34 / 20
Alex W. Stowe [#165]
1916-1917
34 / 21
M.R. Swayze
1914-1917
34 / 22
Sheriff of Broadwater County [#166]
1917-1923
34 / 23
Sheriff of Lewis and Clark County [#188]
1913-1921
34 / 24
Sheriff of Silver Bow County (Paul Driscoll and
Larry Duggan) [#149]
1913-1925
34 / 25
Sheriff of Sweet Grass County (Del E. Grey)
1915-1916
34 / 26
W.J. Tighe [#193]
1917-1918
34 / 27
Veasey and Veasey [#142]
1912-1918
34 / 28
Martin Vetleson
1915-1916
34 / 29
T.J. Walsh, William Scallon, and J.B. Wilson
[#306]
1926
34 / 30
Burton K. Wheeler (outgoing)
1918
34 / 31
Enoch W. Whitcomb [#42]
1919-1923
34 / 32-33
Miscellaneous correspondence [A-W]
1910s-1920s
Client Correspondence
[All files are RESTRICTED: contact archivist]
35 / 1
E.C. Albrecht
1913-1914
35 / 2
E.S. Anderson
1915-1921
35 / 3
Samuel B. Anderson
1918-1919
35 / 4
Nels Nelson Bergheim
1913-1915
35 / 5
Martin Beyerlein
1920-1924
35 / 6
E.R. Bobbe
1916
35 / 7
Leslie Bronson [#167]
1919-1923
35 / 8
A.W. Brown
1916
35 / 9
Mrs. Myra J. Brown [#60]
1918-1921
35 / 10
L.J. Campbell [#56]
1915-1920
35 / 11
Chaplin and Burkett
1924
35 / 12
Alden Cooley [#301]
1925
35 / 13
Harry Cotter [#153]
1916-1925
35 / 14
E.E. Esselstyn
1924
35 / 15
Mrs. D.A.C. Flowerres
1911-1912
35 / 16
J.W. Flynn
1917-1918
35 / 17
Carl E. Foss [#184]
1920
35 / 18
J.J. Furman
1919-1920
35 / 19
Mrs. M.L. Gaddis [#142]
1916-1918
35 / 20
Margaret L. Gaddis and B.H. Canon [#176]
1917-1920
35 / 21
L.P. Gaertner [#46]
1916-1918
35 / 22
Charles Gauthier
1925
35 / 23
Sam D. Goza
1916-1924
35 / 24
John Harvey [#270]
1923-1924
35 / 25
Ross Howard [#162]
1918-1921
35 / 26
Art E. Jeffers [#191]
1918-1921
35 / 27
J.H. Kirby
1912
35 / 28
Andy Lebon
1912-1913
35 / 29
Oscar Lehto
1912-1913
35 / 30
Elizabeth B. Loomis
1911-1913
35 / 31
George L. Marange [#41]
1915-1920
35 / 32
Lucy Ann Marshall
1916
35 / 33
Max McCusker [#71]
1915, 1920
35 / 34
J.B. McDonough
1916
35 / 35
Anna E. Nett
1925-1926
35 / 36
R.O. Newcomb [#63]
1918-1922
36 / 1
Charles E. Patterson [#89]
1912-1915
36 / 2
Jacob Pera
1913
36 / 3
Melvin Peterson [#72]
1917-1920
36 / 4
Howard Porter
1913-1915
36 / 5
Mrs. Sue K. Reinhard
1916
36 / 6
C.A. Sheldon [#189]
1916-1923
36 / 7
Robert Sidebotham [#58]
1920-1923
36 / 8
Mrs. Ollie Spurgeon
1914-1916
36 / 9
Mrs. E.E. Sullivan
1915
36 / 10
Frank H. Sundy
1917-1918
36 / 11
William A. Tatem
1915-1917
36 / 12
Thiel Detective Service Co.
1917
36 / 13
Rufus B. Thompson
1916-1923
36 / 14
Harry A. Wheeldon [#140]
1931
36 / 15
Harry W. Wilson
1916-1917
36 / 16-18
Miscellaneous client correspondence (1-3) [A-W]
1910s-1920s
Case Files
37 / 1
D.B. Barton vs. Ed Pietz
1913
37 / 2
Robert E. Barton vs. Minnie Alice Barton
1919
37 / 3
Emma French vs. William French
1916
37 / 4
Application of Wong Fook for admission of his son
Wong Ling Cow
1919
37 / 5
Estate of Paris Gibson
1925
37 / 6
Goodwin-Lanstrum Company vs. George A. Judson et
al
1915-1916
37 / 7
Effie Gotthardt vs. Jacob Gotthardt
1915
37 / 8
H.P. Greenough vs. Wellington D. Rankin
1915
37 / 9
Harold M. Grey by his grandson ad litem vs.
Northern Pacific Railway Company
1918
37 / 10
Sirless F. Grove vs. Carrie Kimpton for Edward A.
Kimpton
1921
37 / 11
W.F. Hamper vs. Northern Pacific Railway Company
1913
37 / 12
Mike Hanson vs. Northern Pacific Railway Company
undated
37 / 13
W.J. Hayes vs. Oscar Sparta and W.D. Rankin
1914
37 / 14
Huber, Jasmin, Rouse Company vs. Ralph H. Burgess
1920
37 / 15
Gjertine Johnson et al vs. U.S. Gypsum Company
1913
37 / 16
Leddy vs. People 147 Pac. 365
undated
37 / 17
Lewis and Clark County vs. Nettie C. Jensen
Johnson and John P. Johnson
1915-1918
37 / 18
John Poplacenel vs. Great Northern Railway
Company
1923
37 / 19
James Roberts and Mrs. J.A. Roberts vs. Russell
Hughes
1916
38 / 1
George C. Sackett vs. Grace M. Sackett
1925
38 / 2
J.A. Shearwood vs. Helena Light and Railway
Company
1917
38 / 3
Earl W. Shook vs. John B. Payne
1922
38 / 4
Application of Robert R. Sidebotham and J.G.G.
Wilmot for a pardon
1917
38 / 5
Anton Smith vs. American Smelting and Refining
Company
1920-1921
38 / 6
C.W. Smith vs. T.N. Averill and Townsend
Publishing Company
1916
38 / 7
State vs. Henry Brueckert
1915
38 / 8
State vs. J.R. Hopkins
1917
38 / 9
State vs. John Kokoruda and Andrew Kokoruda
1915
38 / 10
State vs. D.E. Rainville
1920
38 / 11
William Swayze vs. Henningsen Land Company
1914
38 / 12
Estate of Benjamin H. Tatem
1924
38 / 13
Adele V. Teague vs. E.J. Majors et al
1917
39 / 1
Thiel Detective Service Co. vs. Frank Arnold
1917
39 / 2
U.S.A. vs. A.M. Alderson et al
1917
39 / 3
U.S.A. vs. one Dodge Automobile and Ben Cramer
1917
39 / 4
Orin Walker vs. Albert S. Robertson
1920
39 / 5
Pat Welch vs. B. Cronin
1915
39 / 6
Louise Wilkinson vs. Helena Light and Railway
Company
1923
39 / 7
Agnes F. Wing vs. James C. Davis
1922
39 / 8
Elizabeth Wirth vs. H.E. Yambert
1921
39 / 9
Miscellaneous case files
1910s-1920s
39 / 10
"Evan Batten vs. Northern Pacific Railway" and
"Winnifred Moon vs. Northern Pacific Railway"
undated
[RESTRICTED for conservation]
Financial Records
40 / 1
A.P. Curtin Books and Stationary Company [#177]
1916-1919
40 / 2
Ledgers Butte office [#180]
1915-1923
40 / 3
Strauss and Company Inc.
1923-1926
Printed Material
40 / 4
"Brief Amicus Curiae: Louis H. Kommers and L.E.
Timerman vs. Guy Palagi"
1940
Subject Files
40 / 5
Frank Beber compensation claim
1916
40 / 6
Leslie Bronson case [#167]
1919-1923
40 / 7
Davis-Daly Copper Company (E.E. Esselstyn case)
1924
40 / 8
D.A.C. Flowerree case
1911-1912
40 / 9
Margaret L. Gaddis case [#176]
1917
40 / 10
Sam D. Goza case
1915-1916, 1925
40 / 11
Elizabeth B. Loomis case
1911-1913
40 / 12
Compulsory liability law
1941
40 / 13
Honorable Albert Anderson - Memorial
1949
Miscellany
40 / 14
Appointment book
1954?-1964
40 / 15
Notes, etc
undated