The Montana Horse Breeders Association (MHBA) was founded on September 30, 1908: "to promote the legitimate interest of the breeders by encouraging the breeding of the highest type of all classes of horses and the development of the same. To help to secure such legislation as will foster, protect, and encourage the horse breeding industry and suppress and prevent all frauds and vices pertaining thereto, and to disseminate information that will be valuable to stallion and mare owners." Affiliated with the Montana Stallion Registration Board (MSRB), created in 1909, the MHBA met several times prior to becoming inactive in 1917. The MSRB was abolished in 1943, and its duties transferred to the Livestock Sanitary Board. According to the Montana Secretary of State business registry, two other entities calling themselves by the same name as the MHBA were founded in later years; neither of these later organizations appear to have been the successors of the first named group.
The Montana Horse Breeders Association (MHBA) records consist of a minute book with sporadic entries dating from 1908-1917, a typed copy of the founding MHBA constitution, and a 1927 Montana State Examiner's report on the cash and accounts of the Montana Stallion Registration Board. Founding members of the MHBA included R. W. Clark, Dr. H. C. Gardiner, Dr. W. D. Galbraith, and William Matthewson. A list of members is also included in a later section of the minute book. Prominent members included Dr. M. E. Knowles, Montana State Veterinarian.
This collection is open for research.
Records of the Montana Horse Breeders Association were transferred from the College of Agriculture to University Archives in 1959. They were transferred from the Montana State University Archives to Special Collections in 1970.
This collection was processed 2016 September 22
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