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        <titleproper encodinganalog="title">Guide to the Kelly Investment Company Records 1915-2004<date calendar="gregorian" era="ce" normal="1915/2004" type="inclusive"/></titleproper>
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        <author encodinganalog="creator">Kim Allen Scott, 2007. Updated by Heather Mulliner, 2022.</author>
        <sponsor encodinganalog="contributor">Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities</sponsor>
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        <publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Montana State University Library, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscript Collections</publisher>
        <date encodinganalog="date" calendar="gregorian" era="ce" normal="2022">2022</date>
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          <addressline>P.O. Box 173320, Centennial Mall</addressline>
          <addressline>Montana State University</addressline>
          <addressline>Bozeman, MT 59717</addressline>
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      <abstract encodinganalog="5203_">The Kelly Investment Company Records include the corporation book, minutes of regular and special meetings, assorted correspondence, a book of stock certificates, 4 ledgers and/or financial records books.</abstract>
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      <p>This collection is open for research.</p>
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      <p>The Kelly Investment Company Records were donated by President Mary Boyd Hybner of Rudyard, Montana on February 3rd, 2005.</p>
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      <p>The Kelly Investment Company was incorporated by handwritten articles of incorporation on February 13, 1915 in Conrad, Montana and certified by the State of Montana on February 22, 1915. The original stockholders were A.B. Kelly, A.M. Kelly (later Alice K. Conrad), Arthur J. Kelly, and Patrick Kelly. The purposes of the corporation were to deal in Real Properties; water rights and privileges; agricultural products; and act as an agent for the real property of estates, persons, or corporations, and manage such properties as appropriate including leasing, improving, insuring, and mortgaging the various investments. The capital stock was $100,000 with 100 shares of stock offered at $100 a share. Other stockholders included Robert J. Kelly, Mary McGurk, Mary C. Boyd, W. G. Conrad, and other Kelly family members over the years.</p>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Journal of Robert J. Kelly for Kelly Investment Company</unittitle>
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