Emily Robinson Meredith was born in Maryland in 1836. She married Fredrick A. Meredith and moved with him to Bannack, Montana Territory, in 1863. The couple later settled in Bozeman where they had two children, Ellis, born in 1865, and Evan, born in 1866. Emily later became a suffragette, as did her daughter Ellis who pursued a career as a journalist in Denver, Colorado.
The collection consists of a typed transcript of a letter from Emily (April 30, 1863)
to her father describing living conditions in Bannack and two photographs taken in
Bozeman in 1868 of Ellis and Evan Meredith. The original letter from Meredith is
held by the Montana Historical Society in Helena and is part of their Small
Collection 288,
This collection is open for research.
A typed transcription of an original letter by Emily Meredith and two carte-de-visite portraits of her children were donated to Montana State University by Ellis Meredith of Washington, D.C. in August, 1920.
This collection was processed 2016 December 29