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UPMC
46A (85:1-5); UPMC 46B (85:2-1)
Ford, Lee M.
Lee M. Ford papers
1878-1977
13 linear feet of shelf
space
Lee M. Ford was a businessman in Great
Falls, Montana. His papers consist primarily of subject files (1878-1977) of
his personal papers, and those of the Ford family, as well as records of the
Ford Brothers Corporation. The files are primarily composed of general
correspondence including letters concerning the sale of Charles M. Russell
paintings. Also included in the collection are financial records (1914-1957),
organizational records (1914-1924), and miscellany. (UPMC 46A 85:1-5; UPMC 46B
85:2-1)
UPMC 46A (85:1-5); UPMC 46B (85:2-1)
English
by series
Collection is open for research.
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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
Preliminary sorting
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.
Russell,
Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926.
Businessmen--Montana--Great Falls.
Great Falls
(Mont.)--Commerce.
Montana
Detailed Description of the Collection
Subject Files
/
[NOTE: for additional personal
correspondence of Lee and Shirley Ford see Miscellany folder 12]
1 / 1
Aircade (re Helena air show)
1964
1 / 2
Allen, Martha
1941-1965
1 / 3
Allen, Mrs. Samuel
1924-1926
1 / 4
Altman, B. (re lamp and dress)
1959
1 / 5
American Museum of Natural
History (New York)
1929-1960
1 / 6
American Pioneer Trails
Association
1945-1965
1 / 7
American Taxpayer League
1932-1934
1 / 8
Antelope
1932-1952
1 / 9
Arabian Horses
1961-1965
1 / 10
Aronson, Hugo, Governor
1956-1963
1 / 11
Arrow Peak Farm
1915-1921
1 / 12-13
Arrowheads
1929-1954
1 / 14
Artifacts, etc.
1949-1961
1 / 15
Ashby, Norma and Shirley
(Christmas letter)
1964
1 / 16
Ashby, Jack
1965
1 / 17
Augusta News (Mrs. "Lige" Louise
M. Hicks)
1942-1975
1 / 18
Babcock, Tim, Governor
1962-1963
1 / 19
Battin, James
1963-1964
1 / 20
Battin, Babcock, Blewett
(campaigns)
1964
1 / 21
Battin for Congress
1964
1 / 22
Beatty, Guy
1946-1958
1 / 23
Bell, W.A. (re Ledgerwood land)
1924-1934
1 / 24
Bets (re gambling)
1928-1949
1 / 25
Birch, Fred
1946-1960
1 / 26
Birds
1949-1960
1 / 27
Blankenbaker
1940-1942
1 / 28
Blood clot
1955
1 / 29
Bohemian Grove [re Bohemian
club]
1952-1959
1 / 30
Bonner, John W., Governor
1949-1950
1 / 31
B ? (re a Highway Commission
controversy)
1950
1 / 32
Books
1938-1969
1 / 33
Brown, Barnum
1929-1960
1 / 34
Brown-Eyed Queen Mining Company
1896, 1927-1959
1 / 35
Browning Hall of Fame
1932-1963
1 / 36
Buck, Ballie (Belknap, Mont.)
1932-1942
1 / 37
Burks, F.M.
1926-1964
1 / 38
Buttrey Broadcast, Inc
1945-1950
1 / 39
Campaigns (include
correspondence re Nixon-Lodge, and Nutter campaigns)
1949-1964
1 / 40
Campbell, Alexander
1947
1 / 41
Cartoons
undated
1 / 42
Casals, Pablo (cellist)
1959
1 / 43
Cascade, First State Bank of (re
stock)
1931
1 / 44
Cats
1960-1961
1 / 45
Cemetery (L.M.F. notations)
undated
1 / 46
Centennial
1964
1 / 47
Certificates, memberships
1915-1964
1 / 48
Chicago
1940-1963
1 / 49
Chief Joseph
1972-1977
1 / 50-54
Christmas (buffalo, Christmas
parties, greetings, turkeys)
1937-1945
2 / 1-2
Clippings
1896-1925 1937-1965
2 / 3
Committees, etc., on which
L.M.F. served
1924-1961
2 / 4
Conrad, Fritz (Frederick)
1944-1964
2 / 5
Coolidge, E.M.
1940-1953
2 / 6
Corey, Clark and Clara(?)
1953
2 / 7
Corkscrew, misc. (staff
newsletter from Great Falls airfield??)
1940-1942
2 / 8
Couch, Ned, E.G.
1909-1958
2 / 9
Couch, Tom
1927-1963
2 / 10
Crosby, John
1957-1961
2 / 11
Crutcher (Wm. H. Crutcher -
Industries)
1910-1951
2 / 12
Currency (misprinted)
1929
2 / 13
Cycads (cycadeoid plant)
1934-1952
2 / 14
Dempsey (re Jack Dempsey-Tommy
Gibbons fight)
1923
2 / 15-16
Doctors
1930-1964
2 / 17
Dogs
1942-1962
2 / 18
Dundas, D.J.
1946-1948
2 / 19
Earthquake '06
1964
2 / 20
Eglin Air Force Base, (Florida):
Firepower show
1957
2 / 21
Faegre, Mrs. Robert (Shirley)
1940-1964
2 / 22
Fifty year anniversary (Montana
Bankers Association Club)
1956-1963
2 / 23
Fitzpatrick mining claim (sold
to Hasterlick)
1887-1958
2 / 24
Fletcher, Robert H.
1937-1960
2 / 25
Floweree Groves (includes letter
with biographical information re Dan Floweree)
1924-1959
2 / 26
Ford Brothers: "taxes"
1913,1927, 1952
2 / 27
Ford Brothers: "West side lots"
1943-1953
2 / 28
Ford Brothers: "Ford building
given to bank"
1923-1924
2 / 29-31
Ford Brothers: "Ford
Corporation"
1932-1952
2 / 32
Ford Brothers: "Woehner
Guarantee, 1939"
1933-1939
2 / 33
Ford Brothers: "Donovan vs.
Great Falls Bank et al"
1936-1937
2 / 34
"Ford Brothers"
1943,1955
2 / 35-38
Ford Brothers: "Ford
Building..."
1914-1946
2 / 39-40
Ford Brothers: "Taxes"
1943-1951
2 / 41
Ford Brothers: "Ford Corporation
Financial Report"
1949
2 / 42
Ford Brothers: "Ford Corporation
1937 and 1938"
1935-1939
3 / 1-2
Ford Brothers: "Ford
Corporation" (includes taxes for 1943-1953)
1935-1959
3 / 3
Ford Brothers: "Misc."
1955-1958
3 / 4-5
Ford Brothers: "Ford
Corporation"
1941-1942
3 / 6
Ford Brothers: "Chisholm loan"
1935
3 / 7-9
Ford Brothers: "Ford
Corporation"
1930-1932
3 / 10
Ford Brothers: "(Contract for
deed, abstracts of title, Ford Brothers audit reports)
1913-1937
3 / 11
Ford Brothers: (Misc.)
1924, 1942
3 / 12
Ford Brothers: "Ford
Corporation"
1942
3 / 13
Ford Family: "Tribune" (75th
Anniversary Edition) - Article by L.M.F.
1959-1961
3 / 14
Ford Family: "Articles by
L.M.F."
1952-1955
3 / 15
Ford Family: "Editorials by
L.M.F."
1953-1957
3 / 16
Ford Family: "L.M.F." (inc.
obituary clippings)
1965
3 / 17
Ford Family: "Will of L.M.F."
1930-1971
3 / 18
Ford Family: "Mrs. Lee M. Ford"
1932-1963
3 / 19
Ford Family: "Mrs. R.S. Ford
Embolism (includes Ford family burial site list, Sun River Cemetery)
1892,1941
3 / 20
Ford Family: "Mrs. S.S. Ford
(Bessie)"
1945
3 / 21
Ford Family: Mrs. S.S. Ford
("Mar. 5, 1954 Newhart letter re assg. to Shirley Faegre")
1943-1964
3 / 22
Ford Family: (Misc.)
1928,1941
3 / 23
Ford Family: "Ford, S.S."
1941
3 / 24
Ford Family: "Data of visit to
Comptroller of Currency"
1922-1927
3 / 25
Ford Family: "Ford, S.S., Teton
Land Sale"
1944
3 / 26
Ford Family: "Ford, S.S., Teton
Land Co., Wergeland"
1943
3 / 27-30
Ford Family: "Ford, S.S."
(includes memorial, clippings, correspondence of Mrs. Ford)
1906-1964
3 / 31
Ford Family: "Saddles sale of
Highwood land, marriage of Rodgers boy - Aunt Gertrude's ward"
1941-1942
4 / 1
Ford Family: "Lee Ford
Historical - Ford Corporation"
1956-1957
4 / 2
Ford Family: "Robert Ford"
1888-1901
4 / 3
Ford Family: "Misc. letters L.M.
Ford"
1925-1958
4 / 4
Ford Family: "Lee M. Ford Misc."
1923-1958
4 / 5
Ford Family: (Misc.)
1927,1958
4 / 6
Ford Family: "Democratic State
Central Committee"
1924
4 / 7-11
Ford Family: "Ford, S.S. (Mrs.)"
1946-1950
4 / 12
Ford Family: "S.S. Ford
(Personal), Mollie's birth, Mrs. Phineas Henry's death, Barney Bolch hired at
Teton Ranch"
1944
4 / 13
Ford Family: "Ford S.S."
1938
4 / 14
Ford Family: "Ford S.S." (S.S.
Ford's last letters)
1945
4 / 15
Ford Family: (Misc.)
1950-1951
4 / 16
Fox, Chas. J.
1949-1958
4 / 17
Gad, A.A.
1960-1961
4 / 18
Gordon, Bob
1962-1964
4 / 19
Gough, Newell
1960-1969
4 / 20
Great Falls Realty (bank
statements and check stubs)
1931-1959
4 / 21
Great Northern R.R. Co. &
C.M. St. P & P.R. Co. agreements
1938-1952
4 / 22
Gun, double barrel
1956
4 / 23
Heisey (Heisey Company,
Wholesale Grocers)
1927-1935
4 / 24
Horses, LMF, personal
1935-1950
4 / 25
Indians
1929-1964
4 / 26
IXL Consolidated Mining Company
1864-1895
4 / 27
Kerman, George
1951-1965
4 / 28
Kumpf, Jack F.
1946-1953
4 / 29
Livestock Pavilion (includes old
Montana bank letterheads)
1920, undated
4 / 30
Livestock Pavilion, Montana
1929-1926
4 / 31
Long Investment Co.
1939
4 / 32
Lowry, Goodrich
1955-1964
4 / 33
M (re mining claims, medicine
bundles and wheels buffalo traps, fossils and stone artifacts)
1925-1955
4 / 34
Manning Gold Scales (includes
correspondence with W.M. and Gertrude Manning re Indian artifacts and antique
china)
1932-1947
4 / 35
McClanahan (correspondence to
Sue McClanahan from Selia Page and Loudie Phillips)
1878
4 / 36
McLellan, Pauline
1955-1962
4 / 37
Meadow Lark Country Club. (Orig.
Receipt of Lee M. Ford)
1919
4 / 38
Meadow Lark Country Club
1947-1962
4 / 39
Meadow Lark Country Club
(beginning)
1925-1959
5 / 1
Memberships
1919-1923
5 / 2
Montana Livestock Loan Co.
1934-1936
5 / 3
Montana Magazine
1959
5 / 4
Montana Society of Natural
History
1936-1941
5 / 5
Newcomen (The Newcomen Society
of England)
1942-1953
5 / 6
Nixon, Richard
1960-1961
5 / 7
Nutter, Donald, Governor
1961-1962
5 / 8
N.W. Banco (re Bancorporation
and an affidavit re A.R. Pardue)
1929,1956
5 / 9
North Bench Land Company and
Highwood Bank
1927-1938
5 / 10
O'Day, R.S. "Dick" and Gertrude
O'Day
1960-1964
5 / 11
Park Commissioner (Great Falls)
1921-1931
5 / 12
Party invitations
1938-1955
5 / 13
Personal oil leases
1924-1929
5 / 14-18
Pigeons
1924-1964
5 / 19
Poetry
undated
5 / 20
Poetry: permission to use
1962-1963
5 / 21
Remodeling (Letters of
congratulations on bank)
1948
5 / 22-24
Retirement (L.M.F.)
1945-1963
5 / 25-26
Rifles
1942-1959
5 / 27
Ringland, Mrs. Joe F. "Rebecca"
1939-1963
5 / 28
Rogers Memorial Fund (Will)
1931-1936
5 / 29
Royce, Ralph (Letters)
1944-1963
6 / 1
Russell, C.M.: Estate of
1927
6 / 2
Russell, C.M.: Letters of
undated
6 / 3-6
Russell, C.M.: Miscellaneous
1929-1962
6 / 7
Russell, C.M.: for J.F. Ringland
1955-1957
6 / 8-9
Russell, C.M.: Jerk Line (sale
of Russell Painting)
1934-1962
6 / 10
Russell, C.M.: Trigg-Russell
Memorial newspaper clippings
1950-1963
6 / 11
Russell, C.M.: Trigg-Russell
Gallery, C.M. Russell Paintings
1957-1960
6 / 12
Russell, C.M.: Trigg-Russell
Memorial Foundation
1951-1955
6 / 13
St. Paul School Alumni
1930-1955
6 / 14
Salad dressing, G.N. Ry., Chef
1947
6 / 15
Samuel, A.J.
1886-1904
6 / 16
Sheep
1907-1934
6 / 17
Sheep's Head
1915-1965
6 / 18
Simpson, John, Capt. (includes
biographical sketch of John C. Ford)
1914-1962
6 / 19
Slogan: "There is no substitute
for experience"
1947-1951
7 / 1
State highway (includes
correspondence and records of Ford as Highway Commissioner)
1947-1950
7 / 2
Stocks, Northwest
Bancorporation, etc.
1931-1955
7 / 3
Stocks: L.M.F. (personal)
1930-1963
7 / 4
Sun River Cemetery (maps-plans,
includes check stubs of Great Falls Natl. Realty)
1918,1948- 1949
7 / 5-6
Sun River Cemetery Association
1944-1966
7 / 7-9
Sun River Cemetery
1950-1959
7 / 10
Sun River Sun
1959, UNDATED
7 / 11
Thomas, Myles (Opinions from H/W
attorney re Montana Highway Patrol)
1949-1950
7 / 12
Tusler, Montana - Prehistoric
deposits
1945
7 / 13
"Uncle" letter
1942
7 / 14
[University of Utah?]
1968
7 / 15-16
W [Wallace, William?]
1924-1930
7 / 17
Wallace, William. Sr., Cle Elum
1929
7 / 18-20
Wallace Investment Company
1924-1930
7 / 21
Western Drilling Company
1929-1930
7 / 22
[Western Petroleum Exploration,
personal oil lease?]
1923
Organizational Records
8 / 1
Choteau Petroleum & Gas:
Corporation record
1920-1923
8 / Vol. 1
Ford Brothers: Corporation
record
1914-1924
Financial Records
8 / 2-3
Ford Brothers: Ledgers
1915-1923
8 / Vol. 2
Ford Brothers: Real estate book
1915?
8 / 4
Ford Building: Trial balance
(includes balance sheets and operating statements)
1919-1925
8 / 5
Ford Corporation: Checkbook
stubs
1943-1957
8 / 6
Great Falls National Realty
Company: Bank statements and checks
1926-1949
9 / 1
Great Falls National Realty
Company: Stock certificate book
1918-1937
9 / 2
Great Falls National Realty
Company: Tax returns
1918-1940
9 / 3
Unidentified ledger
1914-1915
9 / 4
"Stagecoach Mary", original
story and screenplay (re Mary Fields)
undated
Miscellany
9 / 5
(Misc. including legal papers
for Brown-Eyed Queen Mining Company)
1910-1959
9 / 6
(Abstracts of title)
1897-1930
9 / 7
(Photocopy of Affidavit re post
mortem of Jesse James)
undated
9 / 8
Soo Line Railroad: Safety rules
1951
9 / 9
Montana Stockgrowers
Association: (Typescript of minutes of organizing meeting in 1880; biographical
reminiscence re early "Social Activities", and other historical writings)
undated
9 / 10
Miscellaneous
undated
9 / 11
Misc. data re Ford Corporation,
Great Falls National Realty Company, and Great Falls National Bank
undated
9 / 12
"Personal Letters" (General
correspondence of Lee Ford including letters with Shirley Ford)
1929-1949
9 / 13
Misc. certificates and legal
documents, most are re Erich Intze of Great Falls. All documents are in German.
1899-1912