Olson, Leah Gillies, 1907-1994

Leah Hazel Gillies was born on February 18, 1907 in Twin Bridges, Montana. She was the daughter of Dougald G. Gillies, a livery stable owner in Twin Bridges. Leah attended the local schools in Twin Bridges and graduated from the Montana State Normal College at Dillon in 1927. She began her teaching career in Melville, Montana and married Walter Ora Olson on January 1, 1927. The couple made their home on a ranch near Melville and had two children, Karen Lee and Walter Laurence Olson. Leah eventually moved to Gallatin County where she was living at the time she loaned the material reproduced in this collection, and she died in 1994.

From the guide to the Leah Gillies Olson Family Papers, 1905-1952, (Montana State University-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections)