Lou Stocking Stewart Papers 1871-1941

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Lou Stocking Stewart Papers 1871-1941

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The Lou Stocking Stewart Papers consist of diaries, scrapbooks, correspondence, printed materials, photographs and memorabilia. Materials in this collection were created or collected by Lucy Bigelow Stocking and Lou Stocking Stewart. Subjects include: travels, Fort Benton, daily life, women's clubs, ranching, the "Whoop-up Trail", and Montana history. Photographs are primarily images of the Stocking and Stewart families and friends, Fort Benton (town and ruins), Belt and Great Falls, Montana. The memorabilia includes conventions name tag ribbons Lou Stocking Stewart collected by attending the annual meetings of the Montana Pioneers Society and the GAR Women's Relief Corps.

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MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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Society of Montana Pioneers

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The Society of Montana Pioneers was founded in Helena on September 11, 1884. James Fergus was elected the first president; George Irvine II, recording secretary; and Samuel T. Hauser, treasurer. Thirteen vice presidents represented the state's counties. Membership was open to "all persons who were residents within the Territory, on or before May 26, 1864." In 1901, the date of the residency requirement was changed to December 31, 1868. Dues were set at two dollars a year, "but no pe...

Stocking, Lucy Bigelow

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Montana Federation of Women's Clubs

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Stewart, Albert H.

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Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.)

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National organization formed in 1883 at the Denver Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, as an auxiliary to that organization and to continue to "care for the Veteran and his dependent ones and to perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead". As the number of Corps grew, each state elected its own governing body, subordinate to the national governing body. In addition to helping veterans, these women worked to get pension help for the nurses who served in the Civil War, founded a home for...

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Stanford, Harry P., 1867-1944

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Stuart family

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Stewart family

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Stewart, Lou Stocking, 1862-1942

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Lou Stocking was born 3 Apr. 1862 in Denver, Colo., to Margaret Henry and John J. Uhle. After John Uhle died, Margaret married Winfield Scott Stocking on 16 Jan. 1864 in Boise City, Idaho Territory. Stocking, born in Michigan on 15 Mar. 1837, had gone to California in 1859 and prospected in Oregon prior to locating at Boise. After their marriage Winfield and Margaret, along with Lou, moved to Fort Benton in July 1865 where Winfield established a meat market and located a ranch on Teton Creek. Du...