Mary Hunter Doane Collection 1881-1950

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Mary Hunter Doane Collection 1881-1950

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The Mary Hunter Doane Collection consists of speeches, reminiscences, and an oral history interview collected by Burlingame. The papers include: a 1931 address delivered to the Society of Montana Pioneers relating her childhood journey to Montana Territory and early residence in Virginia City and Helena; an undated reminiscence of her experiences and incidents of early frontier Army life; a transcription of an undated paper she prepared for the Mount Hyalite Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution on the history of Montana forts; a transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Merrill Burlingame in 1950 regarding St. Vincent's Academy; a portrait of Mary taken while she was living with her husband at the Presidio, San Francisco, ca. 1880s; a dance card for a social held at Fort Assiniboine, Montana Territory, on November 23, 1881. Two manuscript speeches by Doane were added on August 15, 2005.

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MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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St. Vincent's Academy (Helena, Mont.)

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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...

Daughters of the American Revolution. Mount Hyalite Chapter (Bozeman, Mont.)

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Burlingame, Merrill G. (Merrill Gildea), 1901-1994

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Merrill G. Burlingame (1901-1994) was a history professor at Montana State University. In 1956 the law firm of Wilkinson, Cragun, Barker and Hawkins retained his services as a historical researcher for their litigation against the United States government on behalf of Montana's Blackfeet tribe. Burlingame assisted the firm by gathering pertinent materials from his research. By the summer of 1975, the firm was known as Wilkinson, Cragun and Barker and they asked Burlingame, in his capacity as the...

Doane, Mary Hunter, 1859-1952

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Mary Lee Hunter Doane was born in Missouri in 1859, the oldest of six children born to Dr. Andrew Jackson Hunter and his second wife, Susan. In 1864, Hunter brought his family to Montana Territory where they lived briefly in Virginia City, Helena, and Bozeman. In 1870, Hunter staked a claim to land encompassing a hot spring near the Yellowstone River in present day Park County and there developed a health spa. Mary grew up in Bozeman and at Hunter's Hot Springs before she attended St. Vincent's ...

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Doane, Gustavus Cheyney, 1840-1892

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First Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane was a career officer and explorer with the Second U.S. Cavalry Regiment. He was stationed periodically in Montana Territory from 1868 to 1885. From the description of Gustavus C. Doane papers, 1881-1882. (Montana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 75970148 Gustavus Cheyney Doane was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on May 20, 1840, and grew up in California. He graduated from the University of the Pacific at Santa Clara in 1861, a...