Francis L. Niven Papers 1901-1982

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Francis L. Niven Papers 1901-1982

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The Francis L. Niven Papers consists of business records and family papers. The business records include: North Side Market records of financial accounts of the store and feed lot as well as slaughter records; correspondence with the United States Office of Price Administration/Stabilization and Montana's Congressional delegation; copies of North Side Market newspaper advertisements; records and correspondence concerning a shipment of live cattle and sheep to Turkey in 1958. The family papers include those of Scheytt and Niven families, particularly household lists and financial accounts, including some from the Sheytt Brother's store in Maudlow; Francis Niven's official report on homesteads in Musselshell County for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in 1935 and his history of the North Side Market; photographs of Francis Niven's championship sheep, livestock intended for shipment to Turkey, and snapshots taken by Ethel Scheytt Niven of unidentified friends in the Maudlow, Montana area in the 1920s.

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MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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North Side Market (Bozeman, Mont.)

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Niven, Ethel Scheytt, 1903-1986

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United States-Congress-Montana delegation

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United States-Federal Emergency Relief Administration

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Scheytt family

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Niven, Francis L., 1909-

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Francis L. Niven was born and raised in the Gallatin Valley. After attending grade school near Manhattan he graduated from Gallatin County High School in Bozeman in 1928. In 1929 his father, William W. Niven, opened a butcher shop in Bozeman, the North Side Market. Francis worked at the family business throughout the following years, eventually buying out his father's interest in December 1944. Niven married Ethel Scheytt, a former resident of Maudlow, Montana and the couple continu...

United States-Office of Price Administration

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