Wilbur F. Sanders Papers 1883-1907

Clark, William Andrews, 1839-1925

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Sanders family

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Potts, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1836-1887

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Ohio senator (Republican); later, territorial governor of Montana (1870-1883). From the description of Letter, 1870. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32520303 ...

Edgerton, Sidney, 1818-1900

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Sidney Edgerton (1818-1900) was an abolitionist and a Republican who served as a U.S. Congressional Representative for the Akron area from 1859 to 1863. He later was chief justice for Idaho (1863-1864) and the first territorial governor in Montana (1865-1866). He then returned to Akron at age forty-seven where he stayed, practicing law for the remainder of his life. Along with his political duties, Edgerton also was husband and father. His wife, Mary Wright Edgerton (1827-1883), came from Tallma...

Fergus, James, 1813-1902

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Miner, rancher, and politician, of Montana. From the description of Papers, 1834-1867. (University of Montana, Mansfield Library). WorldCat record id: 70959141 James Fergus was born October 8, 1813, in Lanarkshire, Scotland. At the age of nineteen he emigrated to Quebec and, three years later, to the United States. He lived in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota where he built and managed saw mills, powder mills, a foundry, and a paper mill, and invested in property. Ja...

Sanders, Louis P., 1870-1940

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Sanders, Harriet Peck Fenn-Marriage

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Saunders family

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Sanders, Wilbur Fisk, 1834-1905

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Wilbur Fisk Sanders was born in Leon, New York on May 2, 1834. He began his career as a school teacher in New York and Ohio where, in 1856, he completed his training as an attorney. Sanders served as a first lieutenant in the Sixty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the early years of the Civil War and, in 1863, joined the rush to the gold fields of Bannack and Virginia City in what would later become Montana Territory. He was active during the vigilante activity of 1864, and afterwards pract...

Willson, Davis, 1841-1915

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Davis Willson (1841-1915) was a Presbyterian minister, newspaperman, merchant, land office agent, and early Montana pioneer. He came to the territory in 1866 from Canton, New York and became one of the first residents of the town of Bozeman. He wrote a series of articles for the Montana Post at Virginia City during the 1860s and 1870s describing Indian and mining activities in the area. After serving as register of the U.S. Land office at Bozeman he prepared for the ministry and was ordained in ...

Sanders, Wilbur Fisk, 1834-1905

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Wilbur Fisk Sanders was born in Leon, New York on May 2, 1834. He began his career as a school teacher in New York and Ohio where, in 1856, he completed his training as an attorney. Sanders served as a first lieutenant in the Sixty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the early years of the Civil War and, in 1863, joined the rush to the gold fields of Bannack and Virginia City in what would later become Montana Territory. He was active during the vigilante activity of 1864, and afterwards pract...