Richard B. Roeder Papers 1949-1995

Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.)

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The Montana State Rodeo team was founded as a student club by four men intending to put on a contest for fellow MSC students in 1947. Eugene Pederson, Stuart Hauptmann, Bob Chambers, and Ralph Nichols took their ideas to the college agriculture (or "Little International) club and got $100 in sponsorship money. Those funds went towards repairing the Fairgrounds plumbing to make it usable for the public. Donations from stock contractor Rich Richter and dude rancher Buck Chenny gave the group enoug...

Coates, Grace Stone, 1881-1926.

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Montana-Legislative Assembly-Legislative Council

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Roeder, Richard B.

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Richard B. Roeder was born in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania on August 23, 1930, the sixth child of Herman and Mary Roeder. Roeder attended local schools and one year of post-graduate study at Admiral Farragut Academy in New Jersey. He attended Swarthmore College as an undergraduate student, and graduated in 1953. Graduate study was at the University of Pennsylvania, were he received his Masters in History in 1957 and his doctorate in 1971. Roeder worked for the University of Montana School of P...

Montana. Office of the Lieutenant Governor

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Montana. Constitutional Convention Commission

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The 40th Montana Legislative Assembly (1967) created the Legislative Council Subcommittee on the Montana Constitution to study the state's constitution, ratified in 1889, to determine if it adequately served the needs of the people, and to examine the alternative methods of change by either extensive amendments or a complete revision by constitutional convention. The group concluded that more than half of the sections in the constitution should be revised, and recommended continuati...

Haskell, Ella Louise Knowles, 1860-1911.

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Stuart, Granville, 1834-1918

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Granville Stuart was born August 27, 1834, in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia, to Robert Stuart and Nancy Currence Hall. He was the second of five children. Stuart left Iowa in 1852 with his brother James to seek a fortune in the gold fields of California. They traveled with their father, Robert Stuart, from the American Valley (Quincy) to Bidwell Bar, then on through Morris Ravine near Cherokee, finally arriving at Sam Neal's ranch near present-day Durham. He and his brother moved up the ...

Montana. Constitutional Convention (1884)

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The Territory of Montana was created by the U.S. Congress on May 26, 1864. In 1866 a constitution was written by Montana residents, but it was never submitted to Congress. Then, in 1883, the Thirteenth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana authorized an election in November 1883 to select delegates to attend a constitutional convention in Helena the following January. Delegates were elected from existing counties and judicial districts. William A. Clark was elected president of the co...

Carroll College (Helena, Mont.)-Faculty

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University of Pennsylvania-Students

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Carter, Thomas Henry, 1854-1911

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Thomas Henry Carter was born in Ohio in 1854, the son of Edward C. and Margaret Carter. After his admission to the bar, Carter established a practice in Burlington, Iowa. In 1882, he moved to Helena, Montana Territory, and after a brief private practice, he associated with John B. Clayberg in the firm of Carter and Clayberg. In November 1889, he was the territorial delegate for the state when Montana gained statehood. After the admission of Montana as a state, he was elected its first representa...

Gibson, Paris, 1830-1920

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Paris Gibson was born on July 1, 1830, in Brownfield, Maine. He was the son of Abel and Anne (Howard) Gibson. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1851. In 1853 he was elected to the Maine legislature. In August 1858, Gibson married Valeria G. Sweat, who was born in Brownfield, on Nov. 30, 1839. The couple had four children, two of whom died at an early age. The surviving sons, Phillip and Theodore, later helped their father in some of his business activities. In 1859 the new couple...

Howard, Joseph Kinsey, 1906-1951

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Joseph Kinsey Howard was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, on February 28, 1906. He went with his mother to Great Falls, Montana, in 1919. After completing high school, he joined the staff of the Great Falls Leader in 1923 as a reporter. Three years later he was named news editor and continued in this job until 1944, when he resigned to become research associate for the Montana Study, a project of the Rockefeller Foundation and Montana State University in Missoula. He left this project after two years to...

Stuart, James, 1832-1873

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Granville Stuart was born in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) on August 27, 1834, and was the son of Robert and Nancy (Currence) Stuart. James was born in the same place on March 14, 1832. Granville and James also had two younger brothers Samuel and Thomas. The family, of Scottish origin, came to the United States in 1775 and is identified with the development of Virginia. In 1837 Robert Stuart moved the family to Illinois, and a year later, to Iowa. Granville Stuart grew up...

Swarthmore College-Students

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