Harry Billings Montana Power Company Collection 1939-1970

Billings, Harry L., 1913-1990

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Harry Billings was a lineman for Iowa Electric Light and Power Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was an officer in the company union and an activist in the drive by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to organize his company in the 1930s. The Iowa Railway and Light Company changed its name to Iowa Electric Light and Power Company in 1932. From the description of Reminiscence on unionizing Iowa Electric Light and Power Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa : holograph. [1977?]...

United States. Federal Power Commission

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Between the years 1898 and 1930, the Montana Power Company, and its predecessors, constructed a series of seven developments on the Missouri River upstream from Fort Benton, Montana. These projects, which include dams, reservoirs, and powerhouses, are the Morony, Ryan, Rainbow, Black Eagle, Holter, Hauser, and Canyon Ferry hydroelectric projects. In addition, two other developments were constructed on the Madison River, the Madison and the Hebgen projects. In December 1937, the Federal Power Com...

Montana Public Service Commission

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The Montana Board of Railroad Commissioners was established by the Montana legislature in 1907. In 1913 the Board of Railroad Commissioners was made ex officio the newly created Montana Public Service Commission. As such, it was given the authority to regulate a variety of public utilities. In 1971 the Montana Board of Railroad Commissioners was abolished and its work was taken over directly by the Public Service Commission. From the description of Montana Public Service Commission r...

Metcalf, Lee, 1911-1978

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Lee Metcalf was born in 1911 in Stevensville, Montana. He attended Montana State University for one year and transferred to Stanford University where he majored in history and economics. He graduated from Montana State University law school in 1936 and entered private practice. He was elected representative to the 25th Montana Legislative Assembly from Ravalli County in the same year. In 1937 Metcalf resigned from the legislature to accept appointment as a Montana assistant attorney...

Montana Power Company

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The Montana Power Company was formed on December 12, 1912, in Butte through the merger of the Butte Electric and Power Company with three of its subsidiaries: the Madison River Power Company, the Billings and Eastern Montana Power Company, and the Missoula River Power Company. A few months later, the two remaining large power producers in Montana, the Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company, and the Thompson Falls Power Company, were taken into the company by acquisition of sto...

University of Montana--Missoula

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The University of Montana-Missoula's Faculty Senate serves to promote faculty involvement in the governance of the University. The Senate reviews, debates, and votes on issues pertaining to the academic and faculty welfare of The University of Montana (UM) in consultation and cooperation with the President and University administration. Faculty members contribute to UM governance by participating in the Senate and specific committees. The first faculty meeting of the Uni...

Reinemer, Vic, 1923-

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Logan, Rae, 1885-1970

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Simon Rae Logan was born on April 29, 1885 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. He came with his parents to Montana in 1898 and for a time lived near Stevensville, Montana. He attended the University of Montana--Missoula for one year, but graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in 1908. From 1909 to 1912, he ranched near Arlee, Montana. He was a manager of Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose campaign for Missoula County in 1912. In 1913, he was asked ...

Doty, Russell L.

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Russell Leigh Doty, Jr. was born ca1942 in Great Falls to Russelll Leigh Doty, Sr. The senior Doty was born in 1912, shortly after his parents moved to Great Falls, Montana, from Sauk Centre, Minnesota. He worked for the WPA until he gained employment with Mountain Bell as a janitor; he worked his way up to supervising service forman. He retired in 1975, and died in 1990. Russell Doty, Jr. was educated in Great Falls through the high school level. He graduated from the U...