Jeffers Family Collection 1868-1975

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Jeffers Family Collection 1868-1975

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The Jeffers Family Collection includes transcriptions or photocopies of diaries, ledgers, correspondence, interviews, historical essays and reminiscences related to the Jeffers, Ennis and Chowning families of Madison County, Montana. Of particular interest for livestock and grazing history are the nomination documents and associated materials for Myron Jeffers membership in the Cowboy Hall of Fame, including a transcript of his 1871 cattle drive diary. Also contributing to this area of interest are the record books of Charles W. Chowning of the Montana Cattle Company. The balance of the collection includes: a history of the Madison Valley Women's Club; papers of the Fairweather Pioneer Society of Madison County with minutes, financial records and membership roles and several histories; some financial records and clippings about the Trinity Episcopal Church, Jeffers MT and Trinity Guild; and a ledger of the Ennis Storage and Freighting has been transcribed. A scrapbook of clippings of articles on Montana history and one typed article by Judge Lew L. Callaway written in 1923-34 and a booklet of a news series in the Butte Miner by Frank D. (Sand Bar) Brown in 1927 collected by Winifred Jeffers are present. There are also five photographs and negatives of family members.

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MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6379422

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Chowning, Charles W., 1860-1934

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Charles W. Chowning was born in Kentucky in June 1860, the son of C. R. and Nancy Chowning. He came to Montana as a young man in the 1880s and worked on the Montana Cattle Company's 79 ranch. About 1893 he married Jennie, daughter of William and Katherine Ennis of Ennis, Montana. He took over his father-in-law's general store and operated it until his death on April 16, 1934. From the description of Charles W. Chowning notebooks, 1889-1892. (Montana Historical Society Library). Worl...

Jeffers, Winifred Chowning, 1895-1990

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Episcopal Church-Montana-Jeffers

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Love, Paul, 1906-1984

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Madison Valley Women's Club-History

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Chowning, Jennie, 1863-1951

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Montana Cattle Company

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Jeffers, Myron D., 1833-1900

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Fairweather Pioneer Society

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Trinity Episcopal Church (Jeffers, Mont.). Trinity Guild

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Jeffers family

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Myron D. Jeffers was born in Hadley, New York in 1833. When he was 21 he headed west and after several endeavors in 1864 he began freighting merchandise from Corrine, Utah to Virginia City, MT. In 1869 he purchased cattle in Texas and drove the herd to Virginia City for sale. On a third trip in 1871, instead of selling the herd, he kept it and established a ranch near Ennis, MT. where the community of Jeffers was later established. In 1872 his younger brother Joshua Burton "Burt" Je...

Jeffers, Paul, 1882-1971

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Chewning family

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Ennis family

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Callaway, Llewellyn Link, 1868-1951

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Llewellyn Link Callaway was born in Tuscola, Illinois on December 15, 1868, the son of James Edmund Callaway and Mary Elizabeth (Link) Callaway. He moved to Montana with his parents in 1871 but he returned to the eastern states for his education, eventually earning a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1891. Callaway returned to Montana and established a law practice in Virginia City in 1894. A staunch Republican, Callaway was elected Madison County attorney in 1894 and afterwards serv...

National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center

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William Ennis Storage and Freighting

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Brown, Frank D. (Frank Dean), 1845-1931

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Known as Frank D. "Sandbar" Brown throughout his life in Montana, Brown was born John Francis Deane Brown in Nelson County, Virginia on November 24, 1845. In June 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate Army and served until his discharge in September 1862. He re-enlisted, this time in the marine service. Capture by the Union Army ended his military career in April 1863. Brown was paroled and transported to St. Louis where he booked passage on a steamer to Fort Union on the upper Missou...

Trinity Episcopal Church (Jeffers, Mont.)

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Ennis, Katherine, 1835-1931

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Fairweather Pioneer Society-Archives

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Chowning family

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Jeffers, Susie L. Switzer, 1859-

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