Alexander Leggat Collection 1864-1964

Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909

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Oliver Howard was born in Leeds, Maine, the son of Rowland Bailey Howard and Eliza Otis Howard. Rowland, a farmer, died when Oliver was 9 years old. Oliver attended Monmouth Academy in Monmouth, North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Kents Hill School in Readfield, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1850 at the age of 19. He then attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1854, fourth in his class of 46 cadets, as a brevet second lieutenant of ordnance. He served at the Watervlie...

Herschel Mining Company

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Leggat, Claribel Ament, 1881-

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Clayton, J. E. (Joshua Elliot)

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J.E.Clayton was a member of the California State Assembly from 1855 to 1856, representing the 15th District. From the description of Diary of J.E. Clayton, 1850-1851. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 319633468 Mining engineer in the states of Utah and Montana. From the description of Letters, 1879-1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497310 From the guide to the J.E. Clayton letters, 1879-1883, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Broadwater, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), 1840-1892

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Rockfellow, John S.

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Virginia City, Montana, merchant. John Rockfellow was an early merchant in Virginia City, Argenta, and Bannack, Montana. He served as territorial treasurer in 1865. He died April 16, 1868, in Salt Lake City, Utah. From the description of Papers, 1863-1877. (Montana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 42064773 ...

Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927

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Bechner, Charles

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Clagett, William H. (William Hezekiah), 1848-1926

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Michigan Mining School-Students-Diaries

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Leggat, Alexander, 1876-1961

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Alexander Leggat was a Butte, Montana mining engineer, hotel owner, and collector of western Americana. He was born in Owasso, Michigan, on December 22, 1876, to John A. Leggat and his wife, Claribel Ament Leggat. He came to Butte, Montana with his mother in 1880 and attended public schools in Butte, graduating from the Butte High School in 1894. He next attended the college of Montana at Deer Lodge, and also the Michigan School of Mines in Houghton. He worked as a mining engineer in Montana and...

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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James Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. After embarking on an academic career, he joined the Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, and in 1863 was appointed Major General in the same regiment. He served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880, when he was elected President. His inauguration took place on March 4, 1881, but his term of office was unfortunately brought to an abrupt end with his assassination by C...

Plummer, Henry Amos, -1864

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Epithet: Chairman of Manchester Public Free Libraries Committee British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000210.0x000328 ...

Leggat, John A., 1832-1902

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Fogarty, Kate Hammond, -1936

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Kate Hammond was born in California in the late 1860s or early 1870s, the daughter of Dr. Josiah Shaw Hammond and his wife Ann Eliza. In 1875 the family moved to Nevada, where Dr. Hammond practiced medicine for ten years. In 1885 they moved to Butte, Montana Territory. From 1894 until 1901, Kate Hammond was an assistant librarian at the Butte Free Public Library, working for a time under head librarian Granville Stuart. While working at the library she acquired an interest in Montana history, es...

Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-1867

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Irish-American soldier. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Horace Greeley, 1856 May 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270637287 Army officer and governor of Montana (Territory) From the description of Papers of Thomas Francis Meagher, 1859-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454424 Irish revolutionary sentenced to death in 1848. After escaping to the United States, he became editor of the Irish News. He served the Union in...

Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926

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American cowboy and artist of the American West. From the description of Photographs, {ca. 1910}. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435693 American painter and sculptor of western scenes and subjects. From the description of Ephemera, 1900-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497326 From the guide to the Charles M. Russell ephemera, 1900-1964, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Russell, Charles Marion, artist, cowboy (Mar. 19, 1864-Oct. 24, 1...

Hewitt, Randall H. (Randall Henry), 1840-

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Randall H. Hewitt, journalist and writer, was born in Seneca Falls, New York in 1840. He came to Los Angeles in 1875. In the late 1880s, he was working for the railway mail service on the Southern Pacific between Los Angeles and El Paso, Texas. He is the author of Across the plains and over the divide: a mule train journey from East to West in 1862. From the description of Manuscripts of Randall H. Hewitt, 1849-1916. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). Worl...

Miles, George M., 1854-1935

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Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909

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Frederic Remington was born October 4, 1861 in Canton, New York. He was educated at the Vermont Episcopal Institute and attended Yale University. He worked as a cowboy, scout, and ran a sheep and mule ranch in the west. He married Eva Caten on October 1, 1884. Remington was a painter, sculptor and illustrator of Indians, cowbnoys and the American soldier at war. His travels took him to Germany, Russia, North Africa, Cuba and all over North America. Frederic Remington died December 26, 1909 in Ne...

Tilton, D. W. (Daniel Webster), 1839-1919

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Daniel Webster Tilton was born in Silver Creek, New York, on July 3, 1839, the only child of John and Angeline Tilton. He studied at the Bryant and Stratton Business College in 1859, and then travelled to Missouri and Colorado. During the gold rush, he was engaged in business ventures, initially at Denver and later at Central City. In 1863, Tilton left Colorado and travelled to Virginia City, in what was then Idaho Territory, opening the town's first store, "D.W. Tilton Co. news dealers, book se...

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...

Cavanaugh, James Michael, 1823-1879

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Edwards, W. R. H., 1833-

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College of Montana

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