Helen Brooke Herford papers, 1886-1957.

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Helen Brooke Herford papers, 1886-1957.

Personal papers and ranch records created or collected by Helen Herford.

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Herford family.

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Herford, Helen Brooke, 1887-1972

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Helen Brooke Herford (1887-1972) was the daughter of John ("Jack" Brooke Herford and Susan Whitney Herford of Yellowstone County, Montana. Jack Herford (1857-1923) was one of nine children of Rev. Brooke Herford (1830-1903), an English clergyman. Jack's oldest brother, William, immigrated to the United States in the early 1870s where he established a New Mexico sheep ranch. By 1876 the rest of the Herford family temporarily settled in Chicago. Jack soon joined William in New Mexico while two oth...