Harry W. Child papers, 1902-1931.

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Harry W. Child papers, 1902-1931.

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Harry Child was the president of the Yellowstone Park Hotel and Transportation Company and co-owner of the Child-Anceney Ranch near Bozeman, Montana. These records consist of indentures (1902-1903) between Child and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, financial records, and a valuation (1931) of the Child Estate prepared for the Commissioner of the I.R.S. [OVERSIZE MATERIAL: 3 Volumes] These records consist of indentures (1902-1903) between Child and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, financial records, and a valuation (1931) of the Child Estate prepared for the Commissioner of the I.R.S. the financial records consist of financial statements and investments information (1919, 1922, 1924, 1929) regarding the Child-Anceney Ranch; a check book (1919); and a cash book (1910-1918), ledger (1910-1917) and check register (journal) (1920-1927), all of which include various personal, estate, and farm and ranch accounts, as well as scattered Yellowstone Park concession business account records. [OVERSIZE MATERIAL: 3 volumes].

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Yellowstone Park Company

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The early history of concessions in Yellowstone National Park was extremely complex. The Northern Pacific Railroad, its subsidiary the Northwest Improvement Company, and various private parties owned many of the park concessions. The Yellowstone Park Association was incorporated under Minnesota law prior to 1890. It leased land from the Secretary of the Interior to establish hotels at several locations. In 1892, Harry W. Child, Silas S. Huntley, L.H. Hershfield, Aaron Hershfield, and others esta...

Child, Harry W. (Harry Wilbour), 1857-1931

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Harry Wilbour Child was born in San Francisco in 1857. He attended prep school in Massachusetts to prepare for Harvard, but went to work in a wholesale clothing house in Boston instead. He returned to San Francisco, where he worked as a broker with his father. He did not like the business and left California for Montana. During the early 1880s he managed mines at Gloster and Gregory for A.J. Seligman, and in 1888 moved to Great Falls to manage a silver smelter. After it closed in 18...