I.D. O'Donnell papers, 1884-1947.

United States. Bureau of Reclamation

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The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation Service) was a bureau of the Department of the Interior which oversaw water development projects in the western United States. In July of 1902, in accordance with the Reclamation Act 32 Stat. 388, approved June 17, 1902 (also known as the Newlands Act), Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock established the Reclamation Service within the Geological Survey. The new Reclamation Service studied potential water development projects in each western stat...

United States. Department of Agriculture

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The United States Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln and was elevated to a Cabinet level organization by President Grover Cleveland in 1889. The Department of Agriculture assists farmers and producers of food as well as creating policies and programs related to food distribution and nutrition information. The United States Department of Agriculture controls a number of regional offices through out the continential United States and its territories....

Evans, John M. (John Morgan), 1863-1946

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Lane, Franklin K.

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Lane, 1864-1921, born in Canada and lived in California where he practiced law in San Francisco; he was United States Secretary of the Interior from 1913-1920. From the description of Proclamation with portrait of Theodore Roosevelt : broadside. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863398 In 1917, Brown became Special Assistant to Secretary of the Interior, Franklin K. Lane, and worked with him until November 1918, when he enlisted in the Army. After the war, Brown...

Montana State College

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O'Donnell, I. D. (Ignatius Daniel), 1860-1948

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Ignatius Daniel O'Donnell was born in 1860 in Norfolk, Ontario Canada to Scot-Irish parents. When Ignatius was four, the family moved to Saginaw, Mich. In 1882 I.D. moved to the Yellowstone Valley in Montana. Five years later he married Louise Roeser of Michigan and together they had six children. O'Donnell became one of Montana's most well known farm leaders. He popularized the raising of such crops as alfalfa and sugar beets and helped establish modern methods of irrigation and re...

Montana Irrigation and Drainage Institute

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Billings, Frederick, 1823-1890

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Billings was a San Francisco lawyer; partners with Archibald Peachy and H.W. Halleck, of the firm Halleck, Peachy and Billings, which specialized in cases involving land titles. From the description of Frederick Billings legal journal and miscellaneous papers, 1850-1869. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 86128672 Frederick Billings went to California in 1849 and began a law practice in San Francisco. He became a director of the Northern Pacific Railroad in...

Minnesota and Montana Land and Improvement Company

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Cooney, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1872-1935

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Myers, Henry L. (Henry Lee), 1862-1943

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Walsh, Thomas Jones, 1859-1933

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Wilson, M. L. (Milburn Lincoln), 1885-1969

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Professor of Agriculture at Montana State College. From the description of Papers, 1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155525246 Milburn Lincoln Wilson was born in Atlantic, Iowa on 23 October 1885, the son of John Wesley and Mary E. (Magee) Wilson. He received a B.S.A. from Iowa State College, Ames, in 1907 and his M.S. in agricultural economics and rural sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1920. He began his career as a farmer in 1907. He served as Ass...

Erickson, John Edward, 1863-1946

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Biographical Note Thomas J. Walsh 1859, June 12 Born, Two Rivers, Wis. 1884 Law degree, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. Admitted to the bar and commenced law practice, Redfield, S.D. ...