Smith-Mendenhall family papers, 1858-1902.

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Smith-Mendenhall family papers, 1858-1902.

Pre-Civil War business papers of Robert Henry Smith; Civil War letters (1861-1863) written by Smith to his wife, Mary Susan Smith; letter from Brig. Gen. John Sappington Marmaduke to Mary Susan Smith; correspondence of the Mendenhall family, including letters from Mary Susan Mendenhall to her second husband, John S. Mendenhall, and her son; deeds and legal documents pertaining to the Mendenhall and Lamme families; and positive photocopy of a scrapbook kept by Mary Susan Mendenhall.

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Smith family.

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Lamm family.

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Mendenhall, Mary Susan

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Lamme family.

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Smith, Robert Henry, -1863

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Marmaduke, John Sappington, 1833-1887

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Mendenhall family.

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Mendenhall, John S., 1835-

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John S. Mendenhall (1835-1896) was an early pioneer merchant of Bozeman, Montana. Born in Vevay, Indiana on October 18, 1835, Mendenhall travelled west to Levenworth Kansas in 1855 where he found work as a packer for the firm of Gilbert and Gerrish. Accompanying the firm to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, Mendenhall worked as a clerk until 1857. During the next few years he engaged in a variety of merchandising occupations in the territory before moving to Fort Lemhi, Idaho in 1862. Mendenhall a...