Richard C. Setterstrom papers, 1960-1968.

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Richard C. Setterstrom papers, 1960-1968.

Richard Setterstrom served as an executive with the Montana Power Company in Butte, Montana. His papers (1960-1968) contain four Montana Power Company memos concerning the Anaconda Company's experimentation with electric trucks; a speech by Ed Bonner, an Anaconda Company representative, to the Butte Kiwanis Club; and fact sheets on Anaconda and its Montana operations. (SC 1782) These papers (1960-1968) contain four Montana Power Company memos concerning the Anaconda Company's experimentation with electric trucks; a speech by Ed Bonner, an Anaconda Company representative, to the Butte Kiwanis Club; and fact sheets on Anaconda and its Montana operations.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8111646

Montana Historical Society Library

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Anaconda Company

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Anaconda Mining Company incorporated 1892; in 1895 renamed Anaconda Copper Mining Company; in 1955 reorganized as Anaconda Company; sold to Atlantic Richfield Co., 1979, and operations shut down in 1983; engaged in mining, smelting, and refining of copper, lead, zinc, and other ores, with subsidiaries in mining, lumber, coal, foundry, and other industries; headquartered in Anaconda, Mont., with major mines in Butte, Mont., area. From the description of Records, 1876-1974. (Montana Hi...

Montana Power Company

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The Montana Power Company was formed on December 12, 1912, in Butte through the merger of the Butte Electric and Power Company with three of its subsidiaries: the Madison River Power Company, the Billings and Eastern Montana Power Company, and the Missoula River Power Company. A few months later, the two remaining large power producers in Montana, the Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company, and the Thompson Falls Power Company, were taken into the company by acquisition of sto...

Setterstrom, Richard C., 1905-1997

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Richard C. Setterstrom was born in Little Falls, Minnesota on June 1, 1905, the son of Axel and Emma Setterstrom. He grew up in Portland, Oregon and received an electrical engineering degree from Oregon State College. He moved to Butte, Montana, in 1932 and got a job with the Montana Power Company eight years later. As an MPC employee he worked mainly with large industrial contracts. He died in Fairfield, Washington, on August 25, 1997. From the description of Richard C. Setterstrom ...