Cowan family papers, 1893-1966.

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Cowan family papers, 1893-1966.

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The Family Records group is organized according to subject or function, therefore, some overlap in subjects has been unavoidable. The series of Correspondence has been divided into six subseries, generally titled according to subject. Related documentation and some printed materials have been organized within each subseries. For example, the meeting minutes for the State Board of Education have been placed with W.E. Cowan's letters regarding his work with the State Board. W.T. Cowan corresponded and worked with a number of noted persons in his professional careers, among those found in these documents are Pres. Harry S. Truman, Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, and governors Sam Ford and Roy E. Ayers. W.T. Cowan also kept a journal of his visit to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and wrote a family history of which there are multiple drafts which have been placed in the Biographical Materials series. W.T. and W.E. Cowan's professional papers contain information concerning Montana and U.S. politics, Montana land, irrigation, and mining projects, and the State Board of Education. The Financial Records group consists of series designated according to the business. Within each series documents have been separated according to document type and then arranged chronologically. Copies of customer receipts, financial statements and other loose leaf materials are followed by notebooks containing daily tallies and then by inventories. Business ledgers and accountbooks are not comprehensive. Those years not documented in ledgers generally have loose leaf materials which can help supply information for the missing period. Cowan taxes have been arranged chronologically and file titles indicate whether the file contains federal or state tax returns, or both.

28.2 linear ft.

Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.). Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8224691

Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.). Library

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