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Title |
Foster, HF |
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Creator |
Unknown |
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Date Original |
1894 |
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Date (Unknown or Estimated) |
Circa 1894 |
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Description |
Fred Haskel Foster was Billings' Mayor in 1889 and 1893. Formed a business partnership with Perry W. McAdow in 1881 at Coulson. Robert, his father, came to Billings from Minneapolis in 1882 and started Foster's Addition subdivision. N P Railroad contractor and surveyor with Heman Clarke & Company to Billings in 1884 or 1885. See Billings Annals (Mayors of Billings), Billings Gazette, March 28, 1937. See History of Montana by Miller. See Billings Gazette, The Illustrated Edition, July, 1894, 17-18. See Capitalism on the Frontier by Van West. Yellowstone County Clerk of the District Court in the years 1900-1908 and Register of the Land Office. Part of early firefighters - See Maverick Volunteers, Billings Gazette, June 30, 1927, p.28. Fire Insurance Salesman in 1911. Young Daughter Dorothy and wife died in 1908 - See Dorothy Foster Laid to Rest, Billings Gazette, January 31, 1908, p.1. His Son Herbert married Alice Gooch of Bozeman in June, 1907. Fred Foster died October 26, 1917 in Billings - See the Yellowstone Genealogy Forum web site for a complete biography. |
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Subject (TGM) |
Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County--Billings. Mayors--Montana. Businessmen--Montana. Surveyors--Montana. Coulson (Mont.) Clerks of court--Montana. Volunteer fire fighters--Montana. McAdow, Perry W. |
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Rights Management |
Billings Public Library is unaware of any copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the 1976 copyright act. All images in this collection may be used for educational, scholarly purposes and private study. We do request that a credit line be included with each item used. If you wish to publish or reproduce the material in any physical or digital form that exceeds that permitted by fair use or use them for any commercial purpose, including display or web page use, you must obtain prior written permission from Billings Public Library. |
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Contributors |
Unknown |
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Contributing Institution |
Billings Public Library |
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Geographic Coverage |
Billings (Mont.) |
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Digital Collection |
Billings Public Library Historic Collection |
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Genre (AAT) |
photographs |
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Type |
Image;StillImage |
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Digitization Specifications |
HP Scanner, unknown model, unknown scanning software; 47,036,116 Bytes file size for master TIF file; 4343 x 5525 dimension size for master TIF file; web-viewable images created from master TIF using Microsoft Office Picture Manager and CONTENTdm 6.0. |
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Date Digitized |
2007-02-28 |
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Relation |
See Billings Annals (Mayors of Billings), Billings Gazette, March 28, 1937. See History of Montana by Miller. See Billings Gazette, The Illustrated Edition, July, 1894, 17-18. See Capitalism on the Frontier by Van West. See the Yellowstone Genealogy Forum web site for a complete biography. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mtmsgs/soc_ygf.htm. See Dorothy Foster Laid to Rest, Billings Gazette, January 31, 1908, p.1. |
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Source |
Foster, H F.tif |
