George Thomas Lamport: Born in Milwaukee, 1844. Billings' first city engineer - built a cabin near site of Rocky Mountain College that was demolished - See Landmark May Feel Clearance Ax, Billings Gazette, February 25, 1966. George T. Lamport, first Park County Commissioner, is mentioned in History of Montana by Saunders. His first wife was Emma Eddy and his second wife was Lodenia McCoy Drake (no reference). His widow Lodenia L. is listed living at 323 S 29th in the 1933-34 City Directory - See Lamport Rites Are Held Here, Billings Gazette, September 5, 1938. George T. Lamport died February 11, 1917. Grant Lamport: Cattleman. Came to Billings in 1882. His son, Grant F. Lamport, 68, died in December, 1970. James Lamport: Brother of George and Grant. By 1907 he is listed as civil engineer of Flagstaff, Arizona and was doing survey work in Winslow, Arizona in 1910. James died December 13, 1940, in Flagstaff.
Creator
Unknown
Genre (Short List)
photographs
Genre (AAT)
photographs
Type
Image
Date Original
1880
Subject (LCSH)
Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County--Billings. Civil engineers. County Commissioners -- Montana. Park County (Mont.)
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.
Contributors
Parmly Billings Library
Contributing Institution
Billings Public Library
Geographic Coverage
Billings (Mont.)
Digital Collection
Billings - Images of People
Digitization Specifications
HP Scanner, unknown model, unknown scanning software; 12,506,000 Bytes file size for master TIF file; 2941 x 2372 dimension size for master TIF file; web-viewable images created from master TIF using Microsoft Office Picture Manager and CONTENTdm 5.0.
Date Digitized
2007-02-14
Relation
See Landmark May Feel Clearance Ax, Billings Gazette, February 25, 1966. History of Montana by Saunders. See Lamport Rites Are Held Here, Billings Gazette, September 5, 1938. Ranchers--Montana.
