Clara Tomlinson, a widow and former wife of Dr. Tomlinson, married Perry 'Bud' McAdow on January 6, 1884. Her former husband, Dr. C E Tomlinson, died in Coulson. She sold her Spotted Horse mining claim in Montana for $500,000. Perry and she moved to her home state and settled in Detroit. The Billings Gazette, August 29, 1892, noted she was the World's Fair organizer for Montana. The N.Y. Times reported, she 'furnished the base for the famous World's Fair Silver Statue,' a sterling silver sculpture of Justice. She donated money to State Suffrage Associations. Clara organized the 'Twentieth Century Club,' a Detroit area women's social and business group, in 1894. Clara died in Detroit, and her obituary is reported in the Billings Gazette on January 24, 1896. The money they earned from her business ventures left a fortune to her husband. An interesting internet piece is at: www.montanamining.org.pdf A Marian McAdow, the second wife of Perry McAdow, sold their Punta Gorda, Florida property in March, 1925 - See Buys Florida Property, Charleston Daily Mail, March 15, 1925.
Creator
Unknown
Genre (Short List)
photographs
Genre (AAT)
photographs
Type
Image
Date Original
1895
Subject (LCSH)
Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County. McAdow, Clara L. Tomlinson. McAdow, Perry 'Bud'. Tomlinson, Dr. C.E. Gold miners. Spotted Horse Mine. World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Women--Suffrage.
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
Billings Public 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
2007-06-11
Relation
Billings Gazette, August 29, 1892. Billings Gazette on January 24, 1896. See www.montanamining.org.pdf
