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Title	North, Austin
Subject	Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County. North, Hattie Swartz. Real estate developers. Falls (Accidents). Glacier to Gulf Highway Association.
Description	Austin North was born May 20, 1869, in Dallas County, Iowa. He married Hattie Swartz on November 19, 1884. He was a Billings real estate developer (North Real Estate Investment Company) and important town booster. He constructed �The Castle�, his family home, at 622 North 29th Street in 1903. Austin North lived in the home for three years, selling the home to Allen B. LaMott, a well-known stockman, in 1906. In 1922, the North's moved to San Antonio, Texas. He was President of the Glacier to Gulf Highway Association, which connected San Antonio to Billings(Calgary to Tampico) - See When Highways Advertise, San Antonio Express, March 21, 1926. He died in 1928 when he fell 30 feet while trimming a hackberry tree- See City Builder Dies in Texas, Billings Gazette, August 29, 1928. He was survived by five children at the time of his death, Austin, Jr., Alice, John David, Harriet and Winfield. His three brothers, Oto, Ja, and Jo, were all in the real estate business in Billings.
Creator	Unknown
Date Original	1895
Contributing Institution	Billings Public Library
Contributors	Billings Public Library
Date Estimated	Circa 1895
Type	Image;StillImage
Digital Format	image/tiff
Genre	photographs
Source	BPL2013.01.024.tif
Relation	See When Highways Advertise, San Antonio Express, March 21, 1926. See City Builder Dies in Texas, Billings Gazette, August 29, 1928.
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 Parmly Billings Library
Digitization Specifications	HP Scanner, unknown model, unknown scanning software; 72,715,062 Bytes file size for master TIF file; 4343 x 5601 dimension size for master TIF file; web-viewable images created from master TIF using Microsoft Office Picture Manager and CONTENTdm 6.0.
Date Digitized	2007-06-13

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