Sydney R. Inch – EBASCO Chairman Sydney R. Inch, an electrical engineer, lived and worked in Missoula during the first decade of the 20th. Century. Born in England he made his career in the U.S., starting in 1900 as an electrical plant operator at a power plant on Read More
Kennedy Dougan – Missoula’s Shadowy Inventor Today Kennedy Dougan is sometimes given credit for inventing and patenting the first punched card voting machine over 125 years ago, in 1890. Interest in this subject became more intense during the 2000 Presidential election when election inspectors pored over thousands of Read More
Ernest G. Széchényi Apr 8, 2014 MISSOULA – Dr. Ernest G. Széchényi, 65, died March 24, 2014, in Missoula’s St. Patrick Hospital after a short illness. Born in Salzburg, Austria, to Count Erno Széchényi and Countess Gabriella Szirmay Széchényi in 1948, Ernest immigrated to the Washington, D. C., Read More
Francis M. Superneau Portrait of a Civic Leader Francis Superneau, F.M., as many have called him, is well known by numerous native Missoulians from that group Tom Brokaw calls the “Greatest Generation”. He is of that generation. Born in Phillipsburg, Montana of pioneer parents, Read More
Richard Crist Eulogy · 5 January 2015 · Richard “Dick” Crist son of Kenna Olsen Stanley and grandson of Adolph and Pearl Olsen Eulogy – Missoula, Montana I November 12, 1999 We have suffered a grievous loss. Our gentle and kind friend, father, brother, Dick Crist, has Read More
A Load of Bitter Root watermelons came to town yesterday and Frank McConnell bought the biggest one in the wagon. Did he lay it on a goods box, pull out his jack knife, cut it half way, then bust it open and call the boys up to eat? Nay. Read More
Large photographs of these subjects and two large articles appeared in the Missoulian Centennial edition: Father Anthony Ravalli Marcus Daly
This article appeared in the Missoulian Centennial issue. David Thompson Was Early Visitor to City Site David Thompson was one of the earliest white men to see the site of what is now Missoula. As a boy after his birth in 1770 he was an orphan. He became a Read More
This ad appeared in the Missoulian Centennial issue. The Rev. Joseph Menetry, S.J., who helped found the St. Ignatius mission in 1854 with Father Hocken, S.J., died at St. Ignatius April 27, 1891. He was born in Switzerland, Nov. 28, 1812, and entered the Society of Jesus Sept. 29, Read More