Biographical Note Martha Edgerton was born May 14, 1850, on her grandparent’s farm in Tallmadge, Ohio, the first child of Sidney and Mary Wright Edgerton. When the Civil War broke out, Sidney Edgerton was a Republican Congressman from Akron, Ohio. In 1863 President Lincoln appointed him Chief Justice for the Read More
Helen Keller speaks in Missoula – 1914 – Message is Hope Of Great Miracle Missoula Is Beholder Helen Keller Appears Before Large Audience With Message of Hope. To have witnessed any miracle is to have enjoyed a wonderful experience; to have seen and heard the miracle, which is Helen Keller, Read More
Live and let live is Jessie Mikus’ motto By Jo Rainbolt – An Elephant in every yard column When Jessie Johnson Mikus was a little girl, she saved nickels for a teddy bear. But nickels were few and far between, so she didn’t get her bear. “My aunt got me Read More
Missoula’s 1st Librarian Controversy – Roberta McCormick or Sue Kennett Reinhard Missoula’s First Librarian Is Dead Mrs. R. McCormick Passes at Age of 78 Years; Came Here in 1880. Missoula’s first librarian is dead. Mrs. Roberta McCormick, who came to Missoula in 1880, died last night at 6 o’clock, at Read More
Sarah Raymond Herndon – Virginia City Pioneer New Book By A Pioneer Woman Trip Across the Plains In a Wagon by Mrs. Herndon She Kept A Diary Of The Journey Early Days in Montana and What the Old Timers Had to Pay for Comforts of Life. “Days on the Road” Read More
Neptune Lynch daughter’s story Old Days in Montana As Seen by Pioneer Woman – Mary Lynch Boyer By Ellen Nye The Pony Express celebration in Missoula and the turning of the clock backward 70 years brings many memories to Mrs. Mary Lynch Boyer, Hot Springs, who is the oldest woman Read More
Missoula Woman Tells A Story – Martha Edgerton Plassman One evening near sunset, in the spring, or early summer of 1865, a small company of Indians rode into Bannack and to our front door, where they dismounted. A front door having been mentioned, the inference will be that our house, Read More
Miss Bess Hollenbeck – WW 1 nurse honored Miss Bess (Elizabeth Emma) Hollenbeck was one of several Missoula women who served in the military during WW1. She was a graduate of St. Patrick School of Nursing and went on to a long career in the nursing field. Her early overseas Read More
‘Madame F. Roena Medini’ aka Frankie Miller from Big Bull Run Medini Married. A Favorite Singer and Former Missoulian Married in Helena. From the Helena Independent is clipped the following notice of the marriage of a lady well known in Missoula, where she resided for some two years, and Read More
First Woman Clerk in City – Mrs. J. L Chevigny (Angelina Menard) Fifty years ago this month Missoula’s first woman store clerk came to Missoula. Unaccompanied, she left Montreal, Canada, Monday, April 23, and arrived here the following Saturday night. Her name was Angelina Menard. Today she lives at 411 Read More