Julia Grant Higgins – Missoula Pioneer “there will ever hover these memories as a saintly halo” Mrs. Julia Grant Higgins Dies After Brief Illness Mrs. Julia Grant Higgins, daughter and granddaughter of Hudson Bay factors, one of the foremost of the early pioneers of western Montana, died at St. Patrick’s Read More
The Rebel Girl – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890 – 1964) – “I liked Missoula and hated to leave.” The excerpts below are from Flynn’s autobiography – The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life (1906 – 1926) – 1973. “I attended the grammar school, P.S. No. 9 on 138th Street. Read More
A Shining Mark. Death of an Estimable Lady One of Missoula’s Pioneers. (Morning Missoulian Sept. 9, 1892) Mrs. P. J. Kline died in this city yesterday afternoon of bronchitis, after a very brief illness. The death comes with the suddenness of a shock to the entire Read More
The following article appeared in the Missoulian Centennial issue on page 26 of Section E. Formed to Study New Deal A group which organized to study the New Deal Sept. 20, 1934, became the Missoula County Democratic Women’s Club Nov. 1, 1937. Officers of the original group, the New Read More
The following article appeared in the Missoulian Centennial issue on page 26 of Section E. Business and Professional Women’s Club Charter Issued in Missoula in July 1923 The Missoula Business and Professional Women’s Club was the first of its kind in Missoula. In the 1920s women in Missoula who Read More
(Bully Good) Skookum Dolls and Mary McAboy Mrs. Mary McAboy turned a hobby into what became a nationwide collecting obsession for some people. If you Google Skookum dolls, you’ll get the idea. Mary McAboy’s doll making hobby started in Missoula, but it was her beloved mother who Read More
Obituary Laura Bell Thompson Reitz · 18 May 2015 · Birth: unknown Death: Jan. 14, 1913 Obituary published in The Gospel Messenger, February 8, 1913, page 96: THE PASSING OF SISTER E. C. REITZ. About twenty years ago, Prof. E. C. Reitz and wife moved Read More
Daphne Bugbee Jones “Her life was characterized by audacious personal achievement . . .“ Hipolito Rafael Chicon wrote an extensive article about her that appeared in the magazine Montana The Magazine of Western History: see Daphne Bugbee Jones A Modernist Architect’s Legacy – Montana The Magazine of Read More
She Swung a Horsewhip Mrs. Thibedeau Created a Sensation in Old Missoula Mrs. Thibedeau, a woman who is said to have been living in Spokane for some weeks past, created a sensation in the sleepy old town of Missoula last Friday. The Democrat-Messenger says: The truthfulness of the old saying, Read More
The Article below is from the Missoulian Sentinel Centennial Edition of 1960: Credit Women Organize Club in ‘36 A group of 57 women who met at the Coffee Parlor for a 7 a.m. breakfast May 14, 1936, comprised the Missoula Credit Women’s Breakfast Club. The first officers were Thelma Read More