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Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | Cornelius Hedges papers, 1831-1907. |
| Description | Letter to parents regarding Montana mining frontier and conditions. |
| Creator | Hedges, Cornelius, 1831-1907. |
| Genre (Short List) | documents |
| Type | Text |
| Language | eng |
| Date Original | 1831; 1832; 1833; 1834; 1835; 1836; 1837; 1838; 1839; 1840; 1841; 1842; 1843; 1844; 1845; 1846; 1847; 1848; 1849; 1850; 1851; 1852; 1853; 1854; 1855; 1856; 1857; 1858; 1859; 1860; 1861; 1862; 1863; 1864; 1865; 1866; 1867; 1868; 1869; 1870; 1871; 1872; 1873; 1874; 1875; 1876; 1877; 1878; 1879; 1880; 1881; 1882; 1883; 1884; 1885; 1886; 1887; 1888; 1889; 1890; 1891; 1892; 1893; 1894; 1895; 1896; 1897; 1898; 1899; 1900; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907 |
| Subject (LCSH) | Hedges family.; Freemasons--Montana.; Frontier and pioneer life--Montana.; Gold mines and mining--Montana--Marysville (Lewis and Clark County); Mining corporations--Montana.; Helena (Mont.)--Social life and customs.; Yellowstone National Park. |
| Rights Management | Transmission, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use under the copyright laws requires written permission of the copyright owner. For permission to publish contact mhslibrary@mt.gov. |
| Contributors | Hedges, Alvina.; Hedges, Cornelius, 1874-1925.; Hedges, Dennis.; Hedges, Edna Smith.; Hedges, Wyllys A. (Wyllis Anderson), b. 1857.; Bald Butte Mining Company.; Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Montana. |
| Contributing Institution | Montana Historical Society Research Center |
| Digital Collection | Letters, Diaries and Documents from the Montana Historical Society |
| Physical Collection | Manuscript Collection 33 Box 1 Folder 26 |
| Digital Format | image/jp2 |
| Physical Dimensions | 4.6 linear ft. |
| Digitization Specifications | Scanned at 300-550 ppi, 24bit color. Display images were generated by ContentDM. |
| Description-Abstract | Diaries, correspondence, and other materials of Cornelius Hedges and other family members. Cornelius Hedges subgroup consists of correspondence, diaries (1849-1857, 1863-1893, 1906-1907), financial records, legal documents, speeches, and writings. There are subgroups for Cornelius Hedges, Jr., Alvina and Dennis Hedges, Edna Smith Hedges, Wyllys A. Hedges, and other family members; and for the Bald Butte Mining Company and the Masonic Order.; Helena, Mont., attorney, judge, legislator, and freemason. Cornelius Hedges was born at Westfield, Mass., in 1831, the son of Dennis and Alvina Hedges. He attended Yale and Harvard Law School. In 1864 he travelled to Montana. After briefly mining in the Virginia City area he set up a law practice in Helena and invested in mining claims. He was U.S. district attorney, first territorial delegate to Congress, a member of the 1884 Constitutional Convention, state senator, and secretary of the State Board of Sheep Commissioners. He was also an editorial writer for the Helena Herald. He was an active freemason. In 1870 he was a member of an expedition to the Yellowstone which resulted in its designation as a national park. Hedges died on 29 Apr. 1907. |
| Contact Us | To order a reproduction, download our order form at http://mhs.mt.gov/Research/services/repros.aspx or contact Montana Historical Society Research Center: (406) 444-2681 / mhslibrary@mt.gov |
| Relation | Finding aid published in: National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States, microfiche 3.14.25.; http://worldcat.org/oclc/70959295/viewonline; http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/documents/retrieve.asp?docname=MtHiMC33.xml |
Description
| Title | Page 1 Cornelius Hedges papers, 1831-1907. |
| Description | Letter to parents regarding Montana mining frontier and conditions. |
| Creator | Hedges, Cornelius, 1831-1907. |
| Type | Family papers--Montana--Helena.; Collection |
| Language | eng |
| Subject (LCSH) | Hedges family.; Freemasons--Montana.; Frontier and pioneer life--Montana.; Gold mines and mining--Montana--Marysville (Lewis and Clark County); Mining corporations--Montana.; Helena (Mont.)--Social life and customs.; Yellowstone National Park. |
| Contributors | Hedges, Alvina.; Hedges, Cornelius, 1874-1925.; Hedges, Dennis.; Hedges, Edna Smith.; Hedges, Wyllys A. (Wyllis Anderson), b. 1857.; Bald Butte Mining Company.; Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Montana. |
| Contributing Institution | Montana Historical Society Research Center |
| Physical Collection | Manuscript Collection 33 Box 1 Folder 26 |
| Physical Dimensions | 4.6 linear ft. |
| Description-Abstract | Diaries, correspondence, and other materials of Cornelius Hedges and other family members. Cornelius Hedges subgroup consists of correspondence, diaries (1849-1857, 1863-1893, 1906-1907), financial records, legal documents, speeches, and writings. There are subgroups for Cornelius Hedges, Jr., Alvina and Dennis Hedges, Edna Smith Hedges, Wyllys A. Hedges, and other family members; and for the Bald Butte Mining Company and the Masonic Order.; Helena, Mont., attorney, judge, legislator, and freemason. Cornelius Hedges was born at Westfield, Mass., in 1831, the son of Dennis and Alvina Hedges. He attended Yale and Harvard Law School. In 1864 he travelled to Montana. After briefly mining in the Virginia City area he set up a law practice in Helena and invested in mining claims. He was U.S. district attorney, first territorial delegate to Congress, a member of the 1884 Constitutional Convention, state senator, and secretary of the State Board of Sheep Commissioners. He was also an editorial writer for the Helena Herald. He was an active freemason. In 1870 he was a member of an expedition to the Yellowstone which resulted in its designation as a national park. Hedges died on 29 Apr. 1907. |
| Contact Us | To order a reproduction, download our order form at http://mhs.mt.gov/research/photo/servicesfees.asp or contact Montana Historical Society Research Center: (406) 444-2681 / mhslibrary@mt.gov |
| Relation | Finding aid published in: National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States, microfiche 3.14.25.; http://worldcat.org/oclc/70959295/viewonline; http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/documents/retrieve.asp?docname=MtHiMC33.xml |
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