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Title |
Rixon, Mr. & Mrs. Bates (Ella) Couple reading |
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Description |
Rebecca Helen Rixon Bates 82, pioneer Billings resident, died in an Oakland, California in November, 1952. Mrs. Bates, known to early Billings residents as ""Becca"" Rixon, was born August 10, 1870 at Milton, Ontario, Canada, a daughter of John and Susanna Rixon. She was married to Lesley Bates in California on September 3, 1885. See Pioneer Resident Of Billings Dies, Billings Gazette, November 16, 1952. Lesley Bates: He opened the first insurance office in Billings in 1882. A member of the Maverick Hose Fire Company. They were residents of the San Francisco region since 1889. He founded the Standard Forms Bureau, which kept insurance company statistics, in San Francisco. Billings Pioneer Dies in California, Lesley Bates, 92, Came Here in 1882, Billings Gazette, February 20, 1953. Survivors in 1953, were five sons, including Major Norman Bates, U.S. Marine Corps, retired; Prof. Leslie Rixon Bates at the University of California at Los Angeles and Adm. Dick Bates, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor as a member of Gen. Nimitz' staff in World War II. |
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Creator |
Unknown |
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Genre (AAT) |
photographs |
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Type |
Image;StillImage |
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Language |
eng |
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Date Original |
1935 |
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Date (Unknown or Estimated) |
Circa 1935 |
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Subject (TGM) |
Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County. Bates, Rebecca Helen Rixon. Bates, Leslie. Volunteer fire fighters--Montana. Insurance agents. |
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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 Billings Public Library. |
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Contributors |
Parmly Billings Library |
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Contributing Institution |
Billings Public Library |
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Geographic Coverage |
Billings (Mont.) |
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Digital Collection |
Billings Public Library Historic Collection |
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Digitization Specifications |
HP Scanner, unknown model, unknown scanning software; 42,870,544 Bytes file size for master TIF file; 4723 x 3561 dimension size for master TIF file; web-viewable images created from master TIF using Microsoft Office Picture Manager and CONTENTdm 6.0. |
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Date Digitized |
2007-05-25 |
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Relation |
See Pioneer Resident Of Billings Dies, Billings Gazette, November 16, 1952. See Billings Pioneer Dies in California, Lesley Bates, 92, Came Here in 1882, Billings Gazette, February 20, 1953. |
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Source |
Rixon, Mr. and Mrs. Bates (Ella Rixon).tif |
