Born in Royalton, Vermont on September 27, 1823. Resident of Woodstock, Vermont. Lawyer in San Francisco at the time of the 1849 gold rush. President Northern Pacific Railway (1879-1881). Billings County, ND and Billings, Montana named for him. Investor in the Minnesota & Montana Land & Improvement Co. (town site company). Helped establish the First Congregational Church on North 27th. Wife was Julia Parmly Billings. The father of Parmly Billings. Helped establish the Bailey and Billings Bank. See an excellent biography, Frederick Billings: A Life by Robin Winks. See Capitalism on the Frontier by Van West. Visit the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock, Vermont.
Creator
Unknown
Genre (AAT)
photographs
Type
Image;StillImage
Language
eng
Date Original
1875
Subject (LCSH)
Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County. Billings, Julia Parmly. Billings, Parmly. Lawyers.
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.
Contributors
Billings Public Library
Contributing Institution
Billings Public Library
Geographic Coverage
Billings (Mont.)
Digital Collection
Billings Public Library Historic Collection
Digitization Specifications
HP Scanner, unknown model, unknown scanning software; 12,506,000 Bytes file size for master TIF file; 2941 x 2372 dimension size for master TIF file; web-viewable images created from master TIF using Microsoft Office Picture Manager and CONTENTdm 5.0.
Date Digitized
2007-06-08
Relation
See an excellent biography, Frederick Billings: A Life by Robin Winks. See Capitalism on the Frontier by Van West. Visit the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock, Vermont.
