W (includes James R. Wallis, Sarah Winall, W.S. Wright), 1878-1882
Content Description:
This collection consists of personal, business, and organizational records of Richard Lockey. His Personal Papers Subgroup includes family and fraternal order correspondence, a diary (1862, 1866), financial records, legal documents, and miscellany, including several Masonic items. The Bakery and Store Business Subgroup (including the Montana Steam Cracker Company, Lockey's Steam Cracker Bakery, Lockey Brothers, and R. Lockey and Company), includes interoffice correspondence between the Helena and Bozeman stores; incoming correspondence, outgoing correspondence, financial records, etc. The Real Estate and Insurance Business Subgroup (including Lockey's Land Agency; Lockey, Matheson and Douglas; Lockey Investment Company; Denver and Helena Investment Company; Montana Abstract Company; State Investment Company; and Standard Realty Company) includes correspondence, financial records, organizational records, and a large subject file dealing mostly with Helena real estate developments. The Order Sons of St. George, Albion Lodge #237 Subgroup includes incoming correspondence to George W. Fowler and other officers of the order, financial records, and miscellany. The Idaho Property Subgroup mostly concerns a law suit between Lockey and William R. Wallace over ownership of the Ore-or-no-go mining claim and the Wallace, Idaho, townsite. There are smaller subgroups for Richard Lockey, Jr., the Alder Gulch Placer Mining and Water Company , the Dividend Mining Company, the Grandon Hotel, the Helena Electric Railway Company, the Helena Rapid Transit Railway Company, and the Castillejo School .
Dates
- Creation: 1878-1882
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 10 linear feet
Repository Details
Part of the Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives Repository
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