Abstract The Hennessy Company was a mercantile business in Butte, Montana, that operated in conjunction with the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Branch stores were later established around the state. Records include financial records (1889-1947), legal documents (1905-1918), and a record of court proceedings (1910-1929). There are subgroups of records for the Centerville Branch store (1913-1917), the Butte Wholesale Grocery Company (1916-1924), the Copper City Commercial Company, of Anaconda...

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Lewis Rudolph interview conducted by Ellie Arguimbau. Mr. Rudolph discusses his parents' emigration from Russia and settling in Butte; Kalman Rudolph's found of the furniture business; Lew's work after school at the store driving a delivery truck; his service as a gunner on a B-17 bomber in Europe during World War II; his return to Butte; his membership in the Baron de Hirsch Lodge of the B'nai B'rith and in Congregation B'nai Israel; and the Jewish community in Butte. (OH 2304)