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People from Virginia City, Montana

This list has 13 members. See also People from Madison County, Montana, People by town in Montana, People by populated place in Montana
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  • Sarah Bickford
    Sarah Bickford American, Business
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    Sarah Gammon Brown Bickford (c. 1852 – July 19, 1931) was born into slavery in either Tennessee or North Carolina. In the 1870s she made her way to the Montana goldfields, trading work as a nanny for transportation. She ultimately became sole owner of the Virginia City Water Company, becoming the first and only woman in Montana—and probably the nation’s only female African American—to own a utility. In 2012, the State of Montana honored her by inducting her into the Gallery of Outstanding Montanans.
  • Joseph Millard
    Joseph Millard American politician
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    Joseph Hopkins Millard (April 20, 1836 – January 13, 1922) was a businessman and politician from Nebraska. He served in the United States Senate and as mayor of Omaha, and was an anti-suffrage activist.
  • Nelson Story
    Nelson Story American businessman
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    Nelson Story, Sr. (April 4, 1838 – 1926) was a pioneer Montana entrepreneur, cattle rancher, miner and vigilante, who was a notable resident of Bozeman, Montana. He was best known for his 1866 cattle drive from Texas with approximately 1000 head of Texas Longhorns to Montana along the Bozeman Trail—the first major cattle drive from Texas into Montana. His business ventures in Bozeman were so successful that he became the town's first millionaire. In 1893, he played a prominent role in the establishment of the Agricultural College of the State of Montana by donating land and facilities. He built the first Story Mansion on Main Street in Bozeman in 1880 and later built today's Story Mansion at the corner of Willson and College for his son, T. Byron Story in 1910. In his later years, he became a prominent real estate developer in Los Angeles, California.
  • Helen M. Duncan American paleontologist
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    Helen Margaret Duncan (May 3, 1910 – August 14, 1971) was a geologist and paleontologist with the United States Geological Survey from 1945 to 1971, where she worked in the Paleontology and Stratigraphy Branch. Duncan was considered one of the strongest women in the Cincinnati geology department; her contributions to the Lipalian Research Foundation and the Pick and Hammer shows were additional work of her time. Duncan paved the path for many geology scholars to follow with her discoveries on fossil records and her studies in paleontology and stratigraphy.
  • Clubfoot George American boot maker and convicted criminal
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    George Lane, better known as Clubfoot George, was an alleged outlaw who was hanged on January 13, 1864, in Virginia City, Montana. Lane was later alleged to be a member of a criminal gang known as the Gang of Innocents and sentenced to death. The execution was carried out by the Montana Vigilantes, a committee which functioned during Montana's gold rush in 1863 and 1864.
  • Hezekiah Lord Hosmer (judge) American lawyer, judge, and writer (1814–1893)
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    Hezekiah Lord Hosmer (born Hudson, New York, December 10, 1814; died San Francisco, California, October 31, 1893) was a lawyer, judge, journalist, and author.
  • William Boyce Thompson
    William Boyce Thompson American engineer
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    William Boyce Thompson, (May 13, 1869 – June 27, 1930), was an American mining engineer, financier, prominent in the Republican party, philanthropist, and founder of Newmont Mining. Thompson was one of the significant early twentieth century mine operators that discovered and exploited vast copper deposits that revolutionized Western American mining, and reaped for themselves tremendous fortunes. He currently has a school named after him in Yonkers, New York, called the William Boyce Thompson school.
  • George L. Shoup
    George L. Shoup American politician
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    George Laird Shoup (June 15, 1836 – December 21, 1904) is an American politician who served as the first Governor of Idaho, in addition to its last territorial governor. He served several months after statehood in 1890 and then became one of the state's first United States Senators.
  • Robert L. Word American judge
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    Robert Lee Word (June 22, 1866 – March 21, 1945) was a justice of the Montana Supreme Court from 1900 to 1901.
  • George Y. Patten American judge
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    George Yager Patten (April 14, 1876 – February 27, 1951) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court between August and November 1919. He subsequently resigned. Patten was born in Virginia City, Montana. Montana State University has a collection of his family's papers.
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