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24. März 2023 · Frederick Billings was president of the Northern Pacific Railroad and spent time as a land title lawyer and attorney general in California. But French says Billings biggest contribution may be the ...
15. Sept. 2020 · The town of Billings is named for Frederick Billings. He was a gold rush lawyer, railroad baron, and conservationist. Born and educated in Vermont, he arrived in California with his law degree during the 1849 gold rush. He was California's first Attorney General and he named the town of Berkeley after a favorite poet. His growing wealth allowed ...
1. Juli 1991 · The well-told life and times of Frederick Billings (1823- 1890): Forty-Niner, attorney, railroad entrepreneur, philanthropist, and conservationist. Yale history professor Winks (Cloak and Gown, 1987, etc.) has drawn on a wealth of resources, including Billings's own extensive family archive, to flesh out the story of this multifaceted figure. After journeying across the Panama isthmus in the ...
Billings died on September 30, 1890, of heart disease. He was survived by his wife and five children. Frederick Billings (1823-1890) was born into a farming family on September 27, 1823, in the small Vermont town of Royalton. He grew up in Woodstock, attended prep school in Meriden, New Hampshire, and matriculated at the University of Vermont.
22. März 2012 · Billings was born in Royalton, VT, on September 27, 1823, the fourth of nine children. His father was a merchant in Royalton, but when Frederick was 12, the family was forced to move to Woodstock, VT, in order to be within one mile of the county jail as his father had been adjudged a debtor. A local attorney befriended the Billings Family and ...
The city of Billings, Montana was named in his honor at its founding in 1882. In 1890, after Frederick Billings died, his widow Julia and their three daughters and two sons managed the estate with characteristic farsightedness. The daughters, Laura, Mary, and Elizabeth, were talented amateur naturalists in their own right.
Frederick Billings, Jr., gave $20,000 for the building and its furnishings in memory of his brother, Parmly, who died at age twenty-five in 1888. The Billings family again donated funds in 1913 and 1923 to construct the east and west wings. The city’s continuing growth forced the relocation of the public library in the 1960s.
