Frank Stott

Frank Ellsworth Stott was born January 8, 1875 near Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri, the son of Charles Dean Stott and Louise Haden. After high school, he attended the State Normal School and the Kirksville Mercantile College.  He became an insurance salesman in Illinois for a short time after which he returned to Kirksville and found a job as a cowboy driving a herd of horses to a ranch west of Aberdeen, S.D. He and another cowboy on the drive decided to come up to N.D. and look around. He filed on a homestead, the S.W. quarter of Section 4, township 136, range 64, La Moure County - for 7 years, and also worked for Mr. Jordon in the Adrian grocery store.  In 1955 the Stotts celebrated 50 years in the store business. Mr. Stott had been town treasurer for many years, as well as being involved in local activities such as the Montpelier Telephone Exchange and the Farmer's Elevator Company, of which he was President of the Board of Directors. .

The Stott collection consists of miscellaneous business and family papers. The Stott and Hughes papers include correspondence, some with J. E. O'Brien, business calendars, warranty and contract deeds, mortgages, various pamphlets, checkbooks, opera house operation records, sales book, and various tax receipts which are fairly complete.  The family papers contain personal correspondence with relatives and friends, mostly to Mrs. Stott, but including a letter to Mr. Stott from his partner's son telling of his father's death. Another letter of particular interest is from Esther Dahler, farmer and postmistress to the Beyer family about a cafe in Montpelier.

Angela Brennan Photograph Collection (Photo 2009) 

Personal and Family Papers