The Museum's Missoula County Board of Trustees generally meets the 3rd Monday of each month at Noon at Building T-1 at Fort Missoula. These meetings are open to the public. Agenda available upon request.
Please contact Dr. Robert M. Brown, Executive Director for more information at 728.3476 ext. #1.
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On Saturday, December 16, 1916, Judge Frank Woody died at the age of 83. Like C.P. Higgins and Frank Worden, Woody seemed to be involved in almost every development of Missoula. During his lifetime Woody had been a judge, attorney, store clerk, auditor, editor, postmaster, clerk-and-recorder, mayor, historian, and politician. In January 1877, he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Montana Territory; and he is credited with being the first lawyer in Montana.
In 1892 he was elected district judge on the Democratic ticket, and he held this position for eight years. In 1876 he wrote a history of the county, which is one of the few accurate accounts of early Missoula history.
On the day of Woody's funeral, all city offices were closed, and the city council set apart a page in its minute book as a memorial to the last of Missoula's founding fathers.