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Harry Little
Bettis (b.1934) Papers, 1950-1971 MSS 100k Harry Little Bettis, rancher and banker, is the son of Laurence Moore Bettis and Agnes Little Bettis. He was first named Harry Sylvester Bettis, after his paternal grandfather, but later changed his middle name. A graduate of Stanford University, he is a rancher in western Idaho, north of Emmett. He was elected to the board of directors of Idaho First National Bank in 1971. Harry Bettis married Carol Lynn MacGregor in 1970. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1983. Together they have three daughters, Laura MacGregor, Catherine Moore, and Janelle Agnes Bettis, who grew up in the Moore-Cunningham mansion in Boise. The Harry Little Bettis papers consist mainly of letters he wrote home to his parents during a trip to Hong Kong in 1954. The file also includes several letters from his friend, Harvard student Robert H.P. Fung, with whom he traveled, and from Fung’s parents in Hong Kong. Approximately twenty other letters by Harry L. Bettis, dated 1947-1959 and addressed to his great aunt, Laura Moore Cunningham, are located in Mrs. Cunningham’s papers, Box 2 Folder 3 (page 27). Container List Box 13, Folder 12
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