Darby’s Tin Cup Creek Ostergrens

Author, historian, and teacher Joyce Guest Decker Wegner shares tales of the Ostergren family. Around 1900, Reuben G. Ostergren relocated from Minnesota to Darby, where he eventually managed the 2,700-acre Como Orchard Company, which was part of the University Heights development owned by DuPont Company. Raised in one of the development’s Frank Lloyd Wright bungalows, Ostergren’s two sons, Reuben and Richard, would make numerous contributions to the region, including service as commissioners for Ravalli and Missoula Counties.