Olive V. Brasier
Silver Bow County
History of Montana, Sanders, 1913

Actively engaged in the practice of the profession which 
she loves, and in which she is fast winning a reputation 
for skill and ability, Olive V. Brasier, M.D. of Butte is 
meeting with well deserved success in her career.  A daughter 
of Robert T. Brasier, she was born May 14, 1886 in Winnipeg, 
Manitoba.  She comes of English ancestry on the paternal 
side, her grandfather Robert Brasier, having been a life 
long resident of England.

Born at Hastings, England, in 1849, Robert T. Brasier was 
there brought up and educated.  At the age of twenty he 
crossed the Atlantic and in search for fortune located in 
Canada.  Coming from there to Montana in 1887 he lived 
first in Helena but for several years past has been in 
business in Butte, where he is a well known contractor.  
He married Mary Muirhead, who was born in Hamilton, 
Ontario in 1851, where her father William Muirhead 
settled on coming from Scotland, the country of his 
birth to America.  Five children blessed their union: 
William, born in Toronto in 1882 is now manager of a 
manufacturing concern in Butte; Olive V., the subject 
of this sketch; Walter, a ranchman, born in Helena 
Montana in 1888; Charley, attending the Butte high 
school was born in Helena in 1892; and Mary, the 
oldest child who married Harry Kitto, of Denver 
Colorado, editor of the Denver Post, has two children, 
Olive and Genevieve.

Having completed her early education in the public schools, 
Olive V. Brasier entered the medical department of the 
University of California and was there graduated with 
the class of 1906 by thorough study earning the degree 
of M.D.  Returning then to Montana, Dr. Brasier began 
practice at Elkhorn, remaining there eight months.  
Coming to Butte in 1907 she has here acquired a good 
practice.