Microbiologist credited with saving millions of lives got his start in Bozeman

As a teenage stock boy for JCPenney in Miles City in the 1930s, Maurice Hilleman exhibited a great deal of managerial promise, said Menga Huffman, 84, a childhood sweetheart from their days together at Custer County High School and Montana State University.

To the benefit of countless people around the world, Hilleman instead pursed a career in microbiology, developing and helping to develop scores of vaccines for diseases ranging from chicken pox to measles.

When he died April 11 at the age of 85 in Philadelphia, Hilleman was widely credited with having saved millions of lives.

By BETH SLOVIC, Chronicle Staff Writer

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