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Della Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 651
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett which concerns the Chaffee family, and F.H. and George N. Smith, brothers who homesteaded north of Amenia, N.D. Includes mention of work at Amenia and Sharon Land Co., rules for hired men including church attendance, the Smith brothers' farm partnership, their terms in the N.D. and S.D. legislatures (F.H. elected to S.D. legislature, George N. to N.D. House, F. Paul to N.D. House), losing the S.D. farmland in the 1920s, business...
Dates:
1955-1956, 1969
Found in:
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Doris G. Larsen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 743
Abstract
Includes a number of writings about the Furnberg and Korum families, ancestral families of Ms. Larsen. Norwegian Roots, A Korum Branch, primarily is the reminiscences (6 leaves) by Johanne (Korum) Furnberg of her youth, growing up at Brandon, Minnesota and also working at Fargo, N.D. The Furnberg items document Anne Furnberg who with her husband Christian Scotsberg immigrated from Norway to America, and settled near Northfield, Minnesota. After Christian's death in 1869, Anna and son settled on...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950s-1990s
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Earl T. Carley Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1472
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Hiram Drache concerning the Chaffee family and life in Amenia, N.D. Includes mention of Herbert F., Carrie T., and Eben Chaffee, other Chaffee family members, the death of H.F. Chaffee, the hotel managed by his parents, the Chaffee's disapproval of dancing and card games, the burning of the grain elevators at Amenia, N.D.
Dates:
1967
Found in:
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Edward Sautebin Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 952
Abstract
U.S. citizenship certificate of Gustav Blanchard, Adella Sautebin's father; golden jubilee pamphlet (1932) on Addison District No. 39 school, Davenport, N.D.; pencil drawing entitled "Vieux Cabaret Chez Miche a Malbray Canton de Berne, Suisse"; and newspaper clippings, mainly obituaries.
Dates:
1890-1957
Found in:
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Emil G. Trapp Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 827
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, August, who was a laborer on the Watson farm and the August F. Luther farm in Cass County, N.D. Includes mention of the L.F. Watson farm, its buildings, and various hired men, dispersal sale of the Watson farm, August Trapp's last wages, his purchase of farmland near Enderlin, N.D., threshing equipment, Emil's job as stableboy and assistant to the laundress at Amenia and Sharon Land Company, comments on...
Dates:
1957-1958
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Father J. B. Genin Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SC 1640
Overview
Two typed letters concering Father J. B. Genin.
Dates:
1933
Found in:
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Francis Lewis Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 103
Abstract
Notarized photograph of 1872 list of birthdates for Francis and Maria E. Manchester Lewis' children; includes Lucinda C. Moulton, second wife of Francis Lewis and their children also. Typed copy of interview and corrections with T.I. Lewis, contains mention of his brothers, Arthur and Albert, their Davenport, N.D. grocery store, their partnership with James Yoder of Fargo, Addison Leech, James Kennedy, T.I.'s career as a watchmaker and jeweler and later as a representative of Griggs Cooper,...
Dates:
1872, 1950-1964
Found in:
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George Patterson Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 918
Abstract
Pages containing marriages, births and deaths from the family Bible, typed copies of obituaries for George and Agnes (Smith) Patterson and their son, John A.
Dates:
1872-1931
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George W. Tracy Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 437
Abstract
Two detailed interviews (17 leaves and 9 leaves) with Leonard Sackett decribing the Tracy family's experiences at Amenia and Sharon farm, with mention of the farm buildings, other hired men, poor quality food, E.W. Chaffee's rules for hired men, their departure from Amenia and Sharon, George farming at Hunter, N.D., his move to Emmons County, N.D., his freight hauling business and sheep ranch, the Spicer family murders and the ensuing lynching. Typed copy of pamphlet "The Win Tracy story" (14...
Dates:
1955-1958
Found in:
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Halbert Webb Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 519
Abstract
Correspondence, typed summary of interview (13 leaves) with Leonard Sackett, and the original handwritten copy (40 leaves) and a typed copy (23 leaves) of his recollections titled "Some recollections of Halbert L. Webb," which concerns his parents, the Eugene Grant family, H.D. Cooke, Reception House, George S. Barnes, F.A. Paige family, his apprenticeship, working with various newspapers, his postmaster job at Glyndon, Minn., a dairy partnership with his father, his farming experiences, the...
Dates:
1914, 1954-1957
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 25
- Amenia and Sharon Land Company. 5
- Chaffee family. 4
- Dalrymple Farms (N.D.) 3
- Dalrymple, A. R. (Alton R.) 3
- Burns, John, 1868-1956. 2
- Chaffee, Carrie T. (Carrie Toogood), 1864-1931. 2
- Chaffee, Herbert F. (Herbert Fuller), 1864-1912. 2
- Dalrymple, Clark, b. 1863. 2
- Dalrymple, Oliver, d. 1908. 2
- Pratt family. 2
- Stevenson, Irene. 2
- Vinje, C. O. (Carl), 1861-1931. 2
- Walker, Thomas McCormick, 1834- 2
- Watson, Lewis F. (Lewis Findlay), 1819-1890. 2
- Addison School District No. 39 (Cass County, N.D.) 1
- Barnes, George S., 1840-1912. 1
- Barrie, Allie, 1883- 1
- Barry, Allie, 1883- 1
- Barry, Patrick Christopher, 1872-1935. 1
- Blanchard, Gustav, 1828-1900. 1
- Burke, John, 1859-1937. 1
- Burns family. 1
- Burns, Sylvia, b. 1896. 1
- Carley, Earl T., 1889- 1
- Carley, Thomas. 1
- Catholic Church 1
- Cavanaugh, Gladys. 1
- Chaffee, E. W. (Eben Whitney), 1824-1892. 1
- Challey, Myrtle Euren. 1
- Common Sense Gas Tractor Company (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1
- Dakota Territorial Grange. 1
- Dalrymple family. 1
- Dalrymple, Mary. 1
- Dalrymple, Silas A. 1
- Dalrymple, William, 1905- 1
- Drache, Hiram M. 1
- Elliott, John, 1851-1925. 1
- Elwell family. 1
- Elwell, Arthur E., 1884-1980. 1
- Elwell, Beatrice. 1
- Elwell, Earl. 1
- Elwell, Joseph, 1862-1954. 1
- Elwell, Lettie. 1
- Emmons family. 1
- Emmons, Herbert, 1880- 1
- Emmons, Jonathan, 1842-1884. 1
- Equity Co-operative Packing Co. (West Fargo, N.D.) 1
- Evenson, Edward, 1881- 1
- Fargo Grange No. 55 (N.D.) 1
- Ferguson, Marguerite, 1873-1958 1
- Finney, Thomas, 1884-1970. 1
- Francis, O. W., d. 1898. 1
- Furnberg family. 1
- Furnberg, Anne, 1836-1912. 1
- Furnberg, Christian C., 1869- 1
- Furnberg, Johanne, 1871- 1
- Gaudland, Anton, d. 1951. 1
- Genin, Jean Baptiste, 1837-1900. 1
- Gill, James Curry, 1843-1897. 1
- Gill, William. 1
- Gronna, Asle J. (Asle Jørgensen), 1858-1922 1
- Hanna, Louis B. (Louis Benjamin), 1861-1948. 1
- Hanson, John H., 1863-1957. 1
- Hanson, Julia Hovden, 1870-1934. 1
- Hatlen, Caroline Jordet, b. 1886. 1
- Herman, Frank. 1
- Hoag, Gertrude, 1886-1983. 1
- Hoag, Simon Veeder, 1833-1920. 1
- Horton, Wayne. 1
- Jensen family. 1
- Jensen, Andrew, 1850-1933. 1
- Jensen, Ingeborg Schmidt. 1
- Jespersen, Andrew, 1873-1959. 1
- Jespersen, Peter, 1846-1930. 1
- Jordet, Albert, 1883-1954. 1
- Jordet, Ole, 1864-1956. 1
- Kennedy, James, 1857-1926. 1
- Konen, Tillie, 1890-1978. 1
- Korum family. 1
- LaMoure, Judson. 1
- Landblom, August P., 1846-1925. 1
- Landblom, Clara, 1849-1918. 1
- Larsen, Doris Grimstvedt, 1924- 1
- Leech, Addison, 1824-1897. 1
- Lewis family. 1
- Lewis, Albert C., 1857-1923. 1
- Lewis, Arthur Gilman, 1863-1945. 1
- Lewis, Francis, 1823-1892. 1
- Lewis, Lucinda C., 1839- 1
- Lewis, Maria E., 1830- 1
- Lewis, T. I. (Irving Theodore), 1868- 1
- Lunday, Robert. 1
- Lundwall, Maria Larsen, 1854-1940. 1
- Lundwall, Peter A., 1855-1940. 1
- Luther, August F., 1872-1964. 1
- Marshall, Thomas F. (Thomas Frank), 1854-1921. 1
- McFarlane, Neil, 1890-1967. 1
- McKinnon, Peter, 1870-1942. 1
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