Dwight Farm and Land Company (Dwight, N.D.)
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Anne A. Dwight Tyler Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 256
Abstract
The Annie Dwight Tyler Powers document her business career particularly after her husband's death to include personal investment and financial records which give a very detailed look at her own business affairs from about 1910 to the closing of her estate in 1944.
Dates:
1879-1881, 1903-1944
James and Clara McKissick Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 138
Abstract
Extensive interview with James and Clara Trammell McKissick about his father, Charles, who managed the Dwight Farm, later the Hinkle Smith Farm near Amenia, N.D. and the Grandin Farm near Mayville. Mentions the livestock and acreage at Grandin Farm, Oliver Dalrymple, immigrant farm laborers, James McKissick's education and various jobs as farmer, milk truck driver, butcher shop owner, hog shrinker and a hired man who set fire to McKissick's barns.
Dates:
1953
John McDougall Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 348
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (7 leaves) with John and Dora (Lathrop) McDougall concerning their fathers, John McDougall and Murrilow Dow Lathrop, and their work on the Antelope Farm, Dora's job as clerk, bookkeeper, and barber at the Antelope Farm store, mention of other Lathrop family members including M.D.'s wife, his brother Vernon, and LeRoy Smith, Dora's cousin, a horse named Old Billy previously used by the Minneapolis Fire Department, hog butchering, the crops and equipment, a drawing of...
Dates:
1923, 1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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John McDougall Papers
Julius Smith Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 771
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett with mention of the Downing Farm, Frederick A. Bagg, Gerard Downing, and the Dwight Farm. Includes mention of his purchase of Downing quarter section of land at Mooreton, N.D.
Dates:
1954.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Julius Smith Interview
Mess House and Dwelling House no. 2 – House Expense Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 695
Abstract
Journal documenting food expenses of the Dwight Farm & Land Co.'s mess house and "dwelling house" no. 2. It is in chronological order giving date, food item, quantity and price. Noted sometimes is the number of meals served. The names George C. Gage and C. Bond are the only ones listed.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1891-1897.
William Keating Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 350
Overview
This collection contains correspondence and interviews with William Keating's sons John Keating and Peter Keating.
Dates:
1925-1963.