Abstract Correspondence including two letters from John L. Grandin, typed summary of interview (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his life, the Grandin farms, John Wyman, and W.H. Leazenby of St. Joseph, Mo., letters from Leonard Sackett to Mr. Anderson; legal and financial material relative to the Grandins and A.G. Holstrom. Legal and financial material includes land rental agreement, an inventory of farm equipment for the Grandin farm, 1921 income tax statement, and a trial balance sheet for...

Abstract Typed summary of detailed interview (14 leaves) with Andrew and Minnie Melgard concerning his life, the Snake River Farm and its purchase, farm's first owner who was named Woodward, Minnie's purchasing food supplies in bulk, cooking for sixty-five hired men, cleaning the bunkhouses, making soap and butter, butchering hogs, raising eight children, her collapse from stress and a map of the farm.

Abstract Typed summary of two interviews with Leonard Sackett. First interview (2 leaves) with Anna Serum mentions the death of her father, working for Rachel Holstrom, and some of the men employed at Grandin Farm. Second interview (1 leaf) with Amelia (Melting) Oien, Anna's sister, a cook for threshing crews at Grandin Farm No. 1, includes mention of her wages, her husband, Clark Oien, and their purchase of farmland near Halstad, Minn. Also includes commentary (2 leaves) on a photograph of Anna Serum,...

Abstract Short synopsis of interview with Leonard Sacket concerning the Schermerhorn Farm incorporated in 1929, located near Mahnomen, Minn.

Abstract Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett (4 leaves) concerning her work on the Lockhart Farm near Ada, Minn. Includes mention of the family's one room sod house, working at age eleven, caring for small children, washing dishes, making beds, long work hours, quality of food, the stingy wife of the Lockhart Farm superintendent, Jack McPhie, a water well, hired men, and making butter.

Abstract Letter from his sister Mrs. George Wright to Leonard Sackett, a typed summary of an interview with Sackett (4 leaves), concerning his father R.P. (Robert Porter) Boatman, the Loring Farm, and B.B. Boatman's employment with Northwestern Bell Telephone, and obituaries of B.B. Boatman and his sister.

Abstract Born at Rolette, Minn. to August and Kate (O'Rourke) Maas. Took over management of the second store built by his father in Norman County, Minn.

Abstract Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his pioneer father, Charles Grady, who worked for the Grandins at Quincy, N.D., the steamboat "Grandin" which was used to haul grain, and the first bridge across the Red River between Quincy, N.D. and Hendrum, Minn.

Abstract Typed and handwritten correspondence and reminiscences which include detailed description of Charles Loring's life on the Stickney Farm including threshing with steam engines, controlling weeds, life on the Montana ranch with mention of a cattle stampede, his military and legal career, with mention of his father Lyman, father-in-law Daniel C. Darrow and a criminal abortion charge, typed carbon copy of an interview with Burr B. Boatman (8 leaves), and another interview with Frank McCabe (4...

Abstract Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning the history of the Lockhart Farm and himself. Carbon copy contains handwritten answers by Ahlers to questions written by Sackett.