Abstract Letter, typed summary of interview (15 leaves) concerning J.B. Power, Helendale Farm, Amenia and Sharon Land Company, and his father Peter Walburg, a Swiss immigrant. Includes mention of their homestead near the Maple River, his work on Dalrymple No. 1 Farm, son Peter's first jobs as mule driver, choreboy, and herding horses for the Dalrymples, cutting wood at Helendale Farm, his father, and later Martin Hanson, hauling mail, Helendale Farm's soil, selling out and moving to Leonard, N.D.,...

Abstract Two interviews concerning the Pratt family. First interview (9 leaves) with R.W. (Robert Wesley) Pratt and his wife, Anne (Margach) Pratt, concerns George and Mathilda (Dempsey) Pratt moving to N.D. in 1880 from Ontario, George's brothers, James, WIlliam, and R.J., who moved to N.D., difficulties in plowing, W.J. Pratt and his wife, Dr. Charlotte Campbell, George Pratt's gift of property to his four children, James Pratt selling his business to L.J. (Lewis) Margach, mention of General Thomas M....

Abstract Typed summary of first interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett includes mention of the Chaffee family, Helendale Farm, description of a round grain elevator at Amenia, handling grain, his uncle, Cornelius Reed, who worked at the Amenia grain elevator, plows and grain binders used at Amenia and Sharon, Amenia store, description of various sections of Amenia and Sharon land, Robert and John Reed buying cattle and sheep, raising sheep at the Amenia and Sharon, the Reed-Sargent farm partnership...

Abstract Two interviews with Leonard Sackett mentioning the Carrington and Casey Land Company, L.B. Hanna, George Palmer, and Hanna Stock Farm. George Palmer was superintendent of Carrington and Casey Land Company, and later purchased it in partnership with L.B. Hanna. Registered Angus cattle dispersal sale pamphlet from the Hanna Stock Farm and newspaper clipping of Robert Hanna's obituary included.

Abstract Typed summary of interview (3 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, Edward Johnston, an Irish emigrant who worked as a foreman on the Grandin Farm, Von Steinwehr Farm, and McClain Farm, and obituary of Roy. His father married Jane Nicholson (1866-1947) in Canada, homesteaded in Bohnsack Township near Hillsboro, N.D. 1880, sold out 1891, and bought a farm near Kelso, N.D.

Abstract Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Carrington & Casey Land Company, law partner George Thorpe, and obituaries of Mr. and Mrs. Chase.

Abstract Typed summary of interview with S. Ambrose and Mary McNamee McCoy, with handwritten annotations, concerning his father, Thomas McCoy, who was a foreman on Grandin Farm No. 1 and Grandin Farm No. 2 under A.R. Dalrymple, and later homesteaded at Kelso, N.D. Includes mention of S.A. Dalrymple, Mary McCoy's uncle John F. McNamee, Tom McCoy's ditch that drained from the Red River, cattle lost in a storm, Mary McCoy's father, Michael J. McNamee, who emigrated from Perth, Ontario and came to Manvel,...

Abstract Typed summary of interview with corrections concerning his father, his mother's family, the McEldowney's, homesteading near Ayr, N.D., the Elgin Farm, the Dalrymple Farm, the Park Farm, and their operation, including use of steam engine tractors.

Abstract Downing was the Manager of the Downing farm near La Moure and Mooreton, N.D. The collection concerns mainly his farming and and personal financial problems, particulary in the 1930s. The collection also contains correspondence and interviews with Downing as well as correspondence with his son, Wellington, while he served in the United States Navy during World War II.

Overview Electrostatic copy of a work agreement, dated March 28, 1887 and signed by A.R. Dalrymple at Hague, N.D., of Thomas Thompson to work as a hired man and his wife as a cook for Grandin Farms, states their wages and other conditions of employment, brief interview (1 leaf) with Thora and Martha Thompson, daughters of Thomas Thompson, which includes brief mention of A.R. Dalrymple and his daughters. Also includes Thompson's obituary