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 Correspondence, typed summary of interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, George Elliot, and life in early Jamestown. Includes mention of George Elliott coming to N.D. in 1879, the family's arrival in 1880, getting a contract to build railroad grade, buying a farm near Spiritwood, N.D., blizzards, the homesickness of Sadie's mother, description of their home, her father's attempts at gardening, digging a well, entertaining visitors, their move to Jamestown, N.D. where...

Overview Biographical notes about the farms of Homer E. Sargent, jr. whom Sargent county North Dakota is named after.

Abstract Correspondence between Campbell and Leonard Sackett regarding the records of Campbell's wheat farm, the Cream of Wheat corporation, the Bull family, and bonanza farms.

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

Abstract Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) concerning the George S. Barnes farm. Includes mention of various hired men who worked with Torgerson, horses and cattle on the Barnes Farm, shipping horses to logging camps in northern Minnesota in the winter, working at a logging camp, threshing equipment, buying his own farm land, and Jerry McCarthy, a Glyndon, Minn. farmer who froze to death. Also includes a clipping.

Abstract Interview with Wallace G. Rice concerning his father, Joseph F. Rice, who was a funeral director in Fargo, and the 1893 Fargo fire.

Abstract Interview of St. Vincent, Minn. farmer and merchant, W. G. Ahles concerning his working on the Reid farm, his father John Ahles who operated a brewery at St. Vincent, John Gillespie who was manager of the Reid farm, and Walter Hill; and newspaper clippings.