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...

Abstract Correspondence, notes from three extensive interviews (original typed copies and carbon copy with corrections) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Grandin Farm near Grandin, N.D., J.L. Grandin, Guy Grandin, Herman's job as farm bookkeeper, farm housing, his wife Susan Morrow Herman, people and businesses in Halstad, Minn., and the steamboat "Grandin." Includes a detailed description of the Grandin Farm buildings and a map of the farm.

Abstract Typed summary of interview (1 leaf) with son Hugo and Miss Mary Clark, Fargo, N.D. concerning his father Gottlieb and Eben Chaffee. Franke homesteaded in Cass County. Includes newspaper clippings on members of the Franke family.

Abstract Contains a typed summary of an interview George did with Leonard Sackett and one newspaper clipping.

Abstract Typed summary of interview concerning his father, Arthur Marsden, who managed the de Cazenove farm in Norman County, Minn. Later Arthur rented the farm on a shares agreement, and purchased his own farm in 1916 in Elm River Township, Cass County, N.D. Mentions E.D. (Bert) Meldrum, Harry Richard, butchering hogs, raising and exhibiting sheep.

Abstract Typed summary of interview (3 leaves) concerning the Fairview Farm, also known as the Adams Farm, which he and a group of Iowans purchased in 1920, and obituaries of Mr and Mrs. Deike.

Abstract Typed summary of interview (1 leaf) with Alexander and Mae Hill Cuthbertson concerning his father, John Cuthbertson, who was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, immigrated to Lucknow, Ontario, and moved to Absaraka, N.D. in 1882; interview mentions an 1893 typhoid epidemic. Interview with Mae Hill Cuthbertson's mother, Elizabeth Baker Hill, and sister, Jessie Hill, who moved to N.D. with husband John A. Hill in 1880. Also includes obituaries of various Hill and Cuthbertson family members.

Abstract Letters, typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, James McDonald, an early settler at Caledonia, and the Grandin boats on the Red River. James McDonald died when a wagon load of wheat overturned and tipped into the Sheyenne River. Interview mentions Asa Sargeant and George Weston, early Traill County settlers. George Weston was later elected Register of Deeds and County Clerk. Letter from Neal Sargeant, son of Asa Sargeant, mentions steamboats "Alsop," "Pluck," and...

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.

Overview Biographical material relating to John Burns and the Burns family near Ayer, North Dakota.