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Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971.

 Person

Found in 150 Collections and/or Records:

Hegbert Anderson Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 270
Abstract Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning working on the Jones Farm and the Belle Prairie Farm in Traill County.
Dates: 1954

Herbert Emmons Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 871
Abstract Typed summary of interview (2 leaves) concerning his father Jonathan Emmons, a Civil War veteran who settled in Cass County. He was a carpenter, a timber cutter, and did threshing work. Includes a photostatic copy of his discharge from the U.S. Army in 1866, and newspaper clippings.
Dates: 1957-1958

Herman Deike Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 259
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.
Dates: 1954-1965

Hill and Cuthbertson Families Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 460
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.
Dates: 1931, 1955-1960

Hugh McDonald Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 674
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...
Dates: 1955-1956

Jacob J. Lawrence Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 439
Abstract Correspondence, typed summary of detailed interview (6 leaves) and corrections with wife Rosa Hofner Lawrence and daughter Ruth, concerning Rosa's parents, John Hofner (1849-1900), German immigrant from the Rhine River Valley and Louisa Eppell Hofner (1853-1921), her husband, Jacob, her work as nurse to Dr. Langsdale, with brief mention of Ruth's doctoral studies at Columbia, and a souvenir of School District No. 3, Center Township, Richland County (N.D.) for 1896-1867.
Dates: 1897, 1935, 1955

Jacob Walters Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 534
Abstract Correspondence, typed summary of interview (5 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his life and the Grandin elevator at Gardner, N.D. Includes mention of the homestead built by his father, Carl Walters, and of the Grandin elevator that stood nearby, hauling grain on the Red River, James Pratt, the first elevator manager, Jacob Walters' job on the steamboat "Minnesota," and its crew, Jacob's brother, Charlie Walters, Jacob's wife, Bertha Swenson Walters, and addendum mentioning Bertha's...
Dates: 1955-1957

James A. Trudell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 349
Abstract Typed summary of interview (3 leaves) with James and Susanna (Chernich) Trudell. Concerns various people in the Mooreton, N.D. area, including brief mention of her father, Michael Chernich, an Austrian immigrant and early Mooreton businessman, F.A. Bagg, Alex McKinnon, bonanza farms, especially Antelope Farm, James Trudell's mail delivery route, carrying farm workers to Breckenridge, Minn. Also includes obituaries.
Dates: 1924, 1955, 1967

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

James Florance Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 562
Abstract Typed summary of interview (8 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Hill Farm at Northcote, Minn., family history article and newspaper clippings on the Florance Farm at Hallock, Minn., and a poem entitled "The pioneers" by his father Edward. Hill Farm (also known as Northcote Farm) was owned by James J. Hill, later by his son Walter. Most of the original Hill Farm was taken over by Edward Florance Jr. and son Maurice. Florance Farm was strictly grain farming, no livestock was owned.
Dates: 1935, 1955-1956