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Emil G. Trapp Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 827
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...
Dates:
1957-1958
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Emil G. Trapp Papers
Francis Lewis Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 103
Abstract
Notarized photograph of 1872 list of birthdates for Francis and Maria E. Manchester Lewis' children; includes Lucinda C. Moulton, second wife of Francis Lewis and their children also. Typed copy of interview and corrections with T.I. Lewis, contains mention of his brothers, Arthur and Albert, their Davenport, N.D. grocery store, their partnership with James Yoder of Fargo, Addison Leech, James Kennedy, T.I.'s career as a watchmaker and jeweler and later as a representative of Griggs Cooper,...
Dates:
1872, 1950-1964
Frank A. Harris Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 343
Abstract
Correspondence, poems, legal materials, and clippings, chiefly relating to Harris's daily activities; and pamphlets, including one entitled Charles Curtis Amidon.
Dates:
1918-1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Frank A. Harris Papers
Franke Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 170
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.
Dates:
1929, 1953-1954
George Hilstad Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 269-Tape 11
Abstract
Correspondence, typewritten summaries of interviews, taped interviews with Hilstad and Roy Bunn, relating to the Blanchard, Belle Prairie, and Grandin bonanza farms in Traill and Cass counties, N.D.; abstract of platting of Traill Centre; statistical information concerning Mayville, N.D., churches; articles, several written by Hilstad's wife, Mary (Dunlevy) Hilstad, chiefly concerning Traill County history; letters written by Torsten Torstenson Kopseng to Norwegian relatives, describing his...
Dates:
1863-1970
George W. Tracy Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 437
Abstract
Two detailed interviews (17 leaves and 9 leaves) with Leonard Sackett decribing the Tracy family's experiences at Amenia and Sharon farm, with mention of the farm buildings, other hired men, poor quality food, E.W. Chaffee's rules for hired men, their departure from Amenia and Sharon, George farming at Hunter, N.D., his move to Emmons County, N.D., his freight hauling business and sheep ranch, the Spicer family murders and the ensuing lynching. Typed copy of pamphlet "The Win Tracy story" (14...
Dates:
1955-1958
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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George W. Tracy Papers
Guilford G. Hartley Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 835
Abstract
Letter with some information on his North Dakota farming operation, and his obituary.
Dates:
1922, 1957
Harry Lashkowitz Papers, 1912-1963
Collection
Identifier: Mss 161
Abstract
Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine who became one of Fargo's most successful lawyers and most active community and Jewish leaders in the state. This collection provides a good example of a lawyer's case work.
Dates:
1912-1963
Hicks Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 477
Abstract
Homestead certificate (1904) of daughter Hannah, article entitled "Are small rural villages declining in North Dakota?" by Pearl I. Berg, a list of Haakon and Karin Hick's children with their birthdates, clippings of Hanna and brother August's obituaries, and one clipping about sister Olive leaving the family farm.
Dates:
1904, 1952-1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Hicks Family Papers
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