Special Collections Finding Aids

Scope and Contents The Joseph R. Askew Photograph Collection includes five photographs taken of Askew and life on his farm near Casselton, North Dakota. All family members are seen variously in these photographs, and a family friend Alex McKinnon. All the photographs portray farm life in rural Cass County in the early 20th century. The collection is organized into a single series by the year they were perceived or known to be taken. Two of the photographs were taken by Casselton photographer, George Tise. For the...

Abstract Notes from an interview done in 1938 with her father, James, concerning his father, Luther Wyckoff, and his family moving to Cass County, N.D. from Taylors Falls, Minn. Includes mention of horse-drawn wagon travel, mosquitoes, threshing for the Dalrymples, prairie fires, Luther and James running a stage line between Stillwater and Taylors Falls, Minn, Luther's near drowning, selling their homemade horse-radish, Luther being elected Cass County Assessor, his dental practice, and the death of...

Abstract Typed summary of interview (2 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning her brothers, Ludwig and Carl (also known as Charlie) Vinje, who worked on the A.R. Dalrymple and Oliver Dalrymple farms, and obituaries. Includes mention of Ludwig's death from typhoid, Carl starting his own farm, and their graves. Includes several obituary clippings.

Abstract Historical sketch, "Some pioneer work in education," read at the 1926 Cass County School Officers Association meeting, the program for that meeting (25th anniversary), and her obituary.

Abstract Reminiscence entitled "Pioneer experiences," (4 leaves) by Annie Moum, his sister which mentions their mother, Olea Josepha Peterson, a Norwegian immigrant coming to Fargo, N.D. in 1879 and early life on their homestead near Buffalo, N.D. Includes mention of Olea's hope chest, wild flowers and those she brought to the homestead, food supply, neighbors, watering the oxen. Letter briefly mentions the Hamilton Eckert family who lived in the area and the land rental contract between his father...

Abstract Photocopy collection of the complete Cass County historic sites nominations forms.

Abstract Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) mentioning McFarlane's uncle, Henry C. Lyon, foreman and manager of Rand and Brown Farm (1881-1882), John Elliot who followed Lyon as foreman, a description of Rand and Brown Farm's location, General Thomas M. Walker, a Civil War veteran from Erie, Penn., who managed the Rand and Brown Farm and later bought his own farm, a brief mention of his wife Agnes Coughey Walker, a description of the Rand and Brown Farm buildings including the grain elevators, and...

Abstract The collection contains treasurers' ledgers and meeting minutes for a rural, agricultural township located in the extreme northeastern corner of Cass County along the Red River.

Abstract Mimeographed copy (18 leaves) of genealogy compiled by Oscar; includes several family obituaries.

Abstract Cass County Sheriff from 1892-1897 as well as Chairman of the Cass County Board of Commissioners.