Special Collections Finding Aids

Abstract The purpose of the league, organized in 1951 at Fargo, N.D. is to promote political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government. The records document the activities of the organization during the 1950s including minutes, correspondence, reports, budgets, clippings and a scrapbook. The collection includes its newsletter as well as various issues from the leagues in Mandan and Williston and the state-wide organization.

Abstract Meeting minutes and correspondence regarding the work of an agency attempting to renovate Fargo.

Abstract Organization founded 1890 as an auxiliary to the local John F. Reynolds Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Activities included participation in Memorial Day observances, contributing to the Soldiers Home at Lisbon, N.D., presenting flags to various institutions, entertaining Company B of the North Dakota National Guard in 1898 and 1917, donating money and materials during World War I, Red Cross work, and adopting war orphans. Records include correspondence, minutes, membership rolls,...

Abstract The Village of North Fargo, North Dakota Board of Trustees Minutes consist of one book of minutes, 1922-1924. The Village of North Fargo was incorporated in 1913. Annexation by the City of Fargo in 1922 led to lawsuits that eventually went to the N.D. Supreme Court in 1925.

Abstract Massachusetts native, active in the North Dakota Legislature and served as a U.S. Marshal.

Abstract Wilbur Ball was a Fargo, N.D. attorney, District Attorney of the Third Judicial, director of the Merchants National Bank of Fargo, member of the Masons, the G.A.R. and the I.O.O.F. He also served as Fargo mayor.