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David McCauley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 329
Abstract
Postmaster, express agent and army sutler for Fort Abercrombie.
Dates:
1845-1955
Della Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 651
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett which concerns the Chaffee family, and F.H. and George N. Smith, brothers who homesteaded north of Amenia, N.D. Includes mention of work at Amenia and Sharon Land Co., rules for hired men including church attendance, the Smith brothers' farm partnership, their terms in the N.D. and S.D. legislatures (F.H. elected to S.D. legislature, George N. to N.D. House, F. Paul to N.D. House), losing the S.D. farmland in the 1920s, business...
Dates:
1955-1956, 1969
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Della Smith Papers
Doris G. Larsen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 743
Abstract
Includes a number of writings about the Furnberg and Korum families, ancestral families of Ms. Larsen. Norwegian Roots, A Korum Branch, primarily is the reminiscences (6 leaves) by Johanne (Korum) Furnberg of her youth, growing up at Brandon, Minnesota and also working at Fargo, N.D. The Furnberg items document Anne Furnberg who with her husband Christian Scotsberg immigrated from Norway to America, and settled near Northfield, Minnesota. After Christian's death in 1869, Anna and son settled on...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950s-1990s
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Doris G. Larsen Papers
Earl T. Carley Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1472
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Hiram Drache concerning the Chaffee family and life in Amenia, N.D. Includes mention of Herbert F., Carrie T., and Eben Chaffee, other Chaffee family members, the death of H.F. Chaffee, the hotel managed by his parents, the Chaffee's disapproval of dancing and card games, the burning of the grain elevators at Amenia, N.D.
Dates:
1967
Eben E. Saunders Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 61
Abstract
An Englishman whose family immigrated to Michigan who became an ordained Congregational minister and published numerous newspaper articles on the history of North Dakota and the Red River Valley.
Dates:
1914-1926
Ebenezer Magoffin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 950
Abstract
Ebenezer Magoffin was a merchant and state legislator, of Monango, N.D.
Dates:
1840-1958.
Edna LaMoore Waldo Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 5
Abstract
Review of "Dakota", copies of "Pageant of the Missouri", "Sunbonnet Trail", unbound first printing of "Dakota", several letters, biographical and genealogical material on the Dearborn, Freeman, and LaMoore families, and several articles from her "Way Back When" series including Fort Rice, Fort Lincoln, Linda Slaughter, Custer, 7th Cavalry, and expeditions to survey for expansion of the railroads.
Dates:
1931-1956
Edward Bjornholt Diary
Collection
Identifier: SC 104
Abstract
Photocopies of the original diary of Edward Bjornholt together with an English translation. Diary begins with his departure for America in April 1903, coming to Montevideo, Minnesota where he worked for an Erik Molstad. The entries are usually short, telling what he did each day or where he was. The diary continues with his move to McLean County near the Emmet, N.D. post office. The entries document his establishing a homestead farm, interaction with neighbors, social events. Names of others...
Dates:
1903-1907
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Edward Bjornholt Diary
Edward P. Wells Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 135
Abstract
Built the first house in Jamestown, ND and his scrapbooks nicely document the early political situation in North Dakota.
Dates:
1882-1941
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Edward P. Wells Papers
Edward Sautebin Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 952
Abstract
U.S. citizenship certificate of Gustav Blanchard, Adella Sautebin's father; golden jubilee pamphlet (1932) on Addison District No. 39 school, Davenport, N.D.; pencil drawing entitled "Vieux Cabaret Chez Miche a Malbray Canton de Berne, Suisse"; and newspaper clippings, mainly obituaries.
Dates:
1890-1957