Biography

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection: Collection, mostly photocopies, of documents, clippings and letters regarding Newton K. Hubbard. A photocopy of a scrapbook kept by granddaughter Elizabeth Lorshbough contains letters to his parents during the Civil War, military pension documents, newspaper clippings by and about Hubbard, reminiscences by him about the earliest years of settlement in the Red River Valley and Fargo area, and obituaries. There is a copy of one of the first, if not the first, deeds by the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. selling land in Block 6 of the Fargo original townsite. There is an original inventory of the outfit of a E. Sweet, Jr. and Co. store of 1873. An original deed gives Hubbard full ownership of the Headquarters Hotel, dated 1879, and copies of menus from the Headquarters Hotel, dated 1880 and 1881. There is also a menu from the Occidental Hotel at Casselton, N.D. Finally there are several items from the Goose River Bank at Mayville, N.D., owned by N.K. Hubbard, and document from the local Grand Army of the Republic for Mr. Hubbard.