Collection: Alfred N. Terry Interview | Special Collections Finding Aids

Scope and Content

Includes details of his job as bookkeeper, such as buying fresh meat, ordering machinery replacement parts, a description of the Dalrymple Farm, its acreage, the office where he worked, food staples kept on hand, and wages for the seasonal and permanent workers. Also includes mention of John, Oliver, William D., and Clark Dalrymple. Mentions the first tractor, a Minneapolis Moline, used on the Dalrymple bonanza farm.

Dates

1954.

Creator

Terry, Alfred N., 1881- (Person)

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.

Copyrights

Copyrights to this collection is held by the NDSU Archives.

Biography

Alfred Newell Terry was born at Northfield, Minnesota on August 26, 1881. He attended Minnesota School of Business. He was first employed by a realty company in Minneapolis, Minn., and later worked at the Dalrymple bonanza farm near Casselton, N.D. as the bookkeeper. Transferred in 1919 to the Dalrymple office in Minneapolis, Minn. He was married to Laura Morrison, and they had two daughters. He died in Minneapolis on April 10, 1963.