Andrew and Millie Melgard Interview

Collection

Identifier: SC 274

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Typed summary of detailed interview (14 leaves) with Andrew and Millie Melgard concerning his life, the Snake River Farm and its purchase, farm's first owner who was named Woodward, Minnie's purchasing food supplies in bulk, cooking for sixty-five hired men, cleaning the bunkhouses, making soap and butter, butchering hogs, raising eight children, her collapse from stress and and a map of the farm.

Dates

1954

Creator

Melgard, Andrew, 1870- (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

Norwegian immigrant, arrived in LaCrosse, Wisc. in 1887. First employed at Fargo Loan Agency (Fargo, N.D), then hired to organize the State Bank of Warren (Warren, Minn.). He purchased most of the Snake River Farm land, the livestock, and farm machinery in 1909 after the death of first owner.

Extent

2 Items (2 items.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Typed summary of detailed interview (14 leaves) with Andrew and Minnie Melgard concerning his life, the Snake River Farm and its purchase, farm's first owner who was named Woodward, Minnie's purchasing food supplies in bulk, cooking for sixty-five hired men, cleaning the bunkhouses, making soap and butter, butchering hogs, raising eight children, her collapse from stress and a map of the farm.