Benjamin F. Mackall Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 472
Scope and Contents
Correspondence; interviews with Mackall's son and daughter-in-law, Henry C. and Margaret (Robertson) Mackall, of Minneapolis, Minn., relating to Mackall, the family business, B.F. Mackall Inc., and John L. Grandin, owner of Grandin Farms and family friend, of Warren, Pa., area (original home of Mrs. Mackall); scrapbook compiled by Marjorie Cruikshank, containing information concerning the estate of Jay Cooke, dredging on the Red River, and Red River Valley history; and newspaper clippings.
Dates
- 1953-1955
Creator
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
Pharmacist, of Moorhead, Minn.
Extent
.2 Linear Feet (.2 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Correspondence; interviews with Mackall's son and daughter-in-law, Henry C. and Margaret (Robertson) Mackall, of Minneapolis, Minn., relating to Mackall, the family business, B.F. Mackall Inc., and John L. Grandin, owner of Grandin Farms and family friend, of Warren, Pa., area (original home of Mrs. Mackall); scrapbook compiled by Marjorie Cruikshank, containing information concerning the estate of Jay Cooke, dredging on the Red River, and Red River Valley history; and newspaper clippings.
Provenance
Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Mackall in 1955 (Acc.472).
Property rights
The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
- Agriculture -- North Dakota.
- B.F. Mackall Inc. (Moorhead, Minn.)
- Bonanza farms -- North Dakota.
- Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905. -- : Estate.
- Decedents' estates.
- Dredging -- Red River of the North.
- Drugstores -- Minnesota.
- Farms -- North Dakota.
- Grandin Farms (N.D.)
- Grandin, John L. (John Livingston), 1836-1912
- Interviews.
- Mackall, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1851-1935.
- Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Resident of.
- Minnesota -- Business, industries, and trades -- Drugstores.
- Minnesota -- Family and personal papers -- 20th century.
- Minnesota -- History, Local.
- Minnesota -- Resident of.
- Moorhead (Minn.) -- Business, industries, and trades -- Drugstores.
- Moorhead (Minn.) -- Family and personal papers.
- North Dakota -- Agriculture -- Farms and farming.
- North Dakota -- History, Local.
- Pennsylvania -- Resident of.
- Pharmacists -- Minnesota.
- Red River Valley (Minn. and N.D.-Man.) -- History.
- Red River of the North -- Channelization.
- Scrapbooks.
- Warren (Pa.) -- Resident of.
Creator
- Mackall, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1851-1935. (Person)
- Mackall, Henry C. (Henry Clinton), 1885-1979. (Person)
- Mackall, Margaret Robertson. (Person)
- Cruikshank, Marjorie. (Person)
- Mackall family. (Family)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Benjamin F. Mackall Family Papers
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
Contact:
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu