George Rognlie Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 524
Scope and Contents
Typed summaries of two interviews; the first interview (6 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerns Grandin Farm No. 1, working there as a cook's helper in 1901 and later employment at the Halstad elevator in 1910. Includes mention of A.G. Holstrom, Walter Hill, bathing accommodations, hauling grain to Halstad, holding capacity of boxcars and elevators, tearing down Grandin elevator located between No. 1 farm and No. 3 farm, fishing in the Red River. Second interview (1 leaf) with Inga Rognlie Madson concerns her father, Peter, an early settler near Caledonia, N.D., and feeding the Indians.
Dates
- 1954-1955
Creator
- Rognlie, George, 1880- (Person)
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the Institute.
Copyrights
Copyrights to this collection are held by the Institute.
Biography
George Rognlie was born May 27, 1880 in Traill County, North Dakota to Ole Jacobson and Anna Rognlie. His father was a Norwegian immigrant. He would marry Sophie Mala Reitan on November 17, 1904 in Halstad, Minnesota. He worked on Grandin Farm No. 1 as a cook’s helper, in the Halstad elevator as well as other elevator locations. He died on February 2, 1970 in Ada Minnesota.
Extent
2 Items (2 items.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Typed summaries of two interviews; the first interview (6 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerns Grandin Farm No. 1, working there as a cook's helper in 1901 and later employment at the Halstad elevator in 1910. Includes mention of A.G. Holstrom, Walter Hill, bathing accommodations, hauling grain to Halstad, holding capacity of boxcars and elevators, tearing down Grandin elevator located between No. 1 farm and No. 3 farm, fishing in the Red River. Second interview (1 leaf) with Inga Rognlie Madson concerns her father, Peter, an early settler near Caledonia, N.D., and feeding the Indians.
Provenance
Donated by George Rognlie on August 25, 1955.
Property rights
The Institute for Regional Studies owns the property rights to this collection.
- Baths -- North Dakota.
- Bonanza farms -- North Dakota.
- Caledonia (N.D.)
- Fishing -- North Dakota.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- North Dakota -- Traill County.
- Grain elevators -- Minnesota.
- Grain elevators -- North Dakota.
- Grandin Farms (N.D.)
- Hill, Walter Jerome, 1885-1944.
- Holstrom, A. G. (Aaron G.), 1869-1947.
- Interviews.
- Madson, Inga Rognlie. -- : Interviews.
- Rognlie, George, 1880- -- : Interviews.
- Rognlie, Peter.
- Traill County (N.D.)
Creator
- Rognlie, George, 1880- (Person)
- Madson, Inga Rognlie. (Person)
- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the George Rognlie 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:
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West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu