John McCallum Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 563
Scope and Contents
Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with additions concerning the Hill Farm. Interview mentions George and John Lohr, James J. Hill, George Lohr's death in a 1913 auto accident, describes Hill's farm, comprised of Humboldt Division and Northcote Division, John Lohr's flax crop, sale of Hill's farm. Also includes a letter of transmittal.
Dates
- 1955-1956
Creator
- McCallum, John, 1867- (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
Born at Ontario, Canada on October 25, 1867 to John McCallum and Ann Morrison McCallum. Trained as a blacksmith, worked as farm laborer at the farm of Nelson Finney's father, 1891. Employed as blacksmith at the Kelso Farm near Hallock, Minn. in 1894. Set up blacksmith shop in 1895 with Joe Dillon in Northcote, Minn. McCallum moved to Humboldt, Minn. in 1904 and took over blacksmith shop. He married Edith Irwin in 1898 in Minnesota. He retired in 1942 and died on June 4, 1962 in Kittson, Minnesota.
Extent
2 Items (2 items)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with additions concerning the Hill Farm. Interview mentions George and John Lohr, James J. Hill, George Lohr's death in a 1913 auto accident, describes Hill's farm, comprised of Humboldt Division and Northcote Division, John Lohr's flax crop, sale of Hill's farm. Also includes a letter of transmittal.
Provenance
Donated by John McCallum on September 13, 1955 (Acc. 563).
Property rights
The Institute for Regional Studies owns the property rights to this collection.
- Blacksmiths -- Minnesota.
- Bonanza farms -- Minnesota.
- Canadian Americans -- Minnesota.
- Correspondence.
- Flax -- Minnesota.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota.
- Hallock (Minn.)
- Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916.
- Humboldt (Minn. : Farm)
- Humboldt (Minn. : Farm)
- Interviews.
- Lohr, George, d. 1913.
- Lohr, John T.
- McCallum, John, 1867- -- : Interviews.
- Northcote (Minn. : Farm)
Creator
- McCallum, John, 1867- (Person)
- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the John McCallum Interview
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
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