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Newton K. Hubbard Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 105

Scope and Contents

Collection, mostly photocopies, of documents, clippings and letters regarding Newton K. Hubbard. A photocopy of a scrapbook kept by granddaughter Elizabeth Lorshbough contains letters to his parents during the Civil War, military pension documents, newspaper clippings by and about Hubbard, reminiscences by him about the earliest years of settlement in the Red River Valley and Fargo area, and obituaries. There is a copy of one of the first, if not the first, deeds by the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. selling land in Block 6 of the Fargo original townsite. There is an original inventory of the outfit of a E. Sweet, Jr. and Co. store of 1873. An original deed gives Hubbard full ownership of the Headquarters Hotel, dated 1879, and copies of menus from the Headquarters Hotel, dated 1880 and 1881. There is also a menu from the Occidental Hotel at Casselton, N.D. Finally there are several items from the Goose River Bank at Mayville, N.D., owned by N.K. Hubbard, and document from the local Grand Army of the Republic for Mr. Hubbard.

Dates

  • 1862-1909.

Creator

Access

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

Copyrights

Copyrights to this collection are held by the NDSU Archives.

Biography

Newton K. Hubbard was born in 1839 at Hampden County, Massachusetts. In 1859 he moved to Painsville, Ohio and in 1861 enlisted for service in the Civil War. After the war he worked at Geneva, Ohio until 1870 when he moved to Duluth, Minnesota and later that year to the Red River Valley. He became one of the earliest settlers at Fargo, owning various businesses, including the Headquarters Hotel. He died at Fargo in 1909.

Extent

22 Items (22 items.)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Collection, mostly photocopies, of documents, clippings and letters regarding Newton K. Hubbard. A photocopy of a scrapbook kept by granddaughter Elizabeth Lorshbough contains letters to his parents during the Civil War, military pension documents, newspaper clippings by and about Hubbard, reminiscences by him about the earliest years of settlement in the Red River Valley and Fargo area, and obituaries. There is a copy of one of the first, if not the first, deeds by the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. selling land in Block 6 of the Fargo original townsite. There is an original inventory of the outfit of a E. Sweet, Jr. and Co. store of 1873. An original deed gives Hubbard full ownership of the Headquarters Hotel, dated 1879, and copies of menus from the Headquarters Hotel, dated 1880 and 1881. There is also a menu from the Occidental Hotel at Casselton, N.D. Finally there are several items from the Goose River Bank at Mayville, N.D., owned by N.K. Hubbard, and document from the local Grand Army of the Republic for Mr. Hubbard.

Provenance

Unknown.

Provenance

The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
Title
Finding Aid to the Newton K. Hubbard 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