Ole Peter Wiig Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 456
Scope and Contents
Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Ole Peter and Martha Wiig concerning his life at Lake Park and Perley, Minn. Includes mention of his first jobs in Lake Park, Minn. as a laborer and a farm worker, working on the Walker farm, his wife's job as Walker Farm cook, their wages, their experiences owning a farm and later, owning a hotel in Perley, Minn. Also includes clippings.
Dates
- 1950, 1954-1957.
Creator
- Wiig, Ole Peter, 1854-1957. (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
Born at Lillehammer, Norway, son of Peter Wiig. Worked as a farm laborer on various farms, including those of Henry Richards and General Thomas Walker. Wed Martha Brudervold Siverston in 1890. Became farm manager for General Walker, Mrs. Wiig was hired as a cook. Later, they purchased a farm near the Minnesota side of the Red River, sold out three years later to purchase a hotel in Perley, Minn. They moved to Moorhead, Minn. in 1919. He died in California and was buried at Moorhead, Minn.
Extent
8 Items (8 items.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Ole Peter and Martha Wiig concerning his life at Lake Park and Perley, Minn. Includes mention of his first jobs in Lake Park, Minn. as a laborer and a farm worker, working on the Walker farm, his wife's job as Walker Farm cook, their wages, their experiences owning a farm and later, owning a hotel in Perley, Minn. Also includes clippings.
Provenance
Donated by Ole Peter Wiig in 1954 (Acc. 456).
Property rights
The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
- Agricultural laborers -- Minnesota.
- Clippings.
- Farm life -- Minnesota.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota.
- Hotelkeepers -- Minnesota.
- Hotels -- Minnesota.
- Interviews.
- Lake Park (Minn.)
- Moorhead (Minn.)
- Norwegian Americans -- Minnesota.
- Perley (Minn.)
- Richards Farm (Minn.)
- Walker, Thomas McCormick, 1834-
- Wiig, Martha. -- : Interviews.
- Wiig, Ole Peter, 1854-1957. -- : Interviews.
- Women cooks -- Minnesota.
Creator
- Wiig, Ole Peter, 1854-1957. (Person)
- Wiig, Martha. (Person)
- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Ole Peter Wiig Papers
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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