Page Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 677
Scope and Contents
Page, Joseph L., b. 1875. Homesteading in North Dakota in 1900. Page, Joseph L., b. 1875. History of four Page brothers and their sister Margaret A. Page who emigrated from their parental home near Girard, Illinois to North Dakota and filed on government homesteads between Mar[c]h 1888 and 1904. Page, Joseph L., 1875- History of four Page brothers and their sister Margaret A. Page who emigrated from their parental home near Girard, Illinois to North Dakota and filed on government homesteads between Marh [sic] 1888 and 1904. Includes "Homesteading in North Dakota in 1900," (11 leaves) by Joseph L. Page and "A history of four Page brothers and their sister Margaret A. Page who emigrated from their parental home near Girard, Illinois to North Dakota and filed on government homesteads between Mar[c]h 1888 and 1904," (11 leaves) by Joseph L. Page, both sketches relate the Page brothers and sister moving to N.D., their homesteading, blizzards, family members' involvement with banking, closing banks during the depression, Joseph's courtship of Anna Heidenrich, whom he later married, Joseph's soil conservation ideas, raising flax, Usher L. Burdick, Captain J.C. Atkins, father-in-law to Elisha B. Also mentions Pleasant Lake and Rugby, N.D. and includes newspaper clippings.
Dates
- 1928, 1952-1957.
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
Elisha Bartlett, Eben T., John T., and Joseph L., and their sister, Margaret, children of Elisha W. and Anna M. Page, moved from Girard, Ill. to Benson County, N.D. in the late 1800s. Most farmed near Leeds, N.D. and were involved with banking in North Dakota, especially Westhope,
Newburg, Richburg, and Bottineau, N.D. Joseph later became a bank president, then a real estate appraiser, and retired to Fargo. Eben died in 1899, Margaret moved to Oregon in 1908.
Extent
10 Items (10 items.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
History of four Page brothers and their sister Margaret A. Page who emigrated from their parental home near Girard, Illinois to North Dakota and filed on government homesteads between Mar[c]h 1888 and 1904.
Provenance
Donated by Barbara Page Beiswanger (Acc. 677).
Property rights
The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
- Appraisers -- North Dakota.
- Bankers -- North Dakota.
- Banks and banking -- North Dakota.
- Benson County (N.D.)
- Blizzards -- North Dakota.
- Bottineau (N.D.)
- Churchs Ferry (N.D.)
- Clippings.
- Correspondence.
- Courtship -- North Dakota.
- Depressions -- 1929 -- North Dakota.
- Family histories.
- Farmers -- North Dakota.
- Flax -- North Dakota.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- North Dakota -- Towner County.
- Leeds (N.D.)
- Page family.
- Page, Eben T., d. 1899.
- Page, Elisha Bartlett, 1866-1940.
- Page, John T. (John Thomas Williams), 1872-1954.
- Page, Joseph L., 1875-
- Page, Margaret A.
- Pamphlets.
- Pleasant Lake (N.D.)
- Reminiscences.
- Richburg (N.D.)
- Rugby (N.D.)
- Towner County (N.D.)
- Westhope (N.D.)
- Women pioneers -- North Dakota.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Page Family 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