Peter J. Walburg Interview

Collection

Identifier: SC 498

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Letter, typed summary of interview (15 leaves) concerning J.B. Power, Helendale Farm, Amenia and Sharon Land Company, and his father Peter Walburg, a Swiss immigrant. Includes mention of their homestead near the Maple River, his work on Dalrymple No. 1 Farm, son Peter's first jobs as mule driver, choreboy, and herding horses for the Dalrymples, cutting wood at Helendale Farm, his father, and later Martin Hanson, hauling mail, Helendale Farm's soil, selling out and moving to Leonard, N.D., working at Dalrymple Farms, P.O. Peterson, Eric Peterson, and Tom Alme, Dalrymple foremen, Deering grain binders and their repair, feeding the hired men, wages for hired men, hog feeding and butchering, his father's alcoholism, renting Amenia and Sharon farmland, A.E. Cure and Robert Love, Amenia and Sharon employees, Robert Reed, crop agreement with Amenia and Sharon, Peter J. Walburg's jobs as auctioneer and Cass County deputy sheriff after he quit farming.

Dates

1955.

Creator

Walburg, Peter J., 1877-1961. (Person)

Access

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

Copyrights

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Biography

Son of Swiss immigrants who immigrated in 1872 to Moorhead, Minn. Family moved to a farm on the Maple River, left it in 1888 and moved to a farm near Leonard, N.D. Wed Laura Peterson in 1901, they moved to Chaffee, N.D. in 1906. He rented farmland from Amenia and Sharon Land Company, retiring in 1922. Became an auctioneer in 1919 and worked as a Cass County deputy from 1928-1953.