Ralph L. Miller Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC 447

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Letter, and two interviews. First interview (3 leaves) with Leonard Sackett mentions Melville, N.D., a business partnership with his uncle, T.N. Putnam, Carrington & Casey farm lands, Peter Zink, an area pioneer, Melville baseball team, and its most famous player, Billy Sunday. Second interview (7 leaves) with Ralph Miller and James Edward (Ed) Galehouse mentions Charlie Wing (known as C.K.), his trading and poker playing, a brothel near Carrington, brief mention of Mrs. Galehouse and Mabel (Morgan) Miller. Also includes two separate stories told by Ralph Miller, one mentioning C.K. Wing borrowing money, the other is about L.B. Hanna, sheep, and Mr. and Mrs. Fernando F. Reimers, and his obituary.

Dates

1954-1961.

Creator

Miller, Ralph L., b. 1884. (Person)

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

Born at Rockwell, Iowa, son of Dr. E.C. and Mrs. Miller. Family moved to Brookings, S.D. in 1899. He graduated from S.D. State College in 1905, moved to Carrington, N.D. in 1906 to work for his uncle, T.N. Putnam. 1911, he bought out his uncle's partner, G.W. Wiley, and moved to Melville, N.D. to operate a lumberyard. Joined the Masonic lodge in 1908. Left the lumber business in 1921, offered a job as deputy grand secretary of the Masonic Bodies of North Dakota.