Tollef Torgerson Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 867
Scope and Contents
Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) concerning the George S. Barnes farm. Includes mention of various hired men who worked with Torgerson, horses and cattle on the Barnes Farm, shipping horses to logging camps in northern Minnesota in the winter, working at a logging camp, threshing equipment, buying his own farm land, and Jerry McCarthy, a Glyndon, Minn. farmer who froze to death. Also includes a clipping.
Dates
- 1957.
Creator
- Torgerson, Tollef, 1867- (Person)
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the Institute.
Copyrights
Copyrights to this collection are held by the Institute.
Biography
Born at Telemark, Norway. Wed Minnie Tunay, daughter of Erick Tunay, in 1890 and moved to Moorhead, Minn. Farmed land near Glyndon, Minn. Retired from farming and began hauling cattle. Retired in 1957.
Extent
2 Items (2 items.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) concerning the George S. Barnes farm. Includes mention of various hired men who worked with Torgerson, horses and cattle on the Barnes Farm, shipping horses to logging camps in northern Minnesota in the winter, working at a logging camp, threshing equipment, buying his own farm land, and Jerry McCarthy, a Glyndon, Minn. farmer who froze to death. Also includes a clipping.
Provenance
Donated by Tollef Torgerson on August 24, 1957.
Property rights
The Institute for Regional Studies owns the property rights to this collection.
- Agricultural laborers -- Minnesota.
- Agricultural machinery -- Minnesota.
- Barnes Farm (Minn.)
- Barnes, George S., 1840-1912.
- Clay County (Minn.)
- Clippings.
- Farmers -- Minnesota.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota.
- Horses -- Minnesota.
- Interviews.
- Logging -- Minnesota.
- Lumber camps -- Minnesota.
- Torgerson, Tollef, 1867- -- : Interviews.
Creator
- Torgerson, Tollef, 1867- (Person)
- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Tollef Torgerson Collection of Papers
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
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