William P. Sebens Interviews

Collection

Identifier: SC 520

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Typed summary of two interviews. First interview (2 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerns Fred Bagg, a friend of Sebens, and a nephew of J.F. Downing. Includes mention of Seben's purchase of a sweet clover crop from Bagg, Bagg's appearance, and Bagg's son, Roy, a mechanic and pilot. Second detailed interview (10 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerns the Adams Farm, (also known as the Fairview Farm) owned by W.P. Adams family at Mooreton, N.D. Includes W.P. Adams' father buying land, withholding wheat from the market, description of the farm buildings, sale of the farm to John Mathews in 1916, W.P. experimenting with sweet clover, threshing, W.P.'s formula on getting the most from laborers, planting flax and other financial information; also includes two clipping

Dates

1955.

Creator

Sebens, William P., 1898-1978. (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

William P. Sebens was born April 30, 1896 at Hamlet, Indiana where he grew up. In 1918 he married Mildred Bunnell there. They moved to North Dakota and settled at Milnor, N.D. where he farmed and was in the seed business. In 1934 they moved to Fargo where he was a field representative for the Greater North Dakota Association for twenty-one years. From 1955 to 1971 he was executive secretary for the North Dakota State Soil Conservation Committee in Bismarck, N.D. Mr. and Mrs. Sebens raised seven children. He died in Bismarck May 12, 1978. Mrs. Sebens died May 19, 1995.

Extent

4 Items (4 items.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Interviews related to William P. Sebens, and farming concerns related to his friend, Fred Bagg, as well as the Adams Farm, (also known as the Fairview Farm) owned by W. P. Adams family at Mooreton, N.D. Includes his experimenting with sweet clover, threshing, his formula on getting the most from laborers, and planting flax.