Zachariah Munter Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC 941

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Typed copy of a letter relating their early life in N.D., mentions the death of two children, grasshoppers eating the crops, trading butter for molasses. Also includes a list of birth and deaths dates for the Munter children and an obituary for August Munter, son of Zachariah and Charlotta

Dates

1939, 1958

Creator

Munter, Zachariah, 1835-1918. (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

Zachariah was born in the Värmland Sweden on November 28, 1835 to Lars and Maja (Jakobsdotter) Munter. He lived in and farmed in Sweden for a time where he met his wife, Charlotta Falk Andreasdotter (1840-1911) from West Jutland, Sweden. They married in Sweden in 1861. They eventually immigrated and arrived in St. Cloud, Minn. in 1869. They lived in a couple of places in Minnesota but they eventually moved to Caledonia, Traill County, N.D. in 1871. They had at least six children. Both Zachariah and Charlotta died in Tacoma, Washington, he on January 3, 1918 and she on October 3, 1911.