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Lea B. Hibbard Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Photo 516

Scope and Contents

This collection contains two photographs and a scrap of paper. The scrap of paper lists the three farms that Hibbard either worked at or managed. One of the photographs is of Hibbard and the other is a wide-angle photograph of perhaps Keystone Farm in Minnesota.

Dates

  • Majority of material found within 1900s

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

Eleazor (or Eleazer) Byron Hibbard was born to Joseph Leander and Jane N. E. Young in Salina, New York, July 17, 1857. He married Minnie A. Baker (1856–1914). He worked a variety of farms including being the manager at the Keystone bonanza farm in Minnesota from 1896 to 1899. On the Jones farm near Clifford from 1899 to 1904 and working on the Carrington Casey Ranch (later known as the Hanna Ranch) from 1904 to 1906. He died July 8, 1906 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New York.

Extent

3 Items

Language of Materials

English

Overview

Two photographs related to Lea B. Hibbard, one of him and one of potentially a farm he worked on. This collection also includes a scrap of paper giving dates for when he worked on particular farms.

Provenance

Donated by E. W. Spring on April 10, 1954 (Accession 298)

Property Rights

The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
Title
Finding Aid to the Lea B. Hibbard Photograph Collection
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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