Ebenezer Magoffin Family Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2202
Scope and Content
The Ebenezer Magoffin Family Photograph Collection contains one album contain 44 carte de visite photographs. Many of the photos are from Civil War period of Magoffin family in Kentucky and Missouri, and of many government leaders and generals of the Confederacy. Some of the those identified are: Clay Thomson, Minor Major, Sallie Major, Ebenezer Magoffin Sr., Margaret Magoffin, Belle Moran, Belle Magoffin, Emma Magoffin (senior), Ebenetta Magoffin, Jennie Magoffin – the governor’s daughter, Octavia Magoffin, Clay Offutt, Gen. Gustavus Smith C.S.A., Joshua Barbee – Pres. Minister, Ralph Bullock, Phil Washington, Elijah Magoffin, Jo Robinson, Eugene Herndon – C.S.A., Confederate Generals, “Confederate Dead”, John Breckenridge, John Hunt Morgan, “Confederate Cabinet”, John Magoffin (tin type), E. Magoffin, Mrs. Marion Gunnell, Thomas Gunnell, Charles Houston and Parker Hardin (tin type), Confederate “Southern Chiefs”, Mrs. Lizzie Fackler, Belfield Suggert, Miley Fackler, Col. Manlius V. Thomson.
The second folder holds three photographic prints. They are of Manlius V. Thomson and Mary A. Thomson, of Lexington, Kentucky, and one autographed photograph North Dakota Lieut. Governor Jack Patterson, dated 1939.
The second folder holds three photographic prints. They are of Manlius V. Thomson and Mary A. Thomson, of Lexington, Kentucky, and one autographed photograph North Dakota Lieut. Governor Jack Patterson, dated 1939.
Dates
- 1850s-1939
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
Ebenezer Magoffin was born in Missouri on November 4,1868 to Beriah and Manlius Magoffin. He was descended from Governor Beriah Magoffin of Kentucky, and General David Thomson. These were wealthy slaveholding families until the Civil War. In 1883 the family moved to Washington, D.C., and then to Dakota Territory near Redfield, South Dakota where Beriah Magoffin had contracts on several mail routes. During 1883-84 Ebenezer served as a page boy in the U.S. House of Representatives and also attended Spencerian Business College. In 1886 the family moved to Monango in Dickey County and established the Monango Mercantile Cash Co. In 1895 they established briefly the Magoffin and Son Cheeze Factory. In June 1897 Mr. Magoffin married Fannie Helferty of Monango and they had a daughter, Fannie. In 1898 his wife died, and in 1902 he married Amy Northrop, a teacher. She was the daughter of Theodorus Northrop, a Dickey County pioneer and a member of North Dakota's Constitutional Convention. They had one daughter, Lois. Mr. Magoffin died January 31, 1953 in Evanston, Illinois and Amy Magoffin died ca. March 28, 1957 in Texas. They are both buried in Monango.
Mr. Magoffin was camp clerk and Secretary of Modern Woodmen of America for over 50 years going back to 1893. He was elected State Senator from Dickey County on the Democratic ticket in 1936 and 1938. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Monango and a Mason.
Mr. Magoffin was camp clerk and Secretary of Modern Woodmen of America for over 50 years going back to 1893. He was elected State Senator from Dickey County on the Democratic ticket in 1936 and 1938. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Monango and a Mason.
Extent
3 Photographic Prints (3 photographic prints)
1 Photograph Albums (1 photograph album (44 carte de visite's))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Ebenezer Magoffin was a merchant and state legislator, of Monango, N.D.
Provenance
Donated by Fannie E. Magoffin, 1958 (Acc. 950).
Separated Materials
Correspondence and maunscript subject files arranged alphabetically in (Mss 950).
Property rights
The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Ebenezer Magoffin Family Photograph Collection
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
Contact:
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu