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Adolph Ed Seaburg Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1062
Overview
Danish-American locomotive engineer for Northern Pacific Railway Company, of Fargo, N.D.; also known as Ed Seaburg. Correspondence relating to Willis H. Downs, of Jamestown, N.D., Downs's activities with North Dakota Volunteers, 1st Infantry Regiment, Company H, in the Philippines during the Spanish American War, and his receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1906, and to Seaburg's father, Nels Seaburg, including World War I correspondence; funeral book; pamphlets; program (1910) of...
Dates:
1900-1960.
Found in:
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Frank B. Power Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 494
Abstract
Interview and corrections (13 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his recollections of J.B. Power and Helendale Farm, corrections by Ethelwyn Power. Includes mention of birth and death dates of J.B. Power's children: Charles M., George, Helen, and twins, James A. and Clara, Helen's death at boarding school, J.B.'s brother, William, J.B.'s employment with Northern Pacific Railroad, some history of Helendale Farm, J.B. Power's financial losses, description of farm buildings especially the...
Dates:
1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
J.B. (James Buel) Power Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 309
Abstract
Power was a Northern Pacific land agent and farmer. The collection contains 14 volumes of indexed correspondence that give valuable information on the inside operation of the railroads and the opening of agricultural lands in North Dakota. The collection also contains material related to Power's farm at Helendale and the early settlement of the Red River Valley.
Dates:
1872-1930
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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