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Leslie N. Putnam Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 591
Abstract
Typed summary of first interview (3 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Putnam family and their lumberyard business. Mentions Ralph L. Miller, business partner of T.N. Putnam; Leslie Putnam's struggle to retain the farm; T.N.'s career in lumber business; his election as Foster County Treasurer and both houses of N.D. legislature. Second interview (1 leaf) with Leonard Sackett mentions L.B. Hanna's purchase in 1932 of the Carrington and Casey ranch, includes references to Hanna's...
Dates:
1954.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Mabel Vold Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 934
Overview
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, Martin Hanson, Helendale Farm, and the J.B. Power family. Includes mention of Martin Hanson's coming to N.D., buying land near Helendale Farm, lists names and birthdates of Mabel's siblings, Mabel's employment as nanny and later as cook at Helendale Farm, description of the housing for J.B. Power, his son Allie, and Allie's family, a general store on Helendale Farm, kitchen arrangements, her friendship with the Power family,...
Dates:
1956.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Manly M. Furuseth Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 523
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his Norwegian immigrant father Jacob Furuseth, who was a blacksmith on the Grandin Farms and later built a blacksmith shop in Halstad, Minn. Includes mention of John Wyman, a Fargo real estate man, the Furuseth brothers Manly and Jule, farming land formerly part of the Grandin Farms.
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Margarethe Opgrande Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 675
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (2 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning her brothers, Ludwig and Carl (also known as Charlie) Vinje, who worked on the A.R. Dalrymple and Oliver Dalrymple farms, and obituaries. Includes mention of Ludwig's death from typhoid, Carl starting his own farm, and their graves. Includes several obituary clippings.
Dates:
1931, 1956-1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Marguerite Ferguson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 512
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Marguerite Ferguson, concerning her parents, Philip and Mary Weisbecker, who moved from New York to Moorhead, Minn., then to Grandin, N.D. where they bought a hotel. Includes mention of the first business establishments in Grandin, additions to the hotel, cooking for threshing crews, boarding farm workers during the winter, Lynn Ferguson, Marguerite's son and farm manager for John S. Dalrymple. Also includes clippings.
Dates:
1954, 1958.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Martin Hector Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 175
Abstract
Interview with granddaughter Mary Halland about Hector and his early business ventures. Includes obituaries of Martin Hector, son Fred Hector, newspaper clipping of Fargo home referred to as the Henry Hector home, photocopy of Hammerfest, Norway church record of Hector's family (in Norwegian) and a typed English translation of the record.
Dates:
1938-1954.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Mary E. Warner Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1439
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, Stott English, who worked as foreman on the Cass, Bond, Greene, Twitchell, and Kennedy farms. He was a native of Pittsfield, Pa.
Dates:
1957.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Neil McFarlane Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 664
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) mentioning McFarlane's uncle, Henry C. Lyon, foreman and manager of Rand and Brown Farm (1881-1882), John Elliot who followed Lyon as foreman, a description of Rand and Brown Farm's location, General Thomas M. Walker, a Civil War veteran from Erie, Penn., who managed the Rand and Brown Farm and later bought his own farm, a brief mention of his wife Agnes Coughey Walker, a description of the Rand and Brown Farm buildings including the grain elevators, and...
Dates:
1896, 1956.
Found in:
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Nelson and Clara Finney Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 548
Abstract
Letter and typed summary of interview (5 leaves) with Mr. and Mrs. Finney concerning the Reid Farm; contains some family history and mention of the Kelso Farm and Hill Farm.
Dates:
1955-1956.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Norvin Ovrom Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 573
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (10 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the period his family lived at Clifford, N.D. Includes mention of his father, Waldemar, a Norwegian immigrant who worked as a store clerk in Wisconsin, later managed a general store owned by Anton Kraabel in Clifford, N.D., store robberies and fires in Clifford, Waldemar's own store and post office, his drugstore business, early businessmen in Clifford, installing early telephone lines in Clifford, N.D., description of...
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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