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Olaf Anderson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 507
Abstract
Typed summary of an interview with Leonard Sackett about the village of Grandin with Mr. and Mrs. Anderson.
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Olaf Leikvam Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 647
Overview
Typed summary of detailed interview (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett and corrections concerning his employment on the Richards Farm, the main house, farm buildings, livestock, Richards family members, especially father Harry Richards and son John Elliott Richards.
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Olaus C. Olson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 501
Abstract
Typed summary of interview and addenda, with Leonard Sackett, relating to steamboats hauling grain on the Red River, the Richards Farm, includes mention of Harry Richards, his wife, and son, Elliott, the Grandin elevator on the Finney farm, and a handwritten note.
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Olaus Hanson and John Jensen Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 742
Abstract
Typed transcript of interview with Mr. Hanson and John Jensen, concerning their families, working on the G.S. Barnes Farm near Glyndon. Includes mention of their fathers who emigrated from Norway (Olie Hanson, Telemarken, Norway and Jens Jensen, Christiania, Norway), Dan and Mike McCarthy, lumbering near Dexterville, Minn., a Christmas Eve saloon brawl at Dexterville, and Hanson's house which was built over a saloon.
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Ole Jordet Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 440
Abstract
Typed summary and corrected carbon copy of interview (4 leaves) with Jordet and daughter Caroline Jordet Hatlen concerning his life in North Dakota. Includes obituary of son Albert Jordet. It includes a photograph olf old farm in Norway.
Dates:
1954-1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Ole Peter Wiig Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 456
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Ole Peter and Martha Wiig concerning his life at Lake Park and Perley, Minn. Includes mention of his first jobs in Lake Park, Minn. as a laborer and a farm worker, working on the Walker farm, his wife's job as Walker Farm cook, their wages, their experiences owning a farm and later, owning a hotel in Perley, Minn. Also includes clippings.
Dates:
1950, 1954-1957.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Oliver Almlie Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 874
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, Engebredt Almlie, and himself, both of whom worked on the Helendale farm of J.B. Power.
Dates:
1957.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Oscar P. Bakke Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 756
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his father Oscar Bakke, a Norwegian immigrant, young Oscar's trapping and working on the Helendale Farm.
Dates:
1956.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Peter A. Lundwall Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 211
Abstract
Family history material, interview with Earl and Beatrice Lundwall Elwell, mention of the Chaffee family, especially of H.F. Chaffee, his wife, Carrie Toogood Chaffee, various jobs Earl held at Amenia and Sharon Land Company, electrostatic copy of Peter A. Lundwall's citizenship certificate (1894), and newspaper clippings on various family members.
Dates:
1932-1952.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Peter Brooks Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 758
Abstract
Typed summary of an interview (7 leaves) and corrections (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father James Brooks who homesteaded in Traill County, and worked on the Grandin farm; and his obituary.
Dates:
1956, 1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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