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Benson County, North Dakota Maps
Item
Identifier: SC 991
Abstract
Photocopy of 1905 map of Benson County showing land ownership by township (incomplete), possibly copied from a large wall map. Some sections illegible.
Dates:
1905
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Bert M. Salisbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 64
Abstract
Correspondence (1935-1936), reminiscences relating to Salisbury's career and local politics, speeches, contracts, and expense account records. Includes information pertaining to the Benson County Holiday Association and his activities as secretary and also to the North Dakota Farm Holiday Association.
Dates:
1935-1953.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Eugene J. Rolle Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 684
Abstract
Luxembourg native and one of the first to use insulin in the treatment of diabetes.
Dates:
1860-1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Huber Family History Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 557
Abstract
Typed copy of the history of his biological parents and his adoptive parents. Parents were Philip J. Huber and Rose Engel. His father emigrated from Odessa, Russia in 1907, worked on various farms in Wells County, N.D., and began farming on his own 1921. First wife died in 1929, Harold's mother was from Nebraska, she had moved to N.D. in 1931. Her maiden name was Engel. John "Jack" Miller, born in Cornwall, Ontario, immigrated to Buffalo, N.D. 1910. Owned a drugstore in Balfour, N.D.; married...
Dates:
1890-1953
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Hunting on the Island Column
Collection
Identifier: SC 796
Abstract
Series of 52 weekly articles written by Ward and published in the Benson County Farmers Press newspaper in 2005 and 2006. Inventory of the articles compiled by Ward list the genre as 'memoir, seasoned with nostalgia.' Some of the topics include Minnewaukan & Graham's Island, the Ward family, the 1940s and 1950s, farming, cattle, people, and buildings. Holidays, books, sports and sin. They are written in serious, funny and sentimental tones.
Dates:
2005-2006
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Page Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 677
Abstract
History of four Page brothers and their sister Margaret A. Page who emigrated from their parental home near Girard, Illinois to North Dakota and filed on government homesteads between Mar[c]h 1888 and 1904.
Dates:
1928, 1952-1957.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Ralph D. Ward Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 354
Abstract
Mr. Ward was a North Dakota rancher and banker. The collection contains correspondence dealing chiefly with farming, ranching, legal and financial matters, land transactions, politics and banking; and biographical stories by his uncle Henry Ward, about pioneer life in in Dakota Territory to include Black Hills gold mining, 1881 Mandan flood, life in Owego colony in 1873, and hauling freight in a blizzard. There is also clippings and articles on Ward's father-in-law, Reuben N. Stevens, and the...
Dates:
1875-1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Walter & Elizabeth (Bosch) Miltenberger Collection
Collection
Identifier: GRHC 002
Summary
This collection contains photographs, correspondence, and biographical material related to the Bosch and Miltenberger families; 1870s-2007.
Dates:
1870 - 2007
Found in:
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection
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- Benson County (N.D.). Auditor. 1
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- Bond, Walter R., 1871-1947. 1
- Bosch family. 1
- Erickson, Alfred O. 1
- Hanley, James M., 1877-1947. 1
- Hanna, Louis B. (Louis Benjamin), 1861-1948. 1
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- Lemke, William, 1878-1950. 1
- McCumber, Porter J. (Porter James), 1856-1933. 1
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- Miller, Harold. 1
- Miller, John, b. 1871. 1
- Miller, Martha Sampson, b. 1884. 1
- Miltenberger family. 1
- Miltenberger, Elizabeth Bosch. 1
- Miltenberger, Walter. 1
- North Dakota Agricultural College. 1
- North Dakota Farm Holiday Association. 1
- North Dakota Taxpayers Association. 1
- Page family. 1
- Page, Eben T., d. 1899. 1
- Page, Elisha Bartlett, 1866-1940. 1
- Page, John T. (John Thomas Williams), 1872-1954. 1
- Page, Joseph L., 1875- 1
- Page, Margaret A. 1
- Power, J. A. (James A.), d. 1924. 1
- Rolle, Eugene Jean, 1863-1953. 1
- Salisbury, Bert M. (Bert Marl), 1891-1972. 1
- Shepperd, John H. (John Henry), 1869-1939. 1
- Stevens, Reuben N. 1
- Twichell, Luther Lathrop, 1872-1944. 1
- Ward family. 1
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