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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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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