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Peter J. Walburg Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 498
Abstract
Letter, typed summary of interview (15 leaves) concerning J.B. Power, Helendale Farm, Amenia and Sharon Land Company, and his father Peter Walburg, a Swiss immigrant. Includes mention of their homestead near the Maple River, his work on Dalrymple No. 1 Farm, son Peter's first jobs as mule driver, choreboy, and herding horses for the Dalrymples, cutting wood at Helendale Farm, his father, and later Martin Hanson, hauling mail, Helendale Farm's soil, selling out and moving to Leonard, N.D.,...
Dates:
1955.
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Pratt Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 608
Abstract
Two interviews concerning the Pratt family. First interview (9 leaves) with R.W. (Robert Wesley) Pratt and his wife, Anne (Margach) Pratt, concerns George and Mathilda (Dempsey) Pratt moving to N.D. in 1880 from Ontario, George's brothers, James, WIlliam, and R.J., who moved to N.D., difficulties in plowing, W.J. Pratt and his wife, Dr. Charlotte Campbell, George Pratt's gift of property to his four children, James Pratt selling his business to L.J. (Lewis) Margach, mention of General Thomas M....
Dates:
1924, 1956-1957.
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Ralph F. Gunkelman Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 569
Abstract
Typewritten summaries of interviews with Gunkelman and his son, John L. Gunkelman; ms. histories concerning R.F. Gunkelman & Sons and the Gunkelman family by Gary Hedstrom and Christopher T. Bucholz; and clippings. Includes information relating to the Rand and Brown Farm, grain elevators, and Ralph Gunkelman's founding of Farmers Grain Co., Grandin, N.D. (1913), his ownership of Interstate Seed & Grain Co., Fargo (1917-1943), and of R.F. Gunkelman & Sons (1943- ).
Dates:
1955-1986.
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Robert B. Reed Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 438
Abstract
Typed summary of first interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett includes mention of the Chaffee family, Helendale Farm, description of a round grain elevator at Amenia, handling grain, his uncle, Cornelius Reed, who worked at the Amenia grain elevator, plows and grain binders used at Amenia and Sharon, Amenia store, description of various sections of Amenia and Sharon land, Robert and John Reed buying cattle and sheep, raising sheep at the Amenia and Sharon, the Reed-Sargent farm partnership...
Dates:
1955-1960.
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Robert D. Crawford Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 290
Abstract
The collection consists of family correspondence (1864-1894) and handwritten reminiscence (734 p.) by Crawford concerning family history, pioneer life in Minnesota and the Wahpeton, ND area, together with their Putney, Vermont background.
Dates:
1867-1963.
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Robert L. Hanna Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 606
Abstract
Two interviews with Leonard Sackett mentioning the Carrington and Casey Land Company, L.B. Hanna, George Palmer, and Hanna Stock Farm. George Palmer was superintendent of Carrington and Casey Land Company, and later purchased it in partnership with L.B. Hanna. Registered Angus cattle dispersal sale pamphlet from the Hanna Stock Farm and newspaper clipping of Robert Hanna's obituary included.
Dates:
1946, 1954-1956.
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Roy W. Johnston Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 668
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (3 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, Edward Johnston, an Irish emigrant who worked as a foreman on the Grandin Farm, Von Steinwehr Farm, and McClain Farm, and obituary of Roy. His father married Jane Nicholson (1866-1947) in Canada, homesteaded in Bohnsack Township near Hillsboro, N.D. 1880, sold out 1891, and bought a farm near Kelso, N.D.
Dates:
1956-1957.
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Russell D. Chase Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 508
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Carrington & Casey Land Company, law partner George Thorpe, and obituaries of Mr. and Mrs. Chase.
Dates:
1954-1956, 1963.
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S. Ambrose McCoy Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 530
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with S. Ambrose and Mary McNamee McCoy, with handwritten annotations, concerning his father, Thomas McCoy, who was a foreman on Grandin Farm No. 1 and Grandin Farm No. 2 under A.R. Dalrymple, and later homesteaded at Kelso, N.D. Includes mention of S.A. Dalrymple, Mary McCoy's uncle John F. McNamee, Tom McCoy's ditch that drained from the Red River, cattle lost in a storm, Mary McCoy's father, Michael J. McNamee, who emigrated from Perth, Ontario and came to Manvel,...
Dates:
1954.
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Samuel Hovland Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 656
Abstract
Typewritten summary of interview with Hovland's daughter and her husband, Lena (Hovland) and Martin Martinson, chiefly relating to Hovland's early employment as cook and the Grandin Farms by whom he was employed; legal documents; certificates, including seaman's certificate; biographical sketch; deeds; and clippings. Persons represented include Hovland's son, Elvin Hovland, and members of the Dalrymple family.
Dates:
1868-1956.
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- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 85
- Amenia and Sharon Land Company. 14
- Power, J. B. (James Buel), 1833-1912. 14
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- Dalrymple, A. R. (Alton R.) 9
- Chaffee family. 6
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- Dalrymple, Oliver, d. 1908. 6
- Holstrom, A. G. (Aaron G.), 1869-1947. 6
- Adams, William P., 1863-1937. 5
- Dwight Farm and Land Company (Dwight, N.D.) 5
- Grandin, John L. (John Livingston), 1836-1912 5
- Kennedy, James, 1857-1926. 5
- Power, J. A. (James A.), d. 1924. 5
- Bagg, Frederick A. (Frederick Austin), 1858-1950. 4
- Carrington & Casey Land Company. 4
- Chaffee, Carrie T. (Carrie Toogood), 1864-1931. 4
- Chaffee, E. W. (Eben Whitney), 1824-1892. 4
- Downing, Steven Gerard, 1874-1957. 4
- Miller, John, 1843-1908. 4
- Reed, Robert B., 1874-1960. 4
- Smith, Datus C., 1853-1932. 4
- Baldwin Corporation. 3
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- Dalrymple, Clark, b. 1863. 3
- Dalrymple, John S. (John Stewart) 3
- Hanna, Louis B. (Louis Benjamin), 1861-1948. 3
- Hunter, William C. (William Columbus), 1882-1973. 3
- North Dakota Agricultural College. 3
- North Dakota. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives 3
- Reed, J. H. (John Horace), 1846-1925. 3
- Vinje, C. O. (Carl), 1861-1931. 3
- Walker, Thomas McCormick, 1834- 3
- Adams, John Quincy, 1824-1899. 2
- Baldwin, George, 1830-1907. 2
- Burns, John, 1868-1956. 2
- Cooper, Rollin C., 1845-1938. 2
- Dalrymple, Silas A. 2
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- Drache, Hiram M. 2
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- Glover, Samuel, 1839-1910. 2
- Grandin Farm No. 1 (Mayville, N.D.) 2
- Grandin Farm Trust. 2
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) 2
- Guy, William Lewis, 1890-1942. 2
- Hanna, Robert L., 1902-1955. 2
- Hanson, John H., 1863-1957. 2
- Hanson, Joseph, b. 1870. 2
- Hanson, Martin, 1878-1949. 2
- Herman, Frank John, 1888- 2
- Herman, Frank. 2
- Holstrom, Rachel. 2
- Jones, R. W., of Buffalo, N.Y. (Robert W.) 2
- McNary, J. W. (James W.) 2
- Mecklenburg, Emil, 1885-1956. 2
- Merrifield, W. G., 1868- 2
- Miller, Ralph L., b. 1884. 2
- Miller-Chaffee-Reed Company. 2
- Northern Pacific Railroad Company. 2
- Northern Pacific Railway Company. 2
- Pannebaker, John H., 1889-1957. 2
- Power, Elizabeth N. 2
- Power, Ethelwyn. 2
- Power, Frank B., 1900- 2
- Power, Newman. 2
- Power, William. 2
- Punton, Bessie, 1877-1960. 2
- Punton, Thomas, 1856-1931. 2
- Radcliffe, Thomas W., 1855-1939. 2
- Stevenson, Irene. 2
- Aasland, Alfred, 1884-1970. 1
- Aasland, Ole L., 1850-1929. 1
- Akin, Glenn, 1896-1967. 1
- Akin, William Richard. 1
- Allison, G. Robert, 1910- 1
- Almlie, Engebredt, 1847-1914. 1
- Almlie, Oliver, 1878-1961. 1
- Amenia Elevator Company (Amenia, N.D.) 1
- Anderson, Albert, 1885-1958. 1
- Anderson, Hegbert, 1877-1957. 1
- Anderson, Lars, 1878-1965. 1
- Ankerfelt family. 1
- Ankerfelt, Emil Carl, 1882- 1
- B.F. Mackall Inc. (Moorhead, Minn.) 1
- Bagg Bonanza Farm Historic Preservation Society. 1
- Bakke, Oscar P., b. 1889 1
- Baldwin Land Company 1
- Baldwin, Charles F., 1879-1947. 1
- Barber, Elihu. 1
- Bohnsack family. 1
- Bohnsack, Charles, 1859-1957 1
- Bonanzaville U.S.A. 1
- Bratland, Ella Radcliffe, 1900-1973. 1
- Brinker, J. M. (John M.), -1903. 1
- Brooks, James, b. 1848. 1
- Brooks, Peter, 1872-1960 1
- Brunsdale, George Elmer, 1890-1970. 1
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