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A Review of Pioneering during the Opening of the Midwest Plains, by L.M. Puffer

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Identifier: SC 1217
Abstract Typed reminiscence of pioneering days in Dickey County, N.D. of the Puffer family, who came to Port Emma Township, Dickey County, N.D. from Wisconsin in 1883. Mentions Ellendale, N.D., a brother M.H. (Myron Henry), various early Dickey County settlers, digging water wells, sod shanty construction, plowing, gathering buffalo bones, polishing buffalo horns to be used as gifts, and source of the name for Hayti, S.D.
Dates: Majority of material found within [195-].

Alex Alin Newspaper Clippings Collection

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Identifier: SC 35
Abstract Various clippings concerning the Alins (Alex and Frank), including 'An historical compilation of Dickey County newspapers' (1941) by Alex Alin, and the 1915 price list for his Arboretum Farm Nursery at Fullerton, N.D.
Dates: 1941-1953.

Baldwin Corporation Photograph Collection

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Identifier: Photo Folio 61
Abstract The Baldwin Corporation was founded in 1898 and was based in Appleton, Wisconsin with large land holdings (75,000 acres) in Dickey Country, ND.
Dates: 1880 - 1930

Charles E. Davis Interview

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Identifier: SC 1116
Abstract Typed transcript of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning the Baldwin Land Company farms in Dickey County, and their management. Owned by George Baldwin, and later, his sons George B. and Charles F. Baldwin.
Dates: 1953

Clement Community Survey

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Identifier: SC 878
Abstract Survey compiled as a student project which includes historical material, information on community organizations, church activities on Clement, N.D. Also includes numerous photographs and clippings of the Clement, Ellendale, and Oakes, N.D. communities.
Dates: 1930

F. A. Pazandak Photograph Collection

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Identifier: Photo 2026
Scope and Contents The F.A. Pazandak Collection contains 115 images documenting the transition on a North Dakota farm from horses to steam engines to tractors, covering the period from 1908 to the 1920s. All images were taken by Mr. Pazandak on the Pazandak farms near Fullerton, N.D., in southeastern North Dakota. In addition, a hand-colored version for four of the images are included. These hand-colored images come from the Senator Milton R. Young Collection and had hung in his Senate office in Washington, D.C....
Dates: 1908-1960s

Florence Folsom Collection of Papers

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Identifier: SC 51
Abstract Correspondence, historical sketches, and manuscripts of writings. Includes information relating to Ludden and Port Emma, N.D., North Dakota judge William H. Ellis (also known as Will Ellis), area doctors and newspapers, frontier life in Dickey County, and personal, family, and local history.
Dates: ca. 1920-1954

Fred Fiechtner Autobiography

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Identifier: SC 875
Abstract Photocopy of handwritten autobiographical sketch of his life which includes genealogical information on his German ancestors, the Fiechtners and the Gebhardts, from Odessa, Russia and Backnang, Württemburg, Germany. Also included are some photocopies of his father's writings in English and German.
Dates: 1974

George M. Lane Family Papers

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Identifier: SC 66
Abstract Mimeographed typed copy of Lane family history (2 leaves) by Cora Lane Kellogg entitled "George M. Lane family, early settlers in Dickey County, North Dakota," which includes their move to North Dakota and daughter Cora's marriage to Willard E. Kellogg in 1890; "Reminiscences of pioneer days in Dickey County, North Dakota," (1 leaf) by Cora Lane Kellogg concerns a false Indian scare and buying new shoes; "Cattle rustlers in Dickey County, North Dakota," (1 leaf) by George E. Lane which refers...
Dates: 1910

Glover Farms Records

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Identifier: SC 75
Abstract Correspondence, interviews with Faith Cambellick and others, historical notes by Laura Vix, and clippings, relating to Glover Farm, bonanza farm in Dickey County, near Ellendale, N.D., founded by Samuel Glover, of Delaware, Ohio.
Dates: 1917-1954