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Andrew Nelson Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 53
Abstract Typed summary of interview (3 leaves) concerning his attempts at farming and his years as manager of the Howe Farm. Includes description of the buildings on the farm, the horses, and the field work. Also includes newspaper clippings.
Dates: 1953-1957

Andrew R. Mourer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 509
Abstract Typed summary of detailed interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, Andrew R. Mourer, Sr., who came to Hankinson, N.D. area in 1878 and was the first to own a steam engine in Hankinson. Includes an explanation of how a horse-powered separator works, behavioral differences between horses and mules, treatment of mules at Keystone Farm, artesian water and its effect on new residents, physical effects of field work on hired men, and a pencil sketch of a horse drawn separator.
Dates: 1954

Anna Dean Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 62
Abstract Photocopy of a historical article written on the early settlers of the Keystone and Monango, N.D. area including Porter Township.
Dates: circa 1910

Anne Walters Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 171-Mss 1596.1
Abstract A prized playwright and dramatist from Webster, North Dakota who wrote several full length plays and books. Includes her works 'Choice' which is the story of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and 'I Remember, I Remember,' a story of a North Dakota childhood. There are also her poetry files, numerous manuscript stories. The 'Anecdotage' manuscript documents memories of a North Dakota childhood which include homesteading, prairie schooner, the threshers, a country school,...
Dates: 1910-1984

Anton Orvik Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 264
Abstract Born at Norman County, Minn. Wed Clara Gilbertson in 1908. Worked as foreman at Robineau Farms, Kelso, N.D., Clark Dalrymple and A.R. Dalrymple farms. Began farming for himself in 1927, moved to Halstad, Minn. in 1934.
Dates: 1954-1957

Arthur E. Elwell Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 703
Abstract Interview (3 leaves) with Arthur and Lettie Elwell, concerning his father, Joseph Elwell, who managed the James C. Gill farm (1883-1897) near Wheatland, N.D., electrostatic copy of Joseph Elwell's birth certificate (1862), and clippings.
Dates: 1932-1954

“As I remember It”, the Iver Lund Reminiscence

 Collection
Identifier: SC 807
Abstract Reminiscence (20 leaves), likely written in 1998, by Iver Lund, who was born in 1918 the son of Christ and Kristine (Loken) Lund, documents his growing up on a farm at Zenith, N.D. near Belfield and attending Dickinson State Teacher's College from which he graduated in 1941 before entering the military. Reminiscence includes reprints of article by Lund published in North Dakota Outdoors in 1992. Collection also includes several newspapers articles by and about Lund.
Dates: 1998

Autobiography of William G. Starck

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Identifier: SC 592
Abstract Photocopy of typescript autobiography that documents the lives of his German immigrant parents, Theodore and Wilhelmina Starck, who lived and farmed in Missouri and Nebraska and Starck's homesteading in Oliver County, N.D. in 1902. Includes mention of his parents trying to farm in Nebraska, their return to Missouri and coming back to Nebraska, his own experiences handling horses, the hospitality of German Russians in N.D., threshing, and a rooster used as an alarm clock.
Dates: 1949.

Bardi G. Skulason Collection of Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 252-Mss 1500
Abstract Icelandic American lawyer and state legislator, of Mountain, N.D., and later of Oregon.
Dates: 1901-1955

Benjamin H. Barrett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 255
Abstract Extension agent in Emmons County, N. D. from 1934 to 1959 who wrote about his life as an agent and early farmer.
Dates: ca. 1950-1976

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Power, J. B. (James Buel), 1833-1912. 6
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Adams, William P., 1863-1937. 3
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Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876. 3
Dalrymple, Clark, b. 1863. 3
Dalrymple, Oliver, d. 1908. 3
Farley, Mary Agnes, 1863-1952. 3
Farley, William, 1859-1932. 3
Holes, James, 1845-1916. 3
Miller, Ralph L., b. 1884. 3
North Dakota State University. 3
Raaen family. 3
Raaen, Aagot. 3
Raaen, Thomas, 1827-1903. 3
Slaughter, Linda W. (Linda Warfel), 1850-1920. 3
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Chaffee, E. W. (Eben Whitney), 1824-1892. 2
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North Dakota. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives 2
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Red River Valley Old Settlers Association. 2
Reed, Robert B., 1874-1960. 2
Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891. 2
Smith, Datus C., 1853-1932. 2
Stevenson, Irene. 2
Vinje, C. O. (Carl), 1861-1931. 2
Watson, Lewis F. (Lewis Findlay), 1819-1890. 2
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Abbott family. 1
Abbott, Carl, 1879- 1
Abbott, N. C. (Newton Carl), 1849- 1
Adams and Frees Co. (Lisbon, N.D.) 1
Addison School District No. 39 (Cass County, N.D.) 1
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American Red Cross. Fargo Chapter (Fargo, N.D.) 1
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American Society of Equity. North Dakota Union. 1
Amlund, Gustav. 1
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Anderson, Daryl, 1934- 1
Anderson, Elizabeth Preston, 1861-1954. 1
Anderson, Robert, 1832-1912. 1
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Arnold family. 1
Arnold, Alvin Lewis, 1833- 1
Arnold, Helen Peck, 1843-1921. 1
Arnold, Willard Edgar, 1856-1941. 1
Arntson family. 1
Arntson, Nikolai, 1845-1908. 1
Ayers, Martha Ann MacKinnon, b. 1877. 1
Bagg, Frederick A. (Frederick Austin), 1858-1950. 1
Bakke, Karen, 1861-1952. 1
Bakke, Ole, b. 1851. 1
Barrett family. 1
Barrett, Kathleen. 1
Barrie, Allie, 1883- 1
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Bartron, Sarah Hulett, 1842-1918. 1
Becker family. 1
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Berg, Nikolai H., 1856-1945. 1
Berg, Pearl I. 1
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