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Badlands of North Dakota Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 247
Abstract
Mss. of poems; "Enchanting Badlands" by Nellie B. Noyce; pamphlets, including one relating to Peaceful Valley Ranch (part of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park); clippings; and other material, concerning the Badlands and pioneer life in North Dakota.
Dates:
1923-1968
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Flegel Family Historical Sketch
Item
Identifier: SC 425
Overview
Historical sketch on the Flegel family, German Russians from Kulm, Russia, and the establishment of Kulm, N.D.
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1920s
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Florence Folsom Collection of Papers
Collection
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
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Francis Lewis Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 103
Abstract
Notarized photograph of 1872 list of birthdates for Francis and Maria E. Manchester Lewis' children; includes Lucinda C. Moulton, second wife of Francis Lewis and their children also. Typed copy of interview and corrections with T.I. Lewis, contains mention of his brothers, Arthur and Albert, their Davenport, N.D. grocery store, their partnership with James Yoder of Fargo, Addison Leech, James Kennedy, T.I.'s career as a watchmaker and jeweler and later as a representative of Griggs Cooper,...
Dates:
1872, 1950-1964
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Frank Wisnewski Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1928
Abstract
Typed family history concerning the Frank and Barbara (Brach) Wisnewski family. History begins about 1871 and ends in 1897. Includes mention of their early life in Pittsburgh, Pa., coming to N.D. in 1882, their sod house, the cold winters, carrying food supplies from Wahpeton, N.D., prairie fires, hauling wood to construct a roof, their children, working for area farmers, working on the railroad as it expanded, poverty in their early years, threshing, trading horses and oxen, adding rooms to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [197-?].
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Franke Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 170
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (1 leaf) with son Hugo and Miss Mary Clark, Fargo, N.D. concerning his father Gottlieb and Eben Chaffee. Franke homesteaded in Cass County. Includes newspaper clippings on members of the Franke family.
Dates:
1929, 1953-1954
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Fred S. Rutledge Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 222
Abstract
Fred Rutledge was a Walsh County, N.D. homesteader. His papers include correspondence; family histories of Becker, Canfield, Dickison, Harrison, Hudson, Lindell, Rutledge, and Wheelock families; his handwritten manuscript "A Christmas Vacation in Virginia" (52 p.), and a typed copy of his manuscript "Reminiscences of Fred Rutledge" (243 p.) covering his youth and days as a lumberjack, hobo, railroadman, thresher, and farmer in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Dates:
1884-1961
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G.A. Herolz Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 831
Abstract
Several letters from Mrs. Herolz to Leonard Sackett about G.A. Herolz. Also includes a newspaper clipping of G.A.'s reminiscences about visiting a Sioux encampment at Fort Yates, N.D.
Dates:
1948-1957
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George and Martha Halvorson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 697
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning J.B. Power, Helendale Farm, Mrs. Halvorson's employment as a temporary cook at Helendale Farm, and her father, Ole Germanson, Norwegian immigrant from Telemark, Norway.
Dates:
1954
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George Brynjulson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 922
Abstract
Business agreement with John Svendsgaard to establish a drug store at Bowdon, N.D. (1900), naturalization certificate of his father Tolef Brynjulson (1871), land patents (1889, 1895), and clippings.
Dates:
1871, 1900, 1935, 1956
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- North Dakota Agricultural College. 6
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