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“Fifteen Years in North Dakota: Reminiscences” Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 572
Abstract
Recounts Mr. Orre's experiences in the United States, primarily Barnes County, N.D., where he farmed with his cousin and fellow immigrant, Per Theodore Danielson. Documents in particular traveling to Valley City, N.D., working on local farms, logging in the northern woods of Minnesota, farming near Cuba, N.D., visiting Sweden in 1891/1892, and returning to Sweden in 1898. The farming experiences are the most detailed. Note that this reminiscences was originally published in Sweden in 1906 and...
Dates:
1906
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
James B. Blanchard Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: SC 29
Abstract
Slightly illegible typed copy of his reminiscences concerning the early days of Moorhead, his logging career, and incidents related to his job as a law officer in Moorhead, Minn.
Dates:
1917
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
John J. Shely Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 188
Abstract
John Shely was a pioneer settler at Shelly, Minnesota.
Dates:
1872-1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Tollef Torgerson Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 867
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) concerning the George S. Barnes farm. Includes mention of various hired men who worked with Torgerson, horses and cattle on the Barnes Farm, shipping horses to logging camps in northern Minnesota in the winter, working at a logging camp, threshing equipment, buying his own farm land, and Jerry McCarthy, a Glyndon, Minn. farmer who froze to death. Also includes a clipping.
Dates:
1957.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Barnes, George S., 1840-1912. 1
- Becker family. 1
- Blanchard, J. B. (James B.), 1821-1916. 1
- Canfield family. 1
- Danielson, Per Theodore. 1
- Dickinson family. 1
- Harrison family. 1
- Johnson, Elsa Danielson. 1
- Nicoli, Julius. 1
- O'Farrel, James. 1
- Orre, Nils. 1
- Rutledge family. 1
- Rutledge, Fred Sanford, 1878-1962. 1
- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 1
- Shely, Anna M., 1855-1935. 1
- Shely, John J., 1847-1898. 1
- Torgerson, Tollef, 1867- 1
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