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Besta : A Story of North Dakota Pioneers
Collection
Identifier: SC 583
Abstract
Photocopy of an article published serially in the Grand Forks herald. It contains the life of Karen (Erickson) Bakke, who settled in the Goose River Valley, Traill County, N.D. in 1871 with her Norwegian immigrant parents, Ole and Christiana Erickson. Includes mention of her early life in Wisconsin, moving to Mayville, N.D., living at Ft. Abraham Lincoln with her sister Emily, General Custer and his troops at Ft. Abraham Lincoln, meeting her husband, Ole Bakke, their wedding preparations,...
Dates:
1950-1951
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Charles Bohnsack Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 451
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (10 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Grandin farms where Bohnsack worked, his early life, and clippings about him, his children, and their farmland.
Dates:
1954-1968
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Dewell E. Viker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 108
Abstract
Correspondence, interview, legal material, map, and newspaper clippings, relating to Viker's purchase of Grandin Farm Trust (formerly Grandin Farm No. 1), bonanza farm headquartered in Mayville, Traill County, N.D., in 1946.
Dates:
1946-1958
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Ernest Brownson Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 76
Abstract
Correspondence, including information relating to Brownson's professional and personal activities and his attendance at State Normal School, Valley City, N.D.; memorial to Lura Lavonia Perrine, college teacher, of Valley City, N.D.; genealogical material on the Brownson family; and two typewritten mss., one by Brownson's wife, Frances (Williams) Brownson, entitled Pioneering in North Dakota (12 p.), relating to the Williams family of White Earth, N.D., and one by his mother, Cora (Brown)...
Dates:
1851-1970
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Frank L. Anders Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1417
Abstract
Served as Fargo City Engineer, and secretary and construction engineer of the North Dakota State Capitol Commission which oversaw the construction of the state capitol. Also a Medal of Honor recipient.
Dates:
1822-1965
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
George E. Brunsdale Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 452
Abstract
Typed summary of interview concerning the Grandin farm buildings at Mayville, N.D.
Dates:
1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
George Hilstad Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 269-Tape 11
Abstract
Correspondence, typewritten summaries of interviews, taped interviews with Hilstad and Roy Bunn, relating to the Blanchard, Belle Prairie, and Grandin bonanza farms in Traill and Cass counties, N.D.; abstract of platting of Traill Centre; statistical information concerning Mayville, N.D., churches; articles, several written by Hilstad's wife, Mary (Dunlevy) Hilstad, chiefly concerning Traill County history; letters written by Torsten Torstenson Kopseng to Norwegian relatives, describing his...
Dates:
1863-1970
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Grandin Farms Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 2890
Abstract
Materials relating to Grandin Farms, bonanza wheat farm in Cass and Traill counties, N.D., founded 1876 by Grandin brothers, John L. and W.J. Grandin (originally of Tidoute, Pa.), stockholders of Northern Pacific Railroad, who came to North Dakota to claim railroad land.
Dates:
1879-1960.
Found in:
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History of K.G. Springen
Collection
Identifier: SC 186
Abstract
Typed biographical sketch of Knut Gunder Springen. Includes mention of traveling to N.D. in 1882, settling at Mayville, N.D., his banking interests in Mayville, and Northwood, N.D. and Montana, selling of horses, land, and farm machinery, his appointment as the N.D. representative to the 1914 Abraham Lincoln Presentation Committee.
Dates:
Majority of material found within [195-]
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
James and Clara McKissick Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 138
Abstract
Extensive interview with James and Clara Trammell McKissick about his father, Charles, who managed the Dwight Farm, later the Hinkle Smith Farm near Amenia, N.D. and the Grandin Farm near Mayville. Mentions the livestock and acreage at Grandin Farm, Oliver Dalrymple, immigrant farm laborers, James McKissick's education and various jobs as farmer, milk truck driver, butcher shop owner, hog shrinker and a hired man who set fire to McKissick's barns.
Dates:
1953
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Grandin Farm No. 1 (Mayville, N.D.) 2
- Grandin Farm Trust. 2
- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 2
- Amlund, Gustav. 1
- Anders, Frank L., 1875-1966. 1
- Anders, Frank O. 1
- Bakke, Karen, 1861-1952. 1
- Bakke, Ole, b. 1851. 1
- Bohnsack family. 1
- Bohnsack, Charles, 1859-1957 1
- Branson family. 1
- Brownson, Cora Brown, 1855-1949. 1
- Brownson, Ernest, 1870-1966. 1
- Brownson, Frances Williams, 1879-1970. 1
- Brunsdale, George Elmer, 1890-1970. 1
- Bunn, Roy, 1883-1968. 1
- Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876. 1
- Dalrymple, Oliver, d. 1908. 1
- Dear, Cyrene Bakke. 1
- Dwight Farm and Land Company (Dwight, N.D.) 1
- Egge family. 1
- Egge, Elizabeth, 1874-1954. 1
- Egge, Jens B., 1870-1928 1
- Egge, Oline. 1
- Grandin, C. L. (Charles L.) 1
- Grandin, John L. (John Livingston), 1836-1912 1
- Hilstad, George, 1884-1969. 1
- Hilstad, Mary Dunlevy, 1889-1973. 1
- Kopseng, Torsten Torstenson, d. 1903. 1
- Leum family. 1
- Leum, Jens, 1853-1928. 1
- Lucky Strike Coal Company (N.D.) 1
- McKissick, Clara. 1
- McKissick, James, 1875- 1
- Missouri River Diversion Project. 1
- Moen, Charles. 1
- North Dakota State Capitol (Bismarck, N.D.) 1
- North Dakota. Board of State Capitol Commissioners. 1
- Olsness, S. A. (Sveinung Anundsen), 1866-1954. 1
- Parrish Art Museum. 1
- Perrine, Lura L. (Lura Lavonia), 1854-1919. 1
- Smith, Datus C., 1853-1932. 1
- Springen, Knut Gunder, 1844-1932. 1
- Springen, Sophia. 1
- State Normal School (Valley City, N.D.) 1
- Sulerud, Allen C. 1
- Viker, Dewell E. (Dewell Elliot) 1
- Warren, Fred W., 1859-1935. 1
- Warren, W. W. (William Webster), d. 1887. 1
- West, Levon, 1900-1968. 1
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