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Jessie Soliday MacKenzie Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 16
Abstract Typed copy of Mrs. MacKenzie’s booklet (8 leaves) concerning her parents, Henry Augustus and Sarah Ann (Galehouse) Soliday, who came to the Carrington area in 1883 from Canton, Ohio; includes mention of 1883 blizzard, Lyman R. Casey, his brother J.B. Casey, Carrington & Casey Land Co., Kirkwood Hotel which burned and was rebuilt, plowing snow with the train, social life in early Carrington, and celebrating Christmas.
Dates: 1952

Johanna Tvedt Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1913
Abstract Typed summary of interview concerning her trip to America and pioneer life in Nebraska and North Dakota. Includes mention of the poor shipboard conditions, her arrival at Kearney, Neb., her visits to Spalding, Neb. where her two brothers lived, working for her sister to repay her ticket, moving to N.D., farm life, sending their four children to school in Larimore, N.D., blind pigs in Larimore, and moonshine.
Dates: 1971

John Christiansen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 423
Abstract Correspondence; taped interview with Christiansen concerning his settling near New Salem, N.D. (1883), and the pioneer years, with transcription (11 p.) of first side of tape; biographical sketch; pamphlet entitled Wrong Side Up; articles from American Milk Review and The Northwest; and clippings.
Dates: 1921-1952

Josephine G. Smith Collection of Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 506
Abstract Letter, typed summary of interview (2 leaves) concerning the Dalrymple family and the Chaffee family. Includes mention of her grandfather's land purchase from Mr. Chaffee, her friendship with Mary and Oliver Dalrymple, Mary Dalrymple's elaborate entertaining, Douglas Smith losing his job, and the near loss of Grandin Farms. Also includes her obituary.
Dates: 1908, 1953-1954.

Marguerite Ferguson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 512
Abstract Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Marguerite Ferguson, concerning her parents, Philip and Mary Weisbecker, who moved from New York to Moorhead, Minn., then to Grandin, N.D. where they bought a hotel. Includes mention of the first business establishments in Grandin, additions to the hotel, cooking for threshing crews, boarding farm workers during the winter, Lynn Ferguson, Marguerite's son and farm manager for John S. Dalrymple. Also includes clippings.
Dates: 1954, 1958.

Maria E. Larrabee Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SC 551
Abstract Typed copy of letter dated June 18, 1906 which is Mrs. Larrabee's response to George J. Backen's invitation to attend Old Settlers Reunion, has brief mention of their life in Foster County, including the births of two sons, mail delivery between Jamestown, N.D. and Fort Totten. Handwritten letter, dated Nov. 11, 1960, from Ralph Miller, Fargo, to Leonard Sackett which mentions the Old Settlers Association, their picnics, and a Captain Warren.
Dates: 1906, 1960.

Martha Ann Ayers Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: SC 409
Abstract Typed reminiscences (10 leaves) concerning early settlement of her parents Donald C. and Catherine MacKinnon and family at Webster, N.D. from 1895 to 1904 and her own homesteading in Towner County, N.D. The family originally came from Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada.
Dates: 1942.

Martha E. Green Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 55
Abstract Photocopy of pioneer life reminiscences by Martha E. Green; includes mention of wheat harvest, fuel sources, 1888 blizzard.
Dates: Majority of material found within [19--].

Mary Bishop Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 514
Abstract Mortgage and warranty deeds, chiefly of Mrs. Bishop.
Dates: 1875-1888.

Mary E. Mallick Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SC 621
Abstract Correspondence concerning mainly the Lyman R. Casey family, with mention of his wife and daughter Theodora who sent letters from overseas to Mary F. Mallick, George Palmer, Carrington & Casey Land Company manager, Carrington & Casey Land Company, and the Edward Chase family, especially son Russell and daughter Alice; mentions Mary's father, John P. Fitzgerald, and his death in an 1897 railroad accident following a blizzard, her mother, Margaret Mary and her death, being raised by an...
Dates: 1955-1956.

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Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 6
Farley, Mary Agnes, 1863-1952. 3
Farley, William, 1859-1932. 3
Raaen family. 3
Raaen, Aagot. 3
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Raaen, Thomas, 1827-1903. 3
Carrington & Casey Land Company. 2
Casey, Lyman R., 1837-1914 2
Chaffee family. 2
Cooper, Rollin C., 1845-1938. 2
Hamarsbön family. 2
Lind, Annie, 1864-1945. 2
Lindgren, H. Elaine. 2
North Dakota State University. 2
Porterville, Myrtle Bemis, 1880-1961. 2
Red River Valley Old Settlers Association. 2
Wist, Benjamin. 2
Abbott family. 1
Abbott, Carl, 1879- 1
Abbott, N. C. (Newton Carl), 1849- 1
Allin, Roger, 1848-1936. 1
Amenia and Sharon Land Company. 1
American Red Cross. Fargo Chapter (Fargo, N.D.) 1
American Society of Equity. 1
American Society of Equity. North Dakota Union. 1
Amlund, Gustav. 1
Anderson, Elizabeth Preston, 1861-1954. 1
Arneson, Carl F. 1
Arnold family. 1
Arnold, Alvin Lewis, 1833- 1
Arnold, Helen Peck, 1843-1921. 1
Arnold, Willard Edgar, 1856-1941. 1
Ayers, Martha Ann MacKinnon, b. 1877. 1
Bakke, Karen, 1861-1952. 1
Bakke, Ole, b. 1851. 1
Barrett, Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1984. 1
Barrett, Oscar B. (Oscar Bartholamew), 1842-1930. 1
Berg, Pearl I. 1
Bishop, Mary, approximately 1805- 1
Bonanzaville U.S.A. 1
Burgum, Jessamine Slaughter, 1874-1962. 1
Byrnes, Hazel Webster. 1
Calamity Jane, 1852-1903. 1
Casey family. 1
Cass County Historical Society (Cass County, N.D.) 1
Chase family. 1
Chase, Russell D., 1886-1956 1
Christiansen, John, 1862-1954. 1
Clark family. 1
Clark, Emma H., 1853-1934. 1
Clark, George F. (George Foster), 1851-1944. 1
Clark, William, b. 1609. 1
Common Sense Gas Tractor Company (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1
Cooperstown Special School District No. 18 (Griggs County, N.D.) 1
Craker, Carrie. 1
Craker, W. A., 1868- 1
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876. 1
Dalrymple family. 1
Dalrymple, Mary. 1
Daughers of Dakota Pioneers. 1
Daughters of Dakota Pioneers. 1
Dear, Cyrene Bakke. 1
Deering Congregational Church (Deering, N.D.) 1
Diede, Pauline Neher, 1911- 1
Dunwell, George W. 1
Dunwell, Maude Farley. 1
Equity Cooperative Exchange. 1
Farley family. 1
Farmers Union Central Exchange (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1
Farmers Union Live Stock Commission Co. 1
Farmers Union Terminal Association (Minn.) 1
Federal Writers' Project. 1
Felland, Eyvind, 1910- 1
Ferguson, Marguerite, 1873-1958 1
Fitzgerald family. 1
Fitzgerald, John P., d. 1897. 1
Gale family. 1
Gale, Harry F. (Harry Foster), 1890-1971. 1
Gale, J. Hollis (Josiah Hollis), 1849-1937. 1
Gale, Jennie Simmons, 1853-1928. 1
Gardar Homemakers Club (Gardar, N.D.) 1
Gilbert, Norma Gooden. 1
Gill, William. 1
Glaspell, Mary Pethic Gimblett, 1842-1930. 1
Gooden family. 1
Gooden, Psyche M., 1876-1950. 1
Grain Terminal Association (Minn.) 1
Green, Albert, 1860-1911. 1
Green, Martha E., 1863-1952. 1
Greenfield Farmers Union. 1
Greenfield Horse Company. 1
Greenfield Livestock Association. 1
Griggs County (N.D.). Commissioners. 1
Grimstad, Carl Martin, 1856-1940. 1
Hall, Anna Maria Grafenstein, d. 1944. 1
Hall, Richard 1
Hall, Thomas, 1869-1958. 1
Hallinglaget of America. 1
Hannifin, Dennis, 1835-1917. 1
Hanson, Hans E., 1850-1940. 1
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