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Della Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 651
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett which concerns the Chaffee family, and F.H. and George N. Smith, brothers who homesteaded north of Amenia, N.D. Includes mention of work at Amenia and Sharon Land Co., rules for hired men including church attendance, the Smith brothers' farm partnership, their terms in the N.D. and S.D. legislatures (F.H. elected to S.D. legislature, George N. to N.D. House, F. Paul to N.D. House), losing the S.D. farmland in the 1920s, business...
Dates:
1955-1956, 1969
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Henry C. Frojen Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 925
Abstract
Correspondence and newspaper clippings, relating to Glover Farm, bonanza farm in Dickey and La Moure counties, N.D., and the Glover family; and biographical sketch of farm owner, Samuel Glover, originally of Delaware, Ohio. Includes information concerning Glover's introduction of durum wheat to North Dakota and his son, Frederick Glover, who founded Gas Traction Company, manufacturer of gas tractors, in Minneapolis, Minn.
Dates:
1913-1958
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Amenia and Sharon Land Company. 1
- Chaffee family. 1
- Common Sense Gas Tractor Company (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1
- Frojen, Henry C., b. 1887. 1
- Gas Traction Company (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1
- Glover family. 1
- Glover, Frederick, 1879-1954. 1
- Glover, Samuel, 1839-1910. 1
- North Dakota. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives 1
- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 1
- Smith, Della, 1889-1969. 1
- Smith, F. Paul (Forester Paul), 1888-1941. 1
- Smith, Forest H., 1852-1924. 1
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