Special Collections Finding Aids

Abstract Correspondence, typed summary of interview (13 leaves) with Leonard Sackett, and the original handwritten copy (40 leaves) and a typed copy (23 leaves) of his recollections titled "Some recollections of Halbert L. Webb," which concerns his parents, the Eugene Grant family, H.D. Cooke, Reception House, George S. Barnes, F.A. Paige family, his apprenticeship, working with various newspapers, his postmaster job at Glyndon, Minn., a dairy partnership with his father, his farming experiences, the...

Abstract Typed transcript of interview with Mr. Hanson and John Jensen, concerning their families, working on the G.S. Barnes Farm near Glyndon. Includes mention of their fathers who emigrated from Norway (Olie Hanson, Telemarken, Norway and Jens Jensen, Christiania, Norway), Dan and Mike McCarthy, lumbering near Dexterville, Minn., a Christmas Eve saloon brawl at Dexterville, and Hanson's house which was built over a saloon.

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.

Abstract Born 1894 in Sargent County, N.D. Family moved to Clay County, Minn. in 1899 and in 1909 moved north of Dilworth, Minn. Left partially paralyzed after recovering from influenza in 1918. He was employed by city of Dilworth, Minn. as town clerk and waterworks superintendent.