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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
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Thomas N. Putnam Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 179-Mss 1596.10
Abstract
New York native who moved with family to Iowa before coming to Carrington, ND in 1886. Owned a successful lumber business as well as 29 farms and two sections of land near Calgary, Alberta.
Dates:
1868-1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies