Special Collections Finding Aids

Abstract Born at Norman County, Minn. Wed Clara Gilbertson in 1908. Worked as foreman at Robineau Farms, Kelso, N.D., Clark Dalrymple and A.R. Dalrymple farms. Began farming for himself in 1927, moved to Halstad, Minn. in 1934.

Abstract Correspondence, including letter (1880) to A.R. Dalrymple from Oliver Dalrymple; interviews with Erasmus G. Hagen, John Hanson, Joseph Hanson, Ralph L. Miller, David and Nellie Minnis, and John H. Pannebaker; index to articles concerning bonanza farms and the Dalrymples; financial statements (1907, 1910, 1918); inventories (1908-1909, 1911-1917, 1919), and cultivation statements, crop disposition, and crop income and distribution statements (1908-1919); and clippings relating to Oliver and...

Abstract Typed summary of interview with S. Ambrose and Mary McNamee McCoy, with handwritten annotations, concerning his father, Thomas McCoy, who was a foreman on Grandin Farm No. 1 and Grandin Farm No. 2 under A.R. Dalrymple, and later homesteaded at Kelso, N.D. Includes mention of S.A. Dalrymple, Mary McCoy's uncle John F. McNamee, Tom McCoy's ditch that drained from the Red River, cattle lost in a storm, Mary McCoy's father, Michael J. McNamee, who emigrated from Perth, Ontario and came to Manvel,...