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Alexander McKenzie Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 44
Abstract
Student term papers, published articles, and newspaper clippings documenting the life of Alexander McKenzie.
Dates:
1916, 1922, 1950-1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Leslie N. Putnam Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 591
Abstract
Typed summary of first interview (3 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Putnam family and their lumberyard business. Mentions Ralph L. Miller, business partner of T.N. Putnam; Leslie Putnam's struggle to retain the farm; T.N.'s career in lumber business; his election as Foster County Treasurer and both houses of N.D. legislature. Second interview (1 leaf) with Leonard Sackett mentions L.B. Hanna's purchase in 1932 of the Carrington and Casey ranch, includes references to Hanna's...
Dates:
1954.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Louis B. Hanna Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 821
Abstract
Brief interview with Leslie R. Putnam about L.B. Hanna's purchase of the Carrington and Casey Land Company in Foster County (N.D.), the 1914 Thanksgiving Day proclamation, and newspaper clippings, including his obituary.
Dates:
1914-1948, 1954.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Ralph L. Miller Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 447
Abstract
Letter, and two interviews. First interview (3 leaves) with Leonard Sackett mentions Melville, N.D., a business partnership with his uncle, T.N. Putnam, Carrington & Casey farm lands, Peter Zink, an area pioneer, Melville baseball team, and its most famous player, Billy Sunday. Second interview (7 leaves) with Ralph Miller and James Edward (Ed) Galehouse mentions Charlie Wing (known as C.K.), his trading and poker playing, a brothel near Carrington, brief mention of Mrs. Galehouse and Mabel...
Dates:
1954-1961.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
William Abial Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 385
Abstract
The William Abial Scott Papers consist of various items documenting the career of William Abial Scott and have been organized into six series: Correspondence; Farm Contracts; Land Management Records; Financial Records; Land Patents, Deeds, and Mortgages; and Personal Records.
Dates:
1884-1927.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
William R. Jordan Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 943
Overview
Correspondence, financial records, and subscriptions, relating to Page Civic Club, chiefly a businessmen's civic organization of which Jordan was secretary-treasurer; material concerning the local golf club and East Central North Dakota Golf Association; and program of historical pageant "Spotlight thru the Years." Correspondents include Louis B. Hanna.
Dates:
1929-1957.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies