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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
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Martha E. Green Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 55
Abstract
Photocopy of pioneer life reminiscences by Martha E. Green; includes mention of wheat harvest, fuel sources, 1888 blizzard.
Dates:
Majority of material found within [19--].
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Mary E. Mallick Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 621
Abstract
Correspondence concerning mainly the Lyman R. Casey family, with mention of his wife and daughter Theodora who sent letters from overseas to Mary F. Mallick, George Palmer, Carrington & Casey Land Company manager, Carrington & Casey Land Company, and the Edward Chase family, especially son Russell and daughter Alice; mentions Mary's father, John P. Fitzgerald, and his death in an 1897 railroad accident following a blizzard, her mother, Margaret Mary and her death, being raised by an...
Dates:
1955-1956.
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Merton Field Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 28
Abstract
Merton Field was a Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin physician and NDSU graduate. His papers consist of correspondence, writings, autobiography and newspaper clippings. The autobiography, "By Many Trails," is a typed transcription (131 p.) relating Mr. Field's childhood and college days to include his father, Jacob A. Field, ranch life near Bismarck, ND, herding cattle, schooling, death of his teacher in a blizzard, prairie fires, Nick Spain, his dog "Mac," school years at North Dakota Agricultural...
Dates:
1901-1959
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Page Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 677
Abstract
History of four Page brothers and their sister Margaret A. Page who emigrated from their parental home near Girard, Illinois to North Dakota and filed on government homesteads between Mar[c]h 1888 and 1904.
Dates:
1928, 1952-1957.
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Peter J. Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1723
Abstract
Letters, typed copy of his family reminiscence entitled "Dakota days of years ago," (38 leaves) and a newspaper clipping. Reminiscence includes mention of his family homestead in Cavalier County, a blizzard, pioneer days near Pembina, N.D., people and equipment involved in threshing, digging water wells, Olga, Bathgate, Beaulieu, and Walhalla, N.D., country school, churches, hunting, horses and horse-drawn vehicles, and removing tree stumps.
Dates:
1950-1965.
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Pratt Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 608
Abstract
Two interviews concerning the Pratt family. First interview (9 leaves) with R.W. (Robert Wesley) Pratt and his wife, Anne (Margach) Pratt, concerns George and Mathilda (Dempsey) Pratt moving to N.D. in 1880 from Ontario, George's brothers, James, WIlliam, and R.J., who moved to N.D., difficulties in plowing, W.J. Pratt and his wife, Dr. Charlotte Campbell, George Pratt's gift of property to his four children, James Pratt selling his business to L.J. (Lewis) Margach, mention of General Thomas M....
Dates:
1924, 1956-1957.
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Ralph D. Ward Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 354
Abstract
Mr. Ward was a North Dakota rancher and banker. The collection contains correspondence dealing chiefly with farming, ranching, legal and financial matters, land transactions, politics and banking; and biographical stories by his uncle Henry Ward, about pioneer life in in Dakota Territory to include Black Hills gold mining, 1881 Mandan flood, life in Owego colony in 1873, and hauling freight in a blizzard. There is also clippings and articles on Ward's father-in-law, Reuben N. Stevens, and the...
Dates:
1875-1960.
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Reminiscences of the Early Eighties in Dakota
Collection
Identifier: SC 718
Abstract
Typed reminiscences concerning her parents, Daniel and Cynthia Folger, who moved to Niagara, N.D. from Lockport, N.Y. Includes mention of native flowers and wildlife, early crops, blizzards, her father's trips to Larimore, N.D. for supplies, the death of Chris Severson, a neighbor, a picnic on July 4, 1882 at Bachelor's Grove, 1883 New Year's Eve party, the first school teacher, Cella Rossiter, and the 1885 wheat harvest. Note: this writing may be one of fiction.
Dates:
1900.
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Sadie Walker Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 173
Abstract
Correspondence, typed summary of interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, George Elliot, and life in early Jamestown. Includes mention of George Elliott coming to N.D. in 1879, the family's arrival in 1880, getting a contract to build railroad grade, buying a farm near Spiritwood, N.D., blizzards, the homesickness of Sadie's mother, description of their home, her father's attempts at gardening, digging a well, entertaining visitors, their move to Jamestown, N.D. where...
Dates:
1941, 1950, 1954, 1965.
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- Allin, Roger, 1848-1936. 1
- Arneson, Carl F. 1
- Baughman, Cliff H. 1
- Bolley, Henry Luke, 1865-1956. 1
- Bond, Walter R., 1871-1947. 1
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- Chase, Russell D., 1886-1956 1
- Clara Barton School (Fargo, N.D.) 1
- Elliott, George. 1
- Erickson, Alfred O. 1
- Fargo (N.D.). Police Dept. 1
- Field, Jacob, b. 1836. 1
- Field, Merton, 1871-1959. 1
- Fitzgerald family. 1
- Fitzgerald, John P., d. 1897. 1
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- Fuglestad, Abigail Osland, 1859-1956. 1
- Fuglestad, Torkel, 1856-1954. 1
- Green, Albert, 1860-1911. 1
- Green, Martha E., 1863-1952. 1
- Grimstad, Carl Martin, 1856-1940. 1
- Hall, Luella J. 1
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- Hanley, James M., 1877-1947. 1
- Hanna, Louis B. (Louis Benjamin), 1861-1948. 1
- Harry Arneson, Jr. and Associates. 1
- Independent Voters Association (N.D.) 1
- Jackson, Claire, 1889-1968. 1
- Jackson, Claus, 1860-1952. 1
- Jamestown College. 1
- Landblom, August P., 1846-1925. 1
- Landblom, Clara, 1849-1918. 1
- Lemke, William, 1878-1950. 1
- Mackenzie, Jessie Soliday, 1872- 1
- Mallick, Mary E. Fitzgerald, 1884-1960. 1
- McCumber, Porter J. (Porter James), 1856-1933. 1
- Mehok family. 1
- Mehok, Charles J., 1917- 1
- Mehok, George J., 1912-1994. 1
- Mehok, William J. 1
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- Northern Pacific Railroad Company. 1
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- Page, Joseph L., 1875- 1
- Page, Margaret A. 1
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- Pratt, R. W. (Robert Wesley), 1887- 1
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- Rud, Anne, 1821-1893. 1
- Rud, Christoffer Gunderson, 1811-1883. 1
- Rudd, Bill, 1902-1944. 1
- Rygg, Lorraine. 1
- Sacred Heart Academy (Fargo, N.D.) 1
- Shanley, John, 1852-1909. 1
- Shepperd, John H. (John Henry), 1869-1939. 1
- Smith, Albert Hamilton, 1854- 1
- Smith, P. J. (Peter J.), 1886-1965. 1
- Soliday, Henry Augustus, 1836-1923. 1
- Soliday, Sarah Ann, 1842-1918. 1
- St. John's Academy (Jamestown, N.D.) 1
- Stevens, Reuben N. 1
- Stoa, Elling J., 1855-1921. 1
- Stoa, Ida Karine, 1872-1953. 1
- Stoa, J. E. 1
- Stoa, T. E. (Theodore Ellinson), 1890-1984. 1
- Twichell, Luther Lathrop, 1872-1944. 1
- Voss Studios (Fargo, N.D.) 1
- W.J. Lane Company (Fargo, N.D.) 1
- Walker, Sadie, 1865-1965. 1
- Walker, Thomas McCormick, 1834- 1
- Ward family. 1
- Ward, Henry. 1
- Ward, Ralph David, 1873-1951. 1
- Wehe, Della. 1
- Wisnewski, Barbara, 1845-1907. 1
- Wisnewski, Frank, 1843-1915. 1
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