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Lars Henry Larson Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 753
Abstract
Letter from granddaughter, Mrs. Wallace Onsgard, her biographical sketch of Lars Henry Larson, entitled "My heritage," (1 leaf), and interview with Henry C. Larson concerning his father, Lars Henry, working on the Grandin Farm 1879-1880.
Dates:
1956.
Found in:
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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:
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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:
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Luther Wyckoff Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1366
Abstract
Notes from an interview done in 1938 with her father, James, concerning his father, Luther Wyckoff, and his family moving to Cass County, N.D. from Taylors Falls, Minn. Includes mention of horse-drawn wagon travel, mosquitoes, threshing for the Dalrymples, prairie fires, Luther and James running a stage line between Stillwater and Taylors Falls, Minn, Luther's near drowning, selling their homemade horse-radish, Luther being elected Cass County Assessor, his dental practice, and the death of...
Dates:
[1965?].
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Mabel Vold Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 934
Overview
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, Martin Hanson, Helendale Farm, and the J.B. Power family. Includes mention of Martin Hanson's coming to N.D., buying land near Helendale Farm, lists names and birthdates of Mabel's siblings, Mabel's employment as nanny and later as cook at Helendale Farm, description of the housing for J.B. Power, his son Allie, and Allie's family, a general store on Helendale Farm, kitchen arrangements, her friendship with the Power family,...
Dates:
1956.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Margarethe Opgrande Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 675
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (2 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning her brothers, Ludwig and Carl (also known as Charlie) Vinje, who worked on the A.R. Dalrymple and Oliver Dalrymple farms, and obituaries. Includes mention of Ludwig's death from typhoid, Carl starting his own farm, and their graves. Includes several obituary clippings.
Dates:
1931, 1956-1960.
Found in:
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Mary E. Warner Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1439
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, Stott English, who worked as foreman on the Cass, Bond, Greene, Twitchell, and Kennedy farms. He was a native of Pittsfield, Pa.
Dates:
1957.
Found in:
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Mess House and Dwelling House no. 2 – House Expense Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 695
Abstract
Journal documenting food expenses of the Dwight Farm & Land Co.'s mess house and "dwelling house" no. 2. It is in chronological order giving date, food item, quantity and price. Noted sometimes is the number of meals served. The names George C. Gage and C. Bond are the only ones listed.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1891-1897.
Found in:
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Minnie D. Craig Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 282
Abstract
Minnie Craig was elected in 1923 to the North Dakota House of Representatives where she served for six terms, culminating in 1933, as the first woman speaker of a House of Representatives in the nation. The Minnie D. Craig Papers consists mainly of her handwritten autobiography and two scrapbooks. The 99 page autobiography is incomplete and ends about 1946. The first scrapbook of newspaper clippings deals with Mrs. Craig’s political career in North Dakota, while the other deals with the Craig...
Dates:
1904-1955.
Found in:
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Myrtle Porterville Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo Mss 296-Photo Folio 15-Photo Oversize Folder 11
Abstract
Griggs County, N.D. native and resident whose avocation was collecting the history of Griggs County, amassing an amazing collection on the county's history and the people who lived there. The collection is a major genealogical resource for Griggs County.
Dates:
1880 - 1959
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 85
- Amenia and Sharon Land Company. 14
- Power, J. B. (James Buel), 1833-1912. 14
- Dalrymple Farms (N.D.) 11
- Dalrymple, A. R. (Alton R.) 9
- Chaffee family. 6
- Dalrymple family. 6
- Dalrymple, Oliver, d. 1908. 6
- Holstrom, A. G. (Aaron G.), 1869-1947. 6
- Adams, William P., 1863-1937. 5
- Dwight Farm and Land Company (Dwight, N.D.) 5
- Grandin, John L. (John Livingston), 1836-1912 5
- Kennedy, James, 1857-1926. 5
- Power, J. A. (James A.), d. 1924. 5
- Bagg, Frederick A. (Frederick Austin), 1858-1950. 4
- Carrington & Casey Land Company. 4
- Chaffee, Carrie T. (Carrie Toogood), 1864-1931. 4
- Chaffee, E. W. (Eben Whitney), 1824-1892. 4
- Downing, Steven Gerard, 1874-1957. 4
- Miller, John, 1843-1908. 4
- Reed, Robert B., 1874-1960. 4
- Smith, Datus C., 1853-1932. 4
- Baldwin Corporation. 3
- Chaffee, Herbert F. (Herbert Fuller), 1864-1912. 3
- Dalrymple, Clark, b. 1863. 3
- Dalrymple, John S. (John Stewart) 3
- Hanna, Louis B. (Louis Benjamin), 1861-1948. 3
- Hunter, William C. (William Columbus), 1882-1973. 3
- North Dakota Agricultural College. 3
- North Dakota. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives 3
- Reed, J. H. (John Horace), 1846-1925. 3
- Vinje, C. O. (Carl), 1861-1931. 3
- Walker, Thomas McCormick, 1834- 3
- Adams, John Quincy, 1824-1899. 2
- Baldwin, George, 1830-1907. 2
- Burns, John, 1868-1956. 2
- Cooper, Rollin C., 1845-1938. 2
- Dalrymple, Silas A. 2
- Dalrymple, William, 1905- 2
- Drache, Hiram M. 2
- Elliott, John, 1851-1925. 2
- Glover, Samuel, 1839-1910. 2
- Grandin Farm No. 1 (Mayville, N.D.) 2
- Grandin Farm Trust. 2
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) 2
- Guy, William Lewis, 1890-1942. 2
- Hanna, Robert L., 1902-1955. 2
- Hanson, John H., 1863-1957. 2
- Hanson, Joseph, b. 1870. 2
- Hanson, Martin, 1878-1949. 2
- Herman, Frank John, 1888- 2
- Herman, Frank. 2
- Holstrom, Rachel. 2
- Jones, R. W., of Buffalo, N.Y. (Robert W.) 2
- McNary, J. W. (James W.) 2
- Mecklenburg, Emil, 1885-1956. 2
- Merrifield, W. G., 1868- 2
- Miller, Ralph L., b. 1884. 2
- Miller-Chaffee-Reed Company. 2
- Northern Pacific Railroad Company. 2
- Northern Pacific Railway Company. 2
- Pannebaker, John H., 1889-1957. 2
- Power, Elizabeth N. 2
- Power, Ethelwyn. 2
- Power, Frank B., 1900- 2
- Power, Newman. 2
- Power, William. 2
- Punton, Bessie, 1877-1960. 2
- Punton, Thomas, 1856-1931. 2
- Radcliffe, Thomas W., 1855-1939. 2
- Stevenson, Irene. 2
- Aasland, Alfred, 1884-1970. 1
- Aasland, Ole L., 1850-1929. 1
- Akin, Glenn, 1896-1967. 1
- Akin, William Richard. 1
- Allison, G. Robert, 1910- 1
- Almlie, Engebredt, 1847-1914. 1
- Almlie, Oliver, 1878-1961. 1
- Amenia Elevator Company (Amenia, N.D.) 1
- Anderson, Albert, 1885-1958. 1
- Anderson, Hegbert, 1877-1957. 1
- Anderson, Lars, 1878-1965. 1
- Ankerfelt family. 1
- Ankerfelt, Emil Carl, 1882- 1
- B.F. Mackall Inc. (Moorhead, Minn.) 1
- Bagg Bonanza Farm Historic Preservation Society. 1
- Bakke, Oscar P., b. 1889 1
- Baldwin Land Company 1
- Baldwin, Charles F., 1879-1947. 1
- Barber, Elihu. 1
- Bohnsack family. 1
- Bohnsack, Charles, 1859-1957 1
- Bonanzaville U.S.A. 1
- Bratland, Ella Radcliffe, 1900-1973. 1
- Brinker, J. M. (John M.), -1903. 1
- Brooks, James, b. 1848. 1
- Brooks, Peter, 1872-1960 1
- Brunsdale, George Elmer, 1890-1970. 1
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