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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.
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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.
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Martin Hector Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 175
Abstract
Interview with granddaughter Mary Halland about Hector and his early business ventures. Includes obituaries of Martin Hector, son Fred Hector, newspaper clipping of Fargo home referred to as the Henry Hector home, photocopy of Hammerfest, Norway church record of Hector's family (in Norwegian) and a typed English translation of the record.
Dates:
1938-1954.
Found in:
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Matthew Forney Steele Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 128
Abstract
His admiration of the generals who led the South during the Civil War prompted him to pursue a military career.
Dates:
1899-1907, 1920-1952.
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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 F. Gunkelman Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 569
Abstract
Typewritten summaries of interviews with Gunkelman and his son, John L. Gunkelman; ms. histories concerning R.F. Gunkelman & Sons and the Gunkelman family by Gary Hedstrom and Christopher T. Bucholz; and clippings. Includes information relating to the Rand and Brown Farm, grain elevators, and Ralph Gunkelman's founding of Farmers Grain Co., Grandin, N.D. (1913), his ownership of Interstate Seed & Grain Co., Fargo (1917-1943), and of R.F. Gunkelman & Sons (1943- ).
Dates:
1955-1986.
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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.
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Richard H. Hankinson Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 812
Abstract
Senior paper by Vernon Quam, North Dakota State University student, on the life of Col. Hankinson, with mention of his Civil War service, his farm in Richland County (N.D.), and his involvement with Northwestern Telegraph Co. which later became Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. Includes photocopies of and a typed copy of his obituary.
Dates:
1911, 1979.
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Russell Duncan – Anna Mohagen Family History
Collection
Identifier: SC 809
Abstract
Photocopy of handwritten genealogy of the Duncan and Mohagen families with autobiographies of Russell (born William Russell Duncan) and Anna Mohagen Duncan.
Dates:
1977
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Stephen J. Doyle Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 998
Abstract
Massachusetts native, active in the North Dakota Legislature and served as a U.S. Marshal.
Dates:
1890-1940.
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- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 11
- Hanna, Louis B. (Louis Benjamin), 1861-1948. 6
- Amenia and Sharon Land Company. 3
- Carrington & Casey Land Company. 3
- Chaffee, E. W. (Eben Whitney), 1824-1892. 2
- Hunter, William C. (William Columbus), 1882-1973. 2
- McKinnon, Alex, 1874-1954. 2
- Miller, Ralph L., b. 1884. 2
- Putnam, Thomas N., 1855-1931. 2
- Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890. 2
- Stern, Alex, 1857-1934. 2
- Adams, John Quincy, 1824-1899. 1
- Adams, William P., 1863-1937. 1
- Army War College (U.S.) 1
- Bagg, Frederick A. (Frederick Austin), 1858-1950. 1
- Beede, A. McG. (Aaron McGaffey), 1859-1934. 1
- Bismarck Water Supply Co. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1
- Brown, George D., 1862-1951. 1
- Brown, Jessie Rice, d. 1954. 1
- Bucholz, Christopher T., 1962- 1
- Cass County School District No. 35 (Cass County, N.D.) 1
- Chaffee family. 1
- Chaffee, H. L. (Herbert Laurance), 1892- 1
- Chernich, Michael, 1852-1924. 1
- Costello, Patrick, 1870- 1
- Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876. 1
- Downes, S. D. 1
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- Doyle, S. J. (Stephen J.), 1871-1940. 1
- Duncan family. 1
- Duncan, Anna Marie Mohagen. 1
- Duncan, Anna. 1
- Duncan, Russell, 1910- 1
- Dunning, George L. 1
- East Central North Dakota Golf Association. 1
- Elliott, John, 1851-1925. 1
- Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976. 1
- Farmers Grain Co. (Grandin, N.D.) 1
- Fiechtner family. 1
- Fiechtner, Anna Maria Gebhardt, 1877-1932. 1
- Fiechtner, Fred, 1908-1986. 1
- Fiechtner, Gustave, 1872-1958. 1
- Frank Lynch Company (Casselton, N.D.) 1
- Fraser, G. Angus, 1874-1957. 1
- Freemasons. Grand Lodge of North Dakota. 1
- Gackle family. 1
- Gackle, George, 1866-1926. 1
- Gale family. 1
- Gale, Harry F. (Harry Foster), 1890-1971. 1
- Gale, J. Hollis (Josiah Hollis), 1849-1937. 1
- Gale, Jennie Simmons, 1853-1928. 1
- Galehouse, James Edward, 1871-1962. 1
- Gebhardt family. 1
- George, King of Great Britain, V, 1865-1936. 1
- Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of North Dakota. Encampment (1898 : Wahpeton, N.D.) 1
- Gronna, James D., 1884-1963. 1
- Gunkelman, John L., 1918-1990. 1
- Gunkelman, Ralph F., 1885-1968. 1
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- Hankinson, Etta Wilson. 1
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- Hankinson, Sara Martin, d. 1874. 1
- Hanna, Robert L., 1902-1955. 1
- Hector, Martin, 1852-1938. 1
- Hedstrom, Gary W. (Gary Wayne), 1949- 1
- Holes, James, 1845-1916. 1
- Houston, David H. (David Henderson), 1841-1906. 1
- Howe, Louis M. (Louis McHenry), 1871-1936. 1
- Interstate Seed & Grain Co. (Fargo, N.D.) 1
- J.B. Streeter, Jr. Company (Larimore, N.D.) 1
- Jordan, William R., 1884-1969. 1
- Kennedy, James, 1857-1926. 1
- Larson, Henry C. 1
- Larson, Ingeborg Halvorsen, 1849-1917. 1
- Larson, Lars Henry, 1853-1910. 1
- Leech, Addison, 1824-1897. 1
- Lewis family. 1
- Lewis, Albert C., 1857-1923. 1
- Lewis, Arthur Gilman, 1863-1945. 1
- Lewis, Francis, 1823-1892. 1
- Lewis, Lucinda C., 1839- 1
- Lewis, Maria E., 1830- 1
- Lewis, T. I. (Irving Theodore), 1868- 1
- Losk, Charles. 1
- Louisiana State Lottery Company. 1
- Lynch, Frank, 1853-1939. 1
- Matson, Cora. 1
- McKenzie, Alexander, 1851-1922. 1
- McKenzie, Bessie Elliott, 1885- 1
- McKinnon, Gladys, 1895-1966. 1
- McKinnon, Margaret, 1874-1964. 1
- Miller, John, 1843-1908. 1
- Mohagen family. 1
- North Dakota Agricultural College. 1
- North Dakota. Governor (1889-1890 : Miller) 1
- North Dakota. Governor (1913-1916 : Hanna) 1
- North Dakota. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives 1
- Northwestern Bell Telephone Company. 1
- Norton, Patrick Daniel, 1876-1953. 1
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