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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:
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
Oscar J. Sorlie Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 868
Abstract
Correspondence, including letters (1931) to Sam Shevchenko of Buxton, from relatives in the Ukraine describing the famine there; copies of speeches; pamphlets; scrapbook, containing several letters from L.B. Hanna and William Langer; photos of Sorlie's family home in Norway; and material relating to National Nonpartisan League, his general store and farm in Buxton, and other topics.
Dates:
1919-1941.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Simon V. Hoag Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 643
Abstract
Simon Hoag was a Cass County, ND pioneer. The collection consists of correspondence (1907-1926) and records relating to the Dakota Territory, Fargo, and national Granges; and the Red River Valley Old Settlers' Association.
Dates:
1874-1926.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies