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Elva Preston Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-313
Overview
Collection contains papers relating to Elva Preston and her family including her father Joseph Duncanson.
Dates:
1954-1957.
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Enoch J. Efteland Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1465
Abstract
Family history (8 leaves) with genealogical information on this Norwegian immigrant family from Sogn, Norway who settled at Shelly, Minn. Includes letter of transmittal.
Dates:
1966
Found in:
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Frank W. and Ella L. McCabe Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 610
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Frank and Ella L. McCabe concerning the Loring Farm (also called Stickney Farm) and Frank's father Thomas who emigrated from Ireland at age 14 and first settled at Oshkosh, Wisc. Thomas bought his own farm near Sabin, Minn. while working at the Loring Farm. He met his wife Carrie Moen, a Norwegian immigrant, on the Loring Farm where she was also employed. Interview also mentions B.C. and Ward Sherman, brothers who worked at the Loring Farm and later established a...
Dates:
1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Fred S. Rutledge Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 222
Abstract
Fred Rutledge was a Walsh County, N.D. homesteader. His papers include correspondence; family histories of Becker, Canfield, Dickison, Harrison, Hudson, Lindell, Rutledge, and Wheelock families; his handwritten manuscript "A Christmas Vacation in Virginia" (52 p.), and a typed copy of his manuscript "Reminiscences of Fred Rutledge" (243 p.) covering his youth and days as a lumberjack, hobo, railroadman, thresher, and farmer in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Dates:
1884-1961
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
George B. Rasmusen Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 532
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his parents, Knut and Barbara? (Larson) Rasmusen, Norwegian immigrants, who first settled near Preston Minn., later moving to Georgetown, Minn. in 1881. Includes brief mention of his brothers, John, a blacksmith who moved to S.D. to farm, returned to Fargo where he died in 1920, 1882 spring flooding of the Buffalo and Sheyenne rivers, Robert, a barber in Moorhead, and George's farm near Audubon, Minn.
Dates:
1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Grandin Farm Newspaper Clippings Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 555
Abstract
Consists of typed transcriptions, with commentary by Jim Fay, Moorhead, Minn., concerning the Grandin Farm and other large farms in the Georgetown, Minn. area. Other persons mentioned include C.P. Jones, E.M. Prindle.
Dates:
1891-1916
Found in:
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Guilford G. Hartley Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 835
Abstract
Letter with some information on his North Dakota farming operation, and his obituary.
Dates:
1922, 1957
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Halbert Webb Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 519
Abstract
Correspondence, typed summary of interview (13 leaves) with Leonard Sackett, and the original handwritten copy (40 leaves) and a typed copy (23 leaves) of his recollections titled "Some recollections of Halbert L. Webb," which concerns his parents, the Eugene Grant family, H.D. Cooke, Reception House, George S. Barnes, F.A. Paige family, his apprenticeship, working with various newspapers, his postmaster job at Glyndon, Minn., a dairy partnership with his father, his farming experiences, the...
Dates:
1914, 1954-1957
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Iver Madson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 507
Abstract
Iver Madson was a Danish immigrant and Wheatland, N.D. homesteader. The collection is a manuscript of Madson's recollections, dictated to his daughter, concerning his twelve years at sea, four years in New Zealand, immigration (1871) to America from Denmark, and farming in Minnesota before homesteading in Dakota Territory. Also included are newspaper clippings on the Madson family.
Dates:
1925-1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
James B. Blanchard Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: SC 29
Abstract
Slightly illegible typed copy of his reminiscences concerning the early days of Moorhead, his logging career, and incidents related to his job as a law officer in Moorhead, Minn.
Dates:
1917
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Hill, Walter Jerome, 1885-1944. 2
- McCabe, Frank W., 1886-1959. 2
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