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H. Elaine Lindgren Research Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 292-Tapes 537-563-Oversize Collection 4
Abstract
Research papers of NDSU Sociology professor H. Elaine Lindgren related primarily to her books Land in Her Own Name: Women as Homesteaders in North Dakota, "Coal, Cuba, and Courage: The Adventuresome Spirit of Annie C. Lind," Work Makes Life Sweet, Or Does It?, and The Rural Mystique. The Land in Her Own Name files contain extensive research and documents related to women homesteaders in North Dakota.
Dates:
1977-2003
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Hicks Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 477
Abstract
Homestead certificate (1904) of daughter Hannah, article entitled "Are small rural villages declining in North Dakota?" by Pearl I. Berg, a list of Haakon and Karin Hick's children with their birthdates, clippings of Hanna and brother August's obituaries, and one clipping about sister Olive leaving the family farm.
Dates:
1904, 1952-1955
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Isaac E. Sutherland Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1050
Abstract
Family history, written by Sutherland's granddaughter Norma Gooden Gilbert, containing information relating to the Sutherland and Gooden families, particularly to his daughter Psyche M. Gooden, and to hardships endured by the pioneer families in the late 1890s; Iowa National Guard documents concerning his son, Albert E. Sutherland; photos; and miscellaneous documents.
Dates:
1898-1960
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Jessamine Slaughter Burgum Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 586
Abstract
Letter, citation for the NDAC Outstanding Achievement Award, a typed copy of "Zi-win-ta, the Old Seeress of the Sioux," regarding an old Mandan village site, a handwritten reminiscence (22 leaves) concerning Fort Abraham Lincoln, Bismarck, N.D., and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and her obituary.
Dates:
1953, 1956-1962
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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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Johanna Tvedt Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1913
Abstract
Typed summary of interview concerning her trip to America and pioneer life in Nebraska and North Dakota. Includes mention of the poor shipboard conditions, her arrival at Kearney, Neb., her visits to Spalding, Neb. where her two brothers lived, working for her sister to repay her ticket, moving to N.D., farm life, sending their four children to school in Larimore, N.D., blind pigs in Larimore, and moonshine.
Dates:
1971
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Josephine G. Smith Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 506
Abstract
Letter, typed summary of interview (2 leaves) concerning the Dalrymple family and the Chaffee family. Includes mention of her grandfather's land purchase from Mr. Chaffee, her friendship with Mary and Oliver Dalrymple, Mary Dalrymple's elaborate entertaining, Douglas Smith losing his job, and the near loss of Grandin Farms. Also includes her obituary.
Dates:
1908, 1953-1954.
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Marguerite Ferguson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 512
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Marguerite Ferguson, concerning her parents, Philip and Mary Weisbecker, who moved from New York to Moorhead, Minn., then to Grandin, N.D. where they bought a hotel. Includes mention of the first business establishments in Grandin, additions to the hotel, cooking for threshing crews, boarding farm workers during the winter, Lynn Ferguson, Marguerite's son and farm manager for John S. Dalrymple. Also includes clippings.
Dates:
1954, 1958.
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Maria E. Larrabee Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 551
Abstract
Typed copy of letter dated June 18, 1906 which is Mrs. Larrabee's response to George J. Backen's invitation to attend Old Settlers Reunion, has brief mention of their life in Foster County, including the births of two sons, mail delivery between Jamestown, N.D. and Fort Totten. Handwritten letter, dated Nov. 11, 1960, from Ralph Miller, Fargo, to Leonard Sackett which mentions the Old Settlers Association, their picnics, and a Captain Warren.
Dates:
1906, 1960.
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Martha Ann Ayers Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: SC 409
Abstract
Typed reminiscences (10 leaves) concerning early settlement of her parents Donald C. and Catherine MacKinnon and family at Webster, N.D. from 1895 to 1904 and her own homesteading in Towner County, N.D. The family originally came from Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada.
Dates:
1942.
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