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Andrew and Millie Melgard Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 274
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview (14 leaves) with Andrew and Minnie Melgard concerning his life, the Snake River Farm and its purchase, farm's first owner who was named Woodward, Minnie's purchasing food supplies in bulk, cooking for sixty-five hired men, cleaning the bunkhouses, making soap and butter, butchering hogs, raising eight children, her collapse from stress and a map of the farm.
Dates:
1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Andrew Jespersen Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 502
Abstract
Letter, typed interview summary (9 leaves) and copy with notations concerning the Park Farm, steam engines, death of his brother-in-law from a steam engine explosion, digging wells for water, military and Indian artifacts found on his land, tree planting, father Peter Jespersen. Also includes obituary of Jespersen.
Dates:
1954; 1959
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Andrew R. Mourer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 509
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, Andrew R. Mourer, Sr., who came to Hankinson, N.D. area in 1878 and was the first to own a steam engine in Hankinson. Includes an explanation of how a horse-powered separator works, behavioral differences between horses and mules, treatment of mules at Keystone Farm, artesian water and its effect on new residents, physical effects of field work on hired men, and a pencil sketch of a horse drawn separator.
Dates:
1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Ann Young Johnston Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 543
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, John Forest Johnston (d. 1905), native of Scotland, who first worked as a clerk in the Bank of England, and later as a land agent for Gilliot Land Company, Glyndon, Minn. Emigrated in 1860 with wife Mary Anne McIver and family; Mary Anne died 1891. Johnston owned two farms; one was referred to as the Sabin Farm, located near Sabin, Minn., the other was known as the Glyndon Farm, it was north of Glyndon, Minn.
Dates:
1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Anna Serum Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 645
Abstract
Typed summary of two interviews with Leonard Sackett. First interview (2 leaves) with Anna Serum mentions the death of her father, working for Rachel Holstrom, and some of the men employed at Grandin Farm. Second interview (1 leaf) with Amelia (Melting) Oien, Anna's sister, a cook for threshing crews at Grandin Farm No. 1, includes mention of her wages, her husband, Clark Oien, and their purchase of farmland near Halstad, Minn. Also includes commentary (2 leaves) on a photograph of Anna Serum,...
Dates:
1955-1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Anton Orvik Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 264
Abstract
Born at Norman County, Minn. Wed Clara Gilbertson in 1908. Worked as foreman at Robineau Farms, Kelso, N.D., Clark Dalrymple and A.R. Dalrymple farms. Began farming for himself in 1927, moved to Halstad, Minn. in 1934.
Dates:
1954-1957
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Arne and Josephine Gronbeck Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 873
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with corrections concerning his work on the Helendale Farm. Includes some mention of J.B. Powers, his son Allie, and Gronbeck's wife Josephine Vangsness Gronbeck who worked as nursemaid and cook on the Helendale Farm.
Dates:
1957
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Arthur E. Elwell Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 703
Abstract
Interview (3 leaves) with Arthur and Lettie Elwell, concerning his father, Joseph Elwell, who managed the James C. Gill farm (1883-1897) near Wheatland, N.D., electrostatic copy of Joseph Elwell's birth certificate (1862), and clippings.
Dates:
1932-1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Arthur J. Robinson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 540
Abstract
Short synopsis of interview with Leonard Sacket concerning the Schermerhorn Farm incorporated in 1929, located near Mahnomen, Minn.
Dates:
1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Axel Dahl Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 663
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett, includes reminiscences about the James Kennedy farm, located in Cass County, N.D.
Dates:
1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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