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Congregational Church of Amenia, N.D. Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 97
Abstract
The people of Amenia started the church in 1886 when the bonanza farmer E. W. Chaffee donated the land and also joined the church.
Dates:
1886-1916
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National Register of Historic Places, North Dakota. Cass County Nomination Forms
Collection
Identifier: Mss 178
Abstract
Photocopy collection of the complete Cass County historic sites nominations forms.
Dates:
1974-[ongoing]
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Chaffee Family Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 134
Abstract
Correspondence; excerpts from diary (1892-1909) of George L. Dunning, laborer and farm superintendent of Amenia and Sharon farm; genealogical material; term papers; biography of Eben Whitney Chaffee by W.C. Hunter; two interviews with H.L. Chaffee; and brochures relating to Oriente, a community planned for Nicaragua, of which E.W. Chaffee was president.
Dates:
1892-1955
Found in:
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Della Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 651
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett which concerns the Chaffee family, and F.H. and George N. Smith, brothers who homesteaded north of Amenia, N.D. Includes mention of work at Amenia and Sharon Land Co., rules for hired men including church attendance, the Smith brothers' farm partnership, their terms in the N.D. and S.D. legislatures (F.H. elected to S.D. legislature, George N. to N.D. House, F. Paul to N.D. House), losing the S.D. farmland in the 1920s, business...
Dates:
1955-1956, 1969
Found in:
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F. H. Smith & Sons Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 56
Abstract
Contains the official records of this corporate farming business including articles of incorporation, bylaws, memoranda of agreement, meeting minutes of the board of directors and stockholders, as well as several resolutions and correspondence.
Dates:
1914-1934
Found in:
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Earl T. Carley Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1472
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Hiram Drache concerning the Chaffee family and life in Amenia, N.D. Includes mention of Herbert F., Carrie T., and Eben Chaffee, other Chaffee family members, the death of H.F. Chaffee, the hotel managed by his parents, the Chaffee's disapproval of dancing and card games, the burning of the grain elevators at Amenia, N.D.
Dates:
1967
Found in:
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G. Robert Allison Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1469
Scope and Contents
Typed summary of interview with Hiram Drache concerning the Chaffee family and the Amenia and Sharon Land Company.
Dates:
1967
Found in:
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George M. Scott Interviews
Collection
Identifier: SC 1453
Abstract
Typed summary combining two interviews with Leonard Sackett concerning his years while working for Robert Reed of the Amenia and Sharon Land Company. Describes his duties, the Amenia Hotel and its boarders, buildings on Amenia and Sharon Land Co. properties, bathing and laundry facilities, wages, Amenia and Sharon grain elevators, with mention of Edmund Gowland, his son Russell, and Carrie (Mrs. H.F.) Chaffee.
Dates:
1955, 1966
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James and Clara McKissick Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 138
Abstract
Extensive interview with James and Clara Trammell McKissick about his father, Charles, who managed the Dwight Farm, later the Hinkle Smith Farm near Amenia, N.D. and the Grandin Farm near Mayville. Mentions the livestock and acreage at Grandin Farm, Oliver Dalrymple, immigrant farm laborers, James McKissick's education and various jobs as farmer, milk truck driver, butcher shop owner, hog shrinker and a hired man who set fire to McKissick's barns.
Dates:
1953
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John Horace Reed Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1521
Abstract
Typed copies of two poems, "A Yankee farmer in the new west" and "A legend of Hitchcock's corner," from his Three score and ten and extracts from his diary covering March 1885 to August 9, 1925 concerning activities in his life and various Chaffee family members.
Dates:
1884-1925
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Amenia and Sharon Land Company. 10
- Chaffee family. 5
- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 5
- Chaffee, Carrie T. (Carrie Toogood), 1864-1931. 3
- Amenia (N.D. : Township) 2
- Amenia (N.D.) 2
- Chaffee, E. W. (Eben Whitney), 1824-1892. 2
- Chaffee, Herbert F. (Herbert Fuller), 1864-1912. 2
- Congregational Church of Amenia, N.D. 2
- Drache, Hiram M. 2
- Guy, William L. (William Lewis), 1919- 2
- Guy, William Lewis, 1890-1942. 2
- Reed, J. H. (John Horace), 1846-1925. 2
- Reed, Robert B., 1874-1960. 2
- Smith, F. Paul (Forester Paul), 1888-1941. 2
- Smith, Forest H., 1852-1924. 2
- Allison, G. Robert, 1910- 1
- Amenia (N.D. : Township). Board of Supervisors. 1
- Amenia Church Ladies Aid (Amenia, N.D.) 1
- Amenia Neighborhood Club (Amenia, N.D.) 1
- American Junior Red Cross. 1
- American National Red Cross. Amenia Chapter (Amenia, N.D.) 1
- Barber, Elihu. 1
- Carley, Earl T., 1889- 1
- Carley, Thomas. 1
- Chaffee, H. L. (Herbert Laurance), 1892- 1
- Common Sense Gas Tractor Company (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1
- Dalrymple, Oliver, d. 1908. 1
- Dunning, George L. 1
- Dwight Farm and Land Company (Dwight, N.D.) 1
- F.H. Smith & Sons (Amenia, N.D.) 1
- Gowland, Edmund. 1
- Gowland, Russell, 1892- 1
- Guy, Mabel Leet. 1
- Hunter, William C. (William Columbus), 1882-1973. 1
- McKissick, Clara. 1
- McKissick, James, 1875- 1
- National Register of Historic Places. 1
- National Register of Historic Places. North Dakota. 1
- North Dakota Agricultural College. 1
- North Dakota Agricultural College. Agricultural Extension Service. 1
- North Dakota. Governor (1961-1973 : Guy) 1
- North Dakota. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives 1
- Nybakken, Even, 1865-1934. 1
- Power, J. A. (James A.), d. 1924. 1
- Power, J. B. (James Buel), 1833-1912. 1
- Sargent, E. C. 1
- Sargent, Frank. 1
- Scott, George M., 1894- 1
- Smith, Della, 1889-1969. 1
- Smith, George N., 1849- 1
- Smith, Margaret F., of Amenia, N.D. 1
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- South Dakota. Legislature. 1
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 1
- Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition (Omaha, Neb. : 1898) 1
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