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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

Benjamin F. Mackall Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 472
Abstract Correspondence; interviews with Mackall's son and daughter-in-law, Henry C. and Margaret (Robertson) Mackall, of Minneapolis, Minn., relating to Mackall, the family business, B.F. Mackall Inc., and John L. Grandin, owner of Grandin Farms and family friend, of Warren, Pa., area (original home of Mrs. Mackall); scrapbook compiled by Marjorie Cruikshank, containing information concerning the estate of Jay Cooke, dredging on the Red River, and Red River Valley history; and newspaper clippings.
Dates: 1953-1955

Blanchard Farm Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 455
Abstract Letter of David McCulloch to Datus Smith, correspondence of Mrs. E. H. Smith of Linton, N.D. to Leonard Sackett, and her reminiscences about life on the bonanza farm, and her father David McCulloch who was its farm superintendent.
Dates: 1902, 1954

Charles Bohnsack Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 451
Abstract Typed summary of interview (10 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Grandin farms where Bohnsack worked, his early life, and clippings about him, his children, and their farmland.
Dates: 1954-1968

Frank J. Herman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 119
Abstract Correspondence, notes from three extensive interviews (original typed copies and carbon copy with corrections) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Grandin Farm near Grandin, N.D., J.L. Grandin, Guy Grandin, Herman's job as farm bookkeeper, farm housing, his wife Susan Morrow Herman, people and businesses in Halstad, Minn., and the steamboat "Grandin." Includes a detailed description of the Grandin Farm buildings and a map of the farm.
Dates: 1953-1957

George E. Brunsdale Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 452
Abstract Typed summary of interview concerning the Grandin farm buildings at Mayville, N.D.
Dates: 1954

George Hilstad Collection of Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 269-Tape 11
Abstract Correspondence, typewritten summaries of interviews, taped interviews with Hilstad and Roy Bunn, relating to the Blanchard, Belle Prairie, and Grandin bonanza farms in Traill and Cass counties, N.D.; abstract of platting of Traill Centre; statistical information concerning Mayville, N.D., churches; articles, several written by Hilstad's wife, Mary (Dunlevy) Hilstad, chiefly concerning Traill County history; letters written by Torsten Torstenson Kopseng to Norwegian relatives, describing his...
Dates: 1863-1970

George Rognlie Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 524
Abstract Typed summaries of two interviews; the first interview (6 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerns Grandin Farm No. 1, working there as a cook's helper in 1901 and later employment at the Halstad elevator in 1910. Includes mention of A.G. Holstrom, Walter Hill, bathing accommodations, hauling grain to Halstad, holding capacity of boxcars and elevators, tearing down Grandin elevator located between No. 1 farm and No. 3 farm, fishing in the Red River. Second interview (1 leaf) with Inga Rognlie...
Dates: 1954-1955

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

Hugh McDonald Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 674
Abstract Letters, typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, James McDonald, an early settler at Caledonia, and the Grandin boats on the Red River. James McDonald died when a wagon load of wheat overturned and tipped into the Sheyenne River. Interview mentions Asa Sargeant and George Weston, early Traill County settlers. George Weston was later elected Register of Deeds and County Clerk. Letter from Neal Sargeant, son of Asa Sargeant, mentions steamboats "Alsop," "Pluck," and...
Dates: 1955-1956

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Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 18
Dalrymple, A. R. (Alton R.) 6
Holstrom, A. G. (Aaron G.), 1869-1947. 6
Grandin, John L. (John Livingston), 1836-1912 4
Dalrymple family. 3
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Herman, Frank John, 1888- 2
Holstrom, Rachel. 2
Smith, Datus C., 1853-1932. 2
Vinje, C. O. (Carl), 1861-1931. 2
Aasland, Alfred, 1884-1970. 1
Aasland, Ole L., 1850-1929. 1
Anderson, Albert, 1885-1958. 1
B.F. Mackall Inc. (Moorhead, Minn.) 1
Bohnsack family. 1
Bohnsack, Charles, 1859-1957 1
Brooks, James, b. 1848. 1
Brooks, Peter, 1872-1960 1
Brunsdale, George Elmer, 1890-1970. 1
Bunn, Roy, 1883-1968. 1
Chaffee family. 1
Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905. 1
Cruikshank, Marjorie. 1
Dalrymple, Clark, b. 1863. 1
Dalrymple, Mary. 1
Dalrymple, Oliver, d. 1908. 1
Dalrymple, Silas A. 1
Dwight Farm and Land Company (Dwight, N.D.) 1
Finney, Thomas, 1884-1970. 1
Francis, O. W., d. 1898. 1
Gaudland, Anton, d. 1951. 1
Gill, William. 1
Grandin Farm No. 1 (Mayville, N.D.) 1
Grandin Farm Trust. 1
Grandin, C. L. (Charles L.) 1
Hanson, John H., 1863-1957. 1
Hanson, Joseph, b. 1870. 1
Hanson, Julia Hovden, 1870-1934. 1
Herberg, Albert, 1875-1956. 1
Herberg, John Michael Thomassohn, 1839-1919. 1
Herberg, Magel Serina Thorson, 1845-1935. 1
Herman, Frank. 1
Herman, Susan Morrow, 1887-1972. 1
Hill, Walter Jerome, 1885-1944. 1
Hilstad, George, 1884-1969. 1
Hilstad, Mary Dunlevy, 1889-1973. 1
Holstrom, Harry. 1
Hovland family. 1
Hovland, Elvin. 1
Hovland, Samuel, 1848-1920. 1
Johnston, Edward, 1851-1915. 1
Johnston, Jane Nicholson, 1866-1947. 1
Johnston, Roy W., 1892-1957 1
Kopseng, Torsten Torstenson, d. 1903. 1
Larson, Henry C. 1
Larson, Ingeborg Halvorsen, 1849-1917. 1
Larson, Lars Henry, 1853-1910. 1
Mackall family. 1
Mackall, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1851-1935. 1
Mackall, Henry C. (Henry Clinton), 1885-1979. 1
Mackall, Margaret Robertson. 1
Madson, Inga Rognlie. 1
Martinson, Lena Hovland. 1
Martinson, Martin, b. 1884. 1
McCoy, Mary, 1889-1964. 1
McCoy, S. Ambrose, 1886-1959. 1
McCoy, Thomas, 1847-1916. 1
McCulloch, David, 1855-1925. 1
McDonald, Hugh, 1864-1958. 1
McDonald, James, d. 1880. 1
McKissick, Clara. 1
McKissick, James, 1875- 1
McNamee, John F., 1866-1949. 1
McNamee, Michael, 1863-1933. 1
Oien, Amelia. 1
Onsgard, Phyllis M. 1
Rognlie, George, 1880- 1
Rognlie, Peter. 1
Sargeant, Asa, 1844-1935. 1
Sargeant, Neal. 1
Schow, Carl J., b. 1874. 1
Serum, Anna, 1895- 1
Smith, Douglas C., 1861-1915. 1
Smith, Jeannette, 1888-1962. 1
Smith, Josephine Gill, 1864-1954. 1
Stevenson, Irene. 1
Sulerud, Allen C. 1
Thompson, Martha. 1
Thompson, Thomas, 1843- 1
Thompson, Thora. 1
Thornquist, John A., 1872- 1
Thorson, Swan. 1
Warren, Fred W., 1859-1935. 1
Warren, W. W. (William Webster), d. 1887. 1
Weston, George, 1831-1903. 1
Wilson, R. Saxton. 1
Wilson, Rufus W. 1
Wyman, John, b. 1860. 1
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