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George S. Barnes, Sr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 335
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopied articles about George Barnes Sr. as well as news paper articles and typed interviews from family members
Dates:
1883-1892, 1950.
Found in:
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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
Olaus Hanson and John Jensen Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 742
Abstract
Typed transcript of interview with Mr. Hanson and John Jensen, concerning their families, working on the G.S. Barnes Farm near Glyndon. Includes mention of their fathers who emigrated from Norway (Olie Hanson, Telemarken, Norway and Jens Jensen, Christiania, Norway), Dan and Mike McCarthy, lumbering near Dexterville, Minn., a Christmas Eve saloon brawl at Dexterville, and Hanson's house which was built over a saloon.
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
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Oscar A. Christensen Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 336
Abstract
The collection consists of correspondence and writings, including The Man Behind the Plow, a family history of pioneer life in Minnesota.
Dates:
1949-1959.
Found in:
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Tollef Torgerson Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 867
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) concerning the George S. Barnes farm. Includes mention of various hired men who worked with Torgerson, horses and cattle on the Barnes Farm, shipping horses to logging camps in northern Minnesota in the winter, working at a logging camp, threshing equipment, buying his own farm land, and Jerry McCarthy, a Glyndon, Minn. farmer who froze to death. Also includes a clipping.
Dates:
1957.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Walter B. Rae Interview, 1955
Collection
Identifier: SC 499
Abstract
Born 1894 in Sargent County, N.D. Family moved to Clay County, Minn. in 1899 and in 1909 moved north of Dilworth, Minn. Left partially paralyzed after recovering from influenza in 1918. He was employed by city of Dilworth, Minn. as town clerk and waterworks superintendent.
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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