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Edward P. Wells Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 135
Abstract Built the first house in Jamestown, ND and his scrapbooks nicely document the early political situation in North Dakota.
Dates: 1882-1941

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

Mary E. Mallick Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SC 621
Abstract Correspondence concerning mainly the Lyman R. Casey family, with mention of his wife and daughter Theodora who sent letters from overseas to Mary F. Mallick, George Palmer, Carrington & Casey Land Company manager, Carrington & Casey Land Company, and the Edward Chase family, especially son Russell and daughter Alice; mentions Mary's father, John P. Fitzgerald, and his death in an 1897 railroad accident following a blizzard, her mother, Margaret Mary and her death, being raised by an...
Dates: 1955-1956.

Russell D. Chase Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 508
Abstract Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Carrington & Casey Land Company, law partner George Thorpe, and obituaries of Mr. and Mrs. Chase.
Dates: 1954-1956, 1963.

Thomas N. Putnam Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 179-Mss 1596.10
Abstract New York native who moved with family to Iowa before coming to Carrington, ND in 1886. Owned a successful lumber business as well as 29 farms and two sections of land near Calgary, Alberta.
Dates: 1868-1955.