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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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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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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:
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Josephine G. Smith Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 506
Abstract
Letter, typed summary of interview (2 leaves) concerning the Dalrymple family and the Chaffee family. Includes mention of her grandfather's land purchase from Mr. Chaffee, her friendship with Mary and Oliver Dalrymple, Mary Dalrymple's elaborate entertaining, Douglas Smith losing his job, and the near loss of Grandin Farms. Also includes her obituary.
Dates:
1908, 1953-1954.
Found in:
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Peter A. Lundwall Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 211
Abstract
Family history material, interview with Earl and Beatrice Lundwall Elwell, mention of the Chaffee family, especially of H.F. Chaffee, his wife, Carrie Toogood Chaffee, various jobs Earl held at Amenia and Sharon Land Company, electrostatic copy of Peter A. Lundwall's citizenship certificate (1894), and newspaper clippings on various family members.
Dates:
1932-1952.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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