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Arne and Josephine Gronbeck Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 873
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with corrections concerning his work on the Helendale Farm. Includes some mention of J.B. Powers, his son Allie, and Gronbeck's wife Josephine Vangsness Gronbeck who worked as nursemaid and cook on the Helendale Farm.
Dates:
1957
Found in:
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Edwin F. Ladd Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 90
Abstract
First chemistry professor at North Dakota Agricultural College (now NDSU), later president of NDAC, before becoming a U.S. Senator for North Dakota.
Dates:
1890-1966
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Ella Radcliffe Bratland Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 254
Abstract
Ella Bratland was the daughter of Thomas Radcliffe, an early Helendale Farm barn boss, who died in 1939.
Dates:
1954-1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Emil C. Ankerfelt Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 619
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett (10 leaves) and corrections (3 leaves) concerning Ankerfelt's life, and the Helendale Farm upon which he worked. There is also some Ankerfelt family history information.
Dates:
1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Frank B. Power Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 494
Abstract
Interview and corrections (13 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his recollections of J.B. Power and Helendale Farm, corrections by Ethelwyn Power. Includes mention of birth and death dates of J.B. Power's children: Charles M., George, Helen, and twins, James A. and Clara, Helen's death at boarding school, J.B.'s brother, William, J.B.'s employment with Northern Pacific Railroad, some history of Helendale Farm, J.B. Power's financial losses, description of farm buildings especially the...
Dates:
1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Frank Schroeder Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 691
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning Helendale Farm and the Farmers State Bank of Leonard. Includes description of the lakes around Helendale Farm, mentions draining some of the land, raising Percheron and Clydesdale horses at Helendale Farm, cutting wood on Helendale land, and a brief list of first bank officers of Farmers State Bank.
Dates:
1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
George and Martha Halvorson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 697
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning J.B. Power, Helendale Farm, Mrs. Halvorson's employment as a temporary cook at Helendale Farm, and her father, Ole Germanson, Norwegian immigrant from Telemark, Norway.
Dates:
1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
George Vangsness Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 670
Abstract
Contains a typed summary of an interview George did with Leonard Sackett and one newspaper clipping.
Dates:
1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
J.B. (James Buel) Power Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 309
Abstract
Power was a Northern Pacific land agent and farmer. The collection contains 14 volumes of indexed correspondence that give valuable information on the inside operation of the railroads and the opening of agricultural lands in North Dakota. The collection also contains material related to Power's farm at Helendale and the early settlement of the Red River Valley.
Dates:
1872-1930
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
John G. Plath Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 752
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview (7 leaves) with John G. Plath and his daughter Gladys (Plath) Cavanaugh concerning his father John H. Plath, homesteading at Davenport, N.D. Mentions farm equipment, especially steam engines, buying and selling land, early Davenport, N.D. businesses, Leech Farm, Arthur Lewis, T.S. Lewis, J.B. Powers' Percheron stallions, Helendale Farm, bank at Leonard and its failure, and family clippings.
Dates:
1956-1959
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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