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Bertha Wichern Interview
Item
Identifier: SC 262
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett (4 leaves) concerning her work on the Lockhart Farm near Ada, Minn. Includes mention of the family's one room sod house, working at age eleven, caring for small children, washing dishes, making beds, long work hours, quality of food, the stingy wife of the Lockhart Farm superintendent, Jack McPhie, a water well, hired men, and making butter.
Dates:
1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Burr Boatman Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 587
Abstract
Letter from his sister Mrs. George Wright to Leonard Sackett, a typed summary of an interview with Sackett (4 leaves), concerning his father R.P. (Robert Porter) Boatman, the Loring Farm, and B.B. Boatman's employment with Northwestern Bell Telephone, and obituaries of B.B. Boatman and his sister.
Dates:
1956, 1960
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Christ Menge Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 346
Abstract
Correspondence, interviews, autobiographical sketch, histories of Lockhart Farm, Lockhart, Minn., and Mylo, N.D., legal materials, blueprint maps of several townships in Norman County, Minn., obituaries, and clippings relating to Finley, N.D., and other topics. Includes information relating to Menge's early employment on Lockhart Farm and his lumber and hardware stores in Lockhart, Minn.
Dates:
1934-1967
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Eric and Ellen Forslund Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 273
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Mr. and Mrs. Forslund concerning his life, especially on the Snake River Farm, and her experiences as a cook on the Snake River Farm.
Dates:
1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
George F. Cheney Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 272
Abstract
Letter, typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett with follow-up questions and answers relating to the March-Spaulding Farm near Warren, Minn., farming in the Warren, Minn. area, and some family history material.
Dates:
1954-1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Olaf Leikvam Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 647
Overview
Typed summary of detailed interview (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett and corrections concerning his employment on the Richards Farm, the main house, farm buildings, livestock, Richards family members, especially father Harry Richards and son John Elliott Richards.
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Ole Peter Wiig Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 456
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Ole Peter and Martha Wiig concerning his life at Lake Park and Perley, Minn. Includes mention of his first jobs in Lake Park, Minn. as a laborer and a farm worker, working on the Walker farm, his wife's job as Walker Farm cook, their wages, their experiences owning a farm and later, owning a hotel in Perley, Minn. Also includes clippings.
Dates:
1950, 1954-1957.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Samuelson Family Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1471
Abstract
Typed summary of an interview by Don Berg with an unidentified Samuelson son, concerning the Corser Farm located near Crookston, Minn. Includes mention of his parents emigrating from Sweden to America, returning to Sweden, and coming back to the U.S., ordering supplies by mail, cheesemaking, threshing, a description of the land on the Corser Farm, other farm equipment, and prairie fires.
Dates:
1966.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Sven E. Ulsaker Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 143
Abstract
Typed copy of his reminiscence concerning his childhood home in Norway and early years in Kindred, N.D. Includes mention of his education in Norway, his cattle buying job in Norway, immigrating to the U.S., working as a hired man for other Norwegian settlers, a bout of typhoid fever, early settlers around Kindred, N.D. and on the Sheyenne and Wild Rice Rivers, brief mention of James Hill, and the Norman Lutheran Church.
Dates:
Majority of material found within [193-].
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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
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