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Alfred Aasland Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 655
Abstract
Typed summary of interview by Frank Herman and Leonard Sackett with Alfred Aasland concerning his father, Ole Aasland, who worked on the Grandin farm.
Dates:
1956.
Found in:
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Andrew R. Mourer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 509
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, Andrew R. Mourer, Sr., who came to Hankinson, N.D. area in 1878 and was the first to own a steam engine in Hankinson. Includes an explanation of how a horse-powered separator works, behavioral differences between horses and mules, treatment of mules at Keystone Farm, artesian water and its effect on new residents, physical effects of field work on hired men, and a pencil sketch of a horse drawn separator.
Dates:
1954
Found in:
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Anne Walters Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 171-Mss 1596.1
Abstract
A prized playwright and dramatist from Webster, North Dakota who wrote several full length plays and books. Includes her works 'Choice' which is the story of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and 'I Remember, I Remember,' a story of a North Dakota childhood. There are also her poetry files, numerous manuscript stories. The 'Anecdotage' manuscript documents memories of a North Dakota childhood which include homesteading, prairie schooner, the threshers, a country school,...
Dates:
1910-1984
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Anton Orvik Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 264
Abstract
Born at Norman County, Minn. Wed Clara Gilbertson in 1908. Worked as foreman at Robineau Farms, Kelso, N.D., Clark Dalrymple and A.R. Dalrymple farms. Began farming for himself in 1927, moved to Halstad, Minn. in 1934.
Dates:
1954-1957
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Axel Dahl Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 663
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett, includes reminiscences about the James Kennedy farm, located in Cass County, N.D.
Dates:
1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Barberry Eradication Campaign in North Dakota Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 366
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1919-1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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:
Institute for Regional Studies
Charles Bohnsack Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 451
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (10 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Grandin farms where Bohnsack worked, his early life, and clippings about him, his children, and their farmland.
Dates:
1954-1968
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Charles H. Eggert Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 618
Abstract
Typed summary (10 leaves) of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning Eggert's work on area farms, including the Leach Farm, and newspaper clippings which mention James Kennedy and the Leach Farm, the golden anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Eggert, and Mrs. Eggert's obituary.
Dates:
1950-1959
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 25
- Amenia and Sharon Land Company. 6
- Power, J. B. (James Buel), 1833-1912. 5
- Adams, William P., 1863-1937. 4
- Kennedy, James, 1857-1926. 3
- Adams, John Quincy, 1824-1899. 2
- Chaffee family. 2
- Chaffee, E. W. (Eben Whitney), 1824-1892. 2
- Dalrymple Farms (N.D.) 2
- Dalrymple, A. R. (Alton R.) 2
- Herman, Frank. 2
- North Dakota Agricultural College. 2
- Reed, Robert B., 1874-1960. 2
- Aasland, Alfred, 1884-1970. 1
- Aasland, Ole L., 1850-1929. 1
- Akin, Glenn, 1896-1967. 1
- Akin, William Richard. 1
- Almlie, Engebredt, 1847-1914. 1
- Almlie, Oliver, 1878-1961. 1
- Anderson, Hegbert, 1877-1957. 1
- Anderson, Lars, 1878-1965. 1
- Ankerfelt family. 1
- Ankerfelt, Emil Carl, 1882- 1
- Bakke, Oscar P., b. 1889 1
- Barnes family. 1
- Barnes, A. H. (Alanson Herbert), 1872- 1
- Barnes, Alanson H., 1818-1890. 1
- Barnes, Lucien A., 1840-1909. 1
- Beattie, John, 1848-1952. 1
- Bohnsack family. 1
- Bohnsack, Charles, 1859-1957 1
- Bratland, Ella Radcliffe, 1900-1973. 1
- Brooks, James, b. 1848. 1
- Brooks, Peter, 1872-1960 1
- Burton, Perry. 1
- Buttz, Charles Wilson, 1838-1913. 1
- Caldwell, Ralph M. (Ralph Merrill), b. 1903. 1
- Carter, James H., 1862-1941. 1
- Chaffee, Carrie T. (Carrie Toogood), 1864-1931. 1
- Chaffee, H. L. (Herbert Laurance), 1892- 1
- Common Sense Gas Tractor Company (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1
- Conference for the Prevention of Grain Rust (Location of meeting: (Minneapolis, Minn.).) 1
- Crerar, William, 1821-1918. 1
- Dahl, Axel. 1
- Dalrymple, Clark, b. 1863. 1
- Dunning, George L. 1
- Dwight Farm and Land Company (Dwight, N.D.) 1
- Dwight, John W. (John Wilbur), 1859-1928. 1
- Eggert, Charles H., 1874-1965 1
- Eggert, Kathryn, 1882-1957 1
- Elk Valley Farming Co. 1
- Fairview Farm (N.D.) 1
- Ferguson, Marguerite, 1873-1958 1
- Gowland, Edmund. 1
- Gowland, Russell, 1892- 1
- Hanson, Martin, 1878-1949. 1
- Hatlen, Caroline Jordet, b. 1886. 1
- Helendale Farm (N.D.) 1
- Hoffman, Joseph, 1878- 1
- Hunter, William C. (William Columbus), 1882-1973. 1
- Hutton, Lynn D., 1897- 1
- Industrial Workers of the World. 1
- Johnson, Andrew. 1
- Jones, R. W., of Buffalo, N.Y. (Robert W.) 1
- Jordet, Albert, 1883-1954. 1
- Jordet, Ole, 1864-1956. 1
- Keating family. 1
- Keating, John F., 1889-1965. 1
- Keating, Peter L., 1879-1970. 1
- Keating, William, 1846-1930. 1
- Kitchen, Joseph A. (Joseph Ambrose), 1878-1942. 1
- Kniefle, Henry, 1877-1958. 1
- Kniefle, Pauline, 1885-1966. 1
- Ladd, Edwin Fremont, 1859-1925. 1
- Larimore, N. G. (Newel Greene), 1835-1913. 1
- Luther, August F., 1872-1964. 1
- Mayoue, George C. 1
- Mecklenburg, Emil, 1885-1956. 1
- Miller, John, 1843-1908. 1
- Mourer, Andrew R., 1860-1940. 1
- Mourer, Andrew R., Jr. 1
- North Dakota State Fair. 1
- North Dakota. Dept. of Public Instruction. 1
- North Dakota. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives 1
- Orvik, Anton, 1883-1957. 1
- Palmer, Bertha Rachael, 1888-1959. 1
- Power, J. A. (James A.), d. 1924. 1
- Radcliffe, Thomas W., 1855-1939. 1
- Saunders, Robert S. 1
- Scott, George M., 1894- 1
- Scott, Ida Grieve, d. 1958. 1
- Scott, James, 1872-1958. 1
- Sebens, William P., 1898-1978. 1
- Silliman University. 1
- Smith, Della, 1889-1969. 1
- Smith, F. Paul (Forester Paul), 1888-1941. 1
- Smith, Forest H., 1852-1924. 1
- Smith, George N., 1849- 1
- South Dakota. Legislature. 1
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