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Aaron R. Russell Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 78
Overview
Native of Pennsylvania, and early settler in Minnesota, arriving in 1850. He was employed as a steamboat pilot from 1850 to 1884 on several rivers in Minnesota and Canada, including the Red River of the North. He was also the proprietor of the Windsor Hotel, St. Paul, Minn.
Dates:
1880-1967.
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Autobiography of William G. Starck
Item
Identifier: SC 592
Abstract
Photocopy of typescript autobiography that documents the lives of his German immigrant parents, Theodore and Wilhelmina Starck, who lived and farmed in Missouri and Nebraska and Starck's homesteading in Oliver County, N.D. in 1902. Includes mention of his parents trying to farm in Nebraska, their return to Missouri and coming back to Nebraska, his own experiences handling horses, the hospitality of German Russians in N.D., threshing, and a rooster used as an alarm clock.
Dates:
1949.
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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
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Fred Fiechtner Autobiography
Collection
Identifier: SC 875
Abstract
Photocopy of handwritten autobiographical sketch of his life which includes genealogical information on his German ancestors, the Fiechtners and the Gebhardts, from Odessa, Russia and Backnang, Württemburg, Germany. Also included are some photocopies of his father's writings in English and German.
Dates:
1974
Found in:
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John F. Douglas Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1148
Abstract
Letters, and a typed reminiscence entitled "A biographical sketch of John Francis Douglas and Neva B. Douglas" (40 leaves) by Neva B. Douglas on her husband's life in North Dakota, his student days at the University of North Dakota and after 1900 in Seattle, Wash., and on her life, especially her student days at the University of North Dakota, and her marriage to Mr. Douglas in 1898. The North Dakota section includes material on his parents, James A. and Annie Scott Douglas, of Goodwood,...
Dates:
1956-1961
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Newton C. Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 100
Abstract
Copies of speech, programs, clippings, obituaries, and memorials, relating to Young, including materials concerning his career as chief justice (1902-1906) of North Dakota Supreme Court; address by his wife, Ida (Clarke) Young as president of North Dakota Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, presented to the Minnesota association (1915); autobiography; poems; and documents relating to First Congregational Church of Fargo.
Dates:
1907-1950.
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Olaf Sand Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 570
Abstract
Immigrant from Norway who was one of the founders of St. Lukes Hospital in Fargo and recipient of the Knights Cross, First Class of the Order of Saint Olav from King Haakon of Norway.
Dates:
1897-1955.
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Ralph T. Fulton Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 79
Abstract
Correspondence, chiefly from Asle J. Gronna, Louis B. Hanna, and John Burke; family history material; pamphlets and programs, of meetings of Synod of North Dakota, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., United Society of Christian Endeavor, North Dakota Sunday School Association, county Sunday school conventions, and North Dakota Bible Conference; autobiographical material; scrapbook relating to North Dakota Sunday School Association; and clippings.
Dates:
1907-1952.
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Russell Duncan – Anna Mohagen Family History
Collection
Identifier: SC 809
Abstract
Photocopy of handwritten genealogy of the Duncan and Mohagen families with autobiographies of Russell (born William Russell Duncan) and Anna Mohagen Duncan.
Dates:
1977
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"The Story of His Life", by Pat Costello
Item
Identifier: SC 580
Abstract
Typed autobiographical account by Pat Costello about his life, including farming in Indiana, laundry burned down, farm debts, buying and selling horses, working on railroads in Illinois, Indiana, Texas, Washington, and Oregon, farming near Argusville, and garbage collecting in Fargo, N.D. to feed hogs.
Dates:
1953.
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