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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.

Albert Herberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 526
Abstract Typed summary of detailed interview with Albert Herberg, regarding his father John Michael Thomassohn Herberg, early Norwegian immigrant settler, Grandin Farms, steamboat "Grandin", grain elevators, farm implements, A.R. Dalrymple. Includes a copy of his mother's, Magel Serina Thorson Herberg, obituary, and clipping of Herberg's own obituary.
Dates: 1955-1956.

Ann Young Johnston Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 543
Abstract Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, John Forest Johnston (d. 1905), native of Scotland, who first worked as a clerk in the Bank of England, and later as a land agent for Gilliot Land Company, Glyndon, Minn. Emigrated in 1860 with wife Mary Anne McIver and family; Mary Anne died 1891. Johnston owned two farms; one was referred to as the Sabin Farm, located near Sabin, Minn., the other was known as the Glyndon Farm, it was north of Glyndon, Minn.
Dates: 1955

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

Carl F. Maas Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 265
Abstract Born at Rolette, Minn. to August and Kate (O'Rourke) Maas. Took over management of the second store built by his father in Norman County, Minn.
Dates: 1906, 1918, 1954-1955

Charles E. Grady Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 763
Abstract Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his pioneer father, Charles Grady, who worked for the Grandins at Quincy, N.D., the steamboat "Grandin" which was used to haul grain, and the first bridge across the Red River between Quincy, N.D. and Hendrum, Minn.
Dates: 1956

Charles Loring Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 609
Abstract Typed and handwritten correspondence and reminiscences which include detailed description of Charles Loring's life on the Stickney Farm including threshing with steam engines, controlling weeds, life on the Montana ranch with mention of a cattle stampede, his military and legal career, with mention of his father Lyman, father-in-law Daniel C. Darrow and a criminal abortion charge, typed carbon copy of an interview with Burr B. Boatman (8 leaves), and another interview with Frank McCabe (4...
Dates: 1890-1896, 1939, 1956, 1961

David McCauley Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 329
Abstract Postmaster, express agent and army sutler for Fort Abercrombie.
Dates: 1845-1955

Eliot Richards Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 525
Scope and Contents Typed summary of an interview (7 leaves) concerning his father, Harry Richards, Fargo coal dealer and later farmer at Perley, Minn. Includes mention of Harry Richards finding his farm, describes its location on the Red River, mentions a landslide near the house, description of how the house was heated, the poultry business located at the Richards Farm, O.C. Olson, General Thomas M. Walker and his death, and Harry Richards' first automobile.
Dates: 1955

Elliot W. McCleary Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 792
Abstract Letter, and typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett, corrections by sister Fern McCleary Danielson, concerning their father, David McCleary, who managed the James J. Hill Farm for twenty years at Northcote, Minnesota, (1896-1916). Mentions the buildings at Northcote, James J. Hill and son Walter, their hunting trips and private railroad cars, supplies for the farm, the size of Hill's farm, Hill's Negro servants, Tom Schone who refused to work for Walter Hill, David McCleary's move from...
Dates: 1956

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Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 23
Barnes, George S., 1840-1912. 6
Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916. 3
Dalrymple, A. R. (Alton R.) 2
Hill, Walter Jerome, 1885-1944. 2
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McCabe, Frank W., 1886-1959. 2
McCauley, David, 1825-1900. 2
Walker, Thomas McCormick, 1834- 2
Barnes family. 1
Becker family. 1
Berg, Donald J. 1
Bernhardson, Bernhard, 1840-1909. 1
Bernhardson, Lars, 1861-1941. 1
Blanchard, J. B. (James B.), 1821-1916. 1
Boatman, Burr B., 1877-1956 1
Burnham, Ada Josephine, 1842-1897. 1
Burnham, John Winthrop, 1829-1912. 1
Canfield family. 1
Christensen family. 1
Christensen, Oscar A. 1
Christensen, Otto Augustus, 1851-1918. 1
Cooke, H. Dell. 1
Cooke, Jay. 1
Crawford family. 1
Crawford, Henry. 1
Crawford, John Mason, b. 1842. 1
Crawford, Robert David, 1871-1964. 1
Dalrymple, Silas A. 1
Danielson, Fern. 1
Dickinson family. 1
Duncanson, Joseph E. 1
Efteland family. 1
Efteland, Enoch J., 1847-1932. 1
Efteland, Helene Hetland, 1852-1919. 1
Efteland, Josephine, 1887- 1
Elmer, Oscar Henry, 1844-1904. 1
Fay, Jim. 1
Finney, John, 1880-1970. 1
Finney, Ole. 1
Finney, Thomas, 1884-1970. 1
Gamble, Alexander. 1
Gamble, Mary Ann, d. 1902. 1
Gilliot Land Company (Glyndon, Minn.) 1
Gordon Relief Expedition (1884-1885) 1
Grady, Charles E., 1875- 1
Hanson, Olaus, 1885- 1
Hanson, Olie K. 1
Harris family. 1
Harris, Ethel M. 1
Harrison family. 1
Hartley, Guilford G., 1854-1922. 1
Herberg, Albert, 1875-1956. 1
Herberg, John Michael Thomassohn, 1839-1919. 1
Herberg, Magel Serina Thorson, 1845-1935. 1
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 1
Jensen, Jens, 1886- 1
Jensen, John. 1
Johnston, Ann Young, 1874-1963. 1
Johnston, John Forest. 1
Jones, C. P. 1
Kiene, Frank. 1
Lind, John A. 1
Lind, Knute J., 1876- 1
Lohr, George, d. 1913. 1
Lohr, John J. 1
Lohr, John T. 1
Loring, Charles, 1873-1961. 1
Loring, Lyman, d. 1898. 1
Maas family. 1
Maas, August, d. 1915. 1
Maas, Carl F., 1896- 1
Maas, Kate O'Rourke, d. 1914. 1
Madsen family. 1
Madson, Christine, 1848-1934. 1
Madson, Iver, 1839-1931. 1
McCabe, Ella L. 1
McCabe, Thomas. 1
McCallum, John, 1867- 1
McCauley family. 1
McCauley, Carrie, 1855-1919. 1
McCleary, Elliot W., 1897- 1
McCoy, Mary, 1889-1964. 1
McCoy, S. Ambrose, 1886-1959. 1
McCoy, Thomas, 1847-1916. 1
McGrew, H. Dan. 1
McMurphy, Lucy. 1
McNamee, John F., 1866-1949. 1
McNamee, Michael, 1863-1933. 1
Murray, Donald. 1
Murray, Kenneth, 1872- 1
Neill, William, of Beaverton, Ont. 1
Norman Lutheran Church (Kindred, N.D.) 1
Oehler, Arthur, Mrs. 1
Olson, O. C. (Olaus C.), 1871-1958. 1
Overby family. 1
Overby, Andrew, 1862-1938. 1
Overby, Arthur, 1902- 1
Overby, Christine, 1860-1962. 1
Preston, Elva, 1883- 1
Prindle, E. M. 1
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