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Amenia and Sharon Land Company Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 134-Mss 1596.2-Oversize Collection 11
Abstract
The Company was a Cass County Bonanza farm managed and later owned by the late Chaffee family. The collection consists of company records, its subsidiaries, and persons involved.
Dates:
1856-1967
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Baldwin Corporation Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 160
Abstract
The Company was founded in 1898 and was based in Appleton, Wisconsin with large land holdings (75,000 acres) in Dickey Country, ND. The collection consists of personal family papers of George Baldwin (1830-1907), its founder; his son, George B. Baldwin (1876-1949); and Charles F. Baldwin (1879-1947), as well as other family members. The extensive business records, beginning in 1853, cover Mr. Baldwin's early legal and land interests, the Baldwin Land Company, his estate and the Baldwin...
Dates:
1823-1954 (bulk 1898-1936)
Found in:
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Earl T. Carley Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1472
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Hiram Drache concerning the Chaffee family and life in Amenia, N.D. Includes mention of Herbert F., Carrie T., and Eben Chaffee, other Chaffee family members, the death of H.F. Chaffee, the hotel managed by his parents, the Chaffee's disapproval of dancing and card games, the burning of the grain elevators at Amenia, N.D.
Dates:
1967
Found in:
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Emil Mecklenburg Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 607
Abstract
Correspondence, typed summary of detailed interview (18 leaves) with Emil and Mary (Radovich) Mecklenburg concerning the Keystone Farm, its horses, the buildings, owner Robert Jones, seeding fields, cutting hay, fight between hired men, farm superintendent Jim Carter who preceded W.G. Merrifield, Adams Farm (also known as Fairview Farm), its food, Downing Farms, Steven Gerard Downing, burning of the Downing elevator in 1918, sale of the Downing Farm at Mooreton, N.D., sale of W.P. Adams...
Dates:
1954-1956
Found in:
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George M. Scott Interviews
Collection
Identifier: SC 1453
Abstract
Typed summary combining two interviews with Leonard Sackett concerning his years while working for Robert Reed of the Amenia and Sharon Land Company. Describes his duties, the Amenia Hotel and its boarders, buildings on Amenia and Sharon Land Co. properties, bathing and laundry facilities, wages, Amenia and Sharon grain elevators, with mention of Edmund Gowland, his son Russell, and Carrie (Mrs. H.F.) Chaffee.
Dates:
1955, 1966
Found in:
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George Rognlie Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 524
Abstract
Typed summaries of two interviews; the first interview (6 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerns Grandin Farm No. 1, working there as a cook's helper in 1901 and later employment at the Halstad elevator in 1910. Includes mention of A.G. Holstrom, Walter Hill, bathing accommodations, hauling grain to Halstad, holding capacity of boxcars and elevators, tearing down Grandin elevator located between No. 1 farm and No. 3 farm, fishing in the Red River. Second interview (1 leaf) with Inga Rognlie...
Dates:
1954-1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Jacob Walters Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 534
Abstract
Correspondence, typed summary of interview (5 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his life and the Grandin elevator at Gardner, N.D. Includes mention of the homestead built by his father, Carl Walters, and of the Grandin elevator that stood nearby, hauling grain on the Red River, James Pratt, the first elevator manager, Jacob Walters' job on the steamboat "Minnesota," and its crew, Jacob's brother, Charlie Walters, Jacob's wife, Bertha Swenson Walters, and addendum mentioning Bertha's...
Dates:
1955-1957
Found in:
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James and Clara McKissick Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 138
Abstract
Extensive interview with James and Clara Trammell McKissick about his father, Charles, who managed the Dwight Farm, later the Hinkle Smith Farm near Amenia, N.D. and the Grandin Farm near Mayville. Mentions the livestock and acreage at Grandin Farm, Oliver Dalrymple, immigrant farm laborers, James McKissick's education and various jobs as farmer, milk truck driver, butcher shop owner, hog shrinker and a hired man who set fire to McKissick's barns.
Dates:
1953
Found in:
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James W. McNary Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 102
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (1 leaf) with Leonard Sackett concerning Baldwin Farms, his salary, introduction of alfalfa, plowing; typed copy of speech (5 leaves) entitled "What professional farm management stands for," typed copy of a newspaper clipping "Does farming pay," by A.E. Winship (1930) which mentions McNary's setting up a young unnamed Russian farmer in farming, newspaper clipping of Baldwin elevator being moved (1943), sale of the last pieces of land owned by Baldwin Corporation...
Dates:
1930-1953
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
John H. Pannebaker Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 237
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (1 leaf) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, Richard Pannebaker, who moved from Indiana in 1881 to Oriska, N.D., then to Mapleton, N.D., his job as foreman for Mapleton Farming Co., elevator manager at Mapleton and Tower City, N.D., later employed by Amenia and Sharon Land Company. Includes brief mention of the Matt Dill farm which was purchased in 1905 by Miller-Chaffee-Reed Company; John Pannebaker worked there briefly. Also includes newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1954-1957
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 10
- Amenia and Sharon Land Company. 5
- Chaffee, Carrie T. (Carrie Toogood), 1864-1931. 3
- Reed, Robert B., 1874-1960. 3
- Baldwin Corporation. 2
- Chaffee, Herbert F. (Herbert Fuller), 1864-1912. 2
- Miller-Chaffee-Reed Company. 2
- North Dakota Agricultural College. 2
- Reed, J. H. (John Horace), 1846-1925. 2
- Adams, William P., 1863-1937. 1
- Amenia Elevator Company (Amenia, N.D.) 1
- Bjornson, Julian. 1
- Bonzer, A. F. (Arthur F.), 1894-1951. 1
- Bucholz, Christopher T., 1962- 1
- Caddigan, C. W. 1
- Carley, Earl T., 1889- 1
- Carley, Thomas. 1
- Chaffee Grain Co. 1
- Chaffee family. 1
- Chaffee, E. W. (Eben Whitney), 1824-1892. 1
- Chaffee-Miller Land Company. 1
- Chaffee-Miller Milling Company (Casselton, N.D.) 1
- Cresent Elevator Company (Amenia, N.D.) 1
- Dalrymple family. 1
- Dalrymple, A. R. (Alton R.) 1
- Dalrymple, Clark, b. 1863. 1
- Dalrymple, Oliver, d. 1908. 1
- Downing, Steven Gerard, 1874-1957. 1
- Drache, Hiram M. 1
- Dwight Farm and Land Company (Dwight, N.D.) 1
- Evenson, Edward, 1881- 1
- Farmers Grain Co. (Grandin, N.D.) 1
- Farmers Mutual Telephone Company (Carbury, N.D.) 1
- Gowland, Edmund. 1
- Gowland, Russell, 1892- 1
- Gunkelman, John L., 1918-1990. 1
- Gunkelman, Ralph F., 1885-1968. 1
- Guy, William Lewis, 1890-1942. 1
- H.F. Chaffee Company. 1
- Hanson, Joseph, b. 1870. 1
- Hedstrom, Gary W. (Gary Wayne), 1949- 1
- Hill, Walter Jerome, 1885-1944. 1
- Holstrom, A. G. (Aaron G.), 1869-1947. 1
- Hunter, William C. (William Columbus), 1882-1973. 1
- Interstate Seed & Grain Co. (Fargo, N.D.) 1
- John Miller Company. 1
- Konen, Tillie, 1890-1978. 1
- Madson, Inga Rognlie. 1
- Magnuson, Nels, 1863-1955. 1
- Manor Farms (N.D.) 1
- McKissick, Clara. 1
- McKissick, James, 1875- 1
- McNary Farm Management Company. 1
- McNary, J. W. (James W.) 1
- Mecklenburg, Emil, 1885-1956. 1
- Mecklenburg, Mary, 1890-1960. 1
- Miller, John, 1843-1908. 1
- North Dakota Mill & Elevator Association. 1
- Northern Pacific Railroad Company. 1
- Nyberg, Charles. 1
- Pannebaker, John H., 1889-1957. 1
- Pannebaker, Richard, 1858-1938. 1
- Power, J. A. (James A.), d. 1924. 1
- Power, J. B. (James Buel), 1833-1912. 1
- R.F. Gunkelman & Sons (Fargo, N.D.) 1
- Red River Valley Land and Investment Company. 1
- Reed, Walter R. (Walter Russell), 1871-1940. 1
- Rognlie, George, 1880- 1
- Rognlie, Peter. 1
- Sargent, E. C. 1
- Sargent, Frank. 1
- Scandinavian Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. (Souris, N.D.) 1
- Scott, George M., 1894- 1
- Souris Cooperative Elevator Company (Souris, N.D.) 1
- Stroud, Peter E. 1
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 1
- Vail, J. B. (James Bradford), b. 1861. 1
- Vinje, C. O. (Carl), 1861-1931. 1
- Walters, Jacob, 1864- 1
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