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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.
Found in:
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Andrew and Millie Melgard Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 274
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview (14 leaves) with Andrew and Minnie Melgard concerning his life, the Snake River Farm and its purchase, farm's first owner who was named Woodward, Minnie's purchasing food supplies in bulk, cooking for sixty-five hired men, cleaning the bunkhouses, making soap and butter, butchering hogs, raising eight children, her collapse from stress and a map of the farm.
Dates:
1954
Found in:
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Anna Serum Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 645
Abstract
Typed summary of two interviews with Leonard Sackett. First interview (2 leaves) with Anna Serum mentions the death of her father, working for Rachel Holstrom, and some of the men employed at Grandin Farm. Second interview (1 leaf) with Amelia (Melting) Oien, Anna's sister, a cook for threshing crews at Grandin Farm No. 1, includes mention of her wages, her husband, Clark Oien, and their purchase of farmland near Halstad, Minn. Also includes commentary (2 leaves) on a photograph of Anna Serum,...
Dates:
1955-1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Clarence Gaudland Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 770
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his parents, Anton and Verna Gaudland; his father managed the Bollman Farm near Georgetown, Minn.; later entered a partnership in an elevator and mill at Goodrich, Minn. Anton Gaudland emigrated from Norway.
Dates:
1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
David Askegaard Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 118
Abstract
Biographical sketch (1 leaf) based on information supplied by his son Eugene in an interview with Leonard Sackett, a copy of the song, “The Last Sunset” by his daughter Mathilde Emilie Askegaard, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1953-1957
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Doris G. Larsen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 743
Abstract
Includes a number of writings about the Furnberg and Korum families, ancestral families of Ms. Larsen. Norwegian Roots, A Korum Branch, primarily is the reminiscences (6 leaves) by Johanne (Korum) Furnberg of her youth, growing up at Brandon, Minnesota and also working at Fargo, N.D. The Furnberg items document Anne Furnberg who with her husband Christian Scotsberg immigrated from Norway to America, and settled near Northfield, Minnesota. After Christian's death in 1869, Anna and son settled on...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950s-1990s
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Edward Evanson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 817
Abstract
Correspondence, and typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett with corrections concerning his life, Dennis Ryan of St. Paul, Minn., and Ryan Hotel in St. Paul.
Dates:
1956-1957
Found in:
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Enoch J. Efteland Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1465
Abstract
Family history (8 leaves) with genealogical information on this Norwegian immigrant family from Sogn, Norway who settled at Shelly, Minn. Includes letter of transmittal.
Dates:
1966
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
George B. Rasmusen Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 532
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his parents, Knut and Barbara? (Larson) Rasmusen, Norwegian immigrants, who first settled near Preston Minn., later moving to Georgetown, Minn. in 1881. Includes brief mention of his brothers, John, a blacksmith who moved to S.D. to farm, returned to Fargo where he died in 1920, 1882 spring flooding of the Buffalo and Sheyenne rivers, Robert, a barber in Moorhead, and George's farm near Audubon, Minn.
Dates:
1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Guttorm and Ragna Lee Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 515
Abstract
Genealogy of the children who emigrated from Hallingdal, Norway to North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota; includes detailed information on emigrating family members, son Torsten who changed family name from Amundson to Lee, son Anders who used Sorlie as his family name and lived at Hudson, S.D., and a page of photographs from a newspaper article on the farm home near Fertile, Minn.
Dates:
1968
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 12
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- Askegaard, David, 1853-1919. 1
- Askegaard, Mathilde Emilie. 1
- Barnes family. 1
- Barnes, George S., 1840-1912. 1
- Christensen family. 1
- Christensen, Oscar A. 1
- Christensen, Otto Augustus, 1851-1918. 1
- Efteland family. 1
- Efteland, Enoch J., 1847-1932. 1
- Efteland, Helene Hetland, 1852-1919. 1
- Efteland, Josephine, 1887- 1
- Evanson, Edward, 1863- 1
- Fielde, Jacob, 1859-1896. 1
- Finney, John, 1880-1970. 1
- Finney, Ole. 1
- Finney, Thomas, 1884-1970. 1
- Fjelde family. 1
- Fjelde, Fredrikke, 1868-1915. 1
- Fjelde, Herman O., 1865-1918. 1
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- Fjelde, Paul, 1892- 1
- Fjelde, Pauline Gerhardine, 1861-1923. 1
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- Furnberg, Anne, 1836-1912. 1
- Furnberg, Christian C., 1869- 1
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- Furuseth, Jacob. 1
- Furuseth, Jule. 1
- Furuseth, Manly Melvin, 1895-1972. 1
- Gaudland, Anton, d. 1951. 1
- Gaudland, Clarence, 1908- 1
- Gaudland, Verna Dahl. 1
- Hanson, Juliet Olfa Ledry, 1922-2004. 1
- Headland, John, 1838-1933. 1
- Herberg, Albert, 1875-1956. 1
- Herberg, John Michael Thomassohn, 1839-1919. 1
- Herberg, Magel Serina Thorson, 1845-1935. 1
- Herman, Frank John, 1888- 1
- Holstrom, A. G. (Aaron G.), 1869-1947. 1
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- Korum family. 1
- Larsen, Doris Grimstvedt, 1924- 1
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- Lee, Torsten, 1836-1897. 1
- Leikvam, Olaf, 1880- 1
- McCauley, David, 1825-1900. 1
- Melgard, Andrew, 1870- 1
- Melgard, Minnie. 1
- Norman Lutheran Church (Kindred, N.D.) 1
- North Dakota Agricultural College. 1
- Oien, Amelia. 1
- Olson, Timan, d. 1936. 1
- Overby family. 1
- Overby, Andrew, 1862-1938. 1
- Overby, Arthur, 1902- 1
- Overby, Christine, 1860-1962. 1
- Rasmusen, George Bernard, 1879- 1
- Rasmusen, Knut, 1829-1907. 1
- Red River Valley Male Singers Association. 1
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