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Adolph Ed Seaburg Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1062
Overview
Danish-American locomotive engineer for Northern Pacific Railway Company, of Fargo, N.D.; also known as Ed Seaburg. Correspondence relating to Willis H. Downs, of Jamestown, N.D., Downs's activities with North Dakota Volunteers, 1st Infantry Regiment, Company H, in the Philippines during the Spanish American War, and his receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1906, and to Seaburg's father, Nels Seaburg, including World War I correspondence; funeral book; pamphlets; program (1910) of...
Dates:
1900-1960.
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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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Edna LaMoore Waldo Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 5
Abstract
Review of "Dakota", copies of "Pageant of the Missouri", "Sunbonnet Trail", unbound first printing of "Dakota", several letters, biographical and genealogical material on the Dearborn, Freeman, and LaMoore families, and several articles from her "Way Back When" series including Fort Rice, Fort Lincoln, Linda Slaughter, Custer, 7th Cavalry, and expeditions to survey for expansion of the railroads.
Dates:
1931-1956
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Edward P. Wells Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 135
Abstract
Built the first house in Jamestown, ND and his scrapbooks nicely document the early political situation in North Dakota.
Dates:
1882-1941
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Fargo and Southern Railroad Company Journal
Collection
Identifier: SC 72
Abstract
Journal kept by Charles Sweatt, treasurer, containing financial transactions for Aug. 24, 1881 to Aug. 3, 1882; and list of original shareholders, containing numbers of shares and amounts invested and map showing the proposed Fargo and Southern and other Fargo railroads.
Dates:
1881-1882
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Farmers’ Grain and Shipping Company Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 644
Abstract
Photocopies of inventories of company records; originals located at the Minnesota Historical Society; records are part of Great Northern Railway Company Archives. Includes company history.
Dates:
1945, 1973
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Frank Wisnewski Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1928
Abstract
Typed family history concerning the Frank and Barbara (Brach) Wisnewski family. History begins about 1871 and ends in 1897. Includes mention of their early life in Pittsburgh, Pa., coming to N.D. in 1882, their sod house, the cold winters, carrying food supplies from Wahpeton, N.D., prairie fires, hauling wood to construct a roof, their children, working for area farmers, working on the railroad as it expanded, poverty in their early years, threshing, trading horses and oxen, adding rooms to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [197-?].
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J.B. (James Buel) Power Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 309
Abstract
Power was a Northern Pacific land agent and farmer. The collection contains 14 volumes of indexed correspondence that give valuable information on the inside operation of the railroads and the opening of agricultural lands in North Dakota. The collection also contains material related to Power's farm at Helendale and the early settlement of the Red River Valley.
Dates:
1872-1930
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Mary E. Mallick Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 621
Abstract
Correspondence concerning mainly the Lyman R. Casey family, with mention of his wife and daughter Theodora who sent letters from overseas to Mary F. Mallick, George Palmer, Carrington & Casey Land Company manager, Carrington & Casey Land Company, and the Edward Chase family, especially son Russell and daughter Alice; mentions Mary's father, John P. Fitzgerald, and his death in an 1897 railroad accident following a blizzard, her mother, Margaret Mary and her death, being raised by an...
Dates:
1955-1956.
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Midland Continental Railroad Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 370
Abstract
Newspaper clippings and a photocopy of an article entitled "Death of a railroad" (5 leaves) by Stewart Mitchell; one clipping is from January 2, 1913 Courtenay gazette (Courtenay, N.D.) and one is from Jan. 26, 1969 Fargo forum.
Dates:
1913, 1969-1970.
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- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) 4
- Northern Pacific Railroad Company. 3
- Soo Line Railroad Company. 3
- Amenia and Sharon Land Company. 2
- Casey, Lyman R., 1837-1914 2
- Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Company. 2
- Northern Pacific Railway Company. 2
- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 2
- Amenia Elevator Company (Amenia, N.D.) 1
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.). Fargo Lodge (Fargo, N.D.) 1
- Caddigan, C. W. 1
- Carrington & Casey Land Company. 1
- Casey family. 1
- Chaffee Grain Co. 1
- Chaffee, Carrie T. (Carrie Toogood), 1864-1931. 1
- Chaffee, E. W. (Eben Whitney), 1824-1892. 1
- Chaffee, Herbert F. (Herbert Fuller), 1864-1912. 1
- Chaffee-Miller Land Company. 1
- Chaffee-Miller Milling Company (Casselton, N.D.) 1
- Chase family. 1
- Chase, Russell D., 1886-1956 1
- Costello, Patrick, 1870- 1
- Cresent Elevator Company (Amenia, N.D.) 1
- Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876. 1
- Dearborn family. 1
- Downs, Willis H., 1865-1929. 1
- Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company. 1
- Fargo and Southern Railroad Company. 1
- Farmers' Grain & Shipping Company (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1
- Fitzgerald family. 1
- Fitzgerald, John P., d. 1897. 1
- Fredrickson, Henry. 1
- Fredrickson, William. 1
- Freeman family. 1
- Gjevre, John A. 1
- Guy, William Lewis, 1890-1942. 1
- H.F. Chaffee Company. 1
- Hall, Luella J. 1
- Hall, Martin O., 1853-1925. 1
- Hatlen, Caroline Jordet, b. 1886. 1
- Herman, Frank. 1
- Hunter, William C. (William Columbus), 1882-1973. 1
- Jamestown College. 1
- Jesten, Thorfin, 1882-1959. 1
- Jewell, M. H. (Marshall H.), 1857-1911. 1
- John Miller Company. 1
- Jordet, Albert, 1883-1954. 1
- Jordet, Ole, 1864-1956. 1
- LaMoore family. 1
- Lydon, James W. 1
- Mallick, Mary E. Fitzgerald, 1884-1960. 1
- Manor Farms (N.D.) 1
- Midland Continental Railroad Company. 1
- Miller, John, 1843-1908. 1
- Miller-Chaffee-Reed Company. 1
- Mitchell, Stewart. 1
- North Dakota Agricultural College. 1
- North Dakota. National Guard. 1
- North Dakota. National Guard. Infantry Regiment, 1st. Company H. 1
- Northern States Power Company (Minnesota). Fargo District. 1
- Pifer, J. H. (John H.), 1862-1939 1
- Power, Elizabeth N. 1
- Power, Ethelwyn. 1
- Power, Frank B., 1900- 1
- Power, J. A. (James A.), d. 1924. 1
- Power, J. B. (James Buel), 1833-1912. 1
- Power, Newman. 1
- Red River Valley Land and Investment Company. 1
- Reed, J. H. (John Horace), 1846-1925. 1
- Reed, Robert B., 1874-1960. 1
- Reed, Walter R. (Walter Russell), 1871-1940. 1
- Seaburg, Adolph E. (Adolph Edward), 1880-1960. 1
- Seaburg, Nels A., 1856-1935. 1
- Shanley, John, 1852-1909. 1
- Slaughter, Linda W. (Linda Warfel), 1850-1920. 1
- St. John's Academy (Jamestown, N.D.) 1
- Stroud, Peter E. 1
- Sweatt, Charles. 1
- Union Light Heat and Power Company (Fargo, N.D.) 1
- United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th. 1
- Vail, J. B. (James Bradford), b. 1861. 1
- Waldo, Edna La Moore, 1893-1999. 1
- Wanotan Land Company. 1
- Wells family. 1
- Wells, Edward P. (Edward Payson), 1847-1936. 1
- Wells, Marguerite M. (Marguerite Milton), 1872-1959. 1
- Wisconsin Central Railroad Company (1954-1960) 1
- Wisnewski, Barbara, 1845-1907. 1
- Wisnewski, Frank, 1843-1915. 1 ∧ less
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