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Bonanza farms -- North Dakota.

 Subject
Subject Source: Source Not Specified

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Anderson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1115
Abstract Correspondence including two letters from John L. Grandin, typed summary of interview (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his life, the Grandin farms, John Wyman, and W.H. Leazenby of St. Joseph, Mo., letters from Leonard Sackett to Mr. Anderson; legal and financial material relative to the Grandins and A.G. Holstrom. Legal and financial material includes land rental agreement, an inventory of farm equipment for the Grandin farm, 1921 income tax statement, and a trial balance sheet for...
Dates: 1918-1924, 1956-1960.

Benjamin F. Mackall Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 472
Abstract Correspondence; interviews with Mackall's son and daughter-in-law, Henry C. and Margaret (Robertson) Mackall, of Minneapolis, Minn., relating to Mackall, the family business, B.F. Mackall Inc., and John L. Grandin, owner of Grandin Farms and family friend, of Warren, Pa., area (original home of Mrs. Mackall); scrapbook compiled by Marjorie Cruikshank, containing information concerning the estate of Jay Cooke, dredging on the Red River, and Red River Valley history; and newspaper clippings.
Dates: 1953-1955

Blanchard Farm Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 455
Abstract Letter of David McCulloch to Datus Smith, correspondence of Mrs. E. H. Smith of Linton, N.D. to Leonard Sackett, and her reminiscences about life on the bonanza farm, and her father David McCulloch who was its farm superintendent.
Dates: 1902, 1954

Grandin Farms Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2890
Abstract Materials relating to Grandin Farms, bonanza wheat farm in Cass and Traill counties, N.D., founded 1876 by Grandin brothers, John L. and W.J. Grandin (originally of Tidoute, Pa.), stockholders of Northern Pacific Railroad, who came to North Dakota to claim railroad land.
Dates: 1879-1960.

Ole O. Melhus Family History

 Collection
Identifier: SC 877
Abstract Ole O. Melhus emigrated fron Sogn, Norway to Kenyon, Minn. Wed Christine Hjellum, also of Sogn, Norway in 1884. They settled in Traill County, N.D.
Dates: 1957.