Bonanza farms -- North Dakota.
Subject
Subject Source: Source Not Specified
Found in 131 Collections and/or Records:
John L. Walcher Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 241
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (11 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Adams Farm (also known as Fairview Farm) and Elk Valley Farm. Includes mention of his father, John Walcher, a German immigrant, who hauled freight in Minnesota, moved to Sargent County, N.D. in 1885 to farm, later moving to Sauk Center, Minn. to manage a hotel, son John L. working at Elk Valley Farm, plowing with mules, being struck by lightning, Deering grain binders, carpentering at Adams Farm, W.P. and Mrs. Adams,...
Dates:
1954, 1968
John McDougall Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 348
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (7 leaves) with John and Dora (Lathrop) McDougall concerning their fathers, John McDougall and Murrilow Dow Lathrop, and their work on the Antelope Farm, Dora's job as clerk, bookkeeper, and barber at the Antelope Farm store, mention of other Lathrop family members including M.D.'s wife, his brother Vernon, and LeRoy Smith, Dora's cousin, a horse named Old Billy previously used by the Minneapolis Fire Department, hog butchering, the crops and equipment, a drawing of...
Dates:
1923, 1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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John McDougall Papers
John Miller Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 84
Abstract
Copies of correspondence, biography by William C. Hunter, and clippings, relating to Miller's career and his various business interests, including Dwight Farm and Amenia and Sharon Land Company.
Dates:
1908-1970
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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John Miller Papers
Jones and Brinker Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 208
Abstract
Bonanza farm near Blanchard, N.D., in Traill County, owned by R.W. Jones and J.M. Brinker, of Buffalo, N.Y.
Dates:
1874-1954 (bulk 1874-1901)
Joseph Hanson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1149
Abstract
Typed carbon copy of interview summary (5 p.) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Dalrymple family, threshing, C.O. Vinje, mules, working on the Grandin Farms, use of blind horses to power grain elevators, and a letter.
Dates:
1954-1955
Josephine G. Smith Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 506
Abstract
Letter, typed summary of interview (2 leaves) concerning the Dalrymple family and the Chaffee family. Includes mention of her grandfather's land purchase from Mr. Chaffee, her friendship with Mary and Oliver Dalrymple, Mary Dalrymple's elaborate entertaining, Douglas Smith losing his job, and the near loss of Grandin Farms. Also includes her obituary.
Dates:
1908, 1953-1954.
Julius Smith Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 771
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett with mention of the Downing Farm, Frederick A. Bagg, Gerard Downing, and the Dwight Farm. Includes mention of his purchase of Downing quarter section of land at Mooreton, N.D.
Dates:
1954.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Julius Smith Interview
Lars Anderson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 518
Abstract
Typed summary of an interview with Leonard Sackett concerning James B. Power, the Helendale Farm and its operations, buildings, livestock, Power's son Allie and his banking career, as well as Mr. Anderson's obituary.
Dates:
1954.
Lars Henry Larson Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 753
Abstract
Letter from granddaughter, Mrs. Wallace Onsgard, her biographical sketch of Lars Henry Larson, entitled "My heritage," (1 leaf), and interview with Henry C. Larson concerning his father, Lars Henry, working on the Grandin Farm 1879-1880.
Dates:
1956.
Leslie N. Putnam Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 591
Abstract
Typed summary of first interview (3 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Putnam family and their lumberyard business. Mentions Ralph L. Miller, business partner of T.N. Putnam; Leslie Putnam's struggle to retain the farm; T.N.'s career in lumber business; his election as Foster County Treasurer and both houses of N.D. legislature. Second interview (1 leaf) with Leonard Sackett mentions L.B. Hanna's purchase in 1932 of the Carrington and Casey ranch, includes references to Hanna's...
Dates:
1954.