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Bonanza farms -- North Dakota.

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Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Alfred N. Terry Interview

 Item
Identifier: SC 244
Abstract Interview with Alfred Terry, bookkeeper for the Dalrymple bonanza farm, Casselton, North Dakota.
Dates: 1954.

Anton Orvik Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 264
Abstract Born at Norman County, Minn. Wed Clara Gilbertson in 1908. Worked as foreman at Robineau Farms, Kelso, N.D., Clark Dalrymple and A.R. Dalrymple farms. Began farming for himself in 1927, moved to Halstad, Minn. in 1934.
Dates: 1954-1957

Dalrymple Farms Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 67
Abstract Correspondence, including letter (1880) to A.R. Dalrymple from Oliver Dalrymple; interviews with Erasmus G. Hagen, John Hanson, Joseph Hanson, Ralph L. Miller, David and Nellie Minnis, and John H. Pannebaker; index to articles concerning bonanza farms and the Dalrymples; financial statements (1907, 1910, 1918); inventories (1908-1909, 1911-1917, 1919), and cultivation statements, crop disposition, and crop income and distribution statements (1908-1919); and clippings relating to Oliver and...
Dates: 1880-ca. 1950

Luther Wyckoff Family Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1366
Abstract Notes from an interview done in 1938 with her father, James, concerning his father, Luther Wyckoff, and his family moving to Cass County, N.D. from Taylors Falls, Minn. Includes mention of horse-drawn wagon travel, mosquitoes, threshing for the Dalrymples, prairie fires, Luther and James running a stage line between Stillwater and Taylors Falls, Minn, Luther's near drowning, selling their homemade horse-radish, Luther being elected Cass County Assessor, his dental practice, and the death of...
Dates: [1965?].

Margarethe Opgrande Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 675
Abstract Typed summary of interview (2 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning her brothers, Ludwig and Carl (also known as Charlie) Vinje, who worked on the A.R. Dalrymple and Oliver Dalrymple farms, and obituaries. Includes mention of Ludwig's death from typhoid, Carl starting his own farm, and their graves. Includes several obituary clippings.
Dates: 1931, 1956-1960.

Mary E. Warner Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1439
Abstract Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, Stott English, who worked as foreman on the Cass, Bond, Greene, Twitchell, and Kennedy farms. He was a native of Pittsfield, Pa.
Dates: 1957.

Peter C. Olsen Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 303
Overview Contains items relating to the family of Peter C. Olsen.
Dates: 1911-1959

Peter J. Walburg Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 498
Abstract Letter, typed summary of interview (15 leaves) concerning J.B. Power, Helendale Farm, Amenia and Sharon Land Company, and his father Peter Walburg, a Swiss immigrant. Includes mention of their homestead near the Maple River, his work on Dalrymple No. 1 Farm, son Peter's first jobs as mule driver, choreboy, and herding horses for the Dalrymples, cutting wood at Helendale Farm, his father, and later Martin Hanson, hauling mail, Helendale Farm's soil, selling out and moving to Leonard, N.D.,...
Dates: 1955.

Samuel M. Francis Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 757
Abstract Typed summary of interview with corrections concerning his father, his mother's family, the McEldowney's, homesteading near Ayr, N.D., the Elgin Farm, the Dalrymple Farm, the Park Farm, and their operation, including use of steam engine tractors.
Dates: 1956.

Thorvald Thorson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 3059
Overview This collection of papers from the Dalrymple Bonzana farms that Thorvald managed. It contains farm records, seed and crop records, biographical information, and correspondence. This papers are split into four series.
Dates: 1923 -1942