Bonanza farms -- North Dakota.
Subject
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Found in 131 Collections and/or Records:
Ole Jordet Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 440
Abstract
Typed summary and corrected carbon copy of interview (4 leaves) with Jordet and daughter Caroline Jordet Hatlen concerning his life in North Dakota. Includes obituary of son Albert Jordet. It includes a photograph olf old farm in Norway.
Dates:
1954-1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Ole Jordet Papers
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.
Oliver Almlie Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 874
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, Engebredt Almlie, and himself, both of whom worked on the Helendale farm of J.B. Power.
Dates:
1957.
Oscar P. Bakke Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 756
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his father Oscar Bakke, a Norwegian immigrant, young Oscar's trapping and working on the Helendale Farm.
Dates:
1956.
Peter A. Lundwall Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 211
Abstract
Family history material, interview with Earl and Beatrice Lundwall Elwell, mention of the Chaffee family, especially of H.F. Chaffee, his wife, Carrie Toogood Chaffee, various jobs Earl held at Amenia and Sharon Land Company, electrostatic copy of Peter A. Lundwall's citizenship certificate (1894), and newspaper clippings on various family members.
Dates:
1932-1952.
Peter Brooks Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 758
Abstract
Typed summary of an interview (7 leaves) and corrections (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father James Brooks who homesteaded in Traill County, and worked on the Grandin farm; and his obituary.
Dates:
1956, 1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Peter Brooks Interview
Peter C. Olsen Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 303
Overview
Contains items relating to the family of Peter C. Olsen.
Dates:
1911-1959
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Peter C. Olsen Records
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.
Pratt Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 608
Abstract
Two interviews concerning the Pratt family. First interview (9 leaves) with R.W. (Robert Wesley) Pratt and his wife, Anne (Margach) Pratt, concerns George and Mathilda (Dempsey) Pratt moving to N.D. in 1880 from Ontario, George's brothers, James, WIlliam, and R.J., who moved to N.D., difficulties in plowing, W.J. Pratt and his wife, Dr. Charlotte Campbell, George Pratt's gift of property to his four children, James Pratt selling his business to L.J. (Lewis) Margach, mention of General Thomas M....
Dates:
1924, 1956-1957.
Ralph F. Gunkelman Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 569
Abstract
Typewritten summaries of interviews with Gunkelman and his son, John L. Gunkelman; ms. histories concerning R.F. Gunkelman & Sons and the Gunkelman family by Gary Hedstrom and Christopher T. Bucholz; and clippings. Includes information relating to the Rand and Brown Farm, grain elevators, and Ralph Gunkelman's founding of Farmers Grain Co., Grandin, N.D. (1913), his ownership of Interstate Seed & Grain Co., Fargo (1917-1943), and of R.F. Gunkelman & Sons (1943- ).
Dates:
1955-1986.