Bonanza farms -- North Dakota.
Subject
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Found in 131 Collections and/or Records:
Hegbert Anderson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 270
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning working on the Jones Farm and the Belle Prairie Farm in Traill County.
Dates:
1954
Henry C. Frojen Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 925
Abstract
Correspondence and newspaper clippings, relating to Glover Farm, bonanza farm in Dickey and La Moure counties, N.D., and the Glover family; and biographical sketch of farm owner, Samuel Glover, originally of Delaware, Ohio. Includes information concerning Glover's introduction of durum wheat to North Dakota and his son, Frederick Glover, who founded Gas Traction Company, manufacturer of gas tractors, in Minneapolis, Minn.
Dates:
1913-1958
Herman Deike Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 259
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (3 leaves) concerning the Fairview Farm, also known as the Adams Farm, which he and a group of Iowans purchased in 1920, and obituaries of Mr and Mrs. Deike.
Dates:
1954-1965
Homer E. Dixon Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1283
Abstract
Schoolteacher and 4-H leader at Perham, Minn., graduate of North Dakota Agricultural College, native of Minneapolis, Minn.
Dates:
1906-1976
Hugh McDonald Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 674
Abstract
Letters, typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, James McDonald, an early settler at Caledonia, and the Grandin boats on the Red River. James McDonald died when a wagon load of wheat overturned and tipped into the Sheyenne River. Interview mentions Asa Sargeant and George Weston, early Traill County settlers. George Weston was later elected Register of Deeds and County Clerk. Letter from Neal Sargeant, son of Asa Sargeant, mentions steamboats "Alsop," "Pluck," and...
Dates:
1955-1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Hugh McDonald Papers
Jacob J. Lawrence Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 439
Abstract
Correspondence, typed summary of detailed interview (6 leaves) and corrections with wife Rosa Hofner Lawrence and daughter Ruth, concerning Rosa's parents, John Hofner (1849-1900), German immigrant from the Rhine River Valley and Louisa Eppell Hofner (1853-1921), her husband, Jacob, her work as nurse to Dr. Langsdale, with brief mention of Ruth's doctoral studies at Columbia, and a souvenir of School District No. 3, Center Township, Richland County (N.D.) for 1896-1867.
Dates:
1897, 1935, 1955
James A. Trudell Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 349
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (3 leaves) with James and Susanna (Chernich) Trudell. Concerns various people in the Mooreton, N.D. area, including brief mention of her father, Michael Chernich, an Austrian immigrant and early Mooreton businessman, F.A. Bagg, Alex McKinnon, bonanza farms, especially Antelope Farm, James Trudell's mail delivery route, carrying farm workers to Breckenridge, Minn. Also includes obituaries.
Dates:
1924, 1955, 1967
James and Clara McKissick Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 138
Abstract
Extensive interview with James and Clara Trammell McKissick about his father, Charles, who managed the Dwight Farm, later the Hinkle Smith Farm near Amenia, N.D. and the Grandin Farm near Mayville. Mentions the livestock and acreage at Grandin Farm, Oliver Dalrymple, immigrant farm laborers, James McKissick's education and various jobs as farmer, milk truck driver, butcher shop owner, hog shrinker and a hired man who set fire to McKissick's barns.
Dates:
1953
James F. Hazard Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1470
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Hiram Drache concerning the Cooper Ranch with some mention of livestock and farm operations, the Cooper family, and Charles Houghton, Hazard's father-in-law.
Dates:
1967
James Henry Carter Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 330
Overview
Contains correspondence discussing a Southeastern North Dakota family.
Dates:
1955.