Frontier and pioneer life -- North Dakota -- Sargent County.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Frank Wisnewski Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1928
Abstract
Typed family history concerning the Frank and Barbara (Brach) Wisnewski family. History begins about 1871 and ends in 1897. Includes mention of their early life in Pittsburgh, Pa., coming to N.D. in 1882, their sod house, the cold winters, carrying food supplies from Wahpeton, N.D., prairie fires, hauling wood to construct a roof, their children, working for area farmers, working on the railroad as it expanded, poverty in their early years, threshing, trading horses and oxen, adding rooms to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [197-?].
George Montgomery Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 626
Abstract
Consists primarily of two reminiscences written by Mr. Montgomery for his children and grandchildren in 1935. "A message to posterity, collections from 1882 to 1902" (17 typescript leaves) recounts traveling to Dakota Territory, homesteading near Sargent and Cogswell, N.D., Sargent County politics, and a detailed account of the attempt to legalize the Louisiana Lottery in North Dakota. "The childhood of parents" (71 typescript leaves) by Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery documents the life of their...
Dates:
1935
Walter B. Rae Interview, 1955
Collection
Identifier: SC 499
Abstract
Born 1894 in Sargent County, N.D. Family moved to Clay County, Minn. in 1899 and in 1909 moved north of Dilworth, Minn. Left partially paralyzed after recovering from influenza in 1918. He was employed by city of Dilworth, Minn. as town clerk and waterworks superintendent.
Dates:
1955.