Pioneers -- Minnesota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Luman H. Tenney Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 340
Abstract
Typescript copy (154 p.) of Luman H. Tenney's diary and family letters, from 1860-1880. They touch on various subjects including religion, child rearing, Mormanism, the Chicago Fire of 1871, travel, business, Temperance, politics, hunting, recreation, and daily life. Luman Tenney was instrumental in the settlement of Glyndon, Minnesota and the land surrounding it through his Northern Pacific connections.
Dates:
1860-1914.
Mary Ann Gamble Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 474
Abstract
Copies of correspondence from Gamble and her children to her parents, the William Neills, in Beaverton, Ont., concerning family matters and frontier life in Kittson County, Minn.
Dates:
1865-1902.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Mary Ann Gamble Papers
Red River Valley Old Settlers Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 987
Abstract
Photocopy of a typed list of early Red River Valley settlers who died in 1918, and a photocopy of a partially typed, partially handwritten letter of July 19, 1922 listing deaths of early pioneers in 1922. Letter includes brief details on each person listed.
Dates:
1919-1922.
Thortvedt Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 332
Overview
Small Collection pertaining to Red River Valley pioneer, Olav Thortvedt and his family.
Dates:
1941-1955