Interviews.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 192 Collections and/or Records:
Marguerite Ferguson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 512
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Marguerite Ferguson, concerning her parents, Philip and Mary Weisbecker, who moved from New York to Moorhead, Minn., then to Grandin, N.D. where they bought a hotel. Includes mention of the first business establishments in Grandin, additions to the hotel, cooking for threshing crews, boarding farm workers during the winter, Lynn Ferguson, Marguerite's son and farm manager for John S. Dalrymple. Also includes clippings.
Dates:
1954, 1958.
Marquis de Mores Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 528
Abstract
Term paper by Norman B. Hansen entitled, The shadows of a martyr, 1954 (23 leaves), pamphlet, short histories, and newspaper and magazine clippings on the life of Marquis de Mores, his meat processing plant, his son the Duke of Vallombrosa, and the Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park established at Medora, N.D.
Dates:
1896, 1931-1971.
Martin Hector Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 175
Abstract
Interview with granddaughter Mary Halland about Hector and his early business ventures. Includes obituaries of Martin Hector, son Fred Hector, newspaper clipping of Fargo home referred to as the Henry Hector home, photocopy of Hammerfest, Norway church record of Hector's family (in Norwegian) and a typed English translation of the record.
Dates:
1938-1954.
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.
Missouri River Diversion Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 18
Abstract
Miscellaneous documents, including report of public hearing held at Jamestown, N.D. (1930), interviews of owners and tenants on the proposed irrigation project (1944), minor correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other materials, relating to Missouri River Basin Project.
Dates:
1930-1965.
Mrs. Arthur Oehler Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1468
Abstract
Interview questionnaire, completed by Mrs. Oehler, concerning pioneer life in the Ortonville, Minn. area. Includes brief mention of runaway horses, her mother-in-law's refusal to can strawberries or tomatoes, carrying 50 pounds of flour, being snowbound, picking rocks, the first German Lutheran church, corn and wheat crops, and mail delivery. Also includes letter of transmittal.
Dates:
1966.
Neil McFarlane Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 664
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) mentioning McFarlane's uncle, Henry C. Lyon, foreman and manager of Rand and Brown Farm (1881-1882), John Elliot who followed Lyon as foreman, a description of Rand and Brown Farm's location, General Thomas M. Walker, a Civil War veteran from Erie, Penn., who managed the Rand and Brown Farm and later bought his own farm, a brief mention of his wife Agnes Coughey Walker, a description of the Rand and Brown Farm buildings including the grain elevators, and...
Dates:
1896, 1956.
Nelson and Clara Finney Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 548
Abstract
Letter and typed summary of interview (5 leaves) with Mr. and Mrs. Finney concerning the Reid Farm; contains some family history and mention of the Kelso Farm and Hill Farm.
Dates:
1955-1956.
Nonpartisan League Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 51
Abstract
Political party founded by A.C. Townley whose objective was to protect the farmers through government intervention.
Dates:
1917-1964.
Norvin Ovrom Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 573
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (10 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the period his family lived at Clifford, N.D. Includes mention of his father, Waldemar, a Norwegian immigrant who worked as a store clerk in Wisconsin, later managed a general store owned by Anton Kraabel in Clifford, N.D., store robberies and fires in Clifford, Waldemar's own store and post office, his drugstore business, early businessmen in Clifford, installing early telephone lines in Clifford, N.D., description of...
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Norvin Ovrom Papers