Farmers -- Minnesota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Manly M. Furuseth Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 523
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his Norwegian immigrant father Jacob Furuseth, who was a blacksmith on the Grandin Farms and later built a blacksmith shop in Halstad, Minn. Includes mention of John Wyman, a Fargo real estate man, the Furuseth brothers Manly and Jule, farming land formerly part of the Grandin Farms.
Dates:
1955.
Nellie McIvor Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 633
Abstract
Two letters from Nellie Fitzpatrick McIvor containing information about her husband, Norman McIvor, born at Ontario, Canada, and worked at Hill Farm, Humboldt Division (Humboldt, Minn.) starting about 1898. They met at the farm where she worked for the cook, Annie Nelson. Norman and Nellie wed in 1904. Norman farmed near Lancaster, Minn. after leaving Hill Farm. Died at his Lancaster, Minn. farm in 1934.
Dates:
1956.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Nellie McIvor Letters
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.
Olaus C. Olson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 501
Abstract
Typed summary of interview and addenda, with Leonard Sackett, relating to steamboats hauling grain on the Red River, the Richards Farm, includes mention of Harry Richards, his wife, and son, Elliott, the Grandin elevator on the Finney farm, and a handwritten note.
Dates:
1955.
Samuel A. March Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 465
Abstract
Correspondence; family history materials, including information (1873) relating to the Patrick family (family of March's wife) compiled by William Patrick; copy of pamphlet concerning the farm; deeds; and interview with March's grandson, Samuel A. March (b. 1905), pertaining to his grandfather and father, Samuel A. March (1876-1941?). Correspondents include Robert M. Gaylord, of Rockford, Ill.
Dates:
1873-1956.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Samuel A. March Papers
Sod House Days in the Red River Valley Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1058
Abstract
Typed reminiscence (19 leaves) on his pioneer Norwegian immigrant parents, Andrew and Christine Overby, who settled in Wilkin County, Minn. in 1890. Includes mention of digging water wells, plowing with oxen, description of a sod house, David McCauley and McCauleyville, Minn., road construction, peddlers, threshing, butchering, stage coaches, passenger and freight traffic on the Red River, expansion of the railroad, blizzards and weather during the 1896-1897 winter, and the naming of Wilkin...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [196-].
Thomas Thompson Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 468
Overview
Electrostatic copy of a work agreement, dated March 28, 1887 and signed by A.R. Dalrymple at Hague, N.D., of Thomas Thompson to work as a hired man and his wife as a cook for Grandin Farms, states their wages and other conditions of employment, brief interview (1 leaf) with Thora and Martha Thompson, daughters of Thomas Thompson, which includes brief mention of A.R. Dalrymple and his daughters. Also includes Thompson's obituary
Dates:
1887, 1925, 1955-1956.
Tollef Torgerson Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 867
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) concerning the George S. Barnes farm. Includes mention of various hired men who worked with Torgerson, horses and cattle on the Barnes Farm, shipping horses to logging camps in northern Minnesota in the winter, working at a logging camp, threshing equipment, buying his own farm land, and Jerry McCarthy, a Glyndon, Minn. farmer who froze to death. Also includes a clipping.
Dates:
1957.
William and Henry Fredrickson Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 268
Abstract
Correspondence and records relating to the activities of William and Henry Fredrickson farmers from Perley, Minnesota.
Dates:
1926-1954.
William G. Ahles Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 547
Abstract
Interview of St. Vincent, Minn. farmer and merchant, W. G. Ahles concerning his working on the Reid farm, his father John Ahles who operated a brewery at St. Vincent, John Gillespie who was manager of the Reid farm, and Walter Hill; and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1935, 1955.