Reminiscences.
Subject
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Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:
Ole A. Bryn Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: SC 529
Abstract
Typed reminiscence concerning his early years in Berwick and the business people and buildings of Berwick.
Dates:
Majority of material found within [after 1945].
Page Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 677
Abstract
History of four Page brothers and their sister Margaret A. Page who emigrated from their parental home near Girard, Illinois to North Dakota and filed on government homesteads between Mar[c]h 1888 and 1904.
Dates:
1928, 1952-1957.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Page Family Collection
Peter Brooks Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 758
Abstract
Typed summary of an interview (7 leaves) and corrections (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father James Brooks who homesteaded in Traill County, and worked on the Grandin farm; and his obituary.
Dates:
1956, 1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Peter Brooks Interview
Peter J. Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1723
Abstract
Letters, typed copy of his family reminiscence entitled "Dakota days of years ago," (38 leaves) and a newspaper clipping. Reminiscence includes mention of his family homestead in Cavalier County, a blizzard, pioneer days near Pembina, N.D., people and equipment involved in threshing, digging water wells, Olga, Bathgate, Beaulieu, and Walhalla, N.D., country school, churches, hunting, horses and horse-drawn vehicles, and removing tree stumps.
Dates:
1950-1965.
Reminiscences of the Early Eighties in Dakota
Collection
Identifier: SC 718
Abstract
Typed reminiscences concerning her parents, Daniel and Cynthia Folger, who moved to Niagara, N.D. from Lockport, N.Y. Includes mention of native flowers and wildlife, early crops, blizzards, her father's trips to Larimore, N.D. for supplies, the death of Chris Severson, a neighbor, a picnic on July 4, 1882 at Bachelor's Grove, 1883 New Year's Eve party, the first school teacher, Cella Rossiter, and the 1885 wheat harvest. Note: this writing may be one of fiction.
Dates:
1900.
Richard T. Bostwick Reminiscence
Collection
Identifier: SC 795
Abstract
Reminiscence (72 typed leaves) written by Richard T. Bostwick later in life (1970s and 1980s?) regarding his years living in Fargo, N.D. from circa 1926 to the 1940s when the family moved to Washington. The two major topics are working on welfare & working at the Cass County Welfare Office and his job driving a taxicab in Fargo in the 1930s. The reminiscence goes into great detail regarding his work, supporting his family and many interesting and sometimes humorous stories related to...
Dates:
1926-1940s
Robert S. Saunders Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: SC 751
Abstract
Pages 122-131 of typescript of Saunders reminiscences. These pages deal with his time in North Dakota in 1915, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblie). Places mentioned include Oakes, Jamestown, Carrington, Fessenden, Velva, Voltaire, Mohall, Lansford, Berthold and Williston. He and others labored on various farms during threshing.
Dates:
1967.
Russell D. Chase Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 508
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Carrington & Casey Land Company, law partner George Thorpe, and obituaries of Mr. and Mrs. Chase.
Dates:
1954-1956, 1963.
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-].
Sven E. Ulsaker Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 143
Abstract
Typed copy of his reminiscence concerning his childhood home in Norway and early years in Kindred, N.D. Includes mention of his education in Norway, his cattle buying job in Norway, immigrating to the U.S., working as a hired man for other Norwegian settlers, a bout of typhoid fever, early settlers around Kindred, N.D. and on the Sheyenne and Wild Rice Rivers, brief mention of James Hill, and the Norman Lutheran Church.
Dates:
Majority of material found within [193-].