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Family histories.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Ole O. Melhus Family History

 Collection
Identifier: SC 877
Abstract Ole O. Melhus emigrated fron Sogn, Norway to Kenyon, Minn. Wed Christine Hjellum, also of Sogn, Norway in 1884. They settled in Traill County, N.D.
Dates: 1957.

Ole Olson Hovde Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 850
Abstract Typed carbon copy of historical sketch by granddaughter Eva Hewitt. Sketch begins with Mr. Hovde's life in Norway, coming to America in 1868 and homesteading near Hillsboro, N.D. in 1871 with wife Maria Gulbranson Hovde. Sketch continues with author's parents, William and Gelina Maria Hovde Hewitt, their children, homesteading near Bottineau, N.D. and their return to Hillsboro. William Hewitt was a Salvation Army captain from Canada who resigned his commission and turned to farming. He died in...
Dates: 1937.

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.

Peder A. Borderud Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 588
Abstract Translation of articles by Peder Nelson including one on his pioneer log cabin home which is now located at the Hedmark Museum in Hamar, Norway; short history, copies of newspaper clippings, and the Peder A. Borderud Family Tree by Clark L. Fredrickson.
Dates: 1973-1979.

Peter A. Lundwall Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 211
Abstract Family history material, interview with Earl and Beatrice Lundwall Elwell, mention of the Chaffee family, especially of H.F. Chaffee, his wife, Carrie Toogood Chaffee, various jobs Earl held at Amenia and Sharon Land Company, electrostatic copy of Peter A. Lundwall's citizenship certificate (1894), and newspaper clippings on various family members.
Dates: 1932-1952.

Welsh and Nordwall Reminisces

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1904
Overview Photocopy of Lenore Nordwall's typed manuscript, "We came to North Dakota".
Dates: [1960].

Willard Arnold Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 538
Abstract Typed reminiscence and diary of Portland, N.D. pioneer farming family.
Dates: 1868, 1923, 1941.

William A. McCain Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 567
Abstract Farmer at Blanchard, N.D., who named his farm Aurora Borealis, referred to as Aurora Farm. Later, appointed postmaster at Hillsboro, N.D.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1950-1959

William and Dr. Cynthia Macnider Collection, 1940-1952

 Collection
Identifier: SC 851
Abstract Copies of notes related to William Macnider, a rancher and store owner from Emmonsburg, North Dakota, and his wife, Dr. Cynthia (Pingree) Macnider, physician at Fort Yates.
Dates: 1940 - 1952

William Dalrymple Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 513
Overview This collection contains a letter from William’s father, William while he was working on the Grain Commission in Duluth, Minnesota and then a typed interview with L. Sackett, dated August 5, 1955 with William.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1909, 1955