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Cass County (N.D.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

A. G. Holstrom Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 153
Overview Typed summaries of three detailed interviews. One interview (7 leaves) with Rachel Holstrom, widow of A.G., mentions her life at Grandin Farm No. 1, their servants, entertaining the Grandins, and winter vacations in California. Second interview (5 leaves) with Harry Holstrom, nephew of A.G. Holstrom, and his year working on the Grandin Farm, including harvest, laundry, livestock, and his own farm. Funeral book with photo of A.G. Holstrom included.
Dates: 1953-1954.

A tornado, the Pulitzer, and photojournalism at mid-century Panel Discussion

 Collection
Identifier: SC 706
Overview Photojournalism in the 1950s and the material Cal Olsen used to capture his photographs of the 1957 Fargo Tornado.
Dates: 2016

Anna Serum Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 645
Abstract Typed summary of two interviews with Leonard Sackett. First interview (2 leaves) with Anna Serum mentions the death of her father, working for Rachel Holstrom, and some of the men employed at Grandin Farm. Second interview (1 leaf) with Amelia (Melting) Oien, Anna's sister, a cook for threshing crews at Grandin Farm No. 1, includes mention of her wages, her husband, Clark Oien, and their purchase of farmland near Halstad, Minn. Also includes commentary (2 leaves) on a photograph of Anna Serum,...
Dates: 1955-1956

Arne and Josephine Gronbeck Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 873
Abstract Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with corrections concerning his work on the Helendale Farm. Includes some mention of J.B. Powers, his son Allie, and Gronbeck's wife Josephine Vangsness Gronbeck who worked as nursemaid and cook on the Helendale Farm.
Dates: 1957

Brooktree Park Subdivision Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1296
Abstract A study entitled Brooktree Park Subdivision, a study of a rural nonfarm community; done as a senior term paper by Susan Weiser, Rae Ann Winlaw, and Marjorie Grimm for Sociology class at North Dakota State University.
Dates: 1963

Burton Palmer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 541
Abstract Typed summary of brief interview (1 leaf) with Leonard Sackett concerning his parents, Frederick and Anna (Johnson) Palmer, who emigrated from Canada, worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad, later homesteaded near Wheatland, N.D. Includes mention of Burton meeting his future wife, Katherine, his farming and different jobs after leaving the farm in 1940.
Dates: 1955

Carl E. Elofson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1165
Abstract A Minnesota native who received his medical degree from the University of Kansas and served three terms as Cass County Coroner from 1933 to 1939.
Dates: 1933-1941

Cass County, N.D. Marriage Licenses

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 253
Abstract Official records of marriage licences issued and recorded in Cass County from 1877 through 1944. A searchable database is available to all names in the records.
Dates: 1872-1944

Cass County, North Dakota School History Collection

 Item
Identifier: SC 719
Abstract The Goshen years, 1935-1938 / Vivian McClung Bautz -- The country years at Goshen, 1955-1962 / Margie Buckholz -- Quammen -- Memories of my teaching days (Ruth Kermis) the year of 47-48 in Goshen, District #20 / Mrs. Ernie Buckholz -- History of Bracht School District No. 71 / Elsie O"Bleness -- Addison School District #39 / Luella Discher -- Speed reading in the little white schoolhouse / William J. Griebstein -- Memories of a pupil in District #20, years of 1913-1921 / Mabel Bautz Bigelow --...
Dates: 1988

Cass County Superintendent of Schools Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 89
Abstract Collection, organized by district number, consists of the official forms submitted by the local school districts to the superintendent's office. They include clerks' annual reports, poll books, tally lists, official returns, certificates of election, teachers' reports, and treasurers reports. Most but not all school districts are included. Correspondence not included.
Dates: 1905-1963