Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Aaron R. Russell Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 78
Overview
Native of Pennsylvania, and early settler in Minnesota, arriving in 1850. He was employed as a steamboat pilot from 1850 to 1884 on several rivers in Minnesota and Canada, including the Red River of the North. He was also the proprietor of the Windsor Hotel, St. Paul, Minn.
Dates:
1880-1967.
Albert Herberg Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 526
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview with Albert Herberg, regarding his father John Michael Thomassohn Herberg, early Norwegian immigrant settler, Grandin Farms, steamboat "Grandin", grain elevators, farm implements, A.R. Dalrymple. Includes a copy of his mother's, Magel Serina Thorson Herberg, obituary, and clipping of Herberg's own obituary.
Dates:
1955-1956.
Bertha Wichern Interview
Item
Identifier: SC 262
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett (4 leaves) concerning her work on the Lockhart Farm near Ada, Minn. Includes mention of the family's one room sod house, working at age eleven, caring for small children, washing dishes, making beds, long work hours, quality of food, the stingy wife of the Lockhart Farm superintendent, Jack McPhie, a water well, hired men, and making butter.
Dates:
1954
Charles E. Grady Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 763
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his pioneer father, Charles Grady, who worked for the Grandins at Quincy, N.D., the steamboat "Grandin" which was used to haul grain, and the first bridge across the Red River between Quincy, N.D. and Hendrum, Minn.
Dates:
1956
Charles Loring Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 609
Abstract
Typed and handwritten correspondence and reminiscences which include detailed description of Charles Loring's life on the Stickney Farm including threshing with steam engines, controlling weeds, life on the Montana ranch with mention of a cattle stampede, his military and legal career, with mention of his father Lyman, father-in-law Daniel C. Darrow and a criminal abortion charge, typed carbon copy of an interview with Burr B. Boatman (8 leaves), and another interview with Frank McCabe (4...
Dates:
1890-1896, 1939, 1956, 1961
David McCauley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 329
Abstract
Postmaster, express agent and army sutler for Fort Abercrombie.
Dates:
1845-1955
Eliot Richards Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 525
Scope and Contents
Typed summary of an interview (7 leaves) concerning his father, Harry Richards, Fargo coal dealer and later farmer at Perley, Minn. Includes mention of Harry Richards finding his farm, describes its location on the Red River, mentions a landslide near the house, description of how the house was heated, the poultry business located at the Richards Farm, O.C. Olson, General Thomas M. Walker and his death, and Harry Richards' first automobile.
Dates:
1955
Elliot W. McCleary Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 792
Abstract
Letter, and typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett, corrections by sister Fern McCleary Danielson, concerning their father, David McCleary, who managed the James J. Hill Farm for twenty years at Northcote, Minnesota, (1896-1916). Mentions the buildings at Northcote, James J. Hill and son Walter, their hunting trips and private railroad cars, supplies for the farm, the size of Hill's farm, Hill's Negro servants, Tom Schone who refused to work for Walter Hill, David McCleary's move from...
Dates:
1956
Elva Preston Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-313
Overview
Collection contains papers relating to Elva Preston and her family including her father Joseph Duncanson.
Dates:
1954-1957.
Fred S. Rutledge Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 222
Abstract
Fred Rutledge was a Walsh County, N.D. homesteader. His papers include correspondence; family histories of Becker, Canfield, Dickison, Harrison, Hudson, Lindell, Rutledge, and Wheelock families; his handwritten manuscript "A Christmas Vacation in Virginia" (52 p.), and a typed copy of his manuscript "Reminiscences of Fred Rutledge" (243 p.) covering his youth and days as a lumberjack, hobo, railroadman, thresher, and farmer in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Dates:
1884-1961