Frontier and pioneer life -- North Dakota -- Cass County.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Luther Wyckoff Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1366
Abstract
Notes from an interview done in 1938 with her father, James, concerning his father, Luther Wyckoff, and his family moving to Cass County, N.D. from Taylors Falls, Minn. Includes mention of horse-drawn wagon travel, mosquitoes, threshing for the Dalrymples, prairie fires, Luther and James running a stage line between Stillwater and Taylors Falls, Minn, Luther's near drowning, selling their homemade horse-radish, Luther being elected Cass County Assessor, his dental practice, and the death of...
Dates:
[1965?].
Margarethe Opgrande Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 675
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (2 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning her brothers, Ludwig and Carl (also known as Charlie) Vinje, who worked on the A.R. Dalrymple and Oliver Dalrymple farms, and obituaries. Includes mention of Ludwig's death from typhoid, Carl starting his own farm, and their graves. Includes several obituary clippings.
Dates:
1931, 1956-1960.
Marguerite Ferguson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 512
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Marguerite Ferguson, concerning her parents, Philip and Mary Weisbecker, who moved from New York to Moorhead, Minn., then to Grandin, N.D. where they bought a hotel. Includes mention of the first business establishments in Grandin, additions to the hotel, cooking for threshing crews, boarding farm workers during the winter, Lynn Ferguson, Marguerite's son and farm manager for John S. Dalrymple. Also includes clippings.
Dates:
1954, 1958.
Moum Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 966
Abstract
Reminiscence entitled "Pioneer experiences," (4 leaves) by Annie Moum, his sister which mentions their mother, Olea Josepha Peterson, a Norwegian immigrant coming to Fargo, N.D. in 1879 and early life on their homestead near Buffalo, N.D. Includes mention of Olea's hope chest, wild flowers and those she brought to the homestead, food supply, neighbors, watering the oxen. Letter briefly mentions the Hamilton Eckert family who lived in the area and the land rental contract between his father...
Dates:
1890, 1958.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Moum Family Collection
Neil McFarlane Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 664
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) mentioning McFarlane's uncle, Henry C. Lyon, foreman and manager of Rand and Brown Farm (1881-1882), John Elliot who followed Lyon as foreman, a description of Rand and Brown Farm's location, General Thomas M. Walker, a Civil War veteran from Erie, Penn., who managed the Rand and Brown Farm and later bought his own farm, a brief mention of his wife Agnes Coughey Walker, a description of the Rand and Brown Farm buildings including the grain elevators, and...
Dates:
1896, 1956.
Ole Jordet Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 440
Abstract
Typed summary and corrected carbon copy of interview (4 leaves) with Jordet and daughter Caroline Jordet Hatlen concerning his life in North Dakota. Includes obituary of son Albert Jordet. It includes a photograph olf old farm in Norway.
Dates:
1954-1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Ole Jordet Papers
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.
Peter McKinnon Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1064
Overview
Letters dealing with Peter McKinnon, his business with a packing company in West Fargo, and letters from family members
Dates:
1922, 1977.
Peter T. Trana Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 870
Abstract
Peter Trana's Norwegian passport (1869) and character reference with an English translation, and pages from a scrapbook concerning the Trana family. Includes obituaries of family members and friends, colored drawings, photograph of their farm home near Kindred, N.D.
Dates:
1869-1947.
Pratt Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 608
Abstract
Two interviews concerning the Pratt family. First interview (9 leaves) with R.W. (Robert Wesley) Pratt and his wife, Anne (Margach) Pratt, concerns George and Mathilda (Dempsey) Pratt moving to N.D. in 1880 from Ontario, George's brothers, James, WIlliam, and R.J., who moved to N.D., difficulties in plowing, W.J. Pratt and his wife, Dr. Charlotte Campbell, George Pratt's gift of property to his four children, James Pratt selling his business to L.J. (Lewis) Margach, mention of General Thomas M....
Dates:
1924, 1956-1957.