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Grandin Farms (N.D.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 26 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.

Albert Anderson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1115
Abstract Correspondence including two letters from John L. Grandin, typed summary of interview (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his life, the Grandin farms, John Wyman, and W.H. Leazenby of St. Joseph, Mo., letters from Leonard Sackett to Mr. Anderson; legal and financial material relative to the Grandins and A.G. Holstrom. Legal and financial material includes land rental agreement, an inventory of farm equipment for the Grandin farm, 1921 income tax statement, and a trial balance sheet for...
Dates: 1918-1924, 1956-1960.

Albert Anderson Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Photo 2167
Overview This collection holds only one photograph, pulled from the Small Collection 2167. The photo shows a threshing crew working on Grandin Farm No. 1, in 1920.
Dates: 1920

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.

Alfred Aasland Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 655
Abstract Typed summary of interview by Frank Herman and Leonard Sackett with Alfred Aasland concerning his father, Ole Aasland, who worked on the Grandin farm.
Dates: 1956.

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

Benjamin F. Mackall Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 472
Abstract Correspondence; interviews with Mackall's son and daughter-in-law, Henry C. and Margaret (Robertson) Mackall, of Minneapolis, Minn., relating to Mackall, the family business, B.F. Mackall Inc., and John L. Grandin, owner of Grandin Farms and family friend, of Warren, Pa., area (original home of Mrs. Mackall); scrapbook compiled by Marjorie Cruikshank, containing information concerning the estate of Jay Cooke, dredging on the Red River, and Red River Valley history; and newspaper clippings.
Dates: 1953-1955

Blanchard Farm Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 455
Abstract Letter of David McCulloch to Datus Smith, correspondence of Mrs. E. H. Smith of Linton, N.D. to Leonard Sackett, and her reminiscences about life on the bonanza farm, and her father David McCulloch who was its farm superintendent.
Dates: 1902, 1954

Charles Bohnsack Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 451
Abstract Typed summary of interview (10 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Grandin farms where Bohnsack worked, his early life, and clippings about him, his children, and their farmland.
Dates: 1954-1968

George E. Brunsdale Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 452
Abstract Typed summary of interview concerning the Grandin farm buildings at Mayville, N.D.
Dates: 1954