Frontier and pioneer life -- North Dakota -- Traill County.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
S. Ambrose McCoy Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 530
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with S. Ambrose and Mary McNamee McCoy, with handwritten annotations, concerning his father, Thomas McCoy, who was a foreman on Grandin Farm No. 1 and Grandin Farm No. 2 under A.R. Dalrymple, and later homesteaded at Kelso, N.D. Includes mention of S.A. Dalrymple, Mary McCoy's uncle John F. McNamee, Tom McCoy's ditch that drained from the Red River, cattle lost in a storm, Mary McCoy's father, Michael J. McNamee, who emigrated from Perth, Ontario and came to Manvel,...
Dates:
1954.
Thomas Thompson Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 468
Overview
Electrostatic copy of a work agreement, dated March 28, 1887 and signed by A.R. Dalrymple at Hague, N.D., of Thomas Thompson to work as a hired man and his wife as a cook for Grandin Farms, states their wages and other conditions of employment, brief interview (1 leaf) with Thora and Martha Thompson, daughters of Thomas Thompson, which includes brief mention of A.R. Dalrymple and his daughters. Also includes Thompson's obituary
Dates:
1887, 1925, 1955-1956.
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
Zachariah Munter Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 941
Overview
Typed copy of a letter relating their early life in N.D., mentions the death of two children, grasshoppers eating the crops, trading butter for molasses. Also includes a list of birth and deaths dates for the Munter children and an obituary for August Munter, son of Zachariah and Charlotta
Dates:
1939, 1958