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Traill County (N.D.) -- History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Charles H. Hobart Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 227
Abstract Consists of typscript copies of five letters written by Hobart to his nephews in which he reminiscences about his pioneer years in North Dakota, beginning in 1881 when he came to visit Fargo and his wife's brother Burleigh F. Spalding. He then purchased farm land near Cummings, N.D. where he brought his wife the next year from New Hampshire. Reminiscences are very detailed in describing his life, the hardships of pioneer life, breaking land, building farm buildings, farming, and family.
Dates: 1930-1934

Eben E. Saunders Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 61
Abstract An Englishman whose family immigrated to Michigan who became an ordained Congregational minister and published numerous newspaper articles on the history of North Dakota and the Red River Valley.
Dates: 1914-1926

George Hilstad Collection of Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 269-Tape 11
Abstract Correspondence, typewritten summaries of interviews, taped interviews with Hilstad and Roy Bunn, relating to the Blanchard, Belle Prairie, and Grandin bonanza farms in Traill and Cass counties, N.D.; abstract of platting of Traill Centre; statistical information concerning Mayville, N.D., churches; articles, several written by Hilstad's wife, Mary (Dunlevy) Hilstad, chiefly concerning Traill County history; letters written by Torsten Torstenson Kopseng to Norwegian relatives, describing his...
Dates: 1863-1970