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Farm life -- Minnesota.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

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

Halbert Webb Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 519
Abstract Correspondence, typed summary of interview (13 leaves) with Leonard Sackett, and the original handwritten copy (40 leaves) and a typed copy (23 leaves) of his recollections titled "Some recollections of Halbert L. Webb," which concerns his parents, the Eugene Grant family, H.D. Cooke, Reception House, George S. Barnes, F.A. Paige family, his apprenticeship, working with various newspapers, his postmaster job at Glyndon, Minn., a dairy partnership with his father, his farming experiences, the...
Dates: 1914, 1954-1957

Mrs. Arthur Oehler Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1468
Abstract Interview questionnaire, completed by Mrs. Oehler, concerning pioneer life in the Ortonville, Minn. area. Includes brief mention of runaway horses, her mother-in-law's refusal to can strawberries or tomatoes, carrying 50 pounds of flour, being snowbound, picking rocks, the first German Lutheran church, corn and wheat crops, and mail delivery. Also includes letter of transmittal.
Dates: 1966.

Olaus Hanson and John Jensen Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 742
Abstract Typed transcript of interview with Mr. Hanson and John Jensen, concerning their families, working on the G.S. Barnes Farm near Glyndon. Includes mention of their fathers who emigrated from Norway (Olie Hanson, Telemarken, Norway and Jens Jensen, Christiania, Norway), Dan and Mike McCarthy, lumbering near Dexterville, Minn., a Christmas Eve saloon brawl at Dexterville, and Hanson's house which was built over a saloon.
Dates: 1955.

Ole Peter Wiig Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 456
Abstract Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Ole Peter and Martha Wiig concerning his life at Lake Park and Perley, Minn. Includes mention of his first jobs in Lake Park, Minn. as a laborer and a farm worker, working on the Walker farm, his wife's job as Walker Farm cook, their wages, their experiences owning a farm and later, owning a hotel in Perley, Minn. Also includes clippings.
Dates: 1950, 1954-1957.

Oscar A. Christensen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 336
Abstract The collection consists of correspondence and writings, including The Man Behind the Plow, a family history of pioneer life in Minnesota.
Dates: 1949-1959.