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Businessmen -- North Dakota.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Leslie N. Putnam Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 591
Abstract Typed summary of first interview (3 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Putnam family and their lumberyard business. Mentions Ralph L. Miller, business partner of T.N. Putnam; Leslie Putnam's struggle to retain the farm; T.N.'s career in lumber business; his election as Foster County Treasurer and both houses of N.D. legislature. Second interview (1 leaf) with Leonard Sackett mentions L.B. Hanna's purchase in 1932 of the Carrington and Casey ranch, includes references to Hanna's...
Dates: 1954.

Louis B. Hanna Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 821
Abstract Brief interview with Leslie R. Putnam about L.B. Hanna's purchase of the Carrington and Casey Land Company in Foster County (N.D.), the 1914 Thanksgiving Day proclamation, and newspaper clippings, including his obituary.
Dates: 1914-1948, 1954.

Martin Hector Collection of Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 175
Abstract Interview with granddaughter Mary Halland about Hector and his early business ventures. Includes obituaries of Martin Hector, son Fred Hector, newspaper clipping of Fargo home referred to as the Henry Hector home, photocopy of Hammerfest, Norway church record of Hector's family (in Norwegian) and a typed English translation of the record.
Dates: 1938-1954.

Matthew Forney Steele Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 128
Abstract His admiration of the generals who led the South during the Civil War prompted him to pursue a military career.
Dates: 1899-1907, 1920-1952.

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.

Ralph F. Gunkelman Collection of Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 569
Abstract Typewritten summaries of interviews with Gunkelman and his son, John L. Gunkelman; ms. histories concerning R.F. Gunkelman & Sons and the Gunkelman family by Gary Hedstrom and Christopher T. Bucholz; and clippings. Includes information relating to the Rand and Brown Farm, grain elevators, and Ralph Gunkelman's founding of Farmers Grain Co., Grandin, N.D. (1913), his ownership of Interstate Seed & Grain Co., Fargo (1917-1943), and of R.F. Gunkelman & Sons (1943- ).
Dates: 1955-1986.

Ralph L. Miller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 447
Abstract Letter, and two interviews. First interview (3 leaves) with Leonard Sackett mentions Melville, N.D., a business partnership with his uncle, T.N. Putnam, Carrington & Casey farm lands, Peter Zink, an area pioneer, Melville baseball team, and its most famous player, Billy Sunday. Second interview (7 leaves) with Ralph Miller and James Edward (Ed) Galehouse mentions Charlie Wing (known as C.K.), his trading and poker playing, a brothel near Carrington, brief mention of Mrs. Galehouse and Mabel...
Dates: 1954-1961.

Richard H. Hankinson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 812
Abstract Senior paper by Vernon Quam, North Dakota State University student, on the life of Col. Hankinson, with mention of his Civil War service, his farm in Richland County (N.D.), and his involvement with Northwestern Telegraph Co. which later became Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. Includes photocopies of and a typed copy of his obituary.
Dates: 1911, 1979.

Russell Duncan – Anna Mohagen Family History

 Collection
Identifier: SC 809
Abstract Photocopy of handwritten genealogy of the Duncan and Mohagen families with autobiographies of Russell (born William Russell Duncan) and Anna Mohagen Duncan.
Dates: 1977

Stephen J. Doyle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 998
Abstract Massachusetts native, active in the North Dakota Legislature and served as a U.S. Marshal.
Dates: 1890-1940.