Bonanza farms -- Minnesota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Lockhart Farm (Minn.) Financial Statements
Collection
Identifier: SC 243
Abstract
Financial statements for the crop years of 1923-1924 and 1932-1933 with headings "Crop Year 1923-1924 Lockhart Dwelling" (3 leaves) and "Recapitulation Lockhart Farms as at 12-1-32 Sec. 3, 10, 15, 17, 19 and 21" (12 leaves).
Dates:
1924, 1933.
Manly M. Furuseth Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 523
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his Norwegian immigrant father Jacob Furuseth, who was a blacksmith on the Grandin Farms and later built a blacksmith shop in Halstad, Minn. Includes mention of John Wyman, a Fargo real estate man, the Furuseth brothers Manly and Jule, farming land formerly part of the Grandin Farms.
Dates:
1955.
Nellie McIvor Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 633
Abstract
Two letters from Nellie Fitzpatrick McIvor containing information about her husband, Norman McIvor, born at Ontario, Canada, and worked at Hill Farm, Humboldt Division (Humboldt, Minn.) starting about 1898. They met at the farm where she worked for the cook, Annie Nelson. Norman and Nellie wed in 1904. Norman farmed near Lancaster, Minn. after leaving Hill Farm. Died at his Lancaster, Minn. farm in 1934.
Dates:
1956.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Nellie McIvor Letters
Nelson and Clara Finney Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 548
Abstract
Letter and typed summary of interview (5 leaves) with Mr. and Mrs. Finney concerning the Reid Farm; contains some family history and mention of the Kelso Farm and Hill Farm.
Dates:
1955-1956.
Olaf Leikvam Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 647
Overview
Typed summary of detailed interview (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett and corrections concerning his employment on the Richards Farm, the main house, farm buildings, livestock, Richards family members, especially father Harry Richards and son John Elliott Richards.
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Olaf Leikvam Interview
Olaus C. Olson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 501
Abstract
Typed summary of interview and addenda, with Leonard Sackett, relating to steamboats hauling grain on the Red River, the Richards Farm, includes mention of Harry Richards, his wife, and son, Elliott, the Grandin elevator on the Finney farm, and a handwritten note.
Dates:
1955.
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.
Peter Milne Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 3057
Overview
This collection contains a ledger that deals with farm business for Milne as well as several journals that he wrote in from 1892 through 1930. The folder in the collection has the finding aid, a biographical sketch, a brief biography from FindAGrave, correspondence between Milne and Leonard Sackett, and brief outline of what is in the journals.
Dates:
1892-1956.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Peter Milne Collection
Richard A. Fitzpatrick Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 504
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning the Reid Farm and the Humboldt Farm.
Dates:
1955.
Samuel A. March Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 465
Abstract
Correspondence; family history materials, including information (1873) relating to the Patrick family (family of March's wife) compiled by William Patrick; copy of pamphlet concerning the farm; deeds; and interview with March's grandson, Samuel A. March (b. 1905), pertaining to his grandfather and father, Samuel A. March (1876-1941?). Correspondents include Robert M. Gaylord, of Rockford, Ill.
Dates:
1873-1956.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Samuel A. March Papers