Farms -- North Dakota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Emerson Harris Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 81
Scope and Contents
The Emerson Harris Family Papers include correspondence, farming receipts, bank account book, legal documents relating to the estate of Harris and his wife, Theresa Harris. Among the letters is one from Taylor Crum asking Mr. Harris for a letter in attempt to secure a pardon for Emil Wendland. The postcard correspondence is between various members of the Harris family with the most written to Theresa Harris.
The Subject Files Series includes two certificates of annual membership for Emerson...
Dates:
1816-1854, 1875-1927
Frank A. Harris Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 343
Abstract
Correspondence, poems, legal materials, and clippings, chiefly relating to Harris's daily activities; and pamphlets, including one entitled Charles Curtis Amidon.
Dates:
1918-1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Frank A. Harris Papers
Frank H. Dickinson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 969
Abstract
Store owner at Ayr, ND who devoted his time to land sales.
Dates:
1870-1947
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
Glover Farms Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 75
Abstract
Correspondence, interviews with Faith Cambellick and others, historical notes by Laura Vix, and clippings, relating to Glover Farm, bonanza farm in Dickey County, near Ellendale, N.D., founded by Samuel Glover, of Delaware, Ohio.
Dates:
1917-1954
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Glover Farms Records
Grandin Farms Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 2890
Abstract
Materials relating to Grandin Farms, bonanza wheat farm in Cass and Traill counties, N.D., founded 1876 by Grandin brothers, John L. and W.J. Grandin (originally of Tidoute, Pa.), stockholders of Northern Pacific Railroad, who came to North Dakota to claim railroad land.
Dates:
1879-1960.
Henry C. Frojen Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 925
Abstract
Correspondence and newspaper clippings, relating to Glover Farm, bonanza farm in Dickey and La Moure counties, N.D., and the Glover family; and biographical sketch of farm owner, Samuel Glover, originally of Delaware, Ohio. Includes information concerning Glover's introduction of durum wheat to North Dakota and his son, Frederick Glover, who founded Gas Traction Company, manufacturer of gas tractors, in Minneapolis, Minn.
Dates:
1913-1958
James Scott Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-301
Overview
Contains the interview notes from the Leonard Sackett interivew and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1905-1958.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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James Scott Records
John Beattie Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 476
Abstract
Two ledgers containing wage accounts of farm employees and records of personal property sale, financial records, land deeds, and Beattie's obituary.
Dates:
1893-1952
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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John Beattie Papers
John Christiansen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 423
Abstract
Correspondence; taped interview with Christiansen concerning his settling near New Salem, N.D. (1883), and the pioneer years, with transcription (11 p.) of first side of tape; biographical sketch; pamphlet entitled Wrong Side Up; articles from American Milk Review and The Northwest; and clippings.
Dates:
1921-1952