Frontier and pioneer life -- North Dakota -- Richland County.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
John McDougall Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 348
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (7 leaves) with John and Dora (Lathrop) McDougall concerning their fathers, John McDougall and Murrilow Dow Lathrop, and their work on the Antelope Farm, Dora's job as clerk, bookkeeper, and barber at the Antelope Farm store, mention of other Lathrop family members including M.D.'s wife, his brother Vernon, and LeRoy Smith, Dora's cousin, a horse named Old Billy previously used by the Minneapolis Fire Department, hog butchering, the crops and equipment, a drawing of...
Dates:
1923, 1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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John McDougall Papers
John Woart Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 421
Abstract
Original letters and typed transcriptions written to his sister and mother at Sandy Hill, Washington County, N.Y. while stationed at Fort Abercrombie, N.D. One letter is from Ella Dewey Woart to her grandmother. Letters comment on life at the fort and mention various family members.
Dates:
1870-1871
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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John Woart Papers
Mabel Vold Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 934
Overview
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, Martin Hanson, Helendale Farm, and the J.B. Power family. Includes mention of Martin Hanson's coming to N.D., buying land near Helendale Farm, lists names and birthdates of Mabel's siblings, Mabel's employment as nanny and later as cook at Helendale Farm, description of the housing for J.B. Power, his son Allie, and Allie's family, a general store on Helendale Farm, kitchen arrangements, her friendship with the Power family,...
Dates:
1956.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Mabel Vold Interview
Nels Swenson Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1198
Abstract
Correspondence concerning the cost of a college education with reference to the children of Lineus Peterson, one of whom Swenson helped through college, working on the Adams Farm, and a newspaper clipping.
Dates:
1959.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Nels Swenson Records
Nikolai Arntson Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 204
Abstract
Letter and family history (6 leaves) of Nikolai Arntson who emigrated from Norway and settled in Richland County in 1880. A daughter Julia married Hans H. Gronbeck and is included in a family history paper (6 leaves) by Don Gronbeck on the Giselius, Arntson, and Gronbeck families.
Dates:
1954.
Peder C. Pederson Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 446
Abstract
State of Minnesota certificates (1893, 1902) certifying Pederson as a trained steam engine operator, and newspaper clippings which includes an article on the Hemnaes Lutheran Congregation of Christine, N.D. and on Anna (Arentsen) Pederson (1869-1954), his wife.
Dates:
1893-1918, 1946-1954.
Peter J. Walburg Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 498
Abstract
Letter, typed summary of interview (15 leaves) concerning J.B. Power, Helendale Farm, Amenia and Sharon Land Company, and his father Peter Walburg, a Swiss immigrant. Includes mention of their homestead near the Maple River, his work on Dalrymple No. 1 Farm, son Peter's first jobs as mule driver, choreboy, and herding horses for the Dalrymples, cutting wood at Helendale Farm, his father, and later Martin Hanson, hauling mail, Helendale Farm's soil, selling out and moving to Leonard, N.D.,...
Dates:
1955.
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.
Robert D. Crawford Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 290
Abstract
The collection consists of family correspondence (1864-1894) and handwritten reminiscence (734 p.) by Crawford concerning family history, pioneer life in Minnesota and the Wahpeton, ND area, together with their Putney, Vermont background.
Dates:
1867-1963.