Frontier and pioneer life -- North Dakota -- Foster County.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Jessie Soliday MacKenzie Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 16
Abstract
Typed copy of Mrs. MacKenzie’s booklet (8 leaves) concerning her parents, Henry Augustus and Sarah Ann (Galehouse) Soliday, who came to the Carrington area in 1883 from Canton, Ohio; includes mention of 1883 blizzard, Lyman R. Casey, his brother J.B. Casey, Carrington & Casey Land Co., Kirkwood Hotel which burned and was rebuilt, plowing snow with the train, social life in early Carrington, and celebrating Christmas.
Dates:
1952
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.
Maria E. Larrabee Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 551
Abstract
Typed copy of letter dated June 18, 1906 which is Mrs. Larrabee's response to George J. Backen's invitation to attend Old Settlers Reunion, has brief mention of their life in Foster County, including the births of two sons, mail delivery between Jamestown, N.D. and Fort Totten. Handwritten letter, dated Nov. 11, 1960, from Ralph Miller, Fargo, to Leonard Sackett which mentions the Old Settlers Association, their picnics, and a Captain Warren.
Dates:
1906, 1960.
Peter Zink Biography
Collection
Identifier: SC 475
Abstract
Original handwritten biographical sketch (24 leaves) of Peter Zink's life in Foster County, N.D. Includes mention of his brothers, Oscar and Wendlin, his children, his efforts to obtain a small loan, starting the Bank of Melville, hunting wild geese, George Palmer building a house as a wedding gift for Peter Zink, Jr., Peter Zink's short course in hog farming at North Dakota Agricultural College, and his suicide after experiencing memory loss. Also includes a typed copy (7 leaves) and a brief...
Dates:
1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Peter Zink Biography
Ralph L. Miller, Fernando and Clara Alice Reimers Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 276
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Fernando and Clara Alice Reimers and Ralph L. Miller concerning the Carrington & Casey Land Company, with mention of her parents, William and Georgia Walters, the hotel they managed in Melville, N.D., George D. Palmer, Carrington & Casey Ranch manager, his wife Susie who baked bread in large quantities, L.B. Hibbard, sale of some aged Carrington and Casey Ranch mules, L.B. and Robert Hanna managing the ranch, and a description of the ranch buildings....
Dates:
1954.
Women's Literary Club of Carrington Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 182
Abstract
The club was organized by a group of pioneer women in Carrington, N.D. as a study club with regular courses in literature and history.
Dates:
1897-1925, 1954.