Institute Manuscript Collection Finding Aids: Recent submissions

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    • Nathan S. Sheffield Collection 

      Sheffield, Nathan S.; Sheffield, Nathan S. (12/8/2015)
      Letters and typed carbon copies of two of his poems, "My neighbor and I," and "Transfiguration."

    • John Horace Reed Collection 

      Reed, John Horace; Sackett, Leonard; Reed, John Horace; Sackett, Leonard (2015-12-08)
      Typed copies of two poems, "A Yankee farmer in the new west" and "A legend of Hitchcock's corner," from his Three score and ten and extracts from his diary covering March 1885 to August 9, 1925 concerning activities in his ...

    • “The Grand Valley” by Hugh Militt Poem 

      Militt, Hugh; Militt, Hugh (12/7/2015)
      Typed copy of his poem, "The Grand valley," taken from The Fargo republican, Nov. 22, 1879, written from the Goose River in Traill County concerning homesteading. Typed on Fargo forum letterhead.

    • Emma Betsy Larson Poems 

      Larson, Emma Betsy; Larson, Emma Betsy (2015-12-07)
      Printed undated copies of her poems, "To the man of the rails," and "My church."

    • Eva K. Anglesburg Papers 

      Anglesburg, Eva; Anglesburg, Eva (2015-12-03)
      Correspondence with Institute staff, and a copy of her poem, How North Dakota became a prairie.

    • Byron N. Stone Family Collection 

      Stone, Bryon, N.; Stone, Bryon, N. (2015-12-03)
      Typed copy of reminiscence entitled "Reminiscences of Byron N. Stone, Sr.," (21 leaves) on his parents, Aurelius and Sarah Ann (Shepherd) Stone. Reminiscence includes mention of his grandfather, John M. Shepherd, a Wisconsin ...

    • Earl T. Carley Interview 

      Carley, Earl T; Drache, Hiram M.; Carley, Earl T; Drache, Hiram M. (12/3/2015)
      Typed summary of interview with Hiram Drache concerning the Chaffee family and life in Amenia, N.D. Includes mention of Herbert F., Carrie T., and Eben Chaffee, other Chaffee family members, the death of H.F. Chaffee, the ...

    • Samuelson Family Interview 

      Berg, Donald G.; Berg, Donald G. (12/3/2015)
      Typed summary of an interview by Don Berg with an unidentified Samuelson son, concerning the Corser Farm located near Crookston, Minn. Includes mention of his parents emigrating from Sweden to America, returning to Sweden, ...

    • James F. Hazard Interview 

      Hazard, James F; Drache, Hiram M.; Hazard, James F; Drache, Hiram M. (12/3/2015)
      Typed summary of interview with Hiram Drache concerning the Cooper Ranch with some mention of livestock and farm operations, the Cooper family, and Charles Houghton, Hazard's father-in-law.

    • G. Robert Allison Interview 

      Allison, G. Robert; D rache, Hiram M.; Allison, G. Robert; D rache, Hiram M. (2015-12-03)
      Typed summary of interview with Hiram Drache concerning the Chaffee family and the Amenia and Sharon Land Company.

    • Mrs. Arthur Oehler Interview 

      Oehler, Arthur (Mrs.); Berg, Donald J. (Mrs.); Oehler, Arthur (Mrs.); Berg, Donald J. (Mrs.) (2015-12-03)
      Interview questionnaire, completed by Mrs. Oehler, concerning pioneer life in the Ortonville, Minn. area. Includes brief mention of runaway horses, her mother-in-law's refusal to can strawberries or tomatoes, carrying 50 ...

    • Earle M. Giesey Poetry Booklets 

      Giesey, Earle M.; Giesey, Earle M. (2015-12-03)
      Original handwritten booklets of poetry. One booklet entitled "Bits of Verse" contains two poems, one entitled 'Voiceless heartaches' and 'To My Ideal.' The other booklet entitled "Poems" contains The separation-beginning ...

    • Enoch J. Efteland Family Records 

      Efteland, Josphine; Efteland, Josphine (12/2/2015)
      Family history (8 leaves) with genealogical information on this Norwegian immigrant family from Sogn, Norway who settled at Shelly, Minn. Includes letter of transmittal.

    • William George Johnson Collection 

      Johnson, William George; Johnson, William George (2015-12-02)
      Two poems in Norwegian, one dated 1892, correspondence regarding subscription to Soviet Travel magazine, pamphlet (1869) entitled "Wells' new descriptive chart giving a delineation of character according to phrenology and ...

    • “The Grouch” by Ada Crofford Papers 

      Crofford, Ada C.; Crofford, Ada C. (2015-12-02)
      Handwritten story set in Fargo, N.D. with members of the Grandin family as the principle characters.

    • Otto H. Faust Poetry 

      Faust, Otto H.; Faust, Otto H. (2015-12-02)
      Mimeograph collection of his poetry written while a patient at the Jamestown State Hospital with accompanying letter. Most published in his "Sonnets from the unshackled heart."

    • George M. Scott Interviews 

      Scott, George M.; Sackett, Leonard; Scott, George M.; Sackett, Leonard (2015-12-02)
      Typed summary combining two interviews with Leonard Sackett concerning his years while working for Robert Reed of the Amenia and Sharon Land Company. Describes his duties, the Amenia Hotel and its boarders, buildings on ...

    • Mary E. Warner Interview 

      Warner, Mary E.; Warner, Mary E. (2015-12-02)
      Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, Stott English, who worked as foreman on the Cass, Bond, Greene, Twitchell, and Kennedy farms. He was a native of Pittsfield, Pa.

    • Sheyenne River Collection 

      Cudworth, Clair; Cudworth, Clair (2015-12-01)
      Paper by Clair Cudworth relating to prehistoric man in the upper Sheyenne River Valley, and clippings and other materials, concerning Baldhill Dam and Lake Ashtabula.

    • Memories of Charles E. Bristol Collection 

      Bristol, Charles E.; North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies.; Bristol, Charles E.; North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies. (2015-12-01)
      Apparently original handwritten reminiscence (17 leaves) by Mr. Bristol of his parents, F.A. and Ida M. (Sweet) Bristol, who moved to Fargo in 1881 from Chicago and began a harness shop which later became Bristol and Sweet. ...