Frank Richard

Frank J. Richard was born at Wild Rice, North Dakota.  He grew up on a farm and attended grade school and high school at St. Benedict of Wild Rice.  In 1941, he enrolled at the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks to study civil engineering.  From 1947 to 1948 he worked on construction of the American Crystal Sugar Beet plant in Moorhead, and from 1948 to 1950 he worked for the North Dakota State Highway Department in Bismarck.  In 1950, he went back to North Dakota State University for a degree in Architectural Engineering which he completed in 1954.  He was a member of several United States, Canadian, and French genealogy societies and historical associations and traveled extensively to pursue his research.

The Frank J. Richard papers contain files and documents relating to Richard family history gathered as research for Les Richard et d'Autres.  Some other research materials included are information about St. Benedict's Parish in Wild Rice, North Dakota and St. Mary's Cathedral Parish in Fargo, North Dakota.  There are also six folders of French-Canadian documents dating from 1758 to 1875, retained in Richard's original order.

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