Personal and Family Papers

Alfred G. Arvold Papers, 1900-1950 (Mss 72)
NDSU professor who started the Little County Theater and recruited many top acting professionals to perform at NDSU.

Lucien A. Barnes Papers, 1853-1942, 1955 (Mss 189)
The collection consists of various financial ledgers for farming expenses, daily records, threshing account books and herd books (1893-1928); various letters and other documents.

William H. Best Papers, 1838-1953, 1962 (Mss 43)
Philadelphia native who became Fargo's Chief of Police and was interested in the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

John D. Burnham Papers, 1818-1911 (Mss 155)
The collection consists of correspondence, handwritten writings and reminiscences, and subject files.

Haile Chisholm Papers, 1876, 1921-1951 (Mss 117)
Long time blacksmith at North Dakota Agricultural College (now NDSU) and poet.

Critchfield Family Papers, 1937-1994 (Mss 210)
North Dakota family that spent time in Iowa and Germany and wrote numerous letters to each other

Frank Dickinson Papers, 1870-1947 (Mss 969)
Store owner at Ayr, ND who devoted his time to land sales.

Stephen J. Doyle Papers, 1890-1940 (Mss 998)
Massachusettes native who was active in the North Dakota Legislature and served as a U.S. Marshal.

Ira Eddy Papers 1823, 1838-1845, 1846-1851, 1896, 1922, 1937-1942, 1893(Mss 212)
Local man whose traced his geneology to Captain Miles Standish and the earliest known member of the Eddy family, Reverend William Eddy of Cranbrook, England in the county of Kent.

Willard E. Hankel Papers, 1941-1995 (Mss 261)
Willard E. Hankel was a farmer at Oakes, North Dakota in Dickey County.  His farm diaries cover 1946-1960 and 1982-1995, calendars of daily action span 1961-1981, plus financial journal records for 1941.  Other records document the Hankel family in North Dakota.

J. Roberts Haggart Collection, ca 1840s-1980s (Mss 247)
Collection of an influential Fargo family who brought the North Dakota Agricultural College to Fargo.

James Holes Papers, 1875-1937 (Mss 211)
One of the earliest settlers in the Fargo area whose papes document is private and business affairs.

Horace M. Jones Family Papers, 1907-1931 (Mss (Mss 193)
Local man whose son served in World War I and died at home while on leave.

Gordon MacGregor Papers, 1933-1965 (Mss 861)
Editor of the Bismark Tribune when the paper won a Pulizer Prize.

Walter J. Maddock Papers, 1880-1951 (Mss 68)
Walter J. Maddock was raised on a farm near Northwood, N.D. with his farm diary and scrapbook the main components of this small collection.

Ebenezer Magoffin Papers, 1940-1958 (Mss 950)
Owned and operated with his father the Monango Mercantile Cash Co. and the Magoffin and Son Cheeze Factory in Dickey County, ND.

Thorvald Ostbye Family Papers, 1884-1947 (Mss 325)
Norwegian immigrant who started a contracting business and became a successful Fargo contractor.  Responsible for building the Carnegie Library (Putnam Hall) and its addition on the North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State University).

Wallace E. Petrie Papers, 1885-1953 (Mss 801)
Wallace Petrie was an Emmons County, ND pioneer.  The papers include material on homesteading in Dakota Territory, his sister's ranch and Petrie family clippings.

Vern Roberts Collection of Papers, 1921-1953 (Mss 1514)
Fargo native Vern Roberts, after serving in the Army Air Corps in World War I, began a career in aviation in the 1920s as a barnstormer and aviation air racer.

Eugene J. Rolle Papers, 1860-1955 (Mss 684)
Luxembourg native and one of the first to use insulin in the treatment of diabetes.

Soule Family Papers, 1859-1914 (Mss 234)
Family orginially from New York.  Ambrose served in the Civil War.  George fled to Mexico due to embezzling funds from the railroad.

Julius Sgutt Papers, 1894-1953 (Mss 50)
First mayor of Harvey, ND whose son served in World War I and regularly corresponded with his father.

Frank Stott Papers, 1875-1976 (Mss 239)
Missouri native who owned and operated in Montpelier, ND.

Evan S. Tyler Papers, 1877-1919 (Mss 19)
Fargo real estate agent responsible for the Park Board acquiring Oak Grove Park and the establishment of Island Park.
 

Manuscript Subject Listing