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The St. Ansgar Hospital [Moorhead, Minnesota] Auxiliary was organized in 1955. Mrs. Harriet Geib was elected first president. The purpose of the Auxiliary is to support the work of the hospital “within the walls” supplementing activities of the regular hospital staff, augmenting services to the staff and patients that could otherwise be impossible, and to further public relations of the hospital.
M.J. Solum came to the United States at age 15 in 1888. In 1893 he engaged in the hardware business in Hitterdal, Minnesota until his death. The store remained open until 1973. The Solum Store was a general merchandise store dealing in coal, twine, machinery, and grain lift movers.
Much of the history of Christ Church, St. Vincent, Kittson County, Minnesota, is not known. However, it is known that construction of the church building began in 1880 and that the first services were held in the church on Christmas Day of the same year. The parish was organized and officially recognized from the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota in 1882.
St. Joseph's Cathloic Church is located in Moorhead, Minnesota. Land was acquired in 1873 by Father Jean Baptiste Genin, at which time a frame church was built.
The heart of the RRVSGA collection is the transcripts of interviews conducted with several dozen individuals involved in the sugarbeet industry in the Valley. Most of those interviewed are members of the RRVSGA, although former employees of the old American Crystal Company, some migrant laborers, and a few elected officials were also interviewed. Each interview transcription is fully described in the inventory. In addition to the transcript, a tape of the interview is also available.
This collection contains old photographs, newspaper articles, newspapers, books, pamphlets and broadsides pertaining to the history of Minnesota, the Red River Valley and individual communities in northwest Minnesota.
Richard W. Fitzsimons was born January 19, 1922 and raised on a farm near Argyle, Minnesota. After the death of his father in 1937, Richard and his mother ran the farm. Fitzsimons was active in the 4-H Club and he helped organize the Rural Youth Program in Minnesota, serving as state president and on the National Committee. Fitzsimons married Janice Kyseth and had a son, Mark and a daughter, Lori. Fitzsimons was first elected to the Minnesota State Legislature in 1952 from the Sixty-Seventh District - Marshall County.
The documents and interviews in this collection were assembled to provide background on the development of electrical power in the rural areas of northwest Minnesota and portions of North Dakota. Much of the rural power in this area was first provided under the aegis of the Rural Electrification Administration.
Unfortunately there is not much specific information on Richard Herring regarding birth dates etc., but it is known that he migrated from England with the Yeoville Colony in 1873 and they settled by Hawley and Glyndon, Minnesota. He opened a store in Lake Park, Minnesota and by 1890 he had opened a store in Hitterdal, Minnesota.
Established in 1939 to promote the cultivation of potatoes in the region, the Red River Valley Potato Growers Association contributes to agricultural research, acts as a source of information for potato farmers, and lobbies for and to the potato industry, especially for those involved in Minnesota and North Dakota.