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The Learning Bank was a clearinghouse for education designed to make the best use of the Fargo-Moorhead community’s resources for learning through sharing. The Learning Bank’s purpose was to help educators provide programs together that they otherwise could not provide alone. Some programs offered to community students includes an agricultural education program, a fine arts program, the career bank, a mentor network, and media sharing.
Leon Simon was born in 1927, the son of Harry Simon, a Russian immigrant. Leon Simon, along with his brother Jack, became partners with their father in the furniture business in 1931. Along with Simon’s Furniture Store, the Simon’s owned and operated Simon’s Warehouse Corporation as well as being involved in the ownership of three shopping centers in the Fargo-Moorhead [North Dakota-Minnesota] area.
Joshua Edwin Adams was born near Perth, Ontario, in 1851. He moved to Moorhead, Minnesota in 1881. In Moorhead, he worked as a clerk at the Moorhead general store of H.G. Finkle.
Joseph Graba was born March 3, 1938 in Wadena County, Minnesota. He graduated from Bemidji State College with a B.S. in Biology. Mr. Graba undertook some graduate work at Bemidji and Colorado State College. During Mr. Graba's years in office (1970-76) he was active in the field of Education, being chairman of the Education Committee for the Midwest Conference of the Council of State Governments.
Levi Thortvedt was born in 1860 in Norway. He came to America in 1861 with his parents, Olav and Thone, and his four brothers and sisters. They landed in Quebec, Canada, and in 1870 journeyed by covered wagon to the Red River Valley. The Thortvedts were among the earliest settlers of the Otter Tail County area of the Red River Valley.
This bibliography includes the family history books located in the Heritage Education Commission collection held at the Northwest Minnesota Historical Center. If a date is given in parenthesis, this indicates the publication received an award in the stated year. The collection number of each volume is given at the end of the entry.
Henry Peterson was born October 23, 1904, in Moorhead, Minnesota. He was the third son of Charles and Louise Peterson. Henry was born the same year that his father purchased his first 20 acre in what is now north Moorhead. Henry grew up on this farm raised by his father; his mother died when he was three years old.
John Corbid was elected to the Minnesota Legislature from District 1B in 1974 and served in the Legislature until 1980. At the time of his election Mr. Corbid was a teacher living in Oklee, Minnesota, having graduated from the University of North Dakota with a B.S. degree. Mr. Corbid later owned a resort. John Corbid and his wife, Roberta, had three children, Kevin, Rachel, and Rebecca.
The Moorhead [Minnesota] Jaycee Women were chartered 1964 under the title of The Mrs. Jaycees of Moorhead. This group limits its membership to women of the ages 18-35. The Jaycee Women is a non-profit group that contains itself with fundraising projects related to community service.
J. Herbert Swenson was born on his parents’ farm in Oshkosh Township near Canby, Minnesota. After growing up on his parents’ farm, he purchased a small farm with his brother around 1920. The two brothers subsequently gave up this farm as the agricultural economy worsened in the late 1920s. In 1930, Swenson bought a second farm, a half section of land in Hammer Township.