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An overview of the European exploration and early trade in the Red River Valley, prior to the 1870s.
Randolph M. Probstfield was born in Prussia in 1832. He emigrated to the United States in 1852, living in Wisconsin and Michigan prior to coming to Minnesota. It is known that he worked in the lumbering business out of St. Paul and traveled through much of the country and to Latin America during the mid 1850s. In 1859, Probstfield moved to the Red River Valley area, becoming so far as to be known, as the first white settler in Clay County.
Dr. David M. Brown, superintendent of schools in Goodridge, Minnesota from 1953 to his retirement, was the chairman of the Pennington County Republican Party organization from 1968 to 1978. In that capacity, he was active in a variety of party activities, including election campaigns, issues forums, the publication and distribution of party literature, and the regular party caucuses.
This collection consists of three reels of microfilm of the records of seven Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Clay and Becker Counties, Minnesota.
This collection contains the records of the Christianson Farm and familyin Hickory Township, southeast Pennington County.Christian Christianson (1862-1917) began homesteading land for the farm in 1905. The Christianson farm remained in the hands of the family for more than nine decades, varying in size from two to three quarter sections. The farm was cultivated in small grains, and the Christiansons maintained herds of dairy and beef cattle.Orville Christianson (1910-2002), the son of Christian and Olive (1880-1936) maintained the farm with his wife Gertrude from 1936 until his retirement in 1992.
The Prairie Home Cemetery Association was founded in 1875. It used land granted for cemetery purposes by the Lake Superior and Puget Sound Company, a townsite development company of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The Riverside Cemetery Association was apparently organized in 1884. The minutes of the Prairie Home Cemetery Association’s Secretary’s Record indicate that by 1887 the association was making arrangements to use land owned by the Riverside Cemetery Association.
The Plain Foods Co-op [Fargo, North Dakota] began in 1974 as a buying club, its members especially interested in organic foods and bulk samples. The club gradually evolved into a co-op business, “owned and operated by its customers,” for an individual had to be a member of the Co-op in order to purchase food at the store.
A grandson of Clay County pioneer R.M. Probstfield, Raymond Gesell was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin on March 19, 1896. Gesell moved to Moorhead at age 19, inherited the Probstfield Old Trail farm, and developed it through market gardening.
There is no biographical information in this collection on Paul Van Vlissingen In the diary, dated 1883, there is a daily account of his days work, farm products sold, and farm products purchased. He farmed for a living near Hitterdal, Minnesota and because his papers included two trotting race ledgers, he must have been involved with the race track.
O.C. Nelson Company Store was owned by Ole Christian Nelson, a pioneer from the area of Battle Lake, Minnesota. The original store burned in 1906 and it was reorganized as a partnership. His daughter was Mrs. Helen Nelson Englund of Battle Lake, Minnesota.