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A collection of northwestern Minnesota counties maps.
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.
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.
The collection is primarily concerned with selected activities of the Northern Pacific Railroad from 1870 to 1913. The collection includes the following materials: abstracts, addresses, agreements, briefs, bylaws, charters, collateral trust, contracts, court cases, editorials, guides, hearings, indentures, laws, leaflets, leases, letters, mortgages, official statements, opinions, pamphlets, prospectus, reports, resolutions, statements, stockholder’s reports, speeches and the Howard Elliot Farewell Dinner agendas.
Norman Walz was born July 18, 1915 at Detroit Lakes, Minnesota where he grew up and attended school. He served in the United States Navy. He married Kathryn Fasching in 1937, and they had seven children. Mr. Walz was the owner operator of the Detroit Lakes Independent Oil Company from 1950-1960.
The Northwest Oil Equipment Company grew out of the Nonwestern Supply Company, a manufacturer of a variety of forged implements, owned and operated by Martin Parries of Moorhead Minnesota. From 1944 to 1984, the Northwest Oil Equipment Company manufactured specialized storage tanks, pumps, nozzles and other equipment for use by service stations, and later, oil corporations.
The Red River Chapter of the National Organization for Women was organized in 1974. The ratification of the ERA in the state of North Dakota was the Chapter’s first goal. The following years have been devoted to public education on feminist issues.
The Agassiz Chapter of National Organization for Women (NOW) was organized June 20, 1978. “The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men.”