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Born in Hanska, Minnesota on May 8, 1903, Wilferd Anderson moved with his family to the Hitterdal, Minnesota area in 1908. Anderson’s father, H.V. Anderson, managed a grain elevator at Hitterdal until 1915 when he bought a farm in nearby Highland Grove. Wilferd Anderson worked on his father’s farm until 1931, when he married Violet Heigg and rented his own farm in Highland Grove. Subsequently buying the land, Anderson managed this farm until his retirement, raising grain and potatoes, and owning a small dairy herd. The Andersons were also active in Highland Grove community activities. Wilferd died in 1985.
The Moorhead Women’s Christian Temperance Union was organized in 1948. The WCTU grew from five women in 1948 to a membership of thirty-seven in 1960. The Moorhead WCTU is affiliated with the National WCTU and the National organization is part of the World Union which has a membership of seventy-seven countries.
The Western Minnesota Steam Thresher’s Reunion (WMSTR) was officially organized in 1954. But well before that year, individuals in the Rollag area were acting to preserve and restore old steam-powered farming equipment. N.B. Nelson, one of the most active of these individuals, proposed in 1940, that steam threshers be used one day each year so that “Old timers” could “see a steam engine work again.”
The village of Hitterdal, Minnesota, is located on the eastern end of Clay County. It was founded in 1884 and incorporated as a township in 1918.
The Lumber operation at Wolverton, Minnesota was originally known as the Gull River Lumber Company. Sometime about 1900, it became a branch yard of the White Lumber Company which was established in Fargo, North Dakota in 1873.
This is a series of booklets written by Alvin (Ole) Swanson on the history of Warroad, Minnesota. Each booklet contains a number of short paragraphs on a variety of incidences in Warroad history. Some are remembrances of the author. Others are brief historical highlights or lists of facts.
This collection consists of literature published or personal writings during various wars.
Nationally known poet, Thomas McGrath grew up in Sheldon, North Dakota. He studied at the University of North Dakota, worked for a time in New York, and earned his Masters degree in English from the University of Louisiana. In 1939, he won the Rhodes Scholarship. During WWII, he served in the U.S. Army. After the war, he continued his education in England for one year. While McGrath was teaching in Los Angeles in the 1950s, he was called before the House of Un-American Activities Committee.
The Unitarian Church of Underwood, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, was founded in 1889 by Kristofer Janson, a Norwegian author and reformer, who immigrated to the United States in 1881. Mr. Janson became a Unitarian missionary to the Scandinavians in the Midwest. He also established Unitarian congregations in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Hanska, all in Minnesota, and also in Hudson, Wisconsin.
This collection on one reel of microfilm includes the records of one Congregational and two Evangelical and Reformed Churches in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. The records consist mainly of ministerial acts and membership records as well as some meeting minutes.