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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.
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.
This collection is mostly House correspondence with a few miscellaneous items, arranged chronologically. Generally the correspondence is that received by Anderson. The topics contained in the collection are relative to bits of legislation and comments from special interest groups such as the baking industry, the Minnesota Motor Company, the Minnesota State Massage Association, the Otter Tail County Welfare Board and the P.T.A. of New York Mills, Minnesota.
Two reels of microfilm are the executive proceedings and official correspondence from July 1877-Decemeber 1888 of the Interior Department regarding the Dakota Territory. One reel contains letters relating to the U.S. Penitentiary in Dakota. The fourth reel contains miscellaneous materials regarding Dakota Territory.
This is a collection of notes and case diaries of the former Moorhead Police Chief, John F. Nemzek, dating from 1938 to 1945. Included are notes of his police school attendance at the University of Minnesota, as well as a tentative draft of “The Accident Investigators Training Manual.”
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.
Haakon Bjornaas was born in Otter Tail County, Minnesota in 1884. His parents, Ole and Ingeborg Bjornaas, had established their farm near the future site of Underwood in 1872. Haakon was one of twelve children born to Ole and Ingeborg.
O.J. Hagen’s parents were Jens H. Hagen (1828-1914) and Gunhild Grendahl. They were married in Norway on November 5, 1855. Jens Hagen immigrated to the United States in 1869 and was followed by his wife and family in 1871. They first settled in Menominee, Wisconsin, where Olaf Jenson Hagen was born on September 16, 1872. In May 1873 the family moved to the Red River Valley, settling near Fort Abercrombie in Richland County, Dakota Territory.
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.
Harry Basford was born at Deer River, Minnesota on May 21, 1908. He married Emma Miler on June 19, 1937. His education included grade and high school and two years of University training. He attended night school for over four years. He moved to the Wolf Lake, Minnesota area in 1941 where he operated a dairy farm.