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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.
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 collection consists of nine scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and photographs concerning housing and redevelopment in Moorhead, Minnesota. Various projects are covered in these volumes including the construction of the Brookdale Mall, urban renewal, and public housing.
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.