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Kittson, Norman W. (Norman Wolfred), 1814-1888. Norman W. Kittson papers, [undated] and 1841-1889.

Title: Norman W. Kittson papers, [undated] and 1841-1889.

Fur trade account books (1851-1853, 1863-1866) and miscellaneous papers pertaining to lands, accounts, and other investments of this fur trader and businessman who came to Minnesota in 1834, eventually settling in St. Paul.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cubic feet (1 box, including 5 volumes and 1 item in Reserve).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122412243 View

Henry H. Sibley Papers., 1815-1932.

Title: Henry H. Sibley Papers. 1815-1932.

Correspondence, financial records, legal papers, speeches,and miscellany of this early Minnesota fur trader, entrepreneur, andgovernor. More than a third of the papers concern the fur trade with the Dakota Indians of theUpper Mississippi Valley from 1815 to 1855, documenting Sibley's businessassociation with the American Fur Company and its successor, Pierre Chouteau, Jr.,and Company, as well as his interest in the treaties, wars, and welfare of theDakota.

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Cavileer, Charles Turner, 1818-1902. Charles T. Cavileer papers, 1849-1929.

Title: Charles T. Cavileer papers, 1849-1929.

An important letter from Henry H. Sibley as delegate in Congress, concerning the bill to organize Minnesota Territory (1849); photostats of a letter from Cavileer to H. A. Haskell and of letters from James J. Hill, Norman W. Kittson, Auguste L. Larpenteur, Alexander Ramsey, Edmund Rice, and others; a reminiscent speech (1891) on the Red River Valley, Pembina, and Joseph Roulette in 1851; papers relating to positions held by Cavileer in Minnesota Territory and to his early life at Pembina; a reminiscent sketch of William R. Brown; and a reminiscent letter (1929) and a photograph of his daughter Lulah.

ArchivalResource: 19 items and 2 oversize items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122659155 View

Norman W. Kittson papers., [undated] and 1841-1889.

Title: Norman W. Kittson papers. [undated] and 1841-1889.

Fur trade account books (1851-1853, 1863-1866) and miscellaneous papers pertaining to lands, accounts, and other investments of this fur trader and businessman who came to Minnesota in 1834, eventually settling in St. Paul.

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Hill family. Hill family collection, 1739-1995 (bulk 1850-1960).

Title: Hill family collection, 1739-1995 (bulk 1850-1960).

Correspondence, biographical data, subject files, speeches, financial records, maps, publications, photographs, clippings and scrapbooks, and corporate records documenting the personal lives and business activities of the James J. Hill and Louis W. Hill families. The James J. Hill papers include correspondence, financial records, legal documents, diaries, blueprints, maps, publications, speeches, biographical data, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to the personal and business dealings of St. Paul railroad baron and business magnate. The Louis W. Hill papers include correspondence, legal documents, financial records, photographs, printed materials, newspaper clippings, biographical data, and maps related to the personal life and wide ranging business ventures of the St. Paul businessman, president and chairman of the Great Northern Railway. The Mary T. Hill papers include diaries, letters, financial records, and other materials of the wife of James J. Hill, focusing largely on family life. The Maud Van Cortlandt Taylor Hill papers include diaries, letters, photographs, genealogical data, and other materials of the wife of Louis W. Hill. The Maud Hill Schroll papers include photograph albums and scrapbooks of Maud Van Cortlandt Hill Dorcy Schroll, daughter of Louis W. Hill.

ArchivalResource: 1396.5 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/248037567 View

Mills, James B. James B. Mills papers, 1862-1870.

Title: James B. Mills papers, 1862-1870.

Fragmentary correspondence, financial records, and agreements of Mills, a St. Cloud (Minn.) businessman, and his associates in the firms of H[enry] Gager and Company, Gager and Mills, and J. B. Mills and Company.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86133913 View

James J. Hill papers., 1823-1985 (bulk 1860-1916).

Title: James J. Hill papers. 1823-1985 (bulk 1860-1916).

Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, diaries,blueprints, maps, publications, speeches, biographical data, newspaper clippings,and photographs related to the personal and business dealings of St. Paul railroadbaron and business magnate James J. Hill.

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McLeod, Martin, 1813-1860. Martin McLeod papers, 1830-1883.

Title: Martin McLeod papers, 1830-1883.

Correspondence, papers, traders' and Indian credit accounts, and diaries of McLeod, a Minnesota fur trader during the period 1836-1858.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 cu. ft. (3 boxes, incl. 14 v.; 7 oversize items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122425945 View

Dease, Albert Edward, 1895-. Biographical data on Albert Edward Dease and the Dease and Gingras families, 1927-1960.

Title: Biographical data on Albert Edward Dease and the Dease and Gingras families, 1927-1960.

Biographical manuscripts documenting the Dease and Gingras families, Irish and French Canadian traders, politicians, and pioneers, who lived in the Red River Settlement and Pembina County, North Dakota (1850s-1960). Written by Albert E. Dease, they include data on the lives of his great great grandfather, Dr. John Dease, who emigrated from Ireland around 1771; his great grandfather, John Warren Dease, and great uncle, Francis Michael Dease; his two grandfathers, William Dease, who moved the family to Pembina in 1876, and Antoine B. Gingras, who operated a Red River ox cart line between St. Joseph and St. Paul and who served in the Minnesota territorial legislature in 1852-1853; and his father, Alfred Dease. They contain numerous references to early traders, Catholic missionaries, Native American and Metis leaders, and prominent pioneers in both the U.S. and Canada, particularly Norman W. Kittson and Louis D. Riel. He also includes a photograph of himself and autobiographical notes.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474758 View

Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891. Henry H. Sibley papers, 1815-1932.

Title: Henry H. Sibley papers, 1815-1932.

Correspondence, financial records, legal papers, speeches, and miscellany of this early Minnesota fur trader, entrepreneur, and governor.

ArchivalResource: 34 microfilm reels and 0.25 cu. ft. (1 box, 1 Reserve folder, 1 oversize folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313848596 View

Pope, William Cox, 1841-1917. William Cox Pope and family papers, 1858-1976.

Title: William Cox Pope and family papers, 1858-1976.

Correspondence, clippings, printed material, and miscellany on Dakota and Ojibwe Indian affairs, including Dakota annuities (1896), activities of the Protestant Episcopal church in Minnesota, and Pope's founding and pastorate (1868-1917) of the Church of the Good Shepherd, St. Paul.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 cu. ft. (5 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122564013 View

Kittson, Norman W. (Norman Wolfred), 1814-1888. Norman W. Kittson letters, 1848.

Title: Norman W. Kittson letters, 1848.

A photocopy of Kittson letters.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76290008 View

Lindegard, Axel. Axel Lindegard papers, 1861-1931.

Title: Axel Lindegard papers, 1861-1931.

A microfilmed family reminiscence entitled "In By Gone Days"; a microfilmed scrapbook, in English and Swedish, with data on Lindegard's relatives in Sweden, his trip to America, his residence in Hallock (Minn.) beginning in 1889, Indian life and handwork, New York City, World War I, Pierre Bottineau, Charles Cavileer, Samuel Clemens, John A. Johnson, Norman Kittson, John Lind, Stephen H. Long, William Moorhead, Knute Nelson, Alexander Ramsey, and Theodore Roosevelt; letters written about politics to Lindegard by Loren W. Collins, Alfred Garrioch, and Halvor Steenerson; and letters about autograph collecting from Cyrus Aldrich, Gordon E. Cole, and Hans Eustrom. There is also a street commissioner's work record kept in Hallock (1890), a Swedish almanac (1850), and photographs of Stockholm.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder, boxed; 2 microfilm reels; 3 oversize items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86096256 View

Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916. James J. Hill papers, 1823-1985 (bulk 1860-1916).

Title: James J. Hill papers, 1823-1985 (bulk 1860-1916).

Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, diaries, blueprints, maps, publications, speeches, biographical data, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to the personal and business dealings of St. Paul railroad baron and business magnate James J. Hill. Letterpress books on microfilm (M458). Catalog to the James J. Hill papers, consisting of an alphabetical card index and calendars to major correspondents and subjects also on microfilm (M675).

ArchivalResource: 671.0 cu. ft. (1230 boxes, 66 folders, 49 tubes, and 3 microfilm reels).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463483620 View

Brunson, Ira. Kitson's [i.e. Kittson's] Addition to St. Paul.

Title: Kitson's [i.e. Kittson's] Addition to St. Paul. [1851?]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col., linen ; 57 x 44 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74711169 View

Kittson, Henry, 1848-1925. Letters regarding his father Norman W. Kittson, 1924.

Title: Letters regarding his father Norman W. Kittson, 1924.

Rev. Henry Kittson to Professor Clarence W. Rife, reminiscing about his father Norman W. Kittson's American Fur Company service, including relations with Alexander Henry and William Morrison, and his later years as a Minnesota businessman. There is also one letter (photocopy) from Rife to Kittson.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86125134 View

Hill Family Collection., 1739-1995 (bulk 1850-1960).

Title: Hill Family Collection. 1739-1995 (bulk 1850-1960).

Correspondence, biographical data, subject files, speeches,financial records, maps, publications, photographs, clippings and scrapbooks, andcorporate records documenting the personal lives and business activities of theJames J. Hill and Louis W. Hill families.

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