Conrad George Selvig papers. 1889-1953.

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Conrad George Selvig papers. 1889-1953.

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Personal papers consisting of grade school and high school papers, diaries, correspondence, military records, teaching contracts, speeches, campaign materials, news clippings, scrapbooks, autobiographical manuscripts, and miscellaneous ephemeral materials documenting the personal and public life of a rural school teacher and principal (1896-1910), superintendent of the Northwest School of Agriculture and Experiment Station in Crookston, Minnesota (1910-1926), and three-term Republican congressman representing the ninth district of northwestern Minnesota (1927-1932).

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Selvig, Marion E., 1879-1949.

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Selvig, Conrad George, 1877-1953.

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Conrad George Selvig was born in Rushford, Minnesota on October 11, 1877. He was the third of four children born to Gunhild Marie Hognestad and Gunnar Kristofferson Selvig (Gunder C. Selvig) who had emigrated from Stavanger, Norway to Chicago, Illinois in 1871. The Selvig family moved to Rushford when Gunnar Selvig accepted a position as a foreman with the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad. Gunhild died in 1881 and Conrad's father married Rachel Byberg, also a Norwegian immi...

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The Minnesota State Legislature and the University Board of Regents created the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station in 1885 near the University’s Minneapolis campus. The 1897 Biennial Report of the Board of Regents explained how the subsequent experiment sub-stations were established, “A law, enacted at the last session of the state legislature, required the regents to purchase and equip two substations, each to contain not less than 320 acres, and appropriated $20,000 for tha...