James C. Christie and family papers. 1823-1975 (bulk 1861-1920).

Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.)

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Carleton was founded on October 12, 1866, by the General Conference of the Congregational Churches of Minnesota, which—after considering locations in Zumbrota, Mantorville, Cottage Grove, and Lake City—chose Northfield for the home of its new college. Carleton’s founder was Northfield businessman and Congregationalist Charles M. Goodsell, for whom the College’s observatory is named. It was he who encouraged the church to open a Minnesota college and he who donated part of its original 20 acre...

Mankato State Teachers College

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United States. Army. Minnesota Light Artillery Battery, 1st (1861-1865)

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Stevens, Francis W., 1860-

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Christie family.

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Monahan, Robert Hugh, 1870-1947.

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J. Buxton Murray.

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Stevens, William Long, 1825-1914.

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Fox Lake College (Fox Lake, Wis.).

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Minnesota Sunday School Association

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Hall, Estella Stevens, 1858-

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Christie, James C., 1811-1890.

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James C. Christie, son of Janet Smith (1790-1872) and William Christie (1786-1819), was born September 29, 1811, in Dundee, Scotland. He worked in Sion Mills, County Tyrone, Ireland, as a master spinner and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1846. He had two brothers: William, Jr. (1813-1889) and Alexander (1818-1857). After his father's death, his mother married Alexander Bartie (1801-1884), who worked in the power looms at Dundee. They had two children: Jessie (1824...

Wisconsin Female College (Fox Lake, Wis.).

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St. Paul's Institute (Tarsus, Turkey)

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Stevens, Buell V., 1857-1935.

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U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey

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Drawn by R.D. Cutts. From the description of Pulgas base : map, 1854. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398096 Historical Background The story of the Union Pacific Railroad's involvement with oil and the Tidelands goes back to at least 1911 when the State of California granted the City of Long Beach its tidelands properties for development of commerce, navigation, fisheries, and recreation under a public trust doctine, me...

Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company

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In 1912, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway announced its decision to operate on hydroelectric power. Hydroelectric power or electrification was a highly cost-efficient power source and companies throughout the U.S. converted their steam-powered engines to it. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway began its electrification project on the 113-mile stretch between Three Forks and Deer Lodge, Montana. The General Electric Company submitted a proposal to design the locomotives, as wel...

Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company

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Christie, David B., 1848-1920

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David B. Christie was born in Watertown, Wis., in 1848 of Scottish immigrants who came to the U.S. about 1847. David was the fourth of four children of James and Eliza Reid Christie. On 4 July 1870 David married Mary Emma Stratten also of Watertown. While living in Wisconsin and Minnesota, Emma gave birth to seven children, with their first child dying within two years. David Christie suffered from asthma, and for this reason came west to Montana Territory beginning in 1883 to explore the possib...

Beloit College

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Monahan, Elizabeth Stevens, 1880-1961.

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United States. Army. Minnesota Light Artillery, Battery 2nd, 1861-1865.

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Oberholtzer, Ernest C. (Ernest Carl), 1884-1977

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Oberholtzer was well known as an explorer, conservationist and writer. In 1912 he settled in the Rainy Lake area of northern Minnesota. He often traveled the area with Indian companions, particularly Billy Magee, and was a friend of the Indians as well as teller of their stories and legends. He is best known for his ceaseless role in preserving the Quetico-Superior wilderness. He was instrumental in the founding of the Friends of the Wilderness Society. He worked for the establishment of the Bou...

Valesh, Eva McDonald, 1866-1956

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Journalist, labor leader, civic worker. From the description of Reminiscences of Eva MacDonald Valesh : oral history, 1952. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309740894 Labor activist and journalist Eva McDonald was born September 9, 1866 in Orono, Maine, the daughter of John L. (1836-1911) and Ellen J. (Lane, b.1841) McDonald. The oldest of nine children, she graduated from high school in Minneapolis in 1881. After graduating fro...

Peckham, A. Frank (Augustus Frank), -1920.

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Gerrish, Myrtle A.

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Breck, F. P.

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Christie, William, 1830-1901

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Christie, Alexander S.

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Hamline University

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Petter, May Lucretia, -1952.

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Brown, John H.

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John H. Brown of Marblehead, Mass., served in the 24th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. From the guide to the John H. Brown Diary, 1862-1865, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Stevens, Sarah Christie, 1844-1919.

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Blue Earth County (Minn.). School District No. 79 (Rapidan : Township).

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Andover Seminary (Andover, Mass.).

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Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.).

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Christie, Thomas, 1761-1796

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Thomas Davidson Christie was a Congregational missionary who worked in Turkey from 1877 to 1920. He was born January 21, 1843, in Sion Mills, County Tyrone, Ireland, the son of James and Eliza (Reid) Christie. In 1846 the family immigrated to the United States and settled on a farm in Clyman Township, Dodge County, Wisconsin. Educated in country schools, he was an insatiable reader of the family's many books. In October 1861 he, along with his brother William, enlisted i...