Benjamin F. Slaughter and Linda Warfel Papers, 1871-1906.

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Benjamin F. Slaughter and Linda Warfel Papers, 1871-1906.

Benjamin Slaughter papers consist of correspondence, coroner's records, financial records, and miscellaneous manuscripts. Correspondence consists of letters from Clara Barton, military personnel, and political figures. Coroner's records consist of notes on Burleigh County inquests and financial records consist of account sheets and receipts. Miscellaneous manuscripts include medical notes on a patient and a list of correspondence and miscellaneous items. Correspondence relates to personal interests, women's suffrage, Women's Relief Corps, Knights of Labor, and post office duties. Correspondents include Father Genin, J.P. Kidder, I.E. West, W.H.H. Beadle, A. Sheridan Jones, M.N. Jewell, C.A. Lounsberry, Belva Lockwood, and numerous political figures on the state and national level. Miscellaneous items consist of receipts, newspaper articles, and an obituary for John O'Leary. Other materials in the collection date 1873-1893 and consists of Burleigh County Pioneers Association records, Ladies Historical Society of Bismarck and North Dakota records, ephemera, and a book.

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Barton, Clara, 1821-1912

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Civil War nurse, suffragist, and founder of the American Red Cross Clarissa Harlow Barton was born in North Oxford, MA, on December 25, 1821, the fifth and last child of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. She was a shy and lonely child, and for two years at the age of eleven she devoted her time to nursing her brother David during a protracted illness, an experience which later affected her life's work. At eighteen she began to teach in neighboring schools. In 1850 she spent a year at the Libe...

Jones, A. Sheridan

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Knights of Labor

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Labor organization. From the description of Minutes, 1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536651 From the guide to the Knights of Labor minutes, 1886, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Organized in Philadelphia in 1869 as a general labor organization to protect and promote American laborers. One of ther goals was to prohibit the importation of foreign labor under contract. In 1880's, California's local Assemblies worked to ban use of Chinese immigrants and to pr...

Beadle, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1838-1915

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Student at the University of Michigan. From the description of William Henry Harrison Beadle student notebook, 1860. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419377 ...

Ladies Historical Society of Bismarck and North Dakota

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Burleigh County. Coroner.

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United States. Post Office Department

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On July 26, 1775, members of the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, agreed: That a postmaster general be appointed for the United Colonies, who shall hold his office at Philada, and shall be allowed a salary of 1000 dollars per an: for himself, and 340 dollars per an: for a secretary and Comptroller, with power to appoint such, and so many deputies as to him may seem proper and necessary. That a line of posts be appointed under the direction of the Postmaster general, from Fal...

Lockwood, Belva Ann, 1830-1917

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Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood (October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was an American attorney, politician, educator, and author. She was active in working for women's rights, including women's suffrage. Lockwood overcame many social and personal obstacles related to gender restrictions. After college, she became a teacher and principal, working to equalize pay for women in education. She supported the movement for world peace, and was a proponent of the Temperance movement. Lockwood graduated from la...

Slaughter, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1842-1896

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Benjamin Frank Slaughter (1842-1896), surgeon for the 17th Infantry, was stationed at Fort Rice, Dakota Terrirory. From the description of Journal. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702688998 Physician. Bismarck, North Dakota. From the description of Benjamin F. Slaughter and Linda Warfel Papers, 1871-1906. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17998101 ...

Genin, Jean Baptiste, 1837-1900

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Early Catholic missionary priest in eastern North Dakota. From the description of Collection, 1953. (North Dakota State University Library). WorldCat record id: 28865158 ...

Women's Relief Corps.

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Kidder, J. P. (Jefferson Parish), 1814-1883

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Attorney, politician, judge. In 1865 Kidder was appointed an associate justice of the Dakota Territorial Supreme Court. In 1876 he stepped down to run as a delegate to the United State Congress, in which capacity he served for four years. Upon his return to Dakota in 1880 he was reappointed to the judgeship which he held until his death. From the description of Family Papers, 1859-1868. (South Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 39179311 ...

Lounsberry, C.A., 1843-1926.

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West, I. E.

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Burleigh County (N.D.) Pioneers Association.

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O'Leary, John, 1962-

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Jewell, W.H.

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