Notes of interview with Elizabeth Whitcomb, 1937 June 11.

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Notes of interview with Elizabeth Whitcomb, 1937 June 11.

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Whitcomb discusses her family's move to Minnesota from New York in 1856; their 1858 move to a Meeker County farm near Forest City; her father, George C. Whitcomb's, organization of a citizens' protection group, the "Sibley Guards," during the Dakota Conflict of 1862; the family's flight to Forest City; and the Dakota attack on that city.

6 leaves on partial microfilm reel.

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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