Ard Godfrey and family papers, 1839-1945.

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Ard Godfrey and family papers, 1839-1945.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313831701

Correspondence, diaries, reminiscences, clippings, deeds, mortgages, and other papers, mainly 1850-1865, of Godfrey, a St. Anthony (Minneapolis) businessman, his wife Harriet, their children, and other family members. There is information on family property in Maine and Minnesota; Godfrey's business activities in Georgia (1839); his first trip to St. Anthony (1847); his association with Franklin Steele in the St. Anthony Mill Company; logging at St. Anthony and Elk River (Minn.); log rafting on the Mississippi River to St. Louis; Civil War letters from Louis C. Meeker of the First Minnesota Infantry; the Dakota Conflict (1862); the James L. Fisk gold-seeking expedition to Montana (1862); other gold-mining ventures in the West (1860s); construction of a sawmill in Dakota Territory (1860s); and comments on family, weather, religion, and social life.

1.25 cu. ft. (3 boxes)

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7314769

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865)

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Fisk Expedition, 1862.

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Day, George E. H.

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Steele, Franklin, 1813-1880.

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Godfrey family.

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Meeker, Louis C., ca. 1835-

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St. Anthony Mill Co.

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Camp, George Albert, 1830-1892.

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Berry, Helen Godfrey, 1839-1902.

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Richardson, Ahira, 1805-1877

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Tuttle, Jessie Hale.

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Mousseau, Harriet Cloutier.

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Godfrey, Abner Crossman, 1843-1928.

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Godfrey, Ard, 1813-1894.

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Rice, Henry M. (Henry Mower), 1816-1894

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Godfrey, Harriet Rezada, 1849-1943.

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