Martin N. Johnson family photograph collection [graphic]. [1860s-1927]

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Martin N. Johnson family photograph collection [graphic]. [1860s-1927]

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Collection includes portraits of Senator Johnson, his wife Stella, daughters Edith, Nellie and Florence, his parents, Nelson and Anna Johnson, Thomas Jepson, Betty (Houghton) Jepson, Amanda Jepson White, and Amos White. There are scenes from his farm at Petersburg, N.D., a celebration after his 1908 election at Petersburg, and of the Johnson cemetery gravestone at Petersburg. The Virna Johnson images (a niece of Sen. Johnson) are from her time attending the University of Chicago and a group of grade school children dressed in blanket coats, likely in Fargo, N.D.

128 photographic prints.

North Dakota State University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7704581

North Dakota State University Library

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Hydle, Nellie Johnson, 1883-1972

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Houghton family

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White family

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Karpe, Florence Johnson, 1896-1948

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Skulason, Edith Johnson, 1881-1939

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Jepson family

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Johnson, Stella White, 1858-1925.

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Johnson, Virna, 1889-

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Johnson, Nelson, 1818-1884

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Johnson, Martin N. (Martin Nelson), 1850-1909

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Martin N. Johnson was born in 1850 at Norway, Wisconsin. After his education he established a law practice with his brother Lewis at Decorah, Iowa. In 1883 Martin and Stella Johnson and his brother Lewis and family homesteaded near present Petersburg, N.D. He was a member of the North Dakota Constitutional Convention in 1889. From 1891 to 1899 he was U.S. Congressman from North Dakota and in 1908 was elected to the U.S. Senate. He died in office on Oct. 21, 1909. From the description...

University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...