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Davis, LeRoy G., 1859 - 1957. Reminiscences (1865 - 1893), undated

 Collection — Folder: 01
Identifier: SMHC Collection 0133
Abstract The reminiscences proved within the LeRoy G. Davis collection pertain to his family’s migration from Wisconsin to Minnesota and the food they ate. He reminisced about his childhood on a farm near Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, and his occupations in Redwood County teaching second grade and his time at the law office of J. M. Thompson in Sleepy Eye. He discussed his education at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and at Hamline University in St. Paul before a shortage of economic funds forced...
Dates: Undated
Found in: Southern Minnesota Historical Center

Geschwind, Peter, 1852 - 1938. Papers, 1868 - 1922

 Collection — Half Hollinger box: 01
Identifier: SMHC Collection 0132
Abstract The Peter Geschwind collection consists of items pertaining to his work in the Sleepy Eye, Minnesota as well as some personal items. The collection contains The Charter of the City of Sleepy Eye with appended ordinances through 1907, manuscripts written by Geschwind about his views concerning the Ku Klux Klan and more specifically the Klan in southern Texas, and an undated photograph of Geschwind. Additionally, the collection contains numerous documents ranging from land deeds, to the will...
Dates: 1868-1922
Found in: Southern Minnesota Historical Center

Ingraham, Eliza M., 1883 - 1957. "Reminiscences of Eliza M. Ingraham" undated

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: SMHC Collection 0134
Abstract

The collection consists of a typed copy of Eliza M. Ingraham’s reminiscences of life in rural Leavenworth Township, Brown County, Minnesota during the Nineteenth Century. The majority of the paper consists of Ingraham recalling a log cabin near her home called the “old Hoff place.” In another section, she retold a tale about lost treasure buried near the cabin by American Indians escaping from soldiers. The paper ended abruptly after she recounted the cabin’s demise during her childhood.

Dates: 1883-07-29 - 1957-01-20
Found in: Southern Minnesota Historical Center

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