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The Business and Professional Women Club of Moorhead organized in Moorhead, Minnesota in 1952. The club was dedicated to the betterment of conditions for women. It took an active interest in social, educational, economic, and political problems at both the local and national levels. The club was represented at district and state conferences.
The Moorhead Area Women’s Political Caucus was formed in the early 1970s. It was connected with the Minnesota’s Women’s Political Caucus and the National Women’s Political Caucus. The goals of the organization were to get women involved in politics and to elect women to public office. The organization also worked against discrimination of women.
The Moorhead [Minnesota] Drug Company Records are a collection of correspondence, blue prints, building permit, invoices, and ledgers which relate to the construction of the Moorhead Rexall Drug Company. The year covered most extensively is 1951 with much of the construction taking place during this time.
A native of Rutland, North Dakota, Marvin Evenson was involved in politics from his early 20s, both in both North Dakota and Minnesota. He served as a party organizer for the Democratic Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party in a number of capacities, including Finance Director and chairman for the 9th District of the DFL in Minnesota, and chairman of the DFL party in the 7th District (northwest Minnesota). As party chairman, Evenson coordinated party activities for many DFL candidates.
Through the combined efforts of the Women’s Resource Center, Crookston, Minnesota and the Women and Health Task Force of the Agassiz Chapter of the National Organization for Women in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, the Martha Rogers Ripley Alliance for Battered Women was founded.
Marvin Dauner of Hawley, Minnesota, was first elected to the Clay County Board of Commissioners in 1974, and remained on the Board until 1986. His twelve years on the Commission were characterized by an attention to detail and a desire to, in his own words, give “an intelligent, not a political” response to the needs of his constituents.
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union is an organization of Christian women banded together for the protection of the home, the abolition of the liquor traffic, and the triumph of Christ’s Golden Rule in custom and in law. The Lucy Hayes Union was founded in 1886 and reorganized in 1889. The early records have been lost. The bulk of this collection is dated from 1933 to 1969.
The Learning Bank was a clearinghouse for education designed to make the best use of the Fargo-Moorhead community’s resources for learning through sharing. The Learning Bank’s purpose was to help educators provide programs together that they otherwise could not provide alone. Some programs offered to community students includes an agricultural education program, a fine arts program, the career bank, a mentor network, and media sharing.
Leon Simon was born in 1927, the son of Harry Simon, a Russian immigrant. Leon Simon, along with his brother Jack, became partners with their father in the furniture business in 1931. Along with Simon’s Furniture Store, the Simon’s owned and operated Simon’s Warehouse Corporation as well as being involved in the ownership of three shopping centers in the Fargo-Moorhead [North Dakota-Minnesota] area.
Levi Thortvedt was born in 1860 in Norway. He came to America in 1861 with his parents, Olav and Thone, and his four brothers and sisters. They landed in Quebec, Canada, and in 1870 journeyed by covered wagon to the Red River Valley. The Thortvedts were among the earliest settlers of the Otter Tail County area of the Red River Valley.