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The Prosequi [Prosequi meaning seekers] Club of Moorhead, Minnesota was organized December 6, 1956. The objective of the study club was the study of topics of general information. Membership was not to exceed twenty-five members with meetings usually held in members’ homes twice a month. The Program Committee arranged and assigned scheduled programs and places of meetings.
The Profit and Pleasure Club was organized in 1920 by farm women in the Dilworth-Moorhead, Minnesota area. Their purpose was “to promote the welfare if its members and the community by studying the best methods of work and the highest ideals of living and to be a means of sociability.” Regular monthly meetings wee held in the homes of the members. Programs consisted of readings, musical numbers and often a speaker.
Much of the history of Christ Church, St. Vincent, Kittson County, Minnesota, is not known. However, it is known that construction of the church building began in 1880 and that the first services were held in the church on Christmas Day of the same year. The parish was organized and officially recognized from the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota in 1882.
These three reels of microfilm contain reproduced selected papers of the United States Senate relating to affairs in the Territories from 1789-1873. Documents dated earlier or later than the period of the existence of a particular territory are frequently included.
This collection consists of thesis research materials collected by Grace Landin of Moorhead, Minnesota. Items include newspaper clippings, a video from 1971, and miscellaneous materials.
The heart of the RRVSGA collection is the transcripts of interviews conducted with several dozen individuals involved in the sugarbeet industry in the Valley. Most of those interviewed are members of the RRVSGA, although former employees of the old American Crystal Company, some migrant laborers, and a few elected officials were also interviewed. Each interview transcription is fully described in the inventory. In addition to the transcript, a tape of the interview is also available.
This collection contains old photographs, newspaper articles, newspapers, books, pamphlets and broadsides pertaining to the history of Minnesota, the Red River Valley and individual communities in northwest Minnesota.
Richard W. Fitzsimons was born January 19, 1922 and raised on a farm near Argyle, Minnesota. After the death of his father in 1937, Richard and his mother ran the farm. Fitzsimons was active in the 4-H Club and he helped organize the Rural Youth Program in Minnesota, serving as state president and on the National Committee. Fitzsimons married Janice Kyseth and had a son, Mark and a daughter, Lori. Fitzsimons was first elected to the Minnesota State Legislature in 1952 from the Sixty-Seventh District - Marshall County.
The documents and interviews in this collection were assembled to provide background on the development of electrical power in the rural areas of northwest Minnesota and portions of North Dakota. Much of the rural power in this area was first provided under the aegis of the Rural Electrification Administration.
Unfortunately there is not much specific information on Richard Herring regarding birth dates etc., but it is known that he migrated from England with the Yeoville Colony in 1873 and they settled by Hawley and Glyndon, Minnesota. He opened a store in Lake Park, Minnesota and by 1890 he had opened a store in Hitterdal, Minnesota.