PLEASE CONTACT:
The Polk County Historical Society
Robert Street East
Crookston, MN 56716
218-281-1038
Open daily from 1-5 pm starting May 19th... until September
Those interested in genealogy may wish to check, also- http://www.mnhs.org/library/collections/
Applequist & Christopher T. Barness
Geraldine Hannigan of Nevada is researching these folks.
Ball/Bohl/Bule & Kelly
Phyllis Harben would like to know more about her grandmother Clara Ball/Bohl/Bule who was born July 9, 1882. Her parents died and she was taken in by the Kelly family. Clara Kelly taught at School district #23, Esther township during the 1902-1903 school year, and married John Jacobs in 1905.
Bergland (Ole) & Juve (John) General Store
Canute
Kristin Bane of Georgia is interested in our former Sheriff Albert Canute
& his brother Charles.
Davis, William V./Menten/Menton, Florence & Albert
Jeanine Reckinger has a picture of William in his Civil War uniform.
Derosier/Lepicier/Champagne/Fortier/Mailloux &
Matton
Jackie Decker of New Mexico is interested in these surnames.
Flaskey/Klinger/Torrison
Marilyn Tanner of California would like to know more about these families
Harris, Joseph E.
Darlene Sommers of Iowa was interested in this gentleman.
He lived in the Crookston area from about 1890 until about 1910. Mr.
Harris devoted his time to educational matters and still holds school
certificates in five different states in which he has taught.
During the past four years he has been engaged in farming at Angus”…
(unknown date in the Crookston Times.
Horte Family
Anthon Horte, born 1850, married Ingrid Thorson Indeleggen, b 1855.
They lived on a tiny farm on the outskirts of the village Horte in
Telemarken, Norway. Here they owned
a little store which stocked almost anything a village needed.
They also operated a flour mill which was powered by the small, swift
stream at hand.
In 1888 and early 1889, the area around Horte was devastated by ______ and a flood. As recovery of the community from these disasters was slow, Anthon decided to move his family to North America. In the ______ of 1889, he, accompanied by his two eldest sons Chris (Kresten, b Oct. 1877) and Thor (born 1879), left Telemarken, to go to U.S.A. to join brother Carl Horte and family, at Portland, N.D. Here the brothers attended school, and Anthon did carpentry and taught Norwegian in College. In the meantime Ingred Horte went with her five remaining children to live with Grandpa and Grandma Indeleggen for the next ____ years. In 1891, Ingrid and the children, accompanied by Grandpa and Grandma Ereston Andreason Horte boarded the ship, Odin, at Larvik ____ after experiencing a rough crossing of the North Sea, landed at ____ Edinburgh. They crossed Britian by train to Glasgow, where they took a White Star ship which was equipped with both steam and sail. This part of the trip was pleasant except for two days. Grandpa Haor and Olaf aged six years spent much time on deck and even visited the engine room. The trip from New York to Portland, N.D. was uneventful. Here the family was reunited. The family took up temporary residence near Portland until they moved in August to their homestead near Nilsville, Minnesota. (the family ultimately moved to Canada).
Paulson
Deb Larson is interested in the Carl S. Paulson family.
Carl died in 1954, and Randine in 1955. They were from the Erskine area.
Roome… maybe Davis
Evelyn Roome Moser of Louise, Texas is interested in the Ida (Davis) Roome
family. J.B. Roome of the town of Roome (anyone know where that was?) died in
1902; Ida died in 1895.
Sorlie from Valdres, Norway
Evelyn Casserly from Iowa said: “My grandparents, Thidamund Sorlie and
Marit Juvkam, came from Valdres, Norway to Crookston in 1890.
They each had relatives there in Crookston.
Marit worked for her aunt, one Annie King, a dressmaker.
Thidamund had a sister there in Crookston.
This sister, Oline Sorlie Peterson Bratrud, was born Sept. 23, 1863 and
died May 19, 1927, back in Norway. She
was first married to Carl Pederson of Crookston.
He died. She then married
Ole Bratterud. Either Peterson or
Brattrud was a jeweler in Crookston.”
St. George, William, Anthony & Cornelia
Michael Dugas, somewhere in New Hampshire, is curious about this family.
William was born in Crookston on 22 March 1882… Anthony & Cornelia were
his parents. The family left for Alberta, Canada in the first decade of the
1900’s.
Tallada
Michael Snyder of Iowa was looking for Brakeman Willard C. Tallada’s
obituary. It was located in 1896: “Deceased was head brakeman upon the Fosston
and St. Hillaire run, out of this city and the accident occurred at 7 p.m.,
after the return of the train from Fosston and while the crew was switching.
While at work near the bridge across the river, Tallada stepped between
two cars to break the coupling, having previously given the signal to go ahead. The pin evidently stuck and in the attempt to loosen it he
stepped with his right foot between the rails on a split switch and went down
under the cruel wheels, three cars and the engine passing over him before the
train could b e stopped. The body was mangled horribly and force was necessary
to release the leg from its position between the rails.
The body was literally cut in twain and the sight sickened the stout
hearted trainmen as well as others who beheld it.”
Thorpe, Hallie & Edna (Brittin)
Carolynn Gawthorp of Illinois would like to contact anyone who is related
to, or has information concerning this couple.
White Caps … a club, or a secret society
Edna Trunt said that a friend of hers had a relative who lived in Crookston
from 1880-1910 and belonged to this group.
Anyone know anything about this group?
Windom, Hans & Betsy
Ted McMillan from South Dakota is interested in
this family. They settled in the Fertile area (daughter O’tilda was born
there November 5, 1884), and then moved on to Dunseith, ND area.
