Myrtle Bemis grew up in Griggs County, North Dakota. She taught in rural schools for a while before
attending Valley City Normal College. After another interlude teaching, she
went on to the University of North Dakota, attaining a master’s degree in
history.
She was a historian through and through and she became an avid collector and
writer. During the 1930s she collected and wrote for the WPA.
Most of her collection is in the Institute for Regional Studies in
Fargo, North Dakota. A small portion of it has been digitized and
included here.
| Biography listing (hand written) | 43 page pdf file |
| Abbott, Walter | |
| Adams, Fred H. | |
| Ahrens, John A. | |
| Alfson, Olav | |
| Alfson, Ole | |
| Almklov, S. | |
| Amlie, Thomas R. | |
| Anderson, Ole L. | |
| Anderson, Otto | |
| Armstrong, John B. |
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| Arndt, Adolph | |
| Arndt, Charles F. |
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| Arndt, Geraldine | |
| Arneson, Gustav M. |
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| Arneson, John | |
| Ashland, Omund | |
| Ashland, Omund Mrs. |
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| Asmus, Carl | |
| Atchison, John H. |
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| Ayrea, Edgar Marcus |
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| Babcock, Benjamin |
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| Bailey, Alfred | |
| Bakken, Markus Mrs. | |
| Baldwin, James H. | |
| Barnard, George W. |
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| Barnard, Nellie | |
| Bartlett, David | |
| Bartron, James II |
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| Beattie, Anna Mrs. | |
| Beattie, Kenneth | |
| Beaumont, Fred | |
| Becherl, Amelia | |
| Beck, Carl and Martha | |
| Beck, Carl R. | |
| Becker, Franck | |
| Bednar, Joseph | |
| Beers, Charles | |
| Behm, Carl | |
| Beier, Fred | |
| Beier, Minnie Emma | |
| Belden, Mabel | |
| Bemis, Byron | |
| Bemis, Henry A. | |
| Bemis, Melvin H. | |
| Bemis, Wallace W. |
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| Bemis, Weltha | |
| Benson, Arvid | |
| Benson, George Olai |
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| Bergstrom, O.E. | |
| Bjugstad, Ole C. |
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| Bjugstad, Paul M. |
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| Blackwell, C.E. |
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| Blackwell, Charles | |
| Blackwell, Edward |
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| Blackwell, Lillian | |
| Boe, Mabel Mrs. | |
| Bolkan, C.P. | |
| Bolkan, Ole | |
| Boltz, Peter Julius |
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| Bond, Henry | |
| Borchert, Gottfried |
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| Boschee, John Mrs. | |
| Breed, Allen | |
| Brekke, Anders A. | 1 page pdf file |
| Brekke, Thomas A. | 1 page pdf file |
| Briggs, Ward | jpg image |
| Brimi | 1 page pdf file |
| Broten, Hans | 2 page pdf file |
| Brown, Harry E. | 6 page pdf file |
| Bruns, John W. | 1 page pdf file |
| Buchheit, Joseph | 2 page pdf file |
| Bue, Carl | 3 page pdf file |
| Bue, Lars O. | 1 page pdf file |
| Burgmeister, George W. | jpg image |
| Butler & Upton | 1 page pdf file |
| Butler, Edward Clarence | 1 page pdf file |
| Bye, Hannah | jpg image |
| Byington, John S. | 12 page pdf file |
| Campbell, Albert | |
| Campbell, Albert | 1 page pdf file |
| Carleton, Will H. | 6 page pdf file |
| Carlson, Emil | 1 page pdf file |
| Carlson, John A. | jpg image |
| Carlson, John A. | 7 page pdf file |
| Christenson, Otto Mrs. | jpg image |
| Christianson, Clarence | jpg image |
| Clancy, Daniel | 2 page pdf file |
| Clark, Harry | jpg image |
| Clemens, Rose | jpg image |
| Clough, Z.A. | 4 page pdf file |
| Colton, William Greenleaf | 7 page pdf file |
| Cooper Group | 2 page pdf file |
| Cooper, Charles Laude | 1 page pdf file |
| Cooper, Charles | 1 page pdf file |
| Cooper, James | 1 page pdf file |
| Cooper, Rollin C. Mrs. | 1 page pdf file |
| Cooper, Rollin | 11 page pdf file |
| Cooper, T. J. | 4 page pdf file |
| Cox, Alfred Beecher | 2 page pdf file |
| Crane, Alice | jpg image |
| Crane, Maynard | jpg image |
| Crane, Maynard | 4 page pdf file |
| Crawford, Eliza | 2 page pdf file |
| Curtis, Henry | jpg image |
| Dahl, Albert | jpg image |
| Dahl, C.P. hospitalized | jpg image |
| Dahl, C.P. released | jpg image |
| Dahl, C.P. retirement | jpg
image |
| Dahl, C.P. | 2 page pdf file |
| Dahl, Henry | jpg image |
| Dahl, Oscar | jpg image |
| Dahl, T.H. Mrs. | jpg image |
| Dahlbom, Emma Mrs. | jpg image |
| Danielson, John | 2 page pdf file |
| Davidson | 2 page pdf file |
| Davis | 1 page pdf file |
| Deaths 1883 to 1889 | 14 page pdf file |
| Detwiller, Alexander | 1 page pdf file |
| Downe, Enos | 1 page pdf file |
| Duffy, Neil | jpg image |
| Duncan-Utton wedding | jpg image |
| Dybvik, Martin Olaus | 1 page pdf file |
| Dyson, Glen | 14 page pdf file |
| Edwards, Ole Jergen | 1 page pdf file |
| Egeland, Ole | jpg image |
| Eliason, Henry | 1 page pdf file |
| Ellefson, Isaac | 6 page pdf file |
| Ellefson, Ole E. | 3 page pdf file |
| Ellingsen, Shirlee | jpg image |
| Erickson, Carl E. | 2 page pdf file |
| Erickson, Erick | 1 page pdf file |
| Erickson, Willie | jpg image |
| Ermatinger, William Mrs. | jpg image |
| Ernst, Charles | jpg image |
| Eslaas, Carl | jpg image |
| Estensosn, Esten Mrs. | jpg image |
| Estenson, E.V. | jpg image |
| Estrem, Gustav Rudolph | 1 page pdf file |
| Evanson, Matt | jpg image |
| Evenson, Even | jpg image |
| Evers, August Mrs. | jpg image |
| Evers, John Mrs. | jpg image |
| Evers, John | jpg image |
| Evers, John | 3 page pdf file |
| Everson, Edwin W. | 3 page pdf file |
| Falla , Anton T. | 3 page pdf file |
| Feiring, Ole P. | 4 page pdf file |
| Feiring, William O. | 1 page pdf file |
| Feske, Herman | jpg image |
| Feske, John | 3 page pdf file |
| Fjelstad, Mathias E. | 2 page pdf file |
| Fjelstad, Rolf Knutson | 1 page pdf file |
| Flick, Martha | 1 page pdf file |
| Fogderud, Alfred | jpg image |
| Fogderud, Ellen Anna | 3 page pdf file |
| Forde, Ole O. | 1 page pdf file |
| Fosholdt, A. O. | jpg image |
| Fosholdt, John T. | 1 page pdf file |
| Fosholdt, Ole T. | 1 page pdf file |
| Frigaard newspaper story |
jpg image |
| Friswold, Seval | 37 page pdf file |
| Froiland, Elling Johnson | 2 page pdf file |
| Fuglestad-Pearson Wedding | jpg image |
| Fuglestad, T.T. anniversary | jpg image |
| Fuglestad, T.T. Mrs. | jpg image |
| Fuglestad, T.T. | jpg image |
| Fuglestad, Vercel | jpg image |
| Fuglistad, Torkel T. |
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| Gaastjon, Anund O. | 3 page pdf file |
| Gilbertson, Amund | 18 page pdf file |
| Gilbertson, Omund | 5 page pdf file |
| Glass, William | 4 page pdf file |
| Gorthy, James F. | 1 page pdf file |
| Gray, Royal Osmer | 1 page pdf file |
| Greenland, Carl Oscar
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| Greenland, Fritheof | 2 page pdf file |
| Greenland, Oscar | 1 page pdf file |
| Griggs, Alexander | 4 page pdf file |
| Gronvold, Ole C. | 2 page pdf file |
| Groven, Edwin H. | 2 page pdf file |
| Gunderson, John | 1 page pdf file |
| Gunderson, Peter | 6 page pdf file |
| Gunderson, Steen Cornelius | 5 page pdf file |
| Hadlock, William | jpg image |
| Hagen, Arne | |
| Hagen, Belle Winslow |
1 page pdf file |
| Hagen, Thor | 1 page pdf file |
| Halling, Luther Martin |
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| Halvorsen, Halvor S. |
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| Halvorson, Tom | jpg image |
| Hamersmith, Loyde |
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| Hamilton, C.H. | 3 page pdf file |
| Hamilton, Elijah Soule | 5 page pdf file |
| Hammer, HalVor P. | 1 page pdf file |
| Hareland, Fred | jpg image |
| Hartman, George | jpg image |
| Haugen, Esten | 3 page pdf file |
| Haugen, Hans | 13 page pdf file |
| Hazard, Jared Clark |
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| Helland, Arnt J. | |
| Helmer, John | |
| Herigstad, Betuel |
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| Herigstad, Inga | |
| Hetager, Thor Olson |
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| Hoar, Chet | jpg image |
| Hodgman, Fred Mrs. | jpg image |
| Hospital | 1 page pdf file |
| Husel, Etho | |
| Johnson, Dick Sonic Boom | 2 page pdf file |
| Lang, Leo | |
| Louden, Edgar | 1 page pdf file |
| Marquardt, Theo |
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| Opheim, Omund Nelson | |
| Sharon Honor Students | |
| Type Lice | |