MAGNUS WEFALD: An Inventory of His Papers

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MAGNUS WEFALD:

An Inventory of His Papers

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For Details, see the Restriction Statement


OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
	Creator:	Wefald, Magnus, 1900-1991.
	Title:	Magnus Wefald Papers.
	Date:	1852-1991.
	Abstract:	Personal correspondence, farm records, legal case files, personal and farm accounting records, personal and client tax returns, and legislative files of a country lawyer (1929-1983), farm owner (1938-1969), and state senator (1947-1958) from Hawley (Clay County), Minnesota.
	Quantity:	89.0 cu. ft. (90 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description section for shelf locations.

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BIOGRAPHY OF MAGNUS WEFALD

Knut Magnus Wefald was born in Hawley, Minnesota (April 21, 1900), the first son of Norwegian immigrants Knud and Sarah Wefald. He graduated from Hawley High School in 1918 and from St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minn.) in 1923. At St. Olaf he met his future wife, Verna Ellingson, whom he married in 1924.

Wefald served (1923-1927) as secretary to his father, Congressman Knud Wefald, while attending George Washington Law School. When his father was defeated in 1926 Wefald remained in Washington, working as a sales and collection correspondent for the National Radio Institute while finishing law school. Upon his graduation from law school in 1929, Wefald moved his family (now 3 children: Knut, Harold, and Martin) to Hawley and opened his own law practice. His only daughter, Marguerite, was born there in 1934.

Wefald was elected Mayor of Hawley in 1935 and later served as the village attorney (1931-1974). In 1936 he was appointed to the Minnesota State Board of Law Examiners, serving until 1944. In 1938 Wefald bought a farm which later became known as the Wefald Sheep Ranch and Wefald Galloway Farm. Although he seldom participated in the actual farm labor, Wefald took a great interest in its operation, maintaining detailed records on every aspect and keeping abreast of current agricultural trends.

Wefald defeated longtime Clay County attorney James Garrity in 1946 for a state senate seat. During his twelve years in the senate Wefald was chairman of the reapportionment and public institutions committees and a member of the retirement commission, state building commission, and a commission to study the practice of osteopathy. After being defeated in 1958 he returned to his Hawley law practice.

In 1972, former Hawley resident Eva Mackintosh persuaded Wefald and his wife to visit her new home in South Africa. After their trip Wefald composed a detailed diary of the experience.

By the late 1970s Wefald decided to take in a partner at the law firm so the he could gradually ease into retirement. Zenas Baer officially entered into the practice as a partner in 1979, allowing Wefald to retire in 1983. Wefald then devoted his retirement years to preserving his family heritage by financing the publication of his father's poetry and actively campaigning for the construction of the Knud Wefald Memorial in Decorah, Iowa. Wefald died at St. John's Hospital in Fargo (N.D.) on February 9, 1991.

Biographical data was taken from the papers.

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SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION

Personal correspondence and subject files contain extensive communications with parents, children, other family members, and friends, as well as documenting his involvement in several historical and Norwegian organizations. Materials documenting Wefald's 54-year law practice include daily time sheets (1936-1991), client case files and income tax records, business correspondence, and files relating to his participation in bar associations. The case files cover such topics as divorce, land disputes, guardianship, and income taxes; some span more than 20 years.

Farm records record in detail the operation of Wefald's sheep ranch (1938-1948) and his Galloway cattle farm (1948-1969). They include records of cattle sold, crop acreage maps, correspondence with farm hands and government agencies, and detailed equipment inventories. Accounting records document both law practice and farms and include daybooks, general ledgers, annual balance sheets, and tax returns. Legislative files document his work on the reapportionment and public institutions committees, state retirement commission, state building commission, and an osteopathy study commission. Other files relate to his service (1936-1944) on the State Board of Law Examiners.

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ORGANIZATION OF THE COLLECTION
	These records are divided into the following five sections:

		Personal Files
		Wefald Law Firm
		Wefald Farm
		Financial Files
		Legislative Files

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RELATED MATERIALS
	Papers of Wefald's father, Knud Wefald, which contain additional Magnus Wefald materials, are also in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections.

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INDEX TERMS
	This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
	Topics:
		Aging -- Minnesota
		Agriculture -- Minnesota -- Hawley.
		Country lawyers -- Minnesota -- Hawley.
		Divorce suits -- Minnesota -- Hawley.
		Farms -- Minnesota -- Hawley.
		Finances, Personal -- Minnesota -- Hawley.
		Galloway cattle -- Minnesota -- Hawley.
		Law -- Cases -- Minnesota -- Hawley.
		Norwegian Americans -- Minnesota -- Hawley -- Poetry.
		Osteopathic medicine -- Law and legislation -- Minnesota
		Practice of law -- Minnesota -- Hawley.
		Public institutions -- Law and legislation -- Minnesota.
		Sheep -- Minnesota -- Clay County.
		Taxation -- Minnesota.
	Places:
		Clay County (Minn.)
		Hawley (Minn.).
		Moorhead (Minn.).
		Northfield (Minn.).
		Norway -- Description and travel.
		Red River Valley (Minnesota and N.D.-Man.).
		South Africa -- Description and travel -- 1951-1980.
	Persons:
		Bacon, Vera Marguerite Wefald, 1934-.
		Clausen, Clarence Arthur, 1896-.
		Mackintosh, Eva.
		Sandburg, Elsie Wefald, 1910-.
		Skree, Jim.
		Wefald family.
		Wefald, Dagny.
		Wefald, Egil, 1902-1985.
		Wefald, Harald, 1901-.
		Wefald, Harold Ellingson, 1927-.
		Wefald, Jon Michael.
	Organizations:
		American Bar Association.
		American Galloway Breeders Association.
		Clay County Bar Association.
		Minnesota Historical Society.
		Minnesota State Bar Association.
		Minnesota. Legislature. Senate.
		Minnesota. State Board of Law Examiners.
		Norwegian-American Historical Association.
		Performance Registry International.
		Production Credit Association (Moorhead, Minn.).
		Sons of Norway (U.S.).
		Telesoga-Telelaget of America.
		United States. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service.
		Wefald Galloway Farms (Hawley, Minn.).
		Wefald Sheep Ranch (Hawley, Minn.).
	Types of Documentation:
		Legal files.
		Poems.
		Tax returns.
	Occupations:
		Farmers -- Minnesota -- Hawley.
		Lawyers -- Minnesota -- Hawley.
		Legislators -- Minnesota -- Hawley.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
	Restrictions:
		Access to all of the Magnus Wefald Papers is restricted to persons bearing written permission until December 31, 1999. In addition, client case files from Wefald's law practice, including tax returns, which are less than 75 years old are also restricted and require separate written permission. Persons wishing access to those files must, before receiving the donor's written permission, agree not to reveal names or identities of any persons named in the files.
		Permission forms governing these separate restrictions are available from the reference staff in the Minnesota Historical Society Research Center.
	Preferred Citation:
		[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Magnus Wefald Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
		See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
	Accession Information:
		Accession numbers: 10,337; 13,334; 13,422; 13,778; 13,923; 14,172; 14,225; 14,608
	Processing Information:
		Processed by: Anne Hennes, August 1993
		PALS number: 09-00038173

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below.

Personal Files

Location

Box

149.F.7.1B

Family History:

This section (boxes 1-2) consists mostly of correspondence and genealogical material collected by Nana Wilson, Wefald's sister. Of particular interest is the copy of "Wefald Family in America," prepared by Wilson. It is a genealogical compilation beginning with Knut Knutson Wefald, grandfather of Magnus Wefald. Also included are photocopies of letters from grandfather Wefald, and letters from Knud Wefald while on a trip to Norway in 1902.

Nana Wefald Wilson. Wefald Family History, 1972-1980. 3 folders

Homestead Patent: Michael Skree, 1901.

Baptism Certificate: Sarah Skree, 1877.

Death Certificates:

Mikkel Skree, 1886.

Bergette Amundsgaard, 1852.

Jan Wefald Clemens, 1962.

Sarah Wefald, 1966.

Coat of Arms Report: Wefald, Stork, Homme, and Wilson, 1969.

People's History of Clay County, 1975.

Letters, photographs, etc., 1976.

Houston Lutheran Church 100th Anniversary, 1966.

Homme Lutheran Church 50th Anniversary, 1963.

Genealogy (Gamle Klokkaren-Ellig Clausen family), 1980.

Forms, 1977.

Charts.

Knud Wefald:

Biographical Information on Early Life.

Congressional Records.

Estate: Court Papers and Correspondence. 5 folders

Norway Trip, 1902-1903. 4 folders

Poetry Publication:

Gullikson, Oyvind, 1984. 6 folders

Haugen, Einar.

Wefald, Jon.

Location

Box

149.F.7.2F

Knut Wefald [grandfather]:

Correspondence Regarding Letters Written by Him. 7 folders

Photocopies of Knut Wefald Letters. 196 folders

Subject Files:

Wefald preserved a large amount of personal correspondence (boxes 3-15), making this collection a fairly complete record of his life. The files in this section are organized into four broad segments: personal subject files (boxes 3-8), files relating to historical and Norwegian organizations in which Wefald was involved (Box 8), family correspondence (boxes 8-14), and political files (box 15). Wefald managed to keep in close contact with his family and friends and, in most cases, two-way communication is present. Wefald dictated the majority of his correspondence and kept the carbons.

The extensive personal subject files document nearly all aspects of Wefald's life, including his personal finances, real property, insurance, and activities and hobbies.

There is a great deal of correspondence relating to Wefald's years spent away from Hawley, first while attending St. Olaf College and, later, while in Washington, D.C. attending law school. Letters to and from his children are very rich in content since they traveled extensively and this was their major form of communication.

Knut, Wefald's oldest son, served in the navy during World War II aboard the destroyer USS Coglan in the South Pacific. He and his family later spent time in Canada (1950s), Germany (early 1960s), and Sweden (mid-1970s) while he worked as an engineer on special assignments for his employer, Honeywell.

Harold, the second son, enlisted in the navy, but was quickly discharged so that he could join the Coast Guard and attend the Coast Guard Academy. He was subsequently discharged from the Coast Guard as well, due to a minor medical anomaly discovered after he had been at the academy for some months. He was later drafted into the army where he spent one and a half years in the army of occupation in Japan. He met his wife Emile, a Chinese student from Shanghai, while attending the University of Minnesota (he also attended the University of New Mexico) when he sought out native Chinese students in order to practice conversation in Chinese, which he was studying on a self-teaching basis. Magnus Wefald himself did not meet Emile for several years after the marriage, but they conversed frequently through letters.

Martin, the youngest son, began a brief career as a merchant seaman when he took a job on a Great Lakes ore boat immediately after graduating from high school. He spent the next ten years alternating between studying mathematics at the University of Minnesota and working as a merchant seaman. Upon graduating from the university, he settled in San Francisco where he married, raised his family, and worked as a software programmer for the U.S. Forest Service.

Marguerite, the youngest of the Wefald children, remained closer to home, briefly attending St. Olaf College and then the University of Minnesota, from which she graduated. She married and settled in Little Falls before moving on to Nebraska and, finally, Arizona. All four children wrote extensively to their parents, exchanging not only personal anecdotes but touching on societal issues as well.

The personal correspondence also reveals Wefald's relationship with his mother, father, and siblings. After his father's death, Wefald assumed a guardianship role, supporting his mother financially while she lived in California with his sisters.

Location

Box

149.F.7.3B

Northern Pacific Railway Company, 1935-1951.

R.C. Barnum Co., 1919-1921. 2 folders

Report Cards and College Papers.

South Africa Trip, 1971:

Anderson, Carl and Marge, 1972-1981.

Cameron, Grace, 1969-1983.

Dusart, Madge, 1975-1980.

Mackintosh, Eva, 1968-1972. 4 folders

Mackintosh, Jan and Alastair, 1971-1973.

Miscellaneous Letters. 3 folders

Diary (typed).

St. Olaf College:

Autobiographical sketch.

Location

Box

149.F.7.4F

Subject Files (miscellaneous):

Barber Shop, 1962-1968.

Books, 1951-1962.

Brown, Tillie: Mortgage, 1929-1934.

City Property: Detroit Lakes, 1963-1973.

Dallum, Severt T. vs. Magnus Wefald, Service Consultants Inc., et al, 1978-1980.

Drangedal Historielag, 1980, 1989.

Dwelling House: Repairs and Remodeling, 1975-1979.

Employees: Law Office, 1953-1973.

Farm:

A.S.C.S.: Newsletters, Survey Maps, Federal Crop Insurance, 1977-1985.

Books: Farm and Law Donations to NDSU, 1977.

Commodity Credit Corporation, 1981, 1987.

Cromwell Farm, 1963-1974, 1977.

Crop Insurance: Gergseid Agency, 1984.

Dwelling House: Repairs and Remodeling, 1981.

Equipment, 1979.

Flooding, 1986.

Giere, Erdmen: Farm Operator, 1977.

Giere, Greg: Farm Operator, 1984.

Location

Box

149.F.7.5B

Improvement: Fence Posts, Wire, Hay, 1977.

Peters, George H.: Drainage Petition, 1987.

Production Credit Association of Moorhead, 1970-1978.

Rental Property, 1982.

Rental: Farm House to Dale and Lots Johnson, 1985.

Rental: Farm House, 1986.

Rental: Crop Land, 1985-1987.

Ben-Haim, Sandy, 1988.

Residence: Improvements, 1984.

Skree Township: Marcus A. Rodig, Darrell T. Borgan, 1965-1969.

Soil Test Reports Information, 1966-1971.

Spring Prairie Farmland: Sale to Douglas K. Snell.

Wetland-U.S. Non-Drainage Easement and DNR Wetland, 1980.

Wild Rice Electric, 1982.

Wood for Fuel, Etc., 1980.

Wefald Property Sold, 1987.

Federal Land Bank of St. Paul, 1974-1983.

Gate City Building and Loan Association, 1948-1960.

Hawley, Minnesota, 1977-1989.

Plats, 1989.

Historical Society:

Minnesota Historical Society, 1954-1960.

Lists of Files and Papers Sent to Them, 1966-1986.

Lists of Files Taken Down in 1986.

Lists of Files Taken in 1987.

Correspondence, 1987. 2 folders

Correspondence, 1990.

Northwest Minnesota Historical Center:

Oral History Transcript Discussing Father's Political Career and Magnus Wefald in Hawley Before Senate Days, 1978.

List of Norwegian Books and Poems Sent, 1987.

Red River Valley Heritage Society, 1988.

Home Owners Loan Corporation vs. Wefald: Mortgage on House, 1933-1943.

Insurance, Car: Accident, Chevette Car, 1984.

Insurance, Fire: Extended Coverage, 1949-1957, 1954-1962.

Insurance, Life, 1948-1962, 1963-1966.

Location

Box

149.F.7.6F

Insurance, Life: Veterans Administration, Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, 1923-1947.

Insurance Policies: Office Building, Residence, Farm, 1973-1976.

Insurance Policies: Old, 1973-1980, 1982, 1984-1985.

Insurance: Moorhead Insurance Agency, 1986.

Land: Office Building Construction File, 1963.

Residence and Office, 1960-1974.

Scambler Farm: Correspondence Regarding Other Land, 1963-1978.

Long Island Lighting Company: Securities Litigation, 1989.

Medicare:

Bar Association: Letters Regarding Policies, 1987.

Clinic and Hospital Claim Form: Fargo Clinic and Hawley Clinic, St. Angars Hospital, 1986-1987.

Correspondence, 1986.

Deafness: Helps For.

Fargo Clinic Pharmacy, 1987.

Medical Bills, 1985-1987.

Optometrist, 1985.

Social Security, 1987-1990.

University of Minnesota: Audiology, 1986.

Nicholas, Joanne: Her Records of Time Spent on Work in Wefald Office, 1985.

Den Norske Credit Bank: Closed, 1988.

Northern Improvement Company: Pit in Spring Prairie Township, 1956-1972.

Northern Improvement vs. Wefald, 1962-1974.

Northern Improvement vs. Wefald, 1974.

Parkinsons Disease, 1990.

Peterson, Belle May: Guardianship, 1981.

Montana Mineral Rights, 1988.

Photographic Companies, 1974, 1979, 1986.

Location

Box

149.F.7.7B

Pinos Atlas Mining Company, 1947-1952.

Public Employees: Retirement Association, 1956, 1958, 1974.

Ration Board, 1942-1945.

Real Estate:

Ninth Street House and Lots, 1952-1977.

Highway No. 10 Lots, 1962-1979.

Rental Property: Apartments and Farm, 1963-1969.

Rental Property: Apartments and Farm, 1975-1985.

St. Olaf College, 1965-1974.

Location

Box

149.F.7.7B

Social Security, 1937-1951, 1958-1961, 1962-1965, 1966-1970.

Social Security: Withholding Tax, Unemployment Taxes, 1969-1972.

Social Security, 1973-1976.

Stefanson, Landberg, Alm and Pitsenbarger: Moorhead Lawyers, 1971-1979.

Taxes: Real Estate and Personal Property, 1930-1963, 1951-1971.

Taxes, 1984.

Taxes: Withholding, 1984-1985.

Travel:

Agencies: Road, 1978.

Airline, 1984.

Amoco Motor Club, 1980.

California, New Mexico, February 1982.

Minnesota, 1984.

Retired Persons: American Association NRTA/AARP Motoring Plan, 1980.

San Francisco and Phoenix, 1988.

Valelly, Richard: Professor at M.I.T., 1989.

Vesterheim:

Dr. Marion J. Nelson, 1985.

Location

Box

149.F.7.8F

Norwegian Immigrant Questionnaire, Gerhard B. Naeseth, 1988.

Wefald, Magnus:

Copies of Contract for Deed, Security Agreement, Bills of Sale with Zenas Baer, 1980.

Office Building: Repairs and Maintenance, 1984.

Office Repairs in Basement, 1983-1984.

Wefald and Baer:

Dissolution of Partnership, 1984.

Estate Memoranda, 1980.

Law Student: Summer employee, 1979.

Legal matters referred by Wefald, 1985.

Miscellaneous, 1983-1984.

Westgate Additions, 1972, 1977, 1983.

Will, 1985.

Will: New and Old, 1989.

Location

Box

149.F.7.8F

Historical and Norwegian Associations:

Historical Associations:

Clay County Historical Society, 1962-1982.

Hjemkomst-Viking Ship, 1980-1981.

Heritage-Hjem Komst Center, 1982-1987.

Norlander-Norland Heritage Foundation, Sioux Falls, 1980-1981.

Nordmanns Forbundet, 1976-1987.

Norwegian American Historical Association, 1971-1981.

Red River Valley Heritage Society, 1985-1986.

Sons of Norway, 1971-1981:

Correspondence.

Kringen Lodge, Fargo.

Telelog, National, 1950-1985.

Telesoga-Telelaget of America, 1980.

Norwegian Associations:

Vesterheim:

Norwegian American Museum Decorah, Iowa.

Fellows, 1981-1986.

King Olav V Fund, 1982-1986.

Knud Wefald Memorial, 1977-1987.

Miscellaneous Papers, undated and 1967-1987.

Norwegian Lutheran Church of America: Memorial to Knud Wefald.

Family Correspondence:

Alphabetical by individual.

Anna Marie [sister], 1936-1989.

Emma [aunt], 1936-1940.

Sarah [sister], 1931-1962.

Egil, 1929-1946.

Location

Box

149.F.7.9B

Egil [brother], 1950-1990. 4 folders

Elsie [sister], 1930-1989. 4 folders

Harald [brother], 1918-1975. 4 folders

Harold E. [son], 1943-1989. 20 folders

Eric, Susan, Franklin and Verna Jean [grandchildren].

Location

Box

149.F.7.10F

Karen [sister], 1919-1989. 2 folders

Knud [father], 1914-1936. 4 folders

Knut M. [son], 1941-1989. 13 folders

Roxanne, Julie, Richard, and Shelly [grandchildren].

Martha [sister], 1930-1989. 2 folders

Martin S., 1945-1950. 3 folders

Location

Box

149.F.8.1B

Martin S., 1950-1989. 8 folders

Martin, James, and Verna [grandchildren].

Nana [sister], 1930-1989. 6 folders

Marguerite [daughter], 1947-1962. 7 folders

Location

Box

149.F.8.2F

Marguerite [daughter], 1963-1989. 8 folders

Olav [brother], 1921-1988. 4 folders

Sarah [mother], 1918-1951. 9 folders

Location

Box

149.F.8.3B

Sarah [mother], 1951-1967. 4 folders

Verna [wife]:

Miscellaneous, 1929-1978.

With Family, 1947-1958. 2 folders

With Ishiki Hayama, 1950-1951.

With Mark and Mildred Ellingson, 1949-1987. 3 folders

With Tildred Halliser, 1948-1963. 2 folders

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1918-1988. 6 folders

Joint Letters to Children, 1984-1989. 5 folders

Family and Other Correspondence:

Alphabetical by individual.

Location

Box

149.F.8.4F

Chetney Family: Helen Griffiths, Margrethe Kobesh, and Others, 1975-1980.

Clausen, Clarence, 1929-1987. 11 folders

Hauge, S. G., 1938.

Jenson, Nile and Ida, 1974.

Mooth, Mrs. Elsie, 1953-1980, 1987-1988. 2 folders

Mooth, Robert, 1989.

Morland, Henning, 1983-1989. 2 folders

Morland, Larsk, 1939-1961.

Neuer, Johanna, 1986.

Norway Relatives in General, 1950.

Rushfeldt, Elsie, 1952-1961.

Rushfeldt, Nina, 1968-1979.

Skree, Jim, 1971-1979, 1986-1987, 1989. 3 folders

Wefald, Dagny, 1932-1986. 6 folders

Franklin, 1975-1979, 1981-1987. 2 folders

Haakon, 1932-1949.

Hans Joachim, 1980.

Jon, 1970-1986, 1976-1988, 1989. 3 folders

Marten, 1938-1984.

Richard, 1978, 1987. 2 folders

Robert, 1980, 1982-1988. 2 folders

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Box

149.F.8.4F

Ruth, 1947-1953.

Sarah, 1987-1989.

Torlief, 1981-1989.

Verna Jean, 1983-1984.

Verna, 1985.

Zeches, Mrs. Robert, 1978-1980.

Political Files:

Location

Box

149.F.8.5B

Kvale, Paul John. Correspondence.

Wefald: Speeches and Writing, 1927-1943.

Campaign for County Attorney, 1930.

General Correspondence, 1930-1932, 1939-1945.

Political Matters, 1936.

Political (including speeches), 1938.

Political Miscellaneous, 1939-1941.

Speeches, 1944-1946.

Political, 1946. 2 folders

Political Correspondence, 1950.

Political Campaign, 1954. 2 folders

Wefald Campaign Poster for State Senate.

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Wefald Law Firm

Law Practice (Boxes 15-63): the law practice records consist of five main series: daily time sheets, client case files, client income tax returns, village attorney files, and business correspondence. The daily time sheets(1936-1991) provide a detailed calendar of Wefald's movements throughout each day. They were used mostly to keep track of client billing but in later years, especially after his retirement, they serve as a sort of shorthand diary.

Wefald's client case files cover issues of divorce, land disputes, and guardianship and include client correspondence, court documents, and notes by Wefald.

Most of Wefald's clientele were common folk: small merchants and farmers. In addition to the legal case work, Wefald also prepared income tax returns for clients. In some cases, runs of 20 years or more are present, giving a glimpse into economic conditions in Hawley and the surrounding area.

During Wefald's years as Hawley village attorney he dealt with such issues as city ordinances, zoning laws, suits against the city, and easements.

Location

Box

149.F.8.5B

State Board of Law Examiners:

Bar Examinations and Correspondence.

General Correspondence.

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149.F.8.6F

Daily Time Sheets:

May 1936-December 31, 1943. 15 folders

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149.F.8.7B

January 1, 1944-December 31, 1951. 16 folders

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149.F.8.8F

January 1, 1952-December 31, 1959. 16 folders

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149.F.8.9B

January 1, 1960-June 30, 1967. 15 folders

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149.F.8.10F

July 1, 1967-December 31, 1974. 15 folders

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149.F.9.1B

January 1, 1975-December 31, 1980. 12 folders

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149.F.9.2F

January 1, 1981-September 1, 1986. 15 folders

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149.F.9.3B

September 1, 1986-July 20, 1990.

Miscellaneous Subject Files:

State of Minnesota in Supreme Court Briefs:

Integration of the Bar in Minnesota, 1942.

E. L. Struble vs. L. Henry Nelson, Arnold H. Nannestad, Edward G. Anderson, H. Kermit Severson, Robert H. Phillips.

Phillips and Amanda G. Nannestad, 1944.

Leonard Eriksson, 1945.

Berglund Oil Co. vs. John Grommesh, Hubert Grommesh, and Harry Collins, 1947.

Theodore and Thale Bjerketuedt vs. Emil Jacobson and Henry Jacobson, 1950.

Marlene Mikkelsen vs. Harold Mikkelson, 1968.

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Box

149.F.9.4F

Bar Associations: 12 folders

American Bar Association, 1956-1985.

Clay County Bar Association, 1966-1985.

Minnesota State Bar Association, 1966-1986.

Committee on Unlawful Practice, 1931-1943.

Committee on the Integration of the Bar, 1940-1941.

Probate Systems Committee, 1978-1979.

Real Estate Section, 1961-1982.

50-Year Membership Certificate.

Seventh Judicial District, 1966-1983.

Law Library, 1978-1980.

Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co., 1930-1967.

Law Students, 1969-1983.

Legal Directories, 1930-1934.

Marcus, Stephen: Legal Assistant, 1967-1976.

Martindale-Hubbell, Inc. 1929-1969.

Village of Hawley: Chamber of Commerce.

Client Files, 1929-1983:

NOTE: 24 boxes containing client estate files were discarded from the original collection due to duplication in county probate records.

All these files (boxes 25-58) are restricted and require special permission for access and use.

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149.F.9.5B

Abr-Aus.

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149.F.9.6F

Axt-Ber.

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149.F.9.7B

Ber-Bur.

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149.F.9.8F

Bur-Col.

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149.F.9.9B

Col-Dol.

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149.F.910F

Dol-Ern.

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149.F.10.1B

Ern-Goo.

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149.F.10.2F

Gra-Han.

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149.F.10.3B

Han-Haw.

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149.F.10.4F

Haw.

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149.F.10.5B

Haw-Hil.

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149.F.10.6F

Hil-Ive.

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149.F.10.7B

Jac-Joh.

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149.F.10.8F

Joh-Knu.

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149.F.10.9B

Knu-Lis.

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149.F.10.10F

Lof-Lys.

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149.F.11.1B

Mac-Mic.

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149.F.11.2F

Mic-Mus.

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149.F.11.3B

Myr-Nor.

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149.F.11.4F

Ogb-Ols.

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149.F.11.5B

Ols-Pet.

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149.F.11.6F

Pet-Rol.

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149.F.11.7B

Rol-Sah.

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149.F.11.8F

Sol-Sim.

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149.F.11.9B

Sim-Sta.

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149.F.11.10F

Sta-Swe.

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149.F.12.1B

Swe-Tho.

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149.F.12.2F

Tho-Vie.

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149.F.12.3B

Vie-Wel.

Location

Box

149.F.12.4F

Wel-Wal.

Location

Box

149.F.12.5B

Wol-You.

Client Income Tax Files:

Location

Box

149.F.12.5B

A-B. 6 folders

Location

Box

149.F.12.6F

D-L. 16 folders

Location

Box

149.F.12.7B

M-R. 12 folders

Location

Box

149.F.12.8F

R-W. 8 folders

School District No. 150:

Location

Box

149.F.12.9B

Hawley, 1933-1964.

Resale of School Houses.

Bond Issue.

Location

Box

149.F.12.9B

Village of Hawley:

Files, 1932-1939. 12 folders

Electric Power.

Criminal Cases, 1933.

vs. Town of Eglon and Town of Skree.

Lake and Part Project.

vs. George H. Peters.

Location

Box

149.F.12.10F

Files, 1937-1960. 20 folders

Ordinances, Criminal Matters.

T.B.C. Evans, et al, 1945.

Park Lots: Legislation, 1949, 1965.

Water Main: Bond Issue, 1951.

League of Municipalities, 1954.

Water Improvement and Lighted Ballpark Bonds, 1954.

Public Utilities Commission, 1957.

Electric Revenue Bonds, 1957.

vs. Berthold E. Kroll, et al, 1960.

Assessment Bonds, 1960.

Location

Box

149.F.13.1B

Files, 1960-1969. 20 folders

Special Assessment Bond.

League of Minnesota Municipalities, 1961.

Firemen's Relief Association, 1962.

Bond Issues, 1962.

Fire House Bonds, 1962.

Bonds, 1963.

Street Improvement, 1962-1964.

Northern Pacific Railway Co. Deed, 1965.

Street Improvement, 1965.

Street Improvement, 1966.

vs. Jack Schreiner, 1967.

Street, Water-Sewer Improvement, 1967-1968.

Annexation Proceedings, 1969.

Hawley Golf and Country Club, 1969.

Location

Box

149.F.13.2F

Files, 1969-1971. 21 folders

Tangen, Village of Hawley, and School District No. 150 vs. George Beck, 1969.

Minutes and Resolutions, 1961-1970.

Easements, 1970.

Municipal Landing Strip, 1970.

Post Office, 1969-1971.

Water and Sewer Improvements, 1970.

Location

Box

149.F.13.2F

Zoning, 1937-1967.

Ordinances Regarding Liquor and Beer, 1934-1967.

Liquor Store and License, 1969.

Snowmobile Ordinance, 1971.

Ordinance No. 129: Consumption and Display of Intoxicating Liquor, 1971.

Location

Box

149.F.13.3B

Files, 1971-73. 20 folders

vs. Mathilda Clemetson, 1973.

Improvements, 1971-1972.

Stephen Ellis vs. Hawley, 1971.

Bills for Legal Service, 1969.

Plats of Westgate Additions.

Reports and Financial Statements, 1962-1978.

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Wefald Farm

Farm Records (Boxes 64-74): a great amount of detail is found in this section. Although Wefald did not actively participate in farm labor, he did provide the financial backing as well as maintain managerial control. Maps outlining crop acreage, records of cattle breeding, and detailed equipment inventories are included. Also, records of cattle sold, soil conservation practices, cattle performance analyses, and cattle catalogs charting the growth of the herd are present.

Location

Box

149.F.13.4F

Accounts Payable, 1959-1967.

Advertising, 1947-1969. 3 folders

American Galloways Breeder Association, 1958-1969. 5 folders

Armstrong, Gayton, 1941-1948. 2 folders

Books and Bulletins, 1949-1968.

Buildings, 1943-1958. 2 folders

Location

Box

149.F.13.5B

Cattle:

Breeding, 1965-1967. 3 folders

Calves, 1960-1965. 6 folders

Catalogs, 1959-1969. 6 folders

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1958-1964.

P.R.I. (Performance Registry International), 1965-1968.

Performance: Gain Tests, 1964-1969. 4 folders

Location

Box

149.F.13.6F

P.R.I. Analysis, 1963-1968. 6 folders

P.R.I. Miscellaneous, 1968-1969. 3 folders

Records of Cattle Sold, 1958-1969. 23 folders

Location

Box

149.F.13.7B

Record of Cattle Sold (Central Livestock to Union Stockyards), 1963-1969. 8 folders

Central Livestock Association, 1966-1967.

Clay County A.S.C. (Agricultural Stablization and Conservation), 1953-1976. 8 folders

Location

Box

149.F.13.8F

Clay County Soil Conservation, 1946-1960. 2 folders

Correspondence: Miscellaneous, A-Z, 1946-1970. 17 folders

Crops, 1950-1961. 4 folders

Summary of acreages including maps and yields.

Deeds on Farmland, 1937-1970.

Dispersion and Auction Sales Advertising, 1969.

Location

Box

149.F.13.9B

Dispersion Sale: Watertown, 1969.

Doane Agricultural Service, 1947-1958.

Electrical Services, 1960-1969.

Equipment: Correspondence and Bulletins, 1943-1969. 7 folders

Farm Bureau Service Association, 1965-1968.

Feed, Seed, Supplies, Etc., 1937-1963. 5 folders

Location

Box

149.F.13.10F

Feed, Seed, Supplies, Etc., 1964-1969.

Fencing, 1949-1967.

Fertilizer, 1951-1958.

Financial Statements: Summarized Statements of Income, 1943-1955. 3 folders

Forestry, 1949-1967. 2 folders

Fuel and Oil, 1961-1967.

Galloway Associations, 1956-1969.

Galloway Cattle Society of Great Britain, 1960-1965.

Galloway Correspondence, 1951-1956.

Galloway Times, 1966-1969.

Grimm Alfalfa Association of North Dakota, 1958-1960.

Hawley Milling Company, 1962.

Hay: Pasture Grasses, Computation of Tonnage, 1941-1969. 3 folders

Location

Box

149.F.14.1B

Hired Help:

Ferweda, Ivan J., 1944-1951.

Hired Men, General, 1939-1956. 3 folders

Hogs: Feed Formulas and Sales Slips, 1953-1961.

Insurance, 1953-1967.

Inventory of Equipment, 1939-1964.

Kost Bros. Inc. vs. Magnus Wefald, 1958-1962.

Location

Box

149.F.14.1B

Labor:

Mesker Family, 1957-1967. 3 folders

Lawrence Newman, 1966-1969.

Miscellaneous Farm Employees: Job Applications, 1953-1968. 2 folders

Livestock Sanitary Board, 1956-1969. 3 folders

Location

Box

149.F.14.2F

Maps: Aerial Photographs, 1957.

No photographs included.

McNary Farm Management Company, 1954-1958.

Moorhead Production Credit Association, 1941-1969. 5 folders

Poultry: Chicken and Geese Eggs Laid and Sold, 1949-1961. 4 folders

Red River Valley Cooperative Power Association, 1952-1958.

Rental of Land, Pasture, Bulls, 1949-1969. 2 folders

Renters:

Maresh, Joseph and Frank, vs. Magnus Wefald, 1948-1953.

McCormick, J. R., 1939-1943.

Rehder, Herman C., 1939-1941.

Rexograph (duplicator) Forms, 1948-[196-]..

Location

Box

149.F.14.3B

Sale of Land: Inquiries, Newspaper Advertising, 1947-1955.

Seed, 1947-1969. 3 folders

Sheep:

Care and treatment of, 1943-1946.

Miscellaneous Correspondence Regarding Sales and Purchases, 1937-1946. 8 folders

Location

Box

149.F.14.4F

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1941-1954. 5 folders

Soil Conservation: Newspaper Clipping, Chattel Mortgage, 1937-1946. 3 folders

Spring Prairie Township Board, 1958-1962.

State Bank: Farm Mortgage, 1944-1963.

State Fair: Ribbons and Certificate, 1947-1948.

Supplies: Correspondence, Brochures, 1949-1969.

Triman Farm Account: Year End Financial Summary, 1967-1968.

Trucks and Tractors, 1959-1969.

University of Minnesota, 1955-1969.

Veterinary, 1957-1969.

Wadsworth vs. Wefald, 1940.

Location

Box

149.F.14.4F

Wadsworth: Mt. Haggin Land and Livestock Co. vs. Albert H. Esp, 1940.

Wool Sales: Minnesota Co-operative Wool Growers Association, 1943-1964. 2 folders

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Financial Files

Financial Records (Boxes 75-84): the financial files consist of three main sections: annual balance sheets and income tax returns, account books, and card packets. The balance sheets (1932-1990) consist of yearly income and expense statements as well as inventories and depreciation tables covering the law firm, farm, and personal finances. The account books are primarily chronological in format and show daily expenses and income. The card packets record the same type of information, but are arranged by accounts.

Location

Box

149.F.14.5B

Money owed to Knud Wefald, [1918-1930].

Income Taxes: Losses and Gains on Account of Farm, 1937-1977.

Annual Balance Sheets, 1932-1979. 3 folders

Income Tax Returns and Worksheets, 1936-1962. 11 folders

Location

Box

149.F.14.6F

Income Tax Returns and Bookkeeping, 1963-1970. 8 folders

Financial Statements and Income Tax Returns, 1971-1990. 20 folders

Location

Box

149.F.14.7B

Volume 1. Ledger, Wefald, 1929-1930.

Volume 2. Cash Journal, Wefald, November 1934-December 1947.

Volume 3. Cash Journal, 1948-1959.