John and Norman Lind: An Inventory of Their Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society

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John and Norman Lind:

An Inventory of Their Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society


OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
	Creator:	Lind, John, 1854-1930.
	Title:	John and Norman Lind papers.
	Date:	1870-1933.
	Abstract:	The John and Norman Lind papers comprise the papers of John Lind, congressman (1883-1897 and 1903-1905), Minnesota governor (1899-1901), and special agent to Mexico (1913-1914), as well as the papers of his eldest son Norman, a lumbering and shipping entrepreneur.
	Quantity:	6.75 cu. ft. (7 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description section for shelf locations.

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CHRONOLOGIES OF JOHN AND NORMAN LIND

CHRONOLOGY OF JOHN LIND


	Date	Event
	1854	March 25. Born in Kånna parish, Småland province, Sweden, eldest of five children born to Peter Gustaf Jonasson and Katrina Jonasdatter.
	1868	Emigrated with family to United States; settled on a farm near Canon Falls, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Father adopted name of Lind from name of family farm in Sweden, "Lindbacken."
		Left hand amputated as a result of a hunting accident.
	1869-1870	Attended public school in Red Wing. Certified to teach 3rd grade.
	1871	Taught school in Goodhue County.
	1872	Moved with family to farm near Winthrop, Sibley County, Minnesota.
	1873	Taught school in Sibley County.
	1874-1875	Employed in law office of Jonas Newhart in New Ulm, Brown County, Minnesota. Studied law and taught school.
	1875-1876	Attended University of Minnesota. Taught night school.
	1876	Returned to New Ulm to assist Newhart in law practice.
	1877	Admitted to Minnesota bar. Opened own law office in New Ulm.
		Married Alice A. Shepard, daughter of Richard and Rowena Charity Stratton Shepard.
	1880	First son, Norman, born.
	1881	Appointed receiver of United States land office at Tracy, Lyon County, Minnesota, by President James A. Garfield; served until 1885.
	1884	Legal firm of Lind and Randall dissolved; succeeded by firm of Lind and Carl A. Hagberg.
		First daughter, Jenny, born.
	1886	First Swedish-born American to be elected to United States House of Representatives, from 2nd congressional district, Republican ticket, served 1887-93 in 50th, 51st, and 52nd Congresses. During third term formed lasting friendship with Bryan, then representative from Nebraska. Primarily interested in the tariff, public lands, enforcement of Interstate Commerce Act, Indian affairs, bimetallism, railroads, shipping, postal telegraph, organized labor, and immigration restriction.
	1890	Second daughter, Winifred, born.
	1892	Declined to seek re-election to House of Representatives, in part because he did not feel in "full accord" with Republican party on such "vital questions" as free coinage of silver.
	1893	Resumed law practice in New Ulm.
		Appointed a regent of University of Minnesota by Governor Knute Nelson; resigned in 1894.
	1896	Left Republican party over Free Silver issue. Supported candidacy of Bryan, Democratic-People's ticket.
		Defeated in bid for governorship of Minnesota, Democratic-People's ticket, Free Silver platform.
	1898	Enlisted for service in Spanish-American War; served with rank of lieutenant as regimental quartermaster of the 12th Minnesota Volunteers in Cuba; however, opposed United States policy of imperialism and retention of Philippine Islands.
		Elected 14th governor of Minnesota, Democratic-Populist ticket; served 1899-1901. Primarily concerned with trust and railroad regulation, taxation, legal reform, public education, treatment of the insane, and organized labor.
	1900	Defeated for re-election as governor of Minnesota, Democratic-People's ticket. Campaign stressed trust regulation, imperialism, and militarism as primary national issues and taxation as paramount state issue.
		Second son, John Shepard, born.
	1901	Transferred residence from New Ulm to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
		Formed law partnership with Andreas Ueland that was maintained until 1914.
	1902	Elected to United States House of Representatives from 5th congressional district, Democratic ticket; served 1903-05 in 58th Congress. Interested in interstate commerce, public lands, Indian affairs, and the tariff.
	1904	Declined to seek re-election to House.
	1908	Campaigned for presidential candidate Bryan, Democratic ticket.
		Appointed to board of regents of University of Minnesota by Governor John A. Johnson; served as president until 1914.
		Made Waldron M. Jerome a partner in law firm.
	1910	Declined Minnesota gubernatorial nomination, Democratic ticket.
	1912	Worked for nomination of Wilson as Democratic candidate for president.
		Traveled with family to Europe.
	1913	Declined to serve as assistant secretary of the interior and as United States minister to Sweden.
		Appointed by Wilson as his personal representative to Mexico; served until 1914.
		Supported Wilson's policy of neutrality with respect to World War I.
	1915	Appointed chairman of Minnesota chapter of League to Enforce Peace by its president, former President William Howard Taft.
		Accepted invitation to Mexico to meet President Venustiano Carranza.
	1916	Campaigned for re-election of Wilson.
	1917	Supported United States entry into World War I.
		Appointed to Minnesota Commission of Public Safety by Governor Joseph A. A. Burnquist; resigned in 1918.
	1918	Appointed chairman of Advisory Council to the Secretary of Labor and an umpire on National War Labor Board by Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson.
		Supported National Nonpartisan League's candidate for governor of Minnesota, Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., in Republican primary election.
	1919	Supported Wilson's campaign for United States' entry into League of Nations.
	1922	Daughter Jenny died.
	1923	Established Lind Fund for the Aid of Deserving Crippled Children at University of Minnesota.
		Supported Farmer-Labor party's candidates for Minnesota state and national offices. Also supported them in 1926 and 1928.
	1928	Opposed presidential candidacy of Alfred E. Smith, Democratic ticket. Supported Republican party's candidate, Herbert C. Hoover.
		Appointed member of board of trustees of American Institute of Swedish Art, Literature, and Science.
	1930	September 18. Died in Minneapolis.

Chronology was taken from Deborah K. Neubeck's Guide to a Microfilm Edition of the Mexican Mission Papers of John Lind, St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1971.

CHRONOLOGY OF NORMAN LIND


	Date	Event
	1882	August 14. Born in New Ulm, Minnesota.
	1902	Graduated from University of Minnesota.
	1904	Proprietor in partnership with his father of Norman Lind & Co., brokers and wholesalers of Washington fir, spruce, and red cedar lumber and shingles, Everett, Washington.
	1905	Secretary-Treasurer, Pacific Timber Company, Everett, Washington.
	1913	Secretary-Treasurer, Nelson-Neal Lumber Company, Montborne, Washington.
	1914	January-April. In Veracruz, Mexico with father.
	1915	Representative for C. A. Smith Lumber Company, Oakland, California.
	1917	Lumber agent for shipper R. Lawrence Smith, New York.
		Formation of Lind Navigation Corporation with investments by Norman Lind, R. Lawrence Smith, Joseph Fyfe, E. A. Nelson, John Lind, and John Uno Sebenius.
	1926	Vice President, Ocean Transport Company, New York and San Francisco.
	1929	General Manager, Tacoma Oriental Steamship Company, Tacoma, Washington.
	1932	May 18. Died in Denver, Colorado.

Information taken from the collection.

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SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE PAPERS

John Lind's papers consist of correspondence, subject and legal files, speeches, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks which contain information on Minnesota politics, the Democratic and Populist parties, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Lind's activities as president of the University of Minnesota board of regents, and his involvement in the business ventures of his sons Norman and John, Jr. Also included are Lind's accounts as receiver of the land office at Tracy (1884-1886), Lind's records as quartermaster of the 12th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War, minutes of the Public Safety Commission of Minnesota (1917-1918), the transcript of a hearing before the state House Committee on Labor and Labor Legislation regarding labor agitation in the northern Minnesota Iron Range (Jan. 30, 1917), and minutes of an advisory council to the United States Secretary of Labor, on which Lind served as chairman (1918).

Norman Lind's papers consist primarily of correspondence and business files that document his various business speculations. Also included are a schoolbook he kept during his sixth year of public school at New Ulm (1892) and essays written while he was a student at the University of Minnesota (undated and 1897-1902).

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ARRANGEMENT OF THE PAPERS
	The papers are arranged into two groups: one pertaining to John Lind; and one pertaining to Norman Lind.

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RELATED MATERIALS
	Additional records documenting John Lind's 1899-1901 gubernatoral term are available in the Minnesota State Archives.
	Papers relating to John Lind's diplomatic mission to Mexico in 1913-1914 were microfilmed by the Minnesota Historical Society in 1971 as the Mexican Mission Papers of John Lind. They consist of all items from the John Lind papers for the years 1913-1916 and selected items from 1917-1933 that relate to Mexico that were received by the Minnesota Historical Society prior to 1994. The originals were then removed from the main body of the Lind papers and closed to general use. See the catalog for the location of the microfilm edition and its accompanying pamphlet guide.
	Shortly after the Society acquired the majority of the John Lind Papers, George M. Stephenson described their importance to Minnesota political history, particulary the history of third parties, in a speech to the executive council of the Minnesota Historical Society on April 13, 1936. See George M. Stephenson, "The John Lind Papers," Minnesota History 17 (June 1936): 159-165.

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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 should search the catalog using these headings.
	Topics:
		Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Minnesota.
		Corporation law -- United States.
		Elections -- Minnesota.
		Forest reserves -- Minnesota.
		Grain -- Research -- Minnesota.
		Labor -- Minnesota.
		Land titles -- Minnesota.
		Lumber trade -- Washington.
		Lumbering -- Minnesota.
		Ojibwa Indians -- Minnesota -- Governmental relations.
		Ojibwa Indians -- Land tenure -- Minnesota.
		Postal service -- Minnesota.
		Presidents -- United States -- Elections.
		Railroads -- Minnesota.
		Shipping.
		Silver question -- Minnesota.
		Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Equipment and supplies.
		Steamboats.
		Steamboat lines -- United States.
		Strikes and lockouts -- Lumber trade -- Minnesota.
		Strikes and lockouts -- Miners -- Minnesota.
		World War, 1914-1918 -- Manpower -- Minnesota.
	Persons:
		Brower, J. V. (Jacob Vradenberg), 1844-1905.
		Butler, Pierce, 1866-1939.
		Davis, Cushman Kellogg, 1838-1900.
		Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934.
		Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916.
		Kellogg, Frank B. (Frank Billings), 1856-1937.
		Lind, Norman George 1882-1932.
		Mayo, William James, 1861-1939.
		Sebenius, John Uno, 1862-1932.
		Shipstead, Henrik, 1881-1960.
		Somsen, Henry N., 1875-1955.
		Volstead, Andrew J. (Andrew John), 1860-1947.
		Washburn, William D. (William Drew), 1831-1912.
		Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
	Organizations:
		Democratic Party (Minn.).
		Lind Navigation Corporation.
		Minnesota. Legislature. House of Representatives. Committee on Labor and Labor Legislation.
		Minnesota Commission of Public Safety.
		National Nonpartisan League.
		Ocean Transport Company.
		Republican Party (Minn.).
		States Steamship Company.
		Tacoma Oriental Steamship Company.
		United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 12th (1898-1899).
		United States. National War Labor Board (1918-1919).
		United States. Shipping Board.
		United States. Tracy Land Office.
		University of Minnesota. Board of Regents.
	Places:
		Iron Range (Minn.).
		Itasca State Park (Minn.).
		Minnesota -- Public lands.
		Minnesota -- Politics and government.
		Red Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.).
	Document Types:
		Essays.
		Speeches.
	Occupations:
		Lawyers -- Minnesota.
		Quartermasters -- Minnesota.
		Politicians -- Minnesota.
		Governors -- Minnesota.
		Businesspeople.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
	Preferred Citation:
		[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. John and Norman Lind Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
		See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
	Accession Information:
		Accession number: 1773E12; 1778B25; 4136; 8491; 8997; 9132; 9166; 10937; 11273; 15134; 15596
	Processing Information:
		Processed by: Kathryn A. Johnson, 1960; Lydia Lucas and Deborah Neubeck, 1971-1972. Additions made by Monica Manny Ralston, March 1997 and December 2001.
		The entirety of the collection was acquired by the Minnesota Historical Society from several different sources at several different times. The earliest portion, comprising Lind's records as quartermaster of the 12th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, was presented to the Society by John Lind in 1900. Portions of the collection evidence damage due to dirt, mold, and rodents; some portions were lost due to the extent of this damage.
		Catalog ID number: 09-00042504

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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.

John Lind Papers, 1870-1933

1870-1886

The papers from 1883 to 1886 consist largely of reports, accounts, and correspondence regarding Lind's work as United States land commissioner at Tracy, Minnesota. There are also a few business papers, Lind's Goodhue County teaching certificate (1870), a statement by Lind on the loss of his hand (1874), and a letter from Richard C. Shepard discussing Lind's marriage to his daughter (1879).

Two letterpress copybooks (volumes 1 and 2) contain Lind's outgoing correspondence for 1881-1887, which mainly concerns his work as land commissioner, his law practice, and his 1886 campaign for U.S. representative that include many comments on the protective tariff.

1887-1897

Letters from 1889 to 1892, during Lind's tenure as United States Representative are primarily from his constituents and other politicians. Many ask advice, favors, or aid in obtaining relief, pension allowances, or government appointments. Other reflect Lind's interest in the consolidation of land offices in Southern Minnesota, Indian affairs, public lands, postal service, and foreign trade.

Also discussed are Lind's 1888 campaign, the senatorial contest between William D. Washburn and Dwight M. Sabin (December 1888-January 1889), local politics, management of Lind's property and his financial affairs, Minnesota elections in 1890, a proposal to require religious teaching in public schools (1889), and uniform grade standards for agricultural products (1891).

Newspaper clippings on Lind's campaign and election to Congress in 1886 are found in scrapbook volume 1 covering 1886-1888.

The few papers for 1894-1987 pertain largely to politics and include Lind's 1896 campaign for governor of Minnesota.

1898-1901

Papers covering the 1898-1901 period pertain to Lind's election and service as governor of Minnesota, particularly his decision to join the 12th Minnesota Volunteers; his nomination by the Democrats, the Silver Republicans, and the People's Party and the campaign conducted on his behalf; and his campaign of 1900. Lind's personal letterpress copybook as governor of Minnesota (volume 4) discusses appointments, requests for assistance, land claims and titles, Lind's personal finances and properties, railroad regulation, politics, and other topics. An earlier letterpress copybook (volume 3) contains Lind's outgoing letters for November and December 1898 as governor-elect concerning appointments. The remainder of the copybook was used by Henry N. Somsen, Lind's New Ulm law partner, and contains his outgoing letters concerning the practice of Lind and Somsen as well as Somsen's personal letters concerning land acquisitions.

Volume 2 of the scrapbooks contains newspaper clippings on his 1898 gubernatorial campaign.

The relatively few incoming papers from the period of his governorship contain information on state boards of control, the state drainage system, procedures of the Grain Inspection Department, railroad taxation and shipping rates, Minnesota's swamp land grant, and the state prison's twine manufacturing plant. Letters in January 1901 commend Lind for thrashing St. Paul Dispatch editor, Harry T. Black, who had called him a traitor. Other letters mention Lind's quartermaster duties and his personal, family, and financial affairs.

A bound report by Jacob V. Brower on the construction of the Lind Saddle Trail in Itasca State Park includes an 1892 chart illustrating the park's hydrology and topography as well as photographs depicting the trail and its surrounds.

Quartermaster's records for the 12th Minnesota contain bills, reports, vouchers, invoices, abstracts, returns, schedules, and other records of equipment, food, clothing, and supplies purchsed and issued.

1992-1907

Letters for 1902-1904 are again mainly written to Lind as United States Representative and pertain to military and government appointments; postal service; public, Indian, and swamp lands; timber, tariffs and trade reciprocity; pensions; and nutritional investigations of wheat, starch, and rice. There are a few letters on Shepard geneology, Lind's financial affairs and land-holdings, and the 1904 presidential and gubernatorial campaigns; bills and reports in Congress relating to Alaska; and letters from Norman Lind regarding his lumber business in Everett, Washington.

Scrapbook volume 3 contains newspaper clippings on Lind's 1902 congressional campaign.

Papers for 1905-1907 consist of a few miscellaneous and family letters, and some telegrams against granting rate-making powers to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

1908-1912

The papers for this period are mainly concerned with Lind's work as regent of the University of Minnesota. These papers are found both in the correspondence and miscellaneous papers and among the subject and legal files.

Many of the papers are concerned with campus development and construction projects, the University's real estate holdings and land claims cases; the work and growth of the College of Agriculture and the College of Medicine and Surgery, scholarships, and the selection of instructors and other personnel. The choice of a president for the University is discussed during 1909 and 1910. There are letters and blueprints from Cass Gilbert, who worked for a time on a campus development plan; reports and blueprints of construction for the College of Agriculture and its substations; and reports and blueprints for other proposed projects. Other letters discuss teacher training, hog cholera, university finances and the embezzlement of funds by a former treasurer, and railroad tracks on university property. Minutes of a few regents' meetings and financial statements are also included.

The few non-university items relate to Minneapolis water-power facilities, agricultural development and capitalization in Minnesota, freight rates, the 1910 gubernatorial campaign, the 1912 presidential campaign, endowment of Gustavus Adolphus College, and proposed mapping of Minnesota.

1913-1918

Papers for 1913 to 1918 include comments on the world war, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and miners' strikes in northern Minnesota, bread standards and prices, government contracts and defense-related jobs, farm labor, regulation of liquor traffic in Minnesota, and trade union activities and stikes in the Twin Cities. After 1916 the papers are more varied and relate to defense jobs, peacetime readjustment, Lind's finances and investments, politics, grading standards for wheat, labor-management relations in war industries, Norman Lind's business affairs, use of the German language in schools, and the case of the State of Minnesota v. Eric Olson for unlawful assembly in support of Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. and the Non-Partisan League (1918). There is also a letter from Woodrow Wilson (October 5, 1918) with an enclosure from the U.S. Secretary of State regarding Lind's proposal to send propagandists to Finland.

Most of these papers stem from Lind's service on the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety and on the National Labor Advisory Council. Minutes of Commission meetings (April 1917-February 1918), as well as minutes, reports, and correspondence of the Advisory Council to the Secretary of Labor (January-March 1918) are also included within the subject and legal files.

Transcripts of hearings (January 30, 1917) by the Minnesota House of Representatives Committee on Labor and Labor Legislation relating to IWW-led labor unrest in northern Minnesota are filed within the subject and legal files.

1919-1933

The papers for this period are extremely diverse, including family letters and comments on politics and Minnesota campaigns, international shipping, Sweden, and logging in northern Minnesota and on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. There are comments by Lind on capital and labor (1919), the patriotism of German-Americans from New Ulm who fought in the World War against Germany (1921), world government (1923, 1926), the St. Lawrence Seaway (1924), Minnesota politics and political history (1923, 1924), and forest reserves (1926-1928). Other items of interest include correspondence and Captain John Sweeney's statement concerning the East Coast Transportation Company's claims against Germany for their submarine attack and sinking of the schooner Happauge (1919); an exchange of letters with archbishop Nathan Söderblom of Uppsala (1923, 1925); a letter from Lind to William J. Mayo on the need for a study of racial biology (1925); comments on management of the Superior National Forest (1926); correspondence regarding Lind's University of Minnesota trust fund (1926, 1928); and correspondence with the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs regarding industrial and agricultural programs at the Red Lake Indian Reservation (1929-1930).

Many of the papers concern the Lind Navigation Corporation and were originally addressed to Norman Lind but were transmitted to John Lind either in his capacity as the corporation's legal agent or as one of its executive officers and stockholders. Topics discussed within the correspondence and miscellaneous papers comment upon the shipping business, shipping contracts, investments, Pacific Coast steamship lines, and business in general. Subject and legal files regarding the Corporation include several lawsuits filed against other businesses such as the Independent Steamship Company or the Insurance Company of North America, as well as a suit filed against the United States for its requisition of Corporation vessels by the U.S. Shipping Corporation's Emergency Fleet Board in 1917. Other items include specifications, deck plans, hull lines, table offsets, and an engine outline for a lumber carrying steamer designed in 1916.

A set of correspondence between John Lind and his youngest son, John Lind, Jr., concern the son's oil and gas exploration in Texas in partnership with Fred H. Wilcox and financed in part by John Lind.

Two letters addressed to George M. Stephenson in May of 1933 by Alexander P. Anderson and Henrik Shipstead relate to Stephenson's biography of Lind. Anderson's letter comments on the Lind family's migration to Minnesota and the hunting accident that led to the amputation of Lind's hand.

A file of newspaper clippings contains information on Lind's career, foreign trade, politics, government extravagance and scandals, Indian affairs, labor unions, regulation of corporations, education, the University of Minnesota, agricultural and monetary policy, and other topics of interest to Lind. Speech files contain Lind's comments on many of these topics.

Also included within the subject and legal files is a 44-page paper by Charles Fremont Taylor, Philadelphia editor of Equity, entitled "Civilization's Next Step: Columbia, America's Goddess of Liberty, Appeals to the Nations" supporting the creation of a world federation of nations.

Data sheets compiled by the staff of the Minnesota Historical Society containing detailed information on the contents of the John Lind Papers and his correspondents is filed at the beginning of the collection. Notable correspondents within the collection include the following:

Anderson, Alexander Pierce, 1862-1943

Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937.

Brower, Jacob Vradenberg, 1844-1905.

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925.

Burnquist, Joseph Alfred Arner, 1879-1961.

Busch, Joseph Francis, 1866-1953.

Butler, Pierce, 1866-1939.

Chamberlain, Clark Wells, 1870-1948.

Christianson, Theodore, 1883-1984.

Coffman, Lotus Delta, 1875-1938.

Conger, Edwin Hurd, 1843-1907.

Craig, Charles Patton, 1858-1935.

Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.

Davis, Cushman Kellogg, 1838-1900.

Day, Frank Arah, 1855-1928.

Dewey, George, 1837-1917.

Eberhart, Adolph Olson, 1870-1944.

Edgar, William Crowell, 1856-1932.

Emmons, William Harvey, 1876-1948.

Folwell, William Watts, 1833-1929.

Gallaudet, Edward Miner, 1837-1917.

Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934.

Graham, Clarence E., 1841-1904.

Gray, John Henry, 1859-1946.

Gregory, Thomas Watt, 1861-1933.

Hall, Darwin Scott, 1844-1919.

Haugen, Nils Pederson, 1849-1931.

Hay, John, 1838-1905.

Hays, Willet Martin, 1859-1928.

Healy, Frank, 1854-1924.

Hill, Albert Ross, 1869-1943.

Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916.

Hoag, William Ricketson, 1859-1953.

Iverson, Samuel Gilbert, 1859-1928.

Johnson, John Albert, 1861-1909.

Johnston, Clarence Howard, 1859-1936.

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.

Kellogg, Frank Billings, 1856-1937.

Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928.

LeSueur Arthur, 1869-1950.

Lind, Jenny.

Lind, John, Jr.

Lind, Norman George, 1882-1932.

Lindbergh, Charles August, 1860-1924.

Lynch, Frederick Bicknell, 1866- .

McAdoo, William Gibbs, 1863-1941.

McGee, John Franklin, 1861-1925.

McVey, Frank LeRond, 1869-1953.

Martin, George Riley, 1864-1938.

Mattson, Hans, 1832-1893.

Mayo, William James, 1861-1939.

Meagher, John Ford, 1836-1897.

Merriam, William Rush, 1849-1931.

Nelson, Knute, 1843-1923.

Newton, Walter Hughes, 1880-1941.

Oberholtzer, Ernest Carl, 1884-1977.

O'Brien, Thomas Dillon, 1859-1935.

Olson, Eric.

Payne, John Barton, 1855-1935.

Reed, Axel Hayford, 1835-1917.

Rhoads, Charles James, 1872-1954.

Richards, William, Alford, 1849-1912.

Rockwood, Chelsea Joseph, 1855-1935.

Rosing, Leonard August, 1861-1909.

Sabin, Dwight May, 1844-1902.

Sebenius, John Uno, 1862-1932.

Shipstead, Henrik, 1881-1960.

Söderblom, Nathan, Archbishop of Uppsala.

Stevens, Frederick Clement, 1861-1923.

Strait, Horace Burton, 1835-1894.

Swingle, Walter T.

Tawney, James Albertus, 1855-1919.

Taylor, Charles Fremont, 1856-1919.

Tighe, Ambrose, 1859-1928.

Towne, Charles Arnette, 1858-1928.

Vincent, George Edgar, 1864-1941.

Volstead, Andrew John, 1860-1947.

Wakefield, James Beach, 1825-1910.

Walcott, Charles Doolittle, 1850-1927.

Washburn, William Drew, 1831-1912.

Wefald, Knud, 1869-1936.

Werner, Nils Olson, 1848-1910.

Wesbrook, Frank Fairchild, 1868-1918.

Weyerhauser, Frederick Edward, 1872-1945.

Whitney, Charles Colby, 1846-1913.

Williams, John Sharp, 1854-1932.

Willis, John Willey, 1854-1935.

Wilson, William Bauchop, 1862-1934.

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.

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Data sheets.

Letterpress copybooks:

Volume 1, June 1881-September 15, 1884.

Volume 2, September 17, 1884-July 19, 1887.

Volume 3, November 14, 1898-October 22, 1900.

Contains copies of Lind's outgoing letters as governor-elect, November 14-December 12, 1898 and copies of Henry N. Somsen's outgoing letters for the law partnership of Lind & Somsen as well as Somsen's personal correspondence, March 8-October 22, 1900.

Volume 4, January 6, 1899-January 190[1?].

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers:

undated and 1870-1903. 11 folders.

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143.J.12.5B

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1904-1933. 27 folders.

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Res. 2

Letter, Woodrow Wilson to John Lind, October 5, 1919. 1 item with enclosure: Robert Lansing to the President, October 3, 1918.

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143.J.12.6F

Jenny Lind, undated.

John Lind, Jr. (Lind & Wilcox), 1925-1926.

Norman Lind, undated and 1903, 1915-1927. 2 folders.

See also John Lind's subject files pertaining to the Lind Navigation Corporation, the Ocean Transport Company, and the Pacific Timber Company, as well as Norman Lind's correspondence files.

Subject and legal files:

Advisory Council to the Secretary of Labor, January-March 1918.

Davies v. Danaher, 1924-1925.

Democratic Committee, 1916-1917.

Evans, David H.: Estate, 1929-1930.

Hercules Mining and Milling Company, 1915-1916. 2 folders.

Hopkins [Mining] Company, 1912-1918. 2 folders.

Lind Navigation Corporation:

Correspondence and related papers, undated and 1916-1925. 6 folders.

Lind Navigation Corporation v. Insurance Company of North America, 1924-1926.

Lind Navigation Corporation v. United States, 1917-1922. 2 folders.

Nelson and Lind account, 1917-1919.

Wooden cargo (lumber carrying) steamer specifications and blueprints, 1916.

Lind Saddle Trail by Jacob V. Brower, 1899-1900.

Linn v. Linn, 1927.

Mattson, Sonnesyn, Celestrand, et al v. United States Ensilage Harvester Company, et al, 1926.

Minneapolis, Red Lake and Manitoba Railway Company, 1925-1928.

Minnesota. Legislature. House of Representatives. Committee on Labor and Labor Legislation. Hearing: Labor Troubles in Northern Minnesota, January 30, 1917:

Pages 1-330. 2 folders.

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143.J.12.7B

Pages 331-1439. 6 folders.

Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, April 1917-February 1918.

Nelson v. Lucke and Boock, 1923-1929.

Ocean Transport Company, 1925-1928.

Omaha Lusk Oil Company, 1920-1929. 2 folders.

Pacific Timber Company, 1915-191[9].

Rancha la Cueva, New Mexico, 1928.

Rinehart, Orville, 1924.

Swingle, Walter T., "Establishment of Date Culture," [1908].

Taylor, Charles Fremont, "Civilization's Next Step," undated.

University of Minnesota Board of Regents:

Minutes, memoranda, and reports, 1907-1912. 2 folders.

Agricultural Department appropriations, [ca. 1911]. 2 folders.

Substation appropriations, [ca. 1911].

Wild Rice Boom Company, 1896-1917.

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143.J.12.8F

Speeches and articles, undated and 1890-1928. 4 folders.

Quartermaster's records, 12th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, undated and 1898-1899. 11 folders.

Newspaper clippings, 1875, 1887-1929. 17 folders.

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143.J.12.9B

Scrapbooks (newspaper clippings), 1886-1888, 1897-1898, 1902. 2 volumes.

Photographs and miscellaneous, undated and 1897, 1899, 1929.

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+79

Certificate of membership in the Fort Ridgely National Park and Historical Association, February 6, 1900.

Commission as member of the Minnesota State Forestry Board, January 22, 1907.

Certificate of admission to the bar of the Circuit Court of Montana, November 12, 1907.

Certificate of admission to the bar of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (San Francisco), May 18, 1908.

Minnesota State Funding Bond, $1,000 at 3-1/2 percent, December 24, 1891.

One of 1,800 bonds issued for the refunding of the Minnesota State Railroad Adjustment Bonds.

Quartermaster's records:

Schedule of clothing and materials required for issue to enlisted men of the 12th regiment of the Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1898-1899. 8 items.

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Norman Lind Papers, 1897-1932

Norman Lind's papers consist of school work, correspondence, and business files.

The school work includes a school book kept by Norman while in his sixth year of public school at New Ulm (1892) and essays dating from his college coursework at the University of Minnesota (1897-1902).

Norman Lind's correspondence is arranged in two sets: a chronological set kept from 1913-1932 and an alphabetical set kept while Lind was employed with the Tacoma Oriental Steamship Company between 1929 and 1932. The majority of the correspondence is concerned with Lind's business and financial affairs and includes many letters exchanged between Lind and his father. John Lind often acted as an investor, executive officer, or legal agent in Norman Lind's business ventures. Consequently, the correspondence between these two men is rich with details about the family and about Norman's affairs, particularly his lumber and shipping businesses. Both Norman and John Lind's sets of papers should be reviewed to explore the depth of any particular subject. For example, documents evident in Norman Lind's papers reveal that Norman Lind and A. E. Nelson entered into an agreement with R. Lawrence Smith for the construction of a wooden steamer that was subsequently requisitioned by the United States Emergency Fleet Corporation in 1917 for World War I service. John Lind presented Norman's case for financial adjustment before the Shipping Board; however, Norman's papers contain only a few pieces of correspondence dating from 1919 regarding these actions. To obtain a fuller record, the papers of both men must be examined.

Other correspondents include John Uno Sebenius, family friend and mining engineer for the Oliver Iron Mining Company, who frequently invested in Lind's business endeavors, and J. J. Waddell, a real estate agent who managed Lind's property in Yuma County, Arizona. Specific details include discussion of financial assets, incorporation matters, trade speculations, labor, and equipment. Other topics included within the correspondence cover Lind's Arizona ranch property, proposals for vegetable oil production, mining interests, his brother John's geological survey work in the southwestern states and later oil business in Hutchinson, Minnesota, and his father's estate.

Business files pertaining to the Tacoma Oriental Steamship Company, which was primarily concerned with Pacific Coast shipping and Asian hardwoods trade, includes an agreement with the States Steamship Company for the management and operation of Tacoma line steamships, monthly financial statements for part of 1930, and vessel voyage and operation reports for 1929-1931. An additional file contains estimated profit and loss statements for the Western Stevedore Company (1930-1931), a company used by the Tacoma line for cargo loading and unloading.

Lind left the employment of the Tacoma Oriental Steamship Company in the late fall of 1931 and returned to his mother's home in Minneapolis. Correspondence after this time reflects Lind's search for new business opportunities in a variety of fields and includes many comments about business and the state of the American economy. Lind died shortly thereafter of appendicitis while in Denver, Colorado.

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143.J.12.9B

School book, 1892.

School essays, undated and 1897-1900.

Correspondence:

Chronological, 1902, June 6, 1913-April 4, 1932. 16 folders.

See also correspondence in the John Lind Papers concerning Norman Lind as well as John Lind's subject files pertaining to the Lind Navigation Corporation, the Ocean Transport Company, and the Pacific Timber Company.

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143.J.12.10F

Alphabetical, September 10, 1927-March 7, 1921 (bulk 1929-1931). 13 folders.

Business Files:

Tacoma Oriental Steamship Company:

Agreement with States Steamship Company, 1928.

Financial statements, June-November 1930.

Vessel and operating reports, 1929-1931. 4 folders.

Western Stevedore Company: Estimated profit and loss statements, April 1930-September 1931.

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