Polk County: Probate Court: An Inventory of Its Probate Case Files at the Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota Historical Society
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 Finding aid encoded by Cheri Thies, January 2013. Finding aid written in English. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Polk County (Minn.). Probate Court. Probate Case Files. 1888-1987. Materials in English. Case file nos. 1-38 and 181C, all related to the admission of dependent children to the State Public School in Owatonna or the Faribault State School and Hospital in Faribault. There are also papers regarding the opening of the State Hospital Farm for Inebriates in Willmar. 0.3 cubic feet (1 partial box). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. ARRANGEMENT

Arranged numerically by case file number.

 CATALOG HEADINGS

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: Children with mental disabilities -- Institutional care -- Minnesota. Children with social disabilities -- Institutional care -- Minnesota. Organizations: Faribault State School and Hospital. Minnesota School for Feeble-Minded and Colony for Epileptics. Minnesota. State Public School. Willmar State Hospital. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Access Restrictions:

The records are open for use except for case file no. 181C, which is closed for 50 years from date of last entry. Researchers may apply to use that file in accordance with the State Archives access statement.

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Accession Information:

Accession number: 2013-15

 Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 07619848

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION 102.I.9.6F File No. 1, Leonard B. Briggs, 1888. File No. 2, Alfred, Erick, Axel, Peter Albin, and Hanna Christine Nord, 1891. File No. 2, Juliana, Rudolph, Aloisia, George, and Elenora Tichy, 1893. File No. 3, Teddie Eugine Dunkey, 1894. File No. 4, Nora Hayes, 1895. File No. 5, George F. and Josephine W. Bulthaupt, 1895. File No. 6, Bernhard Arthur Hanson, 1895. File No. 7, Children of Lottie Stone, 1895. File No. 8, Frank Provost, 1895. File No. 9, Anton, Lydia and Ossian Erickson, 1896. File No. 10, Emma and Delvina Provost, 1896. File No. 11, Conrad Iverson, 1896. File No. 12, Ralph and Emma Erickson, 1896. File No. 13, Emma C. and Ingvald W. Michelson, 1897. File No. 14, Sam Halvorson, 1897. File No. 15, Mahan (baby), 1898. File No. 16, Charley, Allil, and Fred Ritter, 1900. File No. 17, Victor Raymond Brown, 1900. File No. 18, Henry Vandrin, 1900. File No. 19, William John Jr. and Walter Francis Samuel Lindsay, 1904. File No. 20, Lucy, Martha M., Olive, and Eddy Neegaard, 1904. File No. 21, Karl Oscar, Lewis, and Albert Theodore Aamold, 1904. File No. 22, Inga Norness (infant), 1904. File No. 23, Ole G. Thorvekjon, 1906. File No. 23½, Agnes Casmey, 1930. File No. 24, Emma and Hazel Schuler, 1907. File No. 25, Ethel Strangler, 1907. File No. 26, Arthur Marshallton, 1908. File No. 27, Pearl Johnston, 1908. File No. 28, Minervis (Minerva) Cicelia Hatleberg, 1908. File No. 29, Ethel Meggone, 1909. File No. 30, Susana and Mary Wagner, 1909. File No. 31, Ralph Kjelstrup, 1910. File No. 32, Margaret, Nordeen, Helgar, and Minnie Rose Nelson, 1912. File No. 33, Edna Stella and Frank Clifford Clowes, 1912. File No. 34, Myrtle and Clara Mattson, 1912. File No. 35, Hamilton (male infant), 1914. File No. 36, Violet, Elsie, Mabel and Mamie Evans, 1915. File No. 37, Elmer Helle, 1915. File No. 38, Pearl M., Mellin A., Mabel E., John M., August C., and Willie Stroby, 1917. File No. 181C, Earliss Pederson, 1946-1987.

RESTRICTED

 Papers regarding the opening of the State Hospital Farm for Inebriates, Willmar, Minnesota, 1911-1913.