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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wells County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873. Its government was not organized at that time, nor was it attached for administrative or judicial purposes to another county. It was named Gingras County; this name continued until February 26, 1881, when the name wa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bowman County, North Dakota. Official Website History The legislature of the Dakota Territory designated Bowman (named for Edward M. Bowman, a member of the territorial House of Representatives during the 1883 session) as a separate county on March 8, 1883, although it was not organized at that time. In 1885, its boundaries were...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ward County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on April 14, 1885 and was named for Mark Ward, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Counties during the session. For a complete list of Townships & Communities, please see Wikipedia . Adjacent Counties Renv...
This beautiful cemetery is situated one mile west and south from the Concordia Evangelical Lutheran Church. All of the stones are in perfect lines, beautiful trees surround three sides and a fence borders the fourth side. All of this cemetery is very well kept and well loved. Stones are in excellent shape and the grass is perfectly mown. The people buried here for the most part are German Luth...
List of United States Representatives from North Dakota North Dakota's current delegation to the United States House of Representatives as of January 2023: At-large district -- Kelly Armstrong
Wikipedia The University of North Dakota (UND) is a public research university located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of North Dakota, UND is the oldest and largest university in the state. UND was founded as a university with a strong liberal arts foundation and is classified by the Carneg...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stark County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on February 10, 1879, taking area from now-extinct Howard and Williams counties and some previously unincorporated territory. It was named for George Stark, a vice president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Adjacent Counties Dun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ransom County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created Ransom County on January 4, 1873. It was so named due to its military fort, which had been named Fort Ransom for Civil War veteran Major General Thomas E.G. Ransom. The fort had operated between 1867 and 1872. The county was not organized at that...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dunn County, South Dakota.The county was created in 1883 and named for John Piatt Dunn, who opened the first drugstore in North Dakota, and who was a civic and commercial leader during the early history of Bismarck. Adjacent Counties * Billings County * McKenzie County * Stark County * Mountrail County * McLean County * Mercer County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cass County, North Dakota. Official Website Cass County was defined by action of the Dakota Territory legislature on January 4, 1873, and its organization was effected on October 27 of that year. It was named for railroad executive George Washington Cass (1810 - 1888). Adjacent Counties Norman County, Minnesota Clay County...
This project is part of the State of North Dakota Portal. ==About the Project=Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from North Dakota. You can add profiles for:* People born in North Dakota* People who lived in North Dakota* People who died in North DakotaWhen you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit.If y...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Burleigh County, North Dakota. Official Website The territorial legislature created Burleigh County on January 4, 1873, annexing territory from Buffalo County. Burleigh was not organized at that time, but the organization was effected on July 16, 1873. Its boundaries were altered in 1879, 1881, 1883, and twice in 1885. It is the s...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hettinger County, North Dakota.The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on March 9, 1883. The county name was chosen by territorial legislator Erastus A. Williams, to honor his father-in-law, Mathias K. Hettinger (1810-1890), who had been a banker and public figure in Freeport, Illinois. Adjacent Counties * Grant County * A...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Morton County, North Dakota.= Official Website =The county was created on January 8, 1873 by the Dakota Territory legislature, using territory that had not previously been included in any county. It was named for Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (1823-1877), governor of Indiana during the American Civil War and later a United States ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Adams County, North Dakota. Official Website Adams County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota . As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 2,343. The county seat is Hettinger. The county was created on April 17, 1907, and organized one week later. It was named for John Quincy Adams (1848–1919), a railroad off...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Golden Valley County, North Dakota.= Official Website =The county was organized on November 13, 1912. Golden Valley was called 'Rattlesnake Flats' by early settlers, due to the large number of the snakes found in the area. The region was dubbed Golden Valley in 1902 after a group of land surveyors noticed that the sunlight gave the su...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stutsman County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873. It was not organized at that time, nor was it attached to another county for administrative or judicial purposes. It was named for Enos Stutsman, an area lawyer and politician. Adjacent Counties Foster Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grand Forks County, North Dakota.The Dakota Territory legislature created Grand Forks County on January 4, 1873. Adjacent Counties * Nelson County * Marshall County, Minn. * Polk County, Minn. * Steele County * Traill County * Walsh County Cities *Emerado*Gilby*Grand Forks (County Seat)*Inkster*Larimore*Manvel*Niagara*Northwood*Reynol...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McHenry County, North Dakota.= Official website =The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873 and was named for James McHenry, an early settler of Vermillion (in present South Dakota). The county government was not organized at that time, nor was the county attached to another county for administrative and ju...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Griggs County, North Dakota.= Official Website =The county was created by the Dakota Territory legislature on February 18, 1881. It was named for Alexander Griggs, a steamboat captain who is credited with founding Grand Forks. Adjacent Counties * Barnes County * Steele County * Stutsman County * Foster County * Eddy County * Nelson Co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sargent County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory created the county on April 9, 1883 and it was named for H. E. Sargent, a railroad executive. Adjacent Counties Ransom County Richland County Marshall County, SD Brown County, SD Dickey County Roberts County, SD Cities Cayuga
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Foster County, North Dakota.= Official Website =The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873, with lands partitioned from Pembina County. It was named for George I. Foster, a pioneer and member of the Territorial legislature. Adjacent Counties * Eddy County * Wells County * Griggs County * Stutsman County Cit...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cavalier County, North Dakota. Official Website History The Dakota Territory legislature created Cavalier County on January 4, 1873 with territory annexed from Pembina County, but did not organize the county government structure at that time. It was named for Charles Cavileer (or Cavalier) of Pembina (1818-1902), an early settle...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Emmons County, North Dakota. History The county was created by the Dakota Territory legislature on February 10, 1879. It was named for James A. Emmons (1845–1919), a steamboat operator and early Bismarck merchant and entrepreneur.The first non-Native settlers of Emmons County came from Europe and the eastern United States. The earlies...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kidder County, North Dakota.The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873 and was named for Jefferson Parrish Kidder, a delegate to the United States Congress from Dakota Territory (1875–1879) and associate justice of the territorial supreme court (1865-1875, 1879-1883). The county government was effected on M...