Townsend, Lydia Letter (H75-184) 1 item

Letter written July 9, 1949 to Joseph W. Jackson, Madison, Wisconsin. At 72, in response to an inquiry, Townsend discusses the overland freighting business of her father, Donald Stevenson. Operating between St. Paul, Minnesota, and Ft. Rice, 20 miles south of Bismarck, North Dakota in the 1860s and 1870s, Stevenson began with only two ox-led wagons but soon expanded, fulfilling large contracts for the US Army. Eventually he settled on a ranch near Ft. Rice, his wife and family moving to the ranch in 1873. Townsend was born on the ranch in 1876.

U.S.O. Servicemen’s Committee of Pierre Records (H74-60) 1 folder

Incorporation records, by-laws, lists of members, minutes of meetings, and other papers, 1942-1945. This organization was the official representative of the USO in Pierre.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary Records (H95-23) 1 item

Bound volume, the Department of South Dakota’s hospital book, listing the contributors to the hospitalization fund.

Vorhees, Alice Diary (H99-018) 1 item

Alice lived near Wessington Springs and included accounts of the weather, visitors, trips to town, household chores and illness in the family; March 16^th through July 13^th, 1897.

Voorhees, Angeline Papers (H96-4) 5 items

1883 diary written by Voorhees, who lived near Wessington Springs, and four unidentified photographs. Diary accounts describe weather conditions, outings taken, visitors who called, and other day-to-day activities. Early entries record the illness and death of Voorhees sister, Olive.