Jamestown, North Dakota
Part of: Dakota Territory / North Dakota
Also: Jamestown, Jamestown D.T.
Sources at this place (19)
- 1882 — Historic photograph — St. James Catholic Church and Rectory, JamestownSt. James Catholic Church and Rectory, Jamestown, Dakota Territory, c.1882
Historic photograph of **St. James Catholic Church and its rectory at Jamestown, Dakota Territory, c.1882** — a brick Gothic-Revival church beside a frame recto…
- 1883 — Bird's-eye-view lithograph: "Birds Eye View of Jamestown, Dak., Stutsman County, 1883"1883 bird's-eye-view lithograph of Jamestown, Dakota Territory
A classic late-19th-c. panoramic "bird's-eye view" lithograph of **Jamestown, Dakota Territory, 1883** — the grid of streets along the James River, with a numbe…
- 1883-03-23 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.3
A short news brief reporting that "the Rawhide Butte copper mines employ 100 men, and [it] promises to be valuable," followed by an unrelated brief about a new …
- 1883-08-31 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.4
A short comic society-column item in the Jamestown Weekly Alert reporting that a hunting party — John Vennum, Marshall McClure, Tony Klaus, Charlie Rattinger, a…
- 1883-09-28 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.2The Game.
Short item in the Jamestown Weekly Alert reporting that H. A. Mullane played a finger-billiards exhibition match at Murphy's saloon for a $15 purse against five…
- 1884-11-04 — North Dakota, U.S., Naturalizations, 1873-1952 — Stutsman County Volume 2Declaration of Intent — Patrick Murphy, native of Ireland, b. 1858, arr. NY March 1882; filed Jamestown ND 4 Nov 1884
Patrick Murphy's **Declaration of Intent** ("first papers") filed 4 November 1884 at the District Court of Stutsman County, Dakota Territory (= Jamestown ND are…
- 1884-12-18 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.3
A two-sentence local item in the Jamestown Weekly Alert reporting that Policeman Murphy was retired from the police force the previous Thursday morning by actin…
- 1885 — 1885 Dakota Territory Census — Stutsman County (Jamestown)1885 Stutsman County (Jamestown ND) census — Murphy cluster: Patrick (26, Bartender, Ireland), James (27, Laborer, Ireland), Daniel (28, Bartender, Ireland)
Full Stutsman County 1885 Dakota-Territory census in xlsx form, with pivot-table summary sheets by occupation/age + a Master sheet listing each individual. ## …
- 1885 — Stutsman County Memorial MuseumFifth Avenue, Jamestown, Dakota Territory, early 1880s — street procession
A mounted early-1880s photograph of **Fifth Avenue, Jamestown, Dakota Territory**, showing a busy commercial street with a procession/gathering of people and wa…
- ~1885 — Stutsman County Memorial Museum (Jamestown ND)Anton Klaus, 'Father of Jamestown' — Stutsman County Memorial Museum portrait
Photograph of Anton Klaus (Prussia-born German immigrant; the "Father of Jamestown" ND), standing on a porch in derby hat reading a newspaper. Caption "Stutsman…
- 1885-02-26 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.4
A one-sentence item: Bob Conchay writes back that he tried to get a button as a relic from a man named Murphy who had been hung by vigilantes under a railroad b…
- 1885-04-09 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.1
Stub record — front-page Jamestown Weekly Alert item about a **Kelleher** described as a quarrelsome Jamestown city councilmember (Thu 9 Apr 1885). Surname Kell…
- 1885-06-01 — Dakota Territory 1885 Census Index (NDSU Archives - Databases)1885 Dakota Territory Census Index — 5 Patrick Murphys; entry 3 (Jamestown bartender, ED 44-011-15) is user's ancestor
Screen-capture of the NDSU Archives "Dakota Territory 1885 Census Index" search results for "Murphy, Patrick". Five results: 1. Patrick Murphy, age 1/12 (infan…
- 1885-06-01 — Composite — 1885 Dakota Territory State Census (Stutsman County, Jamestown) + 1884 Patrick Murphy Declaration of Intent1885 Dakota Territory Census (Jamestown) + 1884 Patrick Murphy Declaration of Intent (composite PDF)
Five-page composite PDF the user assembled: - **Pages 1-2**: Schedule I — Inhabitants in Jamestown, Stutsman County, Dakota Territory, enumerated 1 June 1…
- 1885-10-22 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.6
An editorial brief in the Jamestown (Dakota Territory) Weekly Alert quoting the London Times to the effect that the government of Ireland "has passed or is rapi…
- 1885-10-29 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.6
A mining-news brief: Col. C. A. Broadwater of Helena asserts the Montana mines are "looking up," the success of the Butte mines in particular spurring more pros…
- 1886-01-14 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.5
A brief, credited to the Bismarck Tribune, reporting that east-bound trains carried miners leaving Butte "with barely enough money to return to their friends in…
- 1886-09-23 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.8
A digest of Jamestown justice-court business. Two Pat Murphy matters appear: the case of Pat Murphy against D. M. Kelleher for wages claimed to be due (continue…
- 1887-04-14 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.5Slang in the Restaurant.
A short period color piece, reprinted from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, cataloguing restaurant kitchen slang from Kansas City and St. Louis. Oyster stew is "Je…