Jayme L. Job

5/20/2012: After a forty-year battle in Congress, President Abraham Lincoln approved the Homestead Law on this date in 1862.

5/18/2012: Harvey Carignan, also known as Harvey the Hammer or the Want-Ad Killer, was born on this date in 1927 in Fargo, North Dakota. Definitely one of North Dakota’s less publicized and celebrated sons, Carignan would go on to kill and brutalize at least five, and possibly as many as eighteen, victims.

5/12/2012: The Orin G. Libby papers were deposited into UND’s Chester Fritz Library on this date in 1957. The donation from Eva, Libby’s widow, represents the collection of letters, manuscripts, academic publications and holdings of one of North Dakota’s greatest historians.

5/6/2012: Charles Sevrinson, long-time dean of students at NDSU, was born on this date in 1898 in Reynolds, North Dakota.

3/31/2012: The results of a student vote to change the name of the North Dakota Agricultural College were announced on this date in 1922.

3/25/2012: North Dakota’s first Powerball ticket was sold to State Representative Andy Maragos on this date in 2004.

3/24/2012: Devils Lake Daily Journal reporter Stu Robertson gave an update on little Timmy Lang of Tokio, North Dakota, on this date in 1949.

3/18/2012: Edward Jollie was born on this date in 1907 in Belcourt, North Dakota. The youngest child, he earned the nickname Chick.

3/17/2012: Congressman Patrick Norton was born on this date in 1876 in Michigan. His family soon moved to Ramsey County in Dakota Territory where he attended country schools.

3/11/2012: Several female students of the North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo turned into reluctant firefighters on this date in 1924.