7/11/2010:
On this date in 1951, a breath of history entered the city of Fargo in the person of pioneer O.A. Vangsness. Vangsness lived in Milwaukee then, but he once served as the mail carrier in Kindred. He had retired twenty years prior, so he wasn't carrying mail; he was carrying memories of the early development of the state and the postal system. And, he was going to bring these memories to the convention of the North Dakota Rural Mail Carriers association in Minot. Vangsness was one of six founders of the association in 1906, five years after he started working as a mail carrier, and by 1951, at age 76, he was the last one still living. And neither snow nor sleet nor wind-nor heat-would keep him from the convention.
Dakota Datebook written by Sarah Walker
Source: The Fargo Forum, Friday morning, July 13, 1951, p.10