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Arthur Wellesley Kelley was born in New Brunswick on this date in 1832. Forty years and one week later, he became the first postmaster of Jamestown. He…

Lloyd Rigler, entrepreneur and avid arts philanthropist, was born in Lehr, North Dakota in 1915. When he was four, the family moved to Wishek. He learned…

In 1881, a 21-year-old bachelor named Irving Gardner headed to Hope, North Dakota, to homestead. As he later wrote, he was unprepared for what lay ahead…

Few people would guess that Grand Forks came into being because of a keg of beer, but supposedly it’s true.In 1858 – with necessity being the mother of…

Walter Paul Buck was born in Garrison, North Dakota on this date in 1915. In the early ‘50s, he helped found the Dakota Boys Ranch. A 1952 Bismarck…