Ingersoll-Veeder: A Landmark on the Prairie

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2010 signed first edition, S. Hanson (n.p.), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall spiral bound in color cover with clear overlay, copiously illustrated with black-and-white and some full color photographs, 296 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Slight bumping to lower tip of rear cover, with resultant very slight creasing to a few lower page tips. Signed and numbered (No. 28) by the author at the bottom margin of her preface. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce history of a one-room schoolhouse built in 1885 on the North Dakota prairie near Washburn in McLean County, southern North Dakota, and documentation of the pioneers buried in the adjacent Veeder Cemetery. OCLC (No. 654380081) locates only four copies at institutions worldwide. ~SP14~ [3.0P] A history of the one-room schoolhouse built in 1885, soon after the founding of Veeder Township, in McLean County, North Dakota, near the town of Washburn, and biographies/family histories of those buried in the adjacent Veeder Cemetery, many of whom were local pioneers, and documents the community's restoration and commemoration of the site. Abbreviated Contents: Preface; Ingersoll History, 1885-2010; Ingersoll Teachers and Students; Ingersoll Cemetery Plot; Ingersoll Burials - Age at Death; Ingersoll Cemetery - Identification of Burials; Stories of the Deceased (Anderson, Bartels, Bergquist, Bjorke, Currier, Degner, Griffith, Hahn, Hanson, Houston, Hoyer, Huston, Isaacson, Janke, Johnson, Kundert, Mellin, Miller, Monson, Nordquist, Peterson, Pickett, Short, Smith, Swanson, Vonderheid); Genealogy Chart - Veeder Cemetery; Board of Directors and Terms of Offices Held; Timeline and Projects. N° de ref. del artículo SP14-1271-8511

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