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Reference code
US BCMLA 00/MS.237
Title
Frank and Agatha Balzer Papers
Date(s)
- 1850-1940 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1.00 Cubic Feet
Context area
Name of creator
(1859-1944)
Biographical history
- Born 19 March 1859 in Ukraine. Parents Jacob Balzer and Susanna Ediger.
- Migrated to Mountain Lake, Minnesota, on SS Vaderland, arriving Philadelphia 29 June 1877.
- Married Agatha Hiebert in 1883.
- Founded "Frank Balzer Lumber" in Mountain Lake.
- Died 1944 in Mountain Lake.
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Donated by descendants.
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Scope and content
Includes correspondence between Agatha Hiebert and David Goerz; other correspondence, David Hiebert correspondence and business records, scattered photos, family history information (Hiebert, Balzer), school papers, Christmas Wünsche, autobiographical material (Frank), financial records books from lumber business. clippings
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Accruals
System of arrangement
unprocessed
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Conditions governing access
open to research use
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Language of material
- English
- German
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ArchonInternalCollectionID:65