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Correspondence, Lumber and Land Interests, 1875-1894 (Box 1, Folder 18)
Description:
Documents and plat maps related to lumber and land, with correspondence from people including (but not only): Fred F. Huntress; W.P. Jewett; B.N. Johnson; Thomas J. Nary; Charles A. Pillsbury; James B. Power; Fred B. Snyder; and W. D. Washburn.
Creator:
Pillsbury, J.S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901
Created:
1875/1894
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.;
Page Count:
75
Last Updated:
2025-10-30
Correspondence, Lumber and Land Interests, 1875-1894 (Box 1, Folder 18)
Correspondence, Lumber and Land Interests, 1895-1907 (Box 1, Folder 19)
Description:
Documents and correspondence about land with: E.L. Bradley; S.H. Curtis; W.B. Douglas; H.H. Ellersick; B.E. Erickson; Richard Mason; John McClintock; Thomas J. Nary; E.E. Pinkman; John F. Rosenwald; C.A. Smith; W.A. Thayer; and A.D. Thomson.
Creator:
Pillsbury, J.S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901
Created:
1895/1907
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.;
Page Count:
123
Last Updated:
2025-10-30
Correspondence, Lumber and Land Interests, 1895-1907 (Box 1, Folder 19)
Correspondence, Mining Interests, 1892-1903 (Box 1, Folder 17)
Description:
Correspondence related to mining and iron ore lands with individuals including (but not limited to): James A. Boggs; Henry Brown; Joseph B. Cotton; T.H. Everts; John Hallihan; George Welwood Murray; E.A. Page; F.W. Paine; William L. Shepherd; and A.D. Thomson.
Creator:
Pillsbury, J.S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901
Created:
1892/1903
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.;
Page Count:
56
Last Updated:
2025-10-30
Correspondence, Mining Interests, 1892-1903 (Box 1, Folder 17)
Correspondence, Personal, 1884-1915 (Box 1, Folder 20)
Description:
Correspondence between John S. Pillsbury and individuals such as: Greenleaf Clark; John Ireland; Colonel W.M. Ligett; Pennock Pusey; S.W. Rankin; Frank Spencer; and Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal.
Creator:
Pillsbury, J.S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901
Created:
1884/1915
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.;
Page Count:
36
Last Updated:
2025-10-30
Correspondence, Personal, 1884-1915 (Box 1, Folder 20)
Correspondence regarding University land, 1883-1897 (Box 1, Folder 13)
Description:
Documents and correspondence related to land include materials on land surveys, a booklet of the 1875 selections of lands, salt springs lands, quit claim deeds, railroad rights of way, and logging of university timber. Correspondence with probate courts, right of way offices, land agents, and timber companies, include individuals such as State L...
Creator:
Pillsbury, J.S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901
Created:
1883/1897
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.;
Page Count:
65
Last Updated:
2025-10-30
Correspondence regarding University land, 1883-1897 (Box 1, Folder 13)
Correspondence regarding University land, April 1876-June 1901 (Box 1, Folder 14)
Description:
Documents in this folder include: a handwritten, “Descriptive list of lands selected and claimed by the State of Minnesota as University lands, under an act of Congress approved July 8th, 1870 entitled an act authorizing the allowance of the claims of the state of Minnesota to lands for support of a State University” dated April 12, 1876; a hand...
Creator:
Pillsbury, J.S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901
Created:
1876-04/1901-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.;
Page Count:
32
Last Updated:
2025-10-30
Correspondence regarding University land, April 1876-June 1901 (Box 1, Folder 14)
Dedication of the Pillsbury Memorial Town Hall in Sutton, New Hampshire, 1893 (Box 1, Folder 23)
Description:
Dedication of the Pillsbury Memorial Town Hall in Sutton, N.H., published in Concord, NH, by the Republican Press Association, Railroad Square, 1893. The book includes biographical sections on John Sargent Pillsbury and Mrs. Mahala Fisk Pillsbury, as well as descriptions of the building and dedication ceremony, and transcripts of addresses, orat...
Creator:
Pillsbury, J.S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901
Created:
1893
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.;
Page Count:
190
Last Updated:
2025-10-30
Dedication of the Pillsbury Memorial Town Hall in Sutton, New Hampshire, 1893 (Box 1, Folder 23)
"Greetings and best wishes" to Mrs. Mahala Fisk Pillsbury from the Alumni of the University of Minnesota
Description:
“Greetings and best wishes from the Alumni of the University of Minnesota, assembled on the campus, Alumni Day, June 12th, 1907” to Mrs. Mahala Fisk Pillsbury, signed by multiple representatives of classes between 1875 and 1904
Creator:
Pillsbury, J.S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901
Created:
1907-06-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.;
Last Updated:
2025-10-30
"Greetings and best wishes" to Mrs. Mahala Fisk Pillsbury from the Alumni of the University of Minnesota
History of the Salt Spring Lands, by Newton Horace Winchell, 1858, (Box 1, Folder 4)
Description:
Handwritten manuscript copy of Newton Horace Winchell’s “History of the Salt Spring Lands,” including letters between Henry H. Sibley, Joseph Rolette, Pierre Bottineau, the Register of the U.S. Land Office at Otter Tail County, and State Auditor Charles McIlrath, among others.
Creator:
Pillsbury, J.S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901
Created:
1858
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.;
Page Count:
39
Last Updated:
2025-10-30
History of the Salt Spring Lands, by Newton Horace Winchell, 1858, (Box 1, Folder 4)
Lease of land to the University of Minnesota by the Minneapolis Street Railway Company, with blueprint, September 1, 1891
Description:
Agreement from September 1, 1891 between the Minneapolis Street Railway Company and the University of Minnesota along with a blueprint map of the described area, close to the intersection of Fourth St SE and 14th Ave SE.
Creator:
Pillsbury, J.S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901
Created:
1891-09-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.;
Page Count:
3
Last Updated:
2025-10-30
Lease of land to the University of Minnesota by the Minneapolis Street Railway Company, with blueprint, September 1, 1891