GOVERNOR:
An Inventory of Its Miscellaneous Disaster Relief Files at the Minnesota Historical Society
Government Records
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Minnesota. Governor. | |
| Title: | Miscellaneous Disaster Relief Files. | |
| Dates: | 1871-1920. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Accounts and reports of funds raised and disbursed to provide assistance to victims of a January 1873 snowstorm; for distribution of seed grain (1870s and 1890s); for a murder trial in Becker County (circa 1873-1875); to contribute to victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; to assist the city of Fergus Falls following a 1919 tornado; and for miscellaneous relief activities. One volume also includes brief accounts for the 1893-1894 pine land investigation, and for governor's miscellaneous funds (1899). | |
| Quantity: | 2 volumes and 3 folders in 2 partial boxes. | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
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Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 001703393
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| 106.F.8.2F-1 | State Relief Record, 1871-1873. 1 volume. | ||||||||||
| Record of casualties and relief to victims of the snowstorm of January 7-9, 1873, and an unidentified remittance list (1871-1872). | |||||||||||
| The snowstorm record [pages 26-69] gives the following information: reference number of case, name of sufferer (and sometimes age), locality (county and township), nature of loss in person and property, description of other circumstances (primarily the plight of surviving widow and children), amount allowed by the governor, when paid, in what manner and through whom paid, and remarks. It was compiled from official reports made to the governor. Also included are some accounting records and casualty tables [pages 21-25, 70-74]). | |||||||||||
| An act of the state legislature had appropriated up to $5000 "for the relief of persons requiring medical, surgical, and other aid, occasioned by the late snow storm" [Laws 1873 c132]). | |||||||||||
| The unidentified remittance list [pages 1-14] gives date of remittance, name, post office and county, amount, and other remarks. | |||||||||||
| 115.K.16.2F | Governor's Relief Fund Ledger, 1873-1875. 1 volume. | ||||||||||
| Includes accounts for seed wheat fund, appropriation for trial of murderers of Cook and Swede families (Becker County), appropriation for relief of immigrants (1874), $20,000 relief appropriation, and for various southwestern Minnesota counties. | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous Account Book, [1893-1899]. 1 folder. | |||||||||||
| Pages 1-8, 131-134, and 143, removed from an otherwise empty volume. They contain brief accounts for seed grain (no year), pine land investigation fund (1893-1894), governor's contingent (1899), governor's cablegrams (1899), relief fund (no year), and cash payments (probably for relief) to Chippewa, Lac Qui Parle, Marshall, and Swift counties (no year). | |||||||||||
| 106.F.8.2F-1 | San Francisco Relief, 1906. 2 items in 1 folder. | ||||||||||
| A Relief Committee for California Sufferers was appointed by Governor John A. Johnson to raise money for the relief of sufferers from the earthquake and fire in San Francisco. Its activities centered on purchasing and sending a trainload of provisions. | |||||||||||
| Report on the California Relief Fund, Marwick, Mitchell & Company, August 9, 1906. 1 item. | |||||||||||
| On their audit of the accounts of the California Relief Committee of St. Paul and of the State of Minnesota. Submitted to Gustave Scholle, president of the committee. Includes the committee's report to the governor, with Scholle's transmittal letter, a statement of receipts and disbursements, and a list of contributors. | |||||||||||
| Reports, California Relief Committee of Minneapolis, Appointed and Authorized by His Honor the Mayor, 1906. 1 item. | |||||||||||
| It contains the chairman's report (May 1, 1906), treasurer's report (May 1, 1906), list of subscribers with amount donated, a note from the Mayor's office attesting to the completeness and accuracy of this summary (May 4, 1906), and a committee roster. | |||||||||||
| 115.K.16.2F | Fergus Falls Tornado Report, 1919-1920. 1 folder. | ||||||||||
| Minutes of the Fergus Falls Tornado Relief Commission (October 16 and December 11, 1919; January 28, 1920), its final report to the governor, an audit report of its accounts and expenditures, and transmittal correspondence. | |||||||||||
| The commission was created by Ex. Sess. Laws 1919, chapter 45, which apropriated up to $165,000 "to provide relief, preserve public health, promote public interest and public welfare, and further the cause of education in the city of Fergus Falls devastated by cyclone on June 22, 1919." | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Blizzards -- Minnesota -- 1873.
- Disaster relief -- Minnesota.
- Murder -- Minnesota -- Becker County.
- Pine land investigation -- Minnesota -- Finance.
- Public welfare -- Minnesota -- Finance.
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.
- Seed distribution -- Minnesota -- Accounting.
- Tornadoes -- Minnesota -- Otter Tail County.
- Persons:
- Cook family.
- Scholle, Gustave.
- Swede family.
- Organizations:
- Fergus Falls Tornado Relief Commission (Minn.)
- Relief Committee for California Sufferers (Minn.)
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