Collection Overview
Title: William A. Scouton Papers, 1884-1956
ID: OGLMC/005
Creator: Scouton, William A. (1861-1936)
Extent: 0.5 Linear Feet
Languages: English [eng]
Abstract
Inkster, North Dakota, business owner
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The William A. Scouton Papers date from 1884 to 1956 and contain materials regarding Scouton's businesses. This includes account books, correspondence, bills and receipts.
The collection also contains information related to Inkster, North Dakota, including baseball score books, a journal for the Northern Evangelical Ladies Aid, programs of the Inkster City Band, the first issue of The Inkster Enterprise from 1886, an undated promotional pamphlet, and miscellaneous information.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions:
Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Method:
Donation; the original acquisition records are unavailable
Preferred Citation:
(Description of Item). William A. Scouton Papers. OGLMC 5, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Finding Aid Revision History:
Finding aid input to Archon in July 2014.
Box and Folder Listing
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Business correspondence, bills and receipts, 1894-1908
- Folder 2: Business correspondence, bills and receipts, 1896-1920
- Folder 3: Blue print of railroads and grain elevators in Inkster
- Folder 4: Inkster Baseball Score Book, 1908-1915, 1931
- Folder 5: Inkster Baseball Score Book, 1915-1916
- Folder 6: Account book, 1893-1899
- Folder 7: Account books, 1896-1905
- Folder 8: Northern Evangelical Ladies Aid Ledger, Inkster, North Dakota, 1887-1912
- Includes meeting minutes and membership information
- Folder 9: Miscellaneous
- Item 1: Inkster City Band Concert Program, 19 April 1911
- Item 2: Inkster City Band Concert Program, 19 April 1911
- Item 3: When the Bottom Will Fall Out of the Land Business. Great Western Printing Co., Minneapolis, undated
- Promotional pamphlet regarding Inkster, with photographs and text
- Item 4: Correspondence from Edward Inkster (Oakland, California) to Omer Scouton (Inkster, North Dakota), 19 June 1956
- Item 5: Menu from The Palace of Sweets Caterer-Restaurateurs, 28 October 1917
- Location of restaurant is unknown
- Item 6: Obituary for Dr. Fred G. Lundy of Inkster
- Photographs :
- Separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets.
- Photograph 1: Scouton and Dane Johnson, Minto, Dakota Territory, June 1884
- Photograph 2: Color postcard of the Seven Oaks House Museum in West Kildonan, Manitoba. John Inkster built the house in 1852
- Oversize Folder 1
- Item 1: First issue of The Inkster Enterprise (newspaper), July 16, 1886
- Contains article on page 1, column 4, regarding Scouton's prowess as a baseball pitcher
- Item 2: "Map of the Red River Valley." Brown, Treacy and Sperry Co.: St. Paul, Minnesota, 1901