Bliven, Mabel

On January 4, 1916, Mabel and Emery Bliven were married in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Two days later, they moved to a homestead forty miles east of Middle River, Minnesota, in rural Beltrami County. Mabel gave birth to a daughter, Dolores, on November 16, 1916, at her mother's house in Grand Forks. A second daughter, Harriet, was born in September 1918. After proving their claim, the Bliven family moved back to Grand Forks in 1921.

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Women's History