Manuscripts Collection
These documents are organized into the following sections:
A motion picture, a bound handwritten treatise by Eduard Boeckmann, and a related volume of notes and drawings are closed to general use. A digital version of the motion picture and photocopies of the volumes are available for research use.
Digital master of the MP4 file is maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage server and is managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
Accession number: 15,569, 16,807, 16,963
Processed by: David B. Peterson, March 2014
Catalog ID number: 001733839
Compilation of silent black and white film clips. Clips include ships, people on board ships, a snake handler wih snakes, men on a street and in a car, cowboys on horseback, people talking, and a polo match.
Digital version
Includes incomplete record of fishing tabulations for Hill, Boeckmann, and Ffolliott family members.
Eduard Boeckmann was a Norwegian-born physician who practiced in St. Paul and was associated with the Luther Hospital (later known as St. Paul Hospital).
Boeckmann was born in Totn, Norway, in 1849. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Christiana in 1874, and married Anna Sofie Dorothea Gill in 1875. He moved to the United States in 1887 and located in St. Paul, where he helped to found Luther Hospital and was a member of the staff of the Charles T. Miller Hospital. Dr. Boeckmann died August 8, 1927.
Papers of Eduard Boeckmann include correspondence, photographs, biographical and genealogical information, diplomas, certificates, military commissions, and information about Luther and St. Paul hospitals. Much of this material is in Norwegian.
A bound, handwritten treatise on tonsils written while Boeckmann was a student at the Royal Frederick University, Oslo, Norway; in Norwegian.
Bound, illustrated, handwritten volume in Norwegian; includes index.
Includes a memorial biographical sketch prepared by the Ramsey
County Medical Society (1927), and a similar article in the Norwegian medical
journal
Includes obituaries of Eduard Boeckmann.
Includes certificates from the states of Minnesota and Illinois, and from Dakota Territory, allowing Boeckmann to practice medicine in those places.
Includes
Received from the United States government and the State of Minnesota appointing him a military surgeon.
Includes
Egil Boeckmann, one of Eduard Boeckmann's sons, married Rachel Hill, the daughter of James J. Hill, on January 30, 1915.
Rachel Hill Boeckmann was the wife of Egil Boeckmann.
List of wedding presents.
Includes letters from Michael Gavin.
Includes signatures of many Hill and Boeckmann family members.
Donor-provided index enclosed in the first folder.
Donor-provided index enclosed in the first folder.
Gertrude was the wife of Peter Harvie Ffolliott. The couple had five children: Gertrude, Sheila, Mary, Peter, Jr., and Ann.
Includes writings and correspondence, mainly from housekeepers and workers.
The main body of James J. Hill Papers is in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscripts collection.
The main body of Mary T. Hill Papers is in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscripts collection.
Includes correspondence with Louis W. Hill and John J. Toomey regarding business affairs and settling of estate of James J. Hill, sundry financial statements, lists of bills paid, children's' trust agreements, and materials relating to the United Securities Corporation. Includes an inventory of Hill's St. Paul city garage vehicles and equipment (June 21, 1917), inventories of securities (1918), a financial status report on the James Jerome Hill Reference Library (January 13, 1919), and a jewelry inventory (March 28, 1919).
Siblings of James J. Hill.
Includes photographs or likenesses of Hill and related family members born between 1780-1885.
Includes an image with Louis Hill and Mr. Chelminski.
Includes images with Egil Boeckmann.
Includes both exterior and interior photographs, the later focuses on art, such as paintings, statues, and general décor.
Egil played as a fullback for the Gophers while in school at the University of Minnesota.
Donor-provided index enclosed in the first folder.
Donor-provided index enclosed in the first folder.
Donor-provided index enclosed in the first folder.
Donor-provided index enclosed.
Donor-provided index enclosed.
Donor-provided index enclosed.
Donor-provided index enclosed.
Gertrude was born March 4, 1883.
Images include unidentified man with two children; Hill babies; Clara Hill; Ruth Hill; Gertrude Hill; Gertrude and Walter Hill; Michael Gavin; and Mary T. Hill.
Includes expenditures for taxes and assessments for Hill family owned companies and corporations, including Humboldt and other land companies and Gopher Mining Company. Also reflects expenditures related to New York and Vancouver real estate, as well as paid estate dividends, general office expenditures, and related financial transactions.
Advertises the auction of livestock, feed, and farm equipment at Echoland Farm, owned by Dr. Egil Boeckmann and located between White Bear Lake and Stillwater, Minnesota, on January 25 of an unknown year.
Ffolliott materials covering the years 1967-1970 are interfiled with Rachel Hill Boeckmann, Gertrude Hill Gavin, and Ffolliott family correspondence.
Other game preserve materials are in the George T. Slade Papers in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscripts collection.
Organized in Minnesota in 1916 by the heirs at law of James J. Hill to acquire the interest of the heirs in such property belonging to the estate as could not be conveniently divided or which it was considered desirable to handle through such a corporation.
Includes statement of taxes (1871-1888).
Includes stock certificate for 100 shares of The Sovereign Fire Assurance Company of Canada (1917).
Depicts the area bounded by Summit and Pleasant avenues and Walnut and Chestnut streets, which includes the Hill mansion at 240 Summit Avenue.