Title: Theodore S. Kopseng
Date: 1900-1970
Collection Number: 00167
Quantity: 42 items
Abstract: Images of landscapes, buildings and street scenes in Western North Dakota (Bowman and Beulah) and Fargo (N.D.), ranching scenes in the badlands, including Amidon (N.D.). Also includes images of a roundhouse in Wishek (N.D.).
Provenance: The collection was donated to the State Historical Society of North Dakota in March 1974 by Theodore (Ted) Kopseng. Collection 00034 was vacated and combined with this collection.
Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
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MSS 10211 Ted and Louis Kopseng
Biographical Sketch
From the Bismarck Tribune, Thursday April 26, 1990
Theodore S. Kopseng, 85, 1015 N. Third St., died April 24, 1990, in a Bismarck hospital. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church with the Rev. Hesel Hendrickson officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Bismarck. A Masonic service will be held at 7 tonight at the funeral home.
Mr. Kopseng was born Aug. 14, 1904 near Harvey. He was raised and educated near Harvey. He took courses in Grain Elevator Management and commerce at North Dakota Agricultural College and took accounting courses in the U.S. Army at Savana (Ill.). He managed grain elevators in the Devils Lake area and later represented Minneapolis grain commission companies. He married Louise Hanson on Jan. 4, 1944 at Bismarck. He served in the U.S. Army 259th Ordnance Co. during World War II. He had grain elevator interests at Clifton, Woodworth and Tuttle, and owned and operated ranches at Pettibone and Tuttle and a farm in Drake. He was later active in the apartment business in Bismarck. He suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease and had been confined to nursing homes since 1983.
He served on the State Historical Society Board and sang with El Zagal Shrine Plainsmen. He was a charter member and past president of the Missouri Slope Chapter of the Izaak Walton League, charter member of the Apple Creek Country Club, member of the American Legion, Masons, and the Trinity Lutheran Church.
He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Donna Engel and Karen von Witte, both of New York City; one son, Loren, Bismarck; and five grandchildren.
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00167-00001 Bullion Butte & Hall
00167-00002 Bob Cory at Bullion Butte & Hall 1973
00167-00003 Bob Cory 1973
00167-00004 Hotel, Colfax (N.D.)
00167-00005 First Baptist Church Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00006 Harvest scene Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00007 Red River, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00008 Driveway Oak Grove, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00009 Post Office, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00010 Red River near Island Park, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00011 Sacred Heart Academy, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00012 Masonic Temple, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00013 Gethsemane Cathedral, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00014 Gethsemane Cathedral, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00015 First Presbyterian Church, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00016 First Methodist Church, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00017 High School, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00018 Y.M.C.A., Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00019 St. John's Hospital, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00020 St. Mary's Cathedral and Bishop’s Residence, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00021 Agriculture College (now NDSU), Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00022 Great Northern Railway Station (Depot) Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00023 College Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00024 Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00025 Cass County Court House, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00026 Northern Pacific Railroad Depot, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00027 Waldorf Hotel, Fargo (N.D.)
00167-00028 Fargo (ND) 1905
00167-00029 Fargo (ND) 1876
00167-00030 Badlands cattle drive 1970
00167-00031 Logging Camp Ranch annual cattle roundup 1970
00167-00032 Annual Dakota Roundup of the Logging Camp Ranch 1970
00167-00033 Ranch-hands from the Logging Camp Ranch on Annual Dakota Roundup 1970
00167-00034 Crossing Little Missouri River on the Annual Dakota Roundup of the Logging Camp Ranch 1970
00167-00035 Large group at Stump Lake near Lakota (N.D.) circa 1900
00167-00036 Logging Camp Ranch Annual Dakota Roundup, Amidon (N.D.) 1970
00167-00037 Roundhouse at Wishek (N.D.) 7/2/1941
00167-00038 Children on mule in front of a barn circa 1900
00167-00039 Two men driving a wagon with a mixed team 1925
00167-00040 Five men pose beside the Cypert Park marker stone 1958
00167-00041 Eugene "Shem" Otto 1960
00167-00042 Logging Camp Ranch near Amidon (N.D.) 1960
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