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Title: Theodore Kopseng
Dates: 1900-1970
Collection Number: 00034
Quantity: 12 items
Abstract: 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.
Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
Copyrights: Copyrights to materials in this collection remain with the donor, publisher, author, or author's heirs. Researchers should consult the 1976 Copyright Act, Public Law 94-553, Title 17, U.S. Code and an archivist at this repository if clarification of copyright requirements is needed.
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00167 Ted Kopseng
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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 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 during World War II. He had grain elevator interests at Clifton, Woodworth and Tuttle, and had farms near each of them. 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 member of the Izaak Walton League.
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
00034-00001 Driving steers down at Annual Dakota Roundup on Logging Camp Ranch, Amidon (N.D.) Photo by Stegner, Colorado Springs (Colo.)
00034-00002 Moving cattle Annual Dakota Roundup Logging Camp Ranch, Amidon (N.D.) Photo by Stegner, Colorado Springs (Colo.)
00034-00003 Pushing cattle Annual Dakota Roundup Logging Camp Ranch, Amidon (N.D.) Photo by Stegner, Colorado Springs (Colo.)
00034-00004 Ranch hands on Annual Dakota Roundup Logging Camp Ranch, Amidon (N.D.) Photo by Stegner, Colorado Springs (Colo.)
00034-00005 Crossing Little Missouri River Annual Dakota Roundup Logging Camp Ranch, Amidon (N.D.) Photo by Stegner, Colorado Springs (Colo.)
00034-00006 Large group at Stump Lake, Lakota (N.D.)
00034-00007 Dakota Roundup Annual Logging Camp Ranch Amidon (N.D.) 1970 photo by Bill Snyder Films
00034-00008 Roundhouse, Wishek (N.D.), July 2, 1941
00034-00009 Children on mule in front of barn 1900
00034-00010 Two mules and one steer pulling wagon 1900
00034-00011 Cypert Park, Bismarck (N.D.)
00034-00012 Eugene (Shem) Otto
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