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Title: Dullam Estate
Dates: 1880-1937
Collection Number: 00094
Quantity: 143 items
Abstract: Portraits of the Dullam, Knowles, and Close families.
Provenance: Ralph Thompson brought this photograph collection from the Dullam Estate to the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
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20340 Ralph Thompson
Biographical Sketch
Bismarck Tribune obituary, Tuesday December 5, 1939
Death ended the career of George Francis Dullam, prominent Bismarck attorney and leading Northwest Mason, at 4 a.m. Tuesday in a local hospital. Mr. Dullam, who would have been 72 on Dec. 23, had been ill in the hospital nearly five weeks. A complication of ailments caused death. Mr. Dullam leaves his widow, 710 Fifth St., a sister, Mrs. Ethel D. Knowles, Greeley, Colo., and several other relatives. The body was taken to the Webb chapel. Funeral arrangements will not be made until Mrs. Knowles’ arrival.
Mr. Dullam was born at Blaine, Ill., Dec. 23, 1867. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. William F. Dullam, of English descent. George F. Dullam was educated in the public schools of Boone County, Illinois and was graduated from Illinois State Normal University at Normal Ill. in 1889. In 1894 he was graduated from the University of Minnesota law school. He was admitted to the bar in June of that year. From 1894 to 1896 he held a clerical position in Minneapolis. In 1896 he opened a practice at Waterville, Minn., which he maintained until 1902, when he came to Bismarck.
In 1903 Mr. Dullam became a member of the law firm of Newton and Dullam. The firm of Newton, Dullam and Young was organized in 1911. Sixteen years later Mr. Dullam became head of the firm of Dullam, Young and Burke. Since 1928 the form has been known as Dullam and Young.
Mr. Dullam was a member of the North Dakota Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He was widely known as a leading Masonic worker. He was a Mason of the 33rd degree, highest honor Masonry can bestow. His civic activities included membership on the Bismarck school board for a time, direction of the sale of war savings stamps in Burleigh County during the World War, and participating in Red Cross activities during the World War. Mr. Dullam was a charter member of the Bismarck Rotary Club and clerk of the vestry of St. George’s Episcopal Church for several years.
Mr. Dullam married Edna W. Dennis Oct. 5, 1904, in Minneapolis. Besides his widow and sister, he leaves these relatives: Mrs. Dorothy Lorton, Denver, niece; Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, Fort Morgan, Colo., niece; Ben Close, Plainfield, N.J., nephew; and Rhea and Warren Wilkinson, San Diego; Francis and Carolyn Close, Plainfield; and Knowles Anderson, Fort Morgan, all grand nieces and nephews. A sister, Mrs. Ada M. Close, died several years ago.
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00094-001 George Francis Dullam portrait. Photographer: Kadgihn, Bloomington, Ills.
00094-002 George Francis Dullam portrait. Photographer: Kadgihn, Bloomington, Ills.
00094-004 George Francis Dullam portrait. Photographer: Kadgihn, Bloomington, Ills.
00094-005 George Francis Dullam portrait. Photographer: Kadgihn, Bloomington, Ills.
00094-006 George Francis Dullam portrait. Photographer: Kadgihn, Bloomington, Ills.
00094-007 George Francis Dullam portrait. Photographer: Kadgihn, Bloomington, Ills.
00094-008 George Francis Dullam portrait. Photographer: Miller, Minneapolis
00094-009 George Francis Dullam age 44 1911 portrait. Photographer: J. F. Barta, Waterville and New Prague, Minn.
00094-010 George Francis Dullam portrait. Photographer: Holmboe, Bismarck-Mandan, N.D.
00094-011 George Francis Dullam portrait. Photographer: Risem Studio, Bismarck
00094-012 M. R. Tutblu, Bismarck (ND) portrait. Photographer: Paramore, Hawarden, Iowa
00094-013 George Willis portrait, Grandma Lake’s brother, son of George and Sally (Walker) Willis
00094-014 Nathaniel Lake portrait. Grandpa Lake’s half brother’s (Harry Gaylord Lake) son. Photographer: Golder & Robinson, N.Y.
00094-015 Albert H. Sikes portrait. Photographer: Rundleff, Sharon, Wisc.
00094-016 Albert H. Sikes portrait 1897. Photographer: L. A. Reid, Harvard, Ill.
00094-017 Benjamin Close 11 years old 1910. Photographer: Mitchell, Los Angeles
00094-018 Frances Close 14 years old October 1910. Photographer: Mitchell, Los Angeles
00094-019 Frances Close 14 years old October 1910. Photographer: Mitchell, Los Angeles
00094-020 Mary Irene Clark, 2 years old. Photographer: L. A. Reid, Harvard, Ill.
00094-021 Misses Sherman and Miss Smith portrait. Photographer: Taylor, Clinton, Wis.
00094-022 Mrs. M. A. Alexander portrait. Photographer: Sumner, Northfield, Minn.
00094-023 Frances Close 18 years old December 1914. Photographer: Shulman, San Diego, Cal.
00094-024 Frances Close portrait. Photographer: Butler Studio, Bismarck, N.D.
00094-025 Benjamin (father) and Francis (son) Close portrait ca. 1929
00094-026 Mr. and Mrs. Ben Close and Francis ca. 1928
00094-027 Francis Dullam Close and his grandfather Burder, Detroit (MI) August 1929
00094-028 Burder, Francis and Ben Close, Detroit (MI) August 1929
00094-029 Francis Close portrait in sailor uniform. Photographer: Northland Studios, Detroit (MI)
00094-030 E. W. Knowles portrait 1933. Photographer: Riley
00094-031 E. W. Knowles portrait. Photographer: Cooley, Denver
00094-032 Eliza Dullam (grandmother) portrait. Photographer: Sol Young Studios, N.Y.
00094-033 Elizabeth 1 year and 3 months and Dorothy Knowles 3 months and Eliza Dullam (grandmother) 1914. Photographer: Stewart Studio, Greeley, Colo.
00094-034 Dorothy, Ethel, and Elizabeth Knowles. Photographer: Cooley, Denver
00094-035 Dorothy Frances Knowles
00094-036 Dorothy Frances Knowles playing a harp
00094-037 Dorothy Knowles 15 years old, playing a harp 1929. Photographer: Gardner, Greeley, Colo.
00094-038 Dorothy Knowles portrait. Photographer: Riley’s, Greeley, Colo.
00094-039 Elizabeth Harriet Knowles portrait. Photographer: Riley’s, Greeley, Colo.
00094-040 Dorothy Frances and Elizabeth Harriet Knowles portrait. Photographer: Riley’s, Greeley, Colo.
00094-041 Knowles Anderson age 1 (mother Elizabeth) 1936. Photographer: G. Allen Lainson, Denver
00094-042 Elizabeth Knowles Anderson and Knowles Anderson age 2 1937. Photographer: Lainson Studios, Denver
00094-043 Dorothy Knowles 19 years old 1933. Photographer: Lainson Studios, Denver
00094-044 Elizabeth Knowles 20 years old 1933. Photographer: Lainson Studios, Denver
00094-045 Ethel Pearle Dullam. Photographer: Rowley, DeKalb, Ills.
00094-046 Ethel Dullam portrait. Photographer: McPherson Bros., Rockford, Ill.
00094-047 Ethel Pearle Knowles portrait 1933. Riley’s, Greeley, Colo.
00094-048 Frances and Benjamin Close 1899. Photographer: Wheat, Rockford, Ill.
00094-049 Benjamin and Frances Close. Photographer: Wheat, Rockford, Ill.
00094-050 Benjamin and Frances Close. Photographer: Wheat, Rockford, Ill.
00094-051 Ethel Pearle Dullam Knowles
00094-052 E. W., Ethel, Dorothy, and Elizabeth Knowles ca. 1921
00094-053 Easter afternoon Dorothy and Elizabeth Knowles and Eliza Dullam (grandmother)
00094-054 Dorothy and Elizabeth Knowles and Eliza Dullam (grandmother)
00094-055 Elizabeth and Dorothy Knowles
00094-056 Dorothy and Elizabeth Knowles, and Eliza Dullam (grandmother) May 19, 1929
00094-057 Eliza Dullam, (grandmother) and Mr. and Mrs. George Dullam
00094-058 Eliza Dullam, (grandmother) and Mr. and Mrs. George Dullam and Elizabeth Knowles
00094-058 Eliza Dullam (grandmother)
00094-059 Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Knowles, Eliza Dullam (grandmother) and Dorothy and Elizabeth Knowles
00094-060 Ethel Knowles and Eliza Dullam (grandmother)
00094-061 Eliza Dullam (grandmother) May 19, 1929
00094-062 Mary Shager
00094-063 Dorothy Knowles in cap and gown
00094-067 Picture of kids on sleds labeled, ‘photographically lined on the tablets of your mind’
00094-070 Carolyn August 1937
00094-072 Warren Wilkinson age 16 months beside our winter fuel supply the oil can
00094-087 ‘Trude Lake Beaties’
00094-091 George Dullam, Nan Dullam, etc.
00094-092 Our 4th of July picnic at Pacific Beach. Do you recognize my hat?
00094-102 To Birdie from the kid “Let this be your valentine we are all beauties of valentines”
00094-103 Rex, Lucille, Marjory, Marie, Ross, Fox
00094-121 Taken in July prior to Mother’s death on her last visit to Rockford
00094-135 Portrait of man April 1880
00094-142 George Francis Dullam portrait. Photographer: J. F. Barta, New Prague, Minn.
00094-143 George Francis Dullam and unidentified man. Photographer: Kadgihn, Bloomington, Ill.
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