Title: Ruth LaPlant Reid
Dates: ca. 1910s-1960s
Collection Number: MSS 10188
Quantity: 1 foot
Abstract: Consists primarily of recipes collected by Mrs. Reid, but also includes reminiscences of North Dakota in the early 1900s, and reminiscences of Laura Odegaard, Andrew Hemley, and Verne Barks. Reid lived in Egeland, Towner County (ND).
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired this collection from Ruth L. Reid in May 1966.
Property rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to the collection.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
From the Record Herald, Cando (ND), January 24, 1980
Ruth LaPlant was born March 15, 1891 in Otsego (MN) and attended school there and at Anoka, graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1914. She taught school in Sleepy Eye (MN) and Egeland where she met and married Walter Scott Reid. They made their home in Devils Lake for several years, later moving to a farm near Clyde. When they retired from farming they moved back to Egeland where her husband died in 1954. She resumed her teaching career at high schools in North Dakota and South Dakota, retiring in 1958. She moved to Egeland, residing there until she moved to Atchinson (Kansas) in 1969 to live with her daughter Laura (Mrs. Lance) Garten. Ruth Reid passed away January 10, 1980 at Jefferson County memorial Hospital Geriatrics Center where she had been a patient since 1977.
BOX / FOLDER INVENTORY
Box 1:
1 Reminiscences and stories:
“Someone to Remember”
“An Early Dakota Adventure”
“What Pioneers?”
“Pioneers’ Ho’”
“I Find Some Friends”
“North Dakota Storms”
“Early Days in North Dakota”
“Stories of North Dakota”
2 Recipes: Breads, sandwiches and waffles
3 Recipes: Cakes
4 Recipes: Candy, honey
5 Recipes: Coffee and tea
6 Recipes: Cookies
7 Recipes: Fish, meats, cheeses
8 Recipes: Fruit: desserts, drinks, jams, juices, canning
9 Health
10 Recipes: Holidays
11 Recipes: Hot dishes
12 Recipes: Ice cream and iced desserts
13 Recipes: Milk drinks, chocolate
14 Recipes: Pancakes, waffles
15 Recipes: Party refreshments
16 Recipes: Pies
Box 2:
1 Recipes: Pickles
2 Plants, gardening
3 Recipes: Potatoes
4 Recipes: Puddings and pudding sources for desserts
5 Recipes: Salads, salad dressings
6 Recipes: Soups
7 Recipes: Vegetables
8 Recipes: Miscellaneous
9 Recipes: Miscellaneous
10 Recipes: Miscellaneous
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