Title: Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy
Dates: ca. 1880s-1971
Collection Number: MSS 10856
Quantity: 1.5 feet
Abstract: Papers consist of genealogical research compiled for a Goldsmith family history, printed material and photographs.
Provenance: The Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy Papers were donated to the State Historical Society of North Dakota by Diane Haugen on August 15, 2000.
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MSS 10778 Milton S. and Olive (Everett) Goldsmith Family
MSS 10837 Haugen Family Papers
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Florence Edna Goldsmith was born on October 7, 1900 to Owen and Leila E. (Sherwood) Goldsmith in Banner Township, Woodbury (IA). She had one sister, Lela May. By 1910, her family moved to Kidder County (ND).
BOX / FOLDER INVENTORY
Box 1:
1 Correspondence, 1918-1951
2 Correspondence, 1952-1971
3 Goldsmith genealogy, 1949
4 Miscellaneous, ca. 1907-1960:
May Goldsmith correspondence, 1909
Leila Sherwood Goldsmith correspondence, 1909
Obituaries of Ralph and Elmer Goldsmith, 1954
Memorial card from funeral services of Milton, Joseph and Elmer Goldsmith, 1954-1958
Leila Sherwood Goldsmith family records
List of children of Samual R. Goldsmith and Abigail Goldsmith (married May 4, 1856)
List of children of Nelson Sr. and Nancy (Davis) Goldsmith (married August 8, 1823)
Gertie James obituary and funeral memorial, 1960
Postcards and correspondence of “Sisseton, SD Goldsmiths”: Abigail, Tom, Asa and Albert, ca. 1907-1914
Harriet Goldsmith Lavacek obituary and genealogical information, n.d.
Box 2: Photographs 10856-001-038 (see inventory below)
Box 3: Photographs 10856-039-070
Box 4: Photographs 10856-071-116
Box 5: Photographs 10856-117-124
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
10856-001 Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy, Spokane (WA), 1925
10856-002 Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy and Diane Haugen by Christmas tree, December 1967
10856-003 Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy, Dorothy and Diane Haugen, July 1, 1948
10856-004 Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy and Diane Haugen next to bus, Skyline Drive (VA), July 1,
1948
10856-005-006 Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy with Brian Avery Lindawood, son of Diane (Haugen)
Lindawood, Silver Springs (MD), December 20, 1969
10856-007 Dorothy Haugen and Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy, April 3, 1970
10856-008-009 Paul R. Murphy and Dorothy (Goldsmith) Haugen, April 1963
10856-010-018 Portrait of Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy, 1928-1968
10856-019 Portrait of Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy and Dorothy (Goldsmith) Haugen, Washington,
D.C., April 17, 1962
10856-020 Florence Goldsmith, November 11, 1918
10856-021 “Western Pickers” - Florence Goldsmith with seven other young women in overalls and
straw hats, ca. 1918
10856-022 Florence (Goldsmith) and Paul R. Murphy with Dorothy (Goldsmith) Haugen, September
2, 1962
10856-023 Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy and Dorothy (Goldsmith) Haugen, 1940s?
10856-024 Florence (Goldsmith) and Paul R. Murphy with Milton Goldsmith, 1954
10856-025 Joe, Florence, Milton Goldsmith at Milton’s home, October 1, 1946
10856-026 Florence Goldsmith, September 7, 1919
10856-027 Leila (Sherwood) Goldsmith, July 1935
10856-028 Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy with Leila Sherwood Goldsmith, May 8, 1932
10856-029 Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy and unidentified young woman, 1932
10856-030 Portrait of Leila (Sherwood) Goldsmith, 1938
10856-031 Joe, Florence, Milton Goldsmith at Milton’s home, October 1, 1946
10856-032 Portrait of Florence Edna and May Lela Goldsmith, Goodrich (ND), July 20, 1909 (copy –
see 10856-039 for original)
10856-033 Ode, Leila (Sherwood), May and Flora Goldsmith, 1916 or 1917?
10856-034 Portrait of Owen (1864-1917) and Leila (Sherwood) (1868-1939) Goldsmith, 1900?
10856-035-036 Portraits of Leila (Sherwood) Goldsmith, ca. 1922-1930s (copies)
10856-037 Portrait of Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy, October 14, 1939
10856-038 Portrait of Florence (Goldsmith) and Paul R. Murphy, 1940s?
10856-039 Portrait of Florence Edna and May Lela Goldsmith, Goodrich (ND), July 20, 1909
10856-040 Portrait of unidentified Women’s organization or group, Spokane (WA): Mable Delbridge,
Lillian Avery, Pauline Fleener, Ethel Ogelsbee, Margaret Horn, Blanche Garrish, Molly Teal, Blanche Dupere, Florence Goldsmith, Isabell Salmon, Myra Wagner, Berena Bierlien, Blanche Shaffer (Dalton), Rose Vyverberg, Mable Hoffman, Ethel Kennett, Pearl Landry, Anna Rannie
10856-041 Portrait of Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy, ca. 1940s
10856-042 David Richard and Elizabeth (Moore) Goldsmith with children Delia, Sarah Ellen and
James Donald outside home, Pits Point (KY), late 1890s (copy)
10856-043 Unidentified couple, ca. 1890s (copy)
10856-044 Unidentified couple, ca. 1910s (copy)
10856-045 Thomas Hicks, Washington, D.C., April 10, 1960
10856-046 Melville and Henry Goldsmith, April 18, 1949
10856-047 Family of Nelson Jr. and Helen (Miller) Goldsmith: Melville, Ralph, Maud, Henry and
Elmer, 1947
10856-048 Probably Nelson Thomas (1866-1910) and Nancy (Davis) (1869-1921) Goldsmith, ca.
1900
10856-049 Maude (Goldsmith) Cheadle and daughter Mabel, St. Peter (MN), ca. 1901
10856-050 Hattie, Gertie James, Nan Canfield, Fannie Sapp and Maude Cheadle, Sisseton (SD),
September 6, 193?
10856-051 Portrait of man, possibly Tom Goldsmith, ca. 1880s
10856-052 Portrait of Tom Goldsmith, ca. 1880s
10856-053 Portrait of Milton Goldsmith, ca. 1890s
10856-054 Portrait of Annie, Delia and Hattie Goldsmith, daughters of Sam and Abigail, ca. 1890s
10856-055 Portrait of Albert Goldsmith, ca. 1890s
10856-056 Portrait of Nancy (Goldsmith) Lawrence, daughter of Sam and Abigail, ca. 1880s
10856-057 Henry Clay Goldsmith near Cleveland (MN), ca. 1936
10856-058 Donna Goldsmith? 1961
10856-059 Dorothy Goldsmith? 1961
10856-060 Mrs. Rudolph, Dorothy, Leila (Sherwood), and Dorothy Goldsmith, 1961
10856-061 Portrait of Henry and Nan Canfield, ca. 1890s
10856-062 Joe, Harriet (Hattie) (Goldsmith) Lavachek, and Milton Goldsmith, at Dale Goldsmith’s
farm, September 1946
10856-063 Goldsmith farm, Sisseton (SD), ca. 1910
10856-064 Portrait of Harriet (Hattie) (Goldsmith) Lavachek and youngest daughters Nina and
Gladys, Sisseton (SD), ca. 1917
10856-065 Portrait of James Duane Wilkins, Lexington (NE), class of 1954
10856-066 Portrait of Saide and Mary Arretus Lavachek, ca. 1918
10856-067 Harriet (Hattie) (Goldsmith) and Joseph Lavachek and children Sadie, Mary Arretus, and
Edwin Joseph, ca. 1906
10856-068 Hattie Lavacheck and Douglas Alten Lavachek, December 195,
10856-069 Portrait of Sadie (Lavachek) Larson, ca. 1961
10856-070 Hattie Lavacheck, Sadie (Lavachek), Vera Lou and Bradley Larson (four generations), 1951
10856-071 Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Louis P. Larson and family, Sisseton (SD), ca. 1950s
10856-072 Portrait of Bruce C. Lavachek, June 1957
10856-073 Ardyce (Nelson) Lavachek and daughter Lois Jean, January 1957
10856-074 Robert Lavachek with children Bruce and Lois Jean, January 1957
10856-075 Bruce and Douglas Lavachek, ca. 1962
10856-076 Robert and Ardyce Lavachek with sons Bruce and Douglas, ca. 1960s
10856-077 Robert and Ardyce Lavachek, ca. 1960s
10856-078 Louis March, grandson of Joe Goldsmith, son of Charles March and Maude (Goldsmith)
March, July 30, 1968
10856-079 Portrait of Belle (Goldsmith) and Fred Wetzel, 1930s?
10856-080 Nellie Peterson’s children (Jo’s sister), ca. 1900s-1910s
10856-081 Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Goldsmith family, 1954
10856-082 Portrait of Frankie (Goldsmith?), 1920s-1930s? (wife of one of Joe’s sons, she is from
Kidder County, father Ez Simer, sister Dorothy married another of Joe’s sons)
10856-083 Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Driscoll and family, 1954
10856-084 Addie and Ruby with automobile in background, 1935
10856-085 Ted Cromwell (Viney’s husband) and Joe N. Goldsmith, 1910s-1920s?
10856-087 Joseph Nelson Goldsmith’s children and spouses, Clifford (ND), June 14, 1964: Harold
and Bonnie (Hirsch) Goldsmith, Maude (Goldsmith) and Charles March, Helen (Goldsmith) and ? Erickson, Fred and Belle (Goldsmith) Wetzel, Ruby Goldsmith and Gerald Driscoll, Clifford and Lorene (Gray) Goldsmith
10856-088 Portrait of (probably) Becky Driscoll, 1960s-1970s?
10856-089 Portrait of Milton S. and Joseph N. Goldsmith, ca. early 1950s
10856-091 Joe and Milton Goldsmith at Milton’s home (ND), October 1, 1946
10856-092 Tom Goldsmith and children (including Joseph Nelson Goldsmith)
10856-093 Belle (Goldsmith) Wetzel, ca. 1960
10856-094 Portrait of Joseph Nelson and Adeline Martha (DeLaughter) Goldsmith family with
children: Helen Florence, Arthur, Maude Ethel (March), John Daniel, Vernal Charles, Luella Belle (Witzel), Harold Forrest, Ellwod Leroy, Ellsworth Joseph, Clifford Robert and Chester Hugh, 1933
10856-095 Milton Goldsmith and siblings Flora Wise and Herbert Goldsmith, ca. 1950
10856-096 Portrait of Etta Goldsmith Long and her mother Arabella Goldsmith, 1920?
10856-097-098 Milton at the grave of James’ Goldsmith, 1954? (2x2 color slide)
10856-099 Milton S. Goldsmith, Florence (Goldsmith) Murphy, Lawrence Goldsmith, December 20,
1949
10856-100 Milton and Lawrence Goldsmith, December 20, 1949
10856-101 Arabella Goldsmith, Milton Goldsmith’s stepmother, 1920?
10856-102-103 Milton Goldsmith and the remains of the last house he helped to build before he left KY,
built for his brother Lawrence Goldsmith, ca. 1900-1901
10856-104 Milton, Etta (Goldsmith) Long and Arabella Goldsmith, 1920?
10856-105 First cousins and spouses: Flora Wise, Martha Goldsmith, Sam Fox, Lawrence Goldsmith,
Laura Fox, Henry and Mattie Watkins, Herbert and Madeline Goldsmith, Dyson Branch, Mary and Clarence Goldsmith, 1939
10856-106 Lawrence and Martha (Combs) Goldsmith, 1940s?
10856-107 James D. and Zorada (Hibbs) Goldsmith with children Roenia, Flora, and Lawrence, ca.
1870 (photograph of a painting)
10856-108 Milton and Olive Susanna (Everett) Goldsmith, 1943
10856-109 Portrait of Lieutenants Arthur J. and Ginny C. Cavanaugh, 1943?
10856-110 Unidentified Cavanaugh boys, ca. 1950s
10856-111 Portrait of Gertie (Davis) James, ca. 1915 (Florence Goldsmith’s first cousin)
10856-112 Belle James and Gertrude James, 1951
10856-113 Lillian (Barmore) Jennings, Ruby (Jennings), Edward O. II and Edward Edney III,
Birmingham (AL), 1950s?
10856-114 Arthur Cavanaugh, Philippine Islands, April 1945
10856-115 Unidentified Cavanaugh baby boy, ca. 1950s
10856-116 Cavanaugh boys in swimming pool (Christmas card), ca. 1950s
10856-117-118 Milton at the grave of James’ Goldsmith, 1954? (2x2 color slide)
10856-119 Joseph Nelson Goldsmith and Addie with family, 1940s? (copy negative used in
genealogy)
10856-120 Mable (Fisher) Withers on porch of home (KY) (copy negative used in genealogy)
10856-121 Unidentified family outside home, ca. 1890s-1900 (copy negative used in genealogy)
10856-122 Unidentified man portrait, ca. 1880s-1890s (copy negative used in genealogy)
10856-123 Unidentified woman portrait, ca. 1880s-1890s (copy negative used in genealogy)
10856-124 Unidentified family portrait, ca. 1910s-1920 (copy negative used in genealogy)
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