Title: Ralph Neil Herbison
Dates: 08/04/1915
Collection Number: 2019-P-027
Quantity: 4 items
Abstract: Real photo postcards showing the Equity Capital Removal Parade in New Rockford, Eddy County (N.D.) taken by Lawrence Preston Weller, photographer of New Rockford (N.D.) on August 4, 1915. The photographs document the protests by local farmers about the Equity Cooperative Exchange (ECE, 1906-1926), a cooperative agency established, owned, and operated by farmers to sell grain directly to consumers. Organized in 1907, the ECE was incorporated in North Dakota in 1911 and Minnesota in 1912. It moved to St. Paul in 1914 and, in 1923, due to financial and management problems, went into receivership. It was absorbed by the Farmers' Union in 1926.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired this collection from Ralph Neil Herbison on September 26, 1969.
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Biographical Sketch
Ralph Neil Herbison, Sr.
Ralph Neil Herbison, Sr. was born on July 13, 1900 in Lake City (Minn.) to Samuel Frances Herbison, Jr. (1875-1922) and Alice Elizabeth Beckman Herbison (1875-1953). The family moved to New Rockford (N.D.) around 1910 where Samuel ran a livery barn. Ralph left New Rockford to go to school in 1917. He attended the Students Army Training Corps at Jamestown College and was inducted into the military on October 21, 1918. He served there until his discharge on December 11, 1918 as a private. Ralph traveled around the country for years and served two hitches in the Army, later serving a hitch in the navy. He attended and graduated from the pharmacy school at the University of Washington. Ralph was a member of the Acacia fraternity at University of Washington in 1929. He worked as a clerk at Brown's Pharmacy in Yakima (Wash.) from 1929 to 1932. Ralph moved to Spokane (Wash.) were he married Ernestine “Puddy” Vawter on June 9, 1934. From 1935 to 1940, he worked as a salesman for a wholesale drug company in Spokane. In 1940 he founded Herbison’s Pharmacy, Spokane. In the 1960’s he sold a 25 percent interest each to his son, Ralph Jr., and a former employee, Dallas Matkin. Ralph and Ernestine had two sons, Ralph Neil Herbison, Jr. (1935-) and John Stephen Herbison (1939-). Ernestine died on July 11, 1973 and Ralph died on September 21, 1974.
Lawrence Preston Weller
Lawrence Preston Weller was born in November 1864 in Ontario Canada to Guy Owen and Ann Weller. The family immigrated to the United States in 1870, settling in Hixton (Wis.). His mother Ann died around 1876. Lawrence married Susan K. Kendall in Oconomowoc (Wis.) on May 20, 1883. Their daughter Beatrice Susan Weller Silvernale (1885-1956) was born there on May 3, 1885. They lived in Chicago (Ill.) when the census was done on June 12, 1900, operating a photo studio. They moved to Preston (Minn.) in late 1900. His wife Susan died there in 1904. On April 25, 1906 he married Mary Katherine Rappe Bakey in Preston. They moved to LaCrosse (Wis.) in 1909, where he operated the Doerflinger Store Photo department. In 1910 he purchased the Robinson Photo Gallery in Bangor (Wis.) and operated it as a branch of the Doerflinger gallery. Weller then moved to New Rockford (N.D.) in 1913, where he operated a photo studio. The Weller family lived there until mid 1920s when they moved to Morris (Minn.) where he operated a photo studio with his step-son William Bakey. He died on May 5, 1938 in Red Wing (Minn.) and is buried there in the Oakwood Cemetery.
Sources:
Ancestry.com, Newspapers.com, Journal of American History, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1 June 1945, Pages 31–62.
INVENTORY
2019-P-027-00001 Two women in dresses with hats and their faces covered lead a goat holding a sign that reads: “We’ve Got Bismarck’s Goat”. Equity and Capitol Removal Parade, New Rockford (N.D.) August 4, 1915. Photo by Lawrence Preston Weller.
2019-P-027-00002 Children watch a horse drawn float covered with signs and an American flag. Equity and Capitol Removal Parade, New Rockford (N.D.) August 4, 1915. Photo by Lawrence Preston Weller.
2019-P-027-00003 Large group of men sitting on horse drawn float with sign above them that reads: "Say We It's A State Movement". Another sign hanging on photo right side reads: "MUNSTER STAND FOR EQUITY ALSO THE CAPITAL." A band with wind instruments follows the float. Equity and Capitol Removal Parade, New Rockford (N.D.) August 4, 1915. Photo by Lawrence Preston Weller.
2019-P-027-00004 Automobiles in parade with flags, bunting and signs. Equity and Capitol Removal Parade, New Rockford (N.D.) August 4, 1915. Photo by Lawrence Preston Weller.
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