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Collection: C - C Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1630-00001
Title: William Macnider and his wife Dr. Cynthia Estella Pingree Macnider
Date: 1933
Creator: Stutsman County Museum (Jamestown, N.D.)
Inscription/Marks: [Negative envelope] C1630 Macnider, William and Cynthia Pingree Negatives only. [Biography from Clarence A. Johnson, Jamestown ND] Dr. Cynthia Pingree Macnider. Mrs. Macnider was born in Denmark, Maine on July 24, 1858. She attended Frysburg Academy and graduated from Gorham Norman School, Gorham Maine in 1881, holding a teacher's degree. She taught school and later graduated from College for Physicians and Surgeons in 1888. This school was in Boston, Mass. and is now known as Bates College Medical School. Mrs. Macnider came to Fort Yates in June, 1838, where she served six years in Reid Hospital and school after joining the American Missionary Medical Association of New York. The following year she taught in the nursing department in Tougaloo University, in Mississippi. After two years of general practice in medicine at Chico, California, she and William Macnider were married at Bismarck on January 7, 1897. They made their home at Emmonsburg, North Dakota, retiring in 1918 and lived in Linton until February, 1939, when failing health brought them to the home of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Johnson of Spiritwood, (N.D.). Mrs. Macnider died in Jamestown Hospital Jamestown (N.D.) on May 4, 1943. Her mind remained keen to the very end and she spent many hours reading and enjoyed writing to old friends around the country. Mrs. Macnider served many who were in need of her services almost up to the time of her death. She was a member of the American Medical Association of New York, the Hillside Congregational Church of Cornish, Maine, and Order of the Eastern Star. She took an active part in the Episcopal and Methodist Churches when living in Linton, since there was no Congregational church in that community. She was buried in the Macnider family lot at Fairview Cemetery, Bismarck.
Copied from a bulletin issued by the American Missionary Association many years ago (1886). "Many Congregational Endeavor societies in the east have been recently very helpful by their contributions in support of the hospital at Fort Yates, Dakota Territory. This hospital is largely for the treatment of Indian women and children. Last year, Dr. Pingree, an educated Christian woman, who has charge of it, treated over 30 patients in the wards and made outside visits upon nearly 1000. I spent a few hours with her, and while we were talking of the interesting work there were three calls for the doctor, two from beds in the hospital and one from a patient in one of the tepees planted on the prairie a little distance from the hospital." Signed Francis E. Clark.
Mrs. William Macnider Obituary. After several years of failing health and a lingering hospital illness, Mrs. William Macnider, widow of William Macnider, pioneer trader and rancher, was relieved of her suffering Tuesday. She had been in the Jamestown hospital for several weeks before Christmas and again the early part of March where she remained until her death. She had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Edwin Johnson in Spiritwood for the last few years. Funeral services will be conducted this afternoon, (Thursday) at 1:00 o'clock at Jamestown, following which the body will be taken to Bismarck where internment will be made in Fairview cemetery beside the grave of her husband who preceded her in death in August 1940. The deceased was born July 24, 1858 in Maine where she grew up and received her education. She would have been 85 years of age in July. She was the former Dr. Cynthia Estella Pingree, and was a doctor at Reed's hospital at Fort Yates. It was there that she met William Macnider who operated a trading post as a branch office of the general supply store owned by his uncle, A. R. Macnider of Bismarck. They were married January 7, 1897, in Bismarck at the home of his uncle. They resided in Fort Yates for the next twenty years, Mr. Macnider continuing in the post store, trading with the soldiers, settlers and Indians. During that time he purchased land on this side of the river and established a cattle ranch of close to a thousand acres. After leaving the fort post, the Macniders operated a store on the ranch for several years. They lived there until after the close of the World War when they retired and moved to Linton, residing there until February, 1939, when they went to Spiritwood to live with the Johnsons. Surviving besides her daughter, is a son, John, living in Kansas City, Kansas; four grandchildren and a nephew, Charles E. Pingree of Denmark, Maine. Her son visited her two weeks ago.
Macnider is guest at Jamestown Celebration. Among prominent pioneer North Dakotans who are in Jamestown today as special guests at the city's three-day Golden Jubilee celebration, are Mr. and Mrs. Macnider of Linton. Mr. Macnider made his first trip into Jamestown 61 years ago. It was in fall of 1872. The railroad had only been completed that far and outside of the buildings of Fort Seward, the town boasted of only a few tents. It was in one of these that Macnider spent the winter and went through the famous blizzard of March, 1873. The storm lasted for three days and an untold number of animals and many people lost their lives. It was so cold that Billy and his partner were force to build up a tent around the stove with their blankets and crawl inside to keep from freezing. Snow sifted in through the 12-ply duck canvas and was as fine and almost as dry as flour. In the spring he rode into Bismarck on the first construction train over a makeshift roadbed. He opened a store and remained in business there until 1877 when he went with H. F. Douglas to Fort Yates to open a trading post.
Summary: Older man and woman stand outside wood frame house with door behind them. The woman is wearing a calf-length calico dress with white collar, the man is wearing a dark suit with white shirt and bow tie. William Macnider was the post trader at Fort Yates, Dakota Territory and Dr. Cynthia Estella Pingree was a doctor at Reed's Hospital at Fort Yates, Dakota Territory working for the American Missionary Medical Association of New York. __Fact sheet- narrative & newspaper articles with photo. Received from Johnson, William through his uncle Clarence A. Johnson, acting secretary of Stutsman County Museum Board, Jamestown (N.D. on November 17, 1969. [See case file under Johnson, Clarence A.] Images and biography of Dr. Cynthia Estella Pingree Macnider were sent to James E Sperry, Superintendent of the State Historical Society to be copied in 1969. Copy negatives were made and the originals returned to William and Clarence Johnson.
Red ID: PH_I_109751 Image ID: 146665 Image Notes: C1630-00001
Collection: C Digitized Images from Collection
Title: C Collection
Date: ca. 1836-1960
Summary: At some point in time the State Historical Society separated photographs into collections by size. The A collection consists of items 4 X 5” or less, the B collection consists of items 5 X 7” or less, the C collection consists of items 8 X 10” or less, the D collection consists of items 11 X 14” or less, and the E collection consists of items larger than 11 X 14”.
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