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Collection Summary
Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: SI-03
Item: 00004
Title: Samuel Gayton
Date: 1890
Creator: DeGraff, William H.,--1852-1938
Inscription/Marks: Samuel Gayton, Date Unknown. Photographers imprint on reverse: Bismarck, De Graff, N. Dakota. [biography] Samuel Gayton was born on June 1st, 1873 at Horsehead Creek (or Point) north of Fort Yates on the east side of the Missouri to James Bennett Gayton and Wenona "Mary" "Oyate Wicimdeza" Gayton at Fort Yates, Sioux County, (D.T.) The family moved to Hampton, Emmons County (N.D.) in 1868 where his siblings Abbie Marjorie, William, John, Maude, Charles Benton, Alice, A. Joseph, Emma, and Amy were born. His mother moved the family back to Fort Yates . He worked as a clerk and a carpenter on Standing Rock Indian Reservation. He married Margaret Mulhern on July 15, 1892 and they had fourteen children: Jane, Rose, Louise, Annie, William W., Henry J., John B., Arthur A. Alfred S., Ruby A., Harry, Minnie E., Mary E. Gayton. On October 16, 1907, Samuel started working for W. H. Robinson, Indian Trader at his General Merchandise Store in Fort Yates. He hauled freight of cement and lumber from Pollock, South Dakota. In 1909 he hauled hides to Pollock. He also worked the Gayton allotments with his brother Jim, plowing and seeding the land. He worked as a carpenter on the First National Bank building at Fort Yates (N.D.) which was finished on March 18, 1910.In 1910 he moved the family to McLaughlin where he worked at the Sib McLaughlin Mercantile Store. In 1911, they moved to Selfridge (N.D.) after building a new home. He died on June 8th, 1931 in Fort Yates, Sioux County (N.D.)
Summary: Vignetted three-quarter length seated studio portrait of Samuel Gayton. He is looking photo left and is wearing a medium tone suit coat and vest with a high collar white shirt and a knitted cravat. He has a pin in the lapel buttonhole of his suit coat. Behind him is a plain background with mottled tones.
Red ID: PH_I_120759 Image ID: 54870 Image Notes: 00032-SI-03b-00004

Collection: 00032 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1880-1977

Summary: Consists of copies of photographs belonging to people interviewed for the North Dakota Oral History Project. The Project was undertaken by Larry Sprunk, with the cooperation of the North Dakota American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the North Dakota Farmers Union, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The primary objective of the North Dakota Oral History Project was to conduct oral tape recorded interviews with North Dakotans who lived through the state's history and who could speak of this history from a first-hand basis. Interviewees were photographed at the time of their interviews. In addition, the project borrowed over 6,000 historical photographs which were copied and added to the State Historical Society's collection. Many interviewees also donated family histories, documents, letters, ledgers, books, and artifacts.

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