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Collection Summary
Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-02
Item: 00002
Title: Sheriff John Simons and his deputies
Date: 1884-1890
Inscription/Marks: [facsimile] Written on reverse: "John Simons and his deputies. Sheriff John Simons is 3rd from left."
Summary: Barnes County Sheriff John Simons (3rd from left) poses with his deputies for a group portrait. The deputies all wear badges.||John Simons was sheriff of Barnes County from 1884 to 1890. After serving his sheriff, Simons and his family moved to Superior, Wisc. where was a partner in a hardware store, until being appointed Chief of Police. The Simons family returned to Barnes County in 1891. Simons was also a U.S. Deputy Marshall, served on the Penitentiary Committee, and was a State Railroad Commissioner in 1899. Simons was married to Annie Omness. They had four children, Elsie (Mrs. C.K. Otto), Walter, Cora, and Norman. Sheriff John Simons of Barnes County poses with his three deputies. The deputies wore badges that identified them as lawmen, but they did not wear uniforms. Simons did not wear a badge. Sheriff Simons served after North Dakota became a state.
Red ID: PH_I_122906 Image ID: 182318 Image Notes: 00032-BA-02-00002

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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