BOOK 4 INFORMATION

“Did You Know That. . .?” is a book filled with 46 fascinating stories about people who have lived in North Dakota.  This book is Volume 4 in a series and contains over 50 photographs and a comprehensive index.  In the section “Themes,” individuals are linked through a thematic approach.

The individuals profiled in this volume are:
Isabel Gunn------------Thought to be a man, mother of the first white child born in North Dakota

William Thompson----First farmer in western North Dakota had been a U.S. Congressman

Enos Stutsman---------Women’s suffrage pioneer also suffered discrimination

Nehemiah Ordway----Man behind capital removal from Yankton to Bismarck

William Blackburn-----First president of UND and a noted theological scholar

Eli Shortridge-----------Early North Dakota governor who challenged Republican establishment

Charles Derudio--------Custer’s officer who cheated death on two occasions

Marcus Reno------------Scapegoat for Custer’s defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn

William Roach----------Politician who outmaneuvered Alexander McKenzie

Charles Reynolds-------Custer’s chief scout killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Edmund Rice------------Civil War Medal of Honor winner, inventor, and Fort Totten officer

James McLaughlin------Indian agent whose arrest order led to death of Sitting Bull

Clement Lounsberry---Civil War hero who founded state’s oldest newspaper

William Kindred--------Fargo mayor who waged railroad war with James J. Hill

Yellowstone Kelly------Pony express rider whose exploits became legend

Emma Mott-------------State’s Carrie Nation was also first female college instructor

John Shanley------------First Catholic bishop got state’s liberal divorce loopholes closed

Max Bass-----------------Man who enticed over 100,000 people to move to North Dakota

Edward Darrow---------Family patriarch of medicine, women’s suffrage, education, and the arts

Horace Stockbridge----First NDSU president responsible for sake boom in Japan

Reuben Stevens--------North Dakotan profiled in five motion pictures

Orin Libby----------------“Father of North Dakota history”

Andrew Bruce-----------From orphan to North Dakota Supreme Court Justice

Charles Weigel----------Penniless immigrant established state’s oldest manufacturing company

Edwin Staude------------North Dakota’s most prolific inventor

John Flint-----------------Preacher some people wanted to lynch

John Hancock------------Co-author of plan to avert a national depression following World War II

Walter Liggett-----------Newspaper editor murdered for exposing organized crime

Truck Hannah------------Major league baseball player and movie actor

Rube Schauer------------First North Dakotan to play major league baseball

Betty Ross Clarke--------Hollywood leading lady

Jack Hurley----------------America’s “best boxing teacher”

Dick Grace-----------------Greatest stunt pilot in early movies

Floyd Roberts-------------Winner of Indy 500 auto race

Hazel Miner---------------“Angel of the Prairies”

Billy Petrolle---------------“Fargo Express” enshrined in boxing hall of fame

John Hutcheson----------America’s radar master during World War II

Cliff Thompson-----------America’s tallest schoolteacher, salesman, and lawyer

Polly Hamilton------------John Dillinger’s girlfriend

Vernon Liedtke-----------Highly acclaimed and “fearless” circus performer

Eugene McCarthy--------Mandan teacher, U.S. Senator, and 1968 Presidential candidate

Ben Meier------------------Mr. Secretary of State

Skitch Henderson---------Tonight Show orchestra leader began career in North Dakota

Red Hardy-------------------Pitcher for 1951 pennant-winning New York Giants

Tom Abercrombie---------Adventurer & award-winning photographer for National Geographic

Pete Retzlaff----------------NFL player of the year in 1965