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Fargo
Fargo city (1990 pop. 74,111), seat of Cass co., E N.Dak., at the head of navigation on the Red River, opposite Moorhead, Minn.; inc. 1875. A railroad hub and regional financial and medical center, Fargo is also the trade and distribution center of a spring-wheat and livestock region. Manufactures... Read more |
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William George Fargo
William George Fargo 1818-81, American pioneer expressman, b. Pompey, N.Y. He had been successively a postrider, freight agent, messenger, and resident agent (1843) for an express company in Buffalo, N.Y., when in 1844, with Henry Wells and another partner, he organized Wells & Company, the... Read more |
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Henry Wells
Henry Wells 1805-78, American pioneer expressman, b. Thetford, Vt. As a child he moved with his family to central New York state. In 1843 he established express service between New York City and Buffalo and successfully competed with the U.S. Post Office by carrying mail at less than the government... Read more |
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Wells Fargo Company
Wells Fargo & Company 420 Montgomery StreetSan Francisco, California 94163U.S.A.Telephone: (415) 411-4932Toll Free: (800) 411-4932Fax: (415) 677-9075Web site: http://www.wellsfargo.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1968 as Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.; 1983 as Norwest CorporationEmployees:... Read more |
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North Dakota State University
North Dakota State University at Fargo; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1890 as North Dakota Agricultural College, achieved university status in 1960. The agricultural experiment station is there, as well as research centers in biochemistry, pharmacy, and plant... Read more |
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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp , 1848-1929, law officer, gambler, and gunfighter of the American West, b. Monmouth, Ill. After serving as police officer in Wichita (1874) and Dodge City (1876-77), Kans., he became an armed guard for Wells, Fargo & Company in Tombstone, Ariz. There, with his brothers... Read more |
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John Bernard Flannagan
John Bernard Flannagan , 1895-1942, American sculptor, b. Fargo, N.Dak., studied at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. His early life was a bitter struggle against poverty. Too poor to buy quarried stone, he picked up field stones for carving. His sculptures, often of animals, range from profound to... Read more |
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Moorhead
Moorhead city (1990 pop. 32,295), seat of Clay co., NW Minn., on the Red River; inc. 1881. A sister city of Fargo, N.Dak., it is a shipping and processing center for a livestock, dairy, and farm (chiefly sugar beets and potatoes) area. Sugar, molasses, barley malt, and soft drinks are manufactured.... Read more |
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Jonny Lang
JONNY LANG Born: Jonathon Langseth; Fargo, North Dakota, 29 January 1981 Genre: Blues, Rock Best-selling album since 1990: Lie to Me (1996) Hit songs since 1990: "Lie to Me" Jonny Lang's sudden emergence onto the blues scene in 1995 was a deviation from the seasoned path customarily blazed... Read more |
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Asa Gray
Asa Gray 1810-88, one of America's leading botanists and taxonomists, b. Oneida co., N.Y. As professor of natural history at Harvard from 1842, he was the teacher of many eminent botanists. Through his voluminous writings in periodicals and his well-known textbooks, he helped popularize the study... Read more |
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