Index to Locations
Americus Township Americus Cemetery
Grand Forks Memorial Park Cemetery
Larimore Bellevue Cemetery
Americus
Cemetery
Americus Township, Grand Forks County, North Dakota
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Arne Pederson Haugen (1845-1908) —
also known as Arne P. Haugen —
of Grand
Forks County, N.Dak.
Born in Grue, Norway,
June
7, 1845.
Delegate
to North Dakota state constitutional convention from Grand Forks
County, 1889; member of North
Dakota state senate, 1890, 1893, 1907-08; died in office 1908.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Advocate of alcohol prohibition.
Died in Reynolds, Grand Forks
County, N.Dak., January
12, 1908 (age 62 years, 219
days).
Interment at Americus Cemetery.
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Campaign slogan:
"No one seeks for his own, but everyone the other's
best." |
|  | Epitaph: "Principfast du storog
staerl / Gjorde du stort Dagvakr / Hvil in fred vi samles
igien / Naar dagen gryr i himmelen." [Firm in principles,
big and strong, you put in a full day's work, in peace we will all be
together again when the time comes we are in
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Memorial Park
Cemetery
Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota
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Olger Burton Burtness (1884-1960) —
also known as Olger B. Burtness —
of Grand Forks, Grand
Forks County, N.Dak.
Born in Mekinock, Grand Forks
County, N.Dak., March
14, 1884.
Republican. Lawyer; Grand
Forks County State's Attorney, 1911-16; delegate to Republican
National Convention from North Dakota, 1916,
1936,
1948;
member of North
Dakota state house of representatives, 1919-20; U.S.
Representative from North Dakota 1st District, 1921-33.
Lutheran.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Alpha Delta; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Sons
of Norway.
Died in Grand Forks, Grand Forks
County, N.Dak., January
20, 1960 (age 75 years, 312
days).
Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Paul Benson (1918-2004) —
of Grand Forks, Grand
Forks County, N.Dak.
Born in Greenville Township, LaMoure
County, N.Dak., June 1,
1918.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; executive secretary
(1946-49) and administrative assistant (1949) to U.S. Sen. Milton
R. Young; lawyer; North
Dakota state attorney general, 1954-55; U.S.
District Judge for North Dakota, 1971-85; took senior status 1985.
Lutheran.
Member, American Bar
Association; Rotary;
American
Legion; Elks.
Died, in Willow Point Memory Care Assisted
Living, Verona, Dane
County, Wis., April
22, 2004 (age 85 years, 326
days).
Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Tracy R. Bangs (1862-1936) —
of Grand Forks, Grand
Forks County, N.Dak.
Born in Le Sueur, Le Sueur
County, Minn., April
29, 1862.
Democrat. Lawyer;
attorney for Northwestern Bell
Telephone Co., Northern States Power
Co., and Occidental Life
Insurance Co.; Grand
Forks County State's Attorney, 1892; U.S.
Attorney for North Dakota, 1894-98.
Episcopalian.
Died February
22, 1936 (age 73 years, 299
days).
Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Ernest Clifton Cooper (1856-1917) —
also known as E. C. Cooper —
Born April
11, 1856.
Republican. North Dakota
Republican state chair, 1896.
Died in Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak., December
20, 1917 (age 61 years, 253
days).
Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Bellevue
Cemetery
Larimore, Grand Forks County, North Dakota
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Duane Ollen Mutch (1925-2019) —
also known as Duane Mutch —
of Larimore, Grand
Forks County, N.Dak.
Born in Arvilla, Grand Forks
County, N.Dak., May 13,
1925.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; bulk oil and
propane distributor; member of North
Dakota state senate 19th District, 1959-76, 1979-2006;
Independent candidate for U.S.
Senator from North Dakota, 1968; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from North Dakota, 2008;
Republican Presidential Elector for North Dakota, 2016
(voted for Donald
Trump and Mike
Pence).
Lutheran.
Member, American
Legion; Farm
Bureau.
Died, in Altru Hospital,
Grand Forks, Grand Forks
County, N.Dak., July 17,
2019 (age 94 years, 65
days).
Interment at Bellevue Cemetery.
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