Bicentennial Story #114-Maids at Fort Lincoln

Bicentennial Story #114-Maids at Fort Lincoln

Account of the difficulty to keep maids at Fort Abraham Lincoln.

10/7/1975

Father Louis Pfaller

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English

BS-114

Fort Abraham Lincoln, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

A century ago, the officers at Fort Abraham Lincoln found it difficult to keep maids. Some of them had been brought from the East or Midwest at considerable expense to the officers. Within a short time, all, according to their degree of beauty, married soldiers. The employment agencies were then instructed to send only the homeliest females obtainable, so a group of knock-kneed, cross-eyed, crooked-teethed cooks were sent to the garrison. The jubilation of the harassed officers' wives, however, was of short duration, because these new maids, too, were all married within two months!!

This is Bicentennial Story No.114, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.

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Bicentennial tape #7, Bicentennial stories 108-127