Sources used in OUR STORY:

Tales and stories around the Chaffee Family Dinner Table

William H. Chaffee, The Chaffee Genealogy 1635-1909, pub. 1909

Newton Reed, Early History of Amenia (NY), 1875

Hiram Drache, Day of the Bonanza, 1964

Hiram Drache, “John Deere’s Plow”, Illinois History Teacher 8:1, 2001

Carter Chaffee, Descendants of Eben W. Chaffee, 2000

Clement Lounsberry, North Dakota History and People, Vol. II, 1917

William Hunter, “Amenia and Sharon Land Company” (unpublished mss)

J.V.S.Chaffee, correspondence, 2012

H.F.C. Personal Correspondence, IRS-NDSU Archives

Herbert Quick, Vandemark's Folly

Here are some links you might find interesting:

* Excerpts from early diaries and documents, beginning in the year 1002; info about the family Chafe/Chafy/Chaffe -

http://chafetree.com/117WKW_Chafy_Excerpts.html

* Chaffee genealogy-sharing at wikitree -

http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/CHAFFEE

* The Encyclopedia Titanica entry on Herbert F. Chaffee -

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/herbert-fuller-chaffee.html

* The Encyclopedia Titanica entry on Carrie C.T. Chaffee -

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/carrie-constance-chaffee.html

* Liability Claim against the White Star Line, January 1913 -

http://www.titanicinquiry.org/lol/claims/chaffee-c34.php

*Fargo Forum article April 7, 2012; interview with Mark F. Chaffee (grandson of H.F.C.), including audio of 1974 interview with Lester Chaffee (youngest son of H.F.C.) -

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/356652/

* Index to Amenia and Sharon Land Company Records, archived at the Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo,ND (click on Amenia and Sharon Land Co. for pdf of index)

http://library.ndsu.edu/archives/collections-institute/manuscripts/finding-aids