Carroll L. Engelhardt

Carroll Engelhardt, emeritus professor of history at Concordia College - Moorhead, Minnesota, was born in an Iowa farmhouse without electricity, plumbing, or a working furnace. He started doing chores at age six, milked cows by hand from age eleven, helped put up hay and harvest oats, cleaned cow and hog barns, and spread manure on frozen fields until he left for college. He spent the rest of his life studying, teaching, and writing at higher education institutions. He and his wife have lived for over fiftty years in the Red River Valley of the North and have traveled extensively in the United States and nineteen other countries.

Professor Engelhardt has authored five books: On Firm Foundation Grounded: The First Century of Concordia College for which he received the Red River Valley Heritage Society's Historian Award, Gateway to the Northern Plains: Railroads and the Birth of Fargo and Moorhead, The Farm at Holstein Dip: An Iowa Boyhood, winner of the State Historical Society of Iowa 2013 Shambaugh Award for the Best Book Written about Iowa History the Previous Year, Concordia Fair Doth Stand: The College Begins its Second Century, 1991-2016, and, recently, "By the Sweat of His Brow": The R. M. Probstfield Family at Oakport Farm.