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In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and“The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today,” Lovoll interviews Peter C. Christianson regarding being a Norwegian-American. Christianson was a lobbyist and lawyer in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a partner at the law firm Quarles & Brady.
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Christianson, Peter C. (1949- )
Peter C. Christianson is a lawyer and lobbyist from Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a juris doctorate in 1977.
Translation of a diary kept by a 14-year girl as she made the journey from Kristiania (now Oslo) to Stoughton, Wisconsin, via Castle Garden and New York in 1886. Translated by Christine Rypestol, 1984. The Norwegian version was published in "Migranten" v.2 (1989), Hamar, Norway.
"The Decision to Emigrate: Adventure or Necessity," a paper based on the memoirs of Elling S. Solheim, who was born in Nordmøre in 1880 and emigrated in in 1904. The paper attempts to demonstrate emigration in terms of the "push and pull" theory.