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Peter P. Wolden correspondence, 1861-1877
Letters by clergymen and laymen in Norway, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa to Wolden regarding private religious problems with an occasional reference to the relationships between the Augustana and Conference synods and their schools. Wolden, who immigrated in 1866, was an itinerant Norwegian schoolteacher. He was born in Sondre Fron, Gudbransdalen. Married to Bertha Bergum. -
Elise Margreth Cammermeyer Welhaven Gunnersen memoirs, 1844-1904
Photocopies of pages 135-270 of the handwritten reminiscences of the wife of Professor Rud Gunnersen (1844-1904), who taught at Augsburg College, Minneapolis from 1874 to 1883. The memoir is a lively account of the interrelated lives of the Sverdrups, Oftedals, and Gunnersens, who occupied three apartments in the same house near the Augsburg campus. Elise Gunnersen found it difficult to adapt to life in Minneapolis, and her husband was not happy in his work at Augsburg. After leaving Augsburg the family spent a year at the Hauge Seminary in Red Wing, Minnesota. The Gunnersens returned to Norway in 1884, where Elise settled into a life that was more in accord with her background. -
Peter A. Rasmussen papers, 1830-1941
Correspondence, reports, articles, pamphlets, and clippings of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman, author, and editor. Rasmussen immigrated in 1850; was a parochial school teacher (1850-1852); minister, Lisbon, Illinois (1854-1897); president, Eielsen Seminary, Lisbon (1854- 1855); organizer of Lisbon Society for Publication of Textbooks and Devotional Books (1856); editor of "Kirkelig Tidende" (1856-1861) and of "Opbyggelseblad" (1877-1887); and author of books and articles treating theological subjects.
Some of the topics discussed are education, foreign and home missions, theological doctrine, union of synods, lay activity in the church, recruitment of pastors from Norway, St. Olaf College, Augsburg Seminary, and life in the Lisbon settlement. Among the correspondents are Ludvig M. Biorn, August Cramer, Nils J. Ellestad, E. S. Holland (his brother-in-law), Gjermund Hoyme, Gisle Johnson, John N. Kildahl, J. Landsverk, N. J. Laache, Olaus Nielsen, and Friedrich A. Schmidt. Many of the letters are from Rasmussen. -
Augsburg College papers, circa 1870-1981
Papers of a Lutheran institution founded at Marshall, Wisconsin, in 1869 and moved to Minneapolis in 1872: journals, pamphlets, catalogues, yearbooks, pictures, and a court record. -
John Ellingsen papers, 1891 - 1960
Correspondence and articles of a Norwegian-born (Stavanger, emigrated 1883) farmer and mason, Platte, South Dakota, which discuss local church life, the snowstorm of 1888, the depression in the 1890s, and World War I. References are made to Sven Oftedal, Theodor S. Reimestad, and Georg Sverdrup. Includes clippings of articles by son, Elling Ellingsen, about "some of the experiences my father had in the terrible blizzard of Jan. 12, 1888" (1960).
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John Ellingsen Papers: Articles and Correspondence. Incluses clippings of articles by son, Elling Ellingsen, (1960) about "some of the experiences my father had in the terrible blizzard of Jan. 12, 1888."