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Ole E. Rølvaag papers, 1896-2020
Biography/History:
Ole Edvart Rølvaag was born in a fishing village on Dønna, Norway, on April 22, 1876. He immigrated to the United States in 1896 and worked as a farmhand in South Dakota from 1896–98. After graduating from Augustana Academy in Canton, South Dakota, in 1901, Rølvaag earned a B.A. from St. Olaf College in 1905 and returned to the college to earn a M.A. in 1910. Between his B.A. and M.A., he studied at the University of Christiania.
From 1906 to 1931, he served as a professor of Norwegian language and literature at St. Olaf. During his career he authored Norwegian language textbooks and novels, essays, and poems about the Norwegian-American immigrant experience. Two of his novels, Giants in the Earth (1927) and Peder Victorious (1929), received international acclaim as accounts of immigrant pioneer life on the Dakota prairies in the 1870s.
Rølvaag worked to preserve and enrich Norwegian-American culture during his lifetime. He helped found the Society for Norwegian Language and Culture in 1910 and the Norwegian-American Historical Association in 1925. In 1926, Rølvaag was knighted (Order of St. Olav) by King Haakon VII of Norway.
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Helmer Melius Blegen papers, 1950-1980
H. M. Blegen was a professor of Romance Languages at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for 49 years. See also P0482, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Includes:- Typescript volume (341 pages) of articles, notes, and statistics on the history of Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD (1970).
- Next-to-last issue of "Life and Letters" (May 1950) on Norwegian Writing; Copy of memorial service program for Blegen (1 July 1980); "The H. M. Blegen Collection in the Mikkelsen Library of Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD" (Donated 1974-1975); 3 issues of "Prairie People: Siouxland Heritage Museums Publication" (1978).
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Hans Sjurson Hilleboe papers, 1875-1967
Articles, catalogues, certificates, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, manuscripts, temperance literature, clippings, and family histories of a Wisconsin-born educator. Hilleboe was principal of Willmar Seminary; superintendent of Benson, Minnesota, public schools; principal of the preparatory department at Luther College; and professor of education at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. -
Henry E. Rasmussen papers, 1910-1920
Letters to Rasmussen regarding the J. J. Hill gift to the St. Olaf College Endowment Fund in 1913 and the Peter Norbeck gift to the Augustana College Endowment Fund in 1920. -
A.O. Serum papers, 1871-1927
Correspondence, reports, speeches, articles, clippings, and account books of a Norwegian-born farmer at Halstad, Minnesota. The papers include school district reports; articles and letters treating the early days in the Red River Valley; correspondence with Fuller and Johnson, farm machinery company, Madison, Wisconsin; and personnel at Augsburg and Augustana (Marshall, Wisconsin) seminaries. The clippings include items on synod controversies and letters from World War I servicemen. Serum held state and church offices, spoke on crop production, suffrage, monopoly, cooperatives, and local history, was the first teacher in his district, the first president of the Selbulag, and the author of "Nybyggerliv i Red Riverdalen" in "Selbygbogen." -
Augustana College papers, 1889-2002
Brochures, bulletins, catalogs, clippings, magazines, journals, programs; Emil Erpestad's history of the college; a 1956 dissertation, published in 1971 with a postscript by H. M. Blegen; and Beulah Folkedahl's article about the Marshall, Wisconsin, years.
Augustana College was founded in Chicago in 1860 by Norwegians and Swedish Lutherans. In 1863, Augustana moved to Paxton, Illinois. Eventually, in 1869 the Norwegians withdrew and moved to Marshall, Wisconsin. Divisions among the Norwegians led to several seminaries breaking off, and Augsburg moving to Minneapolis in 1872. The group which stayed at Marshall in turn moved in 1881 to Beloit, Iowa; and three years later to Canton, South Dakota. The 1917 church merger brought a merger of Augustana and the Lutheran Normal School (founded in Sioux Falls, 1889) and a move to Sioux Falls. The preparatory function was later returned to Canton, merging with Canton Lutheran Normal, founded 1920. This complicated history is traced in Beulah Folkedahl's article, "Marshall Academy: a history" (Wisconsin Magazine of History, Spring 1964). -
Camrose Lutheran College papers, circa 1910
Catalogues and reports of an academy and junior college founded at Camrose, Alberta, in 1910. On July 1, 2004, Augustana University College merged with the University of Alberta to become a separate faculty and satellite campus of the university.