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Nicolay Andreas Grevstad papers, 1892-1925
Correspondence, articles, reports, and clippings of a Norwegian-born journalist, diplomat, and financier. Grevstad was a practicing attorney and editor of Dagbladet (Oslo) before emigrating in 1883. In America he was editor of Nordvesten (St. Paul); leading editorial writer for Minneapolis Daily Tribune; editor of Skandinaven (Chicago) (1892-1911); United States minister to Uruguay and Paraguay (1911-1915); publicity director of Minnesota Safety Commission; chief of the foreign language press publicity service for the Republican National Committee (1919-1925); agent of a Chicago bank syndicate for Uruguay; and editor of Skandinaven (1930-1940). Articles by Grevstad on courts of conciliation in Norway and in America appeared in the Atlantic Monthly (September, 1891 and November, 1893).
The correspondence includes dispatches to the United States Department of State and letters concerning American interests in Uruguay and Paraguay, national political problems, Norwegian settlement, and investment opportunities. Among the correspondents are William Jennings Bryan, Gilbert N. Haugen, Nils P. Haugen, E. H. Hobe, Hanna Astrup Larsen, Medill McCormick, Knute Nelson, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, and William Howard Taft. Primary election reform, patriotism of the Scandinavian press and church, the wheat farmer during World War I, Non-Partisan League, and women's suffrage are some of the topics discussed in the articles, press releases, and letters. -
Luth Jaeger papers, circa 1890
Papers of a Norwegian-born editor and realtor: correspondence, clippings, and a scrapbook dealing with such subjects as the cultural life among Norwegian Americans; Norwegian-American press; Bjornson in America; Scandinavian professorship at the University of Minnesota; Kristofer Janson; Knute Nelson; including a listing of contents of a number of issues of "Budstikken," 11 typescript pages. Jaeger was editor of "Budstikken" (1877-1885) and of "The North" (1889-1894), the first English newspaper for Scandinavian Americans.
Includes:- Correspondence and scrapbook.
- Correspondents include Knud J. Fleischer, Nils P. Haugen, Ole Jorgens, Knud Langeland, Sigvart Sorensen, and Halle Steensland.
- 11 typescript pages listing contents of a number of issues of "Budstikken," transferred from C.G.O. Hansen clipping collection (on back of "Minneapolis Tidende" letterhead).
- Jaeger letters of 1918 to Norwegian Society of Minneapolis resigning from the Society in protest to one of its positions; and to C.G.O.Hansen explaining this action.
- Article, "Norwegian-American journalism; paper read before the Norwegian Society of Minneapolis, Jan. 25, 1909."
- Clippings about Jaeger and family, 1918 - 1938.
- "The American-Scandinavian Review," Aug. 1922: lead article, "Two American sculptors: Fjelde--father and son," pp. 467-472.
- Correspondence and scrapbook.
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Nils P. Haugen papers, circa 1890-circa 1930
A letter to a constituent, a speech on tariff, and a 17th of May speech held in Washington, D.C., 1893, by a Norwegian-born Wisconsin attorney and statesman. Haugen was the second Norwegian American in the U.S. Congress. File includes an assortment of clippings. A bound copy of volumes 11, 12, and 13 of "Wisconsin Magazine of History" which contain Haugen's "Pioneer and Political Reminiscences" is in the NAHA books collection. See also "Hallingen," no. 75, June 1931.
Contents:- Nils P. Haugen Papers (folder 1). Father's devotional book (1854); a speech on the tariff (1888, 30 p.); speech delivered at the Columbian Exhibition in Chicago (1893, 8 p.)
- Nils P. Haugen Papers (folder 2). Letter (Dec. 21, 1890) to a constituent regarding the breakwater at Pepin, Minn.; clippings.