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Clippings, pamphlets, and articles of a Muskego-born language reformer, farmer, teacher, and writer. The articles, manuscript and typescript, deal with language reform and the author's career, including childhood days in Muskego.
Content: Elias Molee Papers: Articles, Clippings, Pamphlets. Note: Molee attempted to create a universal language for all people of Germanic origin called "alteutonik."
Recollections of a Norwegian-born Lutheran minister's wife: her 1844 passage across the Atlantic, life in Muskego in the 1840s and 1850s and her wedding, November 3, 1856. There are comments on "Nordlyset," the presidential election of 1856, Soren Bache, Claus L. Clausen, J. W. C. Dietrichson, Elling Eielsen, Even Heg, John J. Landsverk, and H. A. Stub.
Content: Gunhild A. Larsen (Mrs. Tobias) Manuscript: Recollection from Muskego. Note: baptized in Laurvig, Norway.
A collection of sketches of pioneer farm life in Muskego and Trempealeau Valley, Wisconsin, dealing with health, travel, Yankee neighbors, and church activity. Mention is made of Marcus Thrane, P. A. Rasmussen, J. B. Frich, and Gjermund Hoyme.
Includes: Family chronicles and photocopies of two articles: "Glimpses of Pioneer Days," by Mrs. J.E. Engstad (a sister), (Oct. 1937); and "Graphic Descriptions of Pioneer Days," by Mrs. Houkom (1952).