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Anna Thykesen papers, 1910-1951
Papers of a teacher of Norwegian at St. Olaf College: a Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson letter and a scrapbook of clippings dealing largely with Bjørnson and the centenary of his birth, a scrapbook on O. E. Rølvaag and other writers (1931-1956), and a scrapbook of clippings on the reorganization problem in the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America in the early 1930s. -
Sjur J.Brekke sermon notes, 1904-1908
An unpaged book of handwritten sermon notes by a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman, who at the time was serving churches at Sacred Heart, Minnesota. -
Ole A. Myrvik history, 1933, 1949
Family and church histories prepared by Myrvik, a farmer born in North Dakota of Norwegian parents. The family history gives an account of the 1869 journey from Hemnes, Nordland, by way of Bergen & Montreal to Minnesota, eventually to Cabalier Co., North Dakota. Includes comments on travel by covered wagon, land sharks, snowstorms, diseases, schools, and prices of commodities and crops. The history of Stefanus (St. Stephen) Lutheran Church, Milton, North Dakota (1883-1933), includes the names of the founders and ministers and a history of the auxiliary societies. -
Minnesota Benevolent Societies papers, 1875-2001
Brochures, constitutions, and reports from a variety of institutions like hospitals, orphanages, retirement centers, etc.
Includes: Crookston. Bethesda Hospital, St Paul. Aandeligt Sanatorium, Eagle Lake. Bethesda Home, Children's Homes Soc. of Minn., Heron Lake, Southwestern Minnesota Hospital, Lutheran Convalescent Home Assn., Kenyon Sunset Home, Madison Ebenezer Hospital, Martha Mary Mission Home, Lutheran Old People's Home, Minneapolis. Ebenezer Home for the Aged, Norwegian Lutheran Rescue Home, Goodhue County. Norske Gjensidige Beskytt (Lutheran Girls' Home) sesselskab. Love (1875), Lutheran Hospice; $ Home for Young Women Minneapolis. Luther Union. By-laws.1917 Red Wing. Minnesota Scandinavian Relief Assoc. Lake Park. Lake Park barnehjem. Lyngblomsten Home for the Aged (1298 Pascal Avenue, St. Paul, MN)
Lutheran Welfare Societies includes: photocopies of "Inner Mission Messenger" & "Inner Mission Herald" (1922-1924); photocopy of "The Lutheran Church and the Inner Mission Work in our Large Cities" by F.A. Schaffnit (n.d.); "The First Twenty-Five Years: 1905-1930. The Luther House." Published by The Lutheran Welfare Society of Minnesota. -
Aase Haugen Home papers, 1911-1976
Constitution, brochure, clippings, and history of a Decorah, Iowa, retirement home founded in 1914 by the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. The clippings are fro 1911-1976. The Aase Haugen Home closed in 1974. -
Emily Veblin Olsen papers, 1906-1941
Papers of the wife of a Lutheran clergyman and a sister of Thorstein and Andrew A. Veblen: a history of St. Ansgar congregation; sermons by her father-in-law, Johan Olsen; a tribute to Claus L. Clausen by her husband, Sigurd Olsen; a letter by Ole Nilsen; memoirs and biographies of her husband and her father-in-law by Mrs. Olsen; and a photograph album. Emily was a student at Carleton College.
Includes- Biographies, Histories, Sermon.
- "Biographical Sketch of Sigurd Olsen," 1941
- Mentions St. Ansgar, Iowa, J.H. Bleen, Capital University, towns of Argyle, Stephen, and Cooperstown, North Dakota.
- "Biographical Sketch of Sigurd Olsen," 1941
- "Memoirs of Mrs. Sigurd Olsen," 1940
- Mentions the "Indian [Native American] Uprising of 1862", President Lincoln shot, early days at Carleton College, Blooming Prairie, 1885-1941
- "Salmer og Leilighedssange," by Pastor J. Olsen, 1906
- Biographies, Histories, Sermon.
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Helge Høverstad papers, 1863-1945
History/Biography:
Helge Høverstad was born on March 15, 1870 in Vang, Valdris, Norway. His parents were Torger Anderson Høverstad (1834-1883) and Gjertrude Helgesdatter Leine (1843-1939). Together they had four other children besides Helge, including: Torgeir who emigrated to Minnesota, and Boye, Torstein, and Berit who all stayed in Norway. Helge immigrated in June 1892, first landing in Quebec, Canada. He first settled in Holden, Goodhue County, Minnesota where his uncles, Anders and Torstein, had settled.
Helge first went to the Hamar Seminary in Norway from 1887-1889, and then went on to study at the United Church Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1893-1896 (Now Augsburg University). From 1896-1897, he attended Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary. He served various congregations including: Elliot, Illinois (1897-1904); Perry, Wisconsin (1904-1909); and Sioux City, Iowa (1909-). He served on the board of the Foreign Missions and wrote for St. Petri tidende.
Helge’s father Torger was born to Anders Anderson Hoverstad Berit Hambre. He had four siblings: brothers Anders and Torstein (both settled in Holden, Goodhue Co., MN), and sisters Berit and Kari. Berit married Kristoffer Lockren (Wangs, Goodhue Co.), and Kari married Ole H. Leine (Vang, Norway). Helge’s mother Gjertrude was born to Helge Helgeson Leine and Gjertrud Boyesdatter. She had eight siblings: Helge, Ole, Boye, Ove, Erik, Nils, Karn (married Lars Lenie) and Berthe (Married Trond Hambre).
Helge’s brother Torstein, who stayed in Norway, conceived the idea of establishing a Norwegian teacher's college, and he worked actively from 1916 to 1922 to realize this idea through both the government and the Storting. He served as the publisher and editor of Norsk pedagogisk tidsskrift (the Norwegian Journal of Education). Torstein’s son, Gunnar, was a Norwegian bomber pilot who was trained to fly in Canada at Camp Little Norway during World War I.
(Information gathered from Andrew Veblen’s book “The Valdris Book,” and from bibliography of Norwegian Lutheran pastors in the United States. Both available in the NAHA Archives.)
Scope and Content:
Papers of a Norwegian-born clergyman in the United Norwegian Lutheran Church in America (1897-1917), and in the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America (1917-1945).
The papers consist largely of letters received by Høverstad, including a number from Gertrude Høverstad, his mother, and other Norway relatives, from Torgeir A. Høverstad, his cousin in America; from Kristine Haugen, zealous protagonist of Norwegian-American culture; from Hans C. Ness, Norwegian consular agent in Sioux City, Iowa.
The correspondence deals with personal problems of friends; with affairs of church foreign missions in China, Madagascar, and Africa; with church politics; with relation of church and state and with the use of Norwegian language during World War I; with hypnotism and spiritualism; with personal problems as land owner; with problems connected with settlement of Torgeir Høverstad’s estate; with Torstein Høverstad’s book “Skularne i Amerika og det Praktiske Liv;” with the Veblen family (mostly in the T.A. Høverstad folder); with Valdres Bygdelag, of which he was a founder.
Correspondents include Lars W. Boe, Olaf M. Norlie, Einar Haugen, Missionary Harold Martinson, Governor W.L. Harding (Iowa), Kirkesanger (Precentor) John O. Quale (Bishop Jens Pederson Schelderup, 1557-1582). There are occasional carbon copies of letters by Høverstad.
The papers also contain newspaper clippings concerning his ideas and activities; his poems, lectures, newspaper articles, including such titles as “Rationalismen, Historie og Historie Undervisning,” and “Address at Unveiling of Gjermund Høyme portrait in Valdres, Norway, 1923;” his autobiography, 1893; his mother’s autobiography, 1921; and many photographs.