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Lars Wilhelm Boe papers, 1896-1993
Articles, pamphlets, clippings, scrapbooks, and pictures dealing largely with biography. L. W. Boe was the fourth president of St. Olaf College. The two scrapbooks were compiled by his sister, A. Sophie Boe. The main collection of L.W. Boe Papers is in the St. Olaf College Archives. Papers deal largely with biography, Boe's proposals for reorganization of the Lutheran Church, and Boe Memorial Chapel. Finding aid coming soon. -
Ingvald Torvik lectures, 1950
The Language Situation in Norway and "Seventeenth of May Thoughts," by a visiting professor at St. Olaf College. -
Parelius Rognlie papers
Biography/History:
Rev. Parelius H. Rognlie was born near Trondhjem, Norway, December 21, 1858. In 1870 he immigrated with his parents to the United States and lived in Houston County and eventually Lyon County, Minnesota. In 1881 he entered the preparatory school at St. Olaf's college, Northfield, Minnesota, and later attended Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, earning his way by teaching school and doing farm work. In the fall of 1885 he went to Europe in order to receive treatment for his eyes and was operated on at the State Hospital in Norway. When he returned to the United States, he resumed teaching and continued his studies by himself. In 1888 he was admitted to the Luther Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, and graduated June 26, 1891. In February, 1891, he was called as pastor for the Fort Ridgely, Dale, Palmyra and Clear Lake congregations, Renville and Sibley counties, Minnesota. On July 22, 1891, he was ordained at Fort Ridgely and Dale church by Rt. Rev. K. Bjorge, assisted by Rev. S. J. Bergh, Rev. N. P. Xavier, Rev. Thomas Johnsen and Rev. B. Askevold.
Parelius Rognlie was married to Ronnaug Marie M. Gullerud. Together they had six children: Ingolf Herman Marentius (March 26, 1896); Katharina Josephine (December 26, 1897); Parelius Monrad (January 28, 1900, died July 2, 1901); Palma Margrethe (born April 8, 1902); Clarence Parelius Monrad (May 6, 1904); Julia Christine (October 4, 1908).
Abstract:
The Rev. Parelius H. Rognlie papers consist of photographs of multiple generations of the Rognlie extended family, personal and professional correspondence, sermons, school notebooks, and various other records that document the life of a pastor in Southwestern Minnesota. Records also include photographs of Nils Xavier, a Sami pastor who originally homesteaded in the Rognlie parsonage.
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Irvin B. Anderson papers, 1860-1928
Various programs and other material owned by Irvin B. Anderson, a St. Olaf College student, WWII Navy Veteran, Swift County, MN Treasurer and son of Norwegian Immigrants. Donated in Memory of Irvin Berge Anderson.
Includes:
Directories, programs, textbook, background Info, 1860-1928
2 St. Olaf College Directories, 1926-1927, 1927-1928, belonging to Irvin B. Anderson
Minnesota College Athletic Manual, 1927-1927, belonging to Irvin B. Anderson
Math Textbook, 1860, belonging to Irvin Andersons grandfather
Norse-American Games Program, 1925, belonging to Irvin B. Anderson. Digitized and available here.
Letters from Norway
Photographs and souvenir pamphlets for School District no. 64 and no. 14 (Swift Falls, MN), 1898-1899
Portraits of family
Dance card (1928), Treasurer election materials (Swift Falls, MN)
Nordfjordlaget stevne pin, 1923
List of county officers of the State of Minnesota, 1901-1902
Cox pox vaccination (1833, 1868, 1872), correspondence and other Norwegian documents
Vor Frelsers Kirke (Benson, MN) finance committee reports and pamphlets, 1913
"Uncle Wiggly Longears is a Rabbit" children newspaper columns, circa 1910 -
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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Lloyd Hustvedt papers, circa 1957-circa 2003
Papers of a native of Urland parish, Leon township, Goodhue county, Minn., who graduated from St. Olaf college and received a PH. D. from the University of Wisconsin for his dissertation on Rasmus B. Anderson, which was published by the NAHA in 1966. He taught Norwegian at St. Olaf from 1954 until retirement, and served as executive secretary of the Association from 1959 to 1999. -
Nils Flaten family letters and photographs, 1888-1956
Nils Flaten taught Romance Languages at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1900-1946. Born in Valdres, Norway, son of Ole and Moren (Wagensten) Flaten. Emigrated in 1868 and settled in Dennison, Goodhue County, Minn. Married Inez Ruth Olson of Arkdale, Wisconsin, September 1, 1896. Thirty-seven different correspondents.
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Lingah Anderson and Jens Ness family papers, 1888-1975
Family papers of Lingah (Leirgat) Christine Anderson (1871-1954) who married Jens Anderson Ness (1863-1937) in 1902. He was born in Sogndal, Norway, and immigrated 1872. Lingah was a graduate of St Olaf College in 1894; and attended the Univ. of Kansas (1894-95) and Peabody Conservatory of Music (1987-98). She served as an instructor of music, German, and history for a time at Park Region Luther College In Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Jens Ness obtained degrees from Luther College (1890), and Johns Hopkins Univ. (Ph.D., 1901). He was a teacher of Latin, French, and Greek. A long-time faculty member at Wittenberg College (1904-1935). Collection comprises several folders of photographs; letters of reference for Lingah; diaries, clippings and family correspondence. -
Stolee family collection, 1893-2006
(Ole) Michael Jakobsen Stolee (1871-1946) and Martha Knutson Stolee (1878-1957), missionaries to Madagascar, 1900-1911. Papers include glass negatives, photographs; letters to church officials, family and congregations who supported them. Also includes papers of Rev. Michael Stolee from the time he served as commissioner for the National Lutheran Council in France during World War I. As commissioner he aided people affected by World War I as well as armed services personnel and helped with the reconstruction of churches in France, Poland, and Russia. Michael returned to the U.S. and taught at Luther Seminary in St.Paul until his death. -
Nels Amundsen Skogstad letters, 1875-1880
English translations of letters written from Goodhue county, Minnesota, to his parents in Voss. Skogstad attended a Voss teacher training school and taught briefly at Vossestrand. Emigrated summer 1875 and worked on farms and taught, attending St. Olaf's School in Northfield fall of 1877.
In the 1880 census of Leon township he is living with Ivar D. Hustvedt, teacher and klokker of Urland Church. He married 1881 and moved to Codington county, S.D. where he took a homestead. Letters of Nov. 18, 1875; Feb 6 and Aug. 6, 1876; April 10, 1877; March 7 and Sept. 26, 1878; Jan. 7, 1880. Skogstad tells of farming methods, the success of many who had emigrated from Voss; he advises his parents not to emigrate to Goodhue co. Since land was very expensive.
The letters were found on the Haga farm in Voss in 1985 and translated by Albert Haga. Contributed by Clarice Aakre (Rt. 1 Box 98, Conrad, Mt. 59425) July 1996. also included are photocopies of photographs of Nels, wife and two children; and a son Amund as an adult.