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• Torgeir T. Eckholth article, 1906

  An article, "Lidt Wisconsin politik," written for "Fremtiden," Drammen, Norway, by a resident of Wheeler, Wisconsin. The article deals with Wisconsin politics during the time of Robert M. La Follette and James O. Davidson.
  
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  Torgeir T. Eckholth Article "Lidt Wisconsin Politik"
  
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• Hans O. Egeberg papers, 1933-2000

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  Elling Eielsen papers 1846-1997

  Biography/History:

  Elling Eielsen was born and raised on the farm of Sundve in Voss, Norway. The son of Eiel Ingebrigtsen Sundve and Anna Ellingsdatter Sundsvaal. In Norway, he was brought up in the Lutheran religious tradition of Hans Nielsen Hauge. From 1832-1839, he was a lay preacher who toured around Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, where he was often met with opposition and eventually faced imprisonment

  Eielsen immigrated to the United States in 1839 first settling in the Fox River Settlement, LaSalle County, Illinois. In 1843, he was formally ordained as a Lutheran minister by Francis Arnold Hoffmann, a German Lutheran pastor. The Eielsen Synod (originally named the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) was founded at the Jefferson Prairie settlement, Wisconsin, in 1846 by Elling Eielsen. Eielsen is considered the first Norwegian Lutheran minister in the United States.

  Scope and Content: 
  Copies of his baptism and confirmation records; Eielsen's certificate of ordination and of letters by him (1836-1862); transcripts of a 15-page typescript article titled "Haugianer Folket på Sundve Fraasegnuppskrifter" (1931) by Knut Bjørgaas; a thesis (208 pages, 1932) titled "Elling Eielsen: Pioneer Lay Preacher and First Norwegian Lutheran Pastor in America" by Clarence J. Carlsen; an Eielsen bibliography by Olaf M. Norlie (106 pages); a Master's thesis (98 pages, 1946) by Ansgar Sovik and his Norway lectures on Eielsen; a list of Eielsen Synod churches and ministers; and assorted articles, clippings, and pamphlets.

• Lars Bastiansen Eide letter, circa 1860

  Letter written in Skånevik, Hordaland, Norway by Lars Eide to his children, Lars, Britha, and Margrethe in America. Britha, married to Ole Berhow (Berhaug), immigrated (1858) first to Illinois and then to Iowa in 1860.
  
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  Lars Bastiansen Eide Letter, undated
  
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• Knud Gunderson Eittreim papers, circa 1818-1874

  Military discharge, probate settlement, and other Norwegian legal documents.
  
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  • Vaccination certificate
  • Pamphlets: "Israels dug og Guds rose," Friedr. Wilh. Krummacher. Stavanger, 1872. 16 p. "Nogle afskedsord af N. Tøsseland, ved hans bortreise fra sine foraeldres hjem." Bergen, n.d., 15 p

  
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• Augustus Christian George (Hans Abramson) Elholm papers, 1731-1799

  Correspondence and article by Miecislaus Haiman, "Major Elholm, The Champion of Polish and American Liberty." (1932)
  
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  Article: Miecislaus Haiman. Note: A preprint chapter from Haiman's book, "Poland, and the American Revolutionary War (1932), presenting the thesis that Augustus Christian George Elholm,a major in the American Revolutionary War army, a companion of Pulaski, and a co-founder of the state of Franklin, to which Tennessee is a successor, was born in Norway. Also includes lettes between Haiman and Theodore C. Blegan, 1932.
  
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• Edward Marius Ellefsen church history, 1911

  Historical sketch of "The Norwegian Lutheran church in Chicago (1839-1900)." Ellefsen was the minister at Our Savior's Church (1915-1917). Includes two maps showing location of churches founded at different periods.
  
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  Edward M. Ellefsen Article: History of Chicago Norwegian Lutherans.
  
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• John Ellingsen papers, 1891 - 1960

  Correspondence and articles of a Norwegian-born (Stavanger, emigrated 1883) farmer and mason, Platte, South Dakota, which discuss local church life, the snowstorm of 1888, the depression in the 1890s, and World War I. References are made to Sven Oftedal, Theodor S. Reimestad, and Georg Sverdrup. Includes clippings of articles by son, Elling Ellingsen, about "some of the experiences my father had in the terrible blizzard of Jan. 12, 1888" (1960).
  
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  John Ellingsen Papers: Articles and Correspondence. Incluses clippings of articles by son, Elling Ellingsen, (1960) about "some of the experiences my father had in the terrible blizzard of Jan. 12, 1888."
  
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• Ole O. Enestvedt papers, 1932-1944, 2013

  Articles and clippings of a Norwegian-born Minnesota farmer. The clippings are a series on local history that appeared in "Sacred Heart News" in 1944. "De Forenede Staters Vrste Indianerkrig" (39 pages) deals with the Sioux uprising in 1862, as does "Intervju med Guri Endressen" by Gabriel Stene. The latter appeared in revised form in "Minneapolis Tidende" (January 19, 1933). The third article, which appeared in "Skandinaven" (January 1, 1937), concerns the snowstorm of January 7, 1873. Enestvedt wrote a column for "Decorah-Posten," "Norske Pionerslegter," and was editor of the Numedalslag yearbook for many years.
  
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  • Articles & Clippings
  • Manuscript Translations. Poetry clippings.
  • Added Dec. 4, 2013: Jacqueline Nasseff Hilgert, Seeds Sown Through Time: The Legacy of Johannes & Sis Enestvedt. Family and business history of Enestvedt’s Hybrid Seed Corn, Sacred Heart, Renville County, Minnesota.

  
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• Oline Ernstsen reminiscences, 1939-1956

  Eleven pages of handwritten recollections by a Norwegian-born pioneer housewife at Bear River, Minnesota, of her passage to America and of early pioneer days. Deals largely with religious life, transportation, and communication. Also, a 5-page handwritten historical sketch of the origin (1906) of the Ladies Aid at Bear River, Minnesota, Lutheran congregation, and a photo of a yoke of oxen at work.
  
  According to the congregational directory, D. Ernstsen was a trustee of the Bear River Lutheran Church in 1908 when it was founded. Oline Mathisen and Daniel Ernstsen were married at Harstad May 27, 1902 one day after leaving their home in Troms; went to Trondheim for a ship to Hull.
  
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