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• Mystrøl Hillesland family history, 1886-1967

  Hillesland, Myrstøl, and related families. Includes photograph of Carl, John, Lars, and Erik Hillesland, 1886.
• Tillisch family history, 1880-1918

  Tillisch Family history and genealogy (1300-1900), both Danish and Norwegian history.
• Marie Beggren Martin papers, 1880-1920

  Biographical information, census and immigration records for Caspar Berggren. Berggren was married in Chicago in 1873 to Christine Mortensen. He remarried in the mid-1880s to Marie Rodikong. Marie Berggren married in 1922 to Awalt Martin (1899-1968).
• Ruth Crane family papers, circa 1980

  Collection of information on the Ole and Kristi Tillotson family. Includes "Ole T. Rong/Ole R. Tillerson, Marta H. Nyre, and Christie E. Sleen: Their ancestors in Norway and descendants in America," compiled by Ruth Hanold Crane.
• Kjorstad family history, 1997

  Kjorstad Family History (prepared for family reunion, August 9-10, 1997). Family of John Bryn Kjorstad (1872-1942) and Rena Skinde Kjorstad (1885-1968) and nine children. They farmed near Williston, North Dakota
• Ivar Carlsen oral history, 2015

  Fifty Years on Seven Seas: A Life On Board “The Ship”. Son of Sandefjord, Master Mariner, My Father Ivar Carlsen (2015, 60 page transcription, oral history conducted and edited by son, Carl Carlsen). Note from Carl Carlsen: “My father was born in Sandefjord in 1919 and was in the Norwegian merchant marine before and during WW2. ...in his narrative my father tells how he sought employment on American merchant marine vessels during WW2 and after [while based in the Philippines] in order to facilitate his acquiring American citizenship, which he did mid-century. Brooklyn figures into his narrative asa place to be while not at sea during the War and as a place to retain histies to Norway as a member of the War Sailors club after his retirement from decades of sailing with Gulf Oil.
• Dr. Kent S. Knutson biography, 2014

  Biography of Dr. Kent S. Knutson (1924-1973) by Bishop Gerhard Knutson. Former president of Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, and president of American Lutheran Church.
• Harold O. Hansen family history, 1905-1946

  Includes: photocopies of the Christian Woldfarm house (Eagle Lake, Minnesota), family letter from Lillestrøm, Norway telling of the hardships endured under German occupation (photocopied, posted post-WW II, Feb. 27, 1946), photograph of workers taken in front of log mill, ca. 1905 (location unknown).
• Martin Pedersen Ruh reminiscences, 1916

  Reminiscences by Pastor Martin Pedersen Ruh (1841-1923). Forty-nine pages, typescript. Translated by Brit Weisz, September 1974, . Chapters include: Memories ofE idsvold and Dean H.P. Krag (pgs. 1-4), My Last Christmas in Eidsvold, Norway, 1854 (pgs. 5-8), Emigrant Memories: A Voyage to America in 1855(pgs. 9-12). Ship William Tell sailing for Quebec, Some Reminiscences from Muskego [Racine County, Wisconsin] (pgs. 13-14), A Journey to Minnesota in 1856: The Founding of the Kristiania Settlement [Christiania, Eureka township, Dakota county, Minnesota] (pgs. 15-23). Includes comments on covered wagon caravan and families (Petter Hendriksen Ruh and family from Eidsvold, Johan Loe and family from Ringsaker, Johannes Thorbjornson Leine from Wisconsin, the brothers Ole and Stefan Thoreson from Hadeland, Christian Husevohn and family, plus Lars Johnson and family from Telemark), From the Pioneer Days in Minnesota (pgs. 24-27). Includes mention of Østen (Osten) Hanson and son Marbil, Rev. Beckman of Cannon Falls, Ole Bergh, and small anecdote of how a bible saved his eldest brother's life from a bullet during the Civil War, Reminiscences from My Student Days [Augustana Sem., Leland, Illinois](pgs. 28-37). Mentions Rev. Amon Johnson, student T.H. Dahl, assassination of President Lincoln, Our Supplement about the Jubilation--Synod in Decorah, Iowa, 1903 (pgs.38-42), Application for Acceptance Into the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (pgs. 43-45), A Rare Fest[Springfield, Iowa Congregation anniversary (pgs. 46-49).
• Wickey-Vestlien family history, 1979

  The Wickey-Vestlien Family History (prepared by Jordis Wickey-Berge, 1979). Cannon Falls, Minnesota resident John Charles Wickey (1833-1907) married (1) Julia Caroline Nielsen (1831-1869), (2) Dorothea Hagan (d. 1871) and (3) Ingar Mattson (1832-1923). Mentions: living near Midale, Saskatchewan, Canada(pg. 12), kerosene lamps and lanterns (pg. 12), spring flower bouquet for teacher (pg. 15), school-language issue (pg. 16), home remedies (pgs.16-17), Norwegian foods and groceries (pgs. 18-21), John Sigwart Wickey'sf uneral (pg. 24), bedbugs (pg. 26), laundry (pg. 26, 39), great hail storm (pg.31), dust bowl (pg. 34), flour sack dresses (pg. 69), Christmas (pg. 69).