Gunnufson, Kent]]> Huseby, N. Dean]]> Hokeness, Kenneth]]> Austrumdal, Johannes Mauritzsen]]> Mauritzsen, Johannes]]> Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815]]>
Manuscript volume of poems copied by Mauritzsen at his gaard, Ostrimdahle. Probably donated by M. Muritzen, Chicago, 1936. (A Johannes Mauritser Austrumdal (age 22) emigrated from Bjerkreim, Rogaland, April 20, 1850, with brother Hans Tobias (24) and sister Serine Gemalia (20): see "Sem Austrumdal, Bjerkreim skipreida, herad og kyrjesokn" (Stavanger, 1932, pp. 455-456, includes portrait of Johannes. According to Lisabet Risa's letter of Dec. 16, 1999, Johannes was born June 18, 1823, died in Chicago 1863, married in Chicago, had many children. His father Mauritz Halvorsen (baptized March 31, 1782) received a correspondence from Cleng Peerson (dated Dec. 20, 1824/See P0435 America Letters/photocopy/original held by MHS) via Thormod Madland, As a result, three of his children emigrated as did his widow (Mauritz died 1836).

FAMILY LETTERS. ( Previously entered as: Napoleonic Wars. Correspondence, 1807. Letters written to families at home in Norway by men in military service at Christiansand during the Napoleonic Wars. P 254) Letters dated 1807, Christiansand, on one sheet but two signatures. On the reverse is written: Johanes Muritzsen, Østrimdahl, 1832, also, drawings like those in the poetry book.]]> Mauritzsen, Johanne]]> Knutsen, Alfred]]> Janson, Kristofer, 1841-1917]]> Fosse, J. L.]]> Egeland, Rasmus]]> Risting, Jens O.]]> Estrem, Ole O.]]> Bull, Ole, 1810-1880]]> Luther College (Decorah, Iowa)]]> Wisconsin]]> Larsen, Peter Laurentius]]> Lien, Ole O.]]> Breda, Olaus Jensen]]> Brandt, Diderikke O.]]> Brye, Martha B.]]> Norwegian Lutheran Church of America]]> Lutheran Church]]> Brekke, Sjur J.]]> Washington]]> Sønnichsen, Yngvar]]> Lutheran Church in America]]> Hougen, John O. J.]]> Norwegian Lutheran Church of America]]> Hanstad, Ole O.]]> Jensen, A.]]> Grøtheim, Johan Hendriksen]]> Grimelund, Andreas (1812-1896)]]> Naesset, Ole Olse]]> Olson, Peder]]> Stenson, Ole H.]]> Hoyme, Gjermund]]> Lund, Lars]]> Johnson, Gisle]]> Cypriansen, Alfred]]> Blegen, John Hansen]]> Underthun, Andreas Larsen]]> Janson, Kristofer, 1841-1917]]> Gunnersen, Sven Rud]]> Hoyme, G. (Gjermund), 1847-1902]]>