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"Chapter Cavalcade of a Half Century: Fifty Years of the Minneapolis Chapter, Nordmanns-Forbundet, 1929-1979."
Also includes: Invitation to viewing of "The Vinland Suite", 1987; Fifty Years of the Minneapolis Chapter, Nordmanns-Forbundet, 1929-1979, 3 copies; newspaper clippings; annual meeting and banquet flier, 1939; program from banquet for Minister Morgenstierne, 1935; newsletter, 1969; membership list, 1944; Norwegian National League minutes, 2002.
"Norwegian-American Pioneer Pastors and Spouses in the Upper Midwest, 1840-1860: Conflict of Values and Search for Identity," a University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Master of Arts thesis, 104 typescript pages.
Correspondence between C. O. Teisberg, Assistant Superintendent of agents, and men's clubs within congregations regarding membership in the insurance company. Also includes newspaper clippings; book: A Common Bond: The Story of Lutheran Brotherhood, by Hakala Associates Inc, Minneapolis, 1989.
An article entitled "Scandinavians in Montana: An Annotated Bibliography," which records books, journal articles, newspaper stories, oral histories, maps, unpublished materials, WPA interviews (1940-1942), and Scandinavian newspapers in Montana. The records are restricted to materials found in the libraries at the Montana Historical Society, the University of Montana, and the State University of Montana, and lists only sources in English.
Annual reports of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman to the Augustana congregation at Halstad, Minnesota, concerning ministerial activities; an obituary from Lutheraneren, by K. O. Lundeberg; a copy of Houkom's biography from the 1894 report of the United Lutheran Church.
"Lutheranism in the West" by a professor of theology at Illinois State University, Springfield, and president of the General Synod, dealing with the separation of Scandinavian Lutherans from the Synod of Northern Illinois, with an introduction by Fritiof Ander; and "Personal Reminiscences...Appearing in the Lutheran Observer, January 20-March 30, 1888," 33 typescript pages.
He used the spelling Fjelstad here; elsewhere (in Who's who, obituaries) the name is spelled Fjeldstad. Fjeldstad was born at Nissedal, Telemark, emigrated 1861, graduated from Luther College and Luther Seminary (1884). Served churches Montevideo, Norway Lake, and Springfield, Minnesota.
Handwritten article, Er det en Skjæbnens Ironi, eller hvad er det?, Hvorledes Veien søges banet for Missourianismen blandt vort Folk. Signed: Antimissourier. Article submitted to editor Carl Otto Aubol of Lutheraneren. Date (1903) entered in pencil.
Articles, lectures, and addresses by a Lutheran clergyman and church historian. The address "The Norwegian Lutheran Church in America" (14 pages) was presented at the annual convention of the United Lutheran Church in 1906, and translated in 1965 by L. A. Mathre.
The original subtitle explained its purpose: "An American Journal of Sami Living." Faith Fjeld, who founded the periodical in 1991, is its editor and publisher. For related material, see Finmark Misjonsforening, Minneapolis, P 670, and "Sami Siida Newsletter," A. K. A. "Arran: Newsletter of the North American Sami."
The author, a minister who served congregations in Wisconsin beginning in 1926, "...is concerned mainly with the moral and spiritual welfare of the people prior to 1890. It serves to show the process of transition...."