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Letters to Rasmussen regarding the J. J. Hill gift to the St. Olaf College Endowment Fund in 1913 and the Peter Norbeck gift to the Augustana College Endowment Fund in 1920.
Includes a biographical sketch (3 p. typescript, 1935) of Aven Nelson (1859-1952), president of the University of Wyoming and professor of botany at the same institution.
Reprint of "Norseman for President," by Svein Gilje, "The Norseman," no. 6, 1971, and a Minneapolis "Star and Tribune" obituary, September 8, 1981.
Jackson was the son of Norwegian immigrant parents who became an influential senator from the state of Washington and was frequently mentioned as a possible presidential candidate.
"Thoughts about Life" and "When Old Age Comes" (5 typescript pages) by a Lutheran clergyman and high school teacher; a 12-page autobiography of Andrew Johnson Langum, Henry's father, translated by his daughter. Born in 1831 near Drammen, Andrew emigrated in 1853 and settled eventually in Spring Valley, Minnesota.
Born on the Jaastad farm in Ullensvang, Hardanger, he emigrated with his family to Deerfield, Wisconsin in 1886. In 1890 he began work in a furniture factory in Marshfield, Wisconsin. He moved in 1902 to Tucson, Arizona, where he worked as a carpenter and contractor. He opened an architectural firm in 1908 and during a fifty year career planned over 500 buildings, including homes, schools, churches, and commercial buildings. He served as mayor of Tucson from 1932 to 1947. The file includes a description of the Reilly Funeral Home, designed by Jaastad; random newspaper clippings; and "Henry O. Jaastad: Architect of Tucson's Future," by Mona Lange McCroskey. Letters from Jaastad are found in the E. Klaveness, B. Osland, and K. Gjerset papers, P 551, P 574, and P 673. Also, see Kenneth Bjork's Saga in Steel and Concrete, pages 415-416.
Clippings and biographical notes concerning a Norwegian American who lived at Northwood, North Dakota. In the fall of 1982 the house where he lived and its contents were moved to Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum at Decorah, Iowa.
An article by Dr. Marion Nelson, published in Sons of Norway "Viking," and a story in the "Minneapolis Tribune Picture Magazine" on Minnesota art, concerning Gausta, the first professional artist among Norwegian-Americans. Both clippings include reproductions of Gausta's paintings. Other clippings, including memorials and an article concerning Gausta as a photographer.