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A for memorial statements written on the occasion of death. Pamphlets and funeral programs. Arranged alphabetically, and indexed. At the beginning, a pamphlet commemorating Pastors Gynild and Norum, Professors Johannes L. Nydahl and John H. Blegen, wives of Pastor Nicolay Nilsen and Elias Pedersen, by R.J. Huglen.
Mainly correspondence and reports of a Northfield, Minnesota, firm whose members were George O. Berg, I.F. Grose, Erik Hetle, P. O. Holland, L. Larson, C.A. Mellby, Ole E. Rolvaag, Paul G. Schmidt, Ole Tande, and J. Jorgen Thompson. The correspondence and reports deal largely with land investments in Northfield and in North Dakota.
Index of emigrants from Krodsherad, Sigdal and Eggedal who went to America.
Contents: Box 1
How to use this index: all entries are alphabetical by first name.
Includes: patronym, farm names, sex, year of emigration, area the individual came from, birth date, spouse, place settled, page references to bygdeboker. Bibliography.
A collection of 52 notebooks (3,500 pages), which constitute the daily records of a woman from Surnadal who emigrated to the U.S. in 1880, married Peter Bergeim and settled with him in Watertown, Dakota Territory. The first diaries are written in Norwegian, but beginning in 1903 are in English. They are quite introspective, covering her thoughts and her personal and family life. There are accounts of the Atlantic crossing and of an attempt at homesteading. The diaries were discovered by her son Joseph Bergeim (b. 1894), who translated the story of her early married life into a manuscript called "Ingeborg's Story," 1944. This work also includes a genealogy, a chronology of important events, Peter Bergeim's own autobiography, some family pictures, and a summary of the diaries.
Letters to Eriksen, farmer and merchant at Scandinavia, Wisconsin, from Lutheran clergymen regarding theological disputes; from friends and relatives concerning agricultural profits and losses; and from Civil War soldiers. The compilation volume contains typewritten copies of these letters, copies of documents, and a family history. Correspondents include O. F. Duus, N. J. Ellestad, W. J. L. Frich, J. Krohn, Amund Mikkelsen, H.G. Stub, and H. A. Preus. Alfred O. Erikson's article, "Scandinavia, Wisconsin," in "Studies and Records," volume 15, 1949, is based partly on these papers.
Contents: Ingebret Eriksen Papers: Correspondence. Includes a vaccination certificate (1826).
Diary kept by Ingebret Simonson, translated in 1969 by three of his daughters, Mabel Nuella Simonson Barnes, Della Simonson Meldahl, and Delores Simonson Moe. Covers the years 1870-1874, his last year in Norway, part of the trip to America and the first years at Hanley Falls, Minnesota.