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Articles, clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, and records of a Wisconsin-born St. Olaf College administrator and teacher. The papers concern campus life, public relations, counseling, courses of study, student and teacher recruitment, funds solicitation, band and choir tours, and Norwegian-American culture. Manuscripts include: "Rølvaag som lærer," "Min konfirmations dag" (1938), and minutes of the Board of the Norwegian Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Thompson was president of Spokane College (1917-1920); dean of men at St. Olaf college (1923-1942); secretary of NAHA (1931-1958); president of the National Association of Deans and Advisers of Men (1940-1941).
Article in pamphlet form entitled "From Selbu to the Dakota Prairie: Recollections of Frontier Life on the Middle Border," an account of the life of Andrew Olson (Størset: 1839-1918, emig. 1870) and his frontier experiences at Andover, Day County, South Dakota, as related by his son.
Clippings, photos, programs, a music school catalog, and "Scales and Exercises" (1914, 34 p.) of a Chicago composer, teacher, and organist.
Jacobson was born in Madagascar where his Norwegian parents were missionaries. He was sent to Stavanger at age 13 to attend school. Later he studied music in Oslo and in Berlin. He came to Chicago in 1898 and was influential in the musical life of that city.
Includes photograph of choir of Christ Norwegian Lutheran Church, Chicago, Illinois (Rev. J.H. Meyer, Prof. J.R. Jacobsen, organist); Catalogue of the Anna Balatka Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (64 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois, 1921); Souvenir Program for Kristus-Kirkens Indvielse (1912) for Kristus Norwegian Lutheran Church, Chicago; "Geburtsdags Sang" for Marie Byhre; "Tredie Komle Lag Niende November 1924"
Papers of a Fairmont, Minnesota, physician: correspondence; retail business statements; county and school district orders and receipts; Yellow Medicine County school district treasurer's reports; account books of the Moe grocery store, Minneapolis; a translation of B. Aslakson's "Ti maaneders fangenskab i Andersonville"; a family history.
Son of Jacob and Elen Stennes who settled in Fillmore County, Minnesota in 1856. Stennes, born in 1865, provides many details of growing up in Minnesota and later relocating to West Sparta area.
Memories include school days; neighbors; prairie schooner; moving the school house; the centennial of United States (1876); grasshopper invasion; railroad; Norwegian education; threshing; heavy snows and flooding; attending Augustana in Canton, South Dakota (1885); serving as Post-master in Milan, Minnesota; threshing machine boiler inspector; notes on the speculation on township of Watson (1879). Formerly part of P539.
John Hanson and the National Domain (22 typescript pages) by an Iowa attorney, and brochures announcing the publication of Nelson's book, "John Hanson and the Inseparable Union" (1939). John Hanson was "President of the United States in Congress Assembled" (1781-1782).
Newspaper accounts concerning the activities of a Norwegian American who served as governor of Minnesota, 1921-1925, and later became well known in the field of insurance. His career included being a founder of Lutheran Brotherhood, of which he became Chairman of the Board. He was Vice-President of W. A. Alexander and Co., an insurance brokerage firm.
A manuscript concerning an account of Jacob Aadland who immigrated to Day County, Dakota Territory in 1882 written by Serena Moxness (Aadland) titled "Reminiscences of Yesteryears."
Letter by a Lutheran clergyman to Johan A. Aasgaard, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1936, 9 typescript pages, and 12 clippings on Stub and members of his family.