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Copy of a letter and a typescript translation of another, both from Four Mile Prairie, Texas, by a cobbler, describing geography, government, settlements, health, farming, Indians, church, and school. Also a 12-page typescript biography of Smeland by his great-granddaughter, Mildred Hogstel.
Snesrud was born at Rodenes, Ostfold fylke, and emigrated with his mother, brother and his sister's family in 1869 to join a brother Christian who emigrated in 1868. The family first settled in Goodhue co., Minn., and Snesrud married the daughter of pastor Olai O Bergh. After living some years near Webster, Rice co., Andrew moved to a farm east of Kasson, Dodge, co.
Reports (March 7 to March 31, 1962) to Emigranten from the editor, who served briefly as war correspondent for the 15th Wisconsin Regiment, which he had helped recruit. The letters are translated and edited by Clarence A. Clausen. Includes assorted clippings, and a 3-page biographical sketch of Solberg.
Correspondence, articles, diaries (10 boxes), poems, pamphlets, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and notebooks of a Lutheran clergyman, poet, author, and lecturer. The diaries cover most of the period between 1892 and 1945, including Solberg's student career at St. Olaf College and United Lutheran Church Seminary. Among the articles are such titles as "The Restoration of Israel," "Do We Need a Chair in English Bible in Our Seminary?" "Spiritualism," "Our Greatest Enemy" (temperance), and "A Scene from College Life" (St. Olaf College). Solberg was parish minister in South Dakota, Chicago, and Minneapolis. Among his books are "A Brief History of the Zion Society for Israel" (1928), "Scriptural Evangelism" (1935), "In Quiet Moments", and "Sacred Verse" (1940).
Son of a prominent Lutheran pastor, Carl K. Solberg, Solberg grew up mainly in Minneapolis and graduated from St. Olaf College in 1935. He and a friend briefly published a newspaper in Pierce County, North Dakota. He received a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford 1936-1939. He joined the staff of Time Magazine, but when war broke out he joined the Navy, ending up as an air intelligence officer on the staff of Admiral Halsey, Commander of the Third Fleet. At the end of the war Solberg rejoined Time and covered international affairs, writing several cover stories. In 1967 he left Time to become a free lance writer. He published five books, including a biography of Hubert H. Humphrey which the Minnesota Historical society issued in paperback in 2003. His last book, on the China Lobby, did not find a publisher. See also the papers of his brother Richard, P1656.
"En gammel Setlers Histori Skreved da jeg var 68 Aar" by Solberg, treating life in the Crawford County, Wisconsin area. The topics discussed include prices, crops, land, machinery, livestock, logging, wages, buildings, fire insurance, the Farmer Trading Association (farmers store), temperance movement, district school, disease and medical service, congregations, and synodical controversies. Identification of the author was done by Rasmus Sunde.