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NEARA Journal, 2000
Magazine: NEARA (New England Antiquities Research Association) Journal, Volume 34, Number 1, Summer 2000. -
John Ness letter, 1921 June 25
Letter to an unnamed friend (Who has been elected to the board of the Gudbrandsdalslaget by a Griggs co. (N.D.) farmer who was also clerk of the Pilot Mound township. Ness was born on the Syntnes farm, Lom kommune, Oppland fylke, attended Asker Seminary, and emigrated about 1891. He married in 1904 the widow Ronnaug Urstad, who died 1928. -
Sivert A. Jacobson papers, 1907-1926
Correspondence, photograph, picture postal cards. Nothing is known about Jacobson but what can be inferred from the few letters and cards.
Includes:- Slip included gives addresses of relatives in Norway, including a brother (Petter Fugle) and a sister in Jolster.
- Card of 1907 is addressed to "Mr. Sivert Fugle, Ross Bro Lumberkamp no. 1)."
- Card of 1912 is addressed to Helgheim Jolster
- Cards 1914-20 are addressed to Thief River Falls, Minn., those of the 1920s to a Minneapolis address (one of 1924 was forwarded from a Milwaukee, Wis. Address). Apparently Jacobson served in World War I since a card of 1920 is from the Soldiers' Bonus Board and one of 1924 from the Adjusted Compensation Branch, Adjutant General's Office.
- Photo postal cards are of World War I battlefield scenes, a few of French, German and Norwegian places. The photographs are mostly unidentified.
- Photograph of U.S.S. Mobile, and a Norwegian ship. Christmas, Easter, Valentine cards.;
- Correspondents are Nels Burtness, E.R. Peterson (Alexandria, Minn., 1919, in uniform), Thea Erickson (Noonan, N.D.), Sallie Nessland (Minneapolis).
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Jehovah's Witnesses Tracts pamphlets, 1915-1931
Pamphlets translated from English, published in Brooklyn N.Y., by Den Internasjonale Bibelstudieforening, International Bible Students Association, Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society. The first two are credited by J. F. Rutherford.; Riket verdens haap. 1931. 62 p.; Hvor er de dode? Bibelens svar. 1927. 56 p.; Millioner af nulevende mennesker skal aldrig-do. 79 p.; Helvelte: haad er det? Hvem er der? Kan de slippe ut? 1924. 54 p.; Russell, Charles T. Tidsaldrenes plan; forste bind af serien Studier i Skriften. 1915. 404 p. -
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies clippings and programs, 1912-1952
Clippings (1912-52) and programs (1912-42) concerning a society founded in May 1911 "to advance the study and teaching of the languages, literature and culture of the Scandinavian North" in the U.S. also included is a clipping (1911) about the Scandinavian Philological Society of America; and clippings (1910-12) about the "Samfundet for norsk Sprog og Kultur" of which O.E. Rolvaag was secretary. -
Nels Amundsen Skogstad letters, 1875-1880
English translations of letters written from Goodhue county, Minnesota, to his parents in Voss. Skogstad attended a Voss teacher training school and taught briefly at Vossestrand. Emigrated summer 1875 and worked on farms and taught, attending St. Olaf's School in Northfield fall of 1877.
In the 1880 census of Leon township he is living with Ivar D. Hustvedt, teacher and klokker of Urland Church. He married 1881 and moved to Codington county, S.D. where he took a homestead. Letters of Nov. 18, 1875; Feb 6 and Aug. 6, 1876; April 10, 1877; March 7 and Sept. 26, 1878; Jan. 7, 1880. Skogstad tells of farming methods, the success of many who had emigrated from Voss; he advises his parents not to emigrate to Goodhue co. Since land was very expensive.
The letters were found on the Haga farm in Voss in 1985 and translated by Albert Haga. Contributed by Clarice Aakre (Rt. 1 Box 98, Conrad, Mt. 59425) July 1996. also included are photocopies of photographs of Nels, wife and two children; and a son Amund as an adult. -
Hans H. Solem autobiography, 1992
"The life of a Viking in America." Solem was born in Bergen, emigrated in 1930 with a ticket went by an uncle in Cloquet, Minn. He went to South Dakota where another uncle lived, to work on farms. In 1932 he returned to Cloquet to work, and married in 1936. He got training as a welder and worked in defense industries in Minneapolis.
In 1945 he purchased a Gamble store in Beresford, S.D. He visited family Norway for three months in 1948. In 1950 he sold the store and began to work in Construction, moving to Sioux Falls. In 1956 he moved Eau Claire, Wis. Again working in construction: building over 350 homes there before moving into Realty. Tells about several later trips to Norway, and visits from family there to the U.S. Written in 1993, while living in retirement in Bayfield, Wis. Gives information about his children and grandchildren. Photograph on the cover. -
Nils Jacobson Sonmor autobiography, 1887
Autobiographical sketches of Nils and of his eldest son Jacob (born 1863). The family emigrated from Tolga, Osterdal in 1866, eventually settling in Otter Tail county, Minnesota, near Dalton. Brief but vivid account of selecting homestead land and the first steps in developing it. Nils gives detail about his family, while Jacob tells of his marriage, moving to Polk county to homestead, later moving to Virginis for three years, and eventually (1902) to Wisconsin, St. Croix county.
Translated by Nancy Sonmore Vaillencourt and donated 1993 by her father Ronald L. Sonmore (2708 34th Ave. NE, St. Anthony, MN 55418). Includes correspondence between him and Forrest Brown about family history. -
Lee Asjerd correspondence, 1931-1937
Eight letters sent to Lee (in Madison, Wis.) from her brothers Gregar and Guttorm Minnesjord in Flatdal, Telemark. They apparently were written for them by a teacher and family friend, Olav Ulvaas. News is exchanged about family and friends (both in Flatdal and those who had emigrated to America) and about changes in the home community since Lee left many years before, including the founding of a free church congregation which influenced may alterations in customs.
A filigree brooch (solje?) is sent to Lee at her request: she sends pbnotgraphs of her children. Guttorm asks Asjerd to send money to tide him over until his pension begins when he turns 70. Comments on hard times in America, and about crops and road construction in Norway. Includes translations by Lee's niece, Ingeborg Minnesjord Nordahl of Bergen, Norway. -
Per Hagen memoir, circa 1901
Photocopy of a manuscript memoir in the Green Bay division of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, "En del af Per Hagens vandring."
"A memoir in fictional form written by one Per Peterson from Tvedestrand in the early 1890s and telling of the author's childhood in Norway, his life at sea, his years as a farmer and prosperous businessman in Brown and Door counties, Wisconsin, and finally his return to Tvedestrand as an old man…A slightly different version of the text" was published in 1901 in the Tvdestransposten.
The memoir has 120 pages, a copy of the newspaper version 26 p.; A translation of the memoir (with certain complimentary passages from the newspaper version) translated with introduction and notes by Kate Stafford and Harald Naess, was published as On both sides of the ocean, a part of Per Hagen's journey in 1984 by NAHA as volume X in its Travel and description series.