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Gaulek Olson Mona papers, 1903-1925
Born in Hegre, North Trondelag, Mona immigrated 1880. He attended Red Wing Seminary 1897-1905, and served churches in Mt. Vernon, S.D.; Grand Forks, N.D.; Toronto, S.D.; Newman Grove, Nebraska; and Chicago. He held various positions with the China Mission Board and the Hauge Indremissionsforbund. -
Arne Dag Ostigaard articles, undated
Photocopies of articles from local newspapers and historical society yearbooks, about emigrants from Osterdal to the United States. Most were published in the 1980s. by a teacher a bygdebok writer (who contributed to the Tynset history, volumes 3 and 4). Sent to Rolf Erickson, March 20, 1987. Titles: Rnegranskaren Olaf Strandvold, pp. 140-142. Emigrants from Osterdal: brief biographies. 3 p. Sagaen om en Tyneset-familie som satte spor etter seg I ville vesten (Ole Estenson Nygaard) 2 p. Osterdolene som erobret praerien. 2 p. Flyktet far slit og amond: de faerreste vant rikdon. 3 p. 18,000 Osterdaler utvandret til USA...Tryslingen Ole Johansen Lutnes var den forste. 2 p. Da alvdolene dro til Amerika. 2 p. De falt for UAS i 1918. 1 p. Da brydoler og tylldoler dro til Amerika. 2 p. Ukjent soldat...om tronderske og nord-osterdalske soldater i denamerikanske borerkrigen. Vaart lokale Amerika: 1. Sarpsborg Lutherske menighet (Dalton, Minn.). 2. Borgerkrigsveteraner fra Roros. 3. Familien Slaabakken fra Tolga. N-O. i USA: 2. Folldal township, Marshall co., Minn. 3. Ei grav paa kjerkegarden i Climax (Anton O. Holm, 1892-1918). 4. Folldoler i hopetall! (Stanley, Wis.). 5. Neby, Red Riverdalen, Minn. 6. Trodenskjold i Dalton. 8 En av mange (Trone O. Moen). 9. Trausete tolginger i Hixton, Wis. 9. Senatoren fro Os (Ole) P. Engstrom). Tolgen church (Saum, Minn.). Da nordosterdane drog til Amerika. Pp. 99-108. Knut H. Brandvolds (1848-1919) liv og lagnad i Amerika. Pp. 56-58. Osterdalslaget i USA 1910-1961. pp. 78-87. -
Gunder Pedersen Heien letters, 1881-1909
Photocopies of letters to relatives in Norway (May 16, 1881-December 10, 1884) mainly from Montevideo, Minnesota; letter to childhood friend A.G. Nordhagen, February 4, 1909. Heien emigrated from Rena, Aamot kommune, Hedmark fylke. Also includes pedigree charts, Saterback-Heien, and associated correspondence, 1979-1996. -
Senior Civil Affairs Officer's Guide for Norway, 1944 September
"Detailed instructions, supply and economics." A manual prepared pursuant to an agreement signed May 16, 1944, "Civil administration and jurisdiction in liberated territory," by Trygve Lie (Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (General, U.S. Army). Concerns "the arrangements to be made for civil administration and jurisdiction in Norwegian territory liberated by an Allied Expeditionary Force." (The "agreement ceased to be effective upon withdrawal of Allied liberating forces from Norway...the bulk of such forces withdrew in late 1945." -
Henriette Christiane Koren Naeseth papers, circa 1946-circa 1979
Naeseth was the daughter of C.A. Naeseth, longtime Luther College professor, and his wife, a daughter of U.V. Koren. She graduated from Grinnell college and received graduate degrees from the Universities of Minnesota and Chicago. After teaching at several colleges, she joined the Augustana college faculty in 1934 and taught until her retirement in 1968. "She became one of the very distinguished members of the Augustana faculty, rising to become chair of the humanities division…for 23 years." Luther College granted her an honorary degree in 1961, She received the St. Olav medal in 1970.
Her principal scholarly work was The Swedish theatre of Chicago, 1868-1950 (Augustana Historical society, 1951). She translated Sigrid Undset's Return to the future (1942) and contributed several articles to NAHA's Studies and Records. These papers consist of Naeseth's writings on Marcus Thrane. She became interested in writing a critical study of his life and works as early as 1952 when she submitted a translation of the section of Ernst Skarted's Vagabond och redactor (1914) on Thrane. Blegen encouraged her to broaden her study and make use of the extensive manuscripts which had been given to the University of Oslo library. Blegen recommended that Bjork "continue the correspondence with her…She will do a no. 1 job if and when she carries through her plans." Her correspondence with Bjork ends sadly with a letter (March 29, 1979) from an Augustana colleague informing Bjork that her "physical and mental condition is rapidly deterioration" and offering to send him the "masses of Thrane material…a complete and horrifying chaos." Bjork comments that "Quite some time ago, Henriette sent me preliminary translations of Thranes's plays and a good part of her interpretive writing about the man. I got nowhere trying to edit some of the latter; she rejected out of hand what I had done." NAHA in 1987 published Terje Leiren's Marcus Thrane, A Norwegian radical in America. While Naeseth's material was made available to Leiren, he does not refer to it.
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Vandringer Conference planning documents, 2000
VANDRINGER; NORWEGIANS IN THE AMERICAN MOSAIC, 1825-2000; a conference, April 6-9, 2000, sponsored by the NAHA and the Minnesota Historical Society, as part of the celebration of the Slooper Anniversary, 1825-2000, and the millennium of Leif Ericson's arrival in America.
Box 1-2:- Miscellaneous correspondence: Arnold R. Alanen. H. Arnold Barton. Dag Blanck. Joan Buckley. Carl Chrislock. Robert B. Firing. Kathryn Fuller. Britt Unni S. Geving. Jon Gjerde. John Graham. Groveland Gallery. Vidar L. Haanes. James Jaastad. Don Kloster. Aud Korbol. Lori Ann Lahlum. Susal Larson. Terje I. Leiren. Mette Lovaas. Lise Lunge-Larsen. Dorothy Kleppen McCall. Linda McShannock. Todd Nichol. Daniel Nikuls. Gary Olson. Janet Pultz. Heather Schacht Reisinger. Kristin Risley. Cyntia Elyce Rubin. Claire Selkurt. Carleton A. Sperati. Lori A. Stanley. Duane P. Swanson. Rudolp J. Vecoli. Irma Wachtler. K. Marianne Wargelin. Angela Cavender Wilson. Soveig Zempel. (These have been indexed).;
- Moderators. NAHA. NAHA-Norway. Name lists. P
- lenary session III.
- Printed programs.
- Program.
- Public relations.
- Registration.
- Sculpture tour.
- Thank-yous.
- Presenters of papers: Hans Eirik Aarek. Kristin Anderson. Russell & Sylvia Bartley. Bety Bergland. Robert Bly. Erik Brochmann. Carol Colburn. Knut Djupedal. Laurann Gilbertson. Dennis A. Gimmestad. Oyvind Gulliksen. Karen V. Hansen. Terje Hasle Joranger. Chris Kimball. Knut Kjelstadli. Ann Legried. Odd S. Lovoll. Sarah Lund. May Lunde . David Mauk. William C. Melton. Robert Mikkelsen. Deborah Miller. Mary Hull Mohr. Jostein Molde. Heather Muir. Jan Eivind Myhre. Einar Niemi. Erik Opsahl. Nils Olav Ostrem. Orm Overland. Peter Scholl. Solvi Sogner. Kathleen Stokker. Arne Sunde. Rasmus Sunde. Thomas C. Thompson. Gunnar Thorvaldsen. Hallvard Tjelmeland. Dina Tolfsby. Olav Tysdal (These have been indexed; where a copy of the paper is included, its title is noted on the author card.
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Severt Johan Fretheim papers, 1901-1950
Papers of a Lutheran pastor who was born in Freeborn county, Minn. To parents who emigrated in 1870 from Aurland, Sogn og Fjordane. He attended Luther Academy, Albert Lea (1900-1903), Luther College (1903-1907) and Luther Seminary (1907-1910). He was ordained 1910 in the Norwegian Synod and served churches at Plentywood, Montana (1910-1919) and Scarville, Iowa (1919- ).
Box 1: 1 folder Miscellaneous: photographs, correspondence; 1 folder Articles, Lutheran Teacher, Lutheran Herald: "Christian high schools"; "A typical; home mission parish; a birds eye view of the building of the ‘Plentywood Parish,' Montana, 1910 to 1919"; "How one parish does it"; "From the St. Ansgar circuit."; 1 folder Thesis (Luther College, 1907: "The Louisiana Purchase." MSS, 46 p.) Seminary notes (2 notebooks, 1905-1908). Histories: "Now thank we all our God." (The Centennial Commemoration, v. 1 no. 3, Sept. 1943. 11 p.) History of Hayward, 1849-1949, by Charles Nelson. 41 p. –pp. 38-39, "The Fretheim family." The 75th anniversary of the Oakland Lutheran Church, 1876-1951," by Fretheim,. 20 p.; 2 folders Materials from the Plentywood Parish: A little reminder of the pioneer days of the Lutheran church in the Plentywood Parish, Montana, 1910-1919, by S.J. Fretheim. 1 v. The Plentywood Lutheran, April 1912-March 1919. (Lack: Nov.-Dec. 1915, Oct. 1916). Fabric map of the parish.;
Box 2: 11 yearbooks, 1909-1918 (2 for 1915); 1 folder: Herbarium, compiled June 1901; 1 scrapbook, clippings;
Box 3: Sermon notes and addresses; 2 folders Dated sermon notes, 1911-1922, MSS; 3 folders Undated sermon notes (text is given). MSS; 1 folder Addresses. Some titles: "The pastor and his parish in time of war." "Now thank we all our God in the backward look" (to Iowa District Convention). "The first Christmas service." "Is there retrogression in the moral courage of the ministry?" "The golden fleece of ambition." Chapel talks, Luther College; 1 notebook Notes for miscellaneous sermons and addresses; Donated by Richard H. Fretheim, 904 Woodland Ave. Kalispell, Montana 59901, whose grandfather Henry was a brother of Severt. -
Salvation Army papers, 1920-1986
Material about the Scandinavian Department of the Salvation Army, especially in Chicago. Collected by Helen Fletre and Josefa Andersen for Odd Lovoll to use in preparing A Century of Urban Life (NAHA, 1988).
See pages 201-202, 229, 237, 289.; Lovall writes: "A Scandinavian Department was organized in Brooklyn in 1887, at about the same time as the Salvation Army established itself in the Nordic homelands. Emigrating Salvationists became leaders in America. The Swedes dominated the mission among Scandinavian Americans. In such centers as Brooklyn, Minneapolis and Chicago there were separate Norwegian and Danish corps alongside Swedish and mixed Scandinavian ones. The Scandinavian mother corps in Chicago was the Swedish no. 13 organized in 1891 on the near North Side. A purely Norwegian corps had its beginning in 1896 on Grand Avenue, and in 1905 an outpost in Humboldt Park was opened by Ensign Maria Edahl, who in 1906 married Colonel Tom Gabrielsen, a major leader in the Scandinavian work in America."
Miscellaneous, including correspondence with the Archives and Research Center of the Salvation Army; 1 folder Individuals: Janet Cool; Bert Gordon; Tom Gabrielsen; Lucy Gabrielsen; Fred Schaefer; Esther (Schaefer) Sundin; Jacob Thompsen; 1 folder Corps history (members and property): no. 15 (Humboldt Park). 1891-1967; no. 31 (Norwegian) 1896-1904; 1 folder Writings of Edward O. Nelson: "The Scandinavian work in America" (The War Cry, Dec. 30, 1893).
"Recollections of the Salvation Army Scandinavian work in the U.S., 1887-1978." 1978, various pages (14 chapters). Photocopy of typescript. "Recollections of the Salvation Army's Scandinavian Corps" (Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly, October 1978, pp. 257-276, photocopy); 1 folder K.A. Walden. Aaterblick over Fralsningsarmens skandinaviska arbete i Amerika, 1887-1933. Chicago, 1933. 133 p. Cover title: Genom 45 aar. Photocopies of pp. 1-7, 28-29, 40-45, 48-51. 57-65, 91-93, 95-96, 102-103, 106-107, 117-118, 125-128.
Complete book in library collection BX9716.42.A2 NAHA -
Lew Linde article, 2003
Chief Justice Douglas K. Amdahl, Minnesota's judicial pioneer. A paper "presented at the NAHA International Conference, Bergen, Norway, June 25-28, 2003."; Amdahl was born in Mabel, Fillmore co., Minn. January 23, 1919. His father's parents had emigrated from Sand, Rogaland, in 1895. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1946, receiving his J.D. in 1951. He first worked as an assistant county attorney in Hennepin county, and for the county commissioners. In 1961 he was appointed judge of the Minneapolis Municipal Court; in 1962 as judge of the Fourth Judicial District. July 1980 he was appointed Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court; in December 1981 Chief Justice. He retired in January 1989. "He was the main innovator and force behind many positive improvements in Minnesota's legal system." Partly based on personal interview.; The author is a first cousin of Amdahl, and a lawyer.
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Frederick Peterson muster roll, 1808-1986
Muster rolls of infantry companies stationed at Fort Dearborn, Illinois. Include Frederick Peterson, possibly a Norwegian, term June 1, 1808 to June 1, 1812 (or 1813). According to Lovoll's A century of urban life (NAHA, 1988) pp. 9,318 (note 15), in 1812 Peterson was among those killed in a bloody massacre; "surviving accounts of a "Norwegian fiddler" at the fort would lead one to conclude that the fiddler and private Peterson were on and the same."