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Gail Marie Aanenson thesis, 1971
Contains "The life and work of Miss Pauline Fjelde: Minnesota weaver-embroideress, 1971. Copy of masters thesis from the University of Minnesota.
Contents information on her life, embroideries, flags, banners, domestic textiles, garments, weavings and selected memorabilia and photographs from Fjelde scrapbooks; biographical sketches of the designers of the tapestries. -
Ragna Dahle biography, 1923
One of the Least, a 32-page biography of a Norwegian-American woman from Aitkin, Minnesota, who became a Lutheran missionary teacher at Manasoa, Madagascar. Astrid Awes, the author and Dahle's sister, used the missionary's diary as a partial basis for her account. Includes a portrait of Dahle and a photograph of her grave in Madagascar. -
Clarence A. Clausen papers, circa 1924-circa 1975
Articles and a genealogical chart concerning Clausen himself and his ancestry in Drangedal, Telemark. Clausen, a professor of history, wrote, translated, and edited extensively for NAHA. -
Agnes Kjorlie Geelan biography, 1989
The January 1989 issue of the Binford (North Dakota) Guide, volume 21, January 1989, which tells the story of a Norwegian-American, beginning with her childhood and youth in Hatton, North Dakota, and her education at the Mayville Normal School. She came as a teacher to Enderlin, North Dakota, where she married Elric Geelan, a railroad trainman. She became involved in women's suffrage, the labor union, and local politics, which led to her election as mayor and later as senator in the North Dakota Legislature. She served as Commissioner of the State Workmen's Compensation Bureau, was a member of the North Dakota Commission on the Status of Women and of the North Dakota Constitutional Convention. She is also the author of a biography of Senator Bill Langer and of two novels, The Ministers' Daughters and Pine Cove Revisited. -
John Martin Kalberlahn clippings, 1923-1943
Copies of biographical data from medical and Moravian Church records concerning "the first medical practitioner in America." Kolberlahn came from Trondheim, but became affiliated with the Moravian Church while living in Denmark in 1744. In 1753 he emigrated to a new colony of that church in Bethabara, North Carolina, where he served as a physician. He died during a typhoid epidemic in 1759. Also included, "John Martin Kalberlahn," by Knut Gjerset and Ludvig Hektoen. Offprint from the Bulletin of the Society of Medical History of Chicago, December, 1924, volume 3, pages 308-316. A related account is found in the Elwin Rogers Papers, P 1438. -
Jon Leirfall clippings, circa 1963-1998
Newspaper accounts of a visit to the Midwest by an 84-year-old Norwegian statesman, author, and journalist from Stjordalen, Sor (South) Trondelag. Leirfall had previously been in the United States as Ambassador to the United Nations in 1963, and in 1969 when he sought out his American relatives. A photocopy of his memorial service (June, 1998) and an article from Adresseavisen give further information about his life and career
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Hans Mattson clippings and articles, circa 1990
Together with the Reverend Eric Norelius, Mattson helped organize the church at Vasa, Goodhue County, Minnesota, in 1853. Mattson, an immigrant from Skåne, Sweden, has been called "the single most influential American leader responsible for the vast Scandinavian migration to Minnesota. His Reminiscences: The Story of an Emigrant, published by the Minnesota Historical Society in 1891, is in the NAHA book collection. A number of the clippings, photocopies and originals, concern the dedication of the Mattson Settlement Marker at Vasa, July 9, 1988, and the celebration of "Hans Mattson Day," October 9, 1990. The others address various aspects of Mattson's career. -
Johan Nyhagen translations, 1972-1977
"The Santal Mission in America, and the Visit of Skrefsrud in 1894-95," is a translation of a chapter of a Norwegian scholar's doctoral dissertation on the history of the Santal Mission. The Santal Mission was organized by Lars Skrefsrud and [?] Børresen in Santalistan, India, in 1867, and received support from the Scandinavian church groups in the United States, especially after 1893, when a Santal Committee was elected. The translations are by Harry T. Kleven and Arne Unheim. The file includes "Fra Skrefsrud til venner i Amerika," Decorah-Posten, September 29, 1981; sermons and reports by Skrefsrud about the Santal mission during his American visit, 1894-1895, and clippings (1891-1940) about the mission and the American Santal Committee. -
Magda Fossum Paulson clippings, circa 1982
A proclamation of the Governor of South Dakota, William Janklow, naming December 10, 1982, as Magda Fossum Paulson Day in honor of her 90th birthday. Magda Paulson, who lived in Webster, South Dakota, was noted for her quilt-making projects on behalf of Lutheran World Relief, Norwegian World Relief, and other charitable organizations. -
Elwin Rogers history, 1975
"A Scandinavian Trio in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina" tells the story of the founding of Wachovia Tract, near present-day Winston-Salem, North Carolina, by the Moravian Church. Among the early shareholders was Madtz Jenson Klein from Drammen, about whom little is known. In the establishment of the first settlement two Norwegians took part: Hans [John] Martin Kalberlahn, a doctor, born at Trondheim in 1722, and Erick Ingebretson, a millwright and carpenter, born at Røros, 1721. Both men died during an epidemic of typhoid fever and are buried on a hill near the settlement. For more information on Kalberlahn, see P 1433.