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Issues nos. 1, 3, and 4 of a monthly published and edited by Trondby Fenstad (Chicago), a second-generation Norwegian American. Only four or five issues of a journal claiming to be a voice of liberal opinion were published.
Growing up on a farm near Lake Mjosa, Granum joined the Norwegian merchant marine for two years in 1936, then he was drafted into the Norwegian navy for nearly two years. Rejoining the merchant marine in 1939, he was in England when Norway was invaded. Ending up in Minnesota, he joined the U.S. Army and became a U.S. citizen. Eventually he was sent to France and participated in the Battle of the Bulge and the liberation of Buchenwald camp. Revisiting his family after the war he discovered that one of his brothers had been a collaborator. Returning to Minneapolis, he was trained as a printer and worked for over thirty years for the Minneapolis public Schools.
Papers of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman: correspondence, school notebooks, and a manuscript (44 p.) of his translation (portions of Joh. Ludwig Hartmann's (1640-84), "Evangelisk Troesgrund," from German to Norwegian.
Content: Mikel Holseth Papers: Correspondence and Manuscript Note Books.
Papers from a Norwegian-American faculty member at the Harris College of Nursing of Texas Christian University. "An American at home in Norway," an account of a brief journey made by Hogstel to the homes of her ancestors in Southern Norway (1976); Genealogical compilation for the families of Johan and Anna Bronstad and of Berger and Anna Rogstad (1975); "A Travel Letter from Texas, 1852" written from Four Mile Prairie by Johan Olsen Brunstad, translated by Alvon Nelson (1979).