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Data covering an immigrant from Valdres, who came to Milwaukee in 1848 and moved to La Crosse in 1851. He established his own business in 1856 and became known as "The Merchant Prince of La Crosse." The clippings consist of biographical notes and information about the house he purchased in 1865. There is also a description of a coin which he had had minted with his lion trademark on the obverse side.
Contains newspaper clippings on Mons Anderson and his home in La Crosse.
Letters received by Fladager at Spring Grove, Minnesota, from his brother, Ole H. in Christiania and Rome, from an unidentified correspondent at Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, and from a son, Henry. Ole H. was a sculptor. Also, photocopy of letter written July 26, 1905 by his son, Henry (who had a clothing store in Srping Grove, MN) to "soskende barn Henrik."
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Mons H. Fladager Correspondence. Also, photocopy of letter written July 26, 1905 by his son, Henry (who had a clothing store in Srping Grove, MN) to "soskende barn Henrik."
Publications of a Minneapolis railroad machinist who emigrated from Voss in 1859 as Mons Sjurson Bakkethun, eventually settling in Goodhue County, Minnesota. He received a preacher's license from Yale University in 1878, an M. A. from Carleton College in 1879. He was active as a singer in Minneapolis late in the last century. He wrote and published poems in Norwegian and English, often meant to be sung to familiar tunes, and tracts expressing his socialist beliefs. "Strilevisen-Fiskevisen" (32 pages) includes poems linked by autobiography, "Monsinnis lille katekismus" (32 pages) states his economic beliefs in catechismal format. He published six "Monssinian Cards" on similar themes. His father, Sjur Monsen Bakkethun (1806-1866) emigrated from Haugesund 1858 to Long Prairie, Ill. In 1861 to Leon Township, Goodhue Co., Minn.
"Once a Hobo...The Autobiography of Monte Holm," by Monte Holm and Dennis L. Clay, 1999. Chronicles of a 13-year-old boy from Clarkston, Washington, forced from his home and became a hobo.
Formerly part of P539.
Our Norwegian Ancestors of 1868, a 32-page account based on the experiences of emigrants from Solør who left Christiania on April 4, 1868, and arrived in Quebec 13 weeks later. Centers around the families of Amund Amundson, Ole Halverson, and Gunder Gunderson, whose journey continued by box car to La Crosse, Wisconsin, and on to areas near Blair, Wisconsin. Their life in the pioneer communities is described up to 1878.
Translated by Arup N. Garson of Mondovi, Wisconsin. Printed in 1939; "En Soløringer's oplevelse i Amerika" translated by Erik A. Halverson. 31, 9 p. Written in 1938-39. Includes "The Golden Age of Steam Threshing," by Erik Halverson. 9 p. Morris was born in Hale, Trempeauleau County, Wisconsin, died at Strum, Wisconsin.