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Granrud family history, circa 2010
Photocopies of the Granrud family history prepared by Robert E. Granrud. Descendants of Even and Kari Granerud; Johan and Rakel Olsen; Gunerius and Olea Bjorneby; and Ole K. and Gunhild Finseth.
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Lytton O. Hetland family history, circa 1980
Includes the stories Aunt Ida [Ida Gusti Moen], Grandpa Called me Bucko [Oliver Olaf Moen], Fun on the Farm [grandparent’s farm, Fosston, Minnesota], A City Slicker’s Experience in a One Room Country Schoolhouse [Moen Country School, Fosston, Minnesota] and Life Begins in Audubon, Minnesota. circa 1980.
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G. Gilbertson diary, 1860-1912
The Diary of Gilbert J. Gilbertson, in Archives of St. Ansgar, Iowa, Heritage Association, translated by Ervin Dietrich, circa 1975 annotated by Therkelsen, 2010. Sporadic diary entries from 1860 to 1912 with family events.
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Emil Johannesen emigration documents, circa 1881
Contains several documents regarding Johannesen's emigration in 1881.
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Nils Remmen and Gutorm Oldre family history, 1977
Genealogy of Nils Nilsen Remmen and Gutorm Oldre prepared by Helen Ransom and Eileen Bevick, circa 1977.
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Monte Holm autobiography, 1999
"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.
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Kahrs family history, 1893, 1923, 1967
Includes:
"Stamtavle over Familien Kahrs" by Thora Sollied Kahrs, Bergen, 1923
In Norwegian.
"Family Kahrs," translated by Elizabeth Kahrs Pennell, 1967
Citizenship papers for N.M. Nelson dated 13 October 1893, Whatcom County, Washington
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Tollef L. Brevig family history, 1898-1935
Tollef Brevig biographical materials of the Teller, Alaska missionary. Includes photocopies of several articles: “Pioneering in Eskimo Land: A Story of Rev. T.L. Brevig," by E.H. Dame (1935), “Shall We Bring the Gospel to the Eskimos?” by Mrs. E.H. Dahle, and "Called North Starbuck [Minn.] Pastor Witnessed Firsthand Accounts of True Eskimo Life in Alaska." Includes 1898 photograph (transferred from the A.B. Pedersen papers) of Rev. Brevig, wife Julia, and daughter Dagny dressed in Eskimo furs (Larson studio formal portrait, Hudson, Wisc.) See NAHA spring 2012 newsletter for article, "Missionaries to Alaska," by Jeff Sauve, NAHA Assoc. Archivist. Donated by Howard and Ruth Berg.
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Gregorious and Mariana memoir, circa 1970, 2012
Hans Eirik Endal's "Story of Gregorius and Marianna Loftness Trip to the USA in 1872" (Jul i Nordfjord, circa 1970s, translated by Karin Husevag in 2012). Family lore of how a fishing line kept the family from starving.
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Emilie Hovdesven memoir, 1957
"From Mother to Daughter" (1957, introduction by daughter, Myrtle Hovdesven Wilson). Born in Coon Prairie, Vernon County, Wisconsin, May 31, 1864 to Ole and Mattia Sveen.
Mentions total eclipse of the sun; steamboat ride up Mississippi; Thore Hong, Willmar; dugout house, buffalo skulls and Indian (Native American) relics; Hemming Arntzen Wegdahl, postmaster (post office inside corner of dugout); town of Wegdahl, Minnesota; blizzard (March 1870); prairie fires (1870); birth of brother, Ole Magnus, "We girls stayed in bed and pulled the bedclothes over our heads so as not to hear Mother's cries"; Rev. Wikre; summer of the blackbird menace..."it seemed as if there were millions of black flapping wings. Randine and I were supposed to protect the cornfield. We ran through the field all day long, shouting and putting up scarecrows, but little did they heed."; soap making; missionary Solveson and early education/schooling; fishing the Minnesota River; Ole Brusven; moving into log house (1872); Rev. Solseth; Chippewa City/Granite Falls/Motevideo; Christmas memories; Blizzard (Jan. 7, 1873); Morton Hanson; milking the cows; grasshopper plague; diphtheria epidemic (1879); spelling bees and Ole Arntzen; Marit Pederson; blizzard (Oct. 15, 1880); Mrs. George Gregg, Granite Falls, Minn., small pox epidemic and "pest house" where "all the sick were huddled together to die"; Julebukking; Orilla Wright; Winter carnival in St. Paul; and the economic panic of 1897.
Formerly part of P539.