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John A. Johnson papers, 1854-1969
Biography/History:
John Anders Johnson was born in Telemark, Norway, on April 15, 1832. He was the oldest of five children who were born to Anders Johnson (1804-188) and Aaste Killing Koven (1808-1893). The family emigrated to the United States in 1844. By 1852, the family moved to Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin – near Koshkonong. Johnson first married Karen Thompson in 1856. Before she died, they had a daughter, Caroline. Both died in 1860. He remarried in 1861 to Kaia Nicoline Kildahl, and had six children together: Frederick, Ella, Ida, Carl, Hobert, and Maurice. Johnson’s brother was Ole Skipness Johnson, a Norwegian-American soldier who served in the Civil War (Scandinavian Regiment).He was founder and president of Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Company, of Gisholt Machine Company, and of Hekla Fire Insurance Company. In 1896, he was elected president of the National Association of Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers. Johnson helped found Amerika, a Chicago newspaper, in 1873. He wrote frequently on political, economic, and social topics such as tariff free silver, temperance, slavery, and education.
Johnson was a member of the Wisconsin legislature in 1857 and 1873-1874 and county clerk (1861-1869). His philanthropies included the University of Wisconsin, St. Olaf College, and the Gisholt Home for the Aged. NAHA published John A. Johnson, by Agnes M. Larson, in 1969.
Scope and Content:
Papers of a Norwegian-born industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist from Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin. Materials include articles, clippings, contracts, correspondence, indentures, patents, pamphlets, receipts, records, reports, scrapbooks, and statements. Besides several pamphlets, publications include Det skandinaviske regiments historie (1869) and Fingerpeg for farmere og andre (1888). -
William T. Evjue clippings, 1940-1970
Clippings about the founder and editor of "The Capital Times" of Madison, Wisconsin. Evjue was born in Merrill, Wisconsin, of Norwegian-born parents and was on the staff of the "Milwaukee Sentinel" and of the "Wisconsin State Journal" before founding "The Capital Times." -
Ole Olson Osterud papers, 1833-1925
Papers of a Norwegian-born artisan and farmer of Ostrander, Minnesota, consisting of correspondence, diaries, legal papers, and pamphlets. The correspondence, 1854-1894, consists of Norway letters, a Civil War letter, and letters from New Ulm, St. Peter, Spring Valley, Walnut Grove, Preston, Hurdal, Red Wing, Minnesota; Coon Prairie, Sparta, Muskego, Wisconsin; and Revillo, Dakota. -
Hans Sjurson Hilleboe papers, 1875-1967
Articles, catalogues, certificates, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, manuscripts, temperance literature, clippings, and family histories of a Wisconsin-born educator. Hilleboe was principal of Willmar Seminary; superintendent of Benson, Minnesota, public schools; principal of the preparatory department at Luther College; and professor of education at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. -
Theodore Jorgenson papers, circa 1911-circa 1950
Correspondence, articles, clippings, diaries, family history, handbooks, lectures, lecture notes, minute book, notebooks, pamphlets, poems, reports, scrapbooks, speeches, and translations of a Norwegian-born professor of Norwegian at St. Olaf College. Jorgenson immigrated in 1911 and was a member of the St. Olaf College faculty (1925-1966). Among his many publications he was author of "History of Norwegian Literature," "Norway's Relation to Scandinavian Unionism, Ole Edvart Rolvaag: A Biography" (with Nora O. Solum), "Henrik Ibsen: A Study in Art and Personality," "Norwegian-English School Dictionary." He was the Democratic Farmer-Labor nominee for the United States Senate in 1946.
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Hans Olaus Kaasbøll papers, 1782, 1829
Transcript of propositions in geometry by Kaasbøll.
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Harry H. Anderson articles and clippings, 1954-1980
Articles by the executive director of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, all published in "Historical Messenger of the Milwaukee County Historical Society" and "Milwaukee History," March 1969-Spring 1980 (complete issues). One folder of clippings about Norwegians in Wisconsin from the files of the Historical Society.
Includes:- Early Scandinavian Immigration in Milwaukee" (March 1969); "Gustaf Unonius and the Episcopal Mission to the Scandinavians" (June 1970); "Scandinavian Immigration in Milwaukee Naturalization Records" (Spring and Summer 1978); "Norwegian Shipbuilding in Early Milwaukee" (Autumn and Winter 1978); "Fiction as History: Local Novelists Depict the Local Heritage" (Spring 1980).
- Clippings about Norwegians in Wisconsin, from the files of the Milwaukee County Historical Society (1954-1978).
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Sons and Daughters of Norway Building Association of Minneapolis, Inc. papers, 1920-1958
Correspondence, minutes, and financial reports of a group composed of several Sons of Norway and Daughters of Norway lodges organized to provide a place for lodge meetings. The Association was dissolved in 1958. -
Gunder Paulsen papers, 1878, 1944
Copy of "Minder fra Tiden omkring Aaret 1830 til 1848," published in 1872, and a 132-page typescript translation of the same. The reminiscences deal with attorney Paulsen's childhood and youth in Solør, Norway.
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Rasmus Bjørn Anderson papers, 1872-1918
Clippings, correspondence, genealogy, music, pamphlets, and photographs of a Wisconsin-born author, diplomat, editor, and educator. The clippings deal largely with Anderson controversies. Anderson was professor of Norwegian at the University of Wisconsin, United States minister to Denmark, and editor of "Amerika" (1898-1922), Madison, Wisconsin.
Rasmus Björn Anderson papers, 1823-1936 at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison is over 16.8 cubic feet (65 archives boxes) and contains photographs, correspondence, and more.
See "Rasmus Bjørn Anderson: Pioneer Scholar," by Lloyd Hustvedt, NAHA, 1966.