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Peder Ingbart Reinert Reinertsen autobiography, 1901-1980
An account by a Norwegian Augustana Synod clergyman who emigrated from Sandvigen, Bergen, in 1875. After ordination in 1883, he served various Midwest parishes. Translation is by P. D. Reinertsen, a son.
The file includes a letter, July 30, 1901, from Reinertsen to Professor Kildahl, recommending Ole Rolvaag for admission to St. Olaf. See O.E. Rolvaag papers, P0584 box 52, for 1960 letter from his son to Gudrun Hovde about relations between Rolvaag and Reinertsen.
Also includes family histories, photographs (photocopies), obituaries from Ladies Aid scrapbooks of Bergen Lutheran Church, and Bethesda Lutheran Chuch records, Bristol, South Dakota.
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Peder J. Hansen papers, circa 1930
Papers of a Norwegian-born carpenter and merchant of Sharon, North Dakota (emigrated 1872), consisting of several poems and his autobiography (4 p. typescript), edited by Vigleik E. Boe in 1933, where he tells of early houses, land problems, carpentry, and the founding of congregations.
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Peder J. Hansen Papers: Autobiography & Poems, edited in 1933. -
Peder Johan Jacobson collection, 2011
CD family history of Peder Johan Jacobson (1875-1936), Hawick, Minnesota. Includes Deeds, Family Trees, Miscellaneous, and Photographs. Created by Karen Jacobson Haugen. -
Peder Olsen Langseth histories, 1903, 1917
Langseth was born in Tingvold, Nordmøre, and emigrated in 1887. He was a pastor and teacher at Tacoma, Sioux Falls, rural Princeton, Minnesota (in the area treated by the first history) and Hazard, Nebraska. In addition to these histories he published "Norsk barnehefte," "Telesoga" no. 14 : "Telerne i Santiago og Glendorado i Minnesota" (a supplement to the first history); and "Nils Greve i Amerika: fortælling av Norsk Amerika."- "Norske settlementer og menigheder i Sherburne, Benton og Mille Lacs countier, Minnesota, udgivet" af presterne P. Langseth, A. Larsgaard og R.J. Miland. Udgivernes forlag, 1903, 60 p., many photographs. (Anders Larsgaard (1872-1931) served churches in the area (1901-1912); Rasmus J. Meland (1869-1961) served churches there (1900-1903). An English translation (by Julius P. Anderson) of pages 4-26 (photocopy of typescript in Minnesota Historical Society) added 1996.
- Translation of pages 50-55 are in Nordmaendenes i Rock County, Wisconsin og nærmeste omegn. Typewritten (on one side of each leaf): 337 leaves, no. leaf 169. No author, place or publisher on the title page.
- "Av Pastor Peder O. Langseth" and "1917" are written in manuscript
- A manuscript map "Rock Prairie Settlement" by C.H.T. is frontispiece.
- Leaf 199 is a manuscript substitution for missing typed leaf which is included in the Tollefsrude History. There are manuscript corrections and additions throughout, and several manuscript pages inserted. The work is credited to Langseth in "Who's who among pastors…"; and to Langseth and Christian H. Tollefsrude in "Litteratur om utvandringen fra Norge til Nord-Amerika" (p. 70). The section ending on leaf 153 is signed "P.V." (i.e. P.L.); the section ending on leaf 189 is signed "P.L." Chapters beginning leaves 54, 190, 204, and 235 are credited to Tollefsrude. Leaves 117-124 are a history (in English) of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Beloit, by John N. Brown (1883-1966) who was a pastor there (1909-1917). 1996: a letter from Dr. J.S. Johnson to C.G.O. Hansen (found in the Hansen clipping file), Dec. 31, 1928, describes planning on this history. Leaves 195-203 contain "æresrullen" (roll of honor): list of men who served in the Civil War, with township, regiment and company mustered in and out, and notes. See Christian H. Tollefsrude History (P1424).
- Both copies should be consulted, since each includes corrections and additional material not found in the other. See that history for copy of letter from Tollefsrude about the book (contents: Rock County, Wis., Jefferson Prairie, Torpekolonien, Rock Prairie, Janesville, Orfordville, Beloit, Brodhead, Sand Prairie og Avon, Albany, Albany by og nedre Albany settlement, Rock Run og Durand, Edgerton).
- "Norske settlementer og menigheder i Sherburne, Benton og Mille Lacs countier, Minnesota, udgivet" af presterne P. Langseth, A. Larsgaard og R.J. Miland. Udgivernes forlag, 1903, 60 p., many photographs. (Anders Larsgaard (1872-1931) served churches in the area (1901-1912); Rasmus J. Meland (1869-1961) served churches there (1900-1903). An English translation (by Julius P. Anderson) of pages 4-26 (photocopy of typescript in Minnesota Historical Society) added 1996.
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Peder Rolf Westness papers, 1938-1989
A collection of the works, poems, short stories, and novels of a Chicago writer, active in the Norwegian literary circles of that city. A Chicago "Tribune" obituary is included. -
Peder Sather family history, undated
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Peder Syversen family history, undated
Also includes Descendants of Berthina Jensen.
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Peder Tangjerd papers, 1890-1924
Clippings, naturalization certificate, letters, and other data concerning a Norwegian-born minister who came from Karmøy in 1888. After serving a parish in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, for 25 years he became editor of Lutheraneren, the official organ of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America. A manuscript, "En fiskedag paa vestsiden af Karmøi", consists of reminiscences from 1880. -
Pederson family history, 1942
Noted document "A Tribute to Our Parents on Their Sixieth Wedding Anniversary 1882-1942." -
Pederson family history, 1973
"Mrs. Andreas (Maren) Pderson" by Evelyn A. Joens McCormick.