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J.J. Heimark papers, 1880-1958
Papers of a Fairmont, Minnesota, physician: correspondence; retail business statements; county and school district orders and receipts; Yellow Medicine County school district treasurer's reports; account books of the Moe grocery store, Minneapolis; a translation of B. Aslakson's "Ti maaneders fangenskab i Andersonville"; a family history. -
Abraham Jacobson papers, 1848-1989
Articles, clippings, obituaries, memoirs, correspondence, pictures, and scrapbooks of a Norwegian-born clergyman and farmer. The scrapbooks contain clippings taken largely from "Decorah-Posten:" obituaries, biographic sketches of Dakota pioneers, and items concerning Norwegian pioneer associations, Lutheran church conventions, Det Norske Selskap, Norsk-danske presseforening i Amerika, and Jacobson's contacts with Abraham Lincoln, "Decorah-Posten," and "Nordlyset." There are items about Rasmus B. Anderson, L. W. Boe, Gjermund Hoyme, U. V. Koren, Bernt J. Muus, Knute Nelson, Oley Nelson, Halle Steensland, Peer Strømme, Hans G. Stub, and Oscar M. Torrison.
The articles consist of biographies of Winneshiek County, Iowa, pioneers: Jacob Aga, Ole Andreas Anderson, Gunder H. Blegeberg, Ove Christian Johnson Hallan, Thor Halvorson, Tollev Halvorson, Johan Hegg, Christopher T. Hoyme, Andrew O. Lommen, Ole T. Lommen, Lars Iverson Melaas, and Knudt Thompson. The correspondence and other articles concern Jacobson's mission to the Gaspé settlement in the 1860s. Jacobson was the first Lutheran clergyman to preach in Dakota Territory and the first Norwegian in the Decorah area.
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American Relief for Norway, Inc. papers, 1940-1946
Papers of an association incorporated ten days after the invasion of Norway during World War II. Founded to "relieve distress" among the people of Norway, it was officially dissolved December 31, 1946. Correspondence, reports, and publicity material fall into five categories: clothing drive files, executive secretary's files, president's files, treasurer's files, and corporate records. Topics treated include clothing drives; collection of funds; purchase and distribution of food, clothing, shoes, drugs; publicity; problems of storage and transportation; relations with governments; merging of relief agencies; affiliation with the National War Fund; women's activities; tools for Finmark; and the Anfin O. Sather trust fund for the National Association of Norwegian Agricultural Clubs. -
Homme Homes papers, 1885-1919
Almanacs titled "Waisenhus Kalender," (1885-1919) published by Even Johnson Homme, founder of several benevolent institutions in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, containing information on these homes and rosters of Norwegian Lutheran clergymen.
Includes Clippings: obits. of Mrs. Homme, article by H.R. Holand Also history of the homes and pictures. "Om dans, et foredrag holdt i Winchester, Wis., 1879, udgivet of Past. E.J. Homme paa Waisenhusets Forlag og saelges til fordel for Waisenhuset i Wittenberg, Wis." Chicago, Nordens bogtrykkeri, 1883. 16 p. (Traktat no.1). "Hvorledes skulle menigh dslemmer retteligen bruge Guds ord til andres opbyggelse? Forhandlinger ved et offentligt mode i "Vor Frelsers Kirke" i Milwaukee den 26de January 1873." 16 p. Decorah, B. Anundsen. (Offprint from Kirkelig Maanedstidende) (Traktat no.5) Folkedahl, Beulah. A dream come true: the Homme homes at Wittenberg. Wittenberg, Wis., Nels and Ruth Englund Paulsen, 1956. xiv,184 p. (See St. Olaf library for another set of the Kalender and another copy of the Folkedahl book) -
Norwegian Old People's Home Society of Chicago papers, 1896-1962
Constitution, journals, and reports of an institution incorporated in 1896. -
Washington Benevolent Societies papers, 1922-1995
Historical sketches in manuscript of the Ebenezer Old Folks' Home and the Martha and Mary Orphan Home at Poulsbo and the Josephine Sunset Home at Stanwood.
Includes: "Sunset Home Messenger" (Eugene, OR, 1936); History of Josephine Old People's Home; minutes from The Norse Home, Inc. (1940); "The Norse Home Review" (1941, 1995); Norse Home--early history by Thor Bjornstad (1987). -
North Dakota Benevolent Societies papers, 1912-2003
Brochures, journals, and reports of North Dakota Benevolent Societies. Includes: Anne Carlsen Center for Children (Jamestown); Lutheran Children's Home Finding Society; North Dakota House of Mercy (Fargo); Wittenberg Hospital (Williston); Grafton Deaconess Hospital; Northwood Deaconess Hospital; Good Samaritan Hospital (Rugby); Grand Forks Deaconess Hospital; Norwegian Deaconess Hospital (Grafton), St. Luke's Hospital, Fargo, and"Northwood Emissaeren" -
New York and New Jersey Benevolent Societies papers, 1893-1995
Histories and reports for New York and New Jersey Benevolent Socities. Includes: Norwegian Children's Home, Brooklyn, N.Y. Norwegian Christian Home for the Ages (Norwegian Christian Home and Health Center), Norwegian Sailors' Home (Den Norske sømandsmissions Virksomhead) Eidsvold sjømannshjemmet, Katonah, Westchester Co. Also includes Fort Lee (New Jersey) orphanage. -
Minnesota Benevolent Societies papers, 1875-2001
Brochures, constitutions, and reports from a variety of institutions like hospitals, orphanages, retirement centers, etc.
Includes: Crookston. Bethesda Hospital, St Paul. Aandeligt Sanatorium, Eagle Lake. Bethesda Home, Children's Homes Soc. of Minn., Heron Lake, Southwestern Minnesota Hospital, Lutheran Convalescent Home Assn., Kenyon Sunset Home, Madison Ebenezer Hospital, Martha Mary Mission Home, Lutheran Old People's Home, Minneapolis. Ebenezer Home for the Aged, Norwegian Lutheran Rescue Home, Goodhue County. Norske Gjensidige Beskytt (Lutheran Girls' Home) sesselskab. Love (1875), Lutheran Hospice; $ Home for Young Women Minneapolis. Luther Union. By-laws.1917 Red Wing. Minnesota Scandinavian Relief Assoc. Lake Park. Lake Park barnehjem. Lyngblomsten Home for the Aged (1298 Pascal Avenue, St. Paul, MN)
Lutheran Welfare Societies includes: photocopies of "Inner Mission Messenger" & "Inner Mission Herald" (1922-1924); photocopy of "The Lutheran Church and the Inner Mission Work in our Large Cities" by F.A. Schaffnit (n.d.); "The First Twenty-Five Years: 1905-1930. The Luther House." Published by The Lutheran Welfare Society of Minnesota. -
Iowa Benevolent Societies pamphlets, 1914-1924
Constitution and history of Iowa Benevolent Societies.