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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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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.
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Elise Rudi Ostnes family history, undated
Elise Rudi came from Norway and the Nedre Rudi Farm. Themes in the family history include:
Lars Rasmussen Ostnes, Norway to America
Lars Ostnes in the Aleutians, Bering Sea and Juneau
Lars Ostnes on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad to the Klondike
Lars Ostnes in the interior of Alaska
Lars and Elise Ostnes Discovery on Otter Creek and the Iditarod District
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Marshall, Fortuna Ledge and the Mining of Willow Creek
Ostnes military record including Lt. Leif R. Ostnes B-17 Crews and Missions to and from Grafton Underwood and the nineteen missions of Lt. Leif R. Ostnes. -
Hans W. Ask family history, 2012
Hans W. Ask, Redwood County, Minn., collected research notes and article by Hans Ask titled "Documented Local History, Nineteenth Century Homestead Certificate for County Land is Found" for the Redwood Gazette, 6 August 2012.
Formerly part of P539. -
Elling and Anna Trolsen Tollefsrud family papers, 1860-1942
No description available.
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Egil Guttersen family history, 1997
No description available.
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Ole J. Carson family history, 1984
A brief History of the Life of Ole J. Carson, his ancestors and descendants. Also talks about the "Carson Homestead Centennial."
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Ole K. Gaasland family history, 1994
No description available.
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Hendrickson family history, 1997-1998
No description available.
Formerly part of P539.