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Organized by Joan Styve for online documents. Includes:
Photocopies of photographs of Isabel Styve and W.C. Lembke and family from the collections of Isabel and W.C. Lembke, Pernilla Lembke, and Lucille Brandt Lembke
Recollections of "house car" built by W.C Lembke in 1923 for family camping trip
Civil War letters (translated) from Ole O. Styve
Enlisted under the name Ole Oleson (Olson), Co. K, 5th Wisconsin Infantry, May 13, 1861-July 11, 1865. According to family lore, Ole met Abraham Lincoln during a hospitalization after being wounded.
Family pedigree charts and recollections
Topics include: Grain buying in 1903, weather and blizzards in North Dakota, logging camp near Kelliher, Minnesota, baseball career from 1904-06, courtship, rattle snake scare, tornado/cyclone of 1919, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, dog named Rusty.
Transcript interview of Bernadine Lembke and Pernilla Lembke
Topics include: Model School, run in with barbed wire and a crochet hook, tornado in Fergus Falls, little girls clothes, cold bedrooms and crowded beds, dog fights and struck by lightening, dating and boyfriends
Letters from Pernilla Lembke to her parents, 1951-1968
Holiday traditions: Stories and Recipes from the W.C. and Isabel Lembke Family, 2010
Includes a letter dated 28 August 1903 from Alfred Jensen to Therese Knudsen (fictionalized by donor in a story titled, "A Letter from Alfred.")
Jensen, born in Horten, Norway on 1 August 1874, writes of his holiday travels on the S.S. Queen City from Lake Erie to Duluth, Minnesota. He marvels at the large ore ships and particularly Two Harbors, Minnesota and its lumberjacks.
In addition are included two photographs:
Therese Knudsen's parents and brother, Frederik Andreas, Anne and Englebreth Martin
Bronnoysund lighthouse.
The "Aasen Genealogy" is dedicated to the memory of John O. Aasen, 1872-1953.
Includes:
Family pedigree and family notes/missives transcribed
Letter from Lars O. Aasen written in Newburgh, Trail County, Dakota Territory, 1879 November 28
In this letter he writes, "I am working at Knudt Larsons for my board. I have two cows of my own. I have gotten twenty acres broke on my land, and if we get a good crop next summer I will sit fine."
Notes on Paul Thompson and Helga Aasen who left Albert Lea in a covered wagon heading to the Red River Valley