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Elling Eielsen papers 1846-1997
Biography/History:
Elling Eielsen was born and raised on the farm of Sundve in Voss, Norway. The son of Eiel Ingebrigtsen Sundve and Anna Ellingsdatter Sundsvaal. In Norway, he was brought up in the Lutheran religious tradition of Hans Nielsen Hauge. From 1832-1839, he was a lay preacher who toured around Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, where he was often met with opposition and eventually faced imprisonment
Eielsen immigrated to the United States in 1839 first settling in the Fox River Settlement, LaSalle County, Illinois. In 1843, he was formally ordained as a Lutheran minister by Francis Arnold Hoffmann, a German Lutheran pastor. The Eielsen Synod (originally named the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) was founded at the Jefferson Prairie settlement, Wisconsin, in 1846 by Elling Eielsen. Eielsen is considered the first Norwegian Lutheran minister in the United States.
Scope and Content:
Copies of his baptism and confirmation records; Eielsen's certificate of ordination and of letters by him (1836-1862); transcripts of a 15-page typescript article titled "Haugianer Folket på Sundve Fraasegnuppskrifter" (1931) by Knut Bjørgaas; a thesis (208 pages, 1932) titled "Elling Eielsen: Pioneer Lay Preacher and First Norwegian Lutheran Pastor in America" by Clarence J. Carlsen; an Eielsen bibliography by Olaf M. Norlie (106 pages); a Master's thesis (98 pages, 1946) by Ansgar Sovik and his Norway lectures on Eielsen; a list of Eielsen Synod churches and ministers; and assorted articles, clippings, and pamphlets. -
Hans O. Egeberg papers, 1933-2000
Abstract
A biography, tributes, and a letter concerning a Norwegian-born engineer and Gary Steel Works employment manager.
Contents- Tribute by Ralph E. Rowley.
- Clipping from "Nordisk Tidende," January 24, 1945, which tells of Roger O. Egeberg, a son who was an associate of General Douglas MacArthur.
- Letter from Martin Cornelius (1952).
- Reaching for the World: Early Memories, by Roger O. Egeberg (edited by Barbara Scheiber & Shirley Cockrane, Washington Expatriates Press, Washington, D.C., 2000). One chapter recounts the family returning to live and work on the family farm in Akebaerg, Norway (1912).
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Torgeir T. Eckholth article, 1906
An article, "Lidt Wisconsin politik," written for "Fremtiden," Drammen, Norway, by a resident of Wheeler, Wisconsin. The article deals with Wisconsin politics during the time of Robert M. La Follette and James O. Davidson.
Contents:
Torgeir T. Eckholth Article "Lidt Wisconsin Politik" -
Ancestral charts, circa 1932-1945
Short family histories compiled for freshman Norwegian classes at St. Olaf College between 1932 and 1945.- Ancestral Charts: A-H
- Families include: Leonard Alne '41; Maurice Amundson '41; Erliss Anderson '41; Eunice Anderson ex-'41; Arnold F Anderson '40; Willard Anderson ex-'41; Orville Bakko '41; Clarence A.M. Benson '41; Norman Benson '38; Orville Crawford '43; Lauritz Bjorlie '38; Edel R.M. Boe '41; Archibald N. Bolstad '38; Milton Boock '32; Lovella Boyum ex-47; Ruth Bratvold ex-'41; Vivian Burns '33; Ragna Cartford '39; Mildred Christensen '41; Astrid Christianson ex-'41; Marie Christofferson '43; Juliet Daehlin ex-'41; Adrian Dahl '41; Cora Dahl ex-'39; Unidentified history of the Mt. Horeb, WI Dahle family (received in 1932 from Isak Dahle, Chicago), Ruth Danielson '41; Marie Devold '42; Harold Duoos '40; Naomi Eastvold ex-'41; Lorine Edmans; Valborg Ellertson ex-'41; William Engelke '30; Harriet Engman ex-'41; Bernice Erickson ex-'41; Brunell Erickson ex-'41; Norma Evenson ex-'41; Roald Evenson '39; Vesta Evenson '27; Arthur Feroe '38; Harriet Finsand '41; Harold Flo '38; Shirley Floyd '47; Paul Forseth ; Vernon Foshager ex-'45; Dolores Furaas '41; Ruby Galstad '42; Elizabeth Gjertson '41; Paul Graber '32; Walter Gravrock '40; James Green ex-'44; Hans and Viel Grimsrud; Clyde Grimstvedt '39; Helen Grønneberg ex-'45; Harold Gryting '41; Ellen Gundersen ex-'43; Amee Gunlikso ex-'41; Helen Haaland ex-'41; Waldemar Haaland ex-'50; Hans Halverson ex-'43; Henry Halvorson '40; Roy Halvorson ex-'38; Eunice Hansen ex-'41; Lillian Hanson ex-'39; Harold Hanson '33; Jean Hanson '41; Myrtle Hanson ex-'48; Rebecca Hanson '43; Helen Harris '46; Lucille Hartberg ex-'41; Rosalind Hauge ex-'50; Anthony Haugen '41; Thomas Haugen '38; Jarvis Hauger ex-'41; Emil Haugland ex-'41; Helge Haukoos; Harriet Henjum '46; Mildred Hildahl ex-'40; Ivan Hill ex-'41; Gladys Hjartholm '32; Edward Hoffland ex-'38; Hjalmer Holland '37; Zelpha Holman ex-'50; Berthe Hompland '36; Irene Hompland '36; Judith Hovde ex-'40.
- Ancestral Charts: I-O:
- Families include: Lillian Ingebrigtsen '41; Ila Iverson ex-'41; Joel Jacobs; Alberta Jacobson ex-'41; Glenn Johnson '16; John John M. Johnson; John O. Johnson; Nancy Johnson; Oliver Johnson '45; Winfred Johnson; Katherine Jorgensen '40; Agnes Jorgensen ex-'38; Arthur Jothen '41; Arne Kindem '39; Jerule Kise ex-'41; Lee Kittleson '39; Virginia Kleppe '40; Elizabeth Kleven '41; Louise Knutson ex-'48; Dorothia Larson ex-'41; Jolleanne (?) Leifson; Elmore Lestrud ex-'41; Stanley Lewison '36; Hans Lillevik '38; Mebel Lintvet '45; Paul Lober ex-'41; Helen Lokken ex-'47; Morris Maland '38; Curtis Martin ex-'48; Gertrude Massige ex-'40; Eleanor Melsness ex-'41; Borgny Meium '47; Willis Miller '40; Stanley Minde '39; Maxine Mohn '41; Martin Narbo ex-'44; Delia Negaard ex-'47; Lorene Negaard ex-'47; Mary Nelson '47; Norman Nelson ex-'35; Ruth A. Nelson '47; Effie Nerlien; Elsie Nielsen '47; Edward Ness '41; Arthur Nesse '43; Anton Clarence Olson '41; Ferne Borghild ex-'41; Guy Olson '41; Minnie Olson; Norman Olson '43; Olaf Olson ex-'40; Anne Omsted ex-'41; Bernard Onerheim '40; Stanley Opdahl ex-'38; John Ostby '41.
- Ancestral Charts P-Z:
- Families include: Esther Pederson ex-'41; Ethel Pederson ex-'41; Kern Pederson '36; Luther Reinertsen '41; Barbara Elaine Ringsred ex-'48; Oledda Rislow '41; Laura Ritland '41; Joseph Romness '45; Enid Ronning '47; Harley Rundhaug '39; Mrs. O. Rustad n.d; Solveig Rynning '46; Oscar Satrum ex-'39; Henry Seim '41; John Selmer ex-'41; Anga Serum ex-'41; Murley Severtson '41; Stanton Sheimo '40; Vernice Siebenthal ex-'41; Maynard Siemers '32; Dorothy Simley '41; Raymond Simonson ex-'41; G. Skru n.d.; Olaf Slostad '32; Merrill Soine '39; Helen Solem '35; Anna Soma ex-'38; Harald Sorknes ex-'41; F. Warren Strain ex-'37; Paul Swensen ex-'45; Lloyd Swenson '50; Hugh Thompson ex-'41; Marilyn Thompson '42; Severt Thompson n.d; Peter Thompson '43; Jennis Thorkelson ex-'41; Anton Thorson n.d; Yvonne Thorson n.d; Rachel Tjornhom '40; Lorraine Trehus ex-'40; Oscar Trytten n.d; Helen Tufte '44; Harald Tvedt n.d; Borghild Tverberg '39; Irvin Tweet '41; Orlando Tweet '39; Joan Varland ex-'41; Frances Vick '41; Phyllis Vesledahl '41; Ruth Wedum ex-'41; Mary Voyen n.d; Edwin Winge '41.
- Ancestral Charts: A-H
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Ole L. Haug family history, 1883
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Qvisling (Quisling) family history, 1938
"Laurits Qvislin," Quisling ancestry. -
Grimstvedt family history, 1939
Short family histories compiled for freshman Norwegian classes at St. Olaf College between 1932 and 1945: Clyde Grimstvedt '39. -
Zufelt family history, undated
"Zufelt" by Alice Emeline Zufelt of Kenyon and Northfield, MN. -
Wraalstad family history, 1965
Wraalstad-Olsbrygge-Stenhaug genealogy. -
Wangensteen (Wangensten) family history, 1920, 1979
"The Wangensteen Family: Saga and Geneaology 1654-1920." Also spelled Wangensten.