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A. Jorgensen report, 1865
Reproduced copy of "The Emigration from Europe During the Present Century" published in Quebec in 1865. The causes and effects of emigration are based on Norwegian statistics and reports and on a French history of emigration. Transferred to library for cataloging, 2001. See Blegen's "Norwegian Migration to America: The American Transition (NAHA, 1940), p. 360n, 379-380. -
A. M. Henderson papers, 1937-1951
Correspondence, memoirs, historical sketches and clippings of an Randall, Iowa farmer, postmaster, and banker.
Includes correspondence, articles, photos.- "My Years in Story County," pages 604-616, "Annals of Iowa," April 1951.
- "Memories, being an address 1937." 16 p.
- "Personal Memoirs." Northfield, MN. 1950. 23 p.
- Photographs and articles about Riverside Bible Camp Chapel erected on Henderson's former land in 1952, designed by Edward Sovik.
- Bibliography of Story City-Randall-Roland community, prepared by Henry J. Peterson.
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A. Peel family history, 1585-1850
A. Peel and the lives of the ancestors of our families who settled in Columbia County, Dane County, and Green County, Wisconsin in the 19th Century.
Formerly part of P539. -
A. Solberg autobiography, 1882-1959
No description available.
Formerly part of P539. -
A. Sophie Bøe papers, 1814-1936
Papers of a daughter of Pastor N.E. Bøe, consisting of correspondence, articles, pamphlets, and clippings. Includes:
- Biography of N.E. Bøe, "Days That Are Gone: The Story of Father's Life," by A. Sophie Bøe (4 copies/1 photocopied, in file). Nils E Bøe, born in 1846 at Valestrand, Norway, emigrated from Norway in 1851 to Koshkonong, Dane County, Wisconsin. Biography touches upon many topics, including: farm work, Forth of July (Independence Day celebrations), swimming hole, ice skating, Christmas, education/school days, passenger pigeons, religion, Albion Academy, Civil War (enlisted as Nils Anderson in the 40th Wis. Reg., Co. C), Luther College, preparation for the ministry at Augustana Seminary (1866-1871), two years in Eureka, Kansas (1871-1873), prairie life (fires, prairie dogs, buffaloes, and flowers), six years in Calumet, Michigan (1873-1879), saloon element, Finnish sect, Laestadians, grasshoppers near Willmar, Minnesota (p. 65), Rev. Alfred Backman, Rev. Nils Brun, cyclone/tornado, ten years in Leland, Illinois (1878-1889), horses and roads in Illinois, twenty years in Silver Lake, Iowa (1889-1909), liquor problem (p. 97), wedding ceremonies, St. Ansgar Academy, Game Gulbrand, wood carver (pg. 122), Christmas celebrations, Augusta Kean (p. 12&0, Rev. J.A. Ottesen, seven years in Deronda, Wisconsin (1909-1916), Rev. J.A. Bergh
- Letters from Agnes Kittelsby, China, 1914 - 1919. Also includes 5 photos from China.
- America letter written by her grandfather; other letters; newspaper clippings; article "Lars Davidson Reque: Pioneer" by A. Sophie Bøe, published in "Studies and Records" v. 6 (undated); "One of Our Pioneer Mothers" by A. Sophie Bøe, published in the Lutheran Herald (undated); 2 photos, unlabelled and undated.
- Family History Materials. Includes "Genealogy of the N.E. Bøe Family", 1935, 29 p.; eightieth anniversary pamphlet of St. Paul's Lutheran Congregation (1931)
- Biography, correspondence, genealogical materials, May 30th 1928 - March 5th, 1936, many undated. Includes copies of "Genealogy of the N.E. Bøe Family", 1935, 29 p.
- Clippings, articles, pamphlets, and correspondence concerning Svein Nilsson.
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A. Wigers novel, 1909
An unpublished novel with a religious theme titled "De to rekrutter" by a resident of Tacoma, Washington. -
A.E.and Carrie B. Distad family history, undated
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A.G. Flom family history, 1945
Family history of Andrias Flom from Urland, Sogn Norway. -
A.O. Serum papers, 1871-1927
Correspondence, reports, speeches, articles, clippings, and account books of a Norwegian-born farmer at Halstad, Minnesota. The papers include school district reports; articles and letters treating the early days in the Red River Valley; correspondence with Fuller and Johnson, farm machinery company, Madison, Wisconsin; and personnel at Augsburg and Augustana (Marshall, Wisconsin) seminaries. The clippings include items on synod controversies and letters from World War I servicemen. Serum held state and church offices, spoke on crop production, suffrage, monopoly, cooperatives, and local history, was the first teacher in his district, the first president of the Selbulag, and the author of "Nybyggerliv i Red Riverdalen" in "Selbygbogen."