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Mads Johannesen Haugen letters, circa 1870
Letters by a Goodhue County, Minnesota, farmer to his fiancée regarding her ticket to America and to his parents about farm produce and prices. Mads emigrated from Stjørdal (Nord-Trøndelag) in 1870. His fiancée (Olia Guttormsdatter Kirkeby) emigrated from Meraaker and they were married at Gol Church, May 4, 1873. Later moved to Valley Grove community, 6 miles southwest of Northfield, MN. -
Nils P. Haugen papers, circa 1890-circa 1930
A letter to a constituent, a speech on tariff, and a 17th of May speech held in Washington, D.C., 1893, by a Norwegian-born Wisconsin attorney and statesman. Haugen was the second Norwegian American in the U.S. Congress. File includes an assortment of clippings. A bound copy of volumes 11, 12, and 13 of "Wisconsin Magazine of History" which contain Haugen's "Pioneer and Political Reminiscences" is in the NAHA books collection. See also "Hallingen," no. 75, June 1931.
Contents:- Nils P. Haugen Papers (folder 1). Father's devotional book (1854); a speech on the tariff (1888, 30 p.); speech delivered at the Columbian Exhibition in Chicago (1893, 8 p.)
- Nils P. Haugen Papers (folder 2). Letter (Dec. 21, 1890) to a constituent regarding the breakwater at Pepin, Minn.; clippings.
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Minnie Haukaas memoir, 1982
Draft (edited by her son, Rich Nelson of the University of Puget Sound) of her memoir. Places are left for photographs to be included in final version. Minnie was born at Aneta, North Dakota to immigrant parents. Memories of growing up in western North Dakota, (Golva, N.D.), until her marriage to Carl Hjalmer Nelson in 1922. "Essentially this is Mom's Story which she wrote in the late sixties" ed. by Rich Nelson.
"Minnie, a North Dakota homestead girl, part I; Minnie Haukaas, her own story." 48 p. 1982. Topics addressed: Promise of America (p.7); Sorrow about leaving (p.)9; Immigrant voyage (p.11); Soliciting sweetheart to come to America (p.15); Farming (p.17); Winter (p.19;) Well (p.21); Baking (p.23); Christmas gifts (p.25); Sears Roebuck (p.25); Voyage back to Norway (p.26); Visiting family (p.27); Forest (p.28); Inheritance (p.28-29); Rosemaling (p.29); Funeral (p.30); Crop payments (p.30-31) Draft (p.31,34); Babies (p.32); Infant mortality (p.32); Sweetheart (p.35); Marriage proposal (p.36,39); Regret (p.37); Romance (p.38); Permission to marry (p.40); North Pacific Railroad (p.39,42); Railroad Strike of 1922 (p.41, 43); Happiness (p.43); Bears (p.45); Jesus (p.47). -
Anders Haukom reports, 1908-1916
Annual reports of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman to the Augustana congregation at Halstad, Minnesota, concerning ministerial activities; an obituary from Lutheraneren, by K. O. Lundeberg; a copy of Houkom's biography from the 1894 report of the United Lutheran Church. -
Olaf Havdal clippings, 1975
Utvandringen fra Orkdal, a series of newspaper articles published in "Sor-Trondelag," Orkanger, Norway, 1975. Copied from papers lent by Lee Fossum, a Northfield, Minnesota, attorney, fall 1975.
This information is now included in the book "Utvandringa fra Orkdal til Amerika; the emigration from Orkdal to America" edited by Olav Sjømaeling (1999). Includes alphabetical list of emigrants (1857-1914) with dates of birth and emigration. Lacks names between Gjølme (1886) and Hongslo (1886).
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Anna Skaaden Breden family history, 1995
Compiled by Elouise Herigstad Hazelett, 1995. Includes information on the Skaaden and Haugenstuens. -
Orger Anderson Heen autobiography, 1997
Born Dec. 1905 at Hen, Isfjorden, Rosdalen, Heen emigrated in 1929. After working at various jobs in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Maryland, he began working for IBM at Endicott, N.Y. He married and had four children. After death of his wife in 1987, Heen believed his children turned against him, dissipated his wealth, tried to kill him, and refused to accept his second wife. -
E. Biddle Heg papers, 1840-1998
Papers relating to former NAHA member E. Biddle Heg. Heg is the great grandson of Hans Christian Heg, a colonel in the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. E. Biddle Heg was originally from California, but attended schools in both California and Pennsylvania. Throughout his career he worked at various universities on the East Coast and in California as a professor and in the administration. Later in his life Heg developed an interest in investigating his family history. -
Hans C. Heg papers, 1849-1998
Biography/History:
Hans Christian Heg was a known abolitionist, journalist, anti-slavery activist, politician and soldier. He was born in Lier, Buskerud, Norway (December 21, 1829). He was the eldest of the four children of Even Hansen Heg (1790–1850) and his wife Sigrid "Siri" Olsdatter Kallerud Heg (1799–1842). The family moved to America in 1840, settling in the Muskego Settlement in Wisconsin.
He joined the "Forty-Niners" and spent two years prospecting for gold in California. Upon the death of his father, he returned to the Muskego area in 1851. He married Gunhild Einong (1833–1922). With the outbreak of the Civil War, Heg was appointed by Governor Alexander Randall as colonel of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. He died of the wounds he received at the Battle of Chickamauga.
Scope and Content:
A typescript copy of a letter by Heg; a letter by Olaf I. Rove to Waldemar Ager, quoting August Reymert concerning Heg's contribution to the Civil War effort; a speech by Julius E. Olson; clippings concerning the Heg monument in Madison, Wisconsin; genealogies; Historic Heg Memorial Park, pamphlet, 1975; typescript copy of a Heg letter from Weaverville, California, October 7, 1849; Photo of a monument to the 15th Wisconsin at Chicamauga Creek; and photocopies of an article by Kevin Die-Zimmel about Heg's contact with Sherman M. Booth, an abolitionist opponent of the Fugitive Slave Law, and transcriptions of contemporary newspaper articles concerning the "Booth affair." "The Civil War Letters of Colonel Hans Christian Heg" was published by NAHA in 1936.
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Thore Y. Heggem diaries and family papers, 1880-1976
Thirty diaries kept by Heggem from 1880-1912 (missing 1882 and 1888) [Diaries in English]. Heggem was born in Strand, Norway in 1848. According to records at the Stavanger Friends Church [Quaker], Stavanger, Iowa, Heggem immigrated to the United States in 1859. He was a minister in the Friends Church as well as a farmer. Diaries detail Heggem's exotic travels including San Francisco (present at the 1906 earthquake), Hawaii, Tahiti, New York, Australia, New Zealand, Pago Pago, and American Samoa.