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• Olaf J. Hagen papers, circa 1900-1950

  Clippings of a "farm home" photo; a 14-page address; a biographical sketch of, and two articles by a Moorhead, Minnesota, physician, who came to Ft. Abercrombie, South Dakota, with his parents in 1873.
  
  Content:
  O.J. Hagen Papers. "The Concept of Regionalism in Higher Education," by O.J. Hagen (1937); "Recurrent Thyrotoxicosis After Thyroidectomy," by Hagen (1939). Clippings. Letter from Olaf Halvorson to Hagen (March 16, 1942).
  
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• Ole E. Hagen papers, 1896-1987

  Miscellaneous writing by and about Ole E. Hagen, an immigrant from Skjåk, Gudbrandsda. The collection includes one issue (volume 1, no. 9, 1896) of Frisind, a periodical he published with Halvor Shirley in Fergus Falls. Hagen is the author of the novel Tilfjelds (1904). A summary of this novel and an English translation of it by Jens Trygve Anker (1987) are among the papers, as is a pamphlet "Kapitalist-djævelen viser sig altid som en Lysets Engel, Prestedom af Kristendom, gensvar til Pastor Saugstad."
• Per Hagen memoir, circa 1901

  Photocopy of a manuscript memoir in the Green Bay division of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, "En del af Per Hagens vandring."
  
  "A memoir in fictional form written by one Per Peterson from Tvedestrand in the early 1890s and telling of the author's childhood in Norway, his life at sea, his years as a farmer and prosperous businessman in Brown and Door counties, Wisconsin, and finally his return to Tvedestrand as an old man…A slightly different version of the text" was published in 1901 in the Tvdestransposten.
  
  The memoir has 120 pages, a copy of the newspaper version 26 p.; A translation of the memoir (with certain complimentary passages from the newspaper version) translated with introduction and notes by Kate Stafford and Harald Naess, was published as On both sides of the ocean, a part of Per Hagen's journey in 1984 by NAHA as volume X in its Travel and description series.
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  Sivert N. Hagen papers, 1872-1966

  Biography/History: 
  Sivert Hagen was born in Mylan, Minnesota to Niles K. and Kari Einerson Hagen. He married Nertha Marie Borge Hagen. He was principal of Bruflat Academy, Portland, North Dakota, 1892-1893.

  He graduated from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa in 1896 and received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1900. In 1900, he became an instructor in English at the State University of Iowa, where he remained until 1905 when he joined Vanderbilt University. Dr. Hagen taught at Gettysburg College from 1916 to 1924 and then joined Franklin and Marshall College as an English professor. He retired in 1944. Hagen studied the Kensington rune stone found near Kensington, Minnesota. 

  Scope and Content: 
  The collection includes various articles, clippings, and correspondence.
  
  Location: 
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• Svend Gulliksen (Hurdal) Hagen papers, 1828, 1868

  1828 Cowpox vaccination certificate, 1868 emigration contract (photocopies) and some correspondence concerning same.
  
  Content:
  Svend Gullixsen Hagen Papers: Certificates & Correspondence.
  
  Location: 
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• Morris Halverson memoirs, 1939-2000

  Our Norwegian Ancestors of 1868, a 32-page account based on the experiences of emigrants from Solør who left Christiania on April 4, 1868, and arrived in Quebec 13 weeks later. Centers around the families of Amund Amundson, Ole Halverson, and Gunder Gunderson, whose journey continued by box car to La Crosse, Wisconsin, and on to areas near Blair, Wisconsin. Their life in the pioneer communities is described up to 1878.
  
  Translated by Arup N. Garson of Mondovi, Wisconsin. Printed in 1939; "En Soløringer's oplevelse i Amerika" translated by Erik A. Halverson. 31, 9 p. Written in 1938-39. Includes "The Golden Age of Steam Threshing," by Erik Halverson. 9 p. Morris was born in Hale, Trempeauleau County, Wisconsin, died at Strum, Wisconsin.
• Knut Halverson diary, 1872-1879

  A kept by an immigrant from Telemark who came to Wisconsin in 1865. The file includes an edited translation with an introduction by Malcolm Rosholt, who published it in the "Iola Herald," Iola, Wisconsin (date unknown).
  
  Two volumes of a journal or diary kept by a 1865 emigrant from Telemark who settled in the "Indian Land [Native American]" in central Wisconsin, Portage County. The first volume covers May 1872-April 1878. The second volume covers 1890-1896, with occasional entries (not always chronological) through 1934 A letter (May 9, 1955) from a niece, Hannah Halvorson Teslow, gives information about the family. Malcolm Rosholt, who knew Halverson and gave the diaries, translated the first volume. Two versions of the translation, with introductions and notes, are included (55,56 p.).
  
  Most of the translation was published in the "Iola Herald" in spring 1970. Rosholt published an article, "A pioneer diary from Wisconsin," in "Norwegian-American Studies," volume 21 (1962), pp. 198-211. He says the diary "may be the most significant early document relating to Portage County, Wisconsin, in the Norwegian language" for the period, giving a "fairly comprehensive picture of pioneer farm life on the Wisconsin frontier." The second volume, which was discovered later, has not been translated except for a few pages. The surname is spelling variously; this is the one used in Rosholt's article.
  
  Location: 
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• Gausdal churches in Minnesota, 2021

  The Gausdal Churches in Minnesota by Arne Halvorsen. Also includes "Gausdølenes dramatiske reise" (2018).
• Alfred R. Halvorson autobiography, 2000

  Autobiography by Alfred R. Halvorson titled "A Prairie Boy's Odyssey Through Life: An Autobiography of a Second-generation American Born Descendant of Norwegian Immigrants."
• Johannes Halvorson address, 1899

  Copy of the English address at the dedication of the new seminary of the Norwegian Synod, which became known as the Hamline Seminary, in St. Paul. Included are a program of the dedication and a copy of a speech made by the president of the Seminary, opposing the location of an Armour packing plant in the Midway district of St. Paul.