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She was born in Kensett, Iowa, and in 1911 studied music in Vienna, Austria, under Otokar Sevcik until 1914. At the outbreak of World War I, Cornelia returned to the U.S. and continued her studies at the Julliard School of Music from 1915-1916. Cornelia married Ignatius Bjorlee, who graduated from St. Olaf College in 1909. She helped her husband with his work at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick, Maryland. The couple retired to their farm in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He passed away in 1968, and she moved to Northfield, Minnesota, in 1978.
Catalogues of a private business and teachers' training school founded in Crookston, Minnesota, in 1895. Early catalogues with name: Crookston Normal School & Business Institute (or Business College). Later catalogues have "and school of auto, steam and tractor engineering" and Crookston Commercial College.
"Memories of a Farm Kid" by Curtis L. Larson, 2009. Details the author's experiences growing up on a farm in Southwestern Minnesota in the 1920s, his years at the University of Minnesota, and as an engineering officer in the Navy in the South Pacific during World War II. The book spans from 1920 to 1947.
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In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today." Celeste Holm was an American stage, film and television actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement, and was nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable and All About Eve
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