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  Kristine Haugen papers, 1900-1955

  Haugen was born in the valley of Oppdal, emigrating in 1899 to North Dakota. Married John Ellingsen Haugen, carpenter, in 1904 and settled in Sioux City, Iowa. Scrapbooks of clippings from the Norwegian-American press on a variety of subjects, including NAHA, and letters from Ole E. Rolvaag. Mrs. Haugen was correspondent for the Norwegian-American press and was editor of Oppdalslaget yearbook from 1928 to 1935. Awarded the Medal of St. Olav in 1955.
• 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.
  
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• 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.
  
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  • 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).
  
• Oral History

  Patricia Anne Ainsley Hayes interview, 1995 November 1

  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,” Odd Lovoll interviews Patricia Hayes, the president of the Slooper Society, an organization made up of the descendants of the first Norwegian immigrants to the United States on a sloop ship. Patricia tells about her childhood in Illinois and her ethnic background, as well as how she met her husband. She explains her history with the Slooper Society and how she came to be its president, as well as giving some anecdotes of her time with the Society and details of its funding, operation, and goals. Patricia gives her thoughts on the Slooper Society’s future and needs, and finishes by talking about her thoughts on Norwegian-American values, why she identifies as Norwegian-American, and the importance of ethnic backgrounds.
  
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  Hayes, Patricia “Pat” Anne Ainsley (1946-2021)

  Patricia Anne Ainsley Hayes was born on March 20th, 1946, to Florence and Donald Ainsley in Ottawa, Illinois. She spent most of her life in Ottawa and Dayton, Illinois, where she was the president of the Slooper Society for several years and also worked doing household tasks for elderly people. She married William Hayes in 1966, and they had two children. Patricia died on March 22nd, 2021.
• 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.