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  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 papers, 1880-1976

  Thirty diaries kept by Heggem from 1880 to 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.

• Jorgen Fay Heiberg poems, 1897-1910

  Poems by O. S. Sneve, Fredrik Lhen and by Ben Blessum; letters (H.H. Aaker, F.L. Trsdal, B.B. Haugan) and clippings about a "Prohibition Park" near Twin Valley Minnesota (later called Heiberg Park), which had been established by Heiberg, a flour mill operator and an ardent Prohibitionist; and "The Slettebak Saga." A daughter in the Slettebak family, Augusta Ann, married J. F. Heiberg.
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  J.J. Heimark papers, 1880-1958

  Papers of a Fairmont, Minnesota, physician: correspondence; retail business statements; county and school district orders and receipts; Yellow Medicine County school district treasurer's reports; account books of the Moe grocery store, Minneapolis; a translation of B. Aslakson's "Ti maaneders fangenskab i Andersonville"; a family history.
• John Heitman papers, 1945-1955

  Copies of poems used as Christmas greetings (1945-1953), and letters (1951) to a nephew, written by a Duluth, Minnesota, lawyer, who came from the island of Dønna, Norway, in 1894. Educated in Norway, he first became a member of the editorial staff of Minneapolis Tidende and later studied law at the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1902. In addition to his work as an attorney, Heitman ranks as a significant cultural figure on the immigrant scene, speaking and writing about Norwegian-American cultural interests, particularly Norwegian-American literature.
• Ludvig Hektoen papers, circa 1901-1932

  Correspondence, biographies, articles, and pictures of a Chicago physician, pathologist, professor, author, and editor. Hektoen was professor of pathology at Rush Medical College; first chairman of the Department of Pathology at the University of Chicago (1901-1932); director of the John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases; chairman of the Medical Sciences of the National Research Council; executive director of the National Advisory Cancer Council; editor of "Journal of Infectional Diseases" and of "Archives of Pathology"; and author of books and articles.
  
  The file also includes "Optegnelsen angaaende den forste bebyggelse af norske paa Coon Prairie og omegn," by P. P. Hektoen (his father) 4 p., 1924, and information about other Norwegian-American physicians and surgeons. He was named Knight, First Class, of the Order of St. Olaf; was given the American Medical Association Distinguished Service Medal; and the Hektoen Institute of Medical Research was dedicated in 1943.
  
  Biography and accompanying photo of the following individuals:
  

  • Albert Christian Amundson;
  • Karl Bendeke;
  • Eduard Boeckmann;
  • Sigurd Carlsen;
  • Christian Christensen;
  • Anders Daae;
  • S.P. Dahl;
  • Johan Andreas De Besche;
  • Elias Christian Jensen Due;
  • Herman O. Fjelde;
  • Just Christian Gronvold;
  • Soren Johan Hanssen (also photo of wife); S
  • tephen Oliver Himoe (Hoimo);
  • Knut Orn Hoegh;
  • Jens Andreas Holmboe;
  • Nils Schultz Holterman; J
  • acob Hvoslef;
  • Johan Christian Hvoslef;
  • Michael Iversen;
  • Irenaeus Eugene Krohn;
  • Peter Langland;
  • Jacob Wright Magelsen;
  • Herman Wedel Major;
  • Frederick Voss Mohn;
  • Ingvald Muller;
  • Jonas Andreas Risting Nannestad;
  • Ingebret Larson Narvig;
  • Jonas Rein Nilsen;
  • Christian Henrik Nissen;
  • Johan Nordboe (no photo);
  • Pascal Paoli (Essendrop) (no photo);
  • Andreas Quisling (no photo);
  • Johan Christian Schreiner;
  • Theodor Alexander Schytte (no photo);
  • Axel Christian Rosenkrantz Smith;
  • Haldor Sneve;
  • J.P. Sonischen (no photo);
  • Knut Martin O. Teigen;
  • Tonnes Anton Thams; 
  • Jens Lindahl Walloe;
  • Berent Martin Behrens (Berentsen);
  • John Kendall Chorlog;
  • Anders Doe;
  • Gudmund Haugaas (no photo);
  • Otto Martin Haugan;
  • Bernhard I. Madsen (no photo);
  • Balthazer Johan Meyer;
  • Gerhard Styhr Christian Hjort Paoli;
  • Niles Theodore Quales;
  • Karl Ferdinand Marius Sandberg;
  • Valborg (Andersen) Sogn;
  • Arthur David Herman Thrane;
  • Thomas Dougall Warloe.

  
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• Osmund Olsen Helgeland notebook, 1848

  Notebook written during October and November 1848 at Lisbon, Kendall county, Illinois. The writer is probably 1846 immigrant no. 452 in Naeseth. Naeseth conjectures he is the Ommund Olsen (Feb. 17, 1817-Sept. 24, 1889) buried in the Scandinavian Cemetery, Summitville, Iowa.; Lloyd Hustvedt noted some of the principal subjects: the author is telling about his life since immigrating, having worked for farmers in Wisconsin and Illinois. In 1847 he visited a small Norwegian settlement in St. Joseph, Missouri.
• Helleson family history, 1983

  Descendants of Helle Anderson Kragtorp and Karen Andrine Christophersdatter compiled by Eunice Helgeson, 1983.
  Formerly part of P539.
• Thor Helgeson papers, 1923-1929

  Books "Fra Indanernes lande og andre steder i Wisconsin" and "Folkesagn og folketro" by Helgeson and a copy of his poem "Paa Min 85de Fodselsdag," a long autobiographical poem by a pioneer teacher and writer who emigrated from Tinn, Telemark, Norway, in 1862.
  
  
• Ole Heljeson papers, 1729, 1934

  A Norwegian warranty deed (March 1, 1729) transferring church land (Liknes parish, Kvinesdal, Vest Aader) to Ole Heljeson, together with a copy of same and a clipping of an article in "Minneapolis Tidende" (Dec. 27, 1934) by H. Chr. Hjortaas explaining the document.
  
  Content:
  Ole Heljesøn Papers: Warranty Deed & Transcripts.
  
  Location: 
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