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• Einar Almdale and Ruth Holmach family history, undated

  by Karen Almdale Hill.
  Formerly part of P539.
• Einar and Berit Bonde family history, undated

  Family history of Einar Halvorson Bonde and Berit Olsdatter Egge.
• Einar and Lydia Roen family history, 1980

  No description available.
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  Einar Haugen papers, 1913-1926

  Biography/History:
  Einar Ingvald Haugen (April 19, 1906 – June 20, 1994) was an American linguist, author, and professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard University.

  Born in Sioux City Iowa in 1906 to Norwegian immigrants from Oppdal Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. When he was a young child, the family moved back to Oppdal for a few years but then returned to the United States. He attended Morningside College in Sioux City but transferred to St. Olaf College to study with Ole E. Rølvaag. He earned his B.A. in 1928 and immediately went on to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Language Study in 1931.

  In 1931 Haugen joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he stayed until 1962. He was made Victor S. Thomas Professor of Scandinavian and Linguistics at Harvard University in 1964 and stayed here until his retirement in 1975. Haugen served as president of the Linguistic Society of America, the American Dialect Society, and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Haugen was also a member of the Board of Editors of the Norwegian American Historical Association.

  Scope and Content: 
  Correspondence, clippings, and articles in typescript and print. The collection includes O. E. Rølvaag's letters to Haugen.

• Einar Hoidale papers, 1930-1934

  Articles and speeches by and a collection of clippings (1910-1952) about Hoidale and his family. Hoidale was a Norwegian-born editor, attorney, and congressman from Dawson and Minneapolis. The file includes two speeches made during his campaign for United States Senate (1930) on the Democratic ticket (one speech is dated June 1929, 6 typescript pages) and a biographical sketch of Hoidale by Martha Ostenso.
  
  Also includes postcard "Hoidale for Congress: 'We have had enough of the Square Deal on paper and in talk--Now give us the real thing and let us have it without quibbing or delay."
• Einar Josephsen papers, 1907-1962

  Papers of a Norwegian-born journalist and publicity director: correspondence, articles, and scrapbooks dealing with a variety of subjects such as war, politics, religion, immigration, and Norwegian-American literature. Among his correspondents are Fred Biermann, H. Sundby Hanson, Sverre Mortensen, and Felix B. Wold. There are World War I letters and letters by Theodore C. Blegen, Knut Gjerset, Birger Osland, Kristian Prestgard, and O. E. Rolvaag. Josephsen was on the"Skandinaven" staff, circulation manager of "Decorah-Posten," with the book department of Augsburg Publishing House, publicity manager and later public relations manager of the New York Central Railroad Company, and finally the public relations director of City National Bank, Chicago.
  
  Includes: 
  

  • Articles, Clippings, Diary. Includes: "Bjerke's Review of a New Catechism," translated by E. Josephsen (1910); "Has 20th Century Civilization Improved Mankind?" (1939), 1914-1942
  • Scrapbook, 1918-1921
  • Scrapbook, politics, 1961-1962
  • Article, "History of Decorah Park System," by Fred Biermann, 1956
  • "A Man in the Street" manuscript, 1932
  • Correspondence, 1907-1961
• Einar Leistad papers, 1939-1979

  Clippings, a circular, and a letter from the Norwegian-born author of "The Man with the White Horse" (1979). Leistad was a trainer of wild horses and a performer of vaudeville acts.
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  Einar Lund papers, 1902-1963

  A biography of and articles, speeches, essays, manuscripts, and meditations by a Norwegian-American journalist who had a long-time career as editor of Decorah-Posten, beginning in l927. The biography, "An Editor Chooses America: The Story of Einar Lund," is written by his daughter, Eva Lund Haugen. Ms. Haugen states that a thesis on Lund written by Baard Meyer-Myklestad had overlooked items her article includes. The mentioned Meyer-Myklestad thesis is in the NAHA Book Collection.
• Einar W. Giaver papers, 1914-2001

  Letters and clippings concerning Joachim G. Giaver (1856-1925), a Norwegian-born civil engineer in Chicago, who received the St. Olav Medal from King Haakon of Norway in 1921. Included in the letters is one from a relative, Ivar Giaever, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1973.
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  Eivind Klaveness papers, 1902-1947

  Biography/History: 
  Eivind Klaveness was a Norwegian-born physician, writer and lecturer; he practiced in Brookings, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as well as in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. He held many offices: president of Vestfoldlag, of the Minnesota Leif Eriksen Monument Association, of the Scandinavian Republican State League of South Dakota, and was medical director of Sons of Norway and of the Surety Fund Life Company. He founded the Klaveness Corporation (investment bankers representing Klaveness Bank in Oslo); wrote two books, The Enchanted Islands (1939) and Norske læger i Amerika 1840-1942 (1943). He was a frequent radio and after dinner speaker; and was an equally frequent contributor of articles on medicine and politics to newspapers and journals. His correspondence with Richard Olsen Richards of the Richards Trust Company of Huron, South Dakota (3 volumes), reflects the story of that state's politics during the first three decades of the 20th century.

  Scope and Content: 
  A scrapbook, 10 volumes of correspondence (2,408 letters), 9 notebooks, and 43 pamphlets and addresses of a Norwegian-born physician, writer, and lecturer.