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  Eleanor Iverson Gunlaugson papers, 1913-1980

  Pamphlets, pictures, scrapbooks, clippings of a Minneapolis physician, who was graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1934. She had practiced in different communities before returning to Minneapolis where she worked at well-baby clinics in the Minnesota Department of Public Health and was for a time a medical director at Northwestern Hospital.
  
  Includes a scrapbook about the 1939 royal visit to America by the Crown Prince and Princess of Norway, newspaper clippings, programs from events honoring them.
• Eleanora Olson monologues, 1925, 1979

  A dialect monologue entitled "Sogne-Kjerring" by a Chicago and Minneapolis reader, declaimer, and singer; "Yust for Fun: Norwegian-American Dialect Monologues," by Eleanora and Ethel Olson, 1925, 63 pages; and a 1979 reprint edition of "Yust for Fun" with an introduction by Paul F. Anderson and 8 pages of additional material.
• Eli M. Rosenbaum transcript, undated

  An 80-page typescript entitled "Eugenics in Norway: An Historical Account" by Rosenbaum, University of Pennsylvania.
• Elias Molee papers, 1911-1928

  Clippings, pamphlets, and articles of a Muskego-born language reformer, farmer, teacher, and writer. The articles, manuscript and typescript, deal with language reform and the author's career, including childhood days in Muskego.
  
  Content:
  Elias Molee Papers: Articles, Clippings, Pamphlets. Note: Molee attempted to create a universal language for all people of Germanic origin called "alteutonik."
  
  Digital collections:
  Formal portrait of Elias Molie, circa 1900
  
• Elias Olson book, circa 2004

  Photocopied from donated book, Sogehefte for Askvoll kommune, circa 2004 by Elias Olson of Askvoll, Norway.
  Formerly part of P539.
• Elias Steenerson papers, 1990-1937

  "Memoirs of Pioneer Days" (mimeograph) which includes a brief family history taken from History and Biography of Polk County, Minnesota; pioneer experiences; information about drainage and better roads in the Sand Hill area of Polk County; farming and logging; accounts of Steenerson's travels; an address to old settlers (1937), and an "Ode to First Settlers of Polk County, Minnesota" (1921); several other poems; "A Pioneer Story as Related by Tollef Ose in 1916," 39 pages; and 11 clippings about the Steenerson family. Elias was the son of Steener Knutson who emigrated from Telemark in 1850. The large family eventually settled in Polk County, where the sons were active in farming, real estate, and politics.
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  Eliason family papers, 1895-1936

  Biography/History: 
  Karl Enok Eliason (1847-1925) was born in Kolvereid, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway, to Elias Larsen Rygvold and Berethe Einarsdatter. In 1875, he married Kathrina Synnes in Folderied, Norway. Kathrina Andrea Eriksdatter Synnes (1847-1938) was born in Høylandet, Nordre Trondhjem, Norway, to Erik Pedersen (mother unknown). They had three children born in Norway and two in the United States: Sofie, Elias, Erik, Martin, and Alfred. In 1882, they immigrated and homesteaded near Appleton, Minnesota. Their first home was a dugout in the side of a hill on the farm. 

  The first child born in the United States was Martin (1885-1961). Martin A. Eliason married Allie Mae Olsen (1888-1956). They also farmed near Appleton, Minnesota. Martin was a member of the Horticultural Society and developed his own peony seedling called Le Charme, which can still be ordered from seed catalogs. He served as a School Board Clerk and was active in the local church. 

  Scope and Content: 
  Correspondence, photographs, pamphlets, and other records about the Eliason family of Appleton, Minnesota. Correspondence includes many letters either sent from Norway or in Norwegian.
  
  Location:
  20/C/6
  

• Elise Gunnersen memoirs, 1844-1904

  Photocopies of pages 135-270 of the handwritten reminiscences of the wife of Professor Rud Gunnersen (1844-1904), who taught at Augsburg College, Minneapolis from 1874 to 1883. The memoir is a lively account of the interrelated lives of the Sverdrups, Oftedals, and Gunnersens, who occupied three apartments in the same house near the Augsburg campus. The location of the manuscript is unknown. Not at Augsburg College, Luther Seminary, National Library (Oslo).
• Elise Margreth Cammermeyer Welhaven Gunnersen memoirs, 1844-1904

  Photocopies of pages 135-270 of the handwritten reminiscences of the wife of Professor Rud Gunnersen (1844-1904), who taught at Augsburg College, Minneapolis from 1874 to 1883. The memoir is a lively account of the interrelated lives of the Sverdrups, Oftedals, and Gunnersens, who occupied three apartments in the same house near the Augsburg campus. Elise Gunnersen found it difficult to adapt to life in Minneapolis, and her husband was not happy in his work at Augsburg. After leaving Augsburg the family spent a year at the Hauge Seminary in Red Wing, Minnesota. The Gunnersens returned to Norway in 1884, where Elise settled into a life that was more in accord with her background.
• Elise Rudi Ostnes family history, undated

  Elise Rudi came from Norway and the Nedre Rudi Farm. Themes in the family history include:
  Lars Rasmussen Ostnes, Norway to America
  Lars Ostnes in the Aleutians, Bering Sea and Juneau
  Lars Ostnes on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad to the Klondike
  Lars Ostnes in the interior of Alaska
  Lars and Elise Ostnes Discovery on Otter Creek and the Iditarod District
  Texas
  Marshall, Fortuna Ledge and the Mining of Willow Creek
  Ostnes military record including Lt. Leif R. Ostnes B-17 Crews and Missions to and from Grafton Underwood and the nineteen missions of Lt. Leif R. Ostnes.