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Forrest Brown was born in 1928 in Princeton, Minnesota. He graduated from Hamline University and earned a Masters degree in both History and Library Science from the University of Minnesota in 1954. Forrest worked as an assistant librarian at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin, and then the library director at Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa. In 1961 until his retirement in 1991, he served as the Director of the St. Olaf College Library. After his retirement, he was active in the Norwegian-American Historical Association as archivist. Forrest had a passion for Norwegian-American genealogy.
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Research notes on Norwegian Americans from Goodhue County, Minnesota. Includes 30 volumes of research, organized by a card catalog system. Forrest Brown, former NAHA archivist, had an unrivaled knowledge and passion to document Goodhue County Norwegian settlements.
Funeral sermons prepared by Andrew Fossum of Spring Grove, Minnesota, ca. 1880s. According to the accompanying notes, a raging diphtheria epidemic kept pastors too busy to perform services. Farmer Fossum was asked to deliver several sermons in place of the local pastor. A few sermons have been translated.
"Fossum and Gilbertson" From Nes, Romerike and "Gaudland-Gard og Ætt" Gaudland Fossum families included in family pedigree. The farm Gaudland is located in Sokndal township, in Rogaland county, Norway. Donated by Robert M. Fossum.
Articles, correspondence, clippings, pictures, programs, dealing with the centennial celebration of the first permanent Norwegian settlement in the United States in the Fox River Valley, La Salle County, Illinois. Among the papers are the addresses by Marshall Solberg and Arthur Andersen and an article, "The Fox River Norwegian Settlement," by Carlton C. Qualey. B. O. Berge, Orlando Ingvoldstad, Joseph M. Johnson, John J. Sonsteby, J. Jorgen Thompson are the chief correspondents.
Fra Fjord til Prærien (2013). In1997, the authors inherited a small farm in Norway from their maternaluncle. In cleaning the home, they discovered many letters written by theirparents, Helmer and Elfrida Nord, Appam, North Dakota, from 1930 until1950. These letters, and addition to already known correspondence from1923-1929, comprise the book (transcribed, in Norwegian)