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The Diary of Gilbert J. Gilbertson, in Archives of St. Ansgar, Iowa, Heritage Association, translated by Ervin Dietrich, circa 1975 annotated by Therkelsen, 2010. Sporadic diary entries from 1860 to 1912 with family events.
Formerly part of P539.
Includes the stories Aunt Ida [Ida Gusti Moen], Grandpa Called me Bucko [Oliver Olaf Moen], Fun on the Farm [grandparent’s farm, Fosston, Minnesota], A City Slicker’s Experience in a One Room Country Schoolhouse [Moen Country School, Fosston, Minnesota] and Life Begins in Audubon, Minnesota. circa 1980.
Formerly part of P539.
Photocopies of the Granrud family history prepared by Robert E. Granrud. Descendants of Even and Kari Granerud; Johan and Rakel Olsen; Gunerius and Olea Bjorneby; and Ole K. and Gunhild Finseth. Formerly part of P539.
Three photocopied family letters:
1872 from Waupaca, Wisconsin: Correspondent working on railroad near Stevens Point. Mentions Ole Rude, Petter Bakken, and Ole Hasvold
1874 from Johan Benson, Carver County. Drew pension (assume Civil War)
1879 from O. Hasvold, Scandinavia, Waupaca County, Wisconsin. "Times are tough. Last summer I worked for a 1 dollar a day." Mentions Anton Johnson.
Formerly part of P539.
"Østby 1778-1974," prepared by O. David Ostby, circa 1976. Family record starting with Lars Davidson Østby, of Kommisrud, Norway, born 1778. Lars' second son, David Larsen (Anglicized to Larson, 1821-1906) married Johanna Johnson Hage (1830-1917) in 1858, after the birth of their first child they immigrated to Spring Grove, Minnesota.
Formerly part of P539.
Beyond the Big Wood: The Story of Nils Danielson Opsahl and Ragnild Halvorsdatter Røste by Julie Nelson Pavri. Family emigrated from Lier, Norway, in 1855.
Chapter contents include:
Rock County, Wisconsin: 1855-1857
Indian [Native American] Trouble: 1862
The Homestead Years: 1863-1898 [Meeker County, Minnesota].
Formerly part of P539.
Family letters and documents of Nils Lothe of Milltown, Wisconsin, (1906-1955)
Approximately 40 letters
Two issues of Hardanger newspaper, 1947
Formerly part of P539.
Kravig Family From Buskerud Fylke, Norway to Lincoln County, Colorado by Roger L. Dudley, 2011. Gullick Knudsen Kravig immigrated in 1866, later founded Karval, Colorado.
Formerly part of P539.
Two volumes of "Selected Writings of Karl Olsen," edited by Stephen Olsen. Karl Olsen, born in Valley City, North Dakota, briefly attended St. Olaf College. Before the age of twenty, he tramped through Japan, Manchuria, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and Europe. Olsen served as an intelligence officer in the Pacific during World War II, and later assigned to one of the first detachments of the U.S. forces to enter Berlin in 1945. After the war he co-founded and served the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Formerly part of P539.