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Folkekalender, 1930, 1945
Folkekalendar for 1930 and 1949 printed by Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, Minnesota. -
Ivar Aus sermons, 1968-1977
Aus was born near Oslo, and was called in 1947 to serve the Norwegian-speaking congregation at Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City. Twelve years later he became pastor of the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in Minneapolis. He retired in 1971, but worked two years a Shepherd of the Hills Church in Edina, ten years at Central Lutheran Church. Sermons (and service folders) for Norwegian Advent services at Boe Memorial Chapel, St. Olaf College. Some were sponsored by the student society Idun-Edda. -
Ivar and Hulda Aas/Aus family papers, 1938-2021
Records of the Ivar and Hulda Aas/Aus family. Includes information on Ivar, Hulda, and children Hans and Berit. Ivar Asbjørn Aas (1906-1993) was born in Ski, Norway on December 2, 1906. He married Hulda Unhjem in 1938. Hulda was born in Ørsta, Norway, December 20, 1909. They had two children, Hans Magnus Aas who was born in Ørsta on March 14, 1941, and Berit Marie Aas who was born in Mysen on March 6, 1947. In 1947, the family immigrated to Brooklyn, New York where Ivar was an associate pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church. In the 1950s, the family moved from Brooklyn to settle in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For many years, Ivar Aus was the pastor at the Norwegian Memorial Lutheran Church (Mindekirken) in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Ivar Asbjørn Aas
Name change to Ivar Asbjørn Aus at time of Naturalization to United States Citizenship, December 18, 1956, Kings County New York
Born: Ski Norway, 12/2/06
Education: Hamarkatedralskole, University of Oslo, Menighetsfakultet, Union Theological Seminary
Employment: Norway: Santal Misjon Norway, State Church
of Norway; United States: Trinity Lutheran Church Brooklyn New York, Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church (Mindekirken) Minneapolis Minnesota, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Edina Minnesota, Central Lutheran Minneapolis, Nile Nursing Home Minneapolis.
Death: September 26, 1993 Minneapolis Minnesota Interment Central Lutheran Columbarium Minneapolis Minnesota
Hulda Unhjem Aas
Name change to Hulda Unhjem Aus at time of Naturalization to United States Citizenship, December 18, 1956, Kings County New York
Born: Ørsta Norway December 20, 1909
Education: Ørsta skole, Volda middleskole, Volda gymnas, Ullevål sykepleskole
Employment: Norway: Ørstabruk, Ullevål Skyehus; United States none
Death: March 3, 1999
Interment: Central Lutheran Columbarium Minneapolis Minnesota
Hans Magnus Aas
name change to Hans Magnus Aus at time of Naturalization to United States Citizenship, December 18, 1956,Kings County New York
Born Ørsta Norway, 3/14/41
Education: Public School 102 Brooklyn New York, Fort Hamilton High School Brooklyn New York, University of Minnesota, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona.
Employment: Newspaper boy, Brooklyn Eagle, University of Minnesota student employment, Sandia Corporation Albuquerque, University of Colorado Fort Collins Colorado, Max Planck Institute Goettingen Germany, University of Wuerzburg Germany.
Death: May 26, 2018, Karman Cyprus
Buried: Karman Cyprus
Berit Marie Aas
name change to Berit Marie Aus at time of Naturalization to United States Citizenship, December 18, 1956, Kings County New YorkPortion of the collection is restricted. -
Ragna Dahle biography, 1923
One of the Least, a 32-page biography of a Norwegian-American woman from Aitkin, Minnesota, who became a Lutheran missionary teacher at Manasoa, Madagascar. Astrid Awes, the author and Dahle's sister, used the missionary's diary as a partial basis for her account. Includes a portrait of Dahle and a photograph of her grave in Madagascar. -
Gilbert Helgeson Baaken papers, circa 1891-1912
Born in Goodhue county to parents who emigrated from Valdres, Bakken was one of the earliest students at St. Olaf's School. Attended Augsburg Seminary, was ordained 1891. Served at Soldier, Iowa 1900-12; Mt. Morris, Wis. During the years these three notebooks were kept. -
Olai Bache-Wiig clipping and notebooks, 1904, 1982
A story in the Mosinee, Wisconsin, Times, November 18th, 1982, concerning the presentation of a photograph of Bache-Wiig to the Mosinee Paper Corporation. Bache-Wiig, an immigrant from Baastad (now part of Oslo) was designer and engineer of the Corporation (1910 - 1911), operating superintendent, (1911 - 1916), and vice-president and general manager (1916 - 1924). The accompanying article was written by his son Lars Ravn Bache-Wiig of Philadelphia, PA.
Also includes two notebooks of "Tekniske Notitser" including a number of separate pages with various formulae, financial calculations, etc, also March 25th, 1904 letter to Olai from his uncle. -
Søren Bache diary, 1839-1947
A copy of the diary which Bache kept during his visits to America, 1839-1947; a transcription by Andreas Elviken; issues of Norsk Ungdom, December 1927-April 1929, in which portions of the diary was first printed; and photographs of Bache and his wife and of Bache's cabin at Muskego. The NAHA published a translation of the diary in 1951 as A Chronicle of Old Muskego. The published book omits "certain materials that Bache obviously copied from manuals and other sources that fell into his hands; letters transcribed on pages 1-4; and the portion of the diary (pages 196-206) after Bache's departure from America." It includes as an appendix the passenger list of the Johanna, on which Bache returned after a visit home.
- Et Memorandum: 1839, June 28 - 1846, Dec. 5. Includes (loose): original diary
- Transcription, Part 1, Bache Diary, Chronicle of Old Muskego, 1951. Includes pp. 1-177 of transcription.
- Transcription, Part 2, Bache Diary, Chronicle of Old Muskego, 1951. Includes pp. 178-358 of transcription, plus 7 pp. of information transcribed from the back of the M.S.
- Photographs, Issues of Norsk Ungdom. Includes: 2 sets of pp. 185-187, removed from Norsk Ungdom (December 1927), entitled Sören Baches dagboksoptegnelser: under sit ophold i Amerika…; monthly issues of Norsk Ungdom (Jan. 1928-Apr. 1929); photographs (3) of Bache, his wife, and his cabin; newspaper clipping entitled Søren Baches Plads i vor historie (Dec. 25, 1927).
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Astrid Ihme Bacon papers, 1976
A typescript "Bridges of Brotherhood," chronicling the experiences and life of the Norwegian "colony" at San Pedro, California. The author was born in Tvedestrand, Norway, and emigrated to the United States in 1914. A letter explaining her project in writing this history is included. -
Mons Samuel (Monssini) Baker papers, undated
Publications of a Minneapolis railroad machinist who emigrated from Voss in 1859 as Mons Sjurson Bakkethun, eventually settling in Goodhue County, Minnesota. He received a preacher's license from Yale University in 1878, an M. A. from Carleton College in 1879. He was active as a singer in Minneapolis late in the last century. He wrote and published poems in Norwegian and English, often meant to be sung to familiar tunes, and tracts expressing his socialist beliefs. "Strilevisen-Fiskevisen" (32 pages) includes poems linked by autobiography, "Monsinnis lille katekismus" (32 pages) states his economic beliefs in catechismal format. He published six "Monssinian Cards" on similar themes. His father, Sjur Monsen Bakkethun (1806-1866) emigrated from Haugesund 1858 to Long Prairie, Ill. In 1861 to Leon Township, Goodhue Co., Minn. -
Karen Erikson Bakke history, 1950-1979
"Besta: A Story of North Dakota Pioneering," by Cyrene Bakke Dear, 2 copies. Topics covered: child's toy kettle (p1), Civil War and fighting against slavery (p2), bootmaker (p2), growing hops (p2), barn dances (p2), wagon train (p3-4), making of klub (p6), "mother as a midwife" (p6-7), grasshopper plague (p7), life at Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, N.D. (p8), General Custer (p9), capture of Rain-in-the-Face (p11), Sitting Bull (p11), Goose River Settlement (p14), pregnancy (p15), death of infant to TB (p15), Rev. Bjug Harstad (p15), build hotel in Mayville, N.D. (p16), railroad magnate James Hill (p16), church practices (p19), threshing (p21), ailing husband and cure at Hot Springs, Arkansas (p22), Christmas 1892 (p24), Julebukk (p24), becoming an auctioneer (p26), alcoholism (p26), postpartum depression and near suicide/infanticide (p28), Rev. Rorvik (p30), raising peacocks (p33), awful storm with hail (p33), living in Hillsboro (p34), theaer in the barn (p36), circus comning to town (p36), first telephone (p37), mourning Pres. McKinley (p37), typhoid treatment--starving patient/liquid diet. Taboo of bananas (p37), killed by a train (p37), water tower collapse (p38), speaking English with a Norwegian accent (p41), first automobile (p47)
Topics covered: Civil War and fighting against slavery (p2), bootmaker (p2), growing hops (p2), barn dances (p2), making of klub, (p6) grasshopper plague (p7), life at Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, N.D. (p8), General Custer (p9), capture of Rain-in-the-Face (p11), Sitting Bull (p11), Goose River Settlement (p14), pregnancy (p15), death of infant to TB (p15), Rev. Bjug Harstad (p15), build hotel in Mayville, N.D. (p16), railroad magnate James Hill (p16), church practices (p19), threshing (p21), Christmas 1892 (p24), Julebukk (p24), becoming an auctioneer (p26), alcoholism (p26), postpartum depression and near suicide/infanticide (p28), Rev. Rorvik (p30), raising peacocks (p33), living in Hillsboro (p34), theater in the barn (p36), circus coming to town (p36), first telephone (p37), mourning Pres. McKinley (p37), typhoid treatment--starving patient/liquid diet. Taboo of bananas (p37), killed by a train (p37), water tower collapse (p38), speaking English with a Norwegian accent (p41), first automobile (p47)