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Anders J. Nervig photograph collection, 1898-1919
Photographs of friends and parishioners of Reverend Anders J. Nervig collected during his education and career. Nervig was a native of Norway and a graduate of Luther Theological Seminary in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. He served several congregations in Minnesota including Tracy, Balaton, and Wells, and Hartington, Nebraska. Upon his retirement in 1924, he moved to Minneapolis.
Anders (Andrew) Nervig married Mina Alette Hansen. Together they had five children: Julius Ragnvald, Camilla, Casper Bernhard, Leo Gerdinand, and Roland Angelo. -
Casper Bernhard Nervig papers, 1936-1940
Why did Anders Emigrate Only Thirteen Years Old? (39 p. tyepscript) and "The Great Snow Winter of 1880-1881" are accounts based on the experiences of Nervig's father, the Reverend Anders Johansen Nervig (1867-1951), who came to the United States in 1880 to live with his aunt and uncle on a homestead near Kerkoven, Minnesota. Casper Nervig was also a Lutheran minister.
Includes translation of articles Anders Nervig published in "Decorah Posten" (Dec. 22, 1936 & Oct. 22, 1940); photograph of A. Nervig and a clipping (1937) about him. -
John Ness letter, 1921 June 25
Letter to an unnamed friend (Who has been elected to the board of the Gudbrandsdalslaget by a Griggs co. (N.D.) farmer who was also clerk of the Pilot Mound township. Ness was born on the Syntnes farm, Lom kommune, Oppland fylke, attended Asker Seminary, and emigrated about 1891. He married in 1904 the widow Ronnaug Urstad, who died 1928. -
Hans and Danielle Nesse family history, 2014
Hans and Danielle Nesse: Their Lives as Missionaries in China (2014). Chapters include: Early Years in China, 1909-1918; War Reaches Sinyang, 1926-1927; Evacuation and Furlough, 1927-1928; Return to China and the War Years, 1936-1945; Revolution, 1947-1949; Evacuation to Hankow, 1949-1951; and Leaving China, 1951. -
Lars Nielssen Nesseim (Nesheim) papers, 1838-1961
Biography/History:
Lars Nielsen Nesheim, a farmer in Øvre Lemme in Voss, Norway, was responsible for copying all of these letters. A man by the name of Ivar Davidson Hustvedt (who donated one copy to NAHA) knew the man personally, and described Nesheim as a self-taught man, and as an "original.” Hustvedt said Nesheim had "bookshelves that reach from the floor up to the ceiling filling two walls" and “he spared no effort, often traveling great distances in order to get hold of these letters, as a loan or by other means, so he could copy them. He bound these copies into books” These letters were sent from America, and often helped convince or deter a person from emigrating. All of them are carefully copied in gothic script using different colors of ink.Scope and Content:
The Lars Nielseen Nesseim papers consist of two volumes of copied immigrant letters. One volume was donated by Ivar Davidson Hustvedt, and the other by Rev. Sven Tverberg. The two volumes of America letters were written during the 1840s to friends and relatives in Voss and copied into books by Nesseim. Sophie Boe made typed transcriptions and translations of the Tverberg volume. Among the letters are some by Elling Eielsen, Sjur Jørgensen Haaeim, and John Haldorsen Quileqval, uncle of Knut Nelson.Correspondence between Sophie Boe, O.E. Rølvaag, and Theordore Blegen about the Tverberg volume, and between Blegen and the Chicago Historical Society (now Chicago History Museum) about the Ekse volume. Note, the volume donated by Ida S. Ekse to the Chicago Historical Society may be the Lars Davidsen Reque volume. Two other volumes are at the Voss Folk Museum.
Volume 1 and volume 2 of the copied immigrant letters is available online. -
Knut K. Neste papers, 1877-1911
Letters and documents of an emigrant from Vestre Slidre, Valders, who came to Dane County, Wisconsin, in the early 1850s and later settled in Madison Township, Winneshiek County, Iowa.
Includes insurance policy (1907-12) from the Norwegian Mutual Protective Association of Winneshiek County, Iowa; and card from the Middle River Land Co. (Minnesota) of which a relative, T.P. Hamre, was an officer; plat of the town site of Middle River; obituary of Knut K. Neste; and family correspondence. -
George Neumann papers, circa 1910
Written stories, poems, and plays of George Neumann. Neumann was born in 1859 in Trondhjem, Norway. His parents John and Gurine Jorgendatter were from Lesje, Norway. He was confirmed at the age of 14. He then worked in a rope factory, and later carried bricks to help build a church in Trondhjem. At the age of 15 he went to sea. He sailed first as a second cook on a steamboat named "Michael Krohn." Later as a cook on a steamer belonging to Trondhjem, named "Vidar." Next he sailed as a steward on a Bark from Trondhjem named "Einar." On the "Einar" he made two trips to Buenos Aires, Argentina, it took 18 months.
He then left Trondhjem as an able seaman on a bark from Tvedestrand for Arendal. From there he sailed on a Brig the "Thela" for Brunswick, Georgia in America. There he deserted together with the ships carpenter. He was about 18 years old. They hid in pinewoods over a week without much food and waited for the vessel to sail. He stayed on the coast for some time, sailing to the West Indies and Rio de Janeiro.
He then went to Chicago in February of 1882. He sailed the Great Lakes for 7 years as a sailor and mate. He met Lina (Caroline) Nelson and they were married December 15, 1883. He became a citizen in 1884 and quit sailing. He began to learn plate printing at William Freund and Sons in 1888. He learned quickly and was a foreman in 1892. He enjoyed writing stores and poems. Won a few prizes and had many published in the "Skandinaven" a Norwegian newspaper in Chicago. He and Lina had four children: Henry, Agnes, Mrytle, and Ralph. He died in September 22, 1929.
Stories included in the collection:
The Magic Table
Mr. Gorman-Prospector (1911)
Frank Jollyboy
The Uppedal Mystery
Be Good to Everybody and Everything
The Boy and The Wonderful Dog
Longhorn
The Boy Who Rescued the Six Princesses
Then She Awoke
The Two Brothers
Mr. Stillman's Coup (1910)
The Boy and the Curious Fish
The Dawn of Day
A Brave Little Girl
Peter Mellin
A Little Girl Shall Lead Them
On the Brink of the Abyss
Seeing the Brownies at Work
Kaja
The Boy Who Became A Grouse
The Hulder That Ran Away From Her Cattle
The Man Who Heard Things
The Hudler Who Spoke English
A Saeter Girl's Experience with Hudler
Ola and the Hulder
The Girl Who Did the Right Thing
A Hudler Story
Tears and Smiles
It Pays to be Good
The Boy Who Did Not Believe In The Forest-dwarf
The Three Boys Who Battled The Trolls
Cupids Pranks: A One Act Play
Innocence
Harry's Vindication
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Kneut Neutson papers, 1941-1947
Papers of a Norwegian-born insurance man and chief promoter of the Minnesota Credit Union Law of 1925: a autobiography, his story of the Jesse James raid in Northfield, and a review of his book "Memoirs of a Pioneer" (1938). The family emigrated from Arendal to Faribault, Minn. See Minn. Historical Society, K. Neutson reminiscences, 1934, P1191. Reminiscences of Life in the Red River Valley in the 1870s. Neutson worked on the steamboats and on the building of the telegraph line, and trapped for furs. -
NEARA Journal, 2000
Magazine: NEARA (New England Antiquities Research Association) Journal, Volume 34, Number 1, Summer 2000. -
Hagbarth Nielsen papers, 1899-1952
Reminiscences from mining days in Alaska and the Yukon (1899-1902) and several poems by a Norwegian-born miner and dairyman. Nielsen emigrated in 1893 and lived in California.
Digital Collections:- Settlement in valley [near Dawson City, Northwest Territory?], circa 1900
- Gold miners climbing over the hillside, 1898
- Midnight Scene of Dawson, 1899
- Gold miners in front of their log cabin near Dawson City, Northwest Territory, circa 1900
- Close-up of log cabins for gold mining camps near Dawson City, Northwest Territory, circa 1900
- Near Dawson City, Northwest Territory, circa 1900
- Gold mining camps in valley near Dawson City, Northwest Territory, circa 1900
- Formal portrait of Hagbarth Nielsen and Chris Jennesen, circa 1900
- Gold miners (underground) in vicinity of Dawson City, Northwest Territory, circa 1900
- informal portrait of three men, near Dawson City, circa 1900