Stavanger Friends Church]]> Stavanger (Iowa)]]> Quakers]]> Thirty diaries kept by Heggem from 1880 to 1912 (missing 1882 and 1888) [Diaries in English]. Heggem was born in Strand, Norway, in 1848. According to records at the Stavanger Friends Church [Quaker], Stavanger, Iowa, Heggem immigrated to the United States in 1859. He was a minister in the Friends Church as well as a farmer. Diaries detail Heggem's exotic travels, including San Francisco (present at the 1906 earthquake), Hawaii, Tahiti, New York, Australia, New Zealand, Pago Pago, and American Samoa.

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