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Olaus Martinius Christiansen Farseth papers, 1854-1964
Collection Number:
P1441
Extent:
2.0 cubic feet (5 archives box)
Abstract:
Correspondence, documents, and manuscripts of an emigrant from Vega, Helgeland, who came
to Canton, South Dakota, in 1882. He started out as a farmer but in 1886-1887 attended the
seminary at St. Olaf's School in Northfield, Minnesota, and was ordained in 1887. He served
parishes in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota. He wrote Husandagtsbog, Raad og
Vink i Menighetsarbeidet and Haandsrækning i Religionsundervisning, and served as editor of
For Gammel og Ung , 1904-1905., and as associate editor of Fram, 1910-1911. The collection
contains 40 letters from O. E. Rølvaag to Farseth.
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Folder Description
Biographical data. Autobiographical papers, newspaper clippings,
1 obituaries, Concordia College Record (1913).
2 Emigration documents.
3 Letters of Call and Follow-up. Correspondence.
4 Letters of Resignation. Correspondence.
5 Notebooks - St. Olaf School seminary. 3 volumes.
6 Notebooks - Pastoral. 5 volumes.
7 Essays by Confirmants.
8 Letters to Wife, Thrina. Correspondence.
10-Sep Letters to Family in Norway. Correspondence.
11 O.E. Rølvaag letters.
1 Correspondence, 1884-1913.
2 Letters to his sons, 1902-1913.
3 J.C. Herre letters. Correspondence.
4 O. Lokensgard letters. Correspondence.
5 Lars Øie letters. Correspondence.
6 A.E. Undhjem letters. Correspondence.
8 Business letters. Correspondence.
9 Miscellaneous letters. Correspondence.

Date

Range

1900
1854
1886
1892
1886
1889
0
1870
1881
1907
1884
1902
1890
1890
1890
1890
1900
1900

1913
1888
1913
1903
1886
1913
0
1989
1922
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913
1913

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3
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4
4
4
4
4

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3
4
5
6
7

4

8

4

9

4

10

4

0

5
5
5
5

0
1
2
3

Letters to Paul G. Farseth. Includes postcard of Dr. Herman Fjelde;
photograph of farmstead; receipts; correspondence.
Sermons, manuscript.
Sermon notes, manuscript.
Manuscript: Raad og Vink.
Manuscript: No title.
Photo album pages. Includes 21 photographs of a horse-drawn
carriage; landscapes; farmsteads; the Farseths; a boat; Abraham
Lincoln; Ole Olson; Balestrand in Sogn, Norway; a church, etc.
Thrina Farseth - Biographical data. Newspaper clippings.
Thrina Farseth - Harald Farseth Correspondence, 1911-1933.
Thrina Farseth - Harald Farseth Correspondence, undated.
Thrina Farseth - Ida Rogne Farseth Correspondence, 1918-1930.
Thrina Farseth - Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1913-1933.
Thrina Farseth - Family Correspondence, 1882-1935.
Thrina Farseth - Business Letters, 1918-1925. Includes tax
information, receipts, and correspondence.
Rogne-Farseth Papers. Marriage announcement for Ida Rogne and
Harald Farseth; expense book for Mr. and Mrs. E.J. Rogne, 1924.
Anna Kathrina Lien (Mrs. A.E. Farseth). Program for ordination into
ministry, Carl K. Lien, Bruflat Lutheran Church, Portland, North
Dakota; correspondence with family, 1919-1967; savings account
booklet, Twin City Federal Savings and Loan Association; Lars Olsen
Skrefsrud: The prisoner who became a great missionary; article:
Mrs. Lien ends long years of servic to youth; Lutheran Welfare
Messenger, 1966
Loose, book: Raad og Vink i Menighedsarbeidet, by O.C. Farseth,
Augsburg Publishing House, 1911.
Loose, book: Husandagtsbog, ordnet etter kirkeaaret, by O.C.
Farseth, Augsburg Publishing House, 1908.
Family letters, 1902-1916. Correspondence.
Family letters, 1916-1920. Correspondence.
Family letters, 1916-1920. Correspondence.

Rokke Name Index

1900
1888
1888
1888
1888

1922
1913
1913
1913
1913

1888

1913

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1911
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1918
1913
1882

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1933
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1930
1933
1935

1918

1925

1924

1925

1924

1925

1911

1911

1908
1902
1916
1921

1908
1916
1920
1964

�Herre, J. C.
Undhjem, A. E.
Farseth, Ida Rogne
Lien, Anna Kathrine
Farseth (Mrs. Abel)
Farseth, Olaus Martinius
Christiansen
Thorstensen, Knut
Farseth, Paul G.
Peterson, Nils G.
Johnsen, Kristine
Johnsen, Erik Kristian
Vestre Immanual Menighet
Glarum, Lars
Sarheim, Kr. K.
Ruble, Edwin C.
Thorson, Karl J.
Hougan, John Olai Jensen
Bugge, Johan Peder
Hansen, Nikolai
Farje, J. A.
Sveen, Marthinus B
Ulriksen, E
Larson, Jens
Carlson, J. A.
Rogne, Erik Thorstensen
Jerdee, A. P.
Vik, M. O.
Jensen, J. L.
Masted, Ludvig Larson
Petersen, Peter
Benjamin, O
Hulteng, Anders J.
Bang, Rudolf Wilhelm
Williamson, Johannes H.
Hansen, J. J.
Carlson, Olaf
Farseth, Harald
Solberg, Carl K.
Aasgaard, Johan Arnd
Skelstad, Haagen

Kaupang, Ella
B G Aasjord
Reinertsen, Jens B
Farseth, Thrina
Bøckman, Markus Olaus
Lovaas, G.
Dahl, Theodore Halvorson
Undlin, Martin J.
Dahli, L.
Kildahl, John Nathan
Thvedt, Niels Bernahrd
Oxaus, Elling J.
Mikaelsen, Jacob M.
Dalager, Kristofer
Aubol, Carl Otto
Lunde, Nils J.
Johnsen, Hans
Waaler, Dick
Jonasen, P
Nupen, K. M.
Kalstad, Anton
Nilsen, Ole

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