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Elise Margreth Cammermeyer Welhaven Gunnersen memoirs, 1844-1904
- Title
- Elise Margreth Cammermeyer Welhaven Gunnersen memoirs, 1844-1904
- Identifier
- P1352
- Date
- 1844-1904
- Creator
- Gunnersen, Elise
- Description
- Photocopies of pages 135-270 of the handwritten reminiscences of the wife of Professor Rud Gunnersen (1844-1904), who taught at Augsburg College, Minneapolis from 1874 to 1883. The memoir is a lively account of the interrelated lives of the Sverdrups, Oftedals, and Gunnersens, who occupied three apartments in the same house near the Augsburg campus. Elise Gunnersen found it difficult to adapt to life in Minneapolis, and her husband was not happy in his work at Augsburg. After leaving Augsburg the family spent a year at the Hauge Seminary in Red Wing, Minnesota. The Gunnersens returned to Norway in 1884, where Elise settled into a life that was more in accord with her background.
- Location: 11/A/6
- Extent
- 1 folder
- Type
- Manuscripts
- Photocopies
Collection
Citation
Gunnersen, Elise, “Elise Margreth Cammermeyer Welhaven Gunnersen memoirs, 1844-1904,” Norwegian American Historical Association, accessed October 17, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/11024.