Welcome to the NAHA Collections Catalog!
Use our online catalog to explore our archival and manuscript collections. Some finding aids are currently offline, but we’re happy to help – just reach out to the NAHA archivist with any questions. Looking for digitized materials? Click here to browse thousands of items available online!
Bolette Stud Bergh clippings, 1872-1905
- Title
- Bolette Stud Bergh clippings, 1872-1905
- Identifier
- P0038
- Date
- circa 1872-1905, 1935, 1944
- Creator
- Bergh, Bolette Stud
- Description
- Memoirs of a Lutheran minister's wife, Bolette Stud Bergh (Mrs. Johannes E. Bergh), who lived at Sacred Heart, Minnesota from 1872-1905.
Contents:
Topics addressed in memoirs include Rev. Thomas Johnson's farewell sermon; illness crossing the Minnesota River; skinning a calf with theology; Bergh serving many congregations; A prairie fire; vermin interrupting sleep; water through the ceiling; living in a cellar; snowed in; three miles down the river to get the mail and a scare by drunk men; farmers building a new parsonage; a record storm on Jan. 7 1873; a new cow; a gift piano; Christmas celebration; saving for a new church; grasshopper scourge; building schoolhouses; healthy children; indians move away; good neighbors; Ingeborg Stensrud's kindness; forming new congregations; the Ladies Aid; building a new church; a sick woman; skiing; shoveling; snow and no mail; "Bow-wow-wow!" (a story about a dog); a wedding in a snowstorm; party games; the young people get rid of the old; driving in circles; Pascha Parsonage; (Norwegian copies of all)
Clippings of English trans. by O.O. Enestvedt, which appeared in the "Sacred Heart News," (June 1-15, 1944); and of the second and third parts of the Norwegian original, from "Decorah Posten," (May 25-June 1, 1944)
Clipping of article (Sept. 10, 1935) in "Skandinaven" concerning memorial service at Vor Frelsers congregation, Sacred Heart, upon the thirtieth anniversary of her husband's death.
Location:
1/A/3 - Extent
- 1 folder
- Language
- Norwegian
- English
- Subject
- Bergh, Bolette Stud
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Lutheran Church
- Minnesota
- Norway--Emigration and immigration
- Norwegian Lutheran Church
- Sacred Heart (Minn.)
- Type
- Memoirs
- Access Rights
- This collection is open to research.
- Bibliographic Citation
- [Indicate the cited item here]. Bolette Stud Bergh Clippings. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.
Collection
Citation
Bergh, Bolette Stud, “Bolette Stud Bergh clippings, 1872-1905,” Norwegian American Historical Association, accessed October 17, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/11851.