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Julius Oscar and Hilma Walstad family history, 2004
- Title
- Julius Oscar and Hilma Walstad family history, 2004
- Identifier
- NAHA 2019/998
- Date
- 2004
- Creator
- Walstad, Joseph
- Description
- The Edited Journals of Julius Oscar Walstad (1869-1950). Sub-chapters include: boyhood memories of Decorah, Iowa (Native Americans/Indians, falling through ice resulting in pneumonia and treated with cod-liver oil); Nebraska (In 1878 the family moved to dugout near Bladen and later Riverton. Mentions fleas, dances, alcohol, sod schoolhouse, snake indugout); Riverton (moved to a house in 1881. Mentions: working in afurniture store, sexual relations: "Then while he [the owner] went home for breakfast and took a good long time at it and to chin his wife as they had lately been married, I had to stay and take care of the store", Mrs. Oney);Farmer's Creek (moved to in 1884. Mentions: drunkenness of father, homestead mortgage troubles, teaching Sunday school, preaching, tent meetings); Hastings (1900. Mentions trouble with uncles and alcohol/kegs of beer); Beginning of Preaching Ministry, Evangelist (1902-1924. Scandinavian Gospel Mission Work, married Hilma Latt in 1912).
- Extent
- 1 folder
- Language
- English
Collection
Citation
Walstad, Joseph, “Julius Oscar and Hilma Walstad family history, 2004,” Norwegian-American Historical Association, accessed September 20, 2024, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/12015.