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              <text>A. Sophie Bøe papers, 1814-1936</text>
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              <text>&lt;span&gt;Papers of a daughter of Pastor N.E. Bøe, consisting of correspondence, articles, pamphlets, and clippings. Includes:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Biography of N.E. Bøe, "Days That Are Gone: The Story of Father's Life," by A. Sophie Bøe (4 copies/1 photocopied, in file). Nils E Bøe, born in 1846 at Valestrand, Norway, emigrated from Norway in 1851 to Koshkonong, Dane County, Wisconsin. Biography touches upon many topics, including: farm work, Forth of July (Independence Day celebrations), swimming hole, ice skating, Christmas, education/school days, passenger pigeons, religion, Albion Academy, Civil War (enlisted as Nils Anderson in the 40th Wis. Reg., Co. C), Luther College, preparation for the ministry at Augustana Seminary (1866-1871), two years in Eureka, Kansas (1871-1873), prairie life (fires, prairie dogs, buffaloes, and flowers), six years in Calumet, Michigan (1873-1879), saloon element, Finnish sect, Laestadians, grasshoppers near Willmar, Minnesota (p. 65), Rev. Alfred Backman, Rev. Nils Brun, cyclone/tornado, ten years in Leland, Illinois (1878-1889), horses and roads in Illinois, twenty years in Silver Lake, Iowa (1889-1909), liquor problem (p. 97), wedding ceremonies, St. Ansgar Academy, Game Gulbrand, wood carver (pg. 122), Christmas celebrations, Augusta Kean (p. 12&amp;amp;0, Rev. J.A. Ottesen, seven years in Deronda, Wisconsin (1909-1916), Rev. J.A. Bergh&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Letters from Agnes Kittelsby, China, 1914 - 1919. Also includes 5 photos from China.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;America letter written by her grandfather; other letters; newspaper clippings; article "Lars Davidson Reque: Pioneer" by A. Sophie Bøe, published in "Studies and Records" v. 6 (undated); "One of Our Pioneer Mothers" by A. Sophie Bøe, published in the Lutheran Herald (undated); 2 photos, unlabelled and undated.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Family History Materials. Includes "Genealogy of the N.E. Bøe Family", 1935, 29 p.; eightieth anniversary pamphlet of St. Paul's Lutheran Congregation (1931)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Biography, correspondence, genealogical materials, May 30th 1928 - March 5th, 1936, many undated. Includes copies of "Genealogy of the N.E. Bøe Family", 1935, 29 p.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Clippings, articles, pamphlets, and correspondence concerning Svein Nilsson.&lt;/li&gt;
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              <text>Blegen, Theodore Christian, 1891-1969</text>
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              <text> Conference for the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Luthutheran Church in America</text>
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