Columbia Lutheran College]]> Washington]]> ]]> Minnesota]]> Dakota Lutheran Academy]]> North Dakota]]> Breckenridge, John ]]> Decorah Institute]]> Iowa]]> Methodist Church]]> Evanston Bible School]]> Illinois]]> ]]> Norwegian-Danish Press Association]]> Norwegian Glee Club (Minneapolis, Minn.)]]> World War I]]> World War II]]> Young Men's Christian Association]]> University of Texas]]> University of Minnesota]]> Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907]]> Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906]]> Ericson, Leif, -approximately 1020]]> Sons of Norway (U.S.)]]> Americanization]]> Minneapolis Tidende]]> Norwegian-American Historical Association]]> History/Biography: 

Carl Gustav Otto Hansen was born on March 16, 1871 in Trondheim, Norway to Sivert Christian Hansen (1839-1872) and Marit Megrund (1842-1927). In 1881, Carl, alongside his mother and siblings, emigrated to the United States. They settled in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where Marit’s parents and siblings settled. In 1882, they moved to Minneapolis. Marit supported the family, as she did in Norway, by producing knitwear. In 1887, she married Halver Olson from Verdalen. 

Hansen studied Latin, Green, history and composition at Augsburg Seminary from 1887 to 1889, however he was mostly self-educated. He worked for a time in a print shop and later opened his own place. He married Amalie Marie Edsten (1871-1945), daughter of furniture merchant Aaron Henry Edsten and Johanne Larsdatter Rognerud. Together they had four children: Conrad, Arild, Erling, and Mildred. 

From 1897 to 1935, he wrote and edited for Minneapolis Daglig Tidende. From 1935 to 1937, he was in Chicago and employed at Skandinaven. He then edited the Sons of Norway magazine in Minneapolis and served as the educational director (1937-1954). Hansen was a lifelong musician and sang with and directed male chorus groups, including the Norwegian Glee Club of Minnesota (1912-1945). He was also president of the Norwegian-Danish Press Association, and a founder of Det Norske Selskap and of NAHA.Hansen was a music critic, a book reviewer, a biographer of Norwegian Americans, and the author of "My Minneapolis (1956)." 

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Correspondence, articles, lectures, reports, clippings, scrapbooks, and diaries of a Norwegian-born Minneapolis journalist, musician, lecturer, and author. The papers deal with the activities of Norwegian-American singing societies in Minneapolis and other cities, the tribulations of translators, the cultural creativity of Norwegian Americans, the study of the Norwegian language in the Minneapolis public schools and at St. Olaf College, biographies of Norwegian Americans, and other related subjects. "Sagas of Today" (a "Minneapolis Journal'' column) and "For 50 aar siden," "Det Norske Amerika gjennem Hundred Aar," and "Glimt fra Livet i det Norske Amerika," columns that ran in "Minneapolis Tidende," are among the clippings. The collection contains correspondence from significant authors, journalists, and scholars of the day.

]]> View the digital collections to the Carl G.O. Hansen Papers.]]> Hansen, Carl G. O. (Carl Gustav Otto), 1871-1960]]> ]]> Augsburg College and Theological Seminary]]> Marshall (Wis.)]]> Minneapolis (Minn.)]]> Sverdrup, Georg, 1848-1907]]> Ueland, Andreas, 1853-1933]]> Cohen, Emanuel, 1892-1977]]> Chrislock, Carl H. ]]> Wisconsin]]> Lutheran Theological Seminaries]]> Helland, Andreas Andersen]]> Lillehei, Lars L.]]> Nute, Grace Lee, 1895-1990]]> Biography/History:  
Augsburg College was founded at Marshall, Wisconsin in 1869 as a Norwegian-American Lutheran seminary known as Augsburg Seminarium. It then moved to Minneapolis in 1872, changing its name to The Norwegian Danish Evangelical Lutheran Augsburg Seminary in association with its new sponsors. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Augsburg Seminary remained the school's name until 1942 when it was officially changed and expanded to Augsburg College and Theological Seminary, a name that had been informally used since the 1910s. Following the dissolution of the seminary portion of the school, the name of its remaining undergraduate college became Augsburg College, which remained until 2017, when it officially became Augsburg University.

Scope and Content: 
Bulletins, journals, letters, pamphlets, catalogs, yearbooks, pictures, faculty lists, student and alumni lists, and a court record.

]]> Concordia College (Moorhead, Minn.)]]> Minnesota]]> Rasmusson, Halvor]]> Martinson, Ole]]> Christianson, Lars, 1855-1946]]> Bogstad, Rasmus]]> Biography/History: 
Concordia College was dedicated as a private academy on October 31, 1891, by a group of approximately one dozen Norwegian pastors and laymen who had recently settled in the Red River Valley. The school was founded on the property of the former Episcopalian Bishop Whipple School, which had closed in 1887. The school is associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Scope and Content: 
Brochures, catalogs, clippings, journals, programs, reports, and history.

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