American Relief for Norway, Inc.]]> World War II]]> American Relief for Norway, Inc.]]> Articles, clippings, obituaries, memoirs, correspondence, pictures, and scrapbooks of a Norwegian-born clergyman and farmer. The scrapbooks contain clippings taken largely from "Decorah-Posten:" obituaries, biographic sketches of Dakota pioneers, and items concerning Norwegian pioneer associations, Lutheran church conventions, Det Norske Selskap, Norsk-danske presseforening i Amerika, and Jacobson's contacts with Abraham Lincoln, "Decorah-Posten," and "Nordlyset." There are items about Rasmus B. Anderson, L. W. Boe, Gjermund Hoyme, U. V. Koren, Bernt J. Muus, Knute Nelson, Oley Nelson, Halle Steensland, Peer Strømme, Hans G. Stub, and Oscar M. Torrison. 

The articles consist of biographies of Winneshiek County, Iowa, pioneers: Jacob Aga, Ole Andreas Anderson, Gunder H. Blegeberg, Ove Christian Johnson Hallan, Thor Halvorson, Tollev Halvorson, Johan Hegg, Christopher T. Hoyme, Andrew O. Lommen, Ole T. Lommen, Lars Iverson Melaas, and Knudt Thompson. The correspondence and other articles concern Jacobson's mission to the Gaspé settlement in the 1860s. Jacobson was the first Lutheran clergyman to preach in Dakota Territory and the first Norwegian in the Decorah area.

]]> Jacobson, Abraham]]> Aslakson, Bjørn]]> Civil War]]> Johnson, Henry]]> Moe, Bernt J.]]> Yellow Medicine County (Minn.)]]> Heimark, J. J.]]> Minnesota]]> Heidmark, J.J.]]>
Includes: 
  • Articles, Clippings, Diary. Includes: "Bjerke's Review of a New Catechism," translated by E. Josephsen (1910); "Has 20th Century Civilization Improved Mankind?" (1939), 1914-1942
  • Scrapbook, 1918-1921
  • Scrapbook, politics, 1961-1962
  • Article, "History of Decorah Park System," by Fred Biermann, 1956
  • "A Man in the Street" manuscript, 1932
  • Correspondence, 1907-1961
]]> Josephsen, Einar]]> ]]> Gjerset, Knut, 1865-1936]]> Biography/History: 

Ole Gunderson (O.G.) Felland was born October 10, 1853 in Utica, Wisconsin.  He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Luther College in 1874, a Master of Art from Northwestern College in 1876 and graduated from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri in 1879.  In 1881, he joined the faculty at St. Olaf Academy where he taught Greek, Latin, German and Hebrew and in 1891, became the college’s librarian. From 1879-1889 he was also a Lutheran clergyman.

Scope and Content: 
Articles, clippings, correspondence, photographs, programs, reports, sermons, speeches, and a 73-page typescript autobiography. The correspondence includes letters written from Luther College; Northwestern College; Concordia Seminary; eastern Dane County, Wisconsin; Rothsay, Minnesota; Idaho; and Washington. Among the photographs are several of eastern Dane County, Wisconsin, farm scenes and interiors as well as pictures of prominent Norwegian Americans and of St. Olaf College.

]]> Digital collections available online here.]]> Felland, O. G., 1853-1938]]> Minnesota]]> Bye, Samuel]]> Hanson, Eloise S.]]> Hilleboe, Antonilla Ytterboe]]> Hinderlie, Mary Aasgaard]]> Moe, Marie Hilleboe]]> Otte, Lillian Young ]]> Roe, Adelaide Hjertaas]]> Swanson, Clifford]]> Tufte, Engebret T.]]> Houg, P. O.]]> Ytterboe, Eivind Thykeson]]> Orwoll, Sylfest L.]]> Ringstad, Johannes]]> Ringstad, Gunhild Ytterboe]]> Rygh, Clara Aaker ]]> Hellestad, Mina Wold]]> St. Olaf College]]> Hilleboe, Gertrude M., 1888-1976]]> Boe, L. W. (Lars Wilhelm), 1875-1942]]> Hilleboe, Sjur H.]]> Jorgenson, Nora Fjelde]]> here.]]> Hilleboe, Gertrude M., 1888-1976]]> Benson, Thomas I.]]> California]]> Benson, Thomas I. ]]> Minnesota]]> Holmes City Laeseforening]]> ]]> Magnus, M. H.]]>