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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Tribute by Ralph E. Rowley.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Clipping from "Nordisk Tidende," January 24, 1945, which tells of Roger O. Egeberg, a son who was an associate of General Douglas MacArthur.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Elling Eielsen papers, 1804-1883&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Collection Number:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;P0074&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Extent:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1.2 cubic feet (3 archives boxes)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Biography/History:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Elling Eielsen was born and raised on the farm of Sundve in Voss, Norway. The son of Eiel Ingebrigtsen Sundve and Anna Ellingsdatter Sundsvaal. In Norway, he was brought up in the Lutheran religious tradition of Hans Nielsen Hauge. From 1832-1839, he was a lay preacher who toured around Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, where he was often met with opposition and eventually faced imprisonment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Eielsen immigrated to the United States in 1839 first settling in the Fox River Settlement, LaSalle County, Illinois. In 1843, he was formally ordained as a Lutheran minister by Francis Arnold Hoffmann, a German Lutheran pastor. The Eielsen Synod (originally named the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) was founded at the Jefferson Prairie settlement, Wisconsin, in 1846 by Elling Eielsen. Eielsen is considered the first Norwegian Lutheran minister in the United States.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Scope and Content:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Copies of his baptism and confirmation records; Eielsen's certificate of ordination and of letters by him (1836-1862); transcripts of a 15-page typescript article titled "Haugianer Folket på Sundve Fraasegnuppskrifter" (1931) by Knut Bjørgaas; a thesis (208 pages, 1932) titled "Elling Eielsen: Pioneer Lay Preacher and First Norwegian Lutheran Pastor in America" by Clarence J. Carlsen; an Eielsen bibliography by Olaf M. Norlie (106 pages); a Master's thesis (98 pages, 1946) by Ansgar Sovik and his Norway lectures on Eielsen; a list of Eielsen Synod churches and ministers; and assorted articles, clippings, and pamphlets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Access Rights:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The collection is open for research. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bibliographic Citation:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;[Indicate the cited item here]. Elling Eielsen Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Box&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Folder&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Description&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;"Elling Eielsen Lay Preacher and First Norwegian Lutheran Pastor in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;America"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Minnesota by Clarence J. Carlsen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;O.M. Norlie writings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Annotated Bibliography (fragment), undated&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Typed, 220 pages, in Norwegian.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;"Eielsen Was First, A Bibliography" by O.M. Norlie, 1942&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Published by Norlie, bound, 118 pages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Knut Bjørgaas article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Transcripts of a 15-page typescript article by Bjørgaas, "Haugianarfolket paa Sundve Fraasegnuppskrifter."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Copies of  baptism and confirmation records; Eielsen's certificate of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;ordination and of letters by him, 1836-1862&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Stall Article, undated&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;"Elling Eielsen: Crusader of the Lutheran Church in America," by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Tilford H. Stall.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;O.M. Norlie Writings (correspondence: A-K).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;O.M. Norlie Writings (correspondence: L-Z).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;David J. Quill t ranscriptions &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Transcriptions of newspaper articles on Eilsen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;7&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Ansgar E. Sovik Lectures &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Sovik's thesis, "Elling Eilsen and Some Elements of the Church Strife among Norwegian-American Lutherans in the 1840's and 1850's," (Princeton Theological Seminary, 1946).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Eilsen books&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Four copies of Eielsen's Catechism (1925)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Photographs &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Clippings on Meetings of Eilsen Synod (1905-40). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Churches, Pastors.  Synod Papers. Lists of Eielsen Congregations founded. Constitution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (two copies, dated 1846, 1850).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Family history, clippings and art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Brohaugh/Eisteinsen book, "Elling Eielson" Chicago, 1883&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;In Norwegian.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;David J. Quill Transcriptions: Books, essays&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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                <text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Biography/History:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Elling Eielsen was born and raised on the farm of Sundve in Voss, Norway. The son of Eiel Ingebrigtsen Sundve and Anna Ellingsdatter Sundsvaal. In Norway, he was brought up in the Lutheran religious tradition of Hans Nielsen Hauge. From 1832-1839, he was a lay preacher who toured around Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, where he was often met with opposition and eventually faced imprisonment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Eielsen immigrated to the United States in 1839 first settling in the Fox River Settlement, LaSalle County, Illinois. In 1843, he was formally ordained as a Lutheran minister by Francis Arnold Hoffmann, a German Lutheran pastor. The Eielsen Synod (originally named the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) was founded at the Jefferson Prairie settlement, Wisconsin, in 1846 by Elling Eielsen. Eielsen is considered the first Norwegian Lutheran minister in the United States.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Scope and Content:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Copies of his baptism and confirmation records; Eielsen's certificate of ordination and of letters by him (1836-1862); transcripts of a 15-page typescript article titled "Haugianer Folket på Sundve Fraasegnuppskrifter" (1931) by Knut Bjørgaas; a thesis (208 pages, 1932) titled "Elling Eielsen: Pioneer Lay Preacher and First Norwegian Lutheran Pastor in America" by Clarence J. Carlsen; an Eielsen bibliography by Olaf M. Norlie (106 pages); a Master's thesis (98 pages, 1946) by Ansgar Sovik and his Norway lectures on Eielsen; a list of Eielsen Synod churches and ministers; and assorted articles, clippings, and pamphlets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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                <text>[Indicate the cited item here]. Elling Eielsen Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.</text>
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&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Vaccination certificate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Pamphlets: "Israels dug og Guds rose," Friedr. Wilh. Krummacher. Stavanger, 1872. 16 p. "Nogle afskedsord af N. Tøsseland, ved hans bortreise fra sine foraeldres hjem." Bergen, n.d., 15 p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Location: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1/A/5&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Articles &amp;amp; Clippings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Manuscript Translations. Poetry clippings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Added Dec. 4, 2013: Jacqueline Nasseff Hilgert, &lt;em&gt;Seeds Sown Through Time: The Legacy of Johannes &amp;amp; Sis Enestvedt&lt;/em&gt;. Family and business history of Enestvedt’s Hybrid Seed Corn, Sacred Heart, Renville County, Minnesota.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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                <text>Eleven pages of handwritten recollections by a Norwegian-born pioneer housewife at Bear River, Minnesota, of her passage to America and of early pioneer days. Deals largely with religious life, transportation, and communication. Also, a 5-page handwritten historical sketch of the origin (1906) of the Ladies Aid at Bear River, Minnesota, Lutheran congregation, and a photo of a yoke of oxen at work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;According to the congregational directory, D. Ernstsen was a trustee of the Bear River Lutheran Church in 1908 when it was founded. Oline Mathisen and Daniel Ernstsen were married at Harstad May 27, 1902 one day after leaving their home in Troms; went to Trondheim for a ship to Hull.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Location: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1/A/5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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