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Data about the persons listed in a commemorative book placed in the Memorial Church established in Oslo by the American Lutheran Church. Many of those honored were first-generation immigrants to the United States from Norway. Some of the biographies include photographs and/or photographic negatives.
Some of the biographies include photographs and all are indexed in the Rowberg Biographical File.
Letters, chiefly to Reverend C. K. Preus, some written by O.M. Kalheim, one of the editors of "Amerika", a secular newspaper that served as an organ for the Norwegian Synod. Correspondents include: Lars O. Thorpe, Bernt Askevold, K.L. Gullibo, Einar B. Christophersen, Johannes Waage, Peder O. Langseth. A St. Olaf College Student from Norway, Jostein Molde, compiled a chronology and summary of the letters, which is in the file.
Photocopies of letters and postcards, most sent from Kristiansund to relatives who emigrated and settled in Michigan. A biography of Christoph Preysz (Danish-American) and a Hendrickson (Kvalvog) family history, relatives of Mrs. Brown, are included. English translations are included.
Reminiscences of a Norwegian American from Halloway, Minnesota, covering farm and village life in the area up to 1908. Hagen later became an officer of the National City Bank of New York and spent part of his career in Latin America. Part of a larger manuscript.
"Down and Out, Then up to the Heights, He Couldn't Run a Street Car, but Wins the Nobel Prize," by Sven Thalberg, published in "The Mentor," February, 1921, p. 33. An assortment of clippings concerning Hamsun's America sojourns are included, as are articles about Eugene Gay-Tifft, who translated several of Hamsun's novels. Added "Knut Hamsun I Minneapolis" by H. Askeland ("Sønner af Norger," Feb. 1921); "Min Hamsun" by Victor Nilsson ("Bonniers Litterära Magasin," Oct. 1933); "K.H. I Chicago" by Lars Frode Larsen (1984). Includes photograph with authentic signature
88-page unpublished manuscript, "Mae on Gull Island"; and a story for children, "I once Had a Wonderful Secret." by a Norwegian American living in Wheaton, Illinois. J. Rode Jacobsen, a brother-in-law, was a well-known Norwegian-American composer and teacher in Chicago. Also a photograph of a Christ's Church outing in Chicago from about 1900, which includes her father, aunt and uncle.
Translations by Sigvald Støylen of fragments found in a notebook kept by an immigrant from Orkedal, Norway, to Dunn County, Wisconsin. 2 pages typescript. A brother, John Jensen Lium, came to the United States in 1870 and settled at Christine, N.D.
Copy of "Pilgrims in a Strange Land," as published in "Adventist Heritage," volume 11, no. 6, 1986; and "Oakland: The First Norwegian-American Seventh Day Adventist Church in America," Mauston, Wisconsin, 1985. The first Norwegian-American Seventh Day Adventist Church in the United States was organized in Oakland Township, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, in 1861 by four families who had emigrated from Vest Agder in the 1850s (Olsen, Johnson, Loe and Serns families). This church "became a center from which evangelistic work spread among Scandinavians both in the United States and in Europe."
Descriptive information about a skiing program for the blind based on the work done at the Beitastølen Health Sports Center in Norway. Added. 1 sheet notice that Olav Pedersen, "father" of what is now called "Ski for Light," was inducted into the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame, Sept. 30, 2000 (sheet includes a number of photographs).