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Muster rolls of infantry companies stationed at Fort Dearborn, Illinois. Include Frederick Peterson, possibly a Norwegian, term June 1, 1808 to June 1, 1812 (or 1813). According to Lovoll's A century of urban life (NAHA, 1988) pp. 9,318 (note 15), in 1812 Peterson was among those killed in a bloody massacre; "surviving accounts of a "Norwegian fiddler" at the fort would lead one to conclude that the fiddler and private Peterson were on and the same."
Biographical data, clippings, photos, sermons, and poems of a Norwegian-American Lutheran minister and 1916 graduate of St. Olaf College. He studied a year at Menighetsfakultetet in Oslo. After serving in several parishes he became Executive Secretary for the Zion Society for Israel, 1943-1952.
Includes a biographical sketch (3 p. typescript, 1935) of Aven Nelson (1859-1952), president of the University of Wyoming and professor of botany at the same institution.
"'Olle i Skratthults' Nya Viser och Historier," a collection of poems and songs, compiled by a Swedish immigrant who became popular in Scandinavian communities as a singer and story-teller. "The Man who gave us Nikolina," by Maury Bernstein is an article excerpted from "Earth Journal," Spring-Summer, 1977; "Snoose Boulevard, 1973"; "Olle i Skratthults populara success, Nikolina, ord och musik"; and an English-language version of Nikolina, first popularized by Slim Jim and the Vagabond Kid and later by Anne Charlotte Harvey in the 1970s.
Biographical data, family history, correspondence and letters of call concerning a Norwegian-American Lutheran minister who served parishes in the Midwest.
Clippings of articles by a Norwegian-born meteorologist in the United States weather bureau at Wichita, Kansas, recounting his experiences at sea for several years during the 1890s.
Includes "The Pettersen Family History (1998) by Dave Plette and Plette's "The Guttersen Family History (P539, box 48). Poems (presumably by Pettersen), correspondence, and pages from a general store ledger of a Madelia, Minnesota, bricklayer who emigrated in 1867.
"Ephraim Is My Home Now," letters written to the parents of a young minister and his wife who had been sent by the Moravian Church in Germany at the request of the Provincial Elders Conference, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as "suitable" for work among the the Scandinavian members of the Moravian Church in Door County, Wisconsin. Anna was Danish and Anders was Swedish. The letters, translated and edited by a granddaughter, Lucille Petterson, were published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, volume 69, number 3 through volume 70, number 2, 1986-1987.