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Christian Wallentin Finwall biography, 1987
A biographical sketch and family history written by Sofie Reid about Finwall, a Baptist minister, who came to Chicago from Bergen in 1883. He was graduated from the Baptist Seminary in Morgan Park in 1887. After serving various parishes in the Midwest and in Seattle, he returned to Chicago and built the Logan Square Baptist Church, where he was the first minister. His final years were spent in California. -
Helena Reiersen letter, 1860
Typescript copy of a letter (including a translation) by Helena Reiersen of Shreveport, Louisiana. It deals with slaves, railroad building, and her husband's business (commission merchant), and refers to the Bache family and to Elise Wærenskjold. -
Johan Reiersen papers, 1844-1984
Biography/History:
Johan Reinert Reierson (1810-1864) was born in Vestre Moland, Aust-Agder, Norway. He was a Norwegian-American writer, author and publisher as well as an early Texas pioneer and emigration activist. Reierson had been sponsored in 1843 by a group of prospective emigrants and financiers to tour the United States and report settlement possibilities. He made his way to the Republic of Texas. Reierson traveled to Austin, where President Sam Houston encouraged him to bring Norwegian settlers to the republic and promised aid in the establishment of a colony.
In 1844, Reierson wrote and published a comprehensive book about America titled Pathfinder for Norwegian Emigrants to the United North American States and Texas, a comprehensive book about America published in Norway. Reierson particularly advocated Texas as the most promising region for settlement.
Reierson immigrated to Texas and established a Norwegian colony in the spring of 1845. Before departing for America, he established a monthly magazine, Norge og Amerika, to report on the progress of the Norwegians in America to the people of Norway. When Reierson immigrated to Texas, Elise Wærenskjold assumed the editorship of the popular magazine until she herself immigrated to Texas in 1847.
Scope and Content:
Papers of the Norwegian-born founder of the Brownsboro, Texas, settlement: a bound volume of twelve issues of "Norge og Amerika" and a copy of an article which appeared in "Morgenbladet" (July 11, 1884). Both items aim to treat conditions among Norwegians in America in such a manner as to arouse people of Norway to free themselves of non-democratic constraints. Includes Reiersen’s original travel journals from 1843 and onward. He talks about meeting Sam Houston, and details his path to get to Texas.
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Knute Reindahl papers, 1903-1976
An Artist's Touch (pamphlet, 1906), a discussion of the making of violins by a Chicago craftsman who won recognition at the Paris Exposition, 1900, and at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, for the violins he had made. An obituary, six clippings, and other miscellany are included. Also, see the Gjerset File, P 683, Box 3, Artists; and "Knute Reindahl, Violin Maker," in "American Scandinavian Review," May 1922. And "The Felland, Reindahl and Mandt Families," by C.M. Felland (1940) in the St. Olaf Library. -
Peder Ingbart Reinert Reinertsen autobiography, 1901-1980
An account by a Norwegian Augustana Synod clergyman who emigrated from Sandvigen, Bergen, in 1875. After ordination in 1883, he served various Midwest parishes. Translation is by P. D. Reinertsen, a son.
The file includes a letter, July 30, 1901, from Reinertsen to Professor Kildahl, recommending Ole Rolvaag for admission to St. Olaf. See O.E. Rolvaag papers, P0584 box 52, for 1960 letter from his son to Gudrun Hovde about relations between Rolvaag and Reinertsen.
Also includes family histories, photographs (photocopies), obituaries from Ladies Aid scrapbooks of Bergen Lutheran Church, and Bethesda Lutheran Chuch records, Bristol, South Dakota.
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August Remert papers, 1832-1945
Biography/History:
August Reymert was born on October 4, 1851 in Vågå, Norway. He died on May 31, 1932 in Long Island, New York, United States. He was the son of Theodor DeNoon Reymert and Anne Malene Beer. August was a lawyer in New York City, and served as president of the Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce in New York. August Reymert was the lawyer and legal representative of Ole Herman Krag and Erik Jørgensen who were the developers of the Krag-Jørgensen rifle. This rifle was the standard rifle of the American Army in 1892. Reymert was also a founder of the Scandinavian Seamen's Home in New York and of the Norwegian hospital in Brooklyn. He was named Knight, First Class, of the Order of St. Olav and was decorated with the Vasa Order.Christen Reymert (1782–1868), a shipowner and merchant in Leith in Scotland, later customs treasurer in Farsund. Christen was August’s grandfather. Jeanette Sinclair Denoon Reymert (1788–1843), born in Scotland. She was married to Christen Reymert, and August’s grandmother. Christen and Jeanette had three children: Christian, Theodor, and James. Theodor Denoon Reymert (1815-1891), father of August Reymert. Theodor was a brigade doctor and a major in the sanitation division of the Norwegian army. Theodor married Anne Malene Beer. Together they had six children: Jenny, Thorwald, Caroline, August, Theodore, and Elisabeth. James Denoon Reymert (1821-1889), an American newspaper editor, mine operator, lawyer and politician. He was a pioneer settler near Muskego, and was an editor of the first Norwegian-American newspaper, Nordlyset. James Reymert was August Reymert’s uncle.
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Correspondence, clippings, articles, reports, and photographs of a Norwegian-born New York attorney. The correspondence deals largely with family affairs in America, Norway, and Scotland. The letters by James Denoon Reymert, August's uncle, first editor of Nordlyset (1847), first Norwegian-American member of a Wisconsin State Legislature, and attorney, deal with opportunities for law practice on the American frontier. Ole Bull was also a correspondent. Other items include biographical sketches of family members, a family chart, and an article about Hans Balling, the portrait painter. -
Sigurd Styrk Reque articles, 1938
Series of seven articles, "Fra pionertiden of fremover," published in Decorah Posten, Aug. 19-Sept. 23, 1938. Subtitles: 1. Den aeldste norske bosaetning i det nordostre hjorne af Iowa og sydostre hjorne af Minnesota. 2. Nils Brandts forste kirkelige handling i Iowa. Hans forste gudstjeneste i Winneshiek County. Rare stedsnavne. Den forste brudevielse. Da Decorah bestod af ett hus. Det forste kaldsbrev af 1852. 3. Brandts 40,000 mils missionsreirser. Han blir knyttet til Luther College og Decorah. Diderikke Brandt. Ulrik Vilhelm Koren modtar kaldelsen fra Amerika. Fra has studenteraar i Kristiania. Ordination og bryllup med frk. Else Elisabeth Hysing. 4. Lidt om Pastor Korens og hustrus reise til Amerika. Jernbanen gik med 18 mils fart. En spaendende ferd over Mississippi. Ankomsten til Washington Prairie. 5. Korens forste dag paa Washington Prairie. Nybyggernes forste boliger var primitive. Prestefolkene blir kjendt med sine sognebarn. 6. Af praeriens saga. Erick Anderson. Den forste laererinde. Det hjertensgode, afholdte aegetepar "Onkel" Ole og "Tante" Mary Anderson. 7. Springfield menigheds historie. Menighedens prester fra 1852 til idag. Presteseminar i Springfield. Mange velkjendte navne. -
Ole Ressert pamphlet, 1948-1980
A Bjørnson Album, from the Writings of Ole Resset tells of the writer's association with the poet, Bjørstjerne Bjørnson, in whose employ he began as a stable-boy but later became cook and valet. Resset settled in Rothsay, Minnesota in 1905. He began the reminiscences collected in this pamphlet in 1936. The translation from Norwegian is by Olga Resset Kjell, a daughter. -
Carl M. Ringen Gunderson manuscripts, 1969-1970
Manuscript volumes of Carl M. Ringen Gunderson. For an article on Gunderson by Karen E. Hogen, see Western Viking, October 16, 1964. See also Vera Joyce Fox Kvamme Papers, P0764.
Includes:- "Leif Erikson Genealogy: Lists all forefathers and known relatives" (1969).
- "Famous Americans of Norwegian Descent: 13 Presidents of the United States, 11 Signers of the Declaration of Independence" (1969)
- "The Leif Erikson Stamp, Issued by the United States Post Office Department, 1968" (1969)
- "Norwegian Ancestors of General George Washington, First President of the United States" (1969)
- "Biography and Ancestry of Andrew Furuseth, 1854-1938" (1970)
- "Ancestral Chart of John Anon 'Snowshoe' Thompson" (1970)
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Nels Anderson Rippy letter, 1883
Letter from Newark concerning the trip back to the United States after a visit to Norway, signed by forty travellers from Bergen.