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Hard Times and How They May Be Avoided, a biographical sketch entitled "Erindringer", a collection of clippings (1903-1923), and "Af Vore Indvandrers liv," a "Symra" offprint, 1909. Steensland was a Norwegian-born merchant, banker, and philanthropist in Madison, Wisconsin. Includes a paper presented to Ygdrasil Literary Society (Feb. 11, 1978) by Bryon C. Ostby, "Halle Steensland, 1832-1910" 22 p. typescript.
Papers of a western Dane County, Wisconsin, farmer, biographical data, an address given at a reunion of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Infantry at Scandia Hall, Chicago (August 29, 1900), in which Steensland recounts his Civil War Experiences including those at Andersonville prison, a temperance lecture given at Perry, Wisconsin, "A Condensed History of Steensland's Life," 20 pages, and photocopies of a 1900 speech by Steensland printed in an unidentified newspaper and of an obituary.
Articles, brochures, clippings, correspondence, reports, and scrapbooks of a Norwegian-born Minneapolis resident. Stefferud was chief clerk for the Norwegian America Line in their New York and Minneapolis offices, acting consul for Norway, and a commissioner for Nordmanns-Forbundet.
Photographs and other items about an 1882 immigrant from Biri, Norway, who was ordained in 1886. He served the Bethlehem Lutheran Congregation, Clear Lake, Iowa, throughout the 55 years of his ministry. He was president of the Elling Eielsen Synod, 1902-1941. Includes: Articles (n.d.); Memorials (1941); Photographs (n.d.).
A collection of articles, most them in the form of clippings, by a Wisconsin-born farmer at Norway Lake, Minnesota. According to his obituary he was much involved in community and religious affairs and wrote about pioneer days in "Decorah-Posten" under the name "Pionergutten." Stene was born near Rio, Wisconsin to emigrant parents who moved to Norway Lake in 1867. According to his obituary, "Gabriel was a very well-known man, very involved in community and religious affairs. He has written much about the pioneer days, among other things writings in "Decorah Posten" with the name "Pionergutten."
Copy of a letter from E. Stengel to his daughter Martine who emigrated to San Francisco with her two sons Einer and Elmer in 1882, to join her husband who had emigrated a year earlier.
Copy of a letter written from Two Harbors, Minnesota, to Sigrid Iverson, a cousin of the writer, after he had returned from a visit to his home area in Norway a year earlier.
Description
Papers of a farmer, district school teacher, and book store proprietor, consisting of reminiscences about pioneer life mostly in eastern Dane County, Wisconsin, southeastern Dakota, and Luther College. The anecdotes concern neighbors and relatives, wild life, and farm buildings, machinery, and operations. There are references to R.B. Anderson, Kristofer Jansen, Laur. Larsen, and Halvor Kostveit, the reputed killer of Joseph Smith. Stephens was born in Koshkonong, attended Luther College in 1862 - 1865 and 1864 - 1865, and lived in Dakota, Bemidji and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Rice Lake, Ladysmith, and Deerfield, Wisconsin.
Includes:
Scrapbook, 1934-1940
Scrapbook, 1907-1939
Articles, autobiography, Luther College, Joseph Smith anecdote, 1890s-1940
Articles, pioneer anecdotes from Wisconsin, Dakota, Minnesota, 1911 April 15-1938
See also 'Telesoga,' March 1915, 3 - 13 and June 1918, 3 - 11.