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Giere family history, 1945
Includes the Giere family tree; advertising circular and sample pages for projected Giere family history. Topics in addressed in sample pages: Eric Alexander Nelson Giere and Louisa Giere of Los Angeles area, California Gold Rush, Guri Syverson and Carl O. Syverson of Stewartville, MN. -
Benjamin Grosfield family history, 1953
Pedigree chart for Benjamin Grosfield. -
Halverson, Hendrickson, Henjum, Hermanson family history, 1942, 1951
Halverson (1942) with accounts of First Norwegian Settlers in Texas, Hermanson (1951) of Mud Creek, SD. Includes two pamphlets:Midnight sun to Norway: The Halversons and The Thor Hermanson Family. -
Stolager/Langelf family history, circa 1951
Stolager/Langfald families of Buskerud, Norway and Winnebago County, Iowa -
Rydholm/Williams photographs, circa 1860-1971
Photographs of the Williams and Rydholm families from Illinois.
Dr. Jacob Larsen Urheim (born 1855 April 24 in Ullensvang, Norway) came to America in 1876. He first went to Minnesota and worked as a pharmacist. He then went to Chicago and entered Bennett Medical School. He graduated in 1891. From 1900 to 1905, he was the attending physician at Cook County Hospital. He opened a private practice and taugted at Bennett Medical School. His first wife Tilda Laugen passed away in 1891, leaving two children Olaf and Alice Henriette. On Arpil 23, 1893 he married his second wife Malena "Lena" Sarah Williams (1867-1948), daugther of Wick Williams of Lee, Illinois.
Wick Williams and Julia Williams (Lee County, Illinois). He was born on July 9, 1931 in Bergensteft, Norway, son of Wicking Jassendal. The Williams' had four children: Julia Cecilia Williams (Sandberg), Malena "Lena" Williams (Urheim), William Lewis Williams, and Dr. Rasmus Volland Williams. A "Portrait and biographical record of Lee County, Illinois" is available online via the Internet Archive and includes a detail biography of Wick Williams.
Julia Cecilia Williams (1874-1954) married Frank Victor Sandburg (1878-1902) of Chicago, Illinois.
William Williams married Hannah Johnson (1868-1950) and together they had two children, Helen Winifred Williams (1910-1991) and Vivian Constance Williams (1897-1970). Their daugther, Vivian, married Thor Gabriel Rydholm (1895-1984). Thor and Vivian Williams Rydholm had a daughter, Helen "Virginia Rydholm (Grimes) on November 18, 1929 in Dixon, Illinois.
Includes many photographs of the Willliams and Rydholm families of Illinois, Maple Knoll farm (Lee, Illinois) photographs, postcards, family histories, and handbeaded Bible of Hannah Johnson. Quilts made in the 1880s by Hanna Johnson Williams while living in a log cabin when she was a small child. The two quilts are an orchid pattern and a double irish chair pattern. Various textiles including seat pads and doilies. A painted rock from 1908 travels in Norway that says "Hilsen fra Nordkapp." -
Thrane family papers, 1866-1960
Biography/History:
Marcus Møller Thrane (1817-1890) was the leader of the first organized labor movement in Norway. After a few years as an office worker and a teacher, Thrane began his campaign to improve conditions for Norway’s industrial workers and for the husmann, cotters, who were their rural counterparts. He used his platform as editor of the Drammens Adresse newspaper. In 1848, he founded the Drammen Arbeiderforening, Drammen Workers’ Association, which quickly grew to around 300 local affiliates and 30,000 members around Norway.
Thrane advocated for universal voting rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and measures to close Norway’s 19th century wealth gap. The 1848 February Revolution in France was an inspiration for him, but for the authorities in Norway, it was a source of worry. They kept a close watch on Thrane and his labor movement. In 1851, they arrested him based on rumors that he’d been fomenting revolution during a labor conference. The charges did not hold up to scrutiny. Records show that judges knew Thrane was innocent of any crime, Still, they sentenced him to prison, and in all he spent eight years there.
Thrane immigrated to the United States in 1863, where he renewed his work as an editor and archivist. He started the short-lived newspaper Norske-Amerikaner (1865-1866) and a philosophical and religious monthly called Dagslyset (1866-1878), both in Chicago. Thrane clashed with the Norwegian Lutherans, which led to a war of printed words. The church published “Advarsel til Alle Kristne,” A Warning to All Christians, in 1866, condemning the socialist ideas in Thrane’s Norske-Amerikaner. His response was slow coming (1881), a sharp satire of the Wisconsin Synod Lutherans that he titled Den Gamle Wisconsin Bibelen, The Old Wisconsin Bible.
His son Arthur had followed him to America and became a physician at Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1868. Arthur D.H. Thrane and his wife, Amalie Struck, move to Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Together they had eight children, several of whom became professional musicians. Their children include: Victor, Ella, Irma, Dr. Marcus M., Robert, Lucile, and Arthur David Thrane.
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Houkom family papers, 1805-1938
Biography/History:
Ole Bjørnsen (1783-1856) was born in Laurdal's parish in upper Telemark, where his father was a farmer. In 1802, he was elected church singer and school teacher in Kviteseid. He was educated in Kristiansand under Bishop Hansen, and in 1812 served as conciliation commissioner. Bjørnsen served as a representative of Bratsberg county in the Storting in 1815-16 (Member of 1st: church committee), 1836, 1837, 1839, 0g 1842. He was close friends with the priest Jens Zetlitz, who dedicated the 2nd edition of his Songs for a Norwegian Peasantry “because he [Bjørnsen] was the most respectable farmer he knew." Bjørnsen belonged to the so-called Zetlitz circle together with Jens Zetlitz and Ole Blom.
Bjørnsen is said to have been among the peasants who fought for the interests of farmers. In September 1815, he put forward a proposal to complete the abolition of the nobility. This was completed through the Nobility Act in 1821. He was also a supporter of abolishing the Conventical poster in 1841, including repealing the Jewish section. Henrik Wergeland, a Norwegian writer, wrote that Bjørnsen was “a priest in his Enlightenment and in his way of thinking. When his voice has been heard, it has always been for a cause which has glorified his humanity.”
Ole Bjørnsen was married three times: Tone Tollefsdatter Hemmestveit (-1807), Engelev Aslaksdatter Kirkebø (-1822), and Tarjer Aslaksdatter Kirkebø (1800-1875). With his third wife, Tarjer, they had a son Sveinung O. Haukom (now spelled Houkom) married Mari Handsdatter Saltevje in 1849. Sveinung and Mari had eight children, including: Olaf (1850-1920), Targer/Thora (1856-1925), Aslak (1864-1938).
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Bernson family history, circa 1910-1926
Christian (Magnussen) and Sophie Jellum Bernson immigrated to the United States in 1902 and settled in Hillman, Michigan. Correspondence of Sophie and Christian to their family in Norway is included, alongside translations and a brief family history. -
Goodhue County Lærerforening records, 1885
Minutes of a meeting of the Goodhue County Teachers' Association held November 30, to discuss co-operation among the Norwegian Synod congregations and the influence of the home, school, and the Bible in child training.
Content:
Goodhue Co., Lærerforening: Minutes of meeting. In Norwegian. -
Sjur Jørgensen Haaeim article, circa 1928
A manuscript titled "Oplysninger om forholdene i Nordamerika især forsaavidt de derhen udvandrede Norskes skjæbne angaar," by a disillusioned Norwegian pathfinder who admonished his countrymen not to emigrate to America. Translated and edited by Gunnar J. Malmin, it was published in "Studies and Records," volume 3, 1928.
Content:
Sjur Jørgensen Haaeim Pamphlet: Typewritten copy, "Inf. On …Am." Note: see Lars N. Nesseim papers (P0560) for letters of April 22, 1839 (to Bishop Neumann, later printed in the March 5, 1840 "Bergens-Stiftstidende," and in transl. In T.C. Blegen's "Land of their Choice" (1955) pp. 48-51).