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Loken family history, undated
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Loken family history, undated
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Lokensgard family papers, 1915-1994
A series of reminiscences translated and bound into one volume, "printed for the Lokensgard Kindred." Translations were made by Emil O. Ellingson and Hjalmar Lokensgard.
Authors of reminiscences include: Mrs. Sigrid L. Ellingson (sod roof, covered wagon, Indian outbreak of 1862; Prof. Knute Lokensgaard, "Christmas in Pioneer Days." Touches upon a prairie fire; Oluf Lokensgaard, "Reminiscences"; Ole Lokensgaard "Pioneer Stories." Touches upon: coming to America by boat, crossing Lake Michigan by steamboat, German Grove/Nerstrand, language barriers, sod roof, prairie fires, Lauritz Larsen, B.J. Muus, Christopher Lockrem, Ole Ericksen Sando, moving to the Dakota Territory 1861, prairie schooner, Big Woods, Abraham Jacobson, winter of 1861-62, returning to Rice County, Minn., Indian uprisings in Nichollet County, 1862, reminiscences of Nicollet County, Lake Prairie Township (school and church) in the 1860s, a visit with Ole Bull, and Christmas memories, added January 2008 3 double oversized banker boxes (look to available lower shelving near end of collection). Collected extended family correspondence, bound by year, from 1931-1991; includes: R.L. Lokensgard, H.O. Lokensgard, G.W. Lokensgard, Mrs. J.M. Hardy, Rev. O. Lokensgarad, Ellen Lokensgard, Mrs. R.G. Drewry, A.S. Lokensgard, Mrs. Hardy Rowberg, and Fritz T. Lokensgard (some correspondents were St. Olaf College students). -
Lokensgard-Lundberg-Nordgaard-Lundy family history, 1928, 1942, 1908, 1956
Includes family directories, family history, and book. -
Lomen-Brandt-Joys family history, undated
"Geneaologies of the Lomen, Brant, Joys Families" by G.J. Lomen and Documents -
Loraine Nelson interview, 1995 September 22
In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today,” Lovoll interviews Andreas Rhude. Unprocessed This item is currently restricted. -
Lorence Munson Woodside papers, 1888-1953
This extensive collection covers all aspects of Woodside's impressive career as educator, public speaker, author, translator, civic leader, and gardener. Born in Hamilton County, Iowa, the daughter of Norwegian emigrant parents, Sivert and Mesine Munson, she graduated from Highland Park Normal College at Des Moines in 1893. There were later studies at the University of Chicago and at Boston University. She was instructor in elocution at Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa, and the director of Physical Culture for the Iowa WCTU for a brief time.
From 1901 to 1927 she was employed by the Redpath Lyceum, Eastern Lyceum, and the Chautauqua system as reader and occasionally as manager. In 1909 she married Alonzo Woodside, a veteran of the Spanish-American War who also served in World War I. He later served as a superintendent in the inquiry section of the Boston Post Office. Lorence Woodside's interest led beyond a career in public speaking. She developed a cut-flower dahlia named the "Mrs. Woodhouse." Much of her energy was given to community service. She held offices in the Massachusetts Food Administration, 1918; the Advisory Council of Women at Massachusetts State College, Amherst, 1926-1953; Boston Rental Housing, 1951-1952; and many local organizations. Her trips to Norway in 1906, 1913, and 1926, the last as an Honorary Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, brought her into contact with Norwegian writers. Her major achievements in this regard were the translation of Sverre Brandt's "Sonja's search for the Christmas Star", produced by the New York Junior Players, December 1929, and the translation of Barbara Ring's "Peik", published by Little Brown in Boston, 1932. -
Lorentz Severin Skougaard letter and clippings, 1904-1930
An undated letter by Kristen Kvamme, Lutheran clergyman at Ossian, Iowa, to Ole E. Rølvaag, containing a sketch of Skougaard of New York City, concert soloist, voice teacher, and friend of Alfred Corning Clark, who published a Skougaard biography in 1885. The clippings (1910-1930) treat Skougaard, his mother, Sara, and a brother, Jens.Includes letter from Torstein Jahr to C.G. O. Hansen concerning Jens and Lorentz Severin. -
Lorie Topinka collection, 2020
"Once and Forever: The Long Journey home from Alaska to Norway 1927" by Lorie Topinka, 2020. My grandmother, Agnes Johnson Steberg, kept a daily diary during a five-month family trip in 1927 from Ketchikan along the Pacific Coast through the Panama Canal on to New York and across the Atlantic Ocean to Norway and then returning to Ketchikan overland by way of Minnesota.I was fortunate to find her diary in a box of family memorabilia and then fascinated to read this carefully written daily record of a highpoint of family history-the only return trip to Norway that my Norwegian grandfather, Knut Lauritz Steberg, ever made after immigrating to America in 1905 at the age of 18. This is a simple story about a middle-class Norwegian-American family before the Great Depression and the Second World War that captures the customs of that era and the character of this family. -
Lorna Anderson papers, 1956-2000
Clippings, letters and outlines for a slide presentation entitled "Overland over Sea," a general view of immigration which features Anderson's great-great-grandparents who came from Kviteseid, Telemark in 1851, and to Fillmore County in 1854. Includes a reprint of "Fillmore County Pioneer" for May 7, 1856. And a newsletter of the Fillmore County Historical Society, February, 1980. See in St. Olaf Library, "Overland Family History with Roots in Telemark, Norway," by Audrey Overland and Lorna Anderson. 3 v., 1986.
Includes:- reprint of "Fillmore County Pioneer" for May 7, 1856. And a newsletter of the Fillmore County Historical Society, February, 1980.
- "Anderson/Holen Family Memoirs," dedicated to Helen and Manfred Anderson….Lorna Anderson, editor." Typescript. Sequel to "A Genealogical Record Compiled by Anders Anderson Myrum descendants," 1978. Pages 1-8: Helen Holen Anderson, "Growing up in South Dakota 1902-1912," Britton, Waverly Township. Mentions: threshing, cook car, prairie fires, and angel food cake and egg noodles. "Life in Louisburg, Minn." (pages 9-13). Mentions: swallowing a pumpkin seed and lodging in her windpipe. pranks. "Rural School teaching, Louisburg, Minn. 1918-1923." (pages 14-15). "Farm Life, Depression and Drought of the 1930s" (pages 16-21) with sub-chapters of "A Farm Wife's Typical Day During Threshing," "Fires," "Mail in the Good Old Days," and Orval (Rusty) Holen's "M.O. Horses."
- Papers. "Grass Roots Grow Deep," a book to be written by Lorna Anderson. 2000 years of stories, following the Eric Overland family--Halvor Erikson--Fillmore County." 221 pages, typescript.