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Nels Amundsen Skogstad letters, 1875-1880
English translations of letters written from Goodhue county, Minnesota, to his parents in Voss. Skogstad attended a Voss teacher training school and taught briefly at Vossestrand. Emigrated summer 1875 and worked on farms and taught, attending St. Olaf's School in Northfield fall of 1877.
In the 1880 census of Leon township he is living with Ivar D. Hustvedt, teacher and klokker of Urland Church. He married 1881 and moved to Codington county, S.D. where he took a homestead. Letters of Nov. 18, 1875; Feb 6 and Aug. 6, 1876; April 10, 1877; March 7 and Sept. 26, 1878; Jan. 7, 1880. Skogstad tells of farming methods, the success of many who had emigrated from Voss; he advises his parents not to emigrate to Goodhue co. Since land was very expensive.
The letters were found on the Haga farm in Voss in 1985 and translated by Albert Haga. Contributed by Clarice Aakre (Rt. 1 Box 98, Conrad, Mt. 59425) July 1996. also included are photocopies of photographs of Nels, wife and two children; and a son Amund as an adult. -
Nels and Ingeborg Myhre family history, 1970
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Formerly part of P539. -
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. -
Nels Bryngelsen family history, 1996
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Nels N. Hersdal letter, 1848
Letter written in English by Nelsone (mostly known as Nelson Nelson Hersdal) of Norway, La Salle County, Illinois, to Joseph Mann, Orleans County, New York, describing his farming operations and the Mormon and Jansonist activities in the community. Nelsone was a Slooper. -
Nels Quam autobiography, 1978
Autobiography of a Norwegian-born retired school superintendent, for a time superintendent of Ebenezer Home in Minneapolis (1946-1962). Includes descriptions of his childhood and youth in Norway, his emigration to the United States in 1913, his school days at Jewell Lutheran College and St. Olaf College, his experiences in both World Wars, and his work in the Iowa schools and at the Ebenezer Home. He retired to Northfield, Minnesota, in 1962. -
Nels Schjei family history, 1995
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Nels Tobias Dahl (Oksendahl) autobiography, 1925-1939
An account covering ancestry and childhood in Vest-Agder, Norway, emigration to Wisconsin in 1867, and subsequent events in the life of a farmer and business man who lived in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Appended notes are dated March 30, 1939. The reminiscences were recorded by Valborg Dahl, a daughter. -
Nelson Johnson (Kaasa) papers, 1900-1962
Correspondence and articles about a Norwegian-born farmer and Methodist clergyman. The papers include a family history and information on pioneer agriculture and church. Johnson was born in Heddal (Telemark), and emigrated 1839 to Muskego. Later, he settled in Winneshiek County, Iowa (Springfield township), in 1850, and for one year was the minister in Cambridge, Wisconsin (1856-1857), in the Willerup Methodist Church, reputed to be the first Norwegian Methodist church in America. He preached in the Norwegian Methodist Episcopal church 25 years; became a deacon in 1856, and was ordained at Appleton, Wis., 1856. Although health made him retire to his farm, he continued to preach during vacations of ministers.
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Nelson, Johnson (Kaasa) Papers: Correspondence and articles. -
Nelson Olsen Nelson correspondence and articles, 1891-1991
According to Jon Wefald (A voice of protest, NAHA, 1971, p. 14), Nelson "was one of the most interesting Norwegian figures in the world of American industry." Born in Aust-Agder fylke, he immigrated with his family first to Texas, then to St. Joseph (Buchanan co.) Missouri. (Naeseth, 1847:487) He grew up on his father's farm, and a 165 enlisted in the Union army, advancing to second lieutenant in the regular army by the end of the war. After working in St. Louis for a year, he returned to St. Joseph. From 1870 to 1872 he lived in Hiawatha, Kansas, but then returned to St. Louis and 1877 founded the N.O. Nelson Manufacturing Co., which became on e of American's largest building and supply corporations. "He set up a cooperative industry controlled by employees and consumers, and 1886 introduced a profit-sharing plan." He established a "model industrial village" in Leclaire, Illinois. "In 1915 Nelson turned over 50 grocery stores, 3 meat markets, a condiment factory, a large dairy plant, and a truck farm to his employees." He spent his last years in Los Angeles, disillusioned because his innovations did not inspire worker to rise above material things. See article on Nelson in Dictionary of American Biography, v. 13 (1934).
Includes:
- Several communications by Nelson, to teachers, to associates; reprint of article from The Exponent on the Leclaire idea; articles from newspapers, 1922-1935; article "Leclaire, Illinois: a model industrial village" by Carl S. Lossau (Gateway Heritage; quarterly magazine of the Missouri Historical Society, Spring1988, pp. 20-31); article "Nelson Oliver Nelson: His vision of utopia" by June Grayson (Sons of Norway Viking, Jan. 1991, pp. 6-9); obituary (2 p. typescript) issued by the N.O. Nelson Mfg. Co.; Letters written 1891-1921 to "My dear cousin" (Grethe Christensen).
- Added November 2010: Books “Images of America: Leclaire [Edwardsville, Illinois]” by Cindy Reinhardt (Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2010); and A History of the Cooperative Village of Leclaire [Edwardsville, Illinois]” prepared by the, Bob Blain, Editor (Leclaire Centennial Committee, Edwardsville, Illinois, 1997).