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Norwegian Emigrant Museum, 1952-2006
Catalogs, pamphlets, newsletters, and photos concerning the museum established at Hamar, Norway, in 1952 as part of Norske Folkemuseum. In 1973 it became part of Hedemarksmuseet og Domkirkeodden. Also, Vestnorsk Utvandringssenter, Sletta/Radøy) and clippings on other Norwegian museums: Folkemuseum (Bygdøy), Maihaugen.
Includes notes on two settlers' houses (cabins) rebuilt on museum grounds, Borderudstua from Kindred, North Dakota, and Gundersenstua from Vining, Minnesota (photos included). Oak Ridge Church (Houston, Minnesota) moved to grounds in 1997. For information on cabins see O.I. Hertsgaard papers. Newsletters. -
Lauritz Hagerup Nissen scrapbooks, 1888-1914
Poems and other pieces by a Norwegian-born clergyman who emigrated from Oslo in 1889. After completing studies at a German Lutheran seminary in Chicago, he served Norwegian synod congregations in Chicago and on the West Coast. In 1909 he served a Unitarian parish in Underwood, Minnesota. At the time of his death, however, he had answered a call from a Norwegian Lutheran church in Superior, Wisconsin. Data on some poems indicates that they were published in "Tacoma Tidende" and in "Duluth Skandinav." The later poems are signed: Hagerup-Nissen. A page from his wife's Bible gives some family history. -
Fredrikke Nielsen clippings, 1904-1912
Data concerning an evangelist of the Methodist Church, who before her conversion had been a leading actress for 25 years in the theaters of Bergen and Trondheim. As an evangelist she traveled widely in the United States, visiting some 300 cities and receiving a great deal of acclaim as a powerful preacher. Includes article by Rolf Moster (3 pages, 1912) with portrait -
Knut K. Neste papers, 1877-1911
Letters and documents of an emigrant from Vestre Slidre, Valders, who came to Dane County, Wisconsin, in the early 1850s and later settled in Madison Township, Winneshiek County, Iowa.
Includes insurance policy (1907-12) from the Norwegian Mutual Protective Association of Winneshiek County, Iowa; and card from the Middle River Land Co. (Minnesota) of which a relative, T.P. Hamre, was an officer; plat of the town site of Middle River; obituary of Knut K. Neste; and family correspondence. -
Roald Kverndal pamphlets, 1977-1978
An issue of Methodist History containing an article " The Bethel Ship: John Wesley,'" and an offprint of "The Origin and Nature of Nordic Missions to Seamen," by a minister at the Lutheran Memorial Church in Chicago, who also served as a seamen's chaplain. The offprint "originally appeared in the Norwegian Yearbook of Maritime History for 1977," published by the Maritime Museum of Bergen. Pp. 103-133. Also included is another version of the Bethel Ship article, typescript, 18 p. See in library collection, his 1986 book, "Seamen's Missions: their Origins and Early Growth" (Pasadena, W. Carey). -
A. Jorgensen report, 1865
Reproduced copy of "The Emigration from Europe During the Present Century" published in Quebec in 1865. The causes and effects of emigration are based on Norwegian statistics and reports and on a French history of emigration. Transferred to library for cataloging, 2001. See Blegen's "Norwegian Migration to America: The American Transition (NAHA, 1940), p. 360n, 379-380. -
Mark Bastoni article, 1980
"Horror on Smutty Nose," by Mark Bostoni, in Yankee, March, 1980, gives the account of two sensational murders on Smuttynose Island (Isles of Shoals), Maine, 1873, committed by Louis Wagner, a fisherman. The victims were two sisters-in-law of John Hontvet, an 1868 immigrant from Norway, who had befriended Wagner. Hontvedt's wife was in the house at the time of the murders, but managed to escape. See also, "Ole Bull and the Isles of Shoals" by Einar Haugen, in Haugen papers, P0545, box 7. -
M. Falk Gjertsen papers, 1880-1986
Two notebooks containing outlines of sermons by a Norwegian-born Minneapolis minister, poet, and author. He was editor of "Lutheraneren" (1882-1884) and of "Vor Tid" (1904-1907). He is the author of "Harald Heg", a novel depicting pioneer life. Included are 22 newspaper clippings about Gjertsen and his family; a program on the unveiling of the Gjertsen monument, September 12, 1915; an address by Gjertsen entitled "Social Settlements," given before the Norwegian Society of Minneapolis on November 16, 1908; and photographs of Gjertsen's father and a brother. "The Testing of M. Falk Gjertsen by Nina Draxten" was published by NAHA in 1982.
Includes:- Two notebooks containing outlines of sermons by a Norwegian-born Minneapolis minister, poet, and author. He was editor of "Lutheraneren" (1882-1884) and of "Vor Tid" (1904-1907). He is the author of "Harald Heg", a novel depicting pioneer life. Included are 22 newspaper clippings about Gjertsen and his family; a program on the unveiling of the Gjertsen monument, September 12, 1915; an address by Gjertsen entitled "Social Settlements," given before the Norwegian Society of Minneapolis on November 16, 1908; and photographs of Gjertsen's father and a brother. "The Testing of M. Falk Gjertsen by Nina Draxten" was published by NAHA in 1982. Added: Includes newspaper clippings about Gjertsen and his family (1880-1938); photos of Gjertsen and his father, Johan Peter Gjertsen; a poem, "Nordens sønner"; An address before the Norwegian Society of Minneapolis, November 16, 1908" 17 p.; "Ta1e ved afsløring af Gjertsen monumentet, Lakewood Cemetery, 9/12/15" by Thorwa1d E. Nelson, 5 p., and "Unvei1ing of the M. Fa1k Gjertsen Monument" 4 p.; "MindefesteR over ska1den Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1910" 30 p., with "Mindetale" by Gjertsen, pp.17-30; entries about Carsten Hansteen (1856-1923) from "Norsk Biografisk Leksikon," "Studenterne fra 1874" (1899) and "Studentene fra 1874" (1924); correspondence, including "anonymous 1etter,". Hansteen's letter to Georg Sverdrup, Dec. 17, 1900; letter to Esther Paulsen, 1910; letter to Amund Ness, 1912; letter to Adolph Moss (photocopies or transcriptions); letters to Nina Draxten, 1977-86. "Harald Heg" (1914). 2 volumes: "Utkast til Prædikenes, Minneapolis, 1882." 241 p., and 1 volume of sermon notes by Sundays of the church year; artic1e by Eyvind J. Evans on "Harald Hegg" (Nov. 16, 1967); and 2 folders of Draxton notes, arranged by envelopes with notations of sources.
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Ole Thostenson notebook, 1879-1880
Biographical notes about a Wisconsin resident, telling of his father Tosten Olson's problems in selling his farm, and of his enlistment in military service (Civil War). He served in the 15th Wisconsin Regiment from 1861 to 1865, attaining the rank of sergeant. For a biographical sketch see Buslett's Femtende Wisconsin, pages 577-578. His father was a Slooper; lived in Michigan, Fox River settlement, and in 1840 to Albion township, Dane Co., Wis. -
Thorvald Anderson letters, 1883-1927
Letters from family and friends to an emigrant from Stavanger who came to Menekaunee, Wisconsin, in 1884. He moved to Iron River, Michigan, in 1899 and from there to Chicago. His last address was Prosser, Washington. He was engaged in various enterprises, including lumbering and mining. A summarized account of the letters was prepared as well as an outline of Anderson's family history.