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Lobben family history, 1996
Includes homestead information and obituaries.
Formerly part of P539. -
Isabel Styve and W.C. Lembke family history, 1903-2010
Organized by Joan Styve for online documents. Includes:
Photocopies of photographs of Isabel Styve and W.C. Lembke and family from the collections of Isabel and W.C. Lembke, Pernilla Lembke, and Lucille Brandt Lembke
Recollections of "house car" built by W.C Lembke in 1923 for family camping trip
Civil War letters (translated) from Ole O. Styve
Enlisted under the name Ole Oleson (Olson), Co. K, 5th Wisconsin Infantry, May 13, 1861-July 11, 1865. According to family lore, Ole met Abraham Lincoln during a hospitalization after being wounded.
Family pedigree charts and recollections
Topics include: Grain buying in 1903, weather and blizzards in North Dakota, logging camp near Kelliher, Minnesota, baseball career from 1904-06, courtship, rattle snake scare, tornado/cyclone of 1919, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, dog named Rusty.
Transcript interview of Bernadine Lembke and Pernilla Lembke
Topics include: Model School, run in with barbed wire and a crochet hook, tornado in Fergus Falls, little girls clothes, cold bedrooms and crowded beds, dog fights and struck by lightening, dating and boyfriends
Letters from Pernilla Lembke to her parents, 1951-1968
Holiday traditions: Stories and Recipes from the W.C. and Isabel Lembke Family, 2010
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Kahrs family history, 1923, 1967
Includes:
"Stamtavle over familien Kahrs" by Thora Sollied Kahrs, Bergen, 1923
"Family Kahrs," translated by Elizabeth Kahrs Pennell, 1967
Citizenship papers for Nikolas M. Nelson dated Oct. 13, 1893, Whatcom County, Washington
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Elias Olson book, circa 2004
Photocopied from donated book, Sogehefte for Askvoll kommune, circa 2004 by Elias Olson of Askvoll, Norway.
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Laura T. Jensen family letters, circa 1903
Includes a letter dated 28 August 1903 from Alfred Jensen to Therese Knudsen (fictionalized by the donor in a story titled, "A Letter from Alfred.")
Jensen, born in Horten, Norway on 1 August 1874, writes of his holiday travels on the S.S. Queen City from Lake Erie to Duluth, Minnesota. He marvels at the large ore ships and particularly Two Harbors, Minnesota and its lumberjacks.
In addition, are included two photographs:
Therese Knudsen's parents and brother, Frederik Andreas, Anne and Englebreth Martin
Bronnoysund lighthouse.
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Christian Simon Erickson collection, circa 1960
Photographs taken of a grave site in Mountain Grove, Missouri, circa 1960 with photocopied obituaries.
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Nicolai Pedersen Skavland family history, circa 1910
Photocopies of Nicolai Pedersen Skavland family photograph, circa 1910 from Bagder, Roseau County, Minnesota. Research notes are included in file.
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Aasen family history, circa 1956
The "Aasen Genealogy" is dedicated to the memory of John O. Aasen, 1872-1953.
Includes:
Family pedigree and family notes/missives transcribed
Letter from Lars O. Aasen written in Newburgh, Trail County, Dakota Territory, 1879 November 28
In this letter he writes, "I am working at Knudt Larsons for my board. I have two cows of my own. I have gotten twenty acres broke on my land, and if we get a good crop next summer I will sit fine."
Notes on Paul Thompson and Helga Aasen who left Albert Lea in a covered wagon heading to the Red River Valley
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Ellen Knudtson Howard memoir, 1969-1970
Born in Independence, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to Hellick Knudtson and Gunda Gunderson. Ellen married Wilhelm Berhart Howard and had 3 children.
Topics include:
"My Trip to Little Norway" (Blue Mounds, Wisconsin), pgs. i-iv;
immigrating in 1843 from Flesberg, Numedal Norway via Quebec (robbed of all assets), p. vi;
traveling by covered wagon, p. viii;
Christmas gifts made from wool, p. x;
Section "Dad Meets Mother", pgs. x1v-xvii:
Hellick Knudtson & Gunda Gunderson, settled in Independence, later Eleva, Wisconsin; School in Strum, Wisconsin, julebukk, p. xv;
Church activities in Strum, Rev. Carl J. Helsem pg. xvi.
Section I: "My Earliest Recollections"
Father's blacksmith shop, p. 2;
Childhood games (no toys), use of wood shavings as doll curls, pg. 3;
Wedding gift of stove, kitchen chores, lefse making, p. 10;
Spankings, p. 13;
Paper dolls, p. 15, 25;
May Day baskets, p. 15;
Picking wild flowers & hazelnuts, pgs. 16, 18;
Clothing (girl) and use of flour sacks (also for diapers), pgs. 17, 21, 33;
Dressing an infant, p. 22;
Christmas, p. 29;
Washing/laundry, p. 31;
Primary school, p. 33;
Circus, p. 36;
Funeral held in home, p. 40;
Lunches & canning berries, p. 41.
Section 2 : "Life on the Farm," Eleva, Wisconsinm 1900-1903
Corn husks & straw for bedding, p. 4, 10;
Kitchen table, p. 8;
Quilts (flour sacks for backing), tying, quilting bees, crazy quilts, rag-rugs, hooked rugs, carpet rags, straw bedding for rugs, cleaning carpets, pgs, 10-12, 36-38;
Mosquito netting, coffee, p. 14, 18;
Chickens & eggs, p. 15;
Milking cow, chasing flies, p. 16, 20;
Blueberry picking, p. 21;
Country school, water pail and dipper, slates, recess (not to speak Norwegian), parochial school (not to speak English), pgs. 23-26;
Sex, p. 28;
Hay shocks, p. 29;
Weekly newspaper, Independence News Wave, p. 31;
Assassination of Pres. McKinley, p. 32;
Modern flush toilet, bed bugs, gypsy peddler, pgs. 34-40;
Father's whiskers, p. 41;
Grain threshing and shocks, p. 42;
First orange eaten, stores and fruit, bananas (sent as stalks and cut off for patron) p. 43;
Pregnancy and appearance, p. 45.
Section 3: Post-high school
Teacher's Institute, p. 81;
Teaching in Strum, Wisconsin. (Hamlin School), p. 83;
Aaker's Business School, p. 89;
Teaching near Watertown, South Dakota (country school/Hayti), p. 102, 108;
Powdered sugar/frosting, p. 104;
Trumm family, p. 105;
Sour family, Bryant, South Dakota, p. 118;
Dances, p. 123, 152, 195;
Rev. Dexheimer, p. 124;
Teaching in Hayti, South Dakota (1913), p. 124.
Teaching in Strum, Wisconsin (1913-1915), p. 131;
Homesteading in Malta, Montana, p. 147;
Indians (Native Americans), p. 155;
Haug family, p. 154, 155;
Free-Lutheran, p. 164;
Single women homesteading/shack, clearing land, laundry, thunderstorms, p. 173-180, 293;
sidecar motorcycle, p. 190, 200;
Zortman, Montana; prairie fire/fire break, p. 202;
Buffalo chips for heating, p. 204;
Suffrage vote in Montana, 1916;
Pregnancy/labor pains/delivery/nursing/clothing, p. 216, 222, 230, 236, 237,240;
Wheat and patriotism, p. 228;
Barley flour pancakes, World War I effort, patriotic pancakes, p. 245;
Cholichy baby, p. 247;
Armistice/whistles blowing, p. 253;
Raising chickens, p. 277;
Rain water for coffee, p. 293;
Vananda, Montana, p. 300;
Wash machine/laundry, p. 308;
4th of July/fireworks, p. 310;
Lambert, Montana, p. 312;
Helena, Montana and Madame Ericke Zimmerman, p. 326;
Albert Grorud, Thompson Falls, Montana and Hotel fire, p. 332;
Polson & Dixon, Montana, p. 335-341;
Miles City, Montana, p. 342;
Rev. Stephen Dale, p. 343;
St. Olaf Choir/F.M. Christiansen in Miles City, Montana, p. 344;
Flour sacks made into sheets & pillow slips, p. 348;
Glendive, Montana. "Heard first radio music, 'Yes sir, That's my baby!" (1926), p. 354;
Ordered Easter lily, p. 355;
Door-to-door saleslady (lingerie & magazines), p. 363;
Collecting water from railroad tank cars, Vananda, Montana, p. 367;
Superior, Wisconsin, p. 368;
purchased grocery store "Howards Grocery" (1940), p. 371;
World War II and Pearl Harbor, ration stamps, p. 379-381;
two sons in military service, p. 381-401.
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Pederson Family newsletters, 2012-2014
"The Pederson Family Association. Our Family Newsletter," Fall 2012, 2013, 2014. Descendants of Ole and Inger Pederson of Biri, Norway. The 2014 issue includes: Anton Flatten, "The Life Story of Anton P. Flatten," 1948.
Formerly part of P539.