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Certificates of bounty land grants, land purchases, warranty deeds for land which was acquired in Goodhue County, Minnesota, by members of the Finseth family, 1859 - 1891, and a diploma from the Goodhue County schools, 1895, for Marcus Finseth.
Articles, clippings, poems, records, and scrapbooks of a Norwegian-born farmer and writer. The scrapbooks of clippings from Visergutten and Decorah-Posten contain biographies of pioneers in Winnebago County, Iowa, including those of Jens M. Dahl and Niels Chr. Flugum, written by Flugum. A scrapbook of clippings from Amerika (1900) contains letters concerning the Boer War and recent Norwegian literature. The Lutheran church record book contains rosters of members and cites their yearly contributions to the Winnebago, Fertile, West Prairie, North Prairie, Ellington Prairie, and Lake Mills congregations (1865-1887).
Includes:
"Den Kristne Menighets Missionsopgave" (typescript, 1931); Sermon outlines and Membership and Financial records of Winnebago Lutheran Church (1899); "Ei Utvandrarsoge Fra Sogndal" by Rasmus Sunde (1994)
Manuscripts of newspaper articles written by O. N. Flugum (undated
Clippings and Poems (1926-1939, undated)
Letters and Articles (1928-1933, undated)
Typescript copies of articles written by and about O. N. Flugum; "History and Scattered Memories from Pioneer Times in Winnebago" (1927); "Prejudice as a Hindrance to Knowledge" (undated)
Phrenograph of John Quam (1896); O. N. Flugum Library Catalogue (1908-1909); Biographies of Hans Holtan and C. N. Flugum (n.d.); Clippings from "Amerika" regarding Boer War and Recent Norwegian Literature (1900); 4 volumes of clippings of "Historier og spredte minder fra pioneertiden i Winnebago" (c. 1930); Norse-American Centennial Medal (1925).
Scrapbook, poems, speeches and correspondence of a Lutheran clergy man who had emigrated from Aal, Hallingdal, in 1871. Also includes copies of a family tree, letters to Norway, 1872 - 1878 (with transcriptions and translations) and other correspondence. Also added are copies of three letters of Gro Svendsen, a sister.
Articles and clippings of a Norwegian-born Minnesota farmer. The clippings are a series on local history that appeared in "Sacred Heart News" in 1944. "De Forenede Staters Vrste Indianerkrig" (39 pages) deals with the Sioux uprising in 1862, as does "Intervju med Guri Endressen" by Gabriel Stene. The latter appeared in revised form in "Minneapolis Tidende" (January 19, 1933). The third article, which appeared in "Skandinaven" (January 1, 1937), concerns the snowstorm of January 7, 1873. Enestvedt wrote a column for "Decorah-Posten," "Norske Pionerslegter," and was editor of the Numedalslag yearbook for many years.
Contents
Articles & Clippings
Manuscript Translations. Poetry clippings.
Added Dec. 4, 2013: Jacqueline Nasseff Hilgert, Seeds Sown Through Time: The Legacy of Johannes & Sis Enestvedt. Family and business history of Enestvedt’s Hybrid Seed Corn, Sacred Heart, Renville County, Minnesota.