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Ole Tokerud family history, undated
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Ole Tuskind biography, 1976
Bio-sketch of Ole and Karen Tuskind, who emigrated from Solør in 1871 and settled in Dakota Territory in 1872.
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Oley Nelson papers, 1893-1943
Papers of a Civil War veteran: pamphlets, speeches, clippings, photographs (including one with F.D. Roosevelt), sketches of Nelson's life, and GAR mementos. Included is a pamphlet titled "The Controversy as to the Responsibility of the Augsburg Board of Trustees to the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America from 1890 to 1893," by Oley Nelson and Ole O. Onstad. "Brief History, 1st Norwegian Settlement, Story and Polk Counties in Iowa, 1855" was compiled by Nelson in 1905, and translated by him in 1930. "A Short History of the First Norwegian Settlement in Story and Polk Counties, Iowa" by Nelson was translated by Jacob Hodnefield. The clippings (1914-1938) are articles about Nelson and a few are by him. Nelson, a Slater, Iowa, farmer, merchant, and legislator, was Commander-in-Chief of the GAR in 1935. -
Olga Graff papers, 1876-1955
Copies of poems, letters, and clippings of a Norwegian-American journalist. Much of her work appeared in "Urd," a Norwegian women's magazine. The papers contain articles by her husband, Harald Graff, a medical doctor in Eau Claire, Wisconsin; drawings by her daughter, Gerda, an artist in Oslo; and items about her son Einar, who lived in Chicago
Includes:- Einar Graff, 1909-1917
- Harald Graff, 1876-1893
- Includes: "Tuberculosis of the Lymphatic Glands of the Neck and its Surgical Treatment," paper by H. Graff (read at the 43rd annual meeting of the Wisconsin State Medical Society, June 6, 1889); "A New Method of closing the canal in radical operation for inguinal hernia," by H. Graff (1894); "Antiseptic surgical precautions of special importance to the general practitioner," by H. Graff (1888); "What Today should be the standard treatment of Hernia, Truss or operation?" by H. Graff (1893); "Senn's Intestinal Anastomosis in operations for strangulated hernia," by H. Graff (1893); "Penetrating wounds in the Knee Joint," by H. Graff (1888)
- Gerda Graff, 1903-1955
- Includes: drawings by Gerda, an artist in Oslo; and items about her son Einar, who lived in Chicago. Includes clipping "I was Hitch-hiking to London," by Gerda Graff (1944)
- Olga Graff, 1888-1938
- Includes: obit (1938); article "Norge i Amerika og Amerika i Norge. Nordmandsforbundet og red. Hambro. Og ellers litt av hvert. ("Urd"); poem by Markus Thrane, "Finn Graff" (dated Aug. 28, 1887. On the occasion of Fin's birth. Thrane was in Chicago at that time); "To Olga Graff from Ethelyn Bryant Chapman. Christmas poem, 1925"; poem "View from the 'L'" [Chicago transit]; "Compensatioin" poem (1933); "Norsk Kunst i Amerika
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Olga Wagbo local history, 1982
"Reconstructed History of Early Immigrants from Norway to East Jordan," a 47-page account of some 30 families who settled in Charlevoix County, Michigan, during the years 1880-1929. -
Oline Ernstsen reminiscences, 1939-1956
Eleven pages of handwritten recollections by a Norwegian-born pioneer housewife at Bear River, Minnesota, of her passage to America and of early pioneer days. Deals largely with religious life, transportation, and communication. Also, a 5-page handwritten historical sketch of the origin (1906) of the Ladies Aid at Bear River, Minnesota, Lutheran congregation, and a photo of a yoke of oxen at work.
According to the congregational directory, D. Ernstsen was a trustee of the Bear River Lutheran Church in 1908 when it was founded. Oline Mathisen and Daniel Ernstsen were married at Harstad May 27, 1902 one day after leaving their home in Troms; went to Trondheim for a ship to Hull. -
Olive Fremstad phonograph records, 1900-1906
Recordings of operatic arias made by a soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York, who was born in Stockholm, Sweden, of Norwegian and Swedish parentage. The family lived in Norway, and in the early 1880s emigrated to Minnesota. Fremstad taught music in Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, and New York where she also studied. IN 1892 she went to Germany to study and made her debut in the Cologne Opera House in 1898. She was a leading soprano for the Metropolitan Opera House from 1903-1918, where she sang all the principal Wagnerian roles as well as many in French and Italian. -
Oliver Justin Lee clippings, 1947-1978
Reports about a Norwegian American who was Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. -
Oliver Olsen diary, 1870-1872
Copy of a journal kept by a 19-year-old Norwegian resident of Rock Island, Illinois. Because there was little work to be had, Olsen spent his time reading law and studying German. Occasionally he worked as a carpenter, but finally he became a clerk in a law office. An 1876 Rock Island Directory lists him as a lawyer in the city. In 1890 he described himself as "...an ordinary country lawyer...a bachelor of forty, without family, fame or fortune."
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Olof Meyer Jorgenson papers, 1903-1980
Miscellaneous papers of a 1903 emigrant from Fiskenes on the island of And. He became a member of the Baptist Church in Norway. After study at the Danish-Norwegian Baptist Seminary in Chicago, he was ordained in 1911 and served parishes of the Danish-Norwegian Conference in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Washington. The file includes a biography by Mrs. Jorgenson; a sizable collection of letters by Jorgenson to his family in Norway and his family's letters to him; a seminary thesis; obituaries and other funeral notes; sermons and sermon outlines; and church related documents such as minutes, congregational papers, anniversary programs, church histories, and tributes. Portions of Jorgenson's letters, particularly those to a brother Hans at And, provide frank commentary about American economic, political, social, and moral life. He experienced two World Wars, the depression of the 1930s, droughts, dust storms, prohibition and its later repeal, and Roosevelt's New Deal.