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Papers of a professor of education at St. Olaf College: articles on educational subjects, a history of the Boraas family, correspondence, biographical data, clippings, diaries (55 volumes, 1899-1951), and a record of Boraas's public addresses. Some material concerns his work as superintendent of schools in Goodhue County, Minnesota, and with the Minnesota State Board of Education, on which he served 28 years.
An issue of "Inland" (1973, no. 1) containing an article "The Round World of Grotnes." Charles C. Grotnes, a Norwegian, founded the Grotnes Machine Works and developed metal forming techniques. The Grotnes Works became a subsidiary of Inland Steel Container Company in 1967.
Bibliographical compilations on the voyages and discoveries of the Vikings. Frohlin, an engineer, Bayonne, New Jersey, owned a large library on this subject.
Issues nos. 1, 3, and 4 of a monthly published and edited by Trondby Fenstad (Chicago), a second-generation Norwegian American. Only four or five issues of a journal claiming to be a voice of liberal opinion were published.
An issue of "The Journal of the Civil War Token Society" (Summer, 1972) containing an article by David D. Gladfelter discussing Emigranten, a influential early Norwegian-American newspaper.
Immigration papers (LaSalee Co., Ill.), citizenship papers (1853), and transcription of a letter (& transcription) written from Ottawa, Illinois, 1851 by Lars A. Wiigh to "Torres Anfindsen Wiig, Rochester P.O., Racine Co., Wis." N.B.: (see Naeseth's "Norwegian Immigrants" v. 2, p. 223 for Torres emigration on "Kong Sverre" from Bergen to New York, arriving June 24 or 29th, 1846; born Skaanevik, Hordaland.
Includes a vaccination certificate (1819); certificate (1852) from Lærdal parish for Ingeborg Ovesdatter Lysne, born 1822.
Samson Krogness (1830-1894) was a Norwegian born priest, teacher, editor and author. Krogness studied theology from 1862-1866. In 1866 he emigrated to America and was ordained the same year. Krogness was Secretary of the Norwegian Augustana Synod from 1870 to 1874, and from 1876 to 1882; was twice a member of its Board of Education and served on the Israel Mission Central Committee from 1884 to 1892.
He founded and edited "Almueskoletidende" (1861-1866). He was an able writer and translator, and at various times served as editor of "Missionsvennen," "Budbæreren," "Den Norske Lutheraner," "Ebenezer," and Luthersk Kirketidende. He also edited reports and yearbooks for the church. His 8,000 volume library and his manuscript dealing with the history of the Norwegian Lutheran church in the United States were destroyed by fire in 1879.
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Correspondence (4 volumes of copybooks), 3 volumes of ministerial records, a scrapbook, a diary, notes, and manuscripts of a Lutheran clergyman, born and educated in Norway, who emigrated to the United States in 1866.
22 typescript volumes Scripts for three series of programs given over Norwegian broadcasting under the cover title "Nybyggerne." The first two scenes involve seven episodes, the third has eight. Each episode approximates 30 pages. Three folders regarding series of Norwegian radio broadcasts on Norwegian emigrants. Episodes of trip to the Dakotas and getting settled.