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Hans and Danielle Nesse: Their Lives as Missionaries in China (2014). Chapters include: Early Years in China, 1909-1918; War Reaches Sinyang, 1926-1927; Evacuation and Furlough, 1927-1928; Return to China and the War Years, 1936-1945; Revolution, 1947-1949; Evacuation to Hankow, 1949-1951; and Leaving China, 1951.
Autobiography by Rev. Martinus C. Waller (1866-1936), "The Farmer Boy Who Became a Preacher" (3 pg typescript, ca. 1930s). Emigrated from Biri, Norway in 1868 and settled near Trempealeau, Wisc.
The Edited Journals of Julius Oscar Walstad (1869-1950). Sub-chapters include: boyhood memories of Decorah, Iowa (Native Americans/Indians, falling through ice resulting in pneumonia and treated with cod-liver oil); Nebraska (In 1878 the family moved to dugout near Bladen and later Riverton. Mentions fleas, dances, alcohol, sod schoolhouse, snake indugout); Riverton (moved to a house in 1881. Mentions: working in afurniture store, sexual relations: "Then while he [the owner] went home for breakfast and took a good long time at it and to chin his wife as they had lately been married, I had to stay and take care of the store", Mrs. Oney);Farmer's Creek (moved to in 1884. Mentions: drunkenness of father, homestead mortgage troubles, teaching Sunday school, preaching, tent meetings); Hastings (1900. Mentions trouble with uncles and alcohol/kegs of beer); Beginning of Preaching Ministry, Evangelist (1902-1924. Scandinavian Gospel Mission Work, married Hilma Latt in 1912).
"The Clearing: Roots and Branches of the Rodning Family in Norway and America. With Autobiographical Sketch by Syver S. Rodning [an 1894 emigrant from Hallingdal, Norway]." Family settled in Minnewauken, North Dakota. Topics covered: Augsburg Seminary, Minneapolis, homesteading near Epping, North Dakota, Christmas on the farm, 1930s Dust Bowl, and church home life and automobiles.
Includes manuscript "From these roots: History of the Gunder and Hanna Berg family." Written and compiled by Alice Mae Arians, edited and produced by Janice Sneesby Aaron.