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Doris Orton Greear letters, 1865-2012
The Letters of Doris Orton Greear Reminiscences of pioneer days, Orton family history of Clay County, South Dakota. -
Jordahl letters, 1890-1950
Jordahl letters: Original letters transcribed by Ruth Jordahl Anderson Collection of letters that tells the story of two sisters, Ida and Martha Wangen, who married two brothers, Jens and Sivert Jordahl. -
Martin and Mathilda Teigen papers, 1909-1999
Collection of imges, correspondence, newsletters, and documents relating to Martin and Mathilda Teigen and their children. Also includes "Historical Highlights of Bottineau County." Mathilda Wollan Teigan (1878-1957), born in Pope County, Minnesota was the sisth child of Andrias and Iverine Wollan who migrated to the US in 1860 and 1867. She grew up in Pope County, studies music in Minneapolis and then movd to Bottineau County, North Dakota where she homesteaded, taught music, and played the church organ. She married Martin Teigen in 1905. Martin Olsen Teigen (1872-1953) was born in Blue Earth County, Minnesota. His paretns, Ole Larson Teigen and Birtta Brekke Teigen, migrated to in 1868. He grew up in Jackson County, attended Luther Academy in Decorah, Iowa, the University of Minnesota, and Luther Seminary in St. Paul. Ordained a Lutheran pastor in 1900, he served several North Dakota congregations until 1913, when he retired from the Minnestry and became a farmer. -
I Couldn't Milk Another Goat: Goodbye Norway - Hello Minnesota
The story of Carrie Kirkeeide Thorson (1878-1974) leaving Norway in 1903 to move to Minnesota. Written by Paul Stephen Arneson. "Why did a young Norwegian lady take this trip knowing she would likely never see her family again? Why Minnesota? What was Minneapolis like in the early 1900s? How did she and her husband and children fare during the Great Depression? What were the hardships they suffered during World War II? How did she keep her sanity outliving four of her five children?" -
National Ski Association of America, 1892-2002
Miscellaneous materials about the Association (founded in 1904) and about Norwegian-American participation in the introduction and promotion of the "ski sport" in America generally. -
Ornes postcard collection, circa 1910
Various postcards sent around 1910. -
Emil Foster and Mabel Shaw family letters, 1933-1948
Letters from the Peder Emil Foster and Mabel Shaw family. The people in the collection of letters include: Harold Johannessen Skaug/Schau/Shaw, born in Norway. Francine Matilde Lange, wife of Harold Shaw, born in Mandal, Vestfold, Norway. Mabel Knot, adopted daughter of Harold and Francine. Her father and mother were Joseph Knott and Theresia Hartmann, Germans living in the eastern Czech Republic, known as Sudeten Germans. The parents were not mentioned in the letters. Peder Emil Fostvedt-Foster, husband of Mabel, born on december 2, 1884 in Sande, Vestfold, Norway. The name Foster was used in the United States. Peder Emil and Mabel's children: Harriet Shaw Fostvedt-Foster, born in Jersey City, News Jersy on November 6, 1918 (Married Herman Lee Parrish from Bethany, Oklahoma) Evelyn Beatrice Fostvedt-Foster, born in Jersey City, on March 19, 1920 (married Robert Wilson Mason from Tennessee) Frances Ann Fostvedt-Fostre, born in Miami, on July 25, 1932 (Married James Walton Debnam from Maryland) -
Midwest China Oral History and Archives Collection, 1983
Oral history summaries: A guide to the collection published by the Midwest China Center, St. Paul, Minnesota. Collection includes abstracts by former St. Olaf faculty who were children of Lutheran missionaries to China. -
Lorie Topinka collection, 2020
"Once and Forever: The Long Journey home from Alaska to Norway 1927" by Lorie Topinka, 2020. My grandmother, Agnes Johnson Steberg, kept a daily diary during a five-month family trip in 1927 from Ketchikan along the Pacific Coast through the Panama Canal on to New York and across the Atlantic Ocean to Norway and then returning to Ketchikan overland by way of Minnesota.I was fortunate to find her diary in a box of family memorabilia and then fascinated to read this carefully written daily record of a highpoint of family history-the only return trip to Norway that my Norwegian grandfather, Knut Lauritz Steberg, ever made after immigrating to America in 1905 at the age of 18. This is a simple story about a middle-class Norwegian-American family before the Great Depression and the Second World War that captures the customs of that era and the character of this family. -
Holden and Sorlie family history, 2020
Includes a publication by Jim Holden titled "Norwegian genes: A merger of the Holden and Sorlie families." Sorlie family records includes postcards and genealoy notes. Holden family records includes pamphlets, photograph, and clippings.