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Includes: photocopies of the Christian Woldfarm house (Eagle Lake, Minnesota), family letter from Lillestrøm, Norway telling of the hardships endured under German occupation (photocopied, posted post-WW II, Feb. 27, 1946), photograph of workers taken in front of log mill, ca. 1905 (location unknown).
Biography of Dr. Kent S. Knutson (1924-1973) by Bishop Gerhard Knutson. Former president of Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, and president of American Lutheran Church.
Fifty Years on Seven Seas: A Life On Board “The Ship”. Son of Sandefjord, Master Mariner, My Father Ivar Carlsen (2015, 60 page transcription, oral history conducted and edited by son, Carl Carlsen). Note from Carl Carlsen: “My father was born in Sandefjord in 1919 and was in the Norwegian merchant marine before and during WW2. ...in his narrative my father tells how he sought employment on American merchant marine vessels during WW2 and after [while based in the Philippines] in order to facilitate his acquiring American citizenship, which he did mid-century. Brooklyn figures into his narrative asa place to be while not at sea during the War and as a place to retain histies to Norway as a member of the War Sailors club after his retirement from decades of sailing with Gulf Oil.
Kjorstad Family History (prepared for family reunion, August 9-10, 1997). Family of John Bryn Kjorstad (1872-1942) and Rena Skinde Kjorstad (1885-1968) and nine children. They farmed near Williston, North Dakota
Collection of information on the Ole and Kristi Tillotson family. Includes "Ole T. Rong/Ole R. Tillerson, Marta H. Nyre, and Christie E. Sleen: Their ancestors in Norway and descendants in America," compiled by Ruth Hanold Crane.
Biographical information, census and immigration records for Caspar Berggren. Berggren was married in Chicago in 1873 to Christine Mortensen. He remarried in the mid-1880s to Marie Rodikong. Marie Berggren married in 1922 to Awalt Martin (1899-1968).
Includes genealogy information on Jens Bendtson Hovland and Kirsti Larsdatter Rindal, family histories and pedigrees, photocopies of records and documents.