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Nels A. Lee papers, 1862-1898
Papers of a Norwegian-born farmer in Dane County, Wisconsin: three letters. A Civil War letter, Nov. 25, 1862, by Berge O. Lee, Deerfield; a letter of April 13, 1898 asking about Lee, who reportedly moved to Minnesota after the war; and a letter from J.O. Magneson (Locust Lane, P.O. Winneshiek Co., Iowa, Nov. 25, 1863. A clipping ("Capital Times," Sept. 7, 1930, relative to the history of the Gilderhus family.
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Nels A. Lee Papers: Letters and Clipping. -
Lauris Larson papers, 1885-1951
Daily weather records (1885-1897) at Perley, Minnesota, and a biography of Larson.- Correspondence and biography, 1950-1951
- Weather reports, 1885-1897
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Hans and Ingebret Larson family papers, 1824-1889
Correspondence and personal papers of two Ashippun, Wisconsin, families, including those of father-in-law Ole Tollefson, born 1794, emigrated 1862 of Racine, Wisconsin.
Includes 1860 mortgage to Hans and Mary Larson, and Ingebret (Englebert) and Anne Mary Larson. The second couple was born Gjerpen/Skien 1825 and 1833, emigrated 1855. Includes letters from family in Norway, and an incomplete letter of Nov. 26, 1859 from Kenyon, MN, which mentions arrival of B.J. Muus. -
Clifford Larson biography, undated
A biography of Peder Borderud (1818-1890), the author's grandfather, who settled with his family at Kindred, North Dakota, in 1871. Topics treated are the trek from St. Ansgar, Iowa, to the Red River Valley, purchase of land, beginnings of the new settlement and its institutions, and relations with the Indians. Borderud was born in 1819 in Grue, Solor, Hedmark. He died in 1890.
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Clifford Larson Article. (n.d.) -
Christian Larson biography, 1917
An autobiography of a Norwegian-born (Lindaas, Hordaland) Iowa farmer who was the father of Laurence M. Larson, professor of history at the University of Illinois, the author of "The Log Book of a Young Immigrant," published by NAHA in 1939. Larson emigrated in 1870, settling in Winnebago Co., Iowa.
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Christian Larson Article: Autobiography. Manuscript. -
C.W. Larson address, 1927
Manuscript of an address delivered by the Iowa-born (St. Ansgar) chief of the Bureau of Dairy Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture before the American Institute of Cooperation in Chicago, dealing with cost and improvements in methods of milk production, and the role of the cooperative. Larson was professor of agriculture at Pennsylvania State College and Columbia University and in 1927 was named director of the National Dairy Council.
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C.W. Larson Article: Milk Production & Cooperatives. Clippings. -
Magnus Larsen letters, 1887-1899
Copies of 21 letters by a Norwegian-born draftsman and designer who rose from shoveling coal to designer for Tiffany. Larsen is critical of the inequalities in American society and gives detailed accounts of unpleasant experiences in metropolitan New York.
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Magnus, Larsen Letters. Letters in Norwegian. -
Gustav Adolph Larsen correspondence, 1881-1931
Letters of call (1881-1886) to a Lutheran clergyman and related correspondence.
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Gustav A. Larson Correspondence: Letters of Call. -
Gunhild Andrine Jacobsdatter Larsen reminiscences, 1923, 1925
Recollections of a Norwegian-born Lutheran minister's wife: her 1844 passage across the Atlantic, life in Muskego in the 1840s and 1850s and her wedding, November 3, 1856. There are comments on "Nordlyset," the presidential election of 1856, Soren Bache, Claus L. Clausen, J. W. C. Dietrichson, Elling Eielsen, Even Heg, John J. Landsverk, and H. A. Stub.
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Gunhild A. Larsen (Mrs. Tobias) Manuscript: Recollection from Muskego. Note: baptized in Laurvig, Norway. -
Erling Larsen articles, 1955-1956
Articles appearing in "Sparks," the official publication of the Minnesota State Automobile Association, by a professor of English at Carleton College. The articles deal largely with Minnesota, its lakes, rivers, birds, history, mines, Indians, and museums.
Includes "Where the Cannon [River] Flows"; "The Way to Big Sandy"; "This Pigeon [River] is Not Dead"; "The Broad, Smooth Rainy [River]"; "Taconite"; "The Mississippi and the Lake of Tears"; "Shadow of the Sioux"; "Inherit the Sea [story of Chris Grastvedt]"; and "God's Country and the Ships."