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"The Skjeggerud Sisters of Hurdal, Norway. Their Ancestors and Descendants to Skjeggerud, Sibilrud, Knain, Tobiason and Davidson Families in America," compiled by Judith Mari Jorgensen edited by Leslie Tobiason.
Formerly part of P539.
Gabriel Skjerpe autograph book (transferred Gustavus Adolphus College). Handwritten entries by fellow students, circa 1905, Norway, before Skjerpe immigrated and settled in Cooperstown, North Dakota.
Formerly part of P539.
Son of Jacob and Elen Stennes who settled in Fillmore County, Minnesota in 1856. Stennes, born in 1865, provides many details of growing up in Minnesota and later relocating to West Sparta area.
Memories include school days; neighbors; prairie schooner; moving the school house; the centennial of United States (1876); grasshopper invasion; railroad; Norwegian education; threshing; heavy snows and flooding; attending Augustana in Canton, South Dakota (1885); serving as Post-master in Milan, Minnesota; threshing machine boiler inspector; notes on the speculation on township of Watson (1879). Formerly part of P539.
Emigrated in 1837 to the Fox River Settlement. "Hans Valder is believed to have been the first Norwegian in America to become a member of the Baptist Church. In 1844 he was ordained a Baptist minister, and so also became the first Norwegian Baptist preacher in America." Founder of Newburg, Fillmore County, Minnesota.
Formerly part of P539.
Includes: Bye Family Cookbook (2003); The Bye Family History: Arne and Johanne Bye (1997); The Iversen-Johnson Family: Descendants of Iver Sandberg Johannesen Kroger og Johanne Bertuelsdatter of Aag, Meloy, Norway (2008); The Lageson Fragodt Family: Descendants of Kari Gudbrandsdatter Fragodt and Lage Larson Vassjo (2007); Bye Family Newsletter (2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012) Formerly part of P539.