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"Søren Jaabæk—Man for His Time," a paper presented to the Ygdrasil Literary Society, Madison, Wisconsin, by Judge Roang of the Rock County Court. Roang's grandmother was a cousin of Søren Jaabæk. The collection includes biographical data about Sverre Roang. The clippings concern Jaabæk and descendents, including a translation of a poem Jaabæk wrote upon the death of a grandson in the early 1870s in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. The file includes information about Jaabæk's son Peter (1841-1916), who emigrated in 1865. See also article on Jaabæk in "Nordmands Forbundet," September, 1932.
Articles on emigration from Trondheim which appeared in Arbeider-Avisa, June 2-23, 1956.; Contents: "Sophie's mislykte ferd i 1850 med trondere paa gullgraving; Blad om de tronderske utvandreres forste reis; Amerikaferberen faar form av en epidmie, Selbu og Meraaker blandt de bydene som ble tappet for mest arbeidskraft; Svenskene var et saerlig ettertraktet vilt for emigrantbetjentene i byen.
Also spelled Svanjord. Zion Lutheran Church, Balaton, MN; Knut T. Swanjord; Aleckson family; Lindsey family; original photographs: Mary Aleckson Lindsey; Brunkeberg Church, Telemark, Norway; K.T. Swenjord (1894, in buggy); Ole Aleckson/Aslakson and family (1894, farmhouse) and 1890 formal portrait; Zion Lutheran Church, Balaton, Minnesota (interior and exterior, 1951); Turi Aleckson (formal portrait, 1890); K.K. Swanjord (formal portrait, 1890); Frank Lindsey and family (formal portrait, 1913); George Mumby and family (formal portrait, 1945); Jim E. Larson and family (formal portrait, 1944); Edgar Hurd and family (formal portraits, 1942, 1951); Mark F. Lindsey and family (formal portrait, 1951); Seth B. Lindsey and family (formal portrait, 1951); Paul R. Lindsey (formal portrait, 1940); John William Mumby and family (snapshot taken outside of home, winter 1949); Roy Loyal Larson and family (formal portrait, 1946); Orrin H. Gleason and family (snapshot taken outside of home, 1951); Harald A. Larson & Eleanor Johanson wedding photo (Sept. 21, 1949); Floyd and Joyce Larson (snapshot with baby Loretta Ann, 1950); Torjus Swanjord and family (formal portrait, 1890); Knute Swanjord and family (formal portrait, 1936); Norman Swanjord and family (formal portrait, 1951); Knute Swanjord home (1952); Adolph T. Solberg and family (formal portrait, 1950); and Ole Swanjord (formal portrait, 1911).