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Thosten M. Veum family history, undated
No description available.
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Thrane family papers, 1866-1960
Biography/History:
Marcus Møller Thrane (1817-1890) was the leader of the first organized labor movement in Norway. After a few years as an office worker and a teacher, Thrane began his campaign to improve conditions for Norway’s industrial workers and for the husmann, cotters, who were their rural counterparts. He used his platform as editor of the Drammens Adresse newspaper. In 1848, he founded the Drammen Arbeiderforening, Drammen Workers’ Association, which quickly grew to around 300 local affiliates and 30,000 members around Norway.
Thrane advocated for universal voting rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and measures to close Norway’s 19th century wealth gap. The 1848 February Revolution in France was an inspiration for him, but for the authorities in Norway, it was a source of worry. They kept a close watch on Thrane and his labor movement. In 1851, they arrested him based on rumors that he’d been fomenting revolution during a labor conference. The charges did not hold up to scrutiny. Records show that judges knew Thrane was innocent of any crime, Still, they sentenced him to prison, and in all he spent eight years there.
Thrane immigrated to the United States in 1863, where he renewed his work as an editor and archivist. He started the short-lived newspaper Norske-Amerikaner (1865-1866) and a philosophical and religious monthly called Dagslyset (1866-1878), both in Chicago. Thrane clashed with the Norwegian Lutherans, which led to a war of printed words. The church published “Advarsel til Alle Kristne,” A Warning to All Christians, in 1866, condemning the socialist ideas in Thrane’s Norske-Amerikaner. His response was slow coming (1881), a sharp satire of the Wisconsin Synod Lutherans that he titled Den Gamle Wisconsin Bibelen, The Old Wisconsin Bible.
His son Arthur had followed him to America and became a physician at Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1868. Arthur D.H. Thrane and his wife, Amalie Struck, move to Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Together they had eight children, several of whom became professional musicians. Their children include: Victor, Ella, Irma, Dr. Marcus M., Robert, Lucile, and Arthur David Thrane.
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Thron Jacobson family history, 2001
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Formerly part of P539. -
Thune/Tolstad ad Flom/Hanson family histories, undated
No description available.
Formerly part of P539. -
Tilda Akersmyr Tofteland biography, 1982
An interview with a Norwegian immigrant, conducted by Clarence Kilde for the "Minnesota Talking Book Calendar." Mrs. Tofteland emigrated in 1925 and became a busy farm wife and mother who found time to paint and write. She was a charter member of Agderlag and was its secretary for 24 years. Includes a biographical sketch and an obituary. -
Tilda Akersmyr Tofteland family papers, 1915-2000
Biography/History:
Tilda Akersmyr Tofteland was born November 21, 1896 in Lyngdal, Vest Ager, Norway, to Alfred Finkelsen Akersmyr and Rakel Reime Akersmyr. She attended school in Lyngdal and Framnes, and worked as a secretary until her marriage on April 4, 1925 to Reinert Tofteland. In May 1925, the couple came to Luverne, Minnesota where they farmed near Kanaranzi, Minnesota until 1958. She was a prolific writer of poems and articles, and composed many songs. She painted numerous watercolor and oil paintings. She was a charter member of the Agderlag and served as secretary for 25 years.
Scope and content:
Tofteland family papers of Luverne, Minnesota. Includes family history by Jenny Lindland, "Mine Minner" (1985); bunad histories and depictions (collected by Rose Tofteland Johnson), including paper dolls; and general clippings regarding the Vikings. Additional files contain extensive writings, mainly poetry (notebooks, manuscript and published) by Tilda Akersmyr Tofteland; newspaper articles by and about Tilda Akersmyr Tofteland; writings by Lily Tofteland Hartmann, photographs and correspondence. Audio recordings, circa 1950-1960.
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Tilla R. Dahl Deen manuscript, circa 1890
A sixteen-page mimeographed typescript entitled "Chronicles of a Minnesota Pioneer" covers the period 1870 to c.1890 in Blue Earth and Lyon Counties, Minnesota. -
Tilla Thompson Ellison interview, 1995 September 6
"In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today,” Lovoll interviews Andreas Rhude. Unprocessed This item is currently restricted." -
Tillie Thompson Salvorson Ellefson interview, 1995 September 7
In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today,” Terje Joranger interviews Tilla Ellefson. -
Tillisch family history, 1880-1918
Tillisch Family history and genealogy (1300-1900), both Danish and Norwegian history.