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  Sons of Norway and Daughters of Norway papers, 1898-2021

  History/Biography:

  Sons of Norway/Sønner av Norge was founded by 18 members on January 16, 1895, in Minneapolis, Minnesota to promote and preserve the heritage and culture of Norway and to provide life insurance to its members. Membership was originally open to males of Norwegian descent between the ages of 20 and 50 who were capable of giving proof of being morally upright, in good health, and capable of supporting a family. A second lodge was established in South Minneapolis in 1899 and a third was founded in the northeastern section of the city in 1900. The Minneapolis model quickly spread. By the end of 1900, lodges had been established in cities and towns with substantial Norwegian-American populations across the United States. 

  The organization published a monthly magazine, Sønner av Norge (Sons of Norway), which kept members updated on activities of the group. 

  In December 1938, the Sons of Norway absorbed the American auxiliary of The Knights of the White Cross Order (Riddere av Det Hvite Kors) which had been founded in Chicago in 1863. Women were admitted to local groups as early as 1916, in areas where the female auxiliary was unorganized. Daughters of Norway lodges in the Midwest were merged with the Sons of Norway in 1950 and a system of junior lodges was created in 1956. The Grand Lodge of the Daughters of Norway, which dates to 1908, continues as a separate association.

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  Daughters of Norway of the Pacific Coast papers, 1912-2013

  Biography/History: 

  The Grand Lodge of the Daughters of Norway of the Pacific Coast was founded on February 20, 1908, by three independent lodges in Washington. This included: Valkyrien Lodge #1 (Seattle, founded in 1905), Embla Lodge #2 (Tacoma, founded in 1907), and Frey Lodge #3 (Spokane, founded in 1907-1023). During the 1930 convention, membership was open to women married to men of Norwegian ancestry. At this convention, a proposal was passed to allow installation ceremonies in English if the candidate did not understand Norwegian. By 1936, the first issue of Døtra av Norge was published in Norwegian, and by 1956 it was published in English. Today, the Grand Lodge is still active, hosting conventions and publishing issues of Døtre av Norge. 

  Scope and Content: 
  Contains meeting minutes, pamphlets, photographs, scrapbooks, histories, and newsletters of the Daugthers of Norway of the Pacific Coast.

• Handbok for de forenede stater (Manual of the United States), 1930, 1932

  Manual for the United States: For the Information of Immigrants and Foreigners. In English and Norwegian.
• "Remembering a Life," 2010

  "Remembering a Life" by Clifford Davidson, 2010. Davidson's childhood spent in Rice County, Minnesota. Touches upon Eklund Lutheran Church, midsummer celebrations, school pranks, cross-country skiing, farming, bullying, mental illness and dysfunctional family life.
  
  Clifford Davidson is Professor Emeritus of English and Medieval Studies in the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University. He is the author of From Creation to Doom: The York Cycle of Mystery Plays (1984), Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580 (1991), Deliver Us from Evil: Symbolic Engagement in Early Drama (2004), Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain (2007), and others. He is the editor of The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, (with Pamela King) The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, and (with Peter Happé) The Worlde and the Chylde, and is presently preparing a TEAMS edition of the York Corpus Christi plays. He has published numerous articles in major American and international scholarly journals, and for many years was an editor of Comparative Drama. As director of the Early Drama, Art, and Music project in the Medieval Institute and his involvement with the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, he was an active medievalist with broad interdisciplinary interests in the field. He also served as dramatic director for a number of medieval liturgical dramas.
  
  In 1985, he was named Distinguished Faculty Scholar by his university. Born in Minnesota, Davidson spent his childhood during the Depression and World War II on a farm, and is an army veteran. After receiving his advanced degrees he pursued a vigorous career of teaching, research, and editing. In addition to his extensive work as an editor, he is the author of numerous scholarly books as well as more than a hundred articles published in the U.S. and abroad over the past forty years.
  Formerly part of P539.
• 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.
• Oral History

  Joyce Dennison interview, 1996 May 25

  "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."
• Ole Johnson family history, 2009

  48 unnumbered pages of research by Mary Ellen Deprey. Black & white and color photocopies of images. Textual family history, plus many geographic illustrations of Loga farm in Flekkefjord: the family homeland. Ole was born in 1854 and married Nikoline (Niklina) Nilsdtr (born in 1856 at Søndre fjeldgate 104 in Flekkefjord)in 1879. They emigrated from Kristiansand in March of 1880 and settled in Wisconsin. The collection includes a list of nine patents of Ole's inventions for various apparatuses he invented, plus two pedigree charts, one beginning with Ole Johannessen born 5 Jun 1854, the other chart beginning with Nikoline. Niklina Nilsdtr 1 born 25 Sep 1856. Each chart goes back six generations.
• Juul Dieserud papers, 1893-1923

  Papers and articles by and about a Norwegian-born librarian who served as Chief of the Division of Cataloging in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Includes newspaper clippings and a 12-page Dieserud letter to C. G. O. Hansen, July 3, 1926. For other articles by Dieserud see Symra, volume 1 (1905).
• Johannes Wilhelm Christian Dietrichson papers, circa 1843-2012

  Typescript copies of ten letters by a Norwegian-Lutheran clergyman published in Norwegian newspapers, describing his journey in 1844 to Wisconsin, his trips as itinerant minister to various Norwegian settlements, establishment of the Koshkonong congregations, doctrinal differences, plans for a seminary, and relations with the Mormons. There are references to Søren Bache, Claus L. Clausen, Elling Eielsen, Laurits J. Fribert, Hans Gasmann, Cleng Peerson, J. D. Reymert, John G. Smith, and Gustaf Unonius. After founding many congregations in Wisconsin, Dietrichson returned to Norway in 1850. He was opposed to emigration. In 1973 NAHA published E. Clifford Nelson's "Pioneer Churchman: J. W. C. in Wisconsin, 1844-1850." It includes a translation of Dietrichson's "Reise blandt de norske emigranter…" (1846) and of his "parish journal" for Koshkonong, 1844-1850. A copy of "Reise" is in the NAHA book collection; copies of an 1896 reprint are included here. Also included are photographs and articles on Deitrichson by Berge Øverland (1942) and Einar Haugen (1946).
  
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  • J.W.C. Dietrichson letters, undated
  • Typed transcriptions of letters with index, undated
  • Photographs, undated
    • Includes cabinet card, published by W.A. Fermann, Stoughton, Wisc.
  • Publications, undated
  • Clippings and articles, undated
  • Dietrichson Slekten Jubileumfest, 1924, 1949, 1974; 
  • Book "Stamtavler over Familien Breder og de med den Beglaegtede Familier Preus og Arctander med alle disse familiers sidelinier" (Norway, 1876)
  • Genealogy/family history,undated
    • See folio cabinet for framed pedigree chart
  • Correspondence, 1848-1911
  • Correspondence  with Edwin R. Dietrichson,  World War I, 1918)
  • Miscellaneous family letters, 1897-1944
  • Correspondence of Rasmus and Margit Fione family, Nissedal, Norway, 1934-1938
  • Correspondence Petter and Anne Flatland, 1930-1938
  • two photographs of Elving H.D. Dietrichson
  • Newspaper clipping regarding Rachel Dietrichson
  • "A Brief Biography and a Tribute, Isak Levin Preus Dietrichson," by Otto Dietrichson
  • Obituary clippings regarding Levina Dietrichson, 1935
  • Newspaper columns "This 'N That" authored by Susie W. Stageberg, 1958
  • Correspondence from Hans and Olav Nordbö, Telemark, Norway, 1931-1939
    • Includes several photographs.
  • 300+ photographs

  
  
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• Paul Adolf Dietrichson family papers, 1900-1961

  Dietrichson was born at Stavanger, emigrated 1873, graduated from Concordia Seminary 1878. He served churches in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Massachusetts and New York before retiring in 1900 to Menomonie, Wis. Son Gerhard taught at M.I.T. and was president of the Boston Community church. Daughter Mary was a librarian in Boston and Minneapolis. Daughter Dagny was president of the Minneapolis Teachers Federation, wrote an article about a visit to Telemark, and a long letter (5 p.) about her 1934 visit to Hancock, Minn., where her father had a been pastor 1889-96, with information about many people the family knew there.
  
  Miscellaneous materials about his nine children: In memoriam leaflets, graduation invitations, marriage announcements, clippings, letters. Includes a pedigree chart for Mrs. Dietrichson (Ragnhild Jakosen, 1855-1934). Her obituary is in the Rowberg File. Photograph of military service induction for Paul Adolf Dietrichson; 5 photograhs of Paul and his family.