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  Kristofer Janson papers, 1876-1964

  Biography/History: 
  Kristofer Nagel Janson (May 4, 1841 – November 17, 1917) was a Norwegian poet, author and Unitarian clergyman. Born in Bergen Norway, Janson is commonly recognized as the founder of the Norwegian Unitarian Church. After being ordained in Chicago, Janson moved to Minneapolis (1881-1893) to serve as a minister. He organized several Unitarian congregations, including one in Hanska, Minnesota, and wrote several novels about his countrymen. Janson returned to Norway in 1893 and introduced Unitarianism to Norway, whereafter the Norwegian Unitarian Church (Norwegian: Unitarforbundet Bét Dávid) was established in 1895.

  Scope and Content: 
  Papers of a Norwegian author and Unitarian clergyman: clippings, correspondence, photos, bibliographies, and pamphlets.

  
  
  Digital Collections on Flickr:
  Kristofer N. Janson and family, 1880
  
  Location:1/B/2-1/B/3, 68B5
• Joseph Langland papers, 1863-1964

  A biography and critique of a second-generation Norwegian-American poet and professor of English at the University of Massachusetts. Langland spent his early life in northeastern Iowa and has written two volumes of poems, "The Green Town" (1956) and "The Wheel of Summer" (1963). "Norwegian Rivers" is a poem written for the sesquicentennial of the Norwegian migration, 1975. The file includes information about Langland.
  
  Content:
  Joseph Langland Papers: Clippings and Poem.
  
  Location:1/B/3
  
• Henry Langum articles, undated

  "Thoughts about Life" and "When Old Age Comes" (5 typescript pages) by a Lutheran clergyman and high school teacher; a 12-page autobiography of Andrew Johnson Langum, Henry's father, translated by his daughter. Born in 1831 near Drammen, Andrew emigrated in 1853 and settled eventually in Spring Valley, Minnesota.
  
  Content:
  Henry Langum Articles.
  
  Location:1/B/3
  
• 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."
  
  Location: 1/B/3
  
• 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.
  
  Content:
  Gunhild A. Larsen (Mrs. Tobias) Manuscript: Recollection from Muskego. Note: baptized in Laurvig, Norway.
• Gustav Adolph Larsen correspondence, 1881-1931

  Letters of call (1881-1886) to a Lutheran clergyman and related correspondence.
  
  Content:
  Gustav A. Larson Correspondence: Letters of Call.
• 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.
  
  Content:
  Magnus, Larsen Letters. Letters in Norwegian.
• 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.
  
  Content:
  C.W. Larson Article: Milk Production & Cooperatives. Clippings.
• 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.
  
  Content:
  Christian Larson Article: Autobiography. Manuscript.
• 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.
  
  Content:
  Clifford Larson Article. (n.d.)