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"The Clearing: Roots and Branches of the Rodning Family in Norway and America. With Autobiographical Sketch by Syver S. Rodning [an 1894 emigrant from Hallingdal, Norway]." Family settled in Minnewauken, North Dakota. Topics covered: Augsburg Seminary, Minneapolis, homesteading near Epping, North Dakota, Christmas on the farm, 1930s Dust Bowl, and church home life and automobiles.
The Edited Journals of Julius Oscar Walstad (1869-1950). Sub-chapters include: boyhood memories of Decorah, Iowa (Native Americans/Indians, falling through ice resulting in pneumonia and treated with cod-liver oil); Nebraska (In 1878 the family moved to dugout near Bladen and later Riverton. Mentions fleas, dances, alcohol, sod schoolhouse, snake indugout); Riverton (moved to a house in 1881. Mentions: working in afurniture store, sexual relations: "Then while he [the owner] went home for breakfast and took a good long time at it and to chin his wife as they had lately been married, I had to stay and take care of the store", Mrs. Oney);Farmer's Creek (moved to in 1884. Mentions: drunkenness of father, homestead mortgage troubles, teaching Sunday school, preaching, tent meetings); Hastings (1900. Mentions trouble with uncles and alcohol/kegs of beer); Beginning of Preaching Ministry, Evangelist (1902-1924. Scandinavian Gospel Mission Work, married Hilma Latt in 1912).
Autobiography by Rev. Martinus C. Waller (1866-1936), "The Farmer Boy Who Became a Preacher" (3 pg typescript, ca. 1930s). Emigrated from Biri, Norway in 1868 and settled near Trempealeau, Wisc.
Hans and Danielle Nesse: Their Lives as Missionaries in China (2014). Chapters include: Early Years in China, 1909-1918; War Reaches Sinyang, 1926-1927; Evacuation and Furlough, 1927-1928; Return to China and the War Years, 1936-1945; Revolution, 1947-1949; Evacuation to Hankow, 1949-1951; and Leaving China, 1951.
"Thelma Olson Peterson" [reflections regarding her mother]. Thelma was born in Highlandville, Winneshiek County, Iowa. Owned and operated Vanberia, a Scandinavian gift shop in Decorah, Iowa
"Jonas Gatland--the U.S. immigrant who returned to Norway" (2014).Gatland emigrated from Osterøy, Norway in 1903 and eventually settled in Cloquet, Minnesota. Family escaped the great fire of 1918 and lost everything. Soon thereafter his wife died due to the influenza outbreak. Gatland and his six children returned permanently to Norway in 1920.
Margaret (Ostlie) Corrigan: A Collection of History Stories Reflections (2014). Descended from Hans Johannesen Stensby Jahren and Karen Marthea Nielsdtr Jahren. Ostlie-Tollefson story started with immigrants from Ullensaker, Norway and Vinje, Norway. Includes recollections of farm life and school near Farmington, Minnesota (skiing to school, thawing lunches, snakes in school,playhouse, and watch chain made from human hair) and cadet nurse corps, 1945.
Kirt C. Johnson,"Following the Footsteps of Lars and Anne Thune" (2014). Family history of Lars Gunderson Thune (1826-1917) and Anne Johannesdatter Moen(1839-1933)