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Christian Wallentin Finwall biography, 1987
A biographical sketch and family history written by Sofie Reid about Finwall, a Baptist minister, who came to Chicago from Bergen in 1883. He was graduated from the Baptist Seminary in Morgan Park in 1887. After serving various parishes in the Midwest and in Seattle, he returned to Chicago and built the Logan Square Baptist Church, where he was the first minister. His final years were spent in California. -
Knute I. Finney (Fenne) papers, 1880
A clipping and testimonials from noted violinists concerning a Norwegian violinist and teacher. Finney emigrated from Voss, Norway, in 1896 and studied at the American Conservatory of Music and at the Chicago Musical College before he established his own studios in Chicago. He invented and patented a "Finger Guide System" designed to educate students in playing the violin. -
Carl Ben Eielson clippings, 1926-1988
Data about a Norwegian-American born in Hatton, North Dakota, who rose to fame as aviator and Arctic explorer. In 1924 he piloted the first mail plane in Alaska in 1928 he served as pilot for the Hubert Wilkins Arctic Expedition from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen (now Svalbard), a distance of 2,200 miles, and also for the Wilkins Antarctic expedition. Both Eielson and Wilkins died in 1929 on a mercy mission in the Bering Straits, trying to rescue an icebound ship. This mission is the subject of Robert J. Gleason's book, Icebound in the Siberian Arctic. A mountain in Alaska and the Air Force Base at Fairbanks are named after Eielson. His boyhood home is a museum.
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Dorothy G. Page, "Polar Pilot: The Carl Ben Eielson Story" (1992) and "'Ben': The Life Story of Col. Carl Ben Eielson" (1930). -
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). -
Harry T. Cleven translation, 1995
The Fifteenth Wisconsin, an English version of Kristofer Janson's Femtende Wisconsin, a novel published in Copenhagen in 1887. Cleven served as minister of the American Lutheran Church in Oslo for many years. -
Paul Benson history, 1995
"The Empire of Song : A Panoramic History of America's Choral Kingdom," a survey of the development of choral music at the Scandinavian-American colleges in the United States, by a graduate of St. Olaf College, 1967. -
Autographs collection, undated
A proclamation signed by Christian IX (1863-1906), and separate signatures of Ole Bull and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. -
Elizabeth Fedde papers, 1883-2000
40 typescript pages. "Memoirs of Sister Elizabeth," translated by P. J. Hertsgaard, is an account of a Norwegian-born deaconess who began her career at the Deaconess Home in Christiania (now Oslo) in 1873, and who came to New York in 1883, where she organized a deaconess program in connection with the Seaman's Mission Church in Brooklyn. Eventually she established deaconess hospitals in Brooklyn and in Minneapolis. This account covers briefly her career in Norway and only her two first years in the United States.
The file includes a photocopy of a 13-page typescript titled "The Long Journey of Deaconess Nursing in America" by an unknown author, and two articles in Norwegian, 61 and 23 pages, which discuss Deaconess work and its history in Norway. An account of Fedde's career by Beulah Folkedahl is in "Studies and Records," volume 20, 1959. Includes: Diary, 1958-1959 Original translation with B. Folkedahl's introduction as published in "Studies" volume 20 "Memories of Sister Elizabeth" by P.J. Hertsgaard translation, 1933 Clippings, correspondence, and deaconess history, 1883-2000 Sister Elizabeth Fedde's notes, undated Translation of autobiography by B. Folkedahl, 1958-1959 -
Royal Norwegian Navy War Veterans Association newsletters, 1972-1983
The Sea Breeze, a publication of the U.S. Branch of the S.S.H. Veteranforening, a social organization of citizens of Canada and the United States who were active in the Norwegian Navy during World War II. -
Oliver Olsen diary, 1870-1872
Copy of a journal kept by a 19-year-old Norwegian resident of Rock Island, Illinois. Because there was little work to be had, Olsen spent his time reading law and studying German. Occasionally he worked as a carpenter, but finally he became a clerk in a law office. An 1876 Rock Island Directory lists him as a lawyer in the city. In 1890 he described himself as "...an ordinary country lawyer...a bachelor of forty, without family, fame or fortune."
The papers also include genealogical information (p. 74 - 76) and the constitution for a literary society of which he was a member.