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Karen A. Lindesmith collection, 2016
Love, Hilma: Letters Home and Family Stories from a First-Generation American and World-War II Nurse by Karen A. Lindesmith, 2016 -
Lester G. Lindley history, 1984
"To Fulfill this Mission: A History of Kendall College, 1934-1984," by a teacher at Kendall College, Evanston, Illinois, to commemorate its 50th anniversary. Originally a two-year college called Evanston Collegiate Institute, it changed its name to Kendall in 1950 and became a four-year college in 1974. Kendall received its property from the Swedish Methodist Episcopal Theological Seminary and the Norwegian-Danish Theological Seminary.
Includes "To Fulfill this Mission: A History of Kendall College, 1934-1984" by Lester G. Lindley (78 pages), correspondence, a photo of the building, tracings from the Sanford Fire Insurance Maps of 1889 and 1920, a map of Evanston in 1986 showing the building, and a newspaper clipping, "Metodistenes nye skole" (9-20-1934). -
Elmer Lindseth family history, 1945-2015
Family History (2014) by Elmer I. Lindseth (b.1925). Includes short chapters regarding parents (Ingvald Bjornhardt Lindseth and Oline Olesdatter Mo) and experiences in the fishing industry (Alaska), the Navy during World War II, and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. File 2: Correspondence to family members in Hamar, Norway (82 letters spanning 1954-1988). Collection
includes one translated letter (c. 1945) to Oline Lindseth from her brother, Ole I. Mo, describing Germany's invasion in 1940 and the subsequent occupation. -
Swanjord (Svanjord) family history, 1951
"Swanjord" by Mary Aleckson Lindsey.
Also spelled Svanjord. Zion Lutheran Church, Balaton, MN; Knut T. Swanjord; Aleckson family; Lindsey family; original photographs: Mary Aleckson Lindsey; Brunkeberg Church, Telemark, Norway; K.T. Swenjord (1894, in buggy); Ole Aleckson/Aslakson and family (1894, farmhouse) and 1890 formal portrait; Zion Lutheran Church, Balaton, Minnesota (interior and exterior, 1951); Turi Aleckson (formal portrait, 1890); K.K. Swanjord (formal portrait, 1890); Frank Lindsey and family (formal portrait, 1913); George Mumby and family (formal portrait, 1945); Jim E. Larson and family (formal portrait, 1944); Edgar Hurd and family (formal portraits, 1942, 1951); Mark F. Lindsey and family (formal portrait, 1951); Seth B. Lindsey and family (formal portrait, 1951); Paul R. Lindsey (formal portrait, 1940); John William Mumby and family (snapshot taken outside of home, winter 1949); Roy Loyal Larson and family (formal portrait, 1946); Orrin H. Gleason and family (snapshot taken outside of home, 1951); Harald A. Larson & Eleanor Johanson wedding photo (Sept. 21, 1949); Floyd and Joyce Larson (snapshot with baby Loretta Ann, 1950); Torjus Swanjord and family (formal portrait, 1890); Knute Swanjord and family (formal portrait, 1936); Norman Swanjord and family (formal portrait, 1951); Knute Swanjord home (1952); Adolph T. Solberg and family (formal portrait, 1950); and Ole Swanjord (formal portrait, 1911). -
Ove Ling papers, 1863
Copies of three Civil War letters written by a Private in Company I, 12th Wisconsin Infantry, then in Tennessee, to wife and daughter. An explanation by a great-great-grandson, J. E. Storsel, is included as are notes by Rolf Erickson, who uncovered these letters. Lind was slain at Vicksburg, Mississippi, February, 1864. According to Martin Ulvestad, Ove Lind had emigrated from Kristiania, enlisted in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
First letter written in some town in Tennessee and dated May 8, 1863 [perhaps Memphis]; second letter written in some other town in Tennessee (beginning with the letter 'C' [perhaps Colliersville], dated January 31, 1864; and third letter written in some town in Mississippi beginning with the letter 'N' [perhaps Natchez, dated November 10, 1863. -
Wendy Lipschutz student paper, 1977
A 43-page paper entitled "Norwegian Americans in La Salle County, Illinois, 1825-1926," prepared for a course in American Culture at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. The paper reveals the author's attempt to understand something about the Norwegian emigration to Illinois. She reports some general information, but most of the paper is a record of her interviews with five residents of La Salle County, two of whom were descendants of the Sloopers. Received May 1977.
Interviewed for the paper were Rachel Southcombe, Francis Ingles, (Blank) Tufte, Tom Osmundson, (Blank) Flettre -
Reverend Ingebrigt Lium student notebooks, 1860-1913
Reverend Lium student notebooks from when he attended Augsburg Seminary, 1883-1891. Margin notes by Professor Sverdrup.
Includes essays: "Ambition"; "Vacation"; "Daniel Webster"; "The Feudal System"; "Originality"; "Wealth and Whay Sought"' "Out not United States restrict or prohibit Immigration?"; "Strikes"; "Character"; and "Heroism." -
Syvert Jensen Lium notes, 1867
Translations by Sigvald Støylen of fragments found in a notebook kept by an immigrant from Orkedal, Norway, to Dunn County, Wisconsin. 2 pages typescript. A brother, John Jensen Lium, came to the United States in 1870 and settled at Christine, N.D. -
Hans Nilsen Loe papers, circa 1862
Diary and account books of a wagon-maker who came from Eidsvoll in 1862. -
Orin M. Loftus book, 1984
Pioneers in the Norwegian Settlement, a photocopied and copyrighted compilation of information about the families of immigrants who came to Albany, Wisconsin, beginning in 1849. According to the compiler the work is intended as "a layman's history of an entire settlement" which lists members of various family groups through four generations.
For more on the Lofthus family, see C. H. Tollefsrude's scrapbook on Rock County, Wisconsin, P1424, pages 636-638.