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Son of Jacob and Elen Stennes who settled in Fillmore County, Minnesota in 1856. Stennes, born in 1865, provides many details of growing up in Minnesota and later relocating to West Sparta area.
Memories include school days; neighbors; prairie schooner; moving the school house; the centennial of United States (1876); grasshopper invasion; railroad; Norwegian education; threshing; heavy snows and flooding; attending Augustana in Canton, South Dakota (1885); serving as Post-master in Milan, Minnesota; threshing machine boiler inspector; notes on the speculation on township of Watson (1879). Formerly part of P539.
Gabriel Skjerpe autograph book (transferred Gustavus Adolphus College). Handwritten entries by fellow students, circa 1905, Norway, before Skjerpe immigrated and settled in Cooperstown, North Dakota.
Formerly part of P539.
"The Skjeggerud Sisters of Hurdal, Norway. Their Ancestors and Descendants to Skjeggerud, Sibilrud, Knain, Tobiason and Davidson Families in America," compiled by Judith Mari Jorgensen edited by Leslie Tobiason.
Formerly part of P539.