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Alexander Wiley clippings, 1923-1991
Wiley (originally Vilaplassen) was born in Chippewa Falls to parents who had emigrated from their home near Kongsberg, Norway. Wiley served twenty-four years in the United States Senate (1938-1962). He was a prominent member of and at times the chair of the Judiciary and Foreign Relations committees. Wiley attended Augsburg College for two years, completing his education at the Universities of Wisconsin and Michigan. He was a banker, lawyer, and an operator of a dairy farm, and served as a Kiwanis governor. The clippings include obituaries about Wiley and his family, an excerpt from a interview in the Columbia University Oral History Project, and information about his papers. -
Alf A. Swenson family histories, 1883-1991
Includes 1. Alf Swenson Remembers: A Letter To My Grandchildren (recollections of childhood, 1915-1938) (1991), 31 pp. 2. My Father's Brother in Norway (Petter Bjørnerud, half-brother of Swenson's father, John O. Swenson) (c.1991), 50 pp. 3. A 100 Year Anniversary Celebration in Land, Norway: 1989 Landing's Lag Stevne at Dokka & Hov, Norway (c.1989), 46 pp. (In addition to an account of the stevne and the talks Swenson gave as president of the lag, there are writings on Traditions and Values; Bjørn Bakke-Christian Schulstad-Alf Swenson relationship; Husmann, which describes the life led by persons under husmann contracts in Norway; Farm Purchase Agreements in Norwegian communities in the U.S.; Wilder, Minnesota and Breck College; photocopies of articles about Norway the author found of interest.) 4. Unusual Ancestors: Stories from the lives of Pernille Hansdatter, Hans Tollefsrud, Hovel Tollefsrud, John Wien, by Swenson and Dr. Dianne Koehnecke (1992), 101 pp. Includes letters written back to Norway by Hans J. Lystne (1883-1908). -
Alf Houkom bibliography, 1955
A selective compilation of "Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish Authors Translated into English," prepared by the Head Librarian at St. Olaf College, 1933-1955. Also, "He Was a Builder of St. Olaf," by Kenneth O. Bjork, in St. Olaf Magazine, 1955. -
Alf L. and Ceclia S.H. Ostad family history, undated
Alf Larsen Ostad and Cecila Simonsdtr Hovland geneolgy, articles, and documents.
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Alf Lunder Knudsen dissertation, 1989
"The Norwegian Male Chorus Movement in America: A Study," a University of Washington Ph.D. dissertation which includes a bibliography and appendixes that list Norwegian singers associations, American-Scandinavian male choruses, and Sangerfest cities, directors, and officers. Includes a biographical questionnaire (1984) and a photograph of Knudsen. -
Alfred Andresen papers, circa 1893
Advertisements from the firm Alfred Andresen, the Western Importer, Minneapolis, established in 1893, regarding such items as "Sunhets Saltet" and other medications, spinning wheels, and "kromkagejern."
Contents:- Advertisements and imported articles, undated
- One sheet (one-side) advertises and illustrates various "Norwegian wares." A double-sided sheet has endorsements "from leading European men" of medication, and also one from H.P. Leachman "of the firm J. Leachman & Son" of Minneapolis, Feb. 12, 1897. A very large sheet issued by Heymann Bloch & Co. of Copehagen, is devoted to endorsements of the medication, but does not mention Andresen. The address of Andresen's firm is given as 1310 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis.; Added (Aug. 24, 2009) photocopied article from magazine The Spinning Wheel Sleuth (July 2006, no. 53): Alfred Andresen, Spinning-Wheel Entrepreneur, by Michael B. Taylor. Added December 7, 2016: Laurann Gilbertson, Chief Curator, Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, "Cast Iron,Flax Straw, and Celluloid: Business Ventures of an Immigrant Entrepreneur" (presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, Minnesota, September 15, 2016. 8 pgs.)
- Advertisements and imported articles, undated
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Alfred B. Johnson letter, circa 1860
Letter by M. H. Messer, Onarga, Illinois, to Johnson regarding the Beaver Creek settlement in Iroquois County, Illinois. Johnson, an early settler in Chicago, was a lumber dealer and during the 1860s a member of the city board of supervisors.
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Alfred C. Jesness collection, circa 1886-circa 1922
Afred Jesness was born in Sawn Lake Township, Stevens County, Minnesota on 1883 February 2. His parents, Ole and Berte Larson, immigrated from Hedemarken, Norway in 1872 and moved to Stevens County in 1875. They homesteaded adjacent to Ole's half brother. The two families shared a sod house that theybuilt on the property line between the two homesteads. Each family lived in the half of the house that was on their claim. The women shared a cast iron cooking stove located in the middle of the house. Ole built a frame house for his family while his brother continued to live in the sod house for several years.
In 1893 Ole changed his name to Ole Larson Jesness, taking the nae of the farm where is family lived in Norway. According to family lore, there were too many Ole Larsons and the mail got mixed up. The family lived in Stevens County until 1900 when Ole sold the farm and moved to Polk County near Fosston, Minnesota. The new owner was a widower with three daugthers. Alfred was interested in the oldest daughter of the new owner. He returned to Stevens County in 1901 to work on his older brothers farm When his brother, Ludvig, was killed in an accident in 1904, Alfred helped Ludvig's widow with the farm for another year and a half. during this time, he courted Clara, the daughter of the new owner of the farm where he grew up.
On 1907 July 3, Alfred Jesness and Clara Carlson married at teh farm where he had lived for 17 years. They moved to a farm near Fosston where Alfred's parents lived. Their oldest daughter, Lillian, was born there in 1909. Clara was not happy living in a house that was said to be haunted. Clara's father remarried shortly after he moved to Stevens County. In 1908, Clara's step mother died in childbirth. The next year, Alfred, Clara, and their baby moved back to Stevens County to live with her father, two sisters, and half sister.
Alfred worked on his father-in-laws farm for four years, and in 1913 bought the farm from him. He ended up wowning the farm where his father homestead. Five more children were born here: Phillip (1914), Dorothy (1917), Elmer (1921), and Ruth (1926). Alfred was the amateur photographer who took these family photographs. -
Alfred Knutsen papers, 1860-1938
Correspondence with T.C. Blegen & -
Alice Bredeson Zweifel family history, 1998-2014
Family Histories and Genealogies compiled by Alice Bredeson Zweifel: (1) Supplement 1998 to Bredesen-Bredeson-Straete (1998). Box also contains hard copies of (2)1996 book (another in St. Olaf Library/Special Collections), and (3) "Gunderson / Husebøe Genealogy from Leikanger, Sogn and Fjordane, Norway: From Earliest Records to 2014" (2014).