Letter from Peder John Pedersen to Ella Rølvaag, 1937 January 1
- Title
- Letter from Peder John Pedersen to Ella Rølvaag, 1937 January 1
- Identifier
- p0584_08959
- p0584_08960
- Date
- 1937 January 1
- Creator
- Pedersen, Peder Johan, 1878-1954
- Description
- Funding to digitize the O.E. Rølvaag Papers was provided to the Norwegian American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.
- During WWII she taught Norwegian to soldiers in the Army Specialized Training Program at the University of Minnesota. There she met her future husband, Torliff Tweet, and they were married after he returned from the war. They settled in Roseau, Minnesota, where she and her husband ran the local Ben Franklin Store. She supported many Norwegian related institutions such as Sons of Norway, Vesterheim museum and the Norwegian American Historical Association. She is the daughter of Ole E. Rølvaag and Jennie Berdahl Rølvaag.
- Peder Pedersen's letter to Ella Rølvaag.
- Ella Valborg Rølvaag Tweet (1910 December 8-2003 July 12) graduated from St. Olaf College in 1932 and then studied at the University of Oslo. She subsequently earned an MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She taught Norwegian and other subjects at Luther College, St. Olaf College and the University of Minnesota.
- Type
- Text
- Format
- Letters (correspondence)
- Contributor
- Rolvaag, Ella
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
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- The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
- Bibliographic Citation
- [Indicate the cited item here]. O.E. Rølvaag Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.
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Citation
Pedersen, Peder Johan, 1878-1954, “Letter from Peder John Pedersen to Ella Rølvaag, 1937 January 1,” Digital Collections, accessed October 18, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/items/show/8120.