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Title

Letter from Marie Beck to Ole and Jennie Rølvaag, 1930 February 25

Identifier

p0584_09113

p0584_09114

Date

1930 February 25

Creator

Beck, Marie

Description

Harald Beck was born November 22, 1882 in Nesna (Nordland County) to Jacob Johannes Bech Christoffersen (1856-1922) and Line Mathilde Zahl (1860-1938). He immigrated to the United States in 1894 November and died in 1926.

Marie Beck was born Maria Henriette Berg on October 19, 1881 in Nesna (Nordland County) to Gunder Berg (1841-1925) and Kaia Olea Benjaminsdatter (1850-1937). Gundar (Gunnar) was the older brother to Ole Rølvaag's father, Peder Benjamin Jacobsen. She immigrated to the United States in 1916 and later died in 1926. Harald and Marie Beck were married on September 14, 1916 in Nordland and had two children: Fritjof Beck and Edith Marie Beck.

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.

Marie Beck's letter to Jennie and Ole Rølvaag.

Type

Text

Format

Letters (correspondence)

Rights

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Bibliographic Citation

[Indicate the cited item here]. O.E. Rølvaag Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.

Is Part Of

P0584

O.E. Rølvaag Papers (P0584: Harald and Marie Beck Correspondence)

O.E. Rølvaag Papers (P0584)