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Papers of Knud Saavesen Aaker (1797-1873) and his descendants: articles, correspondence, Civil War letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, albums, clippings, family histories, charts, and a diary. Includes letters from B.J. Muus, G. Hoyme, and Knute Finseth.

Papers of a Norwegian-born Texas rancher, who emigrated in 1851.Includes:Correspondence (25 July 1851-6 December 1876, n.d.) Letters, Elise and Wilhelm Waerenskjold (19 March 1865-10 November 1876) Correspondence, Relatives (26 June 1853-11 March…

Letter (April 18, 1863) from a Thunhovd, (Buskerud) Norway, resident to his "farbroder" Knudt Synstegaard, Orfordville, Wisconsin, concerning weather, health, farming, and an inquiry about the Civil War.Contents: "Missouri Flommen I 1881". Note:…

Research material and working copies for Della Catuna's translation of "Colonel Heg and His Boys" by Waldemar Ager. Her translation of the Ager book was used, together with a translation by Clarence A. Clausen, for "Colonel Heg and His Boys," which…

Papers relating to former NAHA member E. Biddle Heg. Heg is the great grandson of Hans Christian Heg, a colonel in the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. E. Biddle Heg was originally from California, but attended schools in both…

Copy of two "America Letters" from Colfax, Wisconsin, 1910-1912, family information, and an obituary notice for Sorkness, who was a Norwegian-American Civil War Veteran.

The Civil War Diary of a member of the 15th Wisconsin Regiment, Company G, born in Sigdal, Norway, covering the years 1863-1865. Enlisted as George Johnson, 28 September 1861, he immediately became a Sergeant and later a Second Lieutenant. After the…

Copy of "The Autobiography of Gulbrand O. Berge, 1827-1886." Born in Valdres, Norway, Berge emigrated in 1849 and settled near Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He served in the 37th Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War. These memoirs were published in…

"The Fifteenth Wisconsin," an English version of Kristofer Janson's "Femtende Wisconsin," a novel published in Copenhagen in 1887. Cleven served as minister of the American Lutheran Church in Oslo for many years.

Letters to Eriksen, farmer and merchant at Scandinavia, Wisconsin, from Lutheran clergymen regarding theological disputes; from friends and relatives concerning agricultural profits and losses; and from Civil War soldiers. The compilation volume…