Traveling with his mother, Serine Vinje Odegaard, the two toured Norway from May to August, 1920. After returning to his home in Bottineau, North Dakota, Edward, a World War I army veteran, took his own life in December. The family lore is that he…
The diary begins when Bergendahl leaves New York Harbor as a cabin boy on the S.S. Capto. He observes his 16th birthday en route to the Far East. Later in life, Bergendahl went on to a successful ship chandler business in lower Manhattan.
Elise Rudi came from Norway and the Nedre Rudi Farm. Themes in the family history include: Lars Rasmussen Ostnes, Norway to America
Lars Ostnes in the Aleutians, Bering Sea and Juneau
Lars Ostnes on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad to the…
Family History (2014) by Elmer I. Lindseth (b.1925). Includes short chapters regarding parents (Ingvald Bjornhardt Lindseth and Oline Olesdatter Mo) and experiences in the fishing industry (Alaska), the Navy during World War II, and the Bethlehem…
Blagen, Emma L. (1895-1983) Collection. Blagen lived most of her life in aDecorah, Iowa. She was employed by John Longstreet Photograph Studio and the Decorah Meritol Co. The collection includes diaries kept between 1934 and 1978; family letters and…
Includes: History from 1700-1953 by Clarence S. Kalstrom; Endre Einerson Tjon documents (1864); funeral program for Mrs. Sonova L. Kallstrom, 1959 (Montevideo, MN); The Einerson Clan in America by Beulah Folkedahl (1953).