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Articles, citations, and an autobiography (30 typescript pages) of a Minnesota-born (Hendrum, Norman Co.) physicist, teacher, research consultant, inventor, and author Includes: "The Thermoelectric Behavior of Heusler Alloys in a Magnetic Field," By…

A 3-page typescript biography of Mrs. Knute B. Norswing (his sister) and a program for Constitution Day (1933). Hoverstad was superintendent of agricultural stations in Minnesota.Includes poster, "Constitutional Convention and Patriotic Celebration.…

History/Biography:Born in Wallace, South Dakota, 1911. Humphrey enrolled at the University of Minnesota but left after a year due to family financial problems. He earned a pharmacist's license to help out at his fathers drugstore in Huron, South…

Articles appearing in "Sparks," the official publication of the Minnesota State Automobile Association, by a professor of English at Carleton College. The articles deal largely with Minnesota, its lakes, rivers, birds, history, mines, Indians, and…

Papers of a Norwegian-born farmer in Dane County, Wisconsin: three letters. A Civil War letter, Nov. 25, 1862, by Berge O. Lee, Deerfield; a letter of April 13, 1898 asking about Lee, who reportedly moved to Minnesota after the war; and a letter from…

Biography/History: Knute Nelson was born in Vosse Elven, Norway, on February 2, 1843. In 1849 he and his widowed mother emigrated to the United States, settling first in Chicago (1849-1850), then in Dane County, Wisconsin, where he enlisted in the…

Papers of a Norwegian-born insurance man and chief promoter of the Minnesota Credit Union Law of 1925: a autobiography, his story of the Jesse James raid in Northfield, and a review of his book "Memoirs of a Pioneer" (1938). The family emigrated from…

Articles, brochures, clippings, correspondence, and reports of a Norwegian-American society organized in 1925 following the Norse American Centennial celebration in Minneapolis of that year. It has supported the Minnesota Leif Erikson Monument…

Scandinavian Immigrant Farmer Participation in Agrarian Unrest in Western Minnesota, a paper fulfilling requirements for graduation with distinction in the field of history at St. Olaf College.

Biografi av Hans Helliksen Ramberg (1817-1890) og hans familie is an anecdotal account of the family's migrations from Norway to Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, and back to Wisconsin during years 1855 to 1864.