Ransom County (N.D.)]]> North Dakota]]> Torbenson, Mary S.]]> Tollefsrude, Christian H.]]> Tolley, Clarence H.]]> Nelson, Peter H.]]> North Dakota]]> Enger, Fingar, 1846-1913]]> Tolley, Clarence H.]]> Swendseid, Clarence]]> Minnesota]]> North Dakota]]> Christopherson, Charles A.]]> Swendseid, Clarence]]> Norwegian Lutheran Church of America]]> North Dakota]]> Milton (N.D.)]]> Cavalier County (N.D.)]]> Myrvik, Ole A.]]> Hammerstad, John Olson, 1842-1925]]> Myrvik, Ole A.]]> North Dakota]]> Cass County (N.D.)]]> North Dakota]]> Traill County (N.D.)]]> "Besta: A Story of North Dakota Pioneering," by Cyrene Bakke Dear, 2 copies. Topics covered: child's toy kettle (p1), Civil War and fighting against slavery (p2), bootmaker (p2), growing hops (p2), barn dances (p2), wagon train (p3-4), making of klub (p6), "mother as a midwife" (p6-7), grasshopper plague (p7), life at Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, N.D. (p8), General Custer (p9), capture of Rain-in-the-Face (p11), Sitting Bull (p11), Goose River Settlement (p14), pregnancy (p15), death of infant to TB (p15), Rev. Bjug Harstad (p15), build hotel in Mayville, N.D. (p16), railroad magnate James Hill (p16), church practices (p19), threshing (p21), ailing husband and cure at Hot Springs, Arkansas (p22), Christmas 1892 (p24), Julebukk (p24), becoming an auctioneer (p26), alcoholism (p26), postpartum depression and near suicide/infanticide (p28), Rev. Rorvik (p30), raising peacocks (p33), awful storm with hail (p33), living in Hillsboro (p34), theaer in the barn (p36), circus comning to town (p36), first telephone (p37), mourning Pres. McKinley (p37), typhoid treatment--starving patient/liquid diet. Taboo of bananas (p37), killed by a train (p37), water tower collapse (p38), speaking English with a Norwegian accent (p41), first automobile (p47)]]> Bakke, Karen Erikson]]> Genealogy]]> North Dakota]]> Location:
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Norman, Minerva H.]]> Lee, Alvin Thorvald Martinus, 1905-]]> 11577 Auldbury Way
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Berg, Robert (1958-)

Robert “Bob” Berg was born in 1958 in Cando, North Dakota to Bjarne and Hazel Berg. He was educated at North Dakota State University and graduated in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics, after which he became a farmer. He married Mary Beth in 1984 and has four children. Today, he lives near Starkweather, North Dakota.

Berg, Mary Beth (1957-)

Mery Beth Berg, nee Campbell, was born in 1957 in Rugby, North Dakota, to David and Opal Campbell. She earned a bachelor’s degree in church music from St. Olaf College in 1979 and, later, an MBA. Mary Beth married Robert in 1984 and has four children. Today, she lives near Starkweather, North Dakota, where she farms, teaches music, and plays the organ.

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Lembke, W.C.]]> Lembke, Isabel]]> Lembke, Pernilla]]> Lembke, Lucille]]> Styve, Ole O.]]> Civil War]]> North Dakota]]> Minnesota]]>
  • Photocopies of photographs of Isabel Styve and W.C. Lembke and family from the collections of Isabel and W.C. Lembke, Pernilla Lembke, and Lucille Brandt Lembke
  • Recollections of "house car" built by W.C Lembke in 1923 for family camping trip
  • Civil War letters (translated) from Ole O. Styve
    • Enlisted under the name Ole Oleson (Olson), Co. K, 5th Wisconsin Infantry, May 13, 1861-July 11, 1865. According to family lore, Ole met Abraham Lincoln during a hospitalization after being wounded.
  • Family pedigree charts and recollections
    • Topics include: Grain buying in 1903, weather and blizzards in North Dakota, logging camp near Kelliher, Minnesota, baseball career from 1904-06, courtship, rattle snake scare, tornado/cyclone of 1919, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, dog named Rusty.
  • Transcript interview of Bernadine Lembke and Pernilla Lembke
    • Topics include: Model School, run in with barbed wire and a crochet hook, tornado in Fergus Falls, little girls clothes, cold bedrooms and crowded beds, dog fights and struck by lightening, dating and boyfriends
  • Letters from Pernilla Lembke to her parents, 1951-1968
  • Holiday traditions: Stories and Recipes from the W.C. and Isabel Lembke Family, 2010
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