Andersen, Rasmus, 1836-1936]]> Clausen, Claus L., 1820-1892]]> Dietrichson, Gustav F.]]> Dietrichson, J. W. C. (Johannes Wilhelm Christian), 1815-1883]]> Dugstad Jr., Knud B.]]> Kvelstad, Ragnvald]]> Magelssen, Claus F., 1830-1904]]> Nilsen, Ole, 1844-1933]]> Omland, Gunnulf J.]]> Preus, Herman Amberg, 1825-1894]]> Strand, Svein]]> Stub, Hans A., 1822-1907]]> Swanson, Fred H.]]> Clergyman]]> Frontier and pioneer life]]> Illinois]]> Iowa]]> Jefferson Prairie (Wis.)]]> Long Prairie (Boone County, Ill.)]]> Lutheran Church]]> Nationale Afholdsforbund]]> Norway--Emigration and immigration]]> Norwegian Lutheran Church]]> Poulsbo (Wash.)]]> Rock Run Township (Ill.)]]> Washington]]> Wiota (Wis. : Town)]]> Wiota Norsk Evangelical Church]]> Wisconsin]]> St. Ansgar (Iowa)]]> Papers of and materials about the Danish-born clergyman, the second pastor ordained to serve Norwegian-Americans. Includes his emigration diary, letters, ministerial record books, photographs, clippings, and articles. Clausen served congregations in Racine and Rock counties, Wisconsin, and Boone county, Illinois before he led a colony to settle at St. Ansgar, Iowa. He founded many congregations in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota.]]> Clausen, Claus L., 1820-1892]]> Brustuen, Annie J. Olson]]> Frontier and pioneer life]]> Minnesota]]> Norway--Emigration and immigration]]> Swift County (Minn.)]]> Abstract

Reminiscences, 1960. "Pioneer Incidents as Told by My Mother," Hegbert Township, Swift County, Minnesota; and seven family letters (1885-1916) translated by Conrad Byre.

Contents
  • Article. Note: Nearly all the people mentioned in the letters are named in the family history. Wagon train; river crossing; Bruno Arnold family; Thor Brustuen; Long Lake; prairie fires; melted silver; Matt Bystad; Blizzard of 1873; grasshoppers; Peder Ness marriage; Peder Emmerson twins; Amund Paulson; poet Ole Hegstad; John Wilson; formation of Hegbert township, named for two founders, Bertness Christianson and Ole Hegstad; mortgages; Sandbro farm; picnics; speakers Albert Lang and Congressman Rev. O.J. Kvale; Sonora Brustuen, Appleton; Oliver Haugland, Milan; Margaret, Camillla and Alice Persen; Mildred Hentzen, Melba Brustuen, Alice Freeman; 4th of July 1890, Andrew Akre; confirmation; Jens and Maren Pederson.
  • Translated letter from Annie Brustuen written to sister Rönnag, 20 August 1885. Topics: Death of Ingeborg Swedsmo and Guri Raastad; Anne Nilsdatter Moen marrying Peder Foten; baby girls born to Marit Ofun and Kari Mo.
  • Translated letter from Kari Mo to her brother John Olson Feb 16, 1889. Topics: 20 years apart; death of minister Pastor Selmer, replaced with Holmbo; living children Anna (who had a birth defect of the mouth) Iver, Ole, Mari,Kari and Hanna; dead children Thor, Kari and Hans, all dying between ages one and three.
  • Translated letter from Ole Mo to John Olson, Feb 21, 1892. Topics: Thanks to John for helping children Anne and Iver get to America; Son Ole is leaving for America, asking for help in securing a position for him; shortage of feed in Våga; new railroad from Lillehammer to Sel.
  • Letter from Kari Mo to John Olson, March 22, 1903. Topics: Anne has had her defect repaired (harelip); Kari opened coffee house and took in lodgers; lots of debt, asked for help from America to alleviate suffering; sending photo of the view over Mos; asked for help with their debt.
  • Letter from Kari Mo to Annie Olson, Jan 29, 1908. Topics: Thanks for sending picture; news of blind niece Nora; sending picture postcard.
  • Translated letter from Kari Mo to John Olson, Feb 2, 1913. Topics: Thanks for sending money ($5); Marriage of daughter Hanna; son Ole is returning home for visit; encouraged John to send daughter Annie along to visit her.
  • Translated letter from Kari Mo to John Olson, June 27, 1916. Topics: Siblings are all getting older; Updates on family; goods are expensive, workers scarce.
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Brustuen, Annie J. Olson]]>
Bredesen, Adolf, 1850-1913]]> Preus, Herman Amberg, 1825-1894]]> Bennett Law]]> Clergyman]]> Frontier and pioneer life]]> Luther College (Decorah, Iowa)]]> Norway--Emigration and immigration]]> Norwegian Lutheran Church]]> Slavery]]> Wisconsin]]> Contents
  • Articles of a Norwegian-born clergyman.
    • "Mod Bennett-Loven, vidnesbyrd og grunde," 8 pages, no date. The Bennett-Law, passed in 1889, required school attendance of children from 7 to 14 years of age in Wisconsin. The stipulation that instruction be in English was opposed by supporters of the parochial schools.
    • "Slaveristriden i ny belysning" (offprint from "Teologisk tidsskrift," January 1905), 34 pages.
    • Article on Herman Amberg Preus (Decorah Posten, March 20, 1920; reprint of an article which appeared in "Symra," volume 6, 1910, pages 114-125).
  • Three obituaries.
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Boe, V. E. (Vigleik Engebretson), 1872-1953]]> Finley (N.D.)]]> Frontier and pioneer life]]> Norway--Emigration and immigration]]> Norwegian Lutheran Church]]> North Dakota]]> St. Olaf College. Academy]]> Born at Rennesø, Stavanger and immigrated in 1892. Attended St. Olaf College academy 1895-1899 and U.C. Seminary (1900-1903). Served as a Lutheran minister in Finley for 30 years. Editor, "Luthersk Menighedsblad," (1910-12); associate editor, "Concordia" (song book, 1915). Married Maria Haugen, 1899.
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Boe, V. E. (Vigleik Engebretson), 1872-1953]]>
Bjørnson, Valdimar, 1906-1987]]> Erikson, Leif]]> Frontier and pioneer life]]> Norway--Emigration and immigration]]> St. Olaf College]]> Three lectures delivered over WCAL, St. Olaf College radio station, in October of 1948; an obituary, a letter, and a postcard and photograph.

Contents:
Contains mimeographed reproductions of 1948 lectures titled "The Viking Voyagers," "Modern Migrations Begin," and "Evaluating the Contribution"; clipping/obituary, "K. Valdimar Bjornson, Minnesota's Icelandic Treasurer," 1 April 1987 Vinland; letter from Bjornson to Dean Thompson; election postcard and signed photograph of Valdimar Björnson.
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Bergh, Bolette Stud]]> Frontier and pioneer life]]> Lutheran Church]]> Minnesota]]> Norway--Emigration and immigration]]> Norwegian Lutheran Church]]> Sacred Heart (Minn.)]]> Memoirs of a Lutheran minister's wife, Bolette Stud Bergh (Mrs. Johannes E. Bergh), who lived at Sacred Heart, Minnesota from 1872-1905.

Contents:
  • Topics addressed in memoirs include Rev. Thomas Johnson's farewell sermon; illness crossing the Minnesota River; skinning a calf with theology; Bergh serving many congregations; A prairie fire; vermin interrupting sleep; water through the ceiling; living in a cellar; snowed in; three miles down the river to get the mail and a scare by drunk men; farmers building a new parsonage; a record storm on Jan. 7 1873; a new cow; a gift piano; Christmas celebration; saving for a new church; grasshopper scourge; building schoolhouses; healthy children; indians move away; good neighbors; Ingeborg Stensrud's kindness; forming new congregations; the Ladies Aid; building a new church; a sick woman; skiing; shoveling; snow and no mail; "Bow-wow-wow!" (a story about a dog); a wedding in a snowstorm; party games; the young people get rid of the old; driving in circles; Pascha Parsonage; (Norwegian copies of all) Clippings of English trans. by O.O. Enestvedt, which appeared in the "Sacred Heart News," (June 1-15, 1944); and of the second and third parts of the Norwegian original, from "Decorah Posten," (May 25-June 1, 1944)
  • Clipping of article (Sept. 10, 1935) in "Skandinaven" concerning memorial service at Vor Frelsers congregation, Sacred Heart, upon the thirtieth anniversary of her husband's death.
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Bergh, Bolette Stud]]>
Berge, Knut Eilevson (Bergh), 1838-1875]]> Big Canoe (Iowa)]]> Iowa]]> Liberty Prairie (Wis.)]]> Luther College (Decorah, Iowa)]]> Norway--Emigration and immigration]]> Wisconsin]]> Poems]]> Manuscript volume of 4 poems about immigration to America. Bergh was a teacher at Luther College, 1868-1872. Born in Voss to Ellef Storksen Berge, he emigrated in 1857 and taught in Liberty Prairie, Wisconsin and Big Canoe, Iowa. Representative in Iowa legislature, 1872. Poems in Norwegian.

Contents:
Knut E. Berge (Bergh) Poems. Mimeographed copies. Manuscript volume of 4 poems. 
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Berge, Knut Eilevson (Bergh), 1838-1875]]>
Berg, Anders T.]]> Berg, Thorstein]]> Halvorson, Johannes]]> Harstad, Bjug A. (Bjug Aanondsen), 1848-1933]]> Kopseng, Torsten Torstenson, -1903]]> Satner, T. C.]]> Tingelstad, Johannes (John)]]> Frontier and pioneer life]]> Minnesota]]> North Dakota]]> Norway--Emigration and immigration ]]> Washington]]> Letters to a Norwegian-born farmer at Sunburgh, Minnesota. Correspondents include Thorstein Berg, Johannes Halvorson, Bjug A. Harstad, T. T. Kopseng, T. P. Satner, and Johannes Tingelstad. All in Norwegian.
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Berg, Anders T.]]>
Fribert, L. J. (Laurits Jakob), 1808-1862]]> American Indians]]> Frontier and pioneer life]]> Norway--Emigration and immigration]]> Wisconsin]]> Oneida County (Wis.)]]> Haandbog for emigranter til Amerikas vest is a typewritten copy (circa 1930) of a published work (1847) by Fribert, a former Danish official, who farmed near Pine Lake, Wisconsin, from 1843 to about 1847. Although containing comments on Native Americans, church, and government, it is largely a discussion of methods of agriculture.

Note: see Theodore C. Blegen, "Norwegian Migration to America, 1825-1860" (1931), p. 256-257.

Contents:
Laurits J. Fribert Book: "Haandbok for emigranter" (1847), typewritten copy, ca. 1930. Note: see Theodore C. Blegen, "Norwegian Migration to America, 1825-1860" (1931), p. 256-257.
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Fribert, L. J. (Laurits Jakob), 1808-1862]]>
Borgen, Ingeborg (Belle) Folkedahl]]> Bøe, Knud O.]]> Einerson, Synnøve (Susie)]]> Folkedahl, Ingeborg (Belle)]]> Folkedahl, Knudt]]> Folkedahl, Ole]]> Johnson, Ingeborg Belle Folkedahl]]> Kjørstad, Ole]]> Landmark, Olifina]]> Mitmoen, Ole A.]]> Nordstrom, Tena R. Folkedahl]]> Olsen, Andreas]]> Renli, Ole O.]]> Dane County (Wis.)]]> Farmer]]> Frontier and pioneer life]]> Minnesota]]> North Dakota]]> Norway--Emigration and immigration]]> South Dakota]]> Wisconsin]]>
Contents:
  • Correspondence
  • Vaccination certificates (1836-1863)
  • Commencement program (1894) for Dodgville, Wis. High School.
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Folkedahl, Knudt O. D.]]>