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History/Biography: Helge Høverstad was born on March 15, 1870 in Vang, Valdris, Norway. His parents were  Torger Anderson Høverstad (1834-1883) and Gjertrude Helgesdatter Leine (1843-1939). Together they had four other children besides Helge,…

Papers of the wife of a Lutheran clergyman and a sister of Thorstein and Andrew A. Veblen: a history of St. Ansgar congregation; sermons by her father-in-law, Johan Olsen; a tribute to Claus L. Clausen by her husband, Sigurd Olsen; a letter by Ole…

Constitution, brochure, clippings, and history of a Decorah, Iowa, retirement home founded in 1914 by the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. The clippings are fro 1911-1976. The Aase Haugen Home closed in 1974.

Brochures, constitutions, and reports from a variety of institutions like hospitals, orphanages, retirement centers, etc.Includes: Crookston. Bethesda Hospital, St Paul. Aandeligt Sanatorium, Eagle Lake. Bethesda Home, Children's Homes Soc. of Minn.,…

Papers consisting of correspondence, diaries, creamery reports, tobacco pool reports, tax receipts, and assessor's statements (1891) for Town of Christiana, Dane County, Wisconsin. The correspondence deals with farm interests in Yellow Medicine…

Childhood Memories (42 p. typescript) of reminiscences of childhood days spent in the Perry parsonage, western Dane County, Wisconsin, by a daughter of Abraham Jacobson, Lutheran parish pastor from 1868 to 1878. Written in informal style, Childhood…

Family and church histories prepared by Myrvik, a farmer born in North Dakota of Norwegian parents. The family history gives an account of the 1869 journey from Hemnes, Nordland, by way of Bergen & Montreal to Minnesota, eventually to Cabalier Co.,…

A Lutheran clergyman's daily account of journeys from Kenyon, Minnesota, to Kalispell, Montana, and from Kenyon to Ashland, Oregon (1908-1909). Includes: Writings on history of Goodhue Co., Congregations. Includes two record books (1890-1900)…

A biography of O. G. U. Siljan (1870-1936), Lutheran clergyman in Madison, Wisconsin, and a genealogy of the Gullickson (Graue) family, Voss, Norway (1240-1906), of which his wife was a member.

Nils Paul Xavier, 1839-1918, the Kautokeino-Lapp Who Became Minister in Amerika, 3 typescript pages, by Adolph Steen and translated by Magdalene Xavier Visovatti, a granddaughter of Xavier. The file includes an obituary (clipping) of Xavier.