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Mainly articles of a Norwegian-born Cedar Rapids, Iowa, attorney, philanthropist, and history instructor at the University of Iowa: "Pioneer Traits"; "The Pioneer Memorial Association of Norway (Iowa)"; a biography of Nikolai Ibsen, brother of the…

Includes the following articles: Cox, John. Norwegian Quakers in western New York (Friend's Intelligencer, Oct. 17-24, 1925); Cadbury, Henry J. The Norwegian Quakers of 1825 (Harvard Theological Review, Oct. 1925); Cadbury: Christopher Meidel and the…

Thirty diaries kept by Heggem from 1880-1912 (missing 1882 and 1888) [Diaries in English]. Heggem was born in Strand, Norway in 1848. According to records at the Stavanger Friends Church [Quaker], Stavanger, Iowa, Heggem immigrated to the United…

Notes on Life History, an autobiographical sketch (29 p., typescript) of an immigrant from Stavanger whose life was largely spent in the Quaker ministry. A partial autobiography (through 1910) kept by Estella Hanson Watland (1872-1950), whose entries…

Issues of the "Stavanger Mirror" published by a boarding school near Le Grand, Iowa, founded in 1890 by the Society of Friends.