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History/Biography:Waldemar Theodor Ager was born in Fredrikstad, Østfold, Norway to Martinius Mathiesen Ager and Marie Fredrikke Mathea Johnsdatter Stillaugsen. Martinius first emigrated to the United States by himself, starting a tailoring business.…

Scrapbook of a Rushford, Minnesota teacher and homemaker, contains letters by Knut Gjerset, Kristian Prestgard, J.B. Wist, and O.E. Rølvaag clippings pertaining to them and Adolph Gunderson, Ragnvold Nestos, Henrik Shipstead, Dikke Reque, and the…

Clippings (1912-52) and programs (1912-42) concerning a society founded in May 1911 "to advance the study and teaching of the languages, literature and culture of the Scandinavian North" in the U.S. also included is a clipping (1911) about the…

Biography/History: Ole Edvart Rølvaag was born in a fishing village on Dønna, Norway, on April 22, 1876. He immigrated to the United States in 1896 and worked as a farmhand in South Dakota from 1896–98. After graduating from Augustana Academy in…

General statements, genealogies, family histories, and histories of pioneer settlements by students who studied under O. E. Rolvaag at St. Olaf College. Includes a chart of emigration statistics by region, 1860-1925.

Papers of a professor of English at St. Olaf College, 1919-1960. Author and translator. Author with Theodore Jorgenson, "Ole Edvart Rølvaag: A Biography" (1939); translator: Rølvaag, "Peder Seier" (1928), "Peter Victorious" (1929); Rølvaag,…

Miscellaneous articles, clippings, photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, family history material of a former foreign correspondent (Asia) and freelance writer, in recent years best known as an expert on the local history of central Wisconsin,…

An undated letter by Kristen Kvamme, Lutheran clergyman at Ossian, Iowa, to Ole E. Rølvaag, containing a sketch of Skougaard of New York City, concert soloist, voice teacher, and friend of Alfred Corning Clark, who published a Skougaard biography in…

History/Biography:  Kristian Prestgard was born on the Harelstad farm in Heidal, Oppland, Norway. His parents were Gudbrand Kristensen Harelstad (1829-1869) and Marit Prestgard (1841-1897). When his father, Kristian and Marit moved back to her family…

Papers of a professor of education at St. Olaf College: articles on educational subjects, a history of the Boraas family, correspondence, biographical data, clippings, diaries (55 volumes, 1899-1951), and a record of Boraas's public addresses. Some…