Mari Lund Wright thesis, 1958

Mari Lund Wright thesis, 1958

P1474

1958

The Pioneer Norwegian Community in Chicago Before the Great Fire (1836-1871). M.A. thesis (Scandinavian Studies), University of Wisconsin, 1958. 157 pp. Contents: --Introduction (Chicago, Norwegian emigration). --Chapter 1: The first Norwegians in Chicago; economic life; religious life; life in Chicago. --Chapter 2: Chicago in 1850; the Norwegian colony in 1850 (population and age, marriage and family, ward distribution, neighbors); church and religion; emigration; economic life; the press; life in Chicago. --Chapter 3: the Norwegian colony in 1850 (as above, minus population and plus literacy); other topics as above, minus emigration; the Norwegian colony in 1870 (as above, plus names, the handicapped, occupations, men and money). --Summary. --Footnotes. --Bibliography. Includes tables for the 1850-1870 censuses giving figures for Norwegian men, Norwegian women, children, occupations, men and money, neighbors. And maps of Chicago in 1839, 1850, 1860, and 1870.

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