Quakers in Norway and America records, 1917-2012

Quakers in Norway and America records, 1917-2012

P0709

1917-2012

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 first Norwegian contacts with Quakerism (Harvard Theological Review, Jan. 1941); Cadbury: De første Kvaekere i Stavanger (Decorah Posten, May 21-June 11, 1926, photocopy); Cadbury: De første norske Kvaekere i Amerika (Decorah Posten, Nov. 20, 1925); "De norske Kvaekere i Marshall Co., Iowa" (Decorah Posten, Nov. 7, 1924); "Kvekerne og Stavanger" (Stavanger Aftenblad, Aug. 29, 1975); photocopy of pages 95-125, 144-155 ("Norwegian Friends, History of early settlers, Stavanger School, The birth of a Meeting, 1885, the Anna Olsen story, the Tjossem family") from L. Frank Bedell's Quaker Heritage...a story of Iowa Conservative yearly meeting (1966); Stavanger Friends: yesterday and today, Marshalltown, 1985, 1 v.; photocopy of H.F. Swansen's "the Norwegian Quakers of Marshalltown County, Iowa" (Norwegian-American Studies and Records, v.10, 1938, ppp.127-134); photocopy of pp. 175-181 of Lous Thomas Jones, The Quakers of Iowa, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1914: "The Norwegian Friends in Iowa."; leaflet on home built by Iver and Gurine Olson in 1887; clippings of articles published in Dagen, July 23, 1994; "-ein viktig lekk i Røldal si lokal-soge," by Lars-Toralf Storstrand; "Røldalsgrenda som flytta til Amerika," by Finn Jarle Saele; programs (1995-96) from Stavanger Friends Church; "A history of Stavanger Friends Meeting," by Helen Stangeland (3 p. typescript); photocopies of articles from three Norwegian newspapers, 1994, about monument to Quakers who emigrated from Røldal; sheet of information about Jens Hanson Gaardsrud (1789-1896) who emigrated 1849 from Jevnaker to southwestern Wisconsin; used surname Jackson in the U.S.; added June 26, 2012: Henderson, Rebecca J. Ingrid’s Tales A Norwegian-American Quaker Farming story (2012). Added to Collection P0709, Quakers, Norway and America. A memoir recounting Quaker life in Northwest Iowa, ca. 1959.

0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box)

Clippings