Cleng Peerson papers, 1824-1994

Cleng Peerson papers, 1824-1994

P0308

1824-1994

Correspondence, legal documents, clippings, pictures, and a biography concerning a Norwegian-American pathfinder. The papers include copies and transcripts of Peerson letters, an emigration paper, 1838 indenture, LaSalle Co.,; petition & private act for Telief (1855), and Texas warranty deeds which Peerson signed as a witness, a biography by Rasmus B. Anderson, an article by Theodore C. Blegen, and pamphlets concerning the Bishop Hill colony. Peerson, the founder of the first Norwegian settlements in New York, Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, spent his last years in Texas, and was buried there in Bosque County.

Contents:

Box 1

• Clippings
• Pamphlets, Bishop Hill Colony
• Biography in Fiction by Ruth B. Haugen, undated
• Script, “Harvest of Stars,” by Hal Steck,1948
• Correspondence, documents, and pictures

Box 2

• Erik Friis Translation of Alfred Hauge, undated
• Television Series, script from the Norwegian Cultural Tours
• Carrol T. Juven. “The Cleng Peerson Story,” written in a biographical trilogy by the Norwegian author, Alfred Hauge

Digital Collections:

• Cleng Peerson's chair, now in Clifton College, Texas. [Chair] made in 1854 or 1855
• "Plowing and Sowing. Bishop Hill Colony," circa 1908
• Bishop Hill Colony, Henry County, Illinois, circa 1908
• Cleng Peerson's dugout, undated

0.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes)

Norwegian

English

Correspondence

Clippings

Pamphlets

Photographs

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