Asle Mickelson Photograph Collection

Collection — Folder: Photo 2166

Identifier: Photo 2166

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection has three photographic prints. One of the Mickelson farmstead near Kindred, North Dakota, date unknown; one of Asle and Marget, dated 1919; and one of Arther Klovstad and his wife, Gurine Mickelson Klovstad in 1955.

Dates

Majority of material found within 1919-1955

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.

Copyrights

Copyrights to this collection is held by the NDSU Archives

Biography

Asle Mickelson was born in Norway in 1847 to Mikkel Nielsen and Guri Torstendr. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1868, settling for a time in Ferryville, Wisconsin. He married Marguerite Bjornson (1858-1931) on February 7, 1875. They would have fifteen children. In 1879 he and his family would move to farm four miles east of Kindred, North Dakota. He would eventually move to Moorhead where he would pass away on July 3, 1937. He is buried in Norman Cemetery, in Cass county, North Dakota.