Danish Americans -- North Dakota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Adolph Ed Seaburg Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1062
Overview
Danish-American locomotive engineer for Northern Pacific Railway Company, of Fargo, N.D.; also known as Ed Seaburg. Correspondence relating to Willis H. Downs, of Jamestown, N.D., Downs's activities with North Dakota Volunteers, 1st Infantry Regiment, Company H, in the Philippines during the Spanish American War, and his receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1906, and to Seaburg's father, Nels Seaburg, including World War I correspondence; funeral book; pamphlets; program (1910) of...
Dates:
1900-1960.
Andrew Jensen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 77
Abstract
Invitation, fiftieth wedding anniversary booklet, and newspaper articles. Articles include obituaries of various family members, wedding announcements, historical piece on Ingeborg Jensen, and two articles on son Thomas D. and life in Alaska.
Dates:
1926-1960
Andrew Jespersen Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 502
Abstract
Letter, typed interview summary (9 leaves) and copy with notations concerning the Park Farm, steam engines, death of his brother-in-law from a steam engine explosion, digging wells for water, military and Indian artifacts found on his land, tree planting, father Peter Jespersen. Also includes obituary of Jespersen.
Dates:
1954; 1959
Iver Madson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 507
Abstract
Iver Madson was a Danish immigrant and Wheatland, N.D. homesteader. The collection is a manuscript of Madson's recollections, dictated to his daughter, concerning his twelve years at sea, four years in New Zealand, immigration (1871) to America from Denmark, and farming in Minnesota before homesteading in Dakota Territory. Also included are newspaper clippings on the Madson family.
Dates:
1925-1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Iver Madson Papers