Norwegian Americans -- Minnesota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Herberg Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 526
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview with Albert Herberg, regarding his father John Michael Thomassohn Herberg, early Norwegian immigrant settler, Grandin Farms, steamboat "Grandin", grain elevators, farm implements, A.R. Dalrymple. Includes a copy of his mother's, Magel Serina Thorson Herberg, obituary, and clipping of Herberg's own obituary.
Dates:
1955-1956.
Andrew and Millie Melgard Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 274
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview (14 leaves) with Andrew and Minnie Melgard concerning his life, the Snake River Farm and its purchase, farm's first owner who was named Woodward, Minnie's purchasing food supplies in bulk, cooking for sixty-five hired men, cleaning the bunkhouses, making soap and butter, butchering hogs, raising eight children, her collapse from stress and a map of the farm.
Dates:
1954
Anna Serum Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 645
Abstract
Typed summary of two interviews with Leonard Sackett. First interview (2 leaves) with Anna Serum mentions the death of her father, working for Rachel Holstrom, and some of the men employed at Grandin Farm. Second interview (1 leaf) with Amelia (Melting) Oien, Anna's sister, a cook for threshing crews at Grandin Farm No. 1, includes mention of her wages, her husband, Clark Oien, and their purchase of farmland near Halstad, Minn. Also includes commentary (2 leaves) on a photograph of Anna Serum,...
Dates:
1955-1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Anna Serum Interview
Clarence Gaudland Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 770
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his parents, Anton and Verna Gaudland; his father managed the Bollman Farm near Georgetown, Minn.; later entered a partnership in an elevator and mill at Goodrich, Minn. Anton Gaudland emigrated from Norway.
Dates:
1956
David Askegaard Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 118
Abstract
Biographical sketch (1 leaf) based on information supplied by his son Eugene in an interview with Leonard Sackett, a copy of the song, “The Last Sunset” by his daughter Mathilde Emilie Askegaard, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1953-1957
Edward Evanson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 817
Abstract
Correspondence, and typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett with corrections concerning his life, Dennis Ryan of St. Paul, Minn., and Ryan Hotel in St. Paul.
Dates:
1956-1957
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Edward Evanson Papers
Enoch J. Efteland Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1465
Abstract
Family history (8 leaves) with genealogical information on this Norwegian immigrant family from Sogn, Norway who settled at Shelly, Minn. Includes letter of transmittal.
Dates:
1966
George B. Rasmusen Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 532
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his parents, Knut and Barbara? (Larson) Rasmusen, Norwegian immigrants, who first settled near Preston Minn., later moving to Georgetown, Minn. in 1881. Includes brief mention of his brothers, John, a blacksmith who moved to S.D. to farm, returned to Fargo where he died in 1920, 1882 spring flooding of the Buffalo and Sheyenne rivers, Robert, a barber in Moorhead, and George's farm near Audubon, Minn.
Dates:
1955
Herman O. Fjelde Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 82
Abstract
Norwegian American pioneer, of Abercrombie, N.D. Scrapbook pages, articles, clippings, and photos, relating to Fjelde and his wife, Fredrikke Fjelde; Minnesota sculptor Jacob Fjelde; family members, including Paul, Olaf and Pauline Fjelde; and statues in the region honoring Norwegian Americans.
Dates:
circa 1890-1971
John and Thomas Finney Interviews
Collection
Identifier: SC 500
Abstract
Two interviews with Leonard Sackett concerning the Grandin elevator operation which was purchased by their father, Ole Finney, circa 1889.
Dates:
1955