Swedish Americans -- North Dakota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
A. G. Holstrom Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 153
Overview
Typed summaries of three detailed interviews. One interview (7 leaves) with Rachel Holstrom, widow of A.G., mentions her life at Grandin Farm No. 1, their servants, entertaining the Grandins, and winter vacations in California. Second interview (5 leaves) with Harry Holstrom, nephew of A.G. Holstrom, and his year working on the Grandin Farm, including harvest, laundry, livestock, and his own farm. Funeral book with photo of A.G. Holstrom included.
Dates:
1953-1954.
Andrew Nelson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 53
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (3 leaves) concerning his attempts at farming and his years as manager of the Howe Farm. Includes description of the buildings on the farm, the horses, and the field work. Also includes newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1953-1957
Axel Dahl Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 663
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett, includes reminiscences about the James Kennedy farm, located in Cass County, N.D.
Dates:
1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Axel Dahl Interview
Charles V. Danielson Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 168
Abstract
Original handwritten manuscript and typed copy (37 leaves) of "Early memories of Charles V. Danielson," recounting the life of his Swedish immigrant parents, Erick and Lovisa Danielson, who came to the United States in 1866 from Narkes Lane, Varmland, Sweden and to the Painted Woods area in 1879 to homestead, and on his life to about 1910; and two newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1953, 1958
Hicks Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 477
Abstract
Homestead certificate (1904) of daughter Hannah, article entitled "Are small rural villages declining in North Dakota?" by Pearl I. Berg, a list of Haakon and Karin Hick's children with their birthdates, clippings of Hanna and brother August's obituaries, and one clipping about sister Olive leaving the family farm.
Dates:
1904, 1952-1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Hicks Family Papers
“History of August Landblom Family” by Myrtle Euren Challey
Collection
Identifier: SC 602
Abstract
Photocopy of a typed history of August (1846-1925) and Clara (Johnson) Landblom (1849-1918), Swedish immigrants who settled near Harwood, N.D. Includes mention of their immigration, settling along the Sheyenne River in 1871, a description of their farm house, homesteading, flooding, and blizzards. Includes a list of their children and their birthdates.
Dates:
1966
Nikolai Arntson Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 204
Abstract
Letter and family history (6 leaves) of Nikolai Arntson who emigrated from Norway and settled in Richland County in 1880. A daughter Julia married Hans H. Gronbeck and is included in a family history paper (6 leaves) by Don Gronbeck on the Giselius, Arntson, and Gronbeck families.
Dates:
1954.
Olaf Anderson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 507
Abstract
Typed summary of an interview with Leonard Sackett about the village of Grandin with Mr. and Mrs. Anderson.
Dates:
1955.
Peter A. Lundwall Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 211
Abstract
Family history material, interview with Earl and Beatrice Lundwall Elwell, mention of the Chaffee family, especially of H.F. Chaffee, his wife, Carrie Toogood Chaffee, various jobs Earl held at Amenia and Sharon Land Company, electrostatic copy of Peter A. Lundwall's citizenship certificate (1894), and newspaper clippings on various family members.
Dates:
1932-1952.
Zachariah Munter Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 941
Overview
Typed copy of a letter relating their early life in N.D., mentions the death of two children, grasshoppers eating the crops, trading butter for molasses. Also includes a list of birth and deaths dates for the Munter children and an obituary for August Munter, son of Zachariah and Charlotta
Dates:
1939, 1958