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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | A brief biographical account of Anders O. Aasen, born on 16 January 1874, in Lyngdal, Norway. He was ordained in the Norwegian Lutheran Synod in 1899, and served in many churches in Canada and the United States. He died in 1974 at age one hundred. |
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| Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Don Binkowski Papers consist of research materials dealing with Philetus W. Norris, Binkowski's literary work, and personal correspondence. Most of the papers pertain to research conducted by Binkowski in preparation for his 1995 publication, Col P. W. Norris: Yellowstone's Greatest Superintendent. The research notes collected by Binkowski contain mostly letters and periodical articles that he transcribed from source materials. Also included in these papers are versions of the Norris biography and a copy of Binkowski's earlier article, "From Prairie Mound to Yellowstone National Park." |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The collection consists of an obituary and a manuscript about the life of Christine K. ("Disse") Hansen. She was born in Denmark in 1883, and died in 1981. The biography discusses her life in Denmark, immigration, schooling in nursing, marriage, and nursing work in Alaska. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Collection contains the genealogies and local histories of the towns of Edison and Bow, in Skagit County, Washington. The bound volume is entitled, Families who Imiigrated to Edison-Bow, Skagit Co, WA from Southwestern Norway. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Biography and legal documents of early Tacoma shipbuilder, Edward Johnson, from Vanersborg, Sweden. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Handwritten family history by Esther Nelson Berglund born in 1890 in Tacoma, Washington. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | A biographical sketch of Norwegian immigrant, Gina Ruud Anderson, written by her daughter. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | A biographical sketches of Norwegian immigrants, Marie Pauline Vognild Lund and Gunnar Lund. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Memoir of Gerda Buchheim Haas, written by Kate Haas, about life in Germany during the rise of Nazism and Buccheim Haas' family's escape to Shanghai and the United States |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Hefte family history book was published in 1981 and covers the descendants of Ole Olson Hefte (Gofa), born in 1794, and his wife Ingrid Oldsdatter Kinneberg, who was born in 1795. They left Norway for America in 1853. There is also information about the Hefte family reunions of 1939 and 1953 as well as reminisces written in 1981 by John Edwin Stenehjem. |
