Guide to the ARCHIVES of The Norwegian-American Historical ...

591. JACKSON, HENRY (1912-1983). CLIPPINGS, 1971, 1983. 2 items. P 1232.
Reprint of “Norseman for President,” by Svein Gilje, The Norseman, no. 6, 1971, and
a Minneapolis Star and Tribune obituary, September 8, 1981. Jackson was the son of
Norwegian immigrant parents who became an influential senator from the state of
Washington and was frequently mentioned as a possible presidential candidate.
592. JACOBI, SHIRLEY. LETTERS, 1880s. 6 items. P 1077.
Copies of fragments of family letters from Norway with partial transcriptions.
593. JACOBSEN, NIELS AND WILSON, SJUR D. LETTER, 1864. 1 item. P 435.
Copy of a letter printed in Aftenbladet, December 2, 1864, by members of Company
D of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry Regiment. The letter, written at Fort Rice, Dakota
Territory, describes the two-month march against the Indians from Fort Sully to
Fort Rice. Jacobsen was a Civil War veteran and later lived at Hills, Minnesota.
594. JACOBSEN, RACHEL. PAPERS, 1900-1924. 12 items. P 1191.
Poems; an 88-page unpublished manuscript, “Mae on Gull Island”; and a story for
children by a Norwegian American living in Wheaton, Illinois.
595. JACOBSON, ABRAHAM (1836-1910). PAPERS, 1862-1964. 9 folders and 4
volumes. P 671.
Articles, clippings, obituaries, memoirs, correspondence, pictures, and scrapbooks
of a Norwegian-born clergyman and farmer. The scrapbooks contain clippings
taken largely from Decorah-Posten: obituaries, biographic sketches of Dakota
pioneers, and items concerning Norwegian pioneer associations, Lutheran church
conventions, Det Norske Selskap, Norsk-danske presseforening i Amerika, and
Jacobson’s contacts with Abraham Lincoln, Decorah-Posten, and Nordlyset. There are
items about Rasmus B. Anderson, L. W. Boe, Gjermund Hoyme, U. V. Koren, Bernt
J. Muus, Knute Nelson, Oley Nelson, Halle Steensland, Peer Strømme, Hans G.
Stub, and Oscar M. Torrison.
The articles consist of biographies of Winneshiek County, Iowa, pioneers: Jacob
Aga, Ole Andreas Anderson, Gunder H. Blegeberg, Ove Christian Johnson Hallan,
Thor Halvorson, Tollev Halvorson, Johan Hegg, Christopher T. Hoyme, Andrew O.
Lommen, Ole T. Lommen, Lars Iverson Melaas, and Knudt Thompson. The
correspondence and other articles concern Jacobson’s mission to the Gaspé
settlement in the 1860s. Jacobson was the first Lutheran clergyman to preach in
Dakota Territory and the first Norwegian in the Decorah area.
596. JACOBSON, CLARA (1864-1949). PAPERS, 1943. 2 items. P 672.
Manuscript of reminiscences (189 pages) of childhood days spent in the Perry
parsonage, western Dane County, Wisconsin. Written in an informal style,
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