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

602. JENSEN, AMUND. STORIES. 1 item. P 1484.
Kommersraaden, Greven. To livsskildringer fra Hedemarken. [The title continues as
follows] Faaes i Mrs. A. Jensens Restaurant, Elizabeth, Minnesota, eller i Johnsons Apothek,
Fergus Falls, Minnesota. No date, 32 pages. Jensen emigrated from Bye, Løiten,
Norway, in 1881 and ran a business in West Duluth. The second story may be
autobiographical.
603. JENSEN, BIRGITH (b. 1891) PAPERS, 1976. 2 boxes. P 880.
Clippings, correspondence, poems, pictures, notes, and souvenirs concerning a
Chicago woman and her activities in Norwegian organizations in that city.
604. JENSEN, CARL C. A. (b. 1878). ARTICLES, 1927. 16 items. P 537.
Articles by a Lutheran clergyman concerning Lutheranism in Cerro Gordo County,
Iowa, and histories of congregations, hospitals, and men’s societies (142 typescript
pages); and “Atlas of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa” (35 typescript pages), which also
consists of congregational histories and the histories of a variety of associated
Lutheran institutions and organizations.
605. JENSEN, HANNA BUGGE (MRS. NILS E.) (ca. 1841-1921). PAPERS, 1856-1909. 3
items. P 187.
Papers of a Norwegian-born Lutheran minister’s wife at Highland Prairie,
Minnesota: reminiscences; the congregation’s formal request to the Norwegian
Synod for a pastor; and her husband’s first sermon in the parish. The reminiscences
include a description of the journey to America, the parsonage, living conditions,
and parish activities.
606. JENSEN, MAGNY LANDSTAD. CLIPPINGS, 1963-1977. 1 folder. P 916.
“What Editors Want” (pamphlet), ca. 1978; copies of clippings about a Norwegianborn
poet who came to the United States in 1926, living first in New Jersey and later
in California. She has written for newspapers and periodicals and has published
Girdle Stones (1975), Wilding Ballads (1976), and No Love is Lost (1977). Some of the
poems are based on Norwegian themes. She is a great-granddaughter of the
Norwegian poet, ballad collector, and hymn writer M. B. Landstad.
607. JENSENIUS, BERTRAM (1898-1976). PAPERS, 1932-1975. 24 boxes. P 920.
Papers of a Norwegian-American journalist and author, born in Madagascar of
Norwegian missionary parents. At age nine or ten, he journeyed alone to a home
for missionary children in Stavanger, Norway. He was educated in Norway, then
lived in France for three years, after which he participated in a race across the
Atlantic in 1922, which brought him to the United States. He settled finally in
Chicago, where he engaged in various occupations. In 1958 he took over the
Norwegian weekly newspaper Viking and renamed it Vinland. He and his wife
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