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Chicago (1848-1861, 1876-1884) by Arthur E. Alfsen; a clipping of “The Ordination
of Paul Anderson and Ole Andrewson,” by J. O. Evjen in The Friend, September,
1941.
Anderson introduced English services and Sunday school, and helped organize the
Northern Illinois Synod, the Scandinavian Augustana Synod, and the Norwegian
Augustana Synod.
38. ANDERSON, RASMUS BJØRN (1846-1936). PAPERS, 1869-1965. 6 folders. P 717.
Clippings, correspondence, genealogy, music, pamphlets, and photographs of a
Wisconsin-born author, diplomat, editor, and educator. The clippings deal largely
with Anderson controversies as do letters by Laur. Larsen and Johs. B. Wist.
Anderson was professor of Norwegian at the University of Wisconsin, United States
minister to Denmark, and editor of Amerika (1898-1922), Madison, Wisconsin.
The Anderson collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison
approximates 50 document cases and 70 volumes of scrapbooks. See Rasmus Bjørn
Anderson: Pioneer Scholar, by Lloyd Hustvedt, NAHA, 1966.
39. ANDERSON, SIGURD. LECTURES, 1961-1963. 2 items, 23 pages. P 17.
A lecture titled “Lawyers in the Civil War,” delivered before the Bar Association of
the District of Columbia, and an outline of an address, “Whatever Happened to
Ole,” given before Det Norske Nationalforbund in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
40. ANDERSON, THORVALD (1865- ). LETTERS, 1883-1927. 200 items in 6 folders. P
1168.
Letters from family and friends to an emigrant from Stavanger who came to
Menekaunee, Wisconsin, in 1884. He moved to Iron River, Michigan, in 1899 and
from there to Chicago. His last address was Prosser, Washington. He was engaged
in various enterprises, including lumbering and mining.
41. ANDREASSEN, A. B. CATALOG, n.d. 1 item. P 18.
Norwegian-born artist and manager of a Norwegian art shop in Minneapolis, who
dealt in reproductions of Norwegian art.
42. ANDRESEN, ALFRED. ADVERTISEMENTS, 1897. 3 items. P 19.
Advertisements from the firm Alfred Andresen, the Western Importer,
Minneapolis, established in 1893, regarding such items as “Sundhets Saltet” and
other medications, spinning wheels, and kromkagejern.
43. ANDRESEN, NICOLAI (1889-1963). MEMOIRS, 1960 (?). 41 typescript pages. P 847.
Reminiscences from the author’s home in Oslo and from his visits to other parts of
Norway at the turn of the century, written during the last twenty-five years of Mr.
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