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

642. JORGENSON, OLOF MEYER (1878-1962). PAPERS, 1903-1961. 3 boxes. P 1106.
Miscellaneous papers of a 1903 emigrant from Fiskenes on the island of Andøy. He
became a member of the Baptist Church in Norway. After study at the Danish-
Norwegian Baptist Seminary in Chicago, he was ordained in 1911 and served
parishes of the Danish-Norwegian Conference in Minnesota, North Dakota, and
Washington.
The file includes a biography by Mrs. Jorgenson; a sizable collection of letters by
Jorgenson to his family in Norway and his family’s letters to him; a seminary thesis;
obituaries and other funeral notes; sermons and sermon outlines; and church
related documents such as minutes, congregational papers, anniversary programs,
church histories, and tributes.
Portions of Jorgenson’s letters, particularly those to a brother Hans at Andøy,
provide frank commentary about American economic, political, social, and moral
life. He experienced two World Wars, the depression of the 1930s, droughts, dust
storms, prohibition and its later repeal, and Roosevelt’s New Deal.
643. JORGENSON, THEODORE (1894-1971). PAPERS. 43 boxes and 7 volumes. P 70.
Correspondence, articles, clippings, diaries, family history, handbooks, lectures,
lecture notes, minute book, notebooks, pamphlets, poems, reports, scrapbooks,
speeches, and translations of a Norwegian-born professor of Norwegian at St. Olaf
College.
Jorgenson immigrated in 1911 and was a member of the St. Olaf College faculty
(1925-1966). Among his many publications he was author of History of Norwegian
Literature, Norway’s Relation to Scandinavian Unionism, Ole Edvart Rolvaag: A Biography
(with Nora O. Solum), Henrik Ibsen: A Study in Art and Personality, Norwegian-English
School Dictionary. He was the Democratic Farmer-Labor nominee for the United
States Senate in 1946.
644. JOSEPHSEN, EINAR (b. 1885). PAPERS, 1907-1962. 135 items in 1 folder and 5
scrapbooks. P 682.
Papers of a Norwegian-born journalist and publicity director: correspondence,
articles, and scrapbooks dealing with a variety of subjects such as war, politics,
religion, immigration, and Norwegian-American literature. Among his
correspondents are Fred Bierman, H. Sundby Hanson, Sverre Mortensen, and Felix
B. Wold. There are World War I letters and letters by Theodore C. Blegen, Knut
Gjerset, Birger Osland, Kristian Prestgard, and O. E. Rølvaag.
Josephsen was on the Skandinaven staff, circulation manager of Decorah-Posten, with
the book department of Augsburg Publishing House, publicity manager and later
public relations manager of the New York Central Railroad Company, and finally
the public relations director of City National Bank, Chicago.
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