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

674. KREFTING, LAURITS W. PAPERS. 5 boxes. P 835.
Bulletins of a research biologist of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, St.
Paul, Minnesota. Included are two Technical Bulletins in the Forestry Series of the
Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Minnesota.
After his retirement, Krefting began to coordinate materials concerning Norwegian
fishermen in the Lake Superior region. He conducted extensive interviews, The
cassettes of these interviews and some transcriptions of them are in the papers.
675. KRINGEN, OLAF (1867-1951). BIOGRAPHICAL DATA. 2 items. P 1233.
Copy of a North Dakota teacher’s certificate for a Norwegian journalist who lived in
the United States from 1887 to 1897. Upon his return to Norway he became active in
Socialist affairs.
676. KROGNESS, SAMSON MADSEN (1830-1894). PAPERS, 1853-1894. 3 boxes. P 794.
Correspondence (4 volumes of copybooks), 3 volumes of ministerial records, a
scrapbook, a diary, notes, and manuscripts of a Lutheran clergyman, born and
educated in Norway, who emigrated to the United States in 1866.
Krogness was Secretary of the Norwegian Augustana Synod from 1870 to 1874, and
from 1876 to 1882; was twice a member of its Board of Education and served on the
Israel Mission Central Committee from 1884 to 1892. He founded and edited
Almueskoletidende (1861-1866). He was an able writer and translator, and at various
times served as editor of Missionsvennen, Budbæreren, Den Norske Lutheraner, Ebenezer,
and Luthersk Kirketidende. He also edited reports and yearbooks for the church. His
8,000 volume library and his manuscript dealing with the history of the Norwegian
Lutheran church in the United States were destroyed by fire in 1879.
677. KVAMME, VERA JOYCE FOX. GENEALOGY. 13 volumes in 2 boxes. P 764.
Forefathers of Vera Joyce Kvamme (Mrs. J. P.), compiled by Carl M. R. Gunderson.
678. KVERNDAL, ROALD. PAMPHLETS, 1977-1978. 2 items. P 1173.
An issue of Methodist History containing an article “ The Bethel Ship ‘John Wesley,’”
and an offprint of “The Origin and Nature of Nordic Missions to Seamen,” by a
minister at the Lutheran Memorial Church in Chicago, who also served as a
seamen’s chaplain.
679. KVISGAARD, O. A. (1884-?). ESSAY. 1 item. P 1008.
“En Hyldest til Sangen og Musikkens Menn og Kvinner,” written by a Norwegian
immigrant who first heard a male chorus in Duluth in 1905. The essay is an
appreciative account of the pleasure that music gives him.
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