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

1023. OLSON, LUDWIG EDWARD (b. 1916). BIOGRAPHY. 2 volumes, 21 and 26
typescript pages. P 783.
Two biographical sketches: “Grandpa Made Knives”concerns Knut Langedal
Olson (1845-1933). Rolf H. Erickson is a co-author. “Grandpa Went to War,” is an
account of Samuel C. Onson (1840-1903), who served in the 21st Wisconsin Infantry.
1024. OLSON, NORRIS (1896-1963). HISTORY. 1 volume, 117 typescript pages. P
1507.
“Culture Saga of the Early Norwegian Lutherans of Wisconsin,” Menomonie,
Wisconsin, 1957. The author, a minister who served congregations in Wisconsin
beginning in 1926, “...is concerned mainly with the moral and spiritual welfare of
the people prior to 1890. It serves to show the process of transition....”
1025. OLSON, NORRIS (1896-1963). OBITUARY COLLECTION. 1 folder. P 1510.
Approximately 100 manuscript obituaries and a few memorial leaflets, evidently
submitted to a Menomonie, Wisconsin, newspaper, but in Dr. Norris Olson’s file,
which were forwarded to NAHA after his death in Illinois in 1963. The obituaries
precede 1951, and most, but not all, bear Norwegian names.
1026. OLSON, OLUF O. (MOXNÆS, MOKSNES). PAPERS, 1847-1891. 3 items in 1
folder. P 1496.
Olson emigrated from Trondheim in 1858 via Quebec and Chicago, arriving in
Hudson, Wisconsin, August 14.
Papers consist of photocopies of selected portions of a daily journal, July 1880-
January 1886, and April-May 1891. The complete journal with a 10-year gap in the
middle continues to 1935. Copies of military documents dated 1847-1854; and a
copy of a letter from A. Eggen, Trondheim, 1873.
1027. OLSON, OSCAR JOHN (1906- ). PAPERS, 1980. 5 items. P 1115.
A biographical sketch of and musical compositions by a Norwegian-American
dentist, artist, composer and hymn writer in Chicago, who exhibited paintings at
the Chicago Norwegian Club and who published music for his own hymns.
1028. OLSON, PAUL A. (1873-1954). PAPERS, 1931-1952. 1 item and 3 volumes. P 414.
Papers of the editor and publisher of the Story City Herald, Story City, Iowa; a 5page
typescript biography and three booklets on local history.
1029. OMANG, CHRISTIAN FREDRICK (b. 1840). BIOGRAPHY, 1975. 1 item. P 1099.
Data in Omansposten about a Norwegian sailor who spent nine years at sea, much of
the time sailing between San Francisco and the gold fields in the Sacramento River
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