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

on Ostenso, University of Iowa, 195 pages. For an article about Ostenso by Joan N.
Buckley, see Norwegian-American Studies, volume 28, 1979.
O. E. Rølvaag translated into Norwegian Ostenso’s “The Story of a Pioneer of the
Prairie, Einar Hoidale of Minnesota.” The original and the translation are in the
Rølvaag Papers, box 26, volume 17. For additional information see, see Einar
Hoidal collection, P 163.
1038. OUREN, HOGAN (b. 1835). AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 1 item, 29 typescript pages. P
1049.
An account by an immigrant from Christiania, Norway, who came to Quebec in
1853, covering his life up to 1907. He describes his experiences in Chicago and as a
sailor on Lake Michigan, and his journeys to Colorado and California. He became a
merchant in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in 1866, and finally moved to California
in 1905.
1039. OUSDAL, ASBJØRN P. (1879-1959). PAPERS, 1935-1951. 34 items and 10
volumes. P 678.
Papers of a Norwegian-born osteopathic physician and surgeon of Santa Barbara,
California. The clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and pictures,
including a three-act play, “Vinland Saga” (1937), by Ousdal, deal mainly with the
founding of the Norroenn Federation of America and its promotion of Leif Erikson
Day, but some with Ousdal’s fossil museum. Ousdal is the author of Our Revolting
Society (1945).
1040. OUTLOOK COLLEGE. PAPERS, 1917-ca. 1922. 6 items. P 520.
Correspondence, historical sketch, reports, and 8 catalogs (1916-1926) of a Lutheran
secondary school founded in 1916 at Outlook, Saskatchewan.
1041. OVERN, ANTON GUSTAV HELGESON (1855-1905). SERMONS. 1 volume, 751
pages. P 1246.
A Pioneer’s Proclamation: Uncompromising Truth/Unfailing Love, the translated sermons
of a minister who served the Norwegian Synod from 1879 to 1905, in parishes of
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, and Utah. The translator, Alfred Victor
Overn, is a son.
1042. OYEN, ODIN J. (1865-1926). PAMPHLET, 1979. 1 item. P 1316.
“A Catalog of the Oyen Collection from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse,”
which gives a history of the Oyen Interior Design Firm. Oyen came from
Trondheim in 1870 with his parents to Chicago and later to Madison, Wisconsin.
After some study of art in Chicago, Oyen settled in La Crosse in 1888 where,
together with Louis Nelson, he organized an interior decorating firm, working
chiefly on public buildings. The firm was discontinued in 1931.
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