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

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Letters to a Norwegian-born farmer at Sunburgh, Minnesota. Correspondents
include Johannes Halvorson, Bjug A. Harstad, and Johannes Tingelstad.
87. BERG, ARTHUR AMUNDSEN (b. 1864). LETTER, 1884. P 1426.
Copy of a letter written by a student at St. Olaf College who had come as an
immigrant from North Odal, Norway, to Fergus Falls, Minnesota, in 1880 at age
sixteen.
88. BERGE, GULBRAND OLSEN (1826-1886). AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 19 page typescript.
P 749.
Copy of “The Autobiography of Gulbrand O. Berge, 1827-1886.” Born in Valdres,
Norway, Berge emigrated in 1849 and settled near Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He
served in the 37th Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War.
These memoirs were published in Decorah-Posten in 1932, August 9 and 16. See also
Ole Olsen Berge Papers, P 35.
89. BERGE (BERGH), KNUT EILEVSON (1838-1875). POEMS, 1857. 4 items. P 34.
A manuscript volume of four poems about emigration to America. Bergh taught at
Luther College.
90. BERGE, OLE OLSEN (1832-1911). PAPERS, 1853-1865. 12 items. P 35.
Papers of a Norwegian-born farmer at Manitowoc, Wisconsin: Civil War letters by
Berge, other correspondence, and a poem. Berge’s wife was Berit Veblen Nygard.
91. BERGE, OTTO G. LOCAL HISTORY, 1930. 3 typescript pages. P 798.
Copy of “A History of Valders.” Valders is a town near Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
92. BERGEIM, INGEBORG OLSDATTER (1858-1923). DIARIES, 1874-1922. 3 boxes. P
1378.
A collection of 52 notebooks (3,500 pages), which constitute the daily records of a
woman from Surnadal who emigrated to the U.S. in 1880, married Peter Bergeim
and settled with him in Watertown, Dakota Territory.
The first diaries are written in Norwegian, but beginning in 1903 are in English.
They are quite introspective, covering her thoughts and her personal and family
life. There are accounts of the Atlantic crossing and of an attempt at homesteading.
The diaries were discovered by her son Joseph Bergeim (b. 1894), who translated
the story of her early married life into a manuscript called “Ingeborg’s Story,” 1944.
This work also includes a genealogy, a chronology of important events, Peter
Bergeim’s own autobiography, some family pictures, and a summary of the diaries.
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