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

1443. WESTPHAEL, MICHAEL. LAND PATENT, 1889. 1 item. P 402.
A Homestead Certificate issued to a resident at Watertown, South Dakota.
1444. WESTRUM, SCOTT D. MANUSCRIPT, 1973. 1 item. P 1306.
Copy of “Tribute to a Well-known Grandmother,” with transcription and
genealogical information concerning the family of Westrum’s mother. The
grandmother is listed as Helga Nokleby.
1445. WICK, BARTHINIUS L. (1864-1947). PAPERS, 1904-1947. 1 folder. P 403.
Mainly articles of a Norwegian-born Cedar Rapids, Iowa, attorney, philanthropist,
and history instructor at the University of Iowa: “Pioneer Traits”; “The Pioneer
Memorial Association of Norway (Iowa)”; a biography of Nikolai Ibsen, brother of
the dramatist, who was a resident of Emmet County, Iowa; “In the Footsteps of the
Early Settlers in and about Le Grand, Iowa,” 1943, 32 pages; “Did the Norsemen
Erect the Newport Round Tower?” a 26-page pamphlet; and a collection of
clippings of articles by and about Wick.
1446. WICKNEY, HENRY O. (1890-1982). PAPERS, 1982. 6 items. P 1229.
Clippings and biographical notes concerning a Norwegian American who lived at
Northwood, North Dakota. In the fall of 1982 the house where he lived and its
contents were moved to Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum at Decorah,
Iowa.
1447. WIDEN, GUDRUN. NOVELS. 2 typescript volumes. P 757.
Two unpublished novels, “Varden” (Cairn), a story written in Norwegian and set in
Norway (223 pages); and “Why Don’t They Go Home,” the story of an immigrant
girl in Brooklyn, New York (234 pages).
1448. WIESE, MARKUS FREDRIK (b. 1842). CHURCH HISTORY, 1915. Pamphlet, 63
pages. P 556.
Nogle bidrag til retledning og forsvar is a discussion of points of conflict among several
Norwegian Lutheran synods previous to the merger in 1917.
1449. WIGELAND, ANDREW E. AND G. NORMAN. REPORT, 1975. P 836.
“The Andrew E. and G. Norman Wigeland Professorship in Norwegian Studies,
University of Chicago, 1975,” a report covering the history of the establishment of
the Wigeland Professorship.
1450. WIGERS, A. NOVEL, 1909. 1 volume, 482 manuscript pages. P 404.
An unpublished novel with a religious theme titled “De to rekrutter” by a resident
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