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

elationships between the Augustana and Conference synods and their schools.
Wolden, who immigrated in 1866, was an itinerant Norwegian schoolteacher.
1468. WOMEN’S MISSIONARY FEDERATION. PAPERS, 1911-1957. 33 items. P 556.
Articles, constitutions, handbooks, and reports containing history of the women’s
organization of the Norwegian Lutheran Church.
1469. WOODSIDE, LORENCE MUNSON (1874-1961). PAPERS, 1888-1953. 5 boxes. P
1362.
This extensive collection covers all aspects of Woodside’s impressive career as
educator, public speaker, author, translator, civic leader, and gardener.
Born in Hamilton County, Iowa, the daughter of Norwegian emigrant parents,
Sivert and Mesine Munson, she was graduated from Highland Park Normal
College at Des Moines in 1893. There were later studies at the University of
Chicago and at Boston University. She was instructor in elocution at Buena Vista
College, Storm Lake, Iowa, and the director of Physical Culture for the Iowa WCTU
for a brief time. From 1901 to 1927 she was employed by the Redpath Lyceum,
Eastern Lyceum, and the Chautauqua system as reader and occasionally as
manager. In 1909 she married Alonzo Woodside, a veteran of the Spanish-American
War who also served in World War I. He later served as a superintendent in the
inquiry section of the Boston Post Office.
Lorence Woodside’s interest led beyond a career in public speaking. She
developed a cut-flower dahlia named the “Mrs. Woodhouse.” Much of her energy
was given to community service. She held offices in the Massachusetts Food
Administration, 1918; the Advisory Council of Women at Massachusetts State
College, Amherst, 1926-1953; Boston Rental Housing, 1951-1952; and many local
organizations.
Her trips to Norway in 1906, 1913, and 1926, the last as an Honorary Fellow of the
American-Scandinavian Foundation, brought her into contact with Norwegian
writers. Her major achievements in this regard were the translation of Sverre
Brandt’s Sonja and Christmas, produced by the New York Junior Players, December
1929, and the translation of Barbara Ring’s Peik, published by Little Brown in
Boston, 1932.
1470. WORKERS LYCEUM, CHICAGO. ANNIVERSARY, 1928. P 816.
Ten year anniversary history, 16 pages, that gives the history of a workers’
organization in Chicago, earlier known as Branch no. 1, Karl Marx. It was associated
with the American Socialist Party.
1471. WORLD WAR I. ROSTER, 1918. 1 item. P 408.
Roster of World War I veterans in the Duluth, Minnesota, area.
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