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

296. FALKBERGET, JOHAN (1879-1967). JOURNAL, 1949. 1 item, 4 pages. P 89.
A statement published and edited by Falkberget in response to the recognition
given him on his seventieth birthday.
297. FAMILY HISTORIES AND GENEALOGIES. 51 boxes. P 539.
Manuscript, typescript, and printed accounts of Norwegian-American families.
298. FARSETH, OLAUS MARTINIUS CHRISTIANSEN (1852-1913). PAPERS, 1984-1913.
4 boxes. P 1441.
Correspondence, documents, and manuscripts of an emigrant from Vega,
Helgeland, who came to Canton, South Dakota, in 1882. He started out as a farmer
but in 1886-1887 attended the seminary at St. Olaf’s School in Northfield,
Minnesota, and was ordained in 1887. He served parishes in Iowa, Minnesota,
Wisconsin and North Dakota. He wrote Husandagtsbog, Raad og Vink i
Menighetsarbeidet and Haandsrækning i Religionsundervisning, and served as editor of
For Gammel og Ung , 1904-1905., and as associate editor of Fram, 1910-1911.
The collection contains 40 letters from O. E. Rølvaag to Farseth.
299. FARSETH, PAULINE (1889-1972). CLIPPINGS, 1972. 3 items. P 926.
Tributes to Pauline Farseth published in Minnesota Posten by Nina Draxten and
Audrey Lawrence. Both writers had been students of Miss Farseth, who taught at
North High School, Minneapolis, and was active in cultural affairs in the Twin City
area.
300. FEDDE, ELIZABETH (1850-1921). PAPERS. 40 typescript pages. P 801.
“Memoirs of Sister Elizabeth,” translated by P. J. Hertsgaard, is an account of a
Norwegian-born deaconess who began her career at the Deaconess Home in
Christiania (now Oslo) in 1873, and who came to New York in 1883, where she
organized a deaconess program in connection with the Seaman’s Mission Church in
Brooklyn. Eventually she established deaconess hospitals in Brooklyn and in
Minneapolis. This account covers briefly her career in Norway and only her two
first years in the United States.
The file includes a photocopy of a 13-page typescript titled “The Long Journey of
Deaconess Nursing in America” by an unknown author, and two articles in
Norwegian, 61 and 23 pages, which discuss Deaconess work and its history in
Norway.
An account of Fedde’s career by Beulah Folkedahl is in Studies and Records, volume
20, 1959.
301. FEDDE, GABRIEL A. (1843-1917). BIOGRAPHY. 4 folders. P 1330.
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