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Ødehøg, Sweden, educated in Sweden and London, she served as a governess in
England and later as a teacher in Norway. In 1934 she married Lars Fletre, a
Norwegian sculptor who had earlier lived in Chicago. They moved to Chicago with
their three children in 1954, where they became active in the many Norwegian
groups which were flourishing at the time, notably DeLiSa (Det literaer Samfund),
Nordmanns Forbundet, Norwegian National League, and others.
She served on the Sesquicentennial Commission, was co-editor of From Fjord to
Prairie, for which together with other services she was awarded the Medal of St.
Olaf in 1976. As a staff writer for the newspaper Vinland, she contributed
“hundreds” of articles to that paper. She was a familiar figure at symposiums and
conferences where she presented papers dealing with Norwegian cultural life in
Chicago. During her last years she was helpful in collecting information for A
Century of Urban Life, by Odd S. Lovoll, published by NAHA in 1988.
316. FLETRE, LARS (1904-1977). PAPERS, 1977. 2 items. P 943.
Tributes to a sculptor who came from Voss, Norway, to Chicago in 1923. He
returned to Norway in 1933, but came back to Chicago in 1954.
317. FLOAN, PETER O. (b. 1861). REMINISCENCES, 1941. 1 item, 16 typescript pages.
P 96.
“Reminiscences from the Pioneer Days in Goodhue County, Minnesota,”
containing names of early settlers and anecdotes concerning methods of acquiring
land, establishment of churches and schools, fear of Indians, and general
community life.
318. FLOM, GEORGE TOBIAS (1871-1960). ARTICLES. 1 box. P 1366.
Offprints of 42 articles and reviews published in The Journal of English and German
Philology and other journals by a distinguished Norwegian-American philologist.
Flom was born in Utica, Wisconsin, attended Albion Academy, the University of
Wisconsin, and other American and European universities. He received the Ph.D.
degree at Columbia University in 1899, was Professor of Scandinavian Languages
and Literature at the University of Iowa, 1900-1909, and at the University of Illinois,
1909-1927. In 1911 he organized the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian
Study and served as editor of that society’s journal. He was also an associate editor
of the Journal of English and Germanic Philology. Among his books was A History of
Norwegian Migration to the Year 1848.
Also, Bjørnson’s Synnøve Solbakken, ed. with introduction, notes and vocabulary, and
an appendix on Norwegian phraseology, by George T. Flom. 221 pages. Clippings
(1903-1940), a brief biography, perhaps by C. G. O. Hansen, and a letter from Flom
to Hansen, May 23, 1907.
319. FLUGUM, OLE NILSEN (1862-1939). PAPERS, 1865-1939. 2 boxes. P 540.
Articles, clippings, poems, records, and scrapbooks of a Norwegian-born farmer
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