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

Minneapolis, and her husband was not happy in his work at Augsburg. After
leaving Augsburg the family spent a year at the Hauge Seminary in Red Wing,
Minnesota. The Gunnersens returned to Norway in 1884, where Elise settled into a
life that was more in accord with her background.
406. GUNNESS, BELLE. BIOGRAPHY, 1933. 3 items. P 1338.
A pamphlet published by La Porte County, Indiana, Historical Society; an article by
Robert F. Coffeen; and a reproduced copy of the dust jacket of a book about a
notorious immigrant from Selbu, who came to Chicago in the 1890s. Belle Gunness
is believed to have been a serial killer. There is a mystery about what finally
happened to her.
For additional information, see Mrs. Gunness: nutidens største forbryder kvinde, by Lars
Stenholt, Minneapolis, 1908, in the NAHA book collection.
407. GUNNULDSON, OLE (1842-1919). GUNNULSON, PEDER G. (1874-1946).
PAPERS, 1870s-1933. 21 items and 4 volumes. P 666.
Correspondence, diaries, creamery reports, tobacco pool reports, tax receipts, and
assessor’s statements (1891) for Town of Christiana, Dane County, Wisconsin. The
correspondence deals with farm interests in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota,
and Arvada, Wyoming, and also with the construction of the First East Koshkonong
Lutheran Church, of which Ole Gunnuldson was architect and builder.
408. GUTGESELL, STEPHEN CLIFFORD. ESSAY. 1 item. P 1126.
“An Immigrant Conflict: The Slavery Controversy in the Norwegian Synod, 1861-
1869,” a St. Olaf College department of history senior honors paper.
409. HAAEIM, SJUR JØRGENSEN. ARTICLE, CHRISTIANIA, 1842. 12 typescript
pages. P 118.
A manuscript titled “Oplysninger om forholdene i Nordamerika især forsaavidt de
derhen udvandrede Norskes skjæbne angaar,” by a disillusioned Norwegian
pathfinder who admonished his countrymen not to emigrate to America.
Translated and edited by Gunnar J. Malmin, it was published in Studies and Records,
volume 3, 1928.
410. HAALAND, OLE JOHANNESON (1827-1880). FAMILY HISTORY, 1928. 1 item. P
1431.
“History and Memories from Pioneer Times in Winnebago County, Iowa,” first
appeared in Norwegian in Visergutten, January 12, 1928. This translation is by a
grandson, H. O. Folkestad. Ole Haaland came from Skjold, Stavanger, Norway, in
1858 to Dane County, Wisconsin, and migrated to Iowa in 1965.
411. HAAVIK, OLAI (OLAF) LUDVIG (b. 1885). LETTERS, 1962. 2 items. P 852.
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