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

Aske to John Danielson.
494. HEITMAN, JOHN (1871-1955). PAPERS, 1931-1951. 15 items. P 1273.
Copies of poems used as Christmas greetings, and letters to a nephew, written by a
Duluth, Minnesota, lawyer, who came from the island of Dønna, Norway, in 1894.
Educated in Norway, he first became a member of the editorial staff of Minneapolis
Tidende and later studied law at the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1902. In
addition to his work as an attorney, Heitman ranks as a significant cultural figure
on the immigrant scene, speaking and writing about Norwegian-American cultural
interests, particularly Norwegian-American literature.
495. HEKTOEN, LUDVIG (1863-1951). PAPERS, 1904-1940. 122 items in 3 folders. P
148.
Correspondence, biographies, articles, and pictures of a Chicago physician,
pathologist, professor, author, and editor.
Hektoen was professor of pathology at Rush Medical College; first chairman of the
Department of Pathology at the University of Chicago (1901-1932); director of the
John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases; chairman of the Medical Sciences
of the National Research Council; executive director of the National Advisory
Cancer Council; editor of Journal of Infectional Diseases and of Archives of Pathology;
and author of books and articles.
The file also includes “Optegnelsen angaaende den første bebyggelse af norske paa
Coon Prairie og omegn,” by P. P. Hektoen, and information about other
Norwegian-American physicians and surgeons.
496. HELGESEN, THOR (1842-1928). POEM, 1927. 1 item. P 978.
Copy of “Paa min 85de Fødselsdag,” a long autobiographical poem by a pioneer
teacher and writer who emigrated from Tin, Telemark, in 1862.
See also article on Helgesen by Einar Haugen in Norwegian-American Studies,
volume 24, and Helgesen’s own Fra Indianernes lande og andre steder i Wisconsin, 2
volumes.
497. HELJESON, OLE. PAPERS, 1729-1934. 3 items. P 145.
A Norwegian warranty deed transferring church land to Ole Heljeson, together
with a copy of same and a clipping of an article in Minneapolis Tidende by H. Chr.
Hjortaas explaining the document.
498. HELLESTAD, OSCAR (b. 1881). PAPERS, 1842-1963. 5 items. P 149.
Emigration papers of a Lutheran clergyman and missionary.
499. HEM, HALVOR O. (1863-1952). ARTICLES, 1938-1945. 2 items. P 150.
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