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Preus, J. A. O. (Jacob Aall Ottesen), 1883-1961. J.A.O. Preus and family papers, 1853-1946.

Title: J.A.O. Preus and family papers, 1853-1946.

Correspondence, speeches, bills, deeds, pamphlets, campaign literature, and clippings, mainly 1903-1924, relating largely to the political (Republican) and personal career of Preus, who served as a clerk-assistant to U.S. Senator Knute Nelson and to Minnesota Governor Adolph O. Eberhart, as Minnesota commissioner of insurance (1911-1915), as state auditor (1915-1921), and as governor (1921-1925). He was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate (1923) and became vice-president (1926-?) of the W.A. Alexander Insurance Company, Chicago.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 cu. ft. (38 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122411542 View

Organization records, 1892-1942.

Title: Organization records, 1892-1942.

Correspondence, reports, accounts, and minutes of this affiliate of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), established in 1887 as the Duluth Federated Trades Assembly.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 cu. ft. (12 boxes, incl. 13 v).

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Nelson, Knute, 1843-1923. Knute Nelson papers, 1861-1924 (bulk 1916-1923).

Title: Knute Nelson papers, 1861-1924 (bulk 1916-1923).

Correspondence and miscellany documenting Nelson's career as a soldier with the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry (1861-1864), as a country lawyer and politician at Alexandria, Minnesota (1871-1892), as governor of Minnesota (1893-1895), and particularly as United States senator (1895-1923). The majority of the papers focus on political and legislative affairs, either in Minnesota or reflecting Minnesota interests.

ArchivalResource: 82.0 cu. ft. (82 boxes, including 23 volumes; 18 oversize items; 1 item in reserve).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313867157 View

Smith, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1861-1931. Edward E. Smith papers, 1923-1924.

Title: Edward E. Smith papers, 1923-1924.

Correspondence, telegrams, and memoranda of Smith, a Minneapolis (Minn.) Republican, largely concerned with the nomination and election of a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy created by Knute Nelson's death. Also includes information on nominations of U.S. presidential candidates, preparations for the national Republican convention, and other national, Minnesota, and Minneapolis political matters.

ArchivalResource: 182 items in 4 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313835348 View

Blegen, Theodore Christian, 1891-1969. Knute Nelson as United States senator from Minnesota.

Title: Knute Nelson as United States senator from Minnesota. [1923]

ArchivalResource: 13 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10553710 View

Fort Ridgely State Park and Historical Association. Association papers, 1888-1956.

Title: Association papers, 1888-1956.

Correspondence, clippings, and other papers of association officers Charles H. and Frank Hopkins, relating to the organization's promotion of the creation and development of Fort Ridgely State Park (Nicollet County, Minn.). They discuss the history of Fort Ridgely, a focal point in the 1862 Dakota Conflict, park and cemetery upkeep and improvements, memorial plaques and monuments, historical pageants and other commemorative ceremonies (especially in the 1930s), land acquisitions, and attempts to create a national park at the site.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122598627 View

Andrew Adin Stomberg Papers

Title: Andrew Adin Stomberg Papers

Personal and professional papers of Andrew Adin Stomberg. The collection includes correspondence with prominent Scandinavian and Scandinavian-American figures; organizations such as the American-Scandinavian Society, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study and the Swedish Historical Society; publications, articles and speeches in Swedish and English; material on Swedish immigration.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 Cubic Feet (3 boxes)

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Knute Nelson papers., 1861-1924.

Title: Knute Nelson papers. 1861-1924.

Correspondence and miscellany documenting Nelson's career asa soldier with the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry (1861-1864), as a country lawyer andpolitician at Alexandria, Minnesota (1871-1892), as governor of Minnesota(1893-1895), and particularly as United States senator (1895-1923). The majority ofthe papers focus on political and legislative affairs, either in Minnesota orreflecting Minnesota interests.

ArchivalResource:

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Nevius, George Loper, 1854-1925. George L. Nevius papers, 1884, 1890-1915.

Title: George L. Nevius papers, 1884, 1890-1915.

Business and personal correspondence, particularly 1895-1906, of Nevius, a Wadena (Minn.) and Minneapolis lawyer. Much of it relates to the production and distribution of six editions of his Investment Record Book (Minneapolis, 1889-1896).

ArchivalResource: 0.75 cu. ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122425676 View

A. O. Eberhart papers., 1831-1945.

Title: A. O. Eberhart papers. 1831-1945.

Biological and family information (1831-1913),correspondence and miscellaneous papers (1910-1914), and autobiographicalreminiscences (undated and 1943) describing Eberhart's immigration to the UnitedStates from Sweden (1882), his life in St. Peter and Mankato, Minnesota, and inNebraska (1883-1893), and his subsequent political career in the Minnesota StateSenate (1902-1914), as lieutenant governor (1905-1909), as governor (1909-1914), andas a member of the Speakers Bureau for the Federal Housing Authority (1934-ca.1938).

ArchivalResource:

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Day, Frank A. (Frank Arah), 1855-1928. Frank A. Day papers, 1889-1928.

Title: Frank A. Day papers, 1889-1928.

Correspondence, clippings, financial papers, and other items relating to Day, a Fairmont (Martin County, Minn.) newspaper editor who served in the Minnesota legislature (1878, 1887-1895, 1926-1928), as lieutenant governor (1895-1897), as private secretary to Governor John A. Johnson (1905-1909), and as a member of the board of visitors of the State Board of Control (1923-1926). Most of the papers consist of letters from other journalists and politicians, concentrated in the years 1894-1897, 1915-1916, and 1923-1927.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 cu. ft. (5 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508184 View

Holvik, Johan Andreas, 1880-1960. Johan Andreas Holvik papers, 1899-1960.

Title: Johan Andreas Holvik papers, 1899-1960.

Correspondence, notes, articles, clippings, publications, and related materials pertaining to the career of Holvik, a professor of Norse at St. Olaf College, Northfield (Minn.), and at Concordia College, Moorhead (Minn.). The primary areas of documentation are Norwegian-American culture, organizations, publications, and scholarship, and the controversy over the authenticity of the Kensington rune stone in Alexandria, Douglas County (Minn.), in which Holvik served as a language consultant for the Minnesota Historical Society.

ArchivalResource: 2.75 cu. ft. (8 boxes and 6 oversize items), and 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615965 View

Burnquist, J. A. A. (Joseph Alfred Arner), 1879-1961. J. A. A. Burnquist papers, 1884-1961.

Title: J. A. A. Burnquist papers, 1884-1961.

Papers documenting Burnquist's career as St. Paul (Minnesota) lawyer, state representative (1909-1911), lieutenant governor (1913-1915), governor (1915-1921), state attorney general (1939-1955), and relating to his years of retirement (1954-1961). He was a Republican.

ArchivalResource: 15.0 cu. ft. (35 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313818378 View

Longfellow, Levi, 1842-1926. Levi Longfellow papers, 1865-1926.

Title: Levi Longfellow papers, 1865-1926.

Correspondence (1910-1924), addresses and reports, newspaper clippings (1913-1923), and memorabilia of Longfellow, a pioneer Minneapolis produce dealer, Grand Army of the Republic official, and member of the Sibley punitive expedition against the Dakota Indians in 1863.

ArchivalResource: 35 items; 4 oversize items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122475239 View

Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (U.S.). Partners in Mission. Hong Kong Controversy Files 1974-1977.

Title: Hong Kong Controversy Files 1974-1977.

The majority of the records are correspondence and meeting minutes that pertain to the Hong Kong controversy itself. In addition to correspondence there are copies of minutes from Hong Kong Mission General Conference and Executive Council meetings. There is correspondence to Partners in Mission (PIM), which indicated that PIM's role in the crisis was that of offering whatever support was needed. The records in box 1 appear to contain the majority of official correspondence from PIM, with the Rev. Paul Strege and the Rev. Jim Mayer as the authors. Box 2 contains mostly correspondence to and from Pastor Strege marked "personal" and "confidential." In addition to the records relating to the schism in the LCMS-related church in Hong Kong, other major subjects found in the records include minutes and correspondence pertaining to the Tokyo Conference of Presidents of LCMS-related Lutheran churches in March 1975, and correspondence and meeting minutes pertaining to a controversy involving the termination of Dr. Thomas Coates, a professor at Concordia Seminary, Hong Kong. There are records in English and Chinese. Given the passage of time, items marked "confidential" are no longer considered as such. Other significant correspondents include Dr. Waldo Werning, the Rev. Andrew Chiu, the Rev. Martin Chiang, the Rev. James W. Mayer, Dr. J.A.O. Preus, Dr. Thomas Coates, Dr. Herman Koppelmann, and Dr. William H. Kohn. Records are arranged chronologically and duplicates were removed.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48749758 View

Herman Roe papers, 1906-1965.

Title: Herman Roe papers, 1906-1965.

Correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other papers providing information on Roe's career as a Northfield (Rice County, Minn.) newspaper editor and publisher. Included are data on his presidencies of the National Editorial Association (1927) and the Minnesota State Agricultural Society (1925-1926); his chairmanship of the Republican party in Rice County; the 1876 robbery of the Northfield bank by the James and Younger brothers; his two trips to Norway (1906, 1927); and his observation of Operation Mainbrace, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 1952 naval exercises. There are also correspondence with many Minnesota politicians and clippings concerning his weekly columns (1945-1961) and his various civic activities.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 cu. ft. (3 boxes).

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Minnesota. Joint Efficiency and Economy Commission. General statements, 1915-1916.

Title: General statements, 1915-1916.

Texts of statements made by several persons who addressed the commission and a detailed statement compiled by J.A.O. Preus, state auditor, of estimates of conducting the state government on the plan proposed by the Governor's Efficiency and Economy Commission.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615186 View

Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association. Records, 1894-1923

Title: Association records,[microform]. 1894-1923.

Correspondence, minutes and other record books, subjectfiles, printed materials, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany of thisorganization formed to promote equal voting rights for women. Most post-date1900.

ArchivalResource: 18 microfilm reels, 6 boxes, and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00756.xml View

Minnesota. Insurance Division. Miscellaneous records, 1913-1955.

Title: Miscellaneous records, 1913-1955.

An address on insurance education, delivered by J. A. O. Preus, Minnesota's insurance commissioner, at the National Convention of Insurance Commissioners in Burlington, Vermont (July 30, 1913; 1 folder); attorney general opinions regarding insurance-related topics (1940-1950; 2 folders); reports prepared by the Insurance Division and the Fire Marshall for the Legislative Interim Commission on State Administration (1943; 2 folders); and a Hoover Report Update (1955; 1 folder).

ArchivalResource: 0.2 cu. ft. (1 partial box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313792784 View

Fosseen, Carrie, 1875-1963. Carrie Fosseen papers, 1914-1951.

Title: Carrie Fosseen papers, 1914-1951.

Correspondence, clippings, speeches, printed items, and biographical data pertaining largely to Fosseen's activities as a Minneapolis, state, and national officer in the Republican party, including her election as a delegate to the Republican national convention (1920), her organization (1921) of the Republican Federation of Women in Minnesota, her service as national committee woman (1921-1937), state political campaigns of 1932 and 1946, and her membership in and presidency (1903-1949) of the Dome Club, a social organization for wives of members of the Minnesota legislature (where her husband Manley L. served from 1903-1913).

ArchivalResource: 0.75 cu. ft. (1 box and 3 v.)1 microfilm reel : negative.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474718 View

Eberhart, Adolph Olson, 1870-1944. A. O. Eberhart papers, 1831-1945.

Title: A. O. Eberhart papers, 1831-1945.

Biographical and family information (1831-1913); correspondence and miscellaneous papers (1910-1914); and autobiographical reminiscences (undated and 1943) describing his emigration to the United States from Sweden (1882); his life in St. Peter and Mankato, Minnesota, and in Nebraska (1883-1893); and his subsequent political career in the Minnesota State Senate (1902-1905), as lieutenant governor (1905-1909), as governor (1909-1914), and as a member of the Speakers Bureau for the Federal Housing Authority (1934-ca.1938).

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313858627 View

Rahilly, Patrick Henry, 1832-1931. Patrick Henry Rahilly papers, 1874-1930.

Title: Patrick Henry Rahilly papers, 1874-1930.

Personal, political, and social correspondence (9 in.) reflecting the activities of Rahilly, an Irish-American settler and politician of Lake City, Wabasha County (Minn.). He was active in Catholic affairs, championed the Irish fight for freedom from English rule, served in the Minnesota legislature (1874, 1878-1879), and was a close friend of Ignatius Donnelly and a correspondent of Archbishop John Ireland and other Catholic leaders.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 cu. ft. (5 boxes, incl. 15 v.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474636 View

Records of Governor J. A. O. Preus, 1921-1938 (bulk 1921-1924).

Title: Records of Governor J. A. O. Preus, 1921-1938 (bulk 1921-1924).

General correspondence, subject files on public policy matters, files on state departments and agencies, organizations files, and material relating to extraditions and to the "coal situation" (problems with transportation of coal to the area).

ArchivalResource:

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Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association records, 1894-1923 [microform].

Title: Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association records, 1894-1923 [microform].

Correspondence, minutes and other record books, subject files, printed materials, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany of this organization formed to promote equal voting rights for women. Most post-date 1900. They provide information on the MWSA's organizational work at the state, district, and local levels; on public attitudes toward suffrage issues; on life in small-town Minnesota; on interstate cooperation among suffrage groups; on the role of various non-suffrage organizations in the movement; and on suffrage and related bills introduced into the Minnesota legislature. There is a history of woman suffrage in Minnesota, by Julia B. Nelson (ca. 1900); data on a convention of the Mississippi Valley Suffrage Association (1916); an extensive file of pro- and anti-suffrage literature; and information on peace, temperance, child welfare, women's rights, voter education, and other issues of interest to the suffragists. Primary correspondents include officers and members of the MWSA and of similar groups in Minnesota and other states, and state and national politicians and other public figures. They include Clara Ueland, Alice Hall, Maud Stockwell, Bertha Moller, Rene E. H. Stevens, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna H. Shaw, Jane Addams, Harriet Taylor Upton, William D. Washburn, Charles Pillsbury, and Marion D. Shutter. Also present are some records of the Hennepin County Suffrage Association, the Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association, and the Minnesota League of Women Voters.

ArchivalResource: 18 microfilm reels, 17 boxes, 1 folder, and 1 oversize folder.

http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00756.xml View

Minnesota. Governor (1921-1925 : Preus). Records of Governor J. A. O. Preus, 1921-1938 (bulk 1921-1924).

Title: Records of Governor J. A. O. Preus, 1921-1938 (bulk 1921-1924).

General correspondence, subject files on public policy matters, files on state departments and agencies, organizations files, and material relating to extraditions and to the "coal situation" (problems with transportation of coal to the area).

ArchivalResource: 15.0 cu. ft. (15 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313805651 View