Johannes Hoving papers 1917-1936

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Johannes Hoving papers 1917-1936

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Johannes Hoving (1868-1954) was a Finnish-born Swedish physician who immigrated to New York in 1903. Hoving was highly involved in and a member of many organizations associated with American-Swedish culture. The Johannes Hoving papers, 1917-1936, consist primarily of correspondence, with clippings, photographs, receipts, tickets, and other ephemera. The bulk relate to Hoving's involvement with the Vasa Order of America, the St. Erik club for Swedish art and writing in America, and other Swedish-American social and cultural groups.

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Vasa Order of America

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In the mid-19th century, thanks to the blessings--in the words of poet and bishop Esaias Tegnér--of "peace, vaccine, and potatoes," Sweden experienced a population boom. While Swedes had been immigrating to the United States since 1840, significant numbers began to make the journey around 1865, drawn by the promise of ample land for farming, fewer income and property requirements for voting, and greater freedom of religion. Large waves of immigrants followed in the 1880s and 1890s, ...

Hoving, Johannes, 1868-1954

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Johannes Walter Wilhelm Hoving (1868-1954) was born in Finland. He studied medicine in Berlin and Stockholm and became a physician in 1898. He married Helga (nee Adamsen), an opera singer born in Copenhagen and raised in Stockholm. The couple lived in Finland for a time, but emigrated to the United States in 1903 due to Hoving's opposition to the Russification of Finland. The Hovings settled in New York, where Johannes maintained a medical practice and the couple remained until 1934...