Dagny Unsgaard NygaardPapers 1899-1979

Sears, Roebuck and Company

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Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892, and reincorporated by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald in 1906. Formerly based at the Sears Tower in Chicago and currently headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, the operation began as a mail ordering catalog company and began opening retail locations in 1925. The first location was in Chicago, Illinois. In 2005, the...

Girl Scouts of the United States of America

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The Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low on March 12, 1912 when Low organized the first Girl Guide troop meeting of 18 girls at her home in Savannah, Georgia. By the next year they became the Girl Scouts of the United States. By the 1920s troops were forming overseas as well. Low was inspired to start the Girl Scouts after she met Robert Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, in 1911. Beginning with Lou Henry Hoover, the incumbent First Lady has served as the Honorary Pr...

Carr, Inger Nygaard

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Dagny Unsgaard Nygaard was born on 31 August 1899 in Tydal, Norway, to Berit Stuedal Unsgaard, a midwife, and David Unsgaard, a furniture builder and farmer. Dagny had six siblings. Dagny took a job as a salesclerk at a general store until she was 21 when she went home to care for her mother who died shortly after. Dagny married in 1927 to Lars Nygaard, a carpenter. He found a sponsor to America and left behind Dagny and their new baby girl, Inger. He stayed with people ...

Boeing Aerospace Company

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Unsgaard family

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Singer Sewing Machine Company

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Nygaard, Dagny Unsgaard

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Montgomery Ward

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Montgomery Ward, the world's first general merchandise mail-order business, issued its first single sheet catalog in 1872. By 1887, the Chicago based company had annual sales exceeding $1,000,000 and in 1889 it became a privately held corporation. In 1893, founder Aaron Montgomery Ward sold his controlling interest to partner George R. Thorne, and the company became a public corporation in 1919. In 1931, Sewell L. Avery became chairman and chief executive officer. His te...

Unsgaard, David

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Luther League of America

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Nygaard, Lars

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Lars Nygaard was born on July 17, 1901 in Tydal, Norway to Thomas Langmyr and Karena Nygaard. Lars was born on his mother's place, which is why he received her maiden name. He had five siblings: Einar, Inga, Henning, Torvald, and Tordis. Thomas was a carpenter, and the family lived on the same farm. Lars went to school in Tydal for eight years, after which he was confirmed and began working for his father. When he was 27 years old, he decided to immigrate to America. Einar, who had ...

Unsgaard, Berit Stuedal

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Nygaard family

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