Agnes Johanna Dyrhaug Oral History Interview 1982.

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Agnes Johanna Dyrhaug Oral History Interview 1982.

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This interview was conducted with Agnes Dyrhaug on May 21, 1982 in Portland, Oregon. It contains information concerning family background, emigration, work, marriage and family, community activities, and Norwegian heritage. The interview also includes an article in Norwegian from the Western Viking concerning Agnes's eighty-fifth birthday and her nomination to Gerda Farestrand's committee on the Oregon Arts Commission. The article also gives an overview of Agnes's life, including emigration, schooling in Astoria, Washington, marriage, involvement in Scandinavian organizations, meeting Crown Prince Olav, and employment with Nordic Ware and Chicago Cutlery. The interview was conducted in English.

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Agnes Dyrhaug was born on July 11, 1896 in Nord-Statland, Norway to Anton Peterson and Jette Krestine. Anton worked in a sawmill, and there were three other children in the family: Ole, Johan, and Wilhelmine. Agnes immigrated to America in 1905 with her mother, sister, two brothers, and an aunt. Her father had immigrated three and a half years earlier and lived in Astoria, OR, where he had originally come to fish and later became a carpenter. The World Fair was in Portland, OR the year Agnes and...

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Holy Trinity began when the Board of American Missions of the United Lutheran Church sent pastor M. Roderick Anderson to southeast Portland in November of 1952. Services began the following February, being held first in the Meriweather Lewis School and then in a house chapel at 39th and Knapp. The present church was dedicated on June 21, 1959, and an administration/education addition on November 26, 1967. The 25th anniversary was celebrated in 1978. From the guide to the Holy Trinity...

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