Elias Kristofferson Veholmen Holmes Oral History Interview 1982.

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Elias Kristofferson Veholmen Holmes Oral History Interview 1982.

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The interview was conducted with Elias Holmes on March 18, 1982 in Stanwood, Washington. This interview contains information on family history, emigration, life and work in Norway, Norwegian Christmas traditions, voyage to the U.S., reasons for and feelings about emigrating, work in the railroad, learning English, railroad unions, visits to Norway, life in North Dakota and the West Coast, children, dairy farming, citizenship, church, schools, changes in Norway, use of Norwegian language, comparison of work and wages between the past and now. The interview also provides a photograph of Elias and his family in Stanwood, WA (1940) and photographs of Elias and his wife Gudrun at the time of the interview. The interview was conducted in English. Also see Gudrun Holmes, T153.

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Veholmen, Kristoffer.

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Veholmen, Jacob.

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Holmes, John.

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John Elmer Holmes, educated at Stanford, was with the Miners and Merchants Bank in Alaska, working his way up from assayer at the Candle branch (1909) to vice-president at the Iditarod branch (1915). From the description of John E. Holmes collection, 1908-1915. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). WorldCat record id: 318655742 ...

Veholmen, Elias Kristoffersen.

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Holmes, Elias Kristofferson Velholmen.

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Elias Kristoffersen Holmes was born on October 12, 1894 in Stavanger, Høle, Norway, one of eleven children by Nellie Selvig and Kristoffer Veholmen; his father was a farmer and sold milk to the Stavanger dairy. Elias went to school for seven years and was baptized, confirmed, and married in Dome Church in Stavanger. He worked on the farm until confirmation, then at a potato mill in Stavanger when he was 16. His father had come and worked in the U.S. in the 1870s but went back to Norway to marry,...

Holmes, Elias Kristoffersen.

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Holmes, Gudrun Hauge.

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Selvig, Ivar.

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Veholmen, Nellie Selvig.

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Nelsen, Gudveig Holmes.

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Holmes, Leif.

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Holmes, Kjell.

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Selvig, Laurensa.

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