Maria Jarlsdotter Enckell papers.

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Maria Jarlsdotter Enckell papers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/692788280

A three-part manuscript with additional revisions, unrelated press release, and an article documenting Finnish genealogy and Finns in Russian America.

1 box (1024 pages ms.; photocopied ms. in 3 parts, photocopied suppl. materials)

Alaska State Library

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Alaska State Library

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Sitka Lutheran Church (Sitka, Alaska)

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The oldest Lutheran church in the West was founded when Rev. Uno Cygnaeus arrived in Sitka in May of 1840, having been sent by the Church of Finland to establish the first non-orthodox church in Russian America. Aided in this endeavor by the Governor, who was also a Finnish Lutheran, he and the others soon had a flourishing church with approximately 150 members, most of whom were Finnish craftsmen, clerks and shipwrights. The first pipe organ on the west coast, shipped around the horn in 1846 fo...

Enckell, Maria Björnberg, 1963-

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From the introduction to "Documenting the Legacy of the Alaska Finns from the Russian Period," written and researched by Maria Enckell, Edited by Gene A. Knapp, copyright 1996 by The Finnish-American Historical Society of the West: "Finland was under Swedish rule for six hundred years, until 1809. The Crown Colony of New Sweden was established in Delaware in the mid 1600s. A good portion of those colonists were Finns, but they were misrepresented as Swedes. Through rigorous research...