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Sons of Norway (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

AW -- Guide to the Daughters of Norway Embla Lodge No. 2 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_269
Abstract

Daughters of Norway Embla Lodge No. 2 Collection. This collection contains the records of Daughters of Norway Embla Lodge No. 2, including financial records, membership history, and meeting minutes.

Dates: 1907-2014

My Story

 Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_190
Abstract

Biographical story of the life of Erick Bjarne Hauke, born in Norway, lived in the United States and was President of the Sons of Norway Lodge.

Dates: 1957

Guide to Hildur Larson Autobiography

 Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_199
Abstract

Hildur Larson was born in Sweden in 1896. She travelled to the United States in 1927, married, and never returned to Scandinavia. The collection consists of a book written by Edgar Larson about his mother's early years, based on her oral history.

Dates: 1987

Guide to the Esther Lund Nilsen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_280
Abstract

A series of scrapbooks kept by Ester Lund Nilsen during the Second World War.

Dates: 1889-1942

Guide to the Sons of Norway District 2 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_270
Abstract

This collection contains the records of the Sons of Norway District 2 cultural organization.

Dates: 1903-2010

Guide to the Sons of Norway Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_271
Abstract During a depression which began in 1893, 18 Norwegian immigrants living in Minneapolis created a fraternal organization as a mutual assistance society built on the moral principles of American fraternalism and based on a group assistance plan from Trondheim. The name “Sønner av Norge” was settled upon and the formal inception of the organization was completed on 16 January 1895. In 1903 a similar organization was founded in the Pacific Northwest, the Grand Lodge of the Sons of Norway of the...
Dates: 1903-2011

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Oslo (Norway) 3
Seattle (Wash.) 3
Tacoma (Wash.) 3
Hoquim, Washington 2
Parkland (Wash.) 2