Adrian Oxaal was born in California of mixed Norwegian-American and Guyanan ancestry, however, he grew up in Hull, England where he learned guitar and cello and befriended his future James colleague Saul Davies when both attended the same school.
Dedicated by Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway on June 15, 1939, the tower memorializes Bert Enger, a Norwegian immigrant who found success as a furniture seller and donated the land for Enger Park.
Many Norwegian emigrants went to America during the 1840s and later settled in the area of the present city of Westby, Wisconsin (named after general store owner and American Civil War Union soldier Ole T. Westby); a city which still has a mostly Norwegian American population.
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Norwegian American John A. Widtsoe (1872–1952) was born and lived here for the first twelve years of his life.
Most Norwegian immigrants to the United States, particularly in the migration wave between the 1860s and early 20th century, were members of the Church of Norway, an evangelical Lutheran church established by the Constitution of Norway.
Among faculty members at this school were the famed Swedish-American naturalist, Thure Kumlien, and the Norwegian-American author and diplomat, Rasmus Anderson.
Jacob Bjerknes (1897–1975), Norwegian-American meteorologist, son of Vilhelm
Blegen, Theodore C. Norwegian Migration to America, The American Transition (Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1940)
Dahl wrote several books and a number of short stories published in the Norwegian-American press, most notably in the The Friend, published in Minneapolis by Nils Nilsen Ronning.
Lovoll, Odd S. The History of the Norwegian-American People (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 1999)
Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland (1889–1976), Norwegian-American Hardanger fiddle maker
Hawick was originally called "Havig", according to Martin Ulvestad who wrote extensively about early Norwegian-American settlements in Minnesota (circa 1907).
I had just taken a course on Henrik Ibsen (this was, after all, at St Olaf College, a Minnesota college founded by Norwegian-American Lutherans and very true to its heritage which was my heritage as well for that matter).
Harley Refsal - Norwegian-American woodcarver honored by a king of Norway.
Lloyd Hustvedt (1922–2004), American professor and scholar of Norwegian-American history
Lovoll, Odd S. A Century of Urban Life: the Norwegians in Chicago before 1930 (Northfield, MN: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1988)
Some of his students emigrated to America including the Norwegian-American artists, Lars Jonson Haukaness, Carl L. Boeckmann and Herbjørn Gausta.
During his appearance at the Norse-American Centennial in 1925, President Calvin Coolidge gave recognition to Leif Erikson as the Discoverer of America due to research by Norwegian-American scholars such as Knut Gjerset and Ludvig Hektoen.
Bernt Julius Muus (1832–1900) Norwegian-American Lutheran minister and church leader
Hans Andersen Foss (1851-1929) Norwegian-American author and newspaper editor
Old Muskego Church was erected by Norwegian-American Lutherans near Waterford in the Wind Lake area of Racine County, Wisconsin in 1844, four years before Wisconsin became a state.
Washington Prairie Norwegian Methodist Church located outside Decorah, Iowa is considered the mother church of Norwegian-American Methodism.
Lars Onsager, a Norwegian–American physical chemist and theoretical physicist
Stomme was influenced in his writing style by other Norwegian American writers who had provided a truthful renditions of the lives of immigrant settlers, in particular Hans Andersen Foss.
Naeseth, Gerhard B. Norwegian Immigrants to the United States, A Biographical Directory, 1825-1850. 2 vols. (Madison, WI: Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, 1997)
Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian-American sociologist, educator and author
It had its roots in the newspaper Wossingen, published as far away as Leland, Wisconsin from 1857 by the Norwegian emigrant Niels T. Bakkethun.
Westby was named after general store owner and Civil War Union soldier Ole T. Westby of Biri, Norway, where many of the city's Norwegian-American settlers originated.
Bjork, Kenneth O. Saga in Steel and Concrete - Norwegian Engineers in America (Northfield, MN: Norwegian-American Historical Association. 1947)