Life story of Rasmus B. Anderson, written by himself, with the assistance of Albert O. Barton

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Life story of Rasmus B. Anderson, written by himself,
with the assistance of Albert O. Barton
Rasmus B. Anderson
LIFE STORY OF RASMUS B. ANDERSON
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF With the assistance of ALBERT O. BARTON
LC
MADISON. WIS.
1915
PD 1534 A6A3
Copyright. 1915 BY RASMUS B. ANDERSON
All rights reserved
$3 00
AUG -7 1916 ©CI.A437136 no. 1
TO THOSE OF NORWEGIAN BIRTH OR DESCENT WHO HAVE HELPED TO MAKE
AMERICA. ON THE FARMS, IN THE INDUSTRIES, IN COMMERCE, IN LITERATURE,
SCIENCE, AND ART, WHO, BY THEIR RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR TEACHING AND
EXAMPLE HAVE HELPED TO BUILD THE NATION SPIRITUALLY, IMORALLY AND
INTELLECTUALLY, AND WHO HAVE BEEN LOYAL TO THE STARS AND STRIPES IN
PEACE AND IN WAR, VOLUME IS DEDICATED
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I
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Family History 1
CHAPTER II
First Split in the Church 17
CHAPTER III
Beginning of the Norwegian-American Press 19
CHAPTER IV
More Family History 23
CHAPTER V
I Leave Home 25
CHAPTER VI
Leave Milwaukee 30
CHAPTER VII
Half Way Creek 34
CHAPTER VIII
Back Home 39
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CHAPTER IX
Go to Decorah 42
CHAPTER X
Discipline of the School 44
CHAPTER XI
The Students Rebel 47
CHAPTER XII
What Became of Me? 58
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CHAPTER XIII
The Next Day 63
CHAPTER XIV
The Missouri Synod 65
CHAPTER XV
Ambitious Plans 71
CHAPTER XVI
Albion Academy 75
CHAPTER XVII
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Reply to a Protest 83
CHAPTER XVIII
More About Albion Academy 85
CHAPTER XIX
My Third Year at Albion 88
CHAPTER XX
Swedes Settle on the North Shore of Koshkonong Lake 90
CHAPTER XXI
All is Well 93
CHAPTER XXII
Dip Into the Political Sea 96
CHAPTER XXIII
Am Elected Representative to the Annual Synod Meeting 98
CHAPTER XXIV
I Meet Ole Bull 104
CHAPTER XXV
Letter from a Schoolmate 109
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CHAPTER XXVI
Pride Goeth Before a Fall 111
CHAPTER XXVII
More About Albion 118
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CHAPTER XXVIII
Albion Students 125
CHAPTER XXIX
I Leave Albion 133
CHAPTER XXX
More Trouble 136
CHAPTER XXXI
At the University 139
CHAPTER XXXII
Chadbourne Leaves the University 143
CHAPTER XXXIII
My First Visit to Norway 147
CHAPTER XXXIV
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An Ole Bull Episode 152
CHAPTER XXXV
Land in the Old World 154
CHAPTER XXXVI
Prof. Sven Oftedal 163
CHAPTER XXXVII
Back to Norway 172
CHAPTER XXXVIII
The Millennial Celebration 174
CHAPTER XXXIX
Stavanger and Vicinity 176
CHAPTER XL
The Petit Done and the Undone Vast 186
CHAPTER XLI
The John A. Johnson Fund 188
CHAPTER XLII
The Leif Erikson Monument 189
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CHAPTER XLIII Page
Meet Thomas A. Edison 192
CHAPTER XLIV
In Norway Again 194
CHAPTER XLV
Björnson as a Fellow Traveler 196
CHAPTER XLVI
Ole Bull, Edward Grieg and Bjönson 198
CHAPTER XLVII
Prof. Sven Loven 201
CHAPTER XLVIII
Return to America 203
CHAPTER XLIX
More About the Leif Erikson Monument 206
CHAPTER L
Strenuous Days 210
CHAPTER LI
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First Chair of Scandinavian Languages 213
CHAPTER LII
“Norse Mythology” 214
CHAPTER LIII
More About Ole Bull 222
CHAPTER LIV
Odds and Ends 253
CHAPTER LV
J. C. Dundas 235
CHAPTER LVI
Survey of Field in the Seventies 241
CHAPTER LVII
Myself Again 247
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CHAPTER LVIII
Landsmaal in Norway 248
CHAPTER LIX
More About the Seventies 251
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CHAPTER LX
St. John's Day 254
CHAPTER LXI
More Odds and Ends 257
CHAPTER LXII
How Butterfield Saw Me in 1879 261
CHAPTER LXIII
The Icelanders 274
CHAPTER LXIV
More About the Icelanders 282
CHAPTER LXV
Controversies 288
CHAPTER LXVI
The Fleisher Episode 293
CHAPTER LXVII
Kristofer Janson 298
CHAPTER LXVIII
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Knut Hamsun 304
CHAPTER LXIX
More About Knut Hamsun 314
CHAPTER LXX
Carl Lumholtz 320
CHAPTER LXXI
The Busy Seventies 322
CHAPTER LXXII
Hungarian Literature 324
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CHAPTER LXXIII
Remenyi and Petöfi 327
CHAPTER LXXIV
More About Remenyi and Petöfi 329
CHAPTER LXXV
Birth of the Missouri Synod 334
CHAPTER LXXVI
Björnson Visits America 337
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