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Clara Kristina Hammarquist was born in Sweden in 1845. She immigrated to the United States in 1868 and was active in the choir at First Lutheran Church in Rockford, Illinois. Collection contains one handwritten songbook of hymns with both music and text used in First Lutheran Church circa 1868-1870. 

Marie Westerberg Vader (1893-1994) was the daughter of Swedish immigrants and attended Iowa Lutheran Hospital’s Nurses Training School in Des Moines, Iowa from 1915 to 1917. Collection includes her remembrances of her time there and a brief history of the hospital.

Erik Jönsson immigrated to the United States in 1856 and settled in Nicollet County, Minnesota. His wife, Maria, and son, Per, were murdered by Indians during the Sioux Uprising of 1862. Collection includes a photocopy and English translation of a letter describing the Sioux Uprising and Jönsson’s experience as well as a typed article recollection of the same by another survivor, C.C. Nelson, in The Lafayette Ledger newspaper. 

Alex J. Erickson (1896-1995), the son of Swedish immigrants, worked in Buxton and Pershing, Iowa coal mines. Collection consists of a typed summary of an interview with him in 1983 and copied information on coal mining in Buxton, Iowa.

Gustaf Unonius was the founder of the Pine Lake settlement in Wisconsin in 1842, one of the earliest Swedish settlements in the United States. Collection consists of photocopies of letters addressed to and from Gustaf Unonius from the archival collection at the Uppsala University library in Uppsala, Sweden. 

A.J.C. Anderson emigrated to Galva, Illinois from Södra Vi Parish, Kalmar län (Småland), Sweden, in the summer of 1870 at the age of 19. He farmed in Essex, Iowa from 1871 to 1920. He died in June 1937. Collection consists of three photocopies of letters to A.J.C. Anderson from family.