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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Letter from Trygve Ager to Jennie Rølvaag, 1938 February 25]]></dcterms:title>
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    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Trygve Ager&#039;s letter to Jennie Rølvaag.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[rygve Ager was born 1906 January 23 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  He graduated from St. Olaf College in 1929 and the same year studied journalism under a Scandinavian-American Foundation fellowship in Norway. He was apart of the staff of the Minneapolis Tribune in 1949 and served as that newspaper&#039;s Wisconsin reporter until 1967 when he became a copy editor. He retired in 1971.  In the 1930s he translated a number of books including Ole Rølvaag&#039;s &quot;Their Father God&quot;.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Letter from Trygve Ager to Jennie Rølvaag, 1938 December 31]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Funding to digitize the O.E. Rølvaag Papers was provided to the Norwegian American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Trygve Ager&#039;s letter to Jennie Rølvaag.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[rygve Ager was born 1906 January 23 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  He graduated from St. Olaf College in 1929 and the same year studied journalism under a Scandinavian-American Foundation fellowship in Norway. He was apart of the staff of the Minneapolis Tribune in 1949 and served as that newspaper&#039;s Wisconsin reporter until 1967 when he became a copy editor. He retired in 1971.  In the 1930s he translated a number of books including Ole Rølvaag&#039;s &quot;Their Father God&quot;.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Letter from Trygve Ager to Jennie Rølvaag, 1939 December 22]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Funding to digitize the O.E. Rølvaag Papers was provided to the Norwegian American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Trygve Ager&#039;s letter to Jennie Rølvaag.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[rygve Ager was born 1906 January 23 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  He graduated from St. Olaf College in 1929 and the same year studied journalism under a Scandinavian-American Foundation fellowship in Norway. He was apart of the staff of the Minneapolis Tribune in 1949 and served as that newspaper&#039;s Wisconsin reporter until 1967 when he became a copy editor. He retired in 1971.  In the 1930s he translated a number of books including Ole Rølvaag&#039;s &quot;Their Father God&quot;.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Letter from Waldemar Ager to Ole Rølvaag, 1919 March 3]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Waldemar Ager was born in Frederikstad, Norway in 1869 and grew up in Gressvik--just across the river Glåma. The street on which he lived there is today named Waldemar Agers Vei in his honor and memory.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In 1885, at the age of sixteen, he emigrated to America with his mother and two siblings to join the father in Chicago—who had gone to America earlier. Ager learned the printer&#039;s trade as an apprentice typesetter for Norden, one of Chicago&#039;s large Norwegian-language papers at the time. He also became an active member of a Norwegian temperance lodge there and began writing short pieces for its little monthly paper. He would remain a dedicated avholdsmann—alcohol prohibitionist—for the rest of his life--perhaps because of his father, who had drinking problems.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ager moved to Eau Claire in 1892 when he was 23 years old. He had been offered a job here as a typesetter and fledgling journalist for a new Norwegian temperance paper called Reform. Upon the death of its editor in 1903, Ager succeeded to that position and eventually became owner of the paper; he would be associated with the paper for the rest of his life.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Funding to digitize the O.E. Rølvaag Papers was provided to the Norwegian American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Waldemar Ager&#039;s letter to Ole Rølvaag.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Letter from Waldemar Ager to Ole Rølvaag, circa 1919 ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Waldemar Ager was born in Frederikstad, Norway in 1869 and grew up in Gressvik--just across the river Glåma. The street on which he lived there is today named Waldemar Agers Vei in his honor and memory.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In 1885, at the age of sixteen, he emigrated to America with his mother and two siblings to join the father in Chicago—who had gone to America earlier. Ager learned the printer&#039;s trade as an apprentice typesetter for Norden, one of Chicago&#039;s large Norwegian-language papers at the time. He also became an active member of a Norwegian temperance lodge there and began writing short pieces for its little monthly paper. He would remain a dedicated avholdsmann—alcohol prohibitionist—for the rest of his life--perhaps because of his father, who had drinking problems.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ager moved to Eau Claire in 1892 when he was 23 years old. He had been offered a job here as a typesetter and fledgling journalist for a new Norwegian temperance paper called Reform. Upon the death of its editor in 1903, Ager succeeded to that position and eventually became owner of the paper; he would be associated with the paper for the rest of his life.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Funding to digitize the O.E. Rølvaag Papers was provided to the Norwegian American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Waldemar Ager&#039;s letter to Ole Rølvaag.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Waldemar Ager was born in Frederikstad, Norway in 1869 and grew up in Gressvik--just across the river Glåma. The street on which he lived there is today named Waldemar Agers Vei in his honor and memory.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Letter from Waldemar Ager to Ole Rølvaag, 1923 March 15 ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Waldemar Ager was born in Frederikstad, Norway in 1869 and grew up in Gressvik--just across the river Glåma. The street on which he lived there is today named Waldemar Agers Vei in his honor and memory.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In 1885, at the age of sixteen, he emigrated to America with his mother and two siblings to join the father in Chicago—who had gone to America earlier. Ager learned the printer&#039;s trade as an apprentice typesetter for Norden, one of Chicago&#039;s large Norwegian-language papers at the time. He also became an active member of a Norwegian temperance lodge there and began writing short pieces for its little monthly paper. He would remain a dedicated avholdsmann—alcohol prohibitionist—for the rest of his life--perhaps because of his father, who had drinking problems.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ager moved to Eau Claire in 1892 when he was 23 years old. He had been offered a job here as a typesetter and fledgling journalist for a new Norwegian temperance paper called Reform. Upon the death of its editor in 1903, Ager succeeded to that position and eventually became owner of the paper; he would be associated with the paper for the rest of his life.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Funding to digitize the O.E. Rølvaag Papers was provided to the Norwegian American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Waldemar Ager&#039;s letter to Ole Rølvaag. ]]></dcterms:description>
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