Title: Waldemar Ager Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1913-1966

Creator:

• Ager, Waldemar, 1869-1941

Call Number: Mss 106

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Waldemar Ager, a Norwegian-American editor and writer, including records, 1916-1932, of a committee formed to raise a monument to Colonel Hans C. Heg, who commanded the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, and a roster of that regiment; a manuscript copy of Thor Helgeson's “Fra Indianernes Lande,” on Norwegian settlement in Waupaca County, Wisconsin; and miscellaneous clippings and correspondence, largely in Norwegian.

Language: Norwegian and English

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This collection is concerned mainly with the activities of Waldemar Ager of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, editor of a Norwegian weekly entitled Reform until 1941, and author of a history of the Civil War's 15th Wisconsin volunteer infantry regiment. This primarily Norwegian regiment was commanded by Colonel Hans C. Heg. In 1914, Ager was elected secretary of a fund raising committee for a monument to Colonel Heg. The major portion of these papers concerns this committee's efforts, which resulted in the monument now standing at the southeast corner of the State Capitol in Madison. Also included in the papers is a roster of the 15th Regiment.

The remainder of the collection is comprised of miscellaneous items detailed in the contents list below and of a manuscript written by T. Helgeson on Indian lands in Wisconsin; Helgeson's relationship to Ager is not known. This manuscript and much of the correspondence is in Norwegian.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Trygve M. Ager, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, February 1, 1967. Accession Number: M67-50

Processing Information

Processed by KL and Karen Baumann, June 10, 1970.

Box   1 Folder   1	Colonel Heg Monument Committee, 1916-1932, undated
Box   1 Folder   2	“Indian Lands and Other Happenings in Wisconsin,” by T. Helgeson
Box   1 Folder   3	Miscellaneous, 1913; 1947; 1966; undated Scope and Content Note: Includes a certificate of membership in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1913; minutes of a meeting with Governor Francis McGovern concerning Wisconsin representation at Norway's centennial exposition, 1913; a letter praising Ager, written to his wife, 1947; an article written by Ager's son on an 1881 lumber strike in Eau Claire and a poem written about that strike; an article on the history of the old Chippewa Road and Trail's End Camp; and a clipped photograph showing representatives at a church synod meeting in Minneapolis in 1875.