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0549: Byron T. Morris Papers, 1775-1989, Marshall University Special Collections
0549: Byron T. Morris Papers, 1775-1989, Marshall University Special Collections
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Wayne County, West Virginia, resident, newspaper columnist. Collection consists of correspondence, family histories, some primary sources, and a collection of newspapers, 1775-1880's. Also part of the gift were books, genealogy materials, and bound volumes of the Wayne County News. Also contains numerous clippings written by Evelyn Scyphers Jackson about Boyd County Kentucky families.
My First Ninety Years, Agneta Jensen Slott
My First Ninety Years, Agneta Jensen Slott
The Bridge
My father and mother, John Christian and Anne Jensen and three children, Signius, Katherine and Kamille, came to America from Denmark in 1890. They settled in Tacoma for three years where my father worked as a bricklayer. Fremming, their fourth child, was born while they lived in Tacoma. After three years they came to Enumclaw, bought some wooded acreage which is now part of the King County Fair Grounds. My father cleared a space big enough to build a house. He worked in a logging camp and walked four miles to and from work. In 1893 they moved to Franklin …
Denmark: Through A Glass Darkly, John W. Larson
Denmark: Through A Glass Darkly, John W. Larson
The Bridge
My Danish grandmother brought with her and retained an old country ambiance. It hung about her person in the formal way she dressed when visiting, in the erect way she sat and stood, and in her thick accent. When I think of her today, I do not visualize her in a specific residence, for she moved frequently, but I remember her distinctive atmosphere. An English visitor to the Danish island of Sj~lland wrote about 1860 that, "There is a refinement about the middle class of Danes in their household arrangements, seldom to be met with in other countries." During my …