Old Peninsula Days: Tales and Sketches of the Door Peninsula
By Hjalmar Rued Holand and Vida Weborg
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Born on a farm in Norway just a hundred years ago, Hjalmar Holand was brought to the United States as an orphaned child of 12 by an older sister. He was reared in a brother’s home on the west side of Chicago. Getting a vision of a college education, he worked his way through the University of Wisconsin, winning his bachelor’s degree in 1898.
The ensuing summer, intrigued by the look of the Door Peninsula on maps, he pedalled his way on bicycle up the stony roads of the Peninsula. It was love at first sight. Before he returned to Wisconsin to get his master’s degree, he had bought 57 acres of shore and cliffland in what is now the Peninsula State Park. Two years later, in June 1900, he brought his bride to his newly built log house facing Eagle Harbor.
For the next sixty years, Hjalmar and Theresa Holand lived the good life at Ephraim together. Here he wrote a dozen historical works and scores of magazine articles.
Hjalmar Rued Holand
HJALMAR RUED HOLAND (1872-1963) was a Norwegian-American historian and author of numerous books and articles, principally dealing with the history of Door County, Wisconsin, of the Upper Midwest and with Norwegian-American immigration. Born on October 20, 1872 in Holand, Akershus, Norway, he immigrated to America at age 12 to stay with an older brother and his wife in Chicago, and then with his sister Annette in Wautoma, Wisconsin. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin in 1898 and his MA the following year. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Anthropology & Cultural Studies in 1950. Holand lived most of his life on a farm near Ephraim, Wisconsin. An early advocate of the now widely recognized realization that Vikings visited the New World in voyages which pre-dated Christopher Columbus, Holand spent many years collecting the stories as he traveled to various Norwegian-American settlements in the Upper Midwest. He became most frequently associated with the resulting two-volume history of Norwegian-American immigration: De Norske Settlements Historie (1908) and Den Siste Folkevandring Sagastubber Fra Nybyggerlivet I Amerika (1930). Written and published in Norwegian, both were subsequently translated and published in English. He was also the author of the two-volume History of Door County, Wisconsin (1917), and was the founder and longtime president of the Door County Historical Society. He died on August 6, 1963, aged 91. VIDA PAULINE WEBORG (1864-1952) was a Norwegian-American illustrator and the first schoolteacher in Cody, Wyoming. Born on October 11, 1864 to Peter and Olafa Weborg on the family homestead at Fish Creek in Door County, she created illustrations in her sister Johanna’s book, In Viking Land (1901), as well as other publications She also worked on the decorating staff for the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition in 1933. She died in Madison, Wisconsin on January 3, 1952, aged 88.
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