ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202
COLLECTION: OGL #578
DATES: 1873-1983
SIZE: 10.25 linear feet
ACQUISITION: The Eunice Gronvold Kalloch Papers were deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Eunice Gronvold Kalloch, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on July 30, 1980 (Acc. #80-659).
ACCESS: Available for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.
RELATED PUBLICATIONS:
The First Ladies of New Mexico by Eunice Kalloch and Ruth K. Hall.
1982
Call number: F795.k34 1982
Papa and Mama Were Pioneers by Eunice Kalloch. 1983
Call number: CS71.e35 1983
Eunice Constance Gronvold was born on May 5, 1908 near Rugby, North Dakota. She was the daughter of F.T. (Fingar Thorsen) and Alice (Egeland) Gronvold. After attending one year at Concordia College, in Moorhead, Minnesota, she enrolled at the University of North Dakota in 1927. She graduated from UND with a Bachelor of Science degree in Education in 1930. She was a member of Chi Omega, a Greek social sorority, as well as Zeta Phi Eta, an honorary drama fraternity. She also played intramural women's hockey, basketball, and volleyball. She also earned a Master's degree in geography from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She worked for a time at the Pentagon with U.S. Army Intelligence.
She moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1945. She was an active member of many community and civic organizations, including: the League of Women Voters, the Albuquerque Bicentennial Commission, the Bernalillo County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce. In 1973, New Mexico Governor Bruce King declared a Eunice Kalloch Day, and in 1978 a park in Albuquerque was named in her honor.
She was also the author of two books: The First Ladies of New Mexico, published in 1982, and Papa and Mama Were Pioneers, published in 1983. Eunice Kalloch died on September 8, 1988, in Albuquerque.
The Eunice Gronvold Kalloch Papers primarily consist of material related to the political career of her father, F.T. Gronvold. Fingar Thorsen Gronvold was born in Eggeda, Norway, on April 25, 1868. He received his education at a common school in Norway, and emigrated to the United States in 1885. In 1886, he came to North Dakota and settled near Rugby. He owned and operated a hardware store called Gronvold-Halseth Company. He later went into an automobile business with his sons.
In 1899, Gronvold became active in politics and was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives as a member of the Republican party. In 1908, he was elected to the state senate and held this seat until 1918. In 1930 he was returned to the senate, and served until his death on November 7, 1941. He was also involved in community affairs, and served twenty three years on the Board of Directors for the Good Samaritan Hospital in Rugby. He was also frequently a member of the Rugby City Council.
Also included are many newspapers, periodicals and books, some of which were written in Norwegian. Also contained in the collection are journals of the Gronvold-Halseth Company from 1898 to 1907, and over sixty photographs.
Box 1
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Box 2
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Box 3
Books:
Normanden
Our poets Their Portraits and Poems
Fras Betlehem til Golgata
Unionsperioden og Norges Gjenreising
Lutherans In All Lands
Nye Og Udvalgte Sange
The Finest of the Wheat
Augsburg Songs
Den Lyngende Evangelift
Busholdninhsbog
Ratetisinus
Evangeline Courtship of Miles Standish Favorite Poems
Elementary Lessons in English
The School Reader Fifth Book
Digt Og Drama
Kristelig Folkeklandar
Cbangelift-Lutherft Folke- Kalender, 1908
Den Norste Rirtes Historie
Den Lutherfte Fritirtes-Gedningemission
Kristelig Folke-Kalendar 1926
Skandinaven Almanak Og Kalendar 1940
Holdes Per Husandagt
Kristelig Folke-Kalendar 1903
Kristelig Folke-Kalendar 1914
Kristelig Folke-Kalender 1915
Terje Vigen
Box 4
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Box 5
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Newspapers (Alphabetical)
The Bismark Capital Aug. 22, 1937
The Bismark Tribune Aug 22, 1939
Camp Dodgers Aug 30, 1918
The Daily Argus - Women's Edition undated
Dakota Territorial Centennial, Feb. 28, 1961
Des Moines Register, Dec. 8, 1941-October 1, 1962
Fargo Forum September 2, 1918
The Farmer - Dakota Edition, March 12, 1938
Farmer's Union Page Dec. 23, 1936
Grand Forks Herald, Dec. 7, 1977-June 20, 1954
The Leader, June 17, 1954
Mandelia Times-Messenger, June 4, 1948
Minot Daily News July 1, 1939, May 20, 1940
Normanden, Fargo North Dakota, Aug. 10, 1950
North Dakota Democrat, Oct. 31, 1918
North Dakota Nonpartisan June 17-Oct.28, 1936
Northwest Farmstead, July 19. 1913
Pierce County Tribune, Oct. 31, 1918 and June 10, 1920
St. Paul Sunday Tribune, Dec. 1, 1918
Skandinaven, June 27, 1939, June 30, 1939
The Sunday Journal - Women Section, March 19, 1960
The Wolford Mirror, Oct. 31, 1SID
Kvinden og Hjemmet, Feb. 1933
Minot Daily News, June 2, 1939
Box 6
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Photographs
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