Harold Berg Kildahl
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 206
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Norwegian Harold B. Kildahl, Sr., sailed across the ocean to the New World in 1866. His memoir provides vivid descriptions of the Kildahl family's travels to southern Minnesota. The family witnessed the infamous James-Younger Gang bank raid in Northfield, Minnesota in September, 1876, and the founding of St. Olaf College. The annual floods of the Red River of the North ultimately lead the family to move to the Dakota Territory in 1883. In 1888, Harold B. Kildahl, Sr. returned to Minnesota to seek an education. During the next ten years, he completed grade school and high school, graduated from St. Olaf College (1895), and the Lutheran Seminary in Minneapolis (1898), was ordained, married, and received a call to be a pastor in the Lutheran Faith.