"The Other Swedes"
~ Celebrating Them ~
~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
~ Celebrating Them ~
~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
[Pseudonym: Selma Lind]
~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories and citizens
[Remarks on Superintendent Dr. Einar Jaderborg and "Messiah" Bass Soloist Thure Jaderborg]
With LINKS List
Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg*
(1918-2016)
[Pen Name: Selma Lind]
New-to-Lindsborg in 1943
Mrs. Elizabeth June Doe Jaderborg, of Scottish, Irish and English (Danish Viking) background, was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1918. In 1940, she graduated from Keene State Teachers College from Keene, New Hampshire. She would continue taking graduate studies in various fields. When she married Lindsborg Swede Einar Henning Jaderborg on September 19, 1943, in Boston, she was to leave her northeastern roots and Mayflower ancestors behind for the Central Plains of Kansas, with the exception of her summers in Maine. In Lindsborg, they had a family of three children: Lorilea, Elinar, and Eric. The family worshipped at the Bethany Lutheran Church founded in 1869 that belonged to the Swedish Lutheran Augustana Synod which was established in 1860.
Her husband, Einar Jaderborg, who had three brothers, Thure, Jr., Emrick, and Hilding, were sons of Swedes Helen Justine Lindstrom (1886–1974) and Thure Olof Jaderborg, Sr. (1877-1954). They lived in a magnificent home built on a slight hill near Bethany College. The home was originally owned by the father of Thure, Sr., Einar's grandfather, Lars Olafsson "Olof" Jaderborg (1829-1916) originally from Gävle Gästrikland, Sweden, who arrived in America in 1858. As a retired farmer from Enterprise, Kansas, he moved to Lindsborg and commissioned the Swedish Palmquist Brothers of Lindsborg to build the home which was finished in 1908.
Einar's father, Thure Jaderborg, was the Bethany College Professor of Voice and, in the early years, he was the well-known base soloist of the renown Handel's Messiah performances hosting international opera singers and stars. He was also greatly recognized for his 50 plus years distinguished career at Bethany College. He was good friend and colleague to renown internationally known Bethany College Messiah conductor professor Swede Dr. Hagbard Brase (1877-1953), to well-known Swede artist professor Sven Birger Sandzén (1871-1954) and to Swede professor and head of the departments of Biology and Geology Dr. Emil O. Deere (1877-1966), the first Bethany College Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Thus, this was the Swedish family and the Messiah Chorus and faculty Bethany College background of which Bostonian, Elizabeth June Doe had married into, as well as to that of the Swedish American rural community with its thriving Lutheran church life and Swedish cultural events, holidays and traditions, where Swedish was spoken daily by the older citizens and meals of delicious Swedish fare were enjoyed.
As a young woman in her mid-twenties arriving from the East having been brought up in New England, schooled there and living in regions affording the culturally rich cities of Boston and New York, full of their own founding histories of our country's religious Puritan Christian beginnings where related colleges and universities of great reputation were founded and the arts flourished, the new-to-Lindsborg Mrs. Jaderborg had to be taken aback when she discovered cultural similarities in this Swedish rural farming community founded by Lutheran Pietist Christians. She had to be intrigued.
Her husband, Einar Jaderborg, who had three brothers, Thure, Jr., Emrick, and Hilding, were sons of Swedes Helen Justine Lindstrom (1886–1974) and Thure Olof Jaderborg, Sr. (1877-1954). They lived in a magnificent home built on a slight hill near Bethany College. The home was originally owned by the father of Thure, Sr., Einar's grandfather, Lars Olafsson "Olof" Jaderborg (1829-1916) originally from Gävle Gästrikland, Sweden, who arrived in America in 1858. As a retired farmer from Enterprise, Kansas, he moved to Lindsborg and commissioned the Swedish Palmquist Brothers of Lindsborg to build the home which was finished in 1908.
Einar's father, Thure Jaderborg, was the Bethany College Professor of Voice and, in the early years, he was the well-known base soloist of the renown Handel's Messiah performances hosting international opera singers and stars. He was also greatly recognized for his 50 plus years distinguished career at Bethany College. He was good friend and colleague to renown internationally known Bethany College Messiah conductor professor Swede Dr. Hagbard Brase (1877-1953), to well-known Swede artist professor Sven Birger Sandzén (1871-1954) and to Swede professor and head of the departments of Biology and Geology Dr. Emil O. Deere (1877-1966), the first Bethany College Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Thus, this was the Swedish family and the Messiah Chorus and faculty Bethany College background of which Bostonian, Elizabeth June Doe had married into, as well as to that of the Swedish American rural community with its thriving Lutheran church life and Swedish cultural events, holidays and traditions, where Swedish was spoken daily by the older citizens and meals of delicious Swedish fare were enjoyed.
As a young woman in her mid-twenties arriving from the East having been brought up in New England, schooled there and living in regions affording the culturally rich cities of Boston and New York, full of their own founding histories of our country's religious Puritan Christian beginnings where related colleges and universities of great reputation were founded and the arts flourished, the new-to-Lindsborg Mrs. Jaderborg had to be taken aback when she discovered cultural similarities in this Swedish rural farming community founded by Lutheran Pietist Christians. She had to be intrigued.
Education and Educators
Mrs. Jaderborg's husband, like herself, studied to become an educator. His life was devoted to the education of Lindsborg's youth. Dr. Jaderborg was a Lindsborg High School graduate of 1937, then attended Bethany College until he served his country from 1941 to 1946 in Civilian Public Service at Arkansas, after which he graduated in 1946 from Bethany with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, and later he would receive a Master of Arts Degree and a Doctor of Education Degree at Columbia University in New York City.
Dr. Einar Jaderborg
1918-2004
The superintendent under whose leadership continued from the transition of
the Lindsborg Public Schools to the Smoky Valley Unified School District No. 400
1918-2004
The superintendent under whose leadership continued from the transition of
the Lindsborg Public Schools to the Smoky Valley Unified School District No. 400
Source: LRHS 1963 Yearbook
Dr. Jaderborg's Educational Positions
(Thirty-six years as a Smoky Valley educator.)
Dr. Jaderborg, first, was a teacher of English for 17 years, beginning in 1946, at Lindsborg Rural High School (LRHS) and, for 9 of those years, he was also the principal. He was my principal in 1963 when I was a junior there.
In great appreciation, the researched information on Dr. Einar Jaderborg's role as superintendent has been kindly provided to SWEDES by Superintendent Heath Hogan of the Smoky Valley Unified School District No. 400, who began this position there on July 1, 2022. Superintendent Hogan's information reveals that Dr. Jaderborg's role as superintendent covered a 20-year period. He first held this position for 3 years for the Lindsborg Public Schools from 1962 to 1965, the year in which the State of Kansas approved to officially form the Unified School District (U.S.D.) No. 400. Dr. Jaderborg, then, continued on as superintendent for 17 more years, to the year of 1982. Furthermore, during this time, it is very important to note that in July of 1967, "Smoky Valley" became the official name of this district. That name continues to this day of June 28, 2023, as the "Smoky Valley Unified School District No. 400."
In great appreciation, the researched information on Dr. Einar Jaderborg's role as superintendent has been kindly provided to SWEDES by Superintendent Heath Hogan of the Smoky Valley Unified School District No. 400, who began this position there on July 1, 2022. Superintendent Hogan's information reveals that Dr. Jaderborg's role as superintendent covered a 20-year period. He first held this position for 3 years for the Lindsborg Public Schools from 1962 to 1965, the year in which the State of Kansas approved to officially form the Unified School District (U.S.D.) No. 400. Dr. Jaderborg, then, continued on as superintendent for 17 more years, to the year of 1982. Furthermore, during this time, it is very important to note that in July of 1967, "Smoky Valley" became the official name of this district. That name continues to this day of June 28, 2023, as the "Smoky Valley Unified School District No. 400."
Dr. Jaderborg's Other Contributions
Dr. Jaderborg's behind-the-scenes contributions to Lindsborg and Bethany College were many, including his serving on the Bethany Lutheran Church as a Board member for 14 years, and for 9 years he served on the Bethany College Board. Most significant was his Messiah Chorus membership for over 50 years, singing in the bass section, just like his father, a most distinguished Bethany College Voice Professor of over 50 years, Thure Olof Jaderborg, Sr. Decades later, Dr. Jaderborg was interviewed about his father by the Lindsborg News-Record regarding his participation in the Messiah Chorus. The article, "Messiah Festival, Jaderborg Years Profiled" appeared in this April 1, 1993, edition. Go HERE, to learn more.
Mrs. Jaderborg's Passion to Educate the Next Generation on its Local Lindsborg History
Ten years into Mrs. Jaderborg's marriage, in 1953 a great event occurred when former Bethany College President Dr. Emory K. Lindquist published his classic, Smoky Valley People, The History of Lindsborg, Kansas. Reading this book would have had to make some kind of an impact on her, as she began her writing career also on the Lindsborg Smoky Valley people when she first submitted an article to the Lindsborg News-Record in 1962.
Thus, besides being a homemaker, it seemed that her other "calling" was to research and gather local history to write about, especially when from a teacher's perspective, like that of Dr. Lindquist who was first a Bethany College professor desiring to educate the adult community on their local history, she saw a similar need as well, for educating the children on this local history. Therefore, she became a "researcher and writer!"
On pages 129 to 130 of her 1990 book, "Two Reprints," the piece on "Selma Lind and Lindsborg" Mrs. Jaderborg explains this so wittingly well. This laid the foundation and reasoning for writing the articles in the Lindsborg News-Record, most of which would later on be compiled in her "five little books" as she affectionately referred to them.
Therefore, she set off to capture and share all that she could about Lindsborg as it was so important for the children of "Little Sweden" to have a collection of stories covering the earliest Swedes and events as well as those current events and the Swedish Americans then, which would become tomorrow's histories.
Thus, besides being a homemaker, it seemed that her other "calling" was to research and gather local history to write about, especially when from a teacher's perspective, like that of Dr. Lindquist who was first a Bethany College professor desiring to educate the adult community on their local history, she saw a similar need as well, for educating the children on this local history. Therefore, she became a "researcher and writer!"
On pages 129 to 130 of her 1990 book, "Two Reprints," the piece on "Selma Lind and Lindsborg" Mrs. Jaderborg explains this so wittingly well. This laid the foundation and reasoning for writing the articles in the Lindsborg News-Record, most of which would later on be compiled in her "five little books" as she affectionately referred to them.
Therefore, she set off to capture and share all that she could about Lindsborg as it was so important for the children of "Little Sweden" to have a collection of stories covering the earliest Swedes and events as well as those current events and the Swedish Americans then, which would become tomorrow's histories.
Between December 12, 1962, and August 22, 1969, she submitted more than 350 articles to the Lindsborg News-Record. Through the years, these articles would become vignettes compiled into "five little books"-- that is how Mrs. Jaderborg described her books. These "5 little books" of soft binding are irreplaceable, all important and historical. They contain incredible pieces of information that must be preserved and promoted for posterity. They are just too important to Lindsborg's history to be forgotten. Swedish American scholars would certainly see the need to protect them and promote and to read them, for an up close and personal history on Mrs. Jaderborg's Lindsborg's history.
As a result of my own review of them, I have named the collection of her 5 little books "The Elizabeth Jaderborg Lindsborg Kansas Smoky Valley Anthology."
As an aside, it is very important to note that in 1964 she became the founder of a Swedish folk dance group, an organization of which she treasured and had been responsible to for many decades. She had been personally called upon by a few Lindsborg Rural High School girls to form this Swedish folk dance group. This she established as the "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers." They danced for all the Swedish festivals in Lindsborg and would later become known as "ambassadors" due to their dancing around the States every summer and every four years around Sweden. To learn more on Mrs. Jaderborg and the Swedish Folk Dancers, go HERE. (The LINK to today's "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers" is HERE.)
Little did Mrs. Jaderborg realize, then, that in later years while editing the 1975 book, Anna Olsson * A Child of the Prairie in the "Appendix" that she would be describing herself as "an experienced writer, editor, poet, and historian, as well as an authority on local culture, especially after having worked with a dozen local publications, eight of them about Lindsborg.
Mrs. Jaderborg's research on the Lindsborg Smoky Valley Swedish and Swedish American culture and people was so extensive that she had plans to donate all of it to the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka, Kansas, so she told me while we were driving to a farmer's land, not far from Lindsborg, to view what remained of ruins of an Indian village that she had researched. Much of her research was done personally with face-to-face visits with last-living-links to Lindsborg's and Bethany College's history. Mrs. Jaderborg may have continued her research and gathering of this history far after her last book was published in 1990, maybe even to the time she was packing up to leave Lindsborg for Chicago to live with her daughter Elinar.
As a result of my own review of them, I have named the collection of her 5 little books "The Elizabeth Jaderborg Lindsborg Kansas Smoky Valley Anthology."
As an aside, it is very important to note that in 1964 she became the founder of a Swedish folk dance group, an organization of which she treasured and had been responsible to for many decades. She had been personally called upon by a few Lindsborg Rural High School girls to form this Swedish folk dance group. This she established as the "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers." They danced for all the Swedish festivals in Lindsborg and would later become known as "ambassadors" due to their dancing around the States every summer and every four years around Sweden. To learn more on Mrs. Jaderborg and the Swedish Folk Dancers, go HERE. (The LINK to today's "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers" is HERE.)
Little did Mrs. Jaderborg realize, then, that in later years while editing the 1975 book, Anna Olsson * A Child of the Prairie in the "Appendix" that she would be describing herself as "an experienced writer, editor, poet, and historian, as well as an authority on local culture, especially after having worked with a dozen local publications, eight of them about Lindsborg.
Mrs. Jaderborg's research on the Lindsborg Smoky Valley Swedish and Swedish American culture and people was so extensive that she had plans to donate all of it to the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka, Kansas, so she told me while we were driving to a farmer's land, not far from Lindsborg, to view what remained of ruins of an Indian village that she had researched. Much of her research was done personally with face-to-face visits with last-living-links to Lindsborg's and Bethany College's history. Mrs. Jaderborg may have continued her research and gathering of this history far after her last book was published in 1990, maybe even to the time she was packing up to leave Lindsborg for Chicago to live with her daughter Elinar.
Her
1969 Marmeluke Rambo Ericksson," "A Centennial Story for the Children of the Smoky Valley"
&
1976 "Why Lindsborg?"
1969 Marmeluke Rambo Ericksson," "A Centennial Story for the Children of the Smoky Valley"
&
1976 "Why Lindsborg?"
Her two most significant books were published around the time of major events occurring in Lindsborg. In the fall of 1969, when the Centennial Celebration of the founding of Lindsborg was occurring, Mrs. Jaderborg published the historical novel for children, "Marmeluke Rambo Ericksson," "A Centennial Story for the Children of the Smoky Valley." In 1976, the year that the American Revolution Bicentennial Celebration was occurring coupled with His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, touring Swedish American cities including Lindsborg, she published "Why Lindsborg?"
Before the King's visit, in 1975, it was Mrs. Jaderborg who personally delivered the "Lindsborg Invitation" for His Majesty to the Stockholm Royal Palace, on behalf of Lindsborg Mayor Hugo Lindahl (1912-2006) and Irva Brandt (1924-1988), co-chairs preparing for his visit. During the King's Easter Eve visit, among other events and duties, he was to experience a special performance of Handel's Messiah by the Bethany College Oratorio Society, he was to confer three Swedish royal orders upon three Lindsborg citizens: Dr. Arthur W. Lindquist, Dr. Emory K. Lindquist, and Dr. Arvin W. Hahn, and he was also to receive Mrs. Jaderborg's book, "Why Lindsborg?"
Before the King's visit, in 1975, it was Mrs. Jaderborg who personally delivered the "Lindsborg Invitation" for His Majesty to the Stockholm Royal Palace, on behalf of Lindsborg Mayor Hugo Lindahl (1912-2006) and Irva Brandt (1924-1988), co-chairs preparing for his visit. During the King's Easter Eve visit, among other events and duties, he was to experience a special performance of Handel's Messiah by the Bethany College Oratorio Society, he was to confer three Swedish royal orders upon three Lindsborg citizens: Dr. Arthur W. Lindquist, Dr. Emory K. Lindquist, and Dr. Arvin W. Hahn, and he was also to receive Mrs. Jaderborg's book, "Why Lindsborg?"
Her Editorial Skills
As noted above, Mrs. Jaderborg also used her editorial skills. These were for the "first" Lindsborg books that were being translated from Swedish to English. These included Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin's (1866-1944) two tomes of his Swedish 1909 book, "Lindsborg, Bidrag Till Svenskarnas och Den Lutherska Kyrkans Historia i Smoky Hill River Dalen," that was translated by his daughter Ruth Bergin Billdt (1897-1976) to the 1965, "Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas," and his Swedish 1919 book, "Lindsborg Efter Femtio Ӓr," that was also translated by Mrs. Billdt to the 1969, "The Smoky Valley in The After Years." Part Two of that book, Mrs. Jaderborg authored.
The next book published in 1971 of which Mrs. Billdt was the translator and Mrs. Jaderborg was the editor was that of The Valley of Tears, Memoirs of Johan Saleen.
Then, she and Mrs. Billdt began working on the 1917 book titled En Prarieunges Funderingar, Anna Olsson * A Child of the Prairie, by a Miss Anna Olsson, the daughter of the founder of Lindsborg and of the Bethany Lutheran Church, Rev. Olof Olsson. This book had already been translated into a Swedish-American dialect in 1927 under the title "I'm Scairt" by the Augustana Book Concern, Rock Island, Illinois. However, Mrs. Billdt desired to have it translated into pure English when she asked Mrs. Jaderborg to join her in the project. With the sudden death of Mrs. Billdt, Mrs. Jaderborg continued the work when she found a new translator. That person was a Mrs. Martha Winblad (1908-1981), a school teacher of Lindsborg, whose birthplace was Småland, Sweden. Since Mrs. Winblad's background was of a Swedish 3-year-old child emigrating and living in Kansas which was very similar to that of Anna's childhood, she must have been all too happy to translate the work. This endeavor had to have been a very exciting and productive period of work for these ladies, along with the accomplishments of copyrighting and publishing this book in 1978.
The next book published in 1971 of which Mrs. Billdt was the translator and Mrs. Jaderborg was the editor was that of The Valley of Tears, Memoirs of Johan Saleen.
Then, she and Mrs. Billdt began working on the 1917 book titled En Prarieunges Funderingar, Anna Olsson * A Child of the Prairie, by a Miss Anna Olsson, the daughter of the founder of Lindsborg and of the Bethany Lutheran Church, Rev. Olof Olsson. This book had already been translated into a Swedish-American dialect in 1927 under the title "I'm Scairt" by the Augustana Book Concern, Rock Island, Illinois. However, Mrs. Billdt desired to have it translated into pure English when she asked Mrs. Jaderborg to join her in the project. With the sudden death of Mrs. Billdt, Mrs. Jaderborg continued the work when she found a new translator. That person was a Mrs. Martha Winblad (1908-1981), a school teacher of Lindsborg, whose birthplace was Småland, Sweden. Since Mrs. Winblad's background was of a Swedish 3-year-old child emigrating and living in Kansas which was very similar to that of Anna's childhood, she must have been all too happy to translate the work. This endeavor had to have been a very exciting and productive period of work for these ladies, along with the accomplishments of copyrighting and publishing this book in 1978.
Secretary of the Smoky Valley Historical Association, 1963-1969
(The Deere Papers Responsibility & Their Loss Later On)
Mrs. Jaderborg's work and leadership as the Secretary of the Smoky Valley Historical Association also known as the SVHA had to be extraordinary. It is not at all surprising that she join the SVHA due to her ongoing researching and writing on the community. She reports from the 1969, The Smoky Valley in the After Years, on page 220 under the topic: "Elizabeth Jaderborg" that she "was secretary of the Smoky Valley Historical Association from its reorganization in October, 1963, until February, 1969." Her research and writings especially are of great value to the piecing together of the very beginnings of this most important historical organization in the Smoky Valley region. She was the "first" woman to become Secretary of the SVHA, a position in of her era that required many responsibilities.
One of those was that of historical preservation significance that required the clearing out of the late Dr. Emil O. Deere's 5th floor Old Main office at Bethany College before it was demolished in 1968. He had occupied that office for perhaps as long as 60 years or more. She had truckloads of papers and artifacts driven to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum for safe storage. Today, there is hardly a "banker box" full of his lifetime work there, and his most important work on Coronado Heights was reported lost to me in a email in June of 2022. This was the 1907 Dr. E. O. Deere's Master's Thesis, "Geology of the Smoky Buttes." That document laid the foundational information for the work to begin on Coronado Heights and for the beginning of the Lindsborg Historical Society, today's Smoky Valley Historical Association. The loss of Dr. Deere's thesis as well as the loss of the life-time evidence of his work contained in those truck loads being driven to the Old Mill Museum is one of the known greatest historical losses for Lindsborg and for Bethany College. For more on this, go HERE to Deere's Old Main Office ~ SVHA secretary Mrs. Jaderborg in charge of cleaning it out.
Fortunately, five (5) precious banker boxes with his papers and photographs that were from his family home have been preserved in the Bethany College Archives.
One of those was that of historical preservation significance that required the clearing out of the late Dr. Emil O. Deere's 5th floor Old Main office at Bethany College before it was demolished in 1968. He had occupied that office for perhaps as long as 60 years or more. She had truckloads of papers and artifacts driven to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum for safe storage. Today, there is hardly a "banker box" full of his lifetime work there, and his most important work on Coronado Heights was reported lost to me in a email in June of 2022. This was the 1907 Dr. E. O. Deere's Master's Thesis, "Geology of the Smoky Buttes." That document laid the foundational information for the work to begin on Coronado Heights and for the beginning of the Lindsborg Historical Society, today's Smoky Valley Historical Association. The loss of Dr. Deere's thesis as well as the loss of the life-time evidence of his work contained in those truck loads being driven to the Old Mill Museum is one of the known greatest historical losses for Lindsborg and for Bethany College. For more on this, go HERE to Deere's Old Main Office ~ SVHA secretary Mrs. Jaderborg in charge of cleaning it out.
Fortunately, five (5) precious banker boxes with his papers and photographs that were from his family home have been preserved in the Bethany College Archives.
Leaving for Chicago
(A Dream Yet To Be Realized)
When Mrs. Jaderborg decided to join her daughter Elinar in Chicago several years after her husband's death of 2004, a very large auction occurred at the Jaderborg home for the numerous pieces of valuable historical items that should have gone to the Old Mill Musuem had there been space enough and been equipped academically and professionally with a director who possessed a historical knowledge on the College especially to preserve, to restore and to promote these artifacts while sharing their Smoky Valley stories with the public. This may have been one of the last most significant auctions of its kind linking the present to Lindsborg's and Bethany College's past.
For us last-living-links to that past, it was disheartening to see some of the most important items go to persons who had no clue of their historical significance to this Swedish American community. Thus, with no foreseeable sustainable solutions to such auction-ritual dilemmas, the Swedish cultural history and heritage of Lindsborg and Bethany College continues to slowly and unnoticeably be perishing away.
Had the public known the impressive local history, had they read the Smoky Valley Writers' works, had they read Mrs. Jaderborg's works that she poured her heart out to write about Lindsborg, the outcome would have been far different. Thus, the dream of Mrs. Jaderborg, to educate the adults and the children on their local Lindsborg Smoky Valley community history have yet to be met.
The Lindsborg and Bethany College Libraries
Most of Mrs. Jaderborg's works and those of the other Smoky Valley Writers can still be found at the Lindsborg and Bethany College libraries and other libraries. Click the Download File below.
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Her "five little books" and more . . .
Her "five little books" and more . . .
Below are the images of Mrs. Jaderborg's Anthology, her "five little books," with the 5 HERE links to their "Contents & Illustrations." under the pictured books. Following these are the 10 HERE links to her selected writings. In all there are 15 HERE links and 1 Download File.
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- The Elizabeth Jaderborg Lindsborg Kansas Smoky Valley Anthology -
- 1965, 1967, 1973, 1976, 1990 -
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Why Lindsborg?
- Created for the Lindsborg, Kansas, American Revolution Bicentennial Celebration -
- A copy given to HM Carl XVI Gustaf's, King of Sweden, during his Lindsborg visit on April 17, 1976
Published 1976, 84 pages
Cover: "Lindsborg and Coronado Heights from the Quarry Bluff" by Photographer Jane Rosalie Brunsell, 1945-2022
go HERE to
Contents & Illustrations
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go HERE to
Contents & Illustrations
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Living in Lindsborg And Other Possibilities
Published 1967, 48 pages
Lindsborg on Record Talk About Lindsborg Two Reprints
Published 1965, 48 pages Published 1973, 52 pages Published 1990, 26 pages
Published 1965, 48 pages Published 1973, 52 pages Published 1990, 26 pages
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Mrs. Jaderborg's permission to use her work was found in:
1965
Lindsborg on Record
Permission is granted for use of material appearing in this volume providing credit is given.
(Elizabeth Jaderborg) Selma Lind
Page 48
1976
Why Lindsborg?
Permission granted to use material if credit is included.
Copyright 1976 Elizabeth Jaderborg
(Inside front cover)
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Mrs. Jaderborg's permission to use her work was found in:
1965
Lindsborg on Record
Permission is granted for use of material appearing in this volume providing credit is given.
(Elizabeth Jaderborg) Selma Lind
Page 48
1976
Why Lindsborg?
Permission granted to use material if credit is included.
Copyright 1976 Elizabeth Jaderborg
(Inside front cover)
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SWEDES
did not use this cherished book nor own it,
but it definitely needs to be recognized,
as it's title is central to the desire of Mrs. Jaderborg's heart
of educating the Smoky Valley children on their local history.
Published 1969, 2nd edition 1993, 71 pages
Illustrations by Norman Malm
SWEDES
did not use this cherished book nor own it,
but it definitely needs to be recognized,
as it's title is central to the desire of Mrs. Jaderborg's heart
of educating the Smoky Valley children on their local history.
Published 1969, 2nd edition 1993, 71 pages
Illustrations by Norman Malm
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Recognizing
Elizabeth Jaderborg's
editorial contribution
to
Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas
and
The Smoky Valley in The After Years
and
Mrs. Jaderborg's
authorship in the second volume
Published 1965, 163 pages Published 1969, 220 pages
Mrs. Jaderborg was the editor of Anna Olsson "A Child of the Prairie"
(Anna was the daughter of Pastor Olof Olsson, Swedish founder of Bethany Church and Lindsborg)
Published 1978, 121 pages
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"The Valley of Tears" "Memoirs of Johan Saleen"
Published 1971, 119 Pages
SWEDES did not use this book or own it,
but Mrs. Billdt's translation work and Mrs. Jaderborg's editorial work
certainly need to be recognized here.
To see an image, go HERE.
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"The Valley of Tears" "Memoirs of Johan Saleen"
Published 1971, 119 Pages
SWEDES did not use this book or own it,
but Mrs. Billdt's translation work and Mrs. Jaderborg's editorial work
certainly need to be recognized here.
To see an image, go HERE.
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- Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg -
Founder of the Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers
-- Lindsborg's Ambassadors --
Source: Gift photograph from Lindsborg
Quite possibly, though, in 1964, Mrs. Jaderborg's most favorite endeavor may have been the founding of the Lindsborg Rural High School's "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers," who would dance their way around our Nation annually visiting other Swedish American communities and Lutheran churches, with a "dancing" trip to Sweden every four years.
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Click above LEFT for Chris Abercrombie's story about Mrs. Jaderborg's dancers and others.
For Mrs. Jaderborg's "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers" founded in 1963, go HERE.
For Mrs. Jaderborg's "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers" founded in 1963, go HERE.
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Mrs. Jaderborg's writings can be found in the following sections of SWEDES.
Go HERE for The Notables, Messiah Week, et cetera
~ An account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Go HERE for Lindsborg Historical Society and Coronado Heights History
~ Three (3) accounts by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg, former SVHA secretary
Go HERE for Their 1941 "Svensk Hyllningsfest" and Dr. Holwerda's Role
~ Accounts by Dr. Lungstrom, Mrs. Jaderborg, Dr. Holwerda & Mr. Lundstrom
Go HERE for B.G. Gröndal
~ Accounts by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Go HERE for Miss Alma Luise Olson
~ Remembering her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden"
~ The 1976 account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Go HERE for G. N. Malm and all he did for the Lindsborg community
~ An account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Go HERE for G. N. Malm and his Lindsborg's national interior decorating company
~ An account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Go HERE for William Holwerda, M.D.
~ Remembering him as "Doc Bill," a city father and loving citizen
~ Accounts by Dr. Leon Lungstrom and Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Go HERE for 1976 "Why Lindsborg?"
~ An introduction: H. M. Carl XVI Gustaf of the Kingdom of Sweden
Go HERE for The Notables, Messiah Week, et cetera
~ An account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Go HERE for Lindsborg Historical Society and Coronado Heights History
~ Three (3) accounts by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg, former SVHA secretary
Go HERE for Their 1941 "Svensk Hyllningsfest" and Dr. Holwerda's Role
~ Accounts by Dr. Lungstrom, Mrs. Jaderborg, Dr. Holwerda & Mr. Lundstrom
Go HERE for B.G. Gröndal
~ Accounts by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Go HERE for Miss Alma Luise Olson
~ Remembering her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden"
~ The 1976 account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Go HERE for G. N. Malm and all he did for the Lindsborg community
~ An account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Go HERE for G. N. Malm and his Lindsborg's national interior decorating company
~ An account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Go HERE for William Holwerda, M.D.
~ Remembering him as "Doc Bill," a city father and loving citizen
~ Accounts by Dr. Leon Lungstrom and Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Go HERE for 1976 "Why Lindsborg?"
~ An introduction: H. M. Carl XVI Gustaf of the Kingdom of Sweden
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Sources:
*Salina Journal 3/21/2016
1969, The Smoky Valley in the After Years, page 220.
Courtesy of Superintendent Heath Hogan of the "Smoky Valley Unified School District No. 400," June 28, 2023.
Her 5 Little Books, Anna Olsson "A Child of the Prairie," her correspondence to me and our visits through the years.
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Sources:
*Salina Journal 3/21/2016
1969, The Smoky Valley in the After Years, page 220.
Courtesy of Superintendent Heath Hogan of the "Smoky Valley Unified School District No. 400," June 28, 2023.
Her 5 Little Books, Anna Olsson "A Child of the Prairie," her correspondence to me and our visits through the years.
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* These shared selections of the late Mrs. Jaderborg's writings noted by the mentioned book have been shown to her family for approval as of 11-25-22.
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* These shared selections of the late Mrs. Jaderborg's writings noted by the mentioned book have been shown to her family for approval as of 11-25-22.
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