sculpting Lincoln: North Dakota‘s gift to Norway

Paul Fjelde

Sculptor of Lincoln bust

Margrethe Fjelde

Paul Fjelde mom

Louis B Hanna

Governor of North Dakota/ ordered the making of the Lincoln bust

Dorothy Hanna

Unveiled the Lincoln bust

Abraham Lincoln

Passed the homestead act, allowing people of North Dakota to buy land

Dr. Herman Fjelde

Paul’s uncle/ helped the governor find an artist for Lincoln bust

Loredo Taft

Mentor of Paul

Gustav Ligeland

Made most of the statues in Frogner Park

Lincoln statue commission

People in charge of Paul making the statue

Smith Stimmel

Lincoln’s body/ gave a speech about Lincoln(talked about Lincoln)

Prince Christian Frederik

he became the ruler of Norway when Norway gained its independence

King Olav and queen Martha

Visited North Dakota

wing North Dakota

First town Paul’s family moved to in North Dakota

Hodgenville, Kentucky

Where Lincoln was born

Springfield, Illinois

Lincoln’s hometown

New York City

Where the delegates stopped before going to Norway

valley city State University

College that Paul studied at

Denmark

Ruled Norway for over 400 years

Sweden

controlled Norway after Denmark

Bergen Norway

where the North Dakota delegates landed

Kristiania Norway

Used to be the name of Oslo Norway

Oslo Norway

Capital city, where the unveiling of Lincoln‘s bust was placed

Frogner Park

Where the Lincoln bust was located

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Where Governor Hanna saw the Lincoln bust

Hillsboro, North Dakota

Where the replica of the Lincoln bust is located

Minneapolis, Minnesota

City, Paul Fjelde was born

July 1-3 1863

Battle of Gettysburg happened

July 1-3, 1913

50 year anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg

When the Lincoln bust was given

July 4, 1914

North Dakota delegation is in Oslo Norway

May 17 1814

celebrated Norway’s independence from Denmark

August 12, 1892

The birth of Paul Fjelde

Restauration

First ship that brought Norwegian to America

Syttende Mai

Means May 17th

Norway, Independence Day

Storting

Swedish law making building

Emancipation proclamation

Wrote by Abraham Lincoln Lincoln

Freed the slaves

Gettysburg address

Abraham Lincoln wrote it

How did Governor Louis Hanna get the idea of making a bust of Abraham Lincoln as a gift for Norway

He went to Gettysburg and got the idea of the bust

Why did Governor Hanna want to send a bust of president Lincoln to Norway?

To honor Norway’s Centennial of their independence

according to this article what fraction of North Dakota’s population was Norwegian in the early 1900s

1/3

What was in scripted on both tablets on the Lincoln statue that was given to Norway

1) governor of the people for the people, and by the people shall not perish on earth

2) presented to Norway by the people of North Dakota USA, July 4, 1914

Summarize the event Norwegian’s did at Lincoln’s bus during World War II

They had a gathering in silence around the Lincoln bust

Descriptions of the bust of Lincoln, that Fjelde sculpted

copper statue of Lincoln, shoulders, and up with the Gettysburg address engraved on it