Andrew Anderson Veblen

Burial record: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161176124/andrew-anderson-veblen

Birth: 1848

Death: 1932

Andrew Veblen was born in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin in 1848. He was typical of second generation immigrants who learned the language and customs of their home area in Norway and treasured that unique heritage. He was a driving force behind the bygdelag movement in America, and the Valdres Samband most particularly.

Veblen attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, receiving his Master's Degree in 1880. He was a teacher and professor in science and physics at Johns Hopkins University, Luther College, and the State University of Iowa before retiring to Washington County, Minnesota where he owned and operated a farm. He continued to be a sought-after speaker and devoted much of his time to the Samband.

Veblen was the first president of the Valdres Samband, and shared duties as editor of the quarterly newsletter in the organization's early years. In 1920, he authored "The Valdris Book.

Source: The Valdres Samband website

http://www.valdressamband.org/about/veblen.htm

Spouse:

• Kirsti Hougen Veblen (1851 - 1908)

Burial: Fairview Cemetery Stillwater Washington County Minnesota, USA

Created by: KWH Record added: Apr 16, 2016 Find A Grave Memorial# 161176124

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http://www.valdressamband.org/about/veblen.htm

The following URL links to a letter Andrew wrote in support of a disagreement his sister-in-law Ellen Veblen (Rolfe) had with a biography written about her husband, Thorstein Veblen. Andrew’s letter includes some interesting family history. http://www.elegant-technology.com/resource/ANDREW_1.PDF

Andrew Veblen was born in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin in 1848. He was typical of second generation immigrants who learned the language and customs of their home area in Norway and treasured that unique heritage. He was a driving force behind the bygdelag movement in America, and the Valdres Samband most particularly.

Veblen attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, receiving his Master's Degree in 1880. He was a teacher and professor in science and physics at Johns Hopkins University, Luther College, and the State University of Iowa before retiring to Washington County, Minnesota where he owned and operated a farm. He continued to be a sought-after speaker and devoted much of his time to the Samband.

Veblen was the first president of the Valdres Samband, and shared duties as editor of the quarterly newsletter in the organization's early years. In 1920, he authored "The Valdris Book.

Source: The Valdres Samband website http://www.valdressamband.org/about/veblen.htm

If you check out the Valdres Samband website you'll discover this page, about the first President of the Valdres Samband.

This evening, I discovered his obituary. I did not know that he was considered the honorary president of the Valdres Samband for the past 100 years.

A.A. Veblen, Scholar, Dies

PROFESSOR WAS FORMER PRESIDENT OF BYGDELAGS COUNCIL, IOWA ‘U’ TEACHER

Star Tribune, • April 2, 1932, p. 1, just below the fold.

Professor Andrew A. Veblen, 83, widley known in the northwest as an author and scholar and former president of the Council of Bygdelags, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. His bodyt is being returned to Stillwater, Minn, where burial will take place Friday.

A brother of the late Thorstein Veblen, world known economist and writer, Professor Veblen himself had won national recognition among scientists for his work in physics and mathematics before his retirement from teaching in 1905. During his 22 years as a professor in the mathematic and physics departments at the University of Iowa, he did extensive research work on X-ray and electrical problems. He was twice called as an electrical consultant for the world’s fair of 1893 at Chicago.

One of his four sons, Professor Oswald Veblen, a friend of the German scientist, Albert Einstein, for many years, is professor of mathematics at Princeton university and has been exchange professor at Oxford university, England. He is now studying abroad. One sister and daughter, Miss Gertrude Veblen, librarian at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

WORKED ON HISTORIC WRITINGS

He had been at his home in Los Angeles working on new historic writings concerning the Veblen genealogy and his ancestral hom at Valdres, Norway, until a month before his death. He died following an attack of pneumonia. He had moved to California from Minneapolis in 1917, where he had lved since 1911.

He had been married twice, in 1877 to Kirsti Hougen, who died in 1908, and in 1912 to Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ringstad, who died in 1925.

In 1930 he had published his latest work, Vang’s Valdris-Rispo, a collection of folk stores of the Valdres province, restored to the Valdres dialect. And only tow months before his death there was issued in his honor a dedication numbe of Samband, a quarterly magazine of the old country folk lore and history when he edited for many years.

He was decorated by the King of Norway in 1905 in the Order of St. Olaf in recognition of his services in education and in formation of societies perpetuating memory of their native land for person of Norwegian blood and their descendants. He was the chief organizer and first president in 1901 of the Valdres Samband, a society of natives of Valdres, Norway, and their descendants, and had been honorary president of the organization since 1920.

BORN IN WISCONSIN

A lecturer and frequesnt contributor of papers and articles to periodicals, nearly all dealing with physics and mathematics, Professor Veblen had since his retirement in 1905 devoted nearly all his time to work touching on Norse folk lore, tradion and history, and a family genealogy, for which he had collected material over a period of 25 years. A first edition of the volume was published in 1925. An early work completed in 1878, was a translation of Vogt’s Bible history.

Professor Veblen was born in Ozaukee county, Wis., in 1848. He received the degree of bachelor of arts at Carlotn college, Northfield in 1877 and three years later the additional degree of master of arts. He spent two years at Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, from 1881 to 1883. From 1877 to 1881 as professor of English, he taughter at Luther college, Decorah, Iowa, and from 1883 to 1905 at the University of Iowa.

Besides Miss Gerturde Veblen, his daughter, who lives at the Hamshire Arms hotel, he is survived by a sister, living in Minneapolis, Mrs. Sigurd Olson, 3515 Fifteenth avenue south. Three other sons besides Oswald survive him, Alfred. Seattle, Wash; Harold, Eugene Ore., and Eling, Summit, N.J. He has three other daughters living, Mrs. Ralph W. Sioms and Agnes Velben of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Henry G. Walker, Iowa City, Iowa. Two other sisters are also living, Mrs. Hans Hansen of Veblen, SD and Mrs. Ole T. Hougen, Narstrand, Minn. A brother, John E. Veblen, lives in Los Angeles, and a step-son, Ivan Ringstad, is in St. Paul.

I'm curious. Are there any descendants of A. A. Veblen, currently members of the Samband?