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Title: Johan August Johanson Papers
Dates: 1898-1990
Collection Number: 10156
Quantity: 2.75 feet
Abstract: Consists of diaries, photographs, Chinese language manuscripts, and printed material relating to mission work.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota received the Johan August Johanson Papers from Sheila Robinson in June 1972.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Johan August Johanson born March 9, 1863 in Lekvatten, Wermland, Sweden to Johan and Anika Johanson. He attended school in Karlstad, Sweden and Oslo, Norway, and later studies for two years in London, England. In 1894 he became a Methodist Episcopal missionary in Tibet for two years after which he was sent to the Chank-King Province in Sichuan, China until 1909 when ill health forced him to abandon this work. In his last six years in China he was presiding elder of the Methodist Mission and had 50 stations under his charge. He came to North Dakota in January 1909.
On November 2, 1909 he was married to Esther Johre in Wahpeton and they lived north of Garrison. He died on March 13, 1939 at the age of 76 in Garrison. Esther Johre was born in Norway on June 7, 1886 and moved to Casson, MN in 1893. She settled near Garrison ND in 1906 where she met Johan Johanson. Esther Johanson died on April 8, 1961.
When Mrs. Johanson died there was no surviving family and her estate was sold at auction. Mrs. Lenore Nordwall of Douglas ND bought a steamer trunk which contained these papers. She gave them to Norman L. Larsen of Garrison ND who gave them to Sheila Robinson of Coleharbor ND who gave them to the State Historical Society.
BOX / FOLDER INVENTORY
Box 1:
1 Diaries 1901-1902
2 Diaries 1903-1905
3 Diaries 1908-
4 Ledger n.d.
5 Pledge Book 1905-1906
6 Receipt Book 1924-1988
7 Travel Expense Account 1904-1909
Box 2:
1 Chinese Letters (3)
2 Chinese Misc. (4)
3 Chinese Printed Tracts (25)
Chinese Books (39)
Box 3:
1 English Pamphlets (6)
What Is That To Thee?, Collingwood
Soldier-Pastor-Martyr, Gamewell, 1903
Information concerning Miyajima
One-Volume Commentary on Holy Scriptures, Paragraph
Bibles (A Price List)
Union in Educational Work in West China (partial pamphlet)
Banquet to the High Commissioners (Waldorf Astoria, 1906)
Chinese Tract Society, Farnham, (sample copy)
2 English Misc. (13)
1 postcard
3 envelopes
1 bookbinding advertisement
Confucianism (front page only)
Memorial of William Soutter, 1898
Passenger Information from Gus Broberg, passenger agent to Herr Nolen 1903.
Correspondence from Hagberg, 1901
Freight Charges and Information from Golberg, Bowen & Co.
Montgomery Ward Order Blank
Mail Steamship Line from Canadian Pacific Railway Co., 1908-1990
Unfoldered English Books (see bibliography)
Box 4:
English Books (see bibliography)
Box 5:
Chinese Books (4)
Box 6:
1 Swedish Misc. (4)
2 Swedish Periodicals (8)
3 Swedish Books (12)
SWEDISH MATERIAL
Trons Segrar (Februari 1909)
Hyrdestemmen (Mai 1910)
Hyrdestemmen (Juni 1910)
Svenska Morgonbladet Sondagsnummer (Maj 1909)
Svenska Morgonbladet Sondagsnummer (September 1908)
Epworth-Forbundets Jultidning 1909
Evangeliets Sendebud (Januar 1910)
Svenska Sandebudet (Oktober 1909)
Svenska Sandebudet (Juli 1909)
Katalog Fran Nya Bokforlags-Aktiebolaget Stockholm 5 (1923)
Nordstjarnan (Juni 1905)
Arsberattelse For Skandinaviska Sjomanshemmet I Shanghai (November 1905-06)
Scholander-Lutor Guitarrer Mandoliner Banjos Cittror Fioler (1903)
Metodist-Episkopal-Kyrkans I Sverige Arsbok 1918
Metodist-Episkopal-Kyrkans I Sverige Arsbok 1919
Metodist-Episkopal-Kyrkans I Sverige Arsbok 1921
Metodist-Episkopal-Kyrkans I Sverige Arsbok 1923
Carl Andersson Fran Vaxholm En Evangelii Harold (1903)
Eftermotena I Skriftens Ljus. Af F. Franson.
Frida. En Fortaelling af Sigurd Sivertson (1903)
Bibelkommissionens ofversattning af gamla testamentet (1902)
Magdalene Thoresen:Udualgte Fortaellinger (1907)
Folder of Incomplete Information-1 Hand Written, 1 Periodical
Box 7:
1 Tibetan Stories and cards
2 Tibetan Stories and cards
3 Tibetan Pamphlets
4 Tibetan Stories (6)
5 Tibetan Booklets (10)
6 Tibetan Stories hand written, with English Titles are:
The dinner pp 1-12
The Sacred Edict pp 1,7,8,9,11,12
The Supper pp 1-4
Untitled 7 pages
The Pig 1-7
Untitled 1-8 A
Untitled 1-5
Untitled 1-4 A
Untitled 1-8 B
Untitled 1-4 B
Untitled 1-4 C
7 Tibetan Stories Continued:
The Fire 5-8
The Narrow Gate pp 1-6
Untitled 1 page
The teacher 3 pp
The lamp pp 1-3
The Breakfast pp 11,12
Photograph (1) (Chinese Men)
Ephemera (misc ticket stubs etc.)
Maps (Rand McNally 1885-Chicago)
China (3 hand made n.d.)
Tibetan (1 handmade n.d.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Annual Report of the Board of Missions 1907
MacNeil, Rev. John The Spirit-Filled Life
Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions 1905
The West China Missionary News Jan. 1910
Foreign Missions Board 1902
West China Mission Annual Meeting Minutes Jan. 1906
West China Mission Minutes Jan. 1903
Banks, Rev. J.S. A Preachers Library: Hints on Theological Reading
Journal of the Senate March 1939
Journal of the House March 1939
Central Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Minutes 1899
Foreign Missions Boards 1906
Opportune Investments in China
Foreign Missions Boards 1905
Foreign Missions Boards 1907
West China Mission Annual Meeting Minutes 1906
Annual Report of the Missionary Society 1904
Annual Report of the Missionary Society 1902
Popular New Novels 44
Ward, Mrs. Humphry 1. The Art of Marriage
Corelli, Marie 2.The Sorrows of Satan
De Maurier, George 3.Trilby
Craik, Mrs. John Halifax, Gentleman
Penny Popular Novels 129
Craik, Mrs. John Halifax, Gentleman Part I
Penny Popular Novels 102
Pocock, Roger The Blackguard
Penny Popular Novels 24
Verne, Jules Five Weeks in a Balloon
Penny Popular Novels 144
Dumas, Alexandre The Man in the Iron Mask
Penny Popular Novels 108
Pocock, Roger Rules of the Game
Captain Cook and Australian Natives
Catalogue of Best Books
Penny Popular Novels 66
Austen, Jane Sense and Sensibility
Judson and Bender's Graded Literature Readers
Cunningham, Alfred A History of the Szechuan Riots
The West China Missionary News Jan. 1908
The West China Missionary News Feb. 1908
The West China Missionary News March 1908
The West China Missionary News April 1908
The West China Missionary News May 1908
The West China Missionary News June 1908
The West China Missionary News Aug. 1908
The West China Missionary News Sept. 1908
The West China Missionary News Dec. 1908
The West China Missionary News Jan. 1909
The West China Missionary News Feb. 1909
The West China Missionary News March 1909
The West China Missionary News May 1909
The West China Missionary News Oct. 1909
Chungking High School Announcement
Foreign Missions Boards 1903
West China Missionary Conference 1908
Bashford, Bishop J.W. Educational Institutions of the Methodist Episcopal Church in China 1907
West China Missionary News 1907
The Widening Horizon in China Foreign Missions Boards 1903
Bashford, Bishop J.W. The Chinese Church
Christian Education in China
Instruction For Probationers and Members of the China Inland Mission
Foreign Missions Club Agency Dept. Price List
Annual Report of the Missionary Society 1903
Annual Report Sunday School Union 1905
Official Minutes for the Foochow Conference 1910
Pyper, Rev. John Jesus Christ A Total Abstainer
Conger, Edwin H. Christian Missions From a Statesman's Viewpoint
Leighton, Robert The Love of God
West China Annual Meeting Minutes 1907
The World's Cry for the Lord's Money
Central Conference Minutes 1907
Missionary Society Handbook
West China Mission Conference Minutes 1909
Our Extreme Need of Illumination
West China Mission Conference 1908
Catalogue of Sunday School and Church Supplies
The Life of Faith Vol. XXI Feb. 1902
West China Messenger 3rd Quarter 1909
West China Messenger 2nd Quarter (2) 1908
West China Messenger 1st Quarter 1908
The Christian Witness June 1910
The Christian Republic Jan. 1907
World Wide Mission Nov. 1909
World's Publications Supply
The "Man of Sorrows" 8th Edition n.d.
Mission Study for Young People 1905-1906
Reports of Gouldy Memorial for Men 1907
Adamson, Rev. William The Land of Sinim
The Christian Educational Union of West China Minutes 1906
Bible Teacher's Training School
Bulletin Jan.-Feb. 1904
List of Protestant Missionaries in West China 1907
Hallock's Chinese Almanac and Miscellany 1909
Franson, Rev. F. The Religion of Tibet and the True Religion n.d
Prospectus of the Union Medical College Peking 1906-1907
Record of Christian Work Advertising 1908
A World Wide War n.d.
With Kitchener to Khartum n.d.
Catalogue of the World Famous J. James Tissot Collection n.d.
Eighty Eighth Annual Report of the Missionary Society 1907
Primer of the Standard System of Mandarin Romanization 1905
Testimonials to Wang Hang T'ong's Text Books. 1907
Webster, J. Rev. Times of Blessing in Manchuria 1908
Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions 1908
Who was Swedenborg and What are His Writings? n.d.
The Records of a Conference on Federation 1905
Instructions for Probationers and Members of the China Inland Mission 1894
Official Minutes and Year Book. South Japan Annual Conference. 1906
Banks, J.S. Rev. A Preacher's General Reading: Companion to A Preacher's Library 1886
Open Door Emergency Movement, Worker's Manual n.d.
West China Messenger, Vol VII, # 5 1909
Bulletin of the Chicago Training School Vol VI, # 2 April, 1909
Leighton, Robert The Christian Estate
List of Missionaries and their Stations 1899
Jacobs, S.P. Rev The Design in Baptizo
59th Annual Report of the New York Life Insurance Company 1903
The Sunday School Union, It's Work and Aims n.d.
Vernon, J.R. Rev. Manslaughter, if not Murder 1895
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