Weyerhaeuser Family Oral History Project: Interview with Sarah-Maud Weyerhaeuser Rosenberry Sivertsen

Titles: Weyerhaeuser Family Oral History Project: Interview with Sarah-Maud Weyerhaeuser Rosenberry Sivertsen (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Born March 22, 1907, in Little Falls, Minnesota, the daughter of Charles Augustus and Frances Moon Weyerhaeuser. She was educated by private tutors, attended Summit School in St. Paul, Hartridge Boarding School in New Jersey, and Vassar College in New York. In 1930 she married Walter Samuel Rosenberry, Jr., and they had four children: sons Walter III and Charles; and daughters Elise and Lucy. Sarah-Maud was divorced from Rosenberry in 1949 and in 1954 married Robert J. Sivertsen. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Sarah-Maud Sivertsen recalls living in Little Falls, her schooling there, a description of family routine and activities, her father's lumber mill and office, friendship with the Musser and Lindbergh families, and the Lake Alexander summer home; she discusses going to school in the East, childhood visits and relationships with Weyerhaeuser cousins and other family members; she talks of her mother's talent for singing, her father's death, traveling abroad, her courtship and marriage to Walter Rosenberry, and living in St. Paul.

Dates

• 05/18/1986 - 05/19/1987 (Interview dates: 5/18/1987 and 5/19/1987.) (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Sivertsen, Sarah-Maud Weyerhaeuser
• interviewer: Reiter, Leilee Weyerhaeuser

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 26
• Accession Number: AV1993.157.4

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Weyerhaeuser Family Oral History Project' <OH 26>

Quantity: 4 hours sound cassette 156 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 03:35:20 running time

Subjects

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