OVERVIEW
Minnesota Historical Society
Boeckmann, Eduard,
1849-1927.
Eduard Boeckmann papers.
1863-1941.
Materials in English and
Norwegian.
Correspondence, certificates and awards, photographs, clippings, and authored papers of Dr. Eduard Boeckmann, a Norwegian-born St. Paul physician, much of which is in Norwegian.
0.25 cu. ft. (1 box).
P2210: See [Detailed Description](a9) for box contents.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Eduard Boeckmann was a Norwegian-born physician
who practiced in St. Paul and was connected with the Luther Hospital (later
known as St. Paul Hospital). Boeckmann was born in Totn, Norway, in 1849. He
earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Christiania in
1874, and married Anna Sofie Dorothea Gill in 1875. He moved to the United
States in 1887 and located in St. Paul, where he helped to found Luther
Hospital and was a member of the staff of the Charles T. Miller Hospital. Dr.
Boeckmann died August 8, 1927. Egil Boeckmann, one Eduard's sons, married
Rachel Hill, the daughter of James J. Hill, on January 30, 1915.
SEPARATED MATERIALS
Diaries, memoranda books, correspondence, blueprints, memorial books, railroad materials, scrapbooks, speeches, and photographs pertaining to James J. Hill, Mary T. Hill, and their children have been transferred to the Hill Family Collection.
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Topics:
Norwegian Americans--Minnesota--Saint Paul.
Persons:
Boeckmann, Eduard, 1849-1927.
Organizations:
Luther Hospital (Saint Paul, Minn.).
St. Paul Hospital (Saint Paul, Minn.).
Types of Documents:
Photographs.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series
here]. Eduard Boeckmann Papers. Minnesota Historical
Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional
examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 15,569
Processing Information:
Processed by: David B. Peterson, November 2000; revised by Jillian Odland, September 2009
Catalog ID number: 1733839
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
P2210
1
Biographical and genealogical information,
undated and 1927-1931. 1 folder.
Includes a memorial biographical sketch prepared by the Ramsey
County Medical Society (1927), and a similar article in the Norwegian medical
journal Medicinisk Revue (July 1927).
Clippings, undated and 1919-1938. 1 folder.
Includes obituaries of Eduard Boeckmann.
Diplomas and certificates, 1874-1887. 1 folder.
Includes certificates from the states of Minnesota and Illinois,
and from Dakota Territory, allowing Boeckmann to practice medicine in those
places.
Luther-St. Paul Hospital, 1914-1931. 1 folder.
Includes The Luther-St. Paul
Hospital, a historical sketch published in 1939 by the Norwegian
Hospital Society.
Military commissions, 1887-1898. 1 folder.
Received from the United States government and the State of
Minnesota appointing him a military surgeon.
Order of St. Olav, 1906-1911. 1 folder.
Correspondence and miscellany, 1863-1941. 1 folder.
Includes Om de Spedalskes
Oienlidelser, a paper by Boeckmann published in Bergen, Norway in 1886;
a paper on wine making; and a citizenship document (1894).
Photographs, undated and 1906. 1 folder.