Handwritten Norwegian cookbook and wooden utensil used in 1900 at a cooking school in Oslo.

Lismoen, Elise B.

Elise Lismoen was born August 27, 1881, in Åsnes, Hedmark, Norway, to Bernhard Eriksen Lismoen and Laura Kristoffersdotter Siggerud. According to the 1900 census of Norway, she was working as a servant for Halfdan Hagbart Keyser, a restaurateur in Oslo. Elise emigrated in 1907, entering the U.S. through Ellis Island. After her arrival, Elise traveled to North Dakota and settled in Hatton. In 1910, she married Olaf Kordahl who was also from Åsnes and had emigrated in 1902. They had eight children, two sons and six daughters, and farmed in the vicinity of Hatton. Elise died August 31, 1940, in Grand Forks after an extended illness, while her husband died September 28, 1970. They are buried in the Mayville Cemetery.