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- 1997 (Creation)
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Ccontains the bound autobiography of Esther Olson Brissenden Collection entitled, Esther's Book: The Story of a Family. The manuscript is 329 pages long and contains photocopied photographs of the Olson family. In addition to the autobiography, the book includes letters written by Blixt to his nephew in Sweden, and the stories of each of the seven Olson children written by their offspring.
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Esther Olson was born in Ironwood, Michigan, the third of 10 children of Blixt and Kristina Olson, seven of whom survived. When Esther was five, her mother and the children followed her father to Malo, Washington, where he had carved a homestead out of the wilds of the Northwest. Esther grew up in this frontier environment, eventually met and married Bill Brissenden while she was working in Canada, and raised nine children with her husband in Ontario, Canada, where he was stationed as an officier of the Royal Canadian Navy.