The Waldemar Ager Association

was formed in 1993 to save the Ager family home, which Waldemar Ager purchased in 1903. There, he and his wife, Gurolle, would raise nine children, and in the study of this house, Ager wrote all seven of his novels.
In addition to those seven novels, Ager published several collections of short stories about the lives and culture of Norwegians in America. Along with writing fiction, Ager published a Norwegian language weekly, the Reform, and traveled throughout the United States speaking in support of prohibition and of the preservation of Norwegian culture and language in America.

Our Goals:

• To preserve and study the works of Waldemar Ager.
• To preserve and study the contributions made by other immigrants in the Chippewa Valley.
• To restore and preserve the Ager home as a representative of the 1890's Victorian-era cottage in Eau Claire.
• To provide a meeting and study center for those interested in the work of Chippewa Valley immigrants.

Contributions

Membership contributions and donations help the Waldemar Ager Association realize its goals.

Membership Form

Special funds

Donations

Ager Association Board of Directors

2008 long-range plan of the Ager Association

Special thanks

Ager Association: a history in installments by Tim Hirsch

"The Ager House-- Home of Waldemar Ager: Norwegian American Novelist, Journalist, Community Leader" — By Tim Hirsch, for the Eau Claire Leader Telegram

Newsletter installment part one: the early days — by Tim Hirsch