Dr. Olaf Sand was born March 14, 1871 at Sand, Nord Odal, Norway, the son of Ludvig Olsen Sand and Frya Hansdatter Skieppentad.  In 1889 he entered the University of Christiania where he received the degree in medicine in 1897. That same year he married Eva Crawford, and they went to practice on the island of Hareidand near Alesund for two years.  Sand and his family moved to Fargo, N.D., in 1905 where he became associated with Dr. Tronnes. Together they and several other doctors organized St. Luke's Hospital and the Fargo Clinic.  In 1954 he had received the Knights Cross, First Class of the Order of Saint Olav from King Haakon of Norway.

The Sand collection consists of some correspondence and subject files on various topics. The correspondence arranged chronologically covers the period 1925 to 1955 with the bulk from 1947 to 1954 and almost exclusively incoming.  The patient ledger covers the period of April 1905 to February 1907 and arranged chronologically. Each entry includes name, age, address, symptoms, treatment and charges.  The subject files also include autobiographical material as well as Dr. Sand's speeches and papers on Thrombosis and Embolism written for the nurses at St. Lukes.

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