A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States / From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848

The numbered footnotes have been consolidated and moved to the end of the text. Unnumbered footnotes to the Church Register in Chapter XXXVII and to Table I of the Appendix appear locally.
History of Norwegian Immigration
From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848
GEORGE T. FLOM, Ph. D. (Columbia)
Professor of Scandinavian Languages and Literatures and Acting Professor of English Philology, State University of Iowa
PRIVATELY PRINTED IOWA CITY, IOWA 1909
COPYRIGHT 1909 GEORGE T. FLOM
THE TORCH PRESS CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA
To My Mother
THROUGH WHOM I HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING OF THE HEROIC WOMANHOOD EXEMPLIFIED IN THE LIVES OF OUR PIONEER MOTHERS, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

This volume is intended to present the progress of immigration from Norway to this country from the beginning down through what may be termed the first period of settlement. It is possible that I may at some future time return to these studies to trace the further growth of the Scandinavian element and its place and influence in American life.