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

by George T. Flom

Transcriber’s Note

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.

Please consult the [Transcriber’s Note] at the end of this text for the details of any textual issues.

History of Norwegian Immigration

A History of Norwegian Immigration
to
The United States

From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848

By

GEORGE T. FLOM, Ph. D. (Columbia)

Professor of Scandinavian Languages and Literatures and Acting Professor of English Philology, State University of Iowa

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PRIVATELY PRINTED
IOWA CITY, IOWA
1909

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COPYRIGHT 1909
GEORGE T. FLOM

THE TORCH PRESS
CEDAR RAPIDS
IOWA

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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

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