Transcriber’s Note

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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