[239] There were three sons, but one died at sea, and another died on the journey from Albany to Buffalo.
[240] Strand’s History, page 266.
[241] Strand, p. 180. See also above page [50].
[242] For above facts I am indebted to Mrs. Eric Ross of 217 Mozart Street, Chicago, a daughter of Mrs. Fuglestad. Mrs. Erickson’s children: Mrs. Robert S. Carroll, Otto G. Erickson, Samuel Erickson and Alex Erickson. Mrs. Fuglestad’s children are: Mrs. Anna Ross, Thomas B. Fuglestad in Chicago, Peter A. Fuglestad, Forest City, Iowa, and Mrs. Mary Jacobson in Beltram, Minnesota.
[243] Knut Juve was born in 1799. Knut Jöitil in 1803.
[244] Most of them in fair circumstances says Juve.
[245] Interview in Billed-Magazin, 1870, page twenty-four.
[246] Torkild Sundbö and wife, Margit, later moved to Sun Prairie.
[247] Dyrland says there were 211 immigrants on the ship on which he came, and most of these, it seems, were from Telemarken.
[248] His brother, also named Gunnar, came to America in 1848; T. G. Mandt, inventor of the Stoughton wagon, was a son of the latter.