[249] Endre Vraa paid his passage to America.
[250] Published in Amerika and Skandinaven in January, 1906.
[251] Ole K. Roe of Stoughton, is a son of K. Roe; other children are: Mrs. F. Johnson, Mrs. Ole Thorsen, Mrs. O. Swerig and Mrs. J. King. Since the above was written I have learned that Helleik Roe has died (April, 1909).
[252] Herein I accept the authority of Billed-Magazin. The History of Dane County, however, says that John Luraas was the first white settler in the town, Chauncey Isham and John Wheeler coming soon after.
[253] Helge Grimsrud’s wife’s parents and a sister had emigrated in 1841 and located in Muskego. Upon returning to Muskego from Koshkonong in the fall of 1842, Grimsrud went direct to Milwaukee and bought 240 acres of land, being the first to purchase land in Dunkirk. He died in 1856.
[254] Two of his maternal uncles and a brother had emigrated in 1839 and located in Muskego; letters from these induced them to emigrate.
[255] Called also Halvor i Vinje.
[256] Page 15 of Kort Uddrag of den norske Synodes Historie, by Rev. Jacob Aal Ottesen, Decorah, 1893.
[257] Asmund Næstestu was the son of Aslak Næstestu, a man of much native ability and influence in Vinje. Anna Næstestu, a daughter of Aslak, married Ole Bækhus; they were the parents of the Bækhus (Gjergjord) brothers of whom we shall speak in the next chapter.
[258] They came in the same ship as Knut Jöitil and Anund Drotning, who, as we have seen, located in Pleasant Spring. Knut Teisberg moved from Cottage Grove to Pleasant Spring in 1846.