[259] Hustvedt wrote his name Ben Stevens.
[260] According to interview printed in Amerika.
[261] This log-cabin was still standing not many years ago.
[262] An American family had come there before him.
[263] The first emigrants from Kongsberg were Thomas Braaten, and Halvor Funkelien.
[264] They had twelve children in all.
[265] Came to Muskego in 1843, went back to Norway and returned, settling in Koshkonong in 1846.
[266] There was one immigrant from Aurland, Sogn, in 1843, but he stopped the first winter in Muskego. See next chapter.
[267] Rev. K. A. Kasberg, of Spring Grove, Minn., writes me that Halvor Kravik in speaking of some of these people says Halvor Aasen went to Rock Run as did also Paal “Spellemand.” He also adds the name Gunnar Springen who, he says, went to Rock Prairie.
[268] As I learn through Rev. G. A. Larsen.