[269] The name of the ship, as we learn elsewhere, was Hercules. See above page [228].
[270] Levi Kittilsen died suddenly in 1907; the widow is living (at Stoughton); a daughter, Andrea, is married to Rev. Abel Lien, Ada, Minn.; a son, Carl, is in Nome, Alaska. Dr. Albert N. Kittilsen, another son, owns valuable mines at Nome, Alaska; he is living in the State of Washington.
[271] Nils Grötrud assumed the farm name Holtan and is therefore Nils T. Holtan. He located first on the Holtan farm south of Utica. About 1868 the family settled two miles east of Utica.
[272] So written, but pronounced Schirdalen in the dialect. My father is the authority for the statement that Schærdalen was the first to emigrate from Aurland.
[273] She was a daughter of Ole Schærdalen.
[274] A daughter of Mons Melaas. Their husbands took the name Melaas in this country.
[275] Relative to the personnel of this party and the sailing of Juno I am especially to Kristi Melaas, with whom I have had several interviews on the question. She is the oldest surviving member of the party and is still living at Stoughton, Wisconsin. My father, Ole O. Flom, has also supplied many facts; he was thirteen years old at the time of immigration.
[276] Kristi Melaas called the boat “ein rota baot skikke-leg.” She says the agent who had charge of the journey to Milwaukee was a man by the name of Hohlfelt, a typical immigrant “runner,” it seems, whom she styles as “ain rigele bedragar, ain stakkars Mann va han.”
[277] This man we learn was Anfin Seim (see next chapter).
[278] Knut Brekketo, a son of Björn Brekketo, is living at Capron at present.