[299] Thomas F. Thompson, who died in Leland, Illinois, in 1908, was their son.
[300] He moved to Winchester, Wisconsin, in 1854.
[301] Torgerson removed to Wheeler Prairie, Dane County, in 1846. One of the children Anne Tomine, married Ole C. Erikson in 1854 and they moved to Lake Mills, Jefferson County. In the spring of 1867 they moved to Stoughton, Wisconsin, where Erikson was one of the first promoters of the Stoughton Wagon Company. Mrs. Erikson is still living in Stoughton.
[302] They were the first families to emigrate from Trondhjem.
[303] Ingebret Roswald married Ingeborg Cleven in 1854, and they then settled in Dodge County. The widow is now living in Whitewater, Wisconsin.
[304] Hans died in 1856, Ole died in Milwaukee in 1901. Peter Hendrikson graduated from Beloit College, held a chair in Modern Languages there for about ten years, was later editor of Skandinaven and Principal of Albion Academy, Albion, Wisconsin. Is now engaged in farming in the State of Maine.
[305] His parents with family of ten came in 1849. George Björgaas moved to Adams County, in 1849, where he has lived since.
[306] The rest of their children who came with them were Aaste, a widow, Andrea, Anders, and Anne Christine.
Thomas Thompson married Mary Ann, daughter of Christen Mason. They lived on the Thompson homestead till their death; Thomas died in 1869, his wife in 1871. They had six children, of whom Hans, the oldest, lives at Forest City, Iowa. Karen Thompson, oldest daughter of Hans Thompson, married Jens Skipnes (better known as John A. Johnson of the firm, Fuller and Johnson, Madison, Wisconsin), and with him lived near Stoughton, Wisconsin, where she died about four years after their marriage.