[308] The mother and one child died that same fall.
[309] She was a widow when he married her. The children of the second marriage were: Gunder, Christen (Whitewater), Esther (who was Mrs. Chas. Sobye, Stoughton, Wisconsin, but now dead). Anders Bjerva and wife died many years ago.
[310] I acknowledge here with gratitude Mr. Arveson’s valuable aid. It is only through such intelligent interest and patient effort on the part of the sons of the pioneers themselves, who have continued to live in the community, that such reliable facts can be secured.
[311] Lars Lee died in 1883, his wife in 1905. Dr. Lewis Johnson Lee of De Forest, Wisconsin, is their son.
[312] The family changed the name to Holland in this country.
[313] Letter of May 5, 1905.
[314] Father of Knut Rio.
[315] In 1880 Nels Thompson became a member of the well known firm of clothiers, Boley, Hinrichs and Thompson, later Hinrichs and Thompson
[316] Or rather also in part Americanized.
[317] I have discussed this in my Chapters on Scandinavian Immigration (1906), pages 83–85.