[417] In 1867 he moved to Wagner Township.
[418] Rev. Tanner writes: “When we look at this Norwegian settlement as it was then and is to-day largely, it immediately strikes us that it was wood and water the colonists looked for, and therefore they let the prairie lie and chose the hills along the Turkey River. Not until later did they learn to understand the value of the prairie, but then the Germans had taken most of it.”
[419] The Fayette County settlement about Clermont is a western extension of the second settlement in Clayton County; its beginnings have been referred to above.
[420] The first entry of purchase appears under the date of October 7, 1850. The earliest settler in the county was Henry Johnson, after whom Johnsonsport was named, but I do not know of what nationality he was.
[421] Hesla had came to America in 1845, Anderson in 1846.
[422] Settled in Makee Township; he had came from Norway in 1849.
[423] In the Clermont Settlement there was a log-cabin store at the village of Clermont.
[424] This pioneer is still living.—See Tanner’s article.
[425] A barrel of flour at that time cost twelve dollars in Iowa, and a bushel of corn seventy five cents. The usual wages was 25c a day, sometimes a little more.