[29] Rachel (b. 1807), Julia (b. 1810), Senena (b. 1814).
[30] Sara (b. 1818), Anna Maria (b. 1819), Caroline (b. 1825).
[31] Nels Thompson had married Bertha Caroline, the widow of Olen Thompson in 1827. She had three daughters by her first husband: Sara, born 1818; Anna, born 1819; and Caroline, born 1825 (died in Rochester, N. Y., 1826). Nels Thompson and wife had two children: Serena, born 1828; Abraham, born 1830; and Caroline, born in 1833.
[32] Or are these two the same person?
[33] Mrs. R. W. Bower of Sheridan, Illinois, is a daughter of Haugaas and his wife Caroline. Other children of his are Daniel Haugaas in Henderson, Iowa, and Mrs. Isabel Lewis, Emington, Illinois, and Thomas Haugaas.
[34] For these facts I am indebted to R. B. Anderson, as also for other details of the personal history of the slooper’s descendants.
[35] First Chapter, p. 331.
[36] That is, “Northman.”
[37] A great change for the better has been taking place during the last few years.
[38] Thus the failure of crops and the famine in Northern Sweden, Finland, and Norway in 1902 was followed by a vastly increased immigration from these sections. See above [page 28]. Compare [Table II], Appendix.