[49] Nelson’s History of Scandinavians, 1901, p. 133.
[50] B. L. Wick, in The Friends, Philadelphia, 1894, according to Nelson, p. 134. I have not been able to secure a copy of the above article, therefore cannot here state the arguments, or cite more fully.
[51] The reader who knows Björnson’s Synnöve Solbakken will remember the author’s introduction of this feature in Chapter II, the first two pages.
[52] Lars Larson settled in Rochester where he could attend a Quaker church. The same is true of Ole Johnson, another of the “sloopers” who later settled in Kendall but finally returned to Rochester, where he died in 1877.
[53] Some of the early Mormon leaders were Norwegians, however, as Bishop Canute Peterson (Marsett), of Ephraim, Utah, who came to America in 1837 from Hardanger, Norway. The slooper Gudmund Haugaas became an elder in the church of the Latter Day Saints in La Salle County, Illinois; he died in 1849 and was succeeded by his son Thomas Haugaas.
[54] See a brief account by Rev. N. M. Liljegren in Nelson’s History of Scandinavians, I, pp. 205–209.
[55] Methodism had been introduced into Sweden from England early in the century.
[56] By far the larger number, however, are Swedes.
[57] See Billed-Magazin, p. 74.
[58] Nelson’s History of Scandinavians, page 56.