[59] True Account of America for the Information and Help of Peasant and Commoner, written by a Norwegian who came there in the month of June, 1837.
[60] The Pathfinder, a book of one hundred and sixty-six pages.
[61] One of his sons was Colonel Porter C. Olson of Civil War fame, member of the Thirty-sixth Illinois Infantry.
[62] Among those who came in 1832 was John Nordboe from Gudbrandsdalen, Norway.
[63] While in Norway he married a sister of Ole Olson Hetletvedt, which may have been in part the purpose of his return.
[64] The North and The Norwegian Rock.
[65] Langeland says a hundred and sixty on page eighteen of his work, elsewhere a hundred and fifty. Two hundred seems, however, to have been approximately the number.
[66] Disney left again in 1837.
[67] The Olson homestead is still owned by the son, Nels Olson.
[68] Died in 1840, leaving wife and two children, John and Anna Bertha; the latter later became the wife of John J. Næset in the town of Christiana, Dane County, Wisconsin. Sævig was born in 1803, his wife in 1809.