[89] There can be no doubt as to the correctness of the facts as here given. It has also been said that Lars Skavlem’s house was the first to be erected, and J. W. C. Dietrichson erroneously even names him as the first Norwegian in Rock Prairie.
[90] His wages were from six to ten dollars a week.
[91] Whom we now know to have been Hellik Glaim.
[92] This log cabin is still used as a chicken house on the old Springen homestead.
[93] The Rock County History says of Stordok: “He and his family lived in a haystack for three months until they had completed a log cabin” (page 774). As we have seen, it was not a haystack they lived in. Stordok’s family consisted, as yet, only of himself and wife.
[94] Of these various removals to Mitchell County, Iowa, I shall speak more fully in the proper place.
[95] Glaim located at Hanley Falls, Minnesota, in 1866.
[96] They have two children, Lulu and Lewis.
[97] Not on the homestead, as History of Norwegians of Illinois, page 487, has it.
[98] In 1895 he organized the Farmers Bank of Davis, Illinois, of which his son, C. O. R. Stabeck, is now cashier.