[99] When he returned to Newark in 1870 he bought two hundred acres of land, for which he paid seven thousand dollars.

[100] Their children are Ole Anderson and Andrew Anderson at Davis, Illinois, and Mrs. O. H. Lerud at Lyle, Minnesota; four children are dead.

[101] He moved to the Old People’s Home in Stoughton in 1903, where he died in 1907, his wife having died in 1905. His only son was killed in the Civil War.

[102] Where, however, they did not remain, as we shall see.

[103] Bygdejaevning, page 43.

[104] Anderson’s First Chapter, page 330.

[105] Andrew Nelson Brekke.

[106] They are all dead long ago.

[107] A daughter of theirs is Mrs. J. A. Waite of the Anchor Line Steamship Company. I am indebted to Strand’s Norwegians in Illinois (page 215) for some of the facts of Brække’s personal history.

[108] As also from Drammen, see below, page [159].