[109] Father of Torger G. Thompson of Cambridge, Dane County, Wisconsin.
[110] I gather most of these names from Nils A. Lie’s account in Bygdejaevning, pages 47–48.
[111] The route led by way of Havre and New York.
[112] H. R. Holand writes of Per Unde in Skandinaven for July seventeenth, 1908, stating that he came in 1842. Unde’s nephew, Jacob Unde of Sherry, Wisconsin, contributes in a later issue of Skandinaven some corrections, among them that Per Unde came in 1839.
[113] To whom I am indebted chiefly for the family history. Alex Hanson lives at Ellsworth, Iowa.
[114] The editor of Billed-Magazin writes, page eleven of volume I, that at that time (1869) Kittil Lohner and his brother Halvor Nilson Lohner, from Hjertdal, Telemarken, and the family of Gisle Danielson, from Skjold, were still living in the settlement. The rest were dead or had moved away. But Knud J. Bæckhus, from Hjertdal, and Ole Kjonaas, from Bö, had settled west of the colony in the town of Vernon.
[115] Professor Anderson accepts unreservedly the authority of Billed-Magazin in the matter and decides for the date 1840.
[116] In The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, 1905, page 360.
[117] Mons Aadland had a sister Malinda, the wife of Anders Nordvig, who came to America in the same ship as he. Anders Nordvig died in Beaver Creek. His wife moved to the Fox River Settlement, where she died, ninety years old, about 1892. I have above written the name Adland as it came to be written in this country.
[118] Nor any from other provinces, for Hermund Tufte who, in Holand’s De norske Settlementers Historie, is said to have come in 1841, did not come before 1842.