[119] See below under Rock Prairie.
[120] The Biographical Review of Dane County, Wisconsin, 1893, page 239, gives 1842 as the year Seamon A. Seamonson came from Skien, Norway, to Racine County, his wife and three children coming the next year (see later chapter).
[121] In reality a group of prairies.
[122] Later Norwegians settled also in Blooming Grove (west of Cottage Grove) and in Rutland (west of Dunkirk), but they always remained here a minority of the population. On the north the settlement extends also into southeastern Sun Prairie and southwestern Medina.
[123] But Spring Prairie was settled slightly earlier than Norway Grove.
[124] The settlement enters the Town of Dane (northwestern part) on the west.
[125] That is, excluding the southwestern part of the town and sections 6, 7, and 18 along its western line.
[126] A work which, unfortunately, contains a great many errors.
[127] In the spring of 1842 Duty J. Green and Jesse Saunders came, both from Alleghany County, New York; they settled near Saunders’ Creek, where Albion village now stands. Saunders had lived one year in Rock County. In 1842 also, Samuel Clarke of Yorkshire, England, son of James and Judith A. Clarke, arrived, and located on Albion Prairie. John S. Bullis, Giles Eggleston, Lorenzo Coon, and Barton Edwards, came in 1842, C. R. Head in 1843, as also Adin Burdick, and in 1844 Job Bunting, L. O. Humphrey, R. P. Humphrey, Henry Job, Samuel Marsden, and James Wileman.
[128] From whom Wheeler Prairie takes its name. I am inclined to think that Wheeler preceded Luraas (see below).