[139] Thorsten Bjaaland and Amund Hornefjeld built shanties on their land before leaving.
[140] Their names are given as: Omund Anderson, Birn Anderson, Lars Olson, and Foster Olson.
[141] It was soon after taken possession of by William Fulton.
[142] That is, Ole O. Hetletveidt. This incident is related in Amerika in September, 1903; the words were: eg faar meg nok ein Flæk Jord her hos han Ola Meddlepeint.
[143] Arnold Andrew Anderson was born in Norway in 1832. The second son of Kvelve, Augustinus Meldahl Bruun, was born in 1834. A daughter was born and died in Rochester, New York, where the Kvelve family lived 1836–37. Elizabeth was born in La Salle County, Illinois in 1837, and Cecelia in 1840. A daughter, Martha, was born in Albion Township in the fall of 1841, being, it seems, the first white child born in the town.
[145] L. D. Reque is still living in Deerfield, Dane County, Wisconsin.
[146] A brother of Nils Gilderhus.
[147] Interview printed in Billed-Magazin, 1869, page 387. Late in the summer of 1841 a few Americans came and settled there.
[148] John Björgo died in October, 1868; his wife, Martha, died in May, 1898. They are both buried in West Koshkonong Cemetery, as Rev. G. G. Krostu of Utica, Wisconsin, informs me.