[199] Nils O. Wikko was from Gol, Hallingdal. He married Beret Halvorson in 1854, and removed soon after to Worth County, Iowa. He died in 1904, at the age of eighty-three, survived by widow and six daughters.
[200] They moved to Houston County, Minnesota, in 1853. He died in 1894 and she in 1904, at the age of eighty-four.
[201] Tyrebakken moved to Black Hammer, Minnesota, in 1854, when he married Mari Haugejordet. He was born in 1823, in 1905.
[202] Knut Finseth died in 1869. Herbrand Finseth married Guri Ouri in 1867; he died in January, 1901, leaving wife and six children.
[203] I gather these facts from an obituary notice, which speaks at length in eloquent terms of the noble lives of this couple.
[204] These two were the first to emigrate to America from Modum.
[205] Valdris is the Norwegian appellation of a native of Valders.
[206] Syver Gaarder’s daughter, Barbro, married Martin Johnson (Nederhaugen) in 1855. Dr. J. S. Johnson, of Minneapolis, is their oldest son; other children are: Ben Johnson, Orfordville, Wisconsin; Mrs. Rev. Langseth, Glendorado, Minn.; Mrs. Rev. L. Njus, McIntosh, Minn.; Mrs. Strömseth, living on the homestead; Mandy Johnson.
[207] It is only “financial prosperity” which we are here speaking of, of course. The question of “success” is entirely a different one.
[208] The regulations varying with different ships, Juno, which brought the first party from Inner Sogn in 1844, did not accept any passenger who had not provided himself with food supply for twelve weeks.