[229] History of Goodhue County, Minnesota; History of Houston County, Minnesota; Sparks, History of Winneshiek County, Iowa. See the numerous biographies in Nelson, History of the Scandinavians, I, II.
[230] Report of the Industrial Commission, XV, 301-302. Mr. R. C. Jones, assistant superintendent of Castle Garden, New York, estimated, according to an interview in the Milwaukee Sentinel, Dec. 30, 1888, that about one Swede out of a hundred went to a city.
[231] See Nelson, History of the Scandinavians, I, 246.
[232] History of the Upper Mississippi Valley, 281, 312, 416, 440, 511; History of Fillmore County, Minnesota, 344, 346; Northwest Magazine, Oct., 1899.
[233] History of Houston County, Minnesota, 286.
[234] The Northwest Magazine, Oct., 1889, p. 32.
[235] See the testimony of John Anderson, editor of Daily Skandinaven, before the Select (Congressional) Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, 1891. House Reports, No. 3472, 51 Cong. 2 Sess., 679-683.
[236] Bremer, Homes of the New World, I, 242.
[237] Mayo-Smith, Emigration and Immigration, 146.
[238] Ibid., quoting a letter from Fargo, Dakota, July 24, 1887, to the New York Times.