[386] Who’s Who in America, 1914-5.
[387] Ibid.; Anderson, Norwegian Immigration, quoting from the Madison Democrat.
[388] Mattson, The Story of an Emigrant, 143-145.
[389] Congressional Directory, 1897, 1907, 1914; Nelson, History of the Scandinavians, I, 435, 480, 503; II, 195.
[390] Peterson, Svenskarne i Illinois, 389.
[391] Du Bois, Suppression of the African Slave-Trade, 90 n 5, 131, 143 n 1.
[392] Baker, History of the Elective Franchise in Wisconsin, 9; including a reference to the Wisconsin Banner, Oct. 17, 1846.
[393] Journal of the Second Convention, 511, 584.
[394] Langeland, Nordmændene i Amerika, 96.
[395] Langeland, Nordmændene i Amerika, 98: “Den förste Indvandrer-befolkning hovedsagelig bestod af Folk fra Landsbygderne, som for en stor Del ikke var vant til at læse andet end Deres Religionsböger, og mange af dem ansaa det endog for en Synd at læse politiske Blade.”