A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States: From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848Flom, George T. (George Tobias)
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A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States: From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848
Flom, George T. (George Tobias)
Norwegians -- United States
Our third party of emigrants were from Upper Telemarken, mostly from
Siljord Parish. They came on the ship _Vinterflid_.[293] Among those
in the party were: Knud S. Kvistrud and Kari Berge from Tin, Egil O.
Cleven and family, and a cousin Knut Haugan, wife and two daughters
from Langelev; Björn Stondal, Ole O. Hedejord[294] and wife Liv, three
daughters, Esther, Ida and Etta, and two sons, Ole and Edward; Torbjörn
G. Vik and family, who later moved to Koshkonong; Aanund Drotning
who also went to Koshkonong that same year;[295] Aase and Ingeborg
Olson[296] from Mandal, Telemarken. John Homme from Siljord, father
of Reverend G. Homme, founder of the Indian School at Wittenberg,
Wisconsin, also came at the same time, as also Ole Myren and wife
Bergit, and Torgrim Busness and wife Anne from Tin, who moved to
Springfield Township, Winneshiek County, Iowa, in 1851.
[293] Many of the facts relative to this party were gathered on
a visit at the home of Mrs. Ingeborg Roswall, Whitewater,
Wisconsin, August 12, 1908; Mrs. Roswall does not remember
the name of the Captain of the ship.
[294] Ole Hedejord died on Koshkonong; Liv is still living, with
her grandchildren on the old homestead, near Waterford, in
the Town of Yorkville.
[295] Edwin Drotning of Stoughton tells me that his father Anon
remained a while in Milwaukee before going to Koshkonong,
where he located, as we know in 1844.
[296] These two sisters married Tostein and Gulleik Cleven in
1844. Tostein and Aase Cleven lived in Yorkville till 1866,
when they moved to Pleasant Spring, Dane County, Wisconsin.
Tostein died in 1893, Aase in 1905, leaving four daughters
and three sons: Mrs. Astri Drotning, Mrs. Ed. Drotning, both
of Stoughton, Wisconsin, Mrs. Anna Howe, Mrs. Edwin Bjoin,
Rice Lake, Wisconsin, Ed., Thomas, and Henry. Thomas Cleven
occupies the farm.
That year also Ole Heg, son of Even Heg and a brother of Colonel Hans
C. Heg,[297] came and settled in Racine County, as also Knud Langeland
from Samnanger, who in 1866 became the first editor of _Skandinaven_
founded that year by John Anderson in Chicago. Knud Langeland lived
at first in Muskego, later at North Cape, Racine County. In 1849 he
married Anna Hatlestad (born in Skjold Parish, Ryfylke, in 1830), whose
parents Jens O. Hatlestad and wife Anne had immigrated in 1846, and
settled in the Town of Norway. Knud Langeland was also the first editor
of _Amerika_, which began publication in Chicago in 1884. During the
last years of his life Langeland lived in North Cape and in Milwaukee,
where he died in 1888; his wife died in 1908, at the home of her
son, Dr. Peter Langeland with whom she had lived since her husband's
death.[298]
[297] Ole Heg is still living in Burlington, Racine County,
Wisconsin.
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