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
[326] Matthew J. Ingebretson of Gratiot, Wis., who came to Wiota
with his parents in 1848, has kindly aided me with many of
the facts on immigration to Wiota in 1847-50.
[327] John Larsen Lillebæk was one of her sons.
In 1849 came Torkild Husværet, with wife and three sons, Gulbrand, Lars
and Frederik; Ole Monson Tollefsrude, wife Karen and three children,
and Nils Aason, Ovre Hasle and wife Ingeborg, who had come to Rock
Prairie in 1848 (removed to Wiota in 1848). Hans Lillebæk came in 1850
and about twenty in all in 1851-52.
Ole Monson, whom we have mentioned as coming in 1849, was the builder
of the old Norwegian church at Wiota, which is still standing; the
present larger and more commodious structure stands on the wall built
by Ole Monson.
There were not very many from other provinces in Norway among those who
emigrated to Wiota in the late forties. We have spoken of Ingebrigt
Fuglegjærdet's coming in 1846 from Long Prairie, where he had lived two
years; he was from Vik, Sogn.[328]
[328] Ingebrigt Johnson removed to Town of Dane, Dane County,
Wisconsin, in 1851; there he lived till his death in 1893,
his wife having died in 1890. John J. Johnson, retired
farmer, of Lodi, Columbia County, Wisconsin, is their son, as
is also Joseph Johnson of Dane Township in Dane County.
From Vik came Erik I. Haave and wife in 1847, while Harald Melland
and wife Anne came from Telemarken. From Sigdal there came one family
in 1848; Ellef (Alef) Johnson and wife Anne. The latter served in the
Civil War, in Company G of the Twenty-Second Wisconsin Regiment.[329]
In 1872 he married Mary Larson,[330] of Blanchardville, La Fayette
County, where they are now living.
[329] He was only sixteen when he enlisted.
[330] She was a daughter of Ole Larson, who served in the Third
Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, in the Civil War.
I may conclude this chapter by saying that Arne Vinje, whose name is
so intimately interlinked with the history of the community, died in
1903, having lived on the old homestead for sixty-two years. Of his
eight children, three are living: Peter S. Anderson, Newell, Iowa,
Daniel K. Anderson and Mrs. Martha Brunkow of Woodford, Wisconsin.
CHAPTER XXXVI
_Continued Immigration from Aurland, Sogn, to
Koshkonong. The Arrival of Settlers from
Vik Parish, Sogn, in 1845._
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