Whatever irregularities in the ordination of Clausen or of Eielsen may have disturbed the consciences of the stricter of the Lutheran sect, nothing of the sort attached to the Rev. Johannes Wilhelm Christian Dietrichson, who arrived in 1844, fresh from the University of Christiania and from the ordaining hands of the Bishop of Christiania. He was a diligent, aggressive, zealous young man of about thirty, sent out as a kind of home missionary in foreign parts at the expense of a wealthy dyer of Christiania. For two years, summer and winter, he went back and forth in southern Wisconsin ministering to the Norwegians of all ages and beliefs,--and all for the stipend of $300 yearly.[96] One of the results of these labors, was a little book, _Reise blandt de norske Emigranter i "de forenede nordamerikanske Fristater,"_ in which Dietrichson gives the earliest detailed account of the settlements in Wisconsin and Illinois before 1846. He described the origin, numbers, conditions, and prospects of each community in his wide parish. At Fox River, he says he found about 500, who were of all creeds, mostly dissenters, including 150 Mormons. [96] _Minde fra Jubelfesterne paa Koshkonong_ (1894), 54 ff; Bothne, _Kort Udsigt_, 839-842. Three church edifices were erected in 1844-5, and dedicated within a short time of each other. Dietrichson dedicated one at Christiana, Dane County, Wisconsin, December 19, 1844, and another at Pleasant Valley a little further west; Clausen dedicated his church at Muskego on March 13, 1845.[97] All were simple structures, as would be expected; a plain table was the altar, and the baptismal font was hewn out of an oak log. But they served none the less as effective and inspiring centers of the religious life of the settlements. For the Muskego church, Even Heg gave the land, and Mr. Bakke of Drammen, whose protégé Clausen was, gave $400 towards construction. Dietrichson left his two churches in Koshkonong in 1845, and returned to Norway where he remained about a year. Aided by benevolent friends and by the Norwegian government, he came back to his prairie parishes in 1846 for a final stay of four years.[98] But his ways were not altogether ways of pleasantness, nor entirely in the paths of peace. The records of the church, and his own story, show that he had more than one stormy time with his people.[99] He departed for Norway in 1850, and never again was in America.[100] [97] Dietrichson, _Reise blandt de norske Emigranter_, 45 ff; _Minde fra Jubelfesterne paa Koshkonong_. [98] _Nordlyset_, Sept. 9, 1847. [99] Dietrichson, _Reise blandt de norske Emigranter_, 57-67. Some of the church records are printed in _The Milwaukee Sentinel_, July 21, 1895. [100] The following year he published a second book, _Nogle Ord fra Prædikestolen i Amerika_.