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George T. Flom. A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States
A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. Norway: Population, Resources, Pursuits of her People, Social Conditions, Laws and Institutions
CHAPTER II. Emigration from Norway
CHAPTER III. The Earliest Immigrants from Norway, 1620 to 1825
CHAPTER IV. The Sloopers of 1825. The First Norwegian Settlement in America. Kleng Peerson
CHAPTER V. The Founding of the Fox River Settlement. Personal Notes on Some of the Founders
CHAPTER VI. Causes of Emigration from Norway. General Factors, Economic
CHAPTER VII. Causes of Emigration Continued. Special Factors. Religion as a Cause. Emigration Agents
CHAPTER VIII. Causes of Emigration continued. The Influence of Successful Pioneers. “America-letters.” The Spirit of Adventure. Summary
CHAPTER IX. Growth of the Fox River Settlement. The Immigration of 1836. Further Personal Sketches
CHAPTER X. The Year 1837. The Sailing of Aegir
CHAPTER XI. Beaver Creek. Ole Rynning
CHAPTER XII. Some of the Immigrants of 1837. The First Pathfinders from Numedal and Telemarken
CHAPTER XIII. Ansten Nattestad’s Return to Norway in 1838. The Year 1839. Immigration Assumes Larger Proportions. The Course of Settlement Changes
CHAPTER XIV. Shelby County, Missouri. Ansten Nattestad’s Return from Norway in 1839. The Founding of the Jefferson Prairie Settlement in Rock County, Wisconsin
CHAPTER XV. The Earliest White Settlers on Rock and Jefferson Prairies. The Founding of the Rock Prairie Settlement. The Earliest Settlers on Rock Prairie
CHAPTER XVI. The Rock Run Settlement. Other Immigrants of 1839. The Immigration of 1840
CHAPTER XVII. The Settlement of Norway and Raymond Townships, Racine County. The Founders of the Settlement. Immigration to Racine County in 1841–1842
CHAPTER XVIII. The Establishment of the Koshkonong Settlement in Dane County, Wisconsin
CHAPTER XIX. The Settling of Koshkonong by Immigrants from Numedal and Stavanger in 1840. Other Accessions in 1841–1842
CHAPTER XX. New Accessions to the Koshkonong Settlement in 1840–1841. The Growth of the Settlement in 1842
CHAPTER XXI. The First Norwegian Settlement in Iowa, at Sugar Creek, in Lee County
CHAPTER XXII. The Earliest Norwegian Settlers at Wiota, La Fayette County, and Dodgeville, Iowa County, Wisconsin
CHAPTER XXIII. Growth of the Jefferson Prairie Settlement from 1841 to 1845. The First Norwegian Land Owners in Rock County
CHAPTER XXIV. Immigration to Rock Prairie from Numedal and Land in 1842 and Subsequent Years
CHAPTER XXV. Immigration from Hallingdal, Norway, to Rock Prairie from 1843 to 1848. Continued Immigration from Numedal. Other Early Accessions
CHAPTER XXVI. Economic Conditions of Immigrants. Cost of Passage. Course of the Journey. Duration of the Journey
CHAPTER XXVII. Norwegians in Chicago, 1840–1845. A Vossing Colony. Some Early Settlers in Chicago from Hardanger
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Earliest Norwegian Settlers in the Township of Pleasant Spring, Dane County, Wisconsin
CHAPTER XXIX. The First Norwegian Settlers in the Townships of Dunkirk, Dunn, and Cottage Grove, in Dane County, Wisconsin
CHAPTER XXX. The Expansion of the Koshkonong Settlement into Sumner and Oakland Townships in Jefferson County. Increased Immigration from Telemarken. New Settlers from Kragerö, Drammen and Numedal
CHAPTER XXXI. The Coming of the First Large Party of Immigrants from Sogn. New Accessions from Voss
CHAPTER XXXII. Long Prairie in Boone County, Illinois; a Sogning Settlement
CHAPTER XXXIII. The Growth of the Racine County (Muskego) Settlement, 1843–1847. Personal Notes
CHAPTER XXXIV. The Heart Prairie Settlement in Walworth County, Wisconsin. Skoponong. Pine Lake
CHAPTER XXXV. The Earliest Norwegian Settlers at Sugar Creek, Walworth County, Wisconsin. The influx from Land, Norway, to Wiota and Vicinity, 1844–1852
CHAPTER XXXVI. Continued Immigration from Aurland, Sogn, to Koshkonong. The Arrival of Settlers from Vik Parish, Sogn, in 1845
CHAPTER XXXVII “Kirkeregister.” Church Register of the East Koshkonong, West Koshkonong and Liberty Prairie Congregations as Constituted During the Years of Reverend J. W. C. Dietrichson’s Incumbency of the Pastorate from 1844 to 1850, and as Recorded by Reverend Dietrichson.[341]
CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Founding of the Norwegian Settlements of Norway Grove, Spring Prairie and Bonnet Prairie in Dane and Columbia Counties, Wisconsin
CHAPTER XXXIX. Blue Mounds in Western Dane County, Wisconsin
CHAPTER XL. The Hardanger Settlement in Lee and De Kalb Counties, Illinois. Big Grove in Kendall County and Nettle Creek in Grundy County, Illinois
CHAPTER XLI. The First Norwegian Pioneers in Northeastern Iowa
CHAPTER XLII. Survey of Immigration from Norway to America. Conclusion
Appendices
APPENDIX I
TABLE I
TABLE II
TABLE III
APPENDIX II
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Footnotes
