A Norwegian family (Keesey) came to the United States and purchased and settled on a farm in Rock County.

The evidence

• “influential citizen of Rock county, Wisconsin, was a native of Norway and came to this country in the spring of 1845 when a young man, with his parents, one brother and one sister—Ole and Carrie Keesey, who purchased and settled on the farm occupied by our subject during his lifetime, and where his widow now resides. The homestead originally comprised 120 acres, but Mr.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 541 / book p. 1026

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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