A Norwegian father came to the United States and settled in Racine county, Wisconsin.

The evidence

• “The father, a native of Norway, was born on March 2, 1818. He came to the United States in 1841 and settled in Racine county, Wisconsin. In 1842, feeling himself called to the gospel ministry, he began preaching, and a little later gave himself entirely to the work, traveling from place to place and preaching in the Norwegian settlements of Wisconsin,”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 500 / book p. 986

  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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