Ansten Natesta, accompanied by Thore Holgerson, Kittle, Christopher Newhouse, Erik Skavlem and others, came, bought land and settled near Ole in the Norwegian settlement.

The evidence

• “When he first settled here there were but eight American settlers in the township. In the spring of 1839 his brother, Ansten, accompanied by Thore Holgerson, Kittle, Christopher Newhouse, Erik Skavlem and others, came, bought land and settled near Ole, where children of theirs are, for the most part, still residing. In 1839 and 1844 quite a number of natives of Voss also came and settled here, of whom K. B.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 136 / book p. 645

  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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