The Synstegard parents came from Norway about 1853, walked from Milwaukee to Rock county, and bought 220 acres in Avon township.

The evidence

• “He was born there on October 26, 1862, and is the fourth of eleven children, seven of whom are now—1907—living, born to Knudt and Maggie (Armernd) Synstegard. The parents came to this country from Norway, their native land, about 1853, before their marriage, the ocean voyage taking fourteen weeks. Arriving at Milwaukee they walked to Rock county, where the father bought 220 acres of land in Avon township, which he improved and where he made a home and reared his family and lived until about 1897, when he retired and moved to Beloit, where he now resides.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 537 / book p. 1022

  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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