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Swedes had settled at Lawrence, which was throughout
these years a hotbed of antislavery activities. These
were P. J. Peterson and Anders Palm.[1] The latter,
together with a man named Wilder, founded the
Lawrence Agricultural Works in 1863 and as a source of
power built a Dutch windmill with a sweep of eighty
feet, which remained a landmark in this part of the
State until it burned down in 1905. Mr. Palm imported
the necessary machinery and mechanics directly from
Sweden. The plant included a foundry, in which the
first plow made in the State is said to have been cast,
and a flour mill with a capacity of twenty bushels per
hour.[2]
One of the men who accompanied Dr. Gran to Kansas
in 1858 deserves special mention. This was L. O.
Jaderberg, who had come to America in 1855. He relates that
due to heavy rains the journey of about one hundred and
fifty miles from Kansas City, Kansas, which then had a
population of fifteen hundred or two thousand,[3] to
Ft. Riley occupied two weeks. Wading through swollen
streams the party continued along the government trail
westward about fifty miles to Salina. Here they selected
land on which they intended to settle, but after two
weeks most of them left in disappointment and returned
to Illinois. Mr. Jaderborg, however, stopped at Ft. Riley
and by the aid of A. B. Perry, who operated the ferry
over the Kansas River at that place, built and
maintained a blacksmith shop. At Christmas he visited a
Swede by the name of John P. Swenson, who lived in a
log cabin eight feet square a few miles from Ft. Riley.
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