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wegian settlers. The Nordland congregation in Irving
township has a record book dated on the title page
“Anno Domino 1861,” probably a reference to a few
early settlers along Crow River in Meeker County. A
few Swedish families located near Lake Ripley and were
in communication with the settlers of New Sweden at
Eagle Lake.
In the early spring of 1857 a party of four Swedes
came from Chisago Lake and pushed on to the Kandiyohi
lakes where they took claims. Others came in later, but
there were only four families living there when the
outbreak came—Gustaf Johnson Thång, a native of
Elme-boda, Småland, Charles Peterson (Torsås, Småland),
E. P. Wicklund (Stegsjö, Hälsingland), and Peter
Norberg (Hassela, Hälsingland). The family of John
Johnson (Linneryd, Kronobergs län) came in the fall of 1857
and lived in a shack on the Kandiyohi townsite the
following winter. The wife, Kajsa Pehrson (Elmeboda)
died in April from exposure. Her grave has been marked
by the Kandiyohi County Old Settlers’ Association.
Rev. Peter Magnus Johnson (Vederslöf, Småland), a
Swedish Methodist minister, came with a company of
Swedish settlers in the early spring of 1859 and located
claims. He lived in a dugout on Lake Wagonga the
first winter and the next year he moved to Lake
Elizabeth. He was a traveling missionary among the Swedish
settlements.
E. P. Wicklund was one of the first Swedish settlers
at Taylor’s Falls, locating at Swede Lake in 1851. He
became a local Methodist preacher.
The Lake Elizabeth settlement consisted of the
following, most of whom arrived in 1858: Samuel
Peterson (Elmeboda, Småland), Erick Eastlund (Bergsjö,
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