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Counties settled. To the eastern part came a colony
which hailed from Tordal in Drangedals parish and it
included the Jorgenson Postmyhr, Olson Bergan and
Levor Nelson families. Others were Torkel Nygaard
and Ole Reine from Finaas parish, and Gunder Johnson,
the first settler from Gausdal in Gulbrandsdalen among
the large number that came later. The Norwegian
church in that community now bears the name of
Gausdal. A record of an early organization of a church
among these people dated Oct. 31, 1861, by Rev. B. J.
Muus, written on a slip of paper, was discovered by the
writer in going through some church records at a
Norway Lake parsonage in 1903. Farther west in the Lake
Prairie settlement several Norwegian families located in
the same years, namely 1859 and 1860—Soren Pederson
(Moster) and Mathias Johnson (Valestrand), Lars Olson
(Finaas), Anfin Thompson, and Torris Tyse (Stordoen,
Diocese of Bergen). To the north in Stearns County
were Thorbjom Wraalson (Bygland), Ole Tovsen, et al.
Farther to the Northwest near Lake Johanna in Pope
County the four families of Jon Olson Sandvigen
(Tinus), Gregor Halvorson, Ole Kittelson, and Salve
Olson had located.

North of Norway Lake four Peterson brothers—Nels,
Hans, Christian, and Peter—located. They hailed from
Grindheim, Norway, and were the first of that large
colony of today. Erick Kapperud (Nordreland), Lars
Iverson (Sogndal), Even Olson (Glesne in Sigdal), Ole
Knutson Storbraaten (Sigdal), located claims. South
and west of Norway Lake came Even and Andrew
Rail-son (Glesne in Sigdal), Haavel Halvorson and five sons
—Johannes, Halvor, Andreas, Ole and Hans (Gausdal),
Sven Gunderson Borgen (Nommedal), and his brother-

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