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their father Andreas Larson Lundborg, together with
their mother, sister, and younger brother, came directly
from the old home at Algutstorp. Another party of
immigrants came soon after: Daniel Peter Broberg
(Harenes), Anders Peter Broberg (Algutsorp), and Sven
Johanson Aman (Algutstorp) with families. Ole
Swenson (Skofde) and family and Johannes Swenson
(Algutstorp ), a half-brother of Mrs. A. P. Broberg, had arrived
from Sweden barely a month before the outbreak.
This outline of the heads of families or single men
who had filed on claims and their antecedents gives a
fair index to the composition of the resident population
of the Kandiyohi region in the summer of 1862. The
townsite promoters had come and gone. Hard times
and disappoinment over the tardy development of the
country had caused others to leave. Progress in
community life had been slow. The county civil
organizations existed mostly on paper. There was a great distance
to the markets at St. Cloud and Minneapolis and travel
with ox teams was slow. The nearest grist mill was at
Kingston. The post office of Columbia had been moved
from the abandoned townsite on Green Lake to the home
of Mr. Burdick on Lake Oliver (Twin Lakes) and the
mail came once a week. The Eagle Lake community
was the best developed of any among the Scandinavians.
A saw mill had come and gone, but it had provided a
lot of necessary lumber. John Lorent9on was a good
blacksmith, Grandpa Backlund was a shoemaker, and it
is recorded that he was expert in making shoes from old
boot tops. N. A. Viren was a good wagon- and
cabinetmaker. Mrs. Jane Clark, a daughter of Gephta Adams,
taught several terms of school in a shack at the sawmill
at Eagle Lake.
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