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arrived at their supposed destination. Instead of
coming to their own people, they met only one white
man, living as a hermit in the timber. This was
Chas. W. Gaston who had come there in January and
built himself a log cabin. In the spring he had
planted small patches of corn and potatoes. Most
of his time he spent in hunting. Gaston having been
a soldier had passed through this region as early as
1835, chasing the Indians up the Des Moines valley.
He was so favorably impressed with the locality that
he determined to return sometime in the future and
make this place his home.
Having come here by mistake, the larger number
of the party returned and joined the New’ Sweden
settlers. There were only four families that decided
to stay. They were so well pleased with the
surroundings and the natural resources that they
determined to make this region their home for
themselves and children. The families that
located were: Mrs. Anna Dalander and her children
Eric, John, Swen, Lars Peter, Ulla and Anna
Cathrina; Magnus Anderson, wife and children
Peter John, Swen, Carl, Malinda and Tilda;
A. Adamson and wife; and Jacob Nelson and
family. Mrs. Anna Dalander was born in 1792 in
Västerlösa Parish, Östergötland, and died at Swede
Point, 1854. She should have the honor as the
founder of the settlement, and it should have been
named Dalander. Magnus Anderson died at Swede
I’oint in 1847. When Mrs. Magnus Anderson had
become a widow she left Swede Point and moved to
the far west with one of her sons, Swen, and with
her two daughters, Malinda, who married a Gros-
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