{"1": {"fulltext": "mm\\n5^a9\\nsrV^\\nt\\\\9S. S^S\u00c2\u00bb^\u00c2\u00a3iffii\u00c2\u00a3-", "height": "2896", "width": "1882", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap\u00c2\u00a3.S.5:.l Copyright No\\nSlielt.SLl5....\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "2839", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2839", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2839", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2839", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "ERRATA.\\nPage 33, sixth line from bottom, should be its brinv breast, not her briny breast.\\nPa.ffe 46, third line from boltoiu. should be slaughter, not slaughter.\\nPage 68; under the cut should be Dr. Eiliv Janson not Eliiv.\\nPage S6, thirteenth line from top, should be the 31st of May, iSSg, not 1894.\\nPage 93. tenth line from top. should be e.famen. not exaniin.\\nPage 115, third line from top (in some of the copies), should be successful, not sucsessful.\\nPage 196, under the cvit (in a few copies) should be Fatrhaven, not Fairhavan.\\nPage iqg twelfth line (in a few copies) should be reconnoitcred, not reconnitered.\\nPage 20S. second line from bottom, should h^ legislature, not legislation.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC,\\nPUGET SOUND.\\nBY\\nTHOS. OSTENSON STINE, B. S.\\np. O. Box 599. Seattle, Wasli.\\nAN EVENING ON PUGET SOUND.\\nA vocal stretch of sapphire glow,\\nA sunset radiance of melted gold,\\nWhere silvery ripples softly laugh.\\nMaking music the whole night through.\\nIn a livery of green thy banks proudly stand,\\nThe weeping pine and mocking hemlock\\nLay shadows on thy starry breast.\\nWhere loving breezes play.\\nHigh in the clouds rear the snow-capped sentinels.\\nListening to thy melancholy chimes,\\nAt their feet smile the lilies,\\nAnd through the deep blue sail the sea-gulls.\\nCopyright, 1900.\\nL", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "L Ibrtry of COBKr\u00c2\u00bbl%\\nOfflec of tb\u00c2\u00ab\\nMAY1219U0\\nReglitar of Capyrlfbtft\\n61513\\nW 141900 5\\n-m m\\nAmikkw Ciiii.nKKi;.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "TO\\nANDREW CHILBERG,\\nConsul (or Sweden and Norway and President of the Scandinavian-American\\nBank of Seattle,\\nAs a Token of Respect for Your Friendship and Your Integrity of Character,\\n1 Dedicate this Volume.\\nThos. O. Stine.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Dk. i\\\\AK JaNSoN.\\nAn Eminent Surgeon of Seattle.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nOn solicitation of prominent Scandinavian-Americans, a\\nyear ago, I undertook to write a volume or two, entitled,\\nScandinavians on the Pacific. At the launching of this\\nidea an untold number rallied around me with sweet ton-\\ngues, but many who pretended to furnish historical data\\nfabricated delusive smiles of impertinent selfishness. Others,\\nhowever, have been frank in ushering kind assistance. The\\nauthor is indebted to the following gentlemen for willing\\nadvice and information: John Blaauw, Editor of Tacoma\\nTidende, Tacoma; George Bech, Author of Haeng Ham,\\netc., Seattle; Rev. T.J. Moen, Fairhaven, and N. P. Leque,\\nStanwood.\\nT. O. S.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "loKi^\\no", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nIntroduction.\\nClIArTER I.\\nThe Pacific Coast.\\nCh.vptick II.\\nThe First .Scandinavian Pioneers.\\nChaptkr III.\\nScandinavians in Seattle Pioneers and Prominent Citizens.\\nChaptkr IV.\\nScandinavians in Seattle Societies Press Prominent Citizens-\\nChurches.\\nChapter V.\\nScandinavians in Ballard.\\nChapter VI.\\nScandinavians in Tacoma.\\nChapter VII.\\nScandinavians in Tacoma Societies Press Prominent Citizen.s-\\nChurches.\\nChapter VIII.\\nScandinavians in Everett.\\nChapter IX.\\nScandinavians at Stanwood.\\nChapter X.\\nScandinavians in Stillaguamish Valley.\\nChapter XI.\\nScandinavians at Cedarhorae.\\nChapter XII.\\nScandinavians in Skagit Valley.\\nChapter XIII.\\nScandinavians in Bellingham Bay.\\nChapter XIV.\\nvScattered Scandinavian Communities\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Poulsbo and Other Places.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "-J U\\nIr rf:#l\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0TTTTI\\n.V-\\nS", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nPAGE\\nAnderson, C. G. W 76\\nAnderson, J. F 184\\nAnderson, Graebert 94\\nAnderson, Oscar 78\\nA Group of Representative Ladies.\\nArntson, J. M 120\\nA Scene of Pioneer Life 39\\nA Rustic Bridge 106\\nAnother Scene of the Wenatchee. 29\\nA Puget Sound Cedar 23\\nA Miner at His Cabin 32\\nA Musician on Skagit River 194\\nA Scene in the Washington Woods. 31\\nA Scene in the Harbor of Seattle 51\\nA Scene in the North Pacific\\nAn Island near Whatcom 25\\nBank, Scandinavian-American 53\\nBennie, jr., D. G 153\\nBech George 92\\nBlaauvv, John 129\\nBull, Prof. Olof no\\nChiDjerg, Andrew, Frontispiece\\nChristensen, Lars and Wife 204\\nCrogstad, Andrew N 186\\nCrogstad, Mrs. Wilhelmina A 187\\nColtora, M. 155\\nChurch, N. D Baptist 99\\nChurch, N. D. Lutheran 95\\nCliurch, Swedish M. E 96\\nChurch, Swedish Baptist 98\\nChurch, Stanwood, N. D. L. 144\\nEggan, James 90\\nEug juist, Frank 104\\nEnger, T. T 135\\nElvruui, L. P. and Wife 137\\nEverett in Its Infancy. 139\\nFishing in Bellingham Bay 198\\nFoss, Louis 191\\nHanson, L G. and Wife 180\\nHansen, Hans 84\\nHals, John I 164\\nHals Shingle Mill 163\\nHevly, E. A 161\\nHallberg, P. A 80\\nJanson, Dr. Eiliv 68\\nJanson, Dr. Ivar, F rontispiece\\nJohnson Iver 159\\nJohnson, Rev. John 97\\nP.\\\\GE\\nJohnson, John 102\\nKnudson, Kuud 149\\nKnatvold, IL E 112\\nLangland, S. S 72\\nLeque, N. P 141\\nLindberg, Gustaf. 122\\nLundberg, A 74\\nMining Scenes 34\\nMoldstad, N. J 193\\nMt. Baker 196\\nMt. Rainier 108\\nMt. Index 21\\nMorling House 182\\nNelson, N. B 63\\nNicklason, G 175\\nNogleberg, John 82\\nNogleberg s Studio 81\\nOrphan s Home 207\\nPacific Lutheran University 132\\nPrestlien Bluff 166\\nPioneers Among Wild Beasts 169\\nQuevli, Dr. C 114\\nRanch, Jorgen Eliason s 202\\nResidence of Olaf Rydjord 151\\nResidence of N. M. Lien 150\\nRosling, Eric Edw 118\\nRynning, Dr. J. L Ii6\\nRude, H. P. and P amily. 59\\nRialto Block 64\\nStanwood L. M. Sangkor 145\\nStanwood Creamery 152\\nSamson S 1 24\\nSandahl, C.N 70\\nSandegren, T 131\\nSteamer Advance 206\\nSoelberg, Axel H 66\\nSkagit River 18\\nSnoqualmie Fall 27\\nThe Cedarhome School 172\\nThe Norman School. 165\\nThompson, S. A 147\\nThe Baltic Lodge 85\\nThe 17th of May Committee 88\\nThe Chilberg Family 48\\nThe Wild Wenatchee 28\\nThe University of Washington 36\\nWalters, Carl O 178\\nWonderful Scene on the G. N", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "A GUOUr OF RlCPRliSKNTATIVl! I.AIlIKS.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION,\\niking brave ou land or sea,\\nDauntless hero of liberty,\\nWhile ages hang on bearded clay,\\nAmong the great thy name shall sway.\\nChroniclers shall paint thee in shades resplendent,\\nTh} fame as the pine shall sway independent.\\nNations shall rise from lethargj old\\nTo tune the feats of the Norsemen bold.\\nSuns of the South reflect th} rays,\\nThey breathe thy prowess on wild-flying sprays.\\nBut their light shall wane with ages to come,\\nThe stars of the future shall pale proud Rome.\\nThe foam-crest brine thy daring spells,\\nThy wings have climbed impetuous swells,\\nIn tempests wild o er main afar,\\nThy only guide the burning star.\\nIceland and Greenland hast thou found.\\nWith valor to th\\\\ honor crowned,\\nThe Faroes in the salty deep,\\nAnd others that in the ocean sleep.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nThy scepter has on Sicih swayed,\\nThy brawny arms with Albion played,\\nAnd Normand} to thy venture shines.\\nWith royal courts and eglantines.\\nBeyond the sea maid s unkempt hair,\\nLay forests rich and jewels rare,\\nUndreamt b} kings of fame and power,\\nFor the shore, shoiits Leif, spite storm and shower.\\nI iiilaitd for the Norseman brave,\\nThe honor he to his country gave,\\nBorn with thee, an unknown strand,\\nAmerica, sweet freedom s land.\\nFrom A;/ Ode to the Land of the li kings. Stiiie.\\nThe author does not aim to lift the Scandinavians into\\nan air of ungained merit, he does not aim to clothe them with\\nundeserved encomium, but seeks to paint their dues in a\\nstraightforward way, thoughtless of sailing the sea of h3-per-\\nbole, or entering any strait of unearned exploit.\\nIn order, however, to give the reader a clear conception\\nof the spirit, the intrepidity, the characteristic worth of the\\nnorthern peoples, my pen cannot refrain from plowing into\\nthe annals of the past. History is plain and authentic on\\nthe subject, and the same chivalric blood ebbs through the\\nveins of the Vikings to da^ as of 3 -ore. They have shared\\nand do share the burdens of adventure, discover}- and coloni-", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 15\\nzation. Thev have nurtured their sous and daughters with\\npatriotic zeal, and unfurled to their love the folds of freedom.\\nThey have braved the foam-crest waves minus compass and\\nsympathy stars of night and sun of da^- guided them over\\nthe traceless billows. Their dauntless sails have wafted in\\nsun and storm from shore to shore and woven together distant\\nclimes.\\nFroui the dawn of navigation and soldiery the Scandi-\\nnavians have evinced skill and dexterity, filled with a Mhim\\nto roam, see and conquer. They were, perhaps, sometimes\\nrough in their daring expeditions, but alwa^-s actuated with a\\nwill to plant the scepter of liberty and to raise the standard\\nof civilization.\\nIn S6o the valorous Naddodd discovered Iceland, and\\nfourteen years later a republic form of government was estab-\\nlished, which flourished four centuries. In 984 Erik The Red\\ndiscovered Greenland, and in the name of his native country,\\nNorvva} took possession of the frozen territory, and unfolded\\nto the l)reeze the banner of liberty.\\nTo the West! To the West! thought Leif Erikson,\\nson of Erik The Red, spite waves and breakers, and in the\\nyear 1000 pointed the bow of his bark for the shore of Amer-\\nica, landed at Helluland, now known as Newfoundland. He\\nreconnoitered the coast as far south as Massachusetts, and\\nchristened the New World, inland.\\nNot here do the Vikings stop. In 1002 Thorwald Erik-\\nson set sail for Vinland, spent three years exploring the", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\ngreen-clad banks of New England with zealous desire to\\nunveil to his countrymen the characteristic features of the\\nnew possession. In a collision with the Skrsellings (Indians)\\nhis precious life was blown out, the first European to succumb\\nto the arrows of the red race.\\nNot here do their voyages for the New World cease.\\nThe sagas plainly picture their pilgrimages across the howl-\\ning waste for Vinland in 1005, 1007, loii, 1121, 1347.\\nTrue, the Scandinavians have been heroes on sea, but no\\nless so on land. King Gustavus Adolphns, of Sweden, poured\\nhis life blood on the battlefield of Lutzen, not for militar}^\\nglor} but to liberate millions of innocent souls from the fire\\nof tyranny, the poisonous hands of the chief of superstition,\\nthe narrow-minded Philip XL, of Spain. He was not onl} a\\nmilitary geniits but the father of his people, a benefactor of\\nhumanity.\\nIn 1638 a company of Swedes colonized in the New\\nWorld, who made the hills and forests of Delaware ring\\nwith the music of their picks and axes. As j-ears rolled\\nby emigration started from Sweden, Norwaj and Den-\\nmark. The wilderness of America was their object, the\\nbuilding of homes their love. They braved the interior,\\nfought the lion and the bear, conquered the frowning\\nforests and subdued the spreading prairies. First huts of\\nlogs and sods, then qiiaint dwellings rose to mark their\\nenergy. Fields and gardens smiled, school-houses reared\\nthe air, and happj- lads and lasses pranced their wa} to school", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 17\\nto drink freely from the fountain of knowledge. Home,\\nsweet home echoed from rocks and trees. The frontier was\\ntheir chance, and thither they steered their lots. They knew\\nhow to swing the axe and use the hoe, climb mountains and\\nmake themselves contented in the most hazardous exposure.\\nWhat to them the soft pillow? when a stone was near at\\nhand. They slept under the blue sky and drank health from\\nthe floating. clouds. A home for my son and daughter, or my\\nsweetheart, gave them fresh courage. Not only a home, but a\\npleasant home in a congenial clime, where the heaven smiles\\nserenel}-, where the rose-bud bursts and thrives the year\\nround. Thunder aud cyclones had shaken their tranquilitv.\\nMore peaceful air, tired of the friction and disagreement in\\nthe upper regions, and fire that seems eager to eat the whole\\nfirmament. Away from the boisterous thunderbolts which\\nmake it a business to blast and burn every cloud. To the\\nWest! Sweet Westland! rolled in their souls, where the air\\nis pure, where the birds sing, where the scenery is grand.\\nTo the West Sweet Westland where freedom reigns,\\nWhere forests clothe the untrod plains,\\nAnd flowers and fragrance blow\\nBeneath peaks of crystal snow.\\nSweet Westland broad and free.\\nHow I love to dwell in thee\\nWhere jeweled brows look o er the lea,\\nAnd rhyming streams leap down to the sea.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nWhere man is himself and courts no king,\\nAnd axes swords, and bloodless swing.\\nSweet Westland broad and free,\\nHow I love to dwell in thee\\nSkagit River Near Sedro-Woolley.\\nTo the West Sweet Westland by the sea,\\nWhere music swells the wooded lea.\\nWhere work is plenty and wealth to gain\\nIn clearing land and planting grain.\\nSweet Westland! broad and free,\\nHow I love to dwell in thee!\\nThe Author.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE PACIFIC COAST.\\nCHAPTER 1.\\nHigh aud noble stands the Rock} looking downward,\\nwhere jeweled brows hang, where silvery waves make music\\non the deep, or the sea maid shakes her streaming locks. As\\nearly as 1513 the brave Balboa hurled his exploring eyes over\\nthe watery waste and in the name of Spain declared the dis-\\ncovery of the mighty ocean. But, alas the valorous Spaniard\\nreceived only scoff and scorn for his adventure and hardship,\\nand at last the cold world saw fit to lead him to the judgment\\nblock for the unknown depth beyond.\\nA later date, in 1592, Juan de Fuca, a Greek pilot, in\\nthe service of Spain, discovered the beautiful strait which\\nbears his name, the gateway to the picturesque Puget Sound.\\nIn 1789 Captain Kendrick, an American explorer, was recon-\\nnoitering along the Pacific coast, entered the Strait of Fuca,\\nsteered his boat into the Strait of Georgia and Queen Char-\\nlotte Sound, and depicted the characteristic features of the\\nland-locked waters. In 1S04 the United States government\\nsent the Lewis and Clark expedition across the Rocky to\\nascertain more minutely as to the climate and the feasibility\\nfor settlement.\\nWhen the country was explored, and a sprinkling of\\npioneers had spread themselves in the most favorable local-\\nities, tidings of the complication between our government\\nand Great Britain reached them. War clouds were hanging", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nin the air prognostic of determining the ownership of their\\nterra firma. An amicable settlement, however, was brought\\nabout and the present boundary between Washington and\\nBritish Columbia was fixed.\\nA petition was sent to Congress praying for closer\\nrelationship in the Union, and in 1S53 the Territor}^ of\\nOregon was organized. The flux of immigration fast settled\\nthe attractive sylva on the Sound and the rolling prairies\\neast of the Cascades. The Territory being too large, and\\nthe country north of Columbia was sliced off and made to\\nstruggle for itself. The promoters of the scheme were vigi-\\nlant and got things to move their own way, and after all,\\nthey didn t do anything worse than to give this vigorating\\nchild of Uncle Sam the ever-cherished appellation Washington.\\nMY WASHINGTON.\\nBeautiful Evergreen, home of the free.\\nSunshine of my fancy thee,\\nWhere fragrance swells the breeze,\\nAnd freedom rings from rocks and trees.\\nM}^ Washington, sweet gem of the sea,\\nLand of the future, and home of the free.\\nI love thy peaks in twilight hue.\\nIn silver rays rear to my view,\\nI love thy brooks, thy laughing fjord,\\nTh} waving fields in grain of gold.\\nMy Washington, sweet gem of the sea.\\nLand of the future, and home of the free.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE PACIFIC COAST.\\n21", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nI love thee, my land, I ll serve thee true,\\nI ll look for thy wants, I ll be with you,\\nThrough sun and storm my heart is thine,\\nSweet hills of fir and vine.\\nMy Washington, sweet gem of the sea.\\nLand of the future, and home of the free.\\nWe ve plenty of soil, silver and gold,\\nAye, fields and forests of wealth untold,\\nOnly our hearts for thee could rise,\\nOf thee I sing, my paradise.\\nMy Washington, sweet gem of the sea,\\nLand of the future, and home of the free.\\nThe scenery of Washington is grand and inviting. The\\nCascade runs through the bosom of the state, cutting her in\\ntwain, and throws his rugged spurs into Oregon and Cali-\\nfornia. The majestic Rainier rears through the clouds to\\na height of 14,444 feet, wearing a hood of perpetual snow,\\nwhich changes to a verdant fringe as it runs downward, cloth-\\ning his feet with evergreen. Mount x^dams has pushed his\\nhead upward 12,902 feet, and Baker has reached an elevation\\nof 10,814, while St. Helen stopped 9750 feet above sea level.\\nTo the westward is a less conspicuous attraction, the\\nCoast Range, which skirts the ocean and varies in height\\ntrom 3000 to 4000 feet. Between these mountain ranges\\nsweeps a fertile basin, carpeted with an unparalleled forest,\\nfir, cedar, spruce and hemlock rise skyward to a skeptical", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE PACIFIC COAST.\\n23\\nA PpGET Sound Ci-:dar.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\ngiddiness. Some stretch their forms 300 feet into the air.\\nLogs are piled upon one another, sleeping like angry mam-\\nmoths at the feet of gigantic trees. The more tender\\noffsprings shoot up between these lazy monsters, and some\\ntake delight to grow on their deca3-ing frames.\\nInto the fleecy clouds the noble firs stand.\\nTheir austere forms spread shadows on the strand,\\nAnd music floats on high.\\nFrom silver} waves to the sk}-.\\nWhere tender shoots in gladness smile\\nOn moss-bearded logs in pile;\\nAbreast with flowers they grow and swaj-\\nIn sisterhood from day to da}-.\\nThe fjords of Xorwa\\\\- are sublime, and Puget Sound is\\nequall} so. What can be more soul-stirring and soul-inspir-\\ning than a merr}- sheet of water rippling for hundreds of miles\\ninto a land of verdure, making sweet music da} and night\\nWhat can be more angelic and soothing to the soul than the\\nsongs of the waves Where can you find more poesy than\\nin the pearl-set crests rolling like melted gold upon gilded\\npebbles A clittering, clattering steal through the air, even\\nin the calm of night dulcet strains come to cheer the ear. A\\nsoft whisper seems to spring from ever}^ flower. The forest\\nis alive with melodies, hills and mountains echo back the\\nharps of the deep.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE PACIFIC COAST.\\n25", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nSing loud ye waves of dancing pearls,\\nLeap frisk ye winds from heaven s throat,\\nFor the jeweled strand.\\nMelodious land.\\nLaugh ye fir, spruce and hemlock,\\nPlay ye breezes with their wings,\\nIn freedom s air,\\nIn sun so fair.\\nSmile ye flowers in gladness free,\\nI kiss your lips and love you true.\\nSweet daisies mellow,\\nIn coats of 3 ellow.\\nBurst ye rose-buds to a fresh-born day.\\nAnd drink from heaven s eye serene.\\nSweet beams of rainbow tint.\\nEmblems of God, I weep and wait.\\nLift high your heads ye stately hills.\\nScatter smiles where music floats,\\nBy the opal sea.\\nThe land of the free.\\nRivers and falls are no less sublime than the Sound, and\\ncompare in grandeur with the famous streams and cataracts of\\nSwitzerland and Scandinavia. The Columbia ranks with the\\nmost picturesque rivers in the world, being of great value to\\ncommerce, fleets of steamers ride on its bosom day and night", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE PACIFIC COAST.\\n27\\nI .y (.-ouitfsy oClhe (Jn-at Norilierit.\\nSNoyuAi.MiE Kai,i,.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nwith merchandise from foreign climes, and grain, fruit and\\nother produce raised west of the Rocky. Snoqualmie, Sno-\\nhomish, Skagit and others are also navigable and invite the\\nattention of wonder-seekers.\\nThe WiLt Wenatchek anp the Creat Northern in Tumwater Canyon.\\nSnoqualmie fall is one of nature s masterpieces, and be-\\nspeaks grandeur and sublimit^ The water shoots into the\\nair, tumbles down a royal precipice, whirls, foams and\\nsplashes, fills heaven with thunder and the soul with awe and", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE PACIFIC COAST.\\n29\\nadmiration. The Tumwater fall is likewise grand and awe-\\ninspiring, stunning in music and bewitching in scenery.\\nStorms seldom visit the Pacific, and thunder rarely finds\\na rich medium in the balm} clouds. But, terror when a\\nAnothkr Scen p; of the Wenatchee and the Great Northern in Tumwater Canyon.\\nStorm is propagated on yonder deep, and sets the ocean boiling\\nand shivering up shallow bays, and springs into the forest\\nlike an unchaimed demon, then the whole heaven shakes and\\ntrembles. Firs and cedars tumble like dead giants, knocking", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\neach other to the ground in the fashion of heartless heathens.\\nBlasts upon blasts swell through the air and roll along the\\nmountain ridges not dissimilar to Jove s chariot.\\nAy, you speak of awe aud fright when a prairie fire gets\\nsway on the Central Plain, but when the guest of good and\\nevil gains access to the Washington forest in the month of\\nAugust or September a hell is witnessed similar to that\\npainted by ranting trumpeters. Flames rise skyward and\\nwith the aid of winds set the trees ilaring and howling as in\\nthe clutches of a thousand devils.\\nThe fertility of the Pacific forest is something incredulous,\\nthe quantity and quality of lumber produced are astounding\\nto all not familiar with this country. Even a conservative\\nestimate would make many curious speculators drunk with\\nfigures.\\nIn the State of Washington forests spread over thirteen\\nmillion acres of land. West of the Cascades is a stretch of\\nten million, clothing hills and dells from Canada to Columbia\\nriver with valuable fir, cedar, spruce, pine, hemlock and tam-\\narack, while on the east side three million acres of forest land\\nare scattered along the rivers and mountain slopes.\\nSaw mills and shingle factories are being kept bus} the\\nyear round. More than one billion feet of lumber are turned\\nout annually and shipped to all parts of the globe. The\\nshingle industry is something phenomenal. Factories are\\nwhistling and piping everywhere throughout the cedar dis-\\ntricts, and thousands of men find lucrative employments.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE PACIFIC COAST.\\n31\\nA ScENe IN THE Washington Woods.\\nMining is an important pursuit, rugged brows smile with\\nindependent richness. Moss-bearded ledges of the precious\\nmetal run into tlie heart of the Cascades. The Index districts\\nteem with mineral wealth, and Lake Chelan shines with\\ndoubtless yields. Iron ore rests in the bosom of the Sound\\ncountry from the green feet of old Rainier to the dashing\\nwaves of the Pacific. As you cross the divide for Eastern", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32\\nSCANDINAVIANS OX THE PACIFIC.\\n^llPfej^.\\nA Mixer at His Cabin.\\nWashington, you find pa^ ing veins running in different direc-\\ntions. Coal is a natural consequence, which in no manner\\npuzzles the minds of geologists. From days of vore luxuri-\\nant vegetation has robed plains and valle3 S to impenetrable\\ndensity. The death of rich forests has built beds of astonish-\\ning thickness, and the formation of coal has resulted to a\\nmarked degree.\\nAgriculture and horticulture invite attention. The roll-\\ning prairies between the Rocky and the Cascades are especially\\nadapted for the raising of cereals. Wheat yields from 50 to", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE PACIFIC COAST. 33\\n75 bushels per acre, oats from loo to 125, rye from 60 to 80.\\nIrrigation has been practiced with wonderful success around\\nWenatchee. The feasibility of applying nature itself is\\nremarkable. Here and there meander silvery streams of clear\\nwater, which are made to spread over fertile tracts of land at\\nany time, and to an}- part wanted. No longing for showers to\\nquench and sweeten the thirsty soil bothers the farmer in this\\nsection. Irrigation is so easil} practiced, and the crops tlius\\nraised are so enormous, ma}- it be grain or fruit, that the east-\\nern agriculturist cannot conceive our natural advantages.\\nWhy linger on the hun, ir\\\\- prairies of the east, freezing j-our\\nlives out, when opportunities like these are extended to you\\nHere you can get a pleasant home, for a small trifle, where\\nthe air is mild and soothing, where the soil is rich and easily\\ncultivated.\\nThe Sound countr}- is equally productive. Ay, inex-\\nhaustible. The Washington fruit is known the world over\\nfor quality and qiiantity. ^Magnificent orchards adorn every\\nfarm, and the smaller ranches, too, enjo}- the presence of\\nwealth} apple, pear and plum trees.\\nWhen you throw your eye upon Puget Sound, and behold\\nthe fleet of fish barges, rolling upon her briu} breast, a rem-\\niniscence of the coast of Norway steals into 3 our soul.\\nCohorts of men, mostly Scandinavians, resort to the waves\\nfor subsistence. Herring and salmon throng the water in\\nrich abundance. Shoals of the latter race along the shores,\\nfighting their wa} up streams to spawn. Some become savory", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nMiNiNt; Scenes on the (Jrf.at Northern, nlar Indhx. Washington.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE PACIFIC COAST. 35\\nprey for bears, cougars and wolves, others die a respectable\\ndeath, or return to their natural abode the ocean. The hali-\\nbut plays master among the smaller species, and grows fat at\\ntheir diminution. He cares nothing for streams or shallow\\nbays, but gambols friskily amidst the salty billows.\\nAll the gold and silver in the bowels of the earth, and all\\nthe glittering nuggets shining on her bosom did not ruffle the\\nserenity, or affect the wonted vagrancy of the Indians. To\\nthem the forest was a nuisance and the saw mill a scarecrow.\\nThe sinjring brook was worthless and the rolling river value-\\nless, save as mothers of trout. They had no love for higher\\naspiration, no instinct for advancement, no aim to better their\\ncondition, no foresight to provide against the pitiless influence\\nof cold or heat, no sagacity, no frugality, no thought of to-\\nmorrow, no pile of subsistence for a rainy day or helpless age,\\ntroubled their minds. Life was to them a ceaseless dream of\\nnothingness. Superstition was their god and pride, reason a\\ncasual stranger which rooted not in their souls.\\nWhat has changed this sad drudgery of the Indians to a\\nsocial commonwealth? What has spurned the fiend of super-\\nstition to a shameful death What has invited reason and\\ncommon sense to dwell peacefully in our hearts What has\\nlifted the world from the thorny plane of priesthood What\\nhas wrested from the priestly hand the scepter of government?\\nOur forefathers knew it and provided for its development.\\nThe pioneers of Washington had tested it, and prescribed it\\nfor the coming generations. The log schoolhouse rose to", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2H\u00c2\u00ae^^ 1^\\nJfcL W.\\ni T5i\\n!K:;\u00c2\u00ab^.\\ntheir sweet recollection of cliildliood daj s, then a frame build-\\ning, then a brick edifice. High schools were established, a\\nstate university was erected, normal schools were founded, an\\nagricultural college and school of science was built.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST SCANDINAVIAN PIONEERS.\\nCHAPTER II.\\nDashed from shore to shore,\\nOn the Pacific evermore,\\nNow sunk in grave or bent with years,\\nDauntless pioneers.\\nNo class of people or nation deserves the title, cosmo-\\npolitan, better than the Vikings. Their names mingle with\\nthe history of England, France, Russia and Italy, and in the\\nWestern Hemisphere we find them all over. To trace up the\\nfirst Scandinavian that touched the shore of Washington is\\ndifficult, if not impossible. No doubt but Scandinavians\\nmade stoppings along the coast on their fishing expeditions\\nto the north before any white man had dreamt to pin his hopes\\nto the North Pacific. And it is probable, too, that some ad-\\nventurous spirit of Viking blood had been washed with\\nAmerican polish, and passed as a Yankee in the Lewis and\\nClark expedition. It is safe to conjecture, however, that\\nsome straggler from the sea-beaten shores of Scandinavia\\nshared the sufferings with the trappers of the Hudson Bay\\nCompany, or partook of the hardships in John Jacob Astor s\\nexpeditions for the mouth of Columbia river. These compa-\\nnies were made up of heterogeneous crews. The mercurial\\nFrench Canadian, the acute Yankee, the jolly Englishman,\\nthe stern German, joined hands for the furfields, and it seems", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nreasonable that some hardy Scandinavian, too, was likely to\\nabandon his fireside, turn his back on civilization, and yield\\nconsent to a more romantic life.\\nA motley combine known as the Russian Fur Company\\nhad established an emporium on the Pacific coast, and a\\nnumber of trading posts in the interior, ere the close of the\\neighteenth century, and it is authentically evidenced that\\nScandinavians and Finlanders constituted the minor force of\\nthe regiment of trappers and navigators. Let it suffice to\\nsay, however, that these brave adventurers regardless of\\ngenealogical t3 pe did much to sow information in the\\nOld World of the evergreen land west of the Rocky and\\nsuffer it to be known that the probability is that some intrepid\\nScandinavian sacrificed his life in search for peltry, and that\\nhis bones rest in peace beneath the green turf in the Pacific\\nforest. This brings us to the influx of permanent settlers.\\nMrs. Frederic Meyer. One of the first white women\\nthat breathed the air of Pierce county was Mrs. Frederic\\nMeyer, a Norwegian by birth. She left her mother s hearth\\nin Toten while a tender bud, fresh as a rose with blooms of\\nwhite and purple blushing on her cheeks. Few women are\\nof true romantic nature, their hearts, as a rule, are attached\\nto social affiliation around the fireside, but Mrs. Meyer figures\\nas a typical exception. Those that have known her well\\nspeak with kind tongues, pronouncing her a model of her sex,\\nchivalric in spirit, and brave, but warm at heart. According\\nto reliable information obtained in Tacoma, she lit her feet", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST SCANDINAVIAN PIONEERS.\\n39\\non the green-trimmed shore, where the City of Destiny now\\nlooms, forty odd years ago. She was married to an estimable\\nGerman.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nHood s Canal Ander.son. Hood s Canal Anderson\\nwas a peculiar composition of strange fancy. He was born\\nin Denmark, and from childhood showed an insatiable\\npassion for the sea, which ripened into irresistible lust.\\nWhile a lad of vernal years he left his native seat to be\\ndashed on the brinv waves from port to port. He saw the\\ncrystal ice of Lofoten, the huge glaciers of Greenland, the\\nthirsty greens of India, the foul bogs of China, the flowery\\nvales of Japan, the rich gold fields of Australia, the teeming\\nmeadows of New Zealand. He was tossed from continent to\\ncontinent, from island to island. About fortv-five years ago\\nhe drifted ashore near Port Discover} and under veil of night\\nput wings to his feet for the forest. The fascinating aspect\\nof the country and the aromatic sjdva poured streams of de-\\nlight into his soul. As he stood in the early morn, gazing\\naround in mingled awe and admiration, he was surrounded by\\na red race, who, at first, gave vent to the horrible dilemma of\\nconverting his heart to ashes or treating him as a slave, but\\nhis ingenious demeanor turned their sanguinity to laughter,\\nand Anderson became their curious jocularity which melted\\nto favoritism. He strolled with the train of vagabonds alter-\\nnately fishing and hunting up streams and canoeing the\\nSound. Thus ten 3 ears were dragged out of his longevity\\nwithout mingling with white men.\\nHis longing for civilization vanished little by little, and the\\nlife of celibacy settled heavily on his heart. He was a friend\\nof the chief and an admirer of his daughter, and it took only", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "TIIK FIRST SCANDINAVIAN PIONEERS. 41\\nthe big canoe to seal the bargain. Anderson was rather long-\\nheaded for the red heathens, and got the best of ever} deal.\\nHe was now the possessor of the biggest canoe, save the roj al\\nship, and was looked upon as independently opnlent. Onlj- a\\nword wonld change his life for better or worse. Finallv he\\ntook the delicate step and offered the huge dug-out in trade\\nfor the voung princes, which was accepted with loud eclat.\\nThe ban of the nuptial day was made public. The bride\\nspared no tiptoeing to make it highly royal. First was a coat\\nof red paint, then purple, tinged with green. A carefully ad-\\nministered shampoo of oil followed, then a crands of wild\\nflowers was critically twined to her wealth of black locks with\\na few quills set on end in the most confused bewilderment.\\nOf course, Anderson did not fancy the odorous coat of his in-\\ntended, nor her pert of etiquette, but being as those things\\nwere incidental to the dynasty, he darted approbation with his\\nblue ej es, thinking, Costume is not permanent.\\nFrom this time the chivalric Dane became a leader. He\\npiloted the royal squadron to Hood s Canal, where he squatted\\non a piece of land, hence the sobriquet Hood s Canal An-\\nderson.\\nHe became attached to his wife, and she reciprocated with\\nequal depth of conjugality, and shaped her costume to meet his\\nliking, yet Uncle Sam pried into their warm nestling by passing\\na law to either separate or marry according to his code. Of\\ncourse, Anderson had to marry his wife the second time, whicli\\nhe did like a loyal citizen. He took his corpulent queen.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nplaced her in the stern of the big canoe, and paddled to Sea-\\nbold, where they were united in holy ties by Harry Shafer,\\nUncle Sam s matrimonial agent. Anderson bears the honor\\nof being the first white man on Paget Sound concubined to a\\nsquaw in accordance with the laws of the United States. He\\nwas industrious and elevated compared with his station, turned\\na wooded bit of ground to a flowery garden, and in a corner, be-\\nneath a weedy sod, he rests unsung.\\nPeter Friberg. Peter Friberg,like Hood s Canal Ander-\\nson, has walked the highway of frontier trials. He was born in\\nSweden, but when a mere youth sought the waves. After\\nyears of trying experiences he found himself on Puget Sound,\\namong the floating Flatheads, about the same time Anderson\\nlanded, but perchance drifted off with another flock of red-\\nskins, consequently the two contemporaries were ignorant of\\neach others wanderings till later j^ears, when they accidently\\nmet and shook hands.\\nPeter Friberg also threw his heart to a squaw, and with her\\nhe barged along the shores making depredation on salmon and\\nhalibut, finally pinning his future to a happy point running\\ninto the bosom of the Sound, near Salmon Bay.\\nMartin Toftezen. About two-and-forty years ago, a son\\nof Norway anchored his canoe on the north side of Whidbey\\nIsland. His name has been pinned to its soil among the first\\non record. He was a pioneer of heart and courage chivalrous\\nMartin Toftezen. He had drifted around the Horn on a ship,\\nand was tossed into the mouth of Puget Sound, where the", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST SCANDINAVIAN PIONEERS. 43\\nbreath of the deep calmed to a gentle zephyr, and the wings of\\nspeed flapped in disconsolation. The bark was dashed ashore\\nby the angry billows, caused by the agitating tide, and Tofte-\\nzen stood in a transport of mingled awe and perturbation.\\nNature was grand, enchantingly sang the ripples up the fasci-\\nnating arm, and mad in grandeur reared the snow-capped\\npeaks, flinging smiles of welcome. Why reject the poetic\\nlandscape? Nature s sweetness will smite the blue forehead\\nof dreary solitude. These thoughts rolled in his fancy, and\\nup the Sound he paddled, and settled on the green tail, where\\nhe wore out his life.\\nPeter Andrias Peterson. No man on the Pacific coast\\never endured more hardships than the personage in question\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Peter Andrias Peterson who, about a year ago fell prey to\\nan incidental injury, and was carried over the stream for the\\nunknown sea beyond.\\nHe was born in Denmark, 1S28, and cast on the cold bil-\\nlows to struggle for himself at the age of fifteen. A few years\\nlater he stepped ashore in England, where he took a course in\\nnavigation to enable himself to cope more successfully with\\nthe foam-crest surges. He embarked a ship for India and\\nAustralia. In the latter place his mind was engrossed with excit-\\ning reports from the gold fields, and thither he flew, a fugitive\\nof the sea. Success smiled on his brow, and wealth crowded\\ninto his hands; but riches easily won are not highl} treasured.\\nIn a wildcat scheme he sunk his fortune, and before the dawn\\nof a fresh week his thousands were in the hands of others.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nThis catastrophe, brought about b}- sheer mishap, drove\\nhim back to the sea, and, in 1S59, landed at Victoria, British\\nColumbia. A buoyant spirit, though wounded with ill-luck, will\\nsoar to felicity and breathe vigor on green fields. Peterson was\\ndelighted with the verdure that greeted his vision, and took a\\ncanoe excursion around the Sound. On returning to Victoria,\\nhe was struck with the gold fe\\\\er which raged desperately in\\nthe Cascades and Sound country. He compromised with his\\nfloating thoughts, bent his energy on a prospecting tour,\\nand in two days flocked together sixteen men. In his\\ncustomary adroitness he took command of the little army\\nof gold seekers, and bore into the forest, but when two\\nhundred and twenty-five miles from Victoria, thirteen of them\\nlost courage and returned to the city.\\nPeterson and his two companions proceeded up a small\\nstream for some da3 s, and to their astonishment, one gra^\\nevening, fell upon four white men actively engaged in picking\\ngold nuggets. They staked out a claim, glimpses of luck\\ncommenced to pla} on their cheeks, but died ere a fortnight\\nhad gone to rest in the pensive dream of growing forgetfulness.\\nTheir ration was getting low, and to save themselves from fall-\\ning victims to pitiless starvation, they raked together their\\npelf, and returned to Victoria.\\nIn the spring an English syndicate mustered a regiment of\\nfresh recruits, a man of spirit and agility was wanted to head\\nan expedition into the mountains, and Peterson was offered the\\nresponsibility, as he had already gained fame as a daring ad-", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST SCANDINAVIAN PIONEERS. 45\\nventurer. It was suggested to seek a new field, and a guide\\nwas secured to uslier them along. First, however, was to\\nhunt up aji easy pass, and to accomplish this, a knot of four-\\nteen men, headed by Peterson, was dispatched into the wilder-\\nness. They fought their way through uiurk3- vales and\\nclimbed moss-bearded brows, the da^^ sunk behind the horizon\\nand night wrapped them in darkness. Thus they continued;\\nbut, alas! the guide disappears. The others rambled through\\ntreacherous woods, thoughtless of any hazard. Hours were\\nconsumed climbing over angry logs and chasing through\\nwitching dingles, but the guide was neither heard nor sighted.\\nThe thirteen brave were lost in the forest where gloomy\\ngiants stretched into a ghastly stillness, broken only by\\ndeceiving owls sailing over their heads on disconsolate wings.\\nFor eight days they wandered without a morsel to eat grouse\\nand pheasant were drumming through the air, and deer gam-\\nbolled in listless droves, but only to whet their keen appetite.\\nTheir fire-locks were empty like their stomachs.\\nAfter darkness comes sunshine, and to their exhileration\\ntumbled into an unknown mining camp. They were received\\nas friends and immediately treated to a savory table. One of the\\nunfortunates being so greedy for the palatable viands that he\\nrose in the night to gormandize a heap of pan-cakes, left from\\nsupper, and shortly after fell juicy feed for the grave and\\nworms.\\nA new plan was formulated, two Scotchmen were sent\\nback to Victoria for provision, and the others remained at the", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\ncamp. A couple of months elapsed, and twent3 -four miners\\nhalted at the gold-seeking hamlet where the unlucky retinue\\njoined them.\\nThe company-, now numbering thirty-four, resumed their\\npilgrimage in an easterly direction for nearly two hundred\\nmiles. The landscape swept up into jutting brows and gray-\\nheaded peaks, and the forest fringed into a scabb}?^ shrub of\\nhungry appearance. The change in nature cast cold currents\\ninto their souls, but soou melted into delight. A beautiful\\nstream grated their ears, and thither they flocked.\\nNature was now sweetness and grandeur, and fortune\\nseemed to smile from every leaf and twig. The blue heaven\\nhung over them, here and there dipped with shades of purple;\\nthe sun sent down his wealth of beams to kiss their hard}\\ncheeks; and the clear stream was busy making music as it\\ntumbled down jeweled precipices to swell the deep. The}\\ndrank hope and aspiration from the poetic environment, and\\neach, as a loval soldier, embarked his assigned duty with\\nhappiness in his heart. Gold was not doubted, before a montli\\nhad slipped away, the precious metal glittered in rich veins.\\nA frontier mining camp, in the heart of savages, is a con-\\ntinuous scene of sunshine and storm, of joy and despair. Pre-\\ncavition must be the watchword of every individual, early and\\nlate; a careless step might betray them to the altar of cruel\\nstaughter. The book-keeper had been appointed custodian of\\nthe fire arms, who, in a thoughtless way, or to satisfy his\\ngreed, bargained the ammunition to the Indians. Oh, terror", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST SCANDINAVIAN PIONEERS. 47\\nthe liapp} camp was turned to a lake of blood. One sad\\nnight, in the early part of winter, the savages stealthil}^ fell\\nupon the camp, and like thieves entered the lodges, pointed\\ntheir ill-gotten fire-pieces against innocent breasts, and\\nquenched the light within.\\nPeterson and two Scotchmen escaped the mvirderous\\nfire, naked they ran, not dissimilar to deer over the snow,\\nthe former dashed into the river where ten thousand pug\\ndevils, sitting in its liosom, lileeded his feet, and the latter\\nchased down the bank of the stream as in an elopement\\nfrom hell. After a month of severest suffering and hard-\\nship they reached the gate of safet}- Victoria blood-\\nstained and scragg} hardly able to combat the icy ang -el\\nof death. The gold fever had ceased to ebb through their\\nveins. The two Scotchmen returned to their dear father-\\nland, and Peterson built a boat and sailed for Stillaguamish\\nwhere he sleeps in peace under the green turf, three miles\\nfrom Stanwo Kl.\\nFred LandsTONE. In Swedish. Fredrik Landsten,\\na man of nomadic spirit and fine intellect, was l)orn in\\nSweden, and in the spring of manhood ascended the hori-\\nzon of sea- faring exploits. In iS6o he landed at San\\nFrancisco, and a year later stept ashore at Port Discovery,\\nWashington. A score of years on the rolling l)rine had\\nchanged his mind for terra firma. He resorted to logfgfino\\ncamps and saw mills, working hard until 1S76, when he\\nretired on a piece of land three miles from Poulsbo, where", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nC O\\no\\n3^\\ni I\\nX\\no\\nbo", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST SCANDINAVIAN PIONEERS. 49\\nhe still resides, slow!} wearing out the balance of his\\n3 ears.\\nCharles John Chilberg (not John Charles as shown\\nunder the illustration). White with a wealth of snowy\\nlocks, and seven-and-four scores of years hanging on his\\nback, j et nimbly he frisks about on his beautiful farm\\nat Pleasant Ridge, Skagit count}-. This aged pioneer of\\nunusual endurance and grit, keen intellect and warm soul,\\nwas born in Halland, near Laholm, Sweden, 1S13, came to\\nAmerica, 1846, and located in Iowa. In :86o he visited\\nPike s Peak, Colorado, and in 1S63 left his family again, a\\nloving wife and children, for the West with a view to find a\\nmore congenial clime. For sometime he traveled in Mon-\\ntana, crossed the Rocky, and came to Puget Sound, 1865.\\nThe sweet-scenting forest and the balmy heaven awakened\\nhis love for perambulation of the Pacific, from British Co-\\nlumbia to the Golden State. He resolved to make his future\\nabode west of the Cascades, and in 1S69 returned to Iowa to\\nremove his family to Washington, arriving at Pleasant\\nRidge the following spring.\\nMrs. Charles John Chilberg and three of her sons, Joseph,\\nJohn H. and Charles F., came to the Pacific in the spring of\\n187 1, and Isaac and B. A. a few months later. James P.\\nChilberg has climbed the horizon of pioneer adventures. In\\n1859 he landed in California, in 1864 traveled in Oregon, and\\nin 1870 beheld the rippling Sound and the Washington forest.\\nIn 1872 Nelson Chilberg took a surve} of the Pacific and", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nthree years subsequent his brother Andrew threw his eyes\\nupon the mighty ocean.\\nAndrew Nelson. A jolly fellow, familiarly known as\\nDogfish Nelson, was among the first Scandinavian pioneers.\\nHe was born in Denmark, 1832, and landed as a sailor at\\nPort lyudlow in 1S67. Like man}^ others he was attracted\\nby the count rj and to drive away monoton}- took an\\nIndian woman for wife, as white women were almost\\nunknown on the coast at that time. Nelson has encoun-\\ntered many obstacles in his cruising among the red skins\\nand fierce brutes, but always managed to pla} the hero.\\nHe has been industrious and convivial, and a flowery nest\\nin Brown s Ba} bespeaks his rank.\\nHans Hansen, a Dane, who resides at Alki Point,\\nnear Seattle, has earned a footing among the early Scan-\\ndinavian pioneers. His 3 ears on the Pacific reach pretty\\nnigh two scores. Knut Knutson, a native of Norwav, and\\nalso a resident of Alki Point, came to Puget Sound over\\nthirty years ago, and has passed through days of sun and\\nstorm. C. K. Norager, likewise of Norse birth, places his\\ndisembarkation on the Pacific about fort}^ years back.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE.\\nCHAPTER III.\\nSeattle, the metropolis of Washington, and the busiest\\ncity on the Pacific coast, has a romantic history, as well as\\na histor} of thrift and progress. Thirty-five years ago\\nonly a few log cabins set on the shore of Elliott Bay,\\ninhabited by a handful of pioneers. Bears and cougars\\ndanced around their huts, and Indians skulked in lazy\\nA SCFNE IN THE HARHOR OF SEATTLE.\\nhordes at their threshold. How changed! to day the Queen\\ncity is spread over about fifty square miles of land, over-\\nlooking the melodious Puget Sound, and dots the green\\nborders of three fresh-water lakes with snug cottages.\\nShe has a papulation of about 85,000, of which a large per\\ncent are Scandinavians.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nThe first Scandinavian that visited Elliott Bay, of which\\nwe have any authentic account, was Peter Friberg, formerly\\nmentioned. Shortly after came C. E. Norager and others\\nreferred to in the previous chapter. Charles John Chilberg\\nmade a siirvej of the bay in 1865, when only a saw mill and\\na sprinkling of shanties marked the presence of white men.\\nIn 1S69, Edward Gunderson, a native of Norway, crossed the\\nRocky to make Seattle his future habitation, which was then\\nin its early embryo. The same year, Amund Aniunds, born\\nin Racine county. Wis., of Norwegian parents, removed to\\nthe city from Cowlitz county where he had disembarked two\\nyears prior. Amunds grew opulent and invited the love of\\nall his associates. He was director and first vice-president of\\nthe Scandinavian-American Bank of Seattle, and heavily\\ninterested in real estate. He was an energetic worker in the\\nAncient Order of United Workmen, and received the highest\\nhonor Grand Receiver of the jurisdiction of Washington.\\nHe died four years ago and his funeral was a solemn event.\\nIn 1S72, Nelson Chilberg, son of Charles John Chilberg,\\nmade an appearance, and three years later his brother An-\\ndrew was attracted to the coast, as referred to in the previous\\nchapter, and started the first Scandinavian store in Seattle,\\nin company witli J. P. Chilberg. The prospect was glit-\\ntering and ere a year had died Nelson joined them in grocer j^\\nbusiness, the firm being Chilberg Brothers. Andrew Chil-\\nberg soon rose to popularity, became one of Seattle s most\\nprominent citizens, and an honor to the Scandinavians.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE.\\n53\\nHe was born in Laholm, Sweden, March 29, 1845. When\\na lad of one 3 ear he crossed the Athmtic with his parents,\\nsettling near Ottunnva, Iowa, where he received his early", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\neducation in the common schools. In iS6o he left Ottumwa\\nwith his father and older brother, Nelson, for Pike s Peak,\\nColorado, remaining two 3 ears, then returned to Iowa. In\\n1S63 he crossed the Rocky with a wagon train, arriving in\\nSacramento after a journey of five months, September 24th.\\nHis health was harassed by exposure and hardship in cross-\\ning the plains, and as an alternative of recovery worked on\\na farm two 3 ears. Mr. Chilberg was anxious to complete his\\neducation, and in 1866 returned to Iowa via Nicaragua and\\nNew York. After taking a course in college he obtained a\\nteacher s certificate and engaged in teaching, but abandoned\\nthe profession after three years of successful experience to\\nenter a more lucrative position in Ottumwa. In 1S57 he jour-\\nneyed to Seattle, where he still resides, embarking in grocery\\nbusiness in company with his brother, the firm being Chil-\\nberg Brothers. Three 3-ears subsequent to his arrival in the\\ncity, he was elected to the cit^- council, in 1879 appointed\\nvice-consul for Sweden and Norwa}-, in 1882 chosen county\\nassessor, and in 1885 intrusted with the responsibility of citv\\ntreasurer. In 18S6 he was named city passenger and ticket\\nagent for the Northern Pacific Railroad, but resigned, 1892,\\nto aecept the presidency of the Scandinavian-American Bank\\nof Seattle. In 1S96 he was elected to the board of education,\\nand the following year assumed the presidential chair. He was\\nmarried to an estimable lady, Miss Marj- Nelson, in Iowa,\\nNovember 5, 1S74. They have one son, Eugene, who is a\\nyoung man of fine training, being educated in the Seattle", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "SOANDINANIANS IN SEATTLE. 55\\nHigh School, Washington Agricultiiral College and School of\\nScience, and Washington State University.\\nPeter Wickstrom. With the first brigade of Scandi-\\nnavians, Peter Wickstrom marched in the front rank. He\\nwas born in Sweden, 1837, arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota,\\n1868, and four years later beheld the city of Portland, Oregon,\\nand the same year located in Seattle.\\nLouis and Henry Peterson. The Peterson brothers were\\namong the earh- Scandinavians and the first to engage in the\\nart of photography in the city of Seattle. The} were born\\nin Norwa} but sailed for America while j-oung boys, arriv-\\ning in Chicago, 1857, where they resided nineteen years,\\nleaving for Seattle, 1876.\\nMartin C. Mortensen. Mortensen was a native of Den-\\nmark, and arrived in Seattle the same year as the Peterson\\nbrothers. He came to America, 1S68, and two ears later\\nlanded in San Francisco, spending six 3-ears in that city,\\nthen journeyed northward.\\nChristian C. Plough. Vice-Consul Christian C. Plough\\nis one of Seattle s most highly respected citizens. He was\\nborn in Denmark, 1825, and came to America, 1868, selecting\\nChicago for his first stopping place, but after two months of\\nabode in the Windy City he removed to Nebraska, where he\\nstayed one j-ear. The Pacific was his aim and thither he\\nwent, disembarked in Olympia, via San Francisco b\\\\- boat,\\n1872, where he remained three weeks. Portland, Oregon, had\\nattracted considerable attention as a city of business prospect,", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nand Plough agaiu picked together his effects to resume an-\\nother journey. He stayed in Portland three years then re-\\nmoved to Seattle. In 1883 he was appointed \\\\-ice-consul for\\nDenmark, served with honor until 1895 when he was com-\\npelled to resign on account of ill health. Christian Geerstsen,\\na man of honor and intelligence, came to America in company\\nwith Plough, and also arrived in Seattle together. He was\\nborn in Denmark, 1S39.\\nBen Jensen, now a resident of San Juan county, arrived\\nin Seattle when a dense forest clothed the principal streets.\\nHe was born in Norway, came to America while a youth,\\nand has proved a worth} factor to his adopted country. Ole\\nEgge, also a native of Norway, has shared the hardships of\\nthe early Pacific. He is a man of intelligence, and enjoys the\\nrespect of his countrymen. His son Peter is a bright man of\\nmechanical ingenuity, and landed in Seattle with his parents.\\nIn the more recent years, Scandinavians in Seattle have\\nmade great progress in professional and business circles. In\\npolitics, too, they have commanded notice, and in science and\\nletters attention. E. H. Evenson is the incumbent county\\nauditor, and H. P. Rude councilman-at-large.\\nE. H. Evenson was born at Whitewater, Wisconsin, in\\nthe year 1852. His early life was spent on a farm in Wau-\\npaca county, Wisconsin. At the age of iS he began to teach\\nin the common schools in his neighborhood, and with the\\nmoney thus earned he started on a six 3 ears course at Deco-\\nrah College, Iowa, from which he graduated in the spring of", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 57\\n79. During all this time he taught common schools at inter-\\nvals, and during vacations worked in the harvest fields of\\nMinnesota and earned the money with which to pa} his col-\\nlege expenses. Having finished his course at Decorah College\\nhe entered the State University- of Wisconsin, from which he\\ngraduated with the class of Si.\\nIn the fall of the same year, Mr. Eveuson secured a posi-\\ntion as teacher in Milton College, Milton, Wisconsin, where\\nhe remained for three 3 ears at the end of that period he re-\\nmoved to Madison, South Dakota, to fill a place as teacher in\\nthe State Normal School at that cit}-, which position he occu-\\npied for two years he was then elected county superintendent\\nof schools for Lake county, in which capacity he served two\\nterms. At the close of the last term he made another move\\nwest, to Puget Sound, and settled on 40 acres of land near the\\ntown of Kent, where he now resides with his family. He\\nis at present serving his second term as auditor of King\\ncounty.\\nMr. Evenson is a firm believer in the single tax theo-\\nries of Henry George that is, in placing all taxes on ground\\nrents. The justice of that method, he claims, is based on the\\nfollowing self-evident truths:\\nist That whatever the individual produces, belongs to\\nthe individual, and whatever the community produces, belongs\\nto the community.\\n2d: That the general rise in land value, commoul}\\ncalled ground rents, is caused by the growth of the com-", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nmunity and its competition for work, and therefore, by right,\\nbelongs to the community.\\n3d: That, as taxes are needed for the welfare of the\\ncommunity, it is only in accordance with natural and divine law\\nthat the community makes use of this common fund before it\\nresorts to the confiscation of what properl}- belongs to the in-\\ndividual.\\n4th: That it is not onlj- unjust in principle, but injuri-\\nous to the last degree in practice, that one man is taxed more\\nfor making land useful and employing labor on it, than an-\\nother is taxed for holding land idle and keeping labor off it.\\nsth: That to tax labor or its products, is to discourage\\nindustry.\\n6th: That to tax land values to their full amount will\\ncompel every individual controlling natural opportunities to\\neither utilize them by the emploj-ment of labor, or abandon\\nthem to others; that it will thus provide opportunities of work\\nfor all men, and secure to each the full reward of his labor.\\nH. P. Rude, the fearless co;incilnan-at-large, of Seattle,\\nwas born in Toten, Norway, March 4, 1861. He graduated\\nfrom the public school at the age of fifteen, later took a course\\nin higher education at a private institution. From boyhood\\nhe manifested native pluck which his career plainly reveals.\\nUnlike most boys, he spent his leisure studying and learn-\\ning the tailoring trade. Seeing that the seat of his birth\\nbeing too narrow for cosmopolitan development, he planned\\nfor the national capital against the will of his father. In a", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE.\\n59", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nconfidential manner he obtained two crowns from his grand-\\nfather, and under veil of night walked forty-two miles, arriving\\nat Dahl Station, Eidsvold, at ope of dawn, from whence he took\\nthe train to Christiania. Though only a youth of fifteen, he\\nfound employment in a leading tailoring establishment, and\\nattended school during evenings. In iSSi he emigrated to\\nAmerica, after making a short stop in Chicago, he proceeded\\nto Redwing, Alinnesota, to visit relatives who lived fifteen\\nmiles out in the country, in the state of Wisconsin. Unable\\nto articulate an English sentence, but where there is a will\\nthere is a way, crossed the river with an Indian, found the\\nroad by means of a guide-post, and stalked the unknown dis-\\ntance. After a pleasant reunion with friends and relatives, he\\nreturned to Redwing, worked for sometime at his trade, then\\nembarked in business for himself. His next move was to\\nMinneapolis, where he found employment in a fashionable\\nstore. He joined the Tailors Union, having a membership of\\n200, and within a 3 ear became its president, and subsequentl}-\\nwas chosen a delegate to the Trade and Labor Assembly. He\\nresigned from the Union to engage in business of his own\\nwhich he followed for some time. After disposing of his inter-\\nests in Minneapolis, he traveled in the surrounding cities, then\\ncrossed the Rocky, arriving in Seattle, 1890, during the\\ntransient boom of Anacortes, which attracted him to that place,\\nbut returned to Seattle ere long. He worked for awhile as\\ncutter, then started a tailoring establishment of his own.\\nFor years he had been alert to public affairs, and in 1896", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 61\\nwas elected councilman from the Sixth Ward, the fusion\\nstronghold, with a large majoritj He was renominated b}\\nthe Republican party, but councilman-at-large, and elected\\nwith an increased vote. On resignation of Mayor Wood, he\\nwas instrumental in placing Judge Thomas J. Humes into the\\nmayor s chair. To the credit of Mr. Rude it must be said\\nthat he has ascended to his political honors unsought, and\\nthat his record is emblematic of honesty and abilit3^ He has\\nbeen opposing the perpetuit}- of the gambling hells in the\\nlower strata of the city in such a manner that even his polit-\\nical enemies had to commend his course. His famous reso-\\nlution made the tenderloin district shiver with fear, while\\nhonest men and women bowed with gratitude. The following\\nis taken from a leading daily of Seattle\\nH. P. Rude, councilman-at-large, is entitled to great\\ncredit for his endeavor to put a quietus to certain classes of\\ncrime so often indulged in the various places of resort in the\\nlower part of the city.\\nMr. Rude s influence among the members of the city\\ncouncil is made conspicuous b} his representation on the\\nseveral committees. He is chairman of the police license\\nand revenue committee, and a valuable member on the com-\\nmittees of finance, corporation, labor, public buildings and\\ngrounds, and harbor and wharf.\\nHe was married, iS8i, in Minnesota, to Miss Lina Sophia\\nLarsen, a lady of lofty character, to whom he was betrothed\\nin Nor\\\\vaJ^ She was born in Eidswold, November 24, 1863,", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nof highly respected parents, and emigrated to America a few-\\nmonths subsequent to the arrival of her husband. They have\\nfour children, Henr}- M. Rude, born in Wisconsin, March 14,\\n1883. The other three are natives of Minnesota, George A.\\nRude, born May 3, 1S85, Lillie Palnia Rude, Febniar}- 24,\\n18S7, and Morris O. Rude, April 10, 1889.\\nJ. H. Ekstrand, a true son of Sweden, and an ex-minister\\nof the M. E. Church, is a Seattle pioneer. He came to the\\nUnited States more than two scores of years ago, and has been\\ninfluential in both church and political circles.\\nE. A. Seaburg, a native of Sweden, has likewise given\\nkeen vigilance to public affairs, always a stalwart republican.\\nAs regards men of scholarl} attainment. Rev. M. A. Chris-\\ntensen ranks among the most polished on Puget Sound. He\\nis an accomplished linguist and an eloquent pastor of the\\nEmmanuel Lutheran Church. H. M. Korstad, a graduate of\\nthe University of Washington, is also master of several lan-\\nguages and a deep student of ethics and psycholog3\\\\ He\\nwas born in the United States, but his parents hail from al-\\nders, Norwa)^ His sister, Bertha Korstad, is a prominent\\nteacher in the public schools of Kitsap county.\\nN. B. Nelson. ery few have been more successful in\\nbusiness than the personage in question N. B. Nelson of\\nthe firm, Frederick, Nelson and Munro. He is a man of a\\nlucky mixture business, integrity, and sociability. Mr.\\nNelson was born in Kristianstad, Sweden, July 31, 1857, and\\nlike most boys in that country received a thorough schooling.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE.\\n63\\n^|ff||t^i^\\nt\\n^^..J^\\n4\\nN. B. Nelson.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nFrom boyhood he had nursed a liking to see America, and in\\n1875 landed in Colorado, minus means, a stranger in a new\\nworld, and worst of all unable to converse with the general\\npublic, but picked up the language with marked rapidity.\\nHe bent his energy to farming, following the pursuit for\\nR1A1.T0 Block.\\nOccupied by Frederick, Nelson aud Muuro.\\nseveral years in Garfield county, but at the same time gave\\nkeen eye to public affairs, and served the people as count}-\\ncommissioner for three years. His attention was engrossed\\nwith the progress of the Pacific, and thither he journe3 ed,\\n1891, and shortl} after embarked in furniture business on", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 65\\nPike street in a store less tban twenty by sixty. At present\\nthe firm of Frederick, Nelson and Munro occupies the Rialto\\nBlock, in the very heart of the city, covering 105,400 square\\nfeet, more than two and a half acres of household goods.\\nThe traffic of the firm is immense, exceeding every establish-\\nment of its nature north of San Francisco. Mr. Nelson was\\nmarried, 1895, to an accomplished 3 oung lady, Miss Teckla\\nJohnson, born in Ronneby, Blekinge, Sweden. They have\\ntwo bo3 S, Frederick Creigh Nelson and Chester Munro Nelson.\\nAxel H. Soelberg, bank cashier and a respected citizen of\\nSeattle, was born at Ness Hedemarken, Norway, on March 2,\\n1869. He received a common school education, graduating at\\nthe age of fourteen. In 1SS4 he secured a position in the\\nstore of Jevanord Brothers in Brumundalen, with whom he\\nremained until in the spring of 188S, when he emigrated for\\nAmerica. He arrived in Minneapolis on the morning of May\\n17th. A short time previous, a number of Norwegian-\\nAmerican citizens of Minneapolis had organized the State Sash\\nand Door Manufacturing Company, and Mr. Soelberg was\\noffered the position as book-keeper a few days after his arrival\\nin the city. He served in this capacity for about two years,\\nthen was elected secretary of the firm, and two years later vice-\\npresident. In the spring of 1S92, when the Scandinavian-\\nAmerican Bank of Seattle was organized, he was tendered the\\nposition as book-keeper in the bank, and accepting, Mr. Soel-\\nberg found himself in Seattle on one of the first days in April\\nof that year. At the annual meeting in 1894, he was elected", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 67\\ncashier of the bank, which position he now holds. Mr. Soel-\\nberg is a man of literary aptitude as well as of business\\ncapacity, has contributed largely to the Seattle Daily Times\\nand other leading papers. He could have won laurels on the\\nfield of letters as well as business notice in the world of traffic.\\nIn January, 1S9S, he was married to Miss Olga Wickstrom,\\nan accomplished young lady of Seattle. They have a beau-\\ntiful home in one of the finest parts of the city.\\nDrs. Ivar and Eiliv Jansou. Every Scandinavian is\\nfamiliar with the name, Kristofer Janson, the eminent Nor-\\nwegian poet and novelist.\\nNo less a halo of the minstrel car,\\nLight brave Janson sows afar,\\nAt thy torch superstition weeps,\\nDogmas wilt in deftly labored heaps.\\nThe God of nature, love and truth,\\nFlash on thy wing to Age and Youth,\\nWith gilded rod and silver tongue.\\nThou riftst the creeds of ages long.\\nFrom An Ode to the Land of the Vikings.\\nThe two doctors in question are sons of this noble\\nauthor, Ivar being born in Bergen, Norway, March i, 1865,\\nand Eiliv in vSel, Gudbrandsdalen, May 25, 1870. Both re-\\nceived their early education bj private tuition, and in 1882\\nemigrated with their parents to America, settling in Minne-", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 69\\napolis. They took advantage of the splendid school facilities\\noffered by that city as preparation for the state university of\\nMinnesota, where they graduated, 1892, with the degree of\\nDoctor of Medicine, M. D. Their collegiate records bespeak\\nscholarly distinction which have been made more emphatic\\nby subsequent years. Immediately after graduation, Dr. Iv ar\\nJanson was appointed assistant professor in the medical\\ndepartment at his alma mater, but resigned the chair to take\\na move westward, arriving in Seattle, 1S95, where he enjoys\\nan enviable practice, being recognized as a leading surgeon\\non the Pacific. His brother. Dr. Eiliv Janson, steered his\\nfortune to Astoria, Oregon, in the fall following his gradua-\\ntion, and soon rose to be one of the most beloved physicians\\nin the city. His ability invited the attention of the public,\\nand his practice grew immensely, being the largest in that\\npart of the state. The last year he has spent study-\\ning at the universities of Europe, in Berlin, Dresden, Munich,\\nCopenhagen and Paris, and will join his brother in Seattle\\nnext June. The two doctors have evinced the genius of their\\nfather, but in a different direction, the sire a poet, the sons\\nsurgeons and physicians. The former has climbed the ladder\\nof fame, the latter are climbing it. They are both married\\nto ladies of rare abilities and accomplishments. Mrs. Ivar\\nJanson is one of Seattle s most gifted vocalists. Think for\\nyourself is a soul-inspiring motto, and is applicable to the\\nJanson family. In spite of angry opposition and glittering\\npelf the rich mind of Kristofer Janson has scattered sun-", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nC. N. Sandahl.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 71\\nbeams of truth aud thought. He has sought to lift his\\ncountrymen upon the plane of reason and brotherly love. The\\nsons have imbred their father s soul of thought and sym-\\npathy, which the public echo in more eloquent words than\\nmy pen.\\nC. N. Sandahl. Washington is dependent on the science\\nof horticulture, fruit is her future. Any man willing to bend\\nhis heart to the soil is a valuable exponent in the upbuilding\\nof the country. Few men have done more in this line than\\nthe well-known floriculturist and nurseryman, C. N. Sandahl,\\nof 1 1 23, Second Avenue, Seattle. He was born in Horsens,\\nDenmark, 1857; acquired his education in the public\\nschools of his fatherland, and in the smiling book of nature,\\nwhere real knowledge teems to an intelligent eye. In 1880\\nhe emigrated to America, spent ten years in Ohio and Minne-\\nsota, pursuing his chosen vocation, then journeyed to Wash-\\nington and located in Seattle. After a careful scrutiny of the\\ncountry he engaged in floriculture and nursery, which occupa-\\ntion he is following with notable ability. Mr. Sandahl is a\\nman of business capacity as well as of scientific propensity,\\nand honest and honorable.\\nSamuel S. Langland. Quiet of disposition but deep in\\nthought, modest in demeanor but aggressive in argument.\\nThe above words unfold Mr. Langland s characteristic, an able\\nlawyer of Seattle. He was born near Stavanger, Norway,\\nAugust 13, 1856, and emigrated with his parents to Minne-\\nsota in the spring of 1867. His early boyhood experienced", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 73\\nthe various hardships and vicissitudes incident to pioneer life.\\nAt the age of fifteen he launched out for himself, choosing as\\na means of support the apprenticeship of a tailor in Mancato,\\nin which capacity he labored a year and a half. From whence\\nhe went to St. Paul, a stranger in an unwont sphere. English\\ndefied his tongue, but soon melted to his grasping intellect.\\nHe worked at his trade about two years, but to ascend to a\\nhigher stage of culture, he converted his energy to loftier\\naims, worked for his board and attended private school,\\npaying for his tuition by doing janitor work, sweeping and\\nkeeping the schoolhouse in order. After two years of assidu-\\nous study in this institution, he entered the classical course\\nof four years in the St. Paul High School which he completed\\nin three. In the fall of 1881 he was matriculated in the same\\ncourse at the state university, graduating with honor in June,\\n1 885. At the commencement exercises he distinguished him-\\nself by delivering the most thoughtful and eloquent oration\\nof the class, his subject being Is Man Advancing? for\\nwhich he received compliments from the faculty and leading\\nmen of the state present on that occasion. His struggles at\\nthe university with poverty symbolize an indomitable will.\\nHe toiled evenings and Saturdays sawing wood and doing\\nother manual labor, his vacations were spent canvassing, or\\nin the harvest field. After darkness comes sunshine, and the\\nyear following his graduation he was appointed professor of\\n?!^nglish Literature in the Augsburg Seminary. In 1887 he\\nstudied law in St. Paul, was admitted to bar, and practiced", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 75\\nfor sometime at Moorhead, Minnesota, where he made rapid\\nprogress, being nominated prosecuting attorney on the demo-\\ncratic ticket, but as that party was in the minorit} he went\\nto defeat with the rest of the candidates. At Moorhead he\\nwas married to an estimable lady, Miss Esther Annette\\nHutchison, and in December of 1S90 moved to Puget Sound\\nas an alternative to regain health and vigor. Since 1891 he\\nhas been practicing law in Seattle with growing promise, his\\nspecialty being real estate litigation.\\nA. Lundberg. The person of this sketch, the educated\\nartificial limb manufacturer, A. Lundberg, was born in Kal-\\nstad, Sweden, 1S47, where he received a good schooling and\\nlearned his benefactory profession. At the age of twenty-one\\nhe set sail for America, locating in Minneapolis, where he\\nstayed until 1888, working at his trade. From whence he\\nmoved to Spokane, Washington, residing in that cit}- eight\\nyears. Seattle had attracted notice as an appropriate seat for\\na man of science and mechanical ingenuity, and thither he\\nmigrated in 1896, establishing his headquarters in Sullivan\\nBuilding, First Avenue. Mr. Lundberg is the only artificial\\nlimb manufacturer in the state of Washington; he was edu-\\ncated for this work in early youth and has followed it\\nuninterruptedly. In many instances he has wrought out\\nwondrous results, cured cases that defied medical science. He\\nwas married in Minneapolis, January 24, 1877, to a pleasant\\nlady. Miss Anna Dahlgren. They have three children,\\nEvalin, Denalda and Marie.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THP: PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 77\\nC. G. W. Anderson. Men are destined for divers ave-\\nnues, but a thoughtful man will follow the course of his\\ninclination in the climax upward, and success will smile as\\nhe proceeds. Mr. C. G. W. Anderson seems to have incor-\\nporated this maxim. He was born in Sweden, September 24,\\n1S56, where he enjoyed the benefit of a good schooling and a\\nhealthy course in the curriculum of experience. At the age\\nof twentj^-six he left his native soil for the New World, arriv-\\ning in the United States, April 24, 1880. After ten years of\\nvarious employment in the eastern states he came to Seattle,\\nengaging in hotel business on the corner of Terrace and Fifth\\nAvenue, where the Anderson looms in emphasis of the propri-\\netor s energy. Mr. Anderson is a man of a genial disposition,\\nsocial and affable and in all respects an honored citizen.\\nOscar Anderson. A man of honor and integrity is a\\nworthy adjunct to any community. Oscar Anderson belongs\\nto this type which his career bespeaks. He was born in\\nKarlskrona, Sweden, Januar}- 13, 1S59, where he received a\\nthorough education in the public schools. From boyhood he\\nshowed talents attributive only to the soul of the genius. In\\n1872 he entered the hardware business, but abandoned it after\\ntwo years of experience to pursue the vocation of his forte\\njewelry and mechanism. In 1S79 he engaged in business for\\nhimself which he continued successfully until 1893. During\\nall these 3 ears he was employed by the Swedish navy mend-\\ning and adjusting the chronometers of the men-of-war. In\\n1891 the Russian government engaged his ingenuity, and on", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "78 SCANDINAVIANS UN THE PACIFIC.\\nmn^ ^itm\\nOSlAll AMiI .HSON", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 79\\none occasion he worked three days and three nights repairing\\nthe chronometers of the navy for which he received a remu-\\nneration of 297 crowns. In 1892 he spent considerable time\\ntraveling in Denmark, partly for pleasure and partly for\\nstudying the conditions of the countrj-, Copenhagen being\\nthe center of interest where he enjoyed himself for a few\\nmonths. The following year he sold out his business in\\nSweden and emigrated for America, locating in Seattle, a\\nstranger in a strange country, but ere long his native pluck\\nwas manifested, and a fine establishment at 406 Pike street\\nemphasizes his ingenuity and business ability.\\nP. A. Hallberg. Experience is the best teacher, a college\\ncourse of mere theories gives little knowledge of the world.\\nA course in fighting the billows of the deep, or wrestling with\\nthe stumps of the forest, is of more practical worth than a head\\ncrammed with deceased tongues, or theoretical airships. P.\\nA. Hallberg corroborates my \\\\-iew with his personal experi-\\nence. He was born in Skone, Sweden, 1867, and in his early\\nteens sought the waves. He visited China and other oriental\\nclimes, faced the angr}- surges of Cape Horn, and dashed\\nashore at San Pedro, California, from whence he sailed north-\\nward, navigated for sometime as mate on Puget Sound, also\\nserved in the government marine. After years of sea-faring\\nlife lie turned his attention to terra firnia, located in Seattle\\nand commenced new pursuits. He worked for three years in\\nthe Union Bakery, then spent sometime in a meat market,\\nand in 1894 bought the Union Bakery, and four years later", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE rAClFlC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLIC\\n81\\nremoved to Second Avemn. between Pike and Union, where\\nhe is doing a large business. Mr. Hallberg is a man wlio has\\nwon the respect of the people of Seattle by his integrit} of\\ncharacter and straight business method.\\nJohn Xogleberg, a gifted artist, i)ortrait, figure and land-\\nscape painter, of Seattle, was born in Kongsberg, Norwa}\\ntirtmm\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0P\\nT^\\nJohn Noi-.lkiieri. s Sti-dio and Fink Aiit Stokk.\\n(Five scpar.itc clep.irtiuciils.)", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 SCANIUNAVIAXS ON THK PACIFIC.\\nJOHK NooLKBHaO.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 83\\nFebruary 21, 1861. He received a splendid education in his\\nnative country in music, science and art, and in iSSi emi-\\ngrated to America, locating in Chicago, where he studied at\\nthe Academy of Fine Art and at the Art Institute. After\\nnine years of close application to liis chosen profession, he\\nmoved to Seattle, where he has the largest establishment of\\nits kind west of Chicago, engaging constanth- a number of\\nemployees in the different departments.\\nAt the beginning of 1S99 he moved into his elegant\\nbuilding on Second Avenue, near Union Street, but from the\\npresent indication of business his beautiful apartments will\\nsoon prove too small. He is an athlete and an intense lover\\nof nature. The soul of grandeur and sublimity seems to be a\\npart of his being, which his masterpieces plainl3 reflect. He\\nis fond of outdoor sport, fishing and hunting give him pleas-\\nant hours of recreation. He is an active member of the\\nV. M. C. A., and a promoter of the Norwegian-Danish M. E.\\nchurch. In a word, Mr. Nogleberg is a true gentleman as\\nwell as an artistic genius, being strictly temperance and of\\nnoble aims and integrity.\\nHans Hansen, manager of the Union Fish Company, and\\na man of indomitable will power, was liorn in Norway, July\\n20, 1S59, where he laid his foundation for an active career.\\nIn 1881 he arrived in Minneapolis and six years later beheld\\nthe city of Seattle. He settled on a homestead in the Quil-\\nlayute valley, but returned to the Queen City after a few years\\nof experience at farming. In 1S96 he was elected to the", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nlegislature, and became noted for his opposition to fish traps,\\nand his earnest support of Hon. George Turner for United States\\nsenator. He has been a frequent contributor to the different\\npapers on political and reform topics. In religion he is a\\nMethodist.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nSociKTiKS Press Puominknt Citizkns Ciiuhciies.\\nScandinavians in Seattle have contributed largely to the\\nsocial feature of life. They have organized a number of\\nsocieties, some flourished immensely for sometime, then died\\nt*?\\nt\\nt3W\\nIIIK IlAI/rit LotM.K. i O. T., U.N A Pknic.\\na ^natural death, olhcr.s have continued to prosper through\\nsun and storm. The Normanna Literary and Social Club\\nwas among the first Norwegian societies, but alas! only a few", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 SCANDINAVIANS ON THK PACIFIC.\\ndaN S of sunshine then clouds and dispersion. The Baltic\\nLodge, I. O. 0. T., was placed on record Februarj lo, iSSS,\\nand has since its birth drank vigor from the fountain of\\nwholesome reform. In a word, it is the healthiest Scandina-\\nvian societj in the city of Seattle, and some of the members\\nmerit gratitude for their indefatigable work. G. Xj gard,\\nGust. Thompson, Ole Finnoy, Martin Erickson, Ole Larscn,\\nJames Kggan, Anton Peters, H. H. Miller, Peter Peterson,\\n\\\\V. T. Hillcstad, A. Zaar, and Helle and Lena Kgge, Christina\\nNewgard, Augusta and Lottie Stromberg, Mrs. Emma Eggan,\\nIda Peters and Matilda Iversou have sacrificed both time and\\nenergy for the advancement of the temperance cause.\\nA Swedish society, baptized Svea, the 31st of May, 1894,\\nhad but a few struggles with the chilly world. The following\\nj-ear it withered into oblivion unsung. NorduKcndenes Sang-\\nforening (Norwegian Singing Society) was organized in\\nNovemlier, the same j ear, but soon gave signs of ephemeral\\nexistence. The Sagatun was born the year after, lingered on\\na narrow path for n while, finally fell into an innocent grave.\\nThe Swedish Club, organized in 1S92, is a healthy and\\nvigorous society. From its embryo to the present time it has\\nhad a smooth run of sunshine and prosperity. It takes unity\\nof hearts and energy to steer a social fleet through all sorts\\nof weather from the tiny stream of embarkation into the calm\\nsea of triumph. Tlic Swedish Club has accomplished this.\\nThe ol)ject of the organization is exclusively fraternal, to\\nunite the Swedish elements in tlic city by friendly ties, and", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 87\\nto extend a wanii hand to those coming within its reach from\\nother cities or climes. The first officers were: H. E. Humer,\\nPrest., Rudolph Aim, Prest., David Petree, R. Sec, G.\\nEdinholm, F. Sec, Andrew Chilberg, Treasurer, A. T. Lund-\\nberg, Librarian, Hugo Hettengren, M. C. At its rift of morn\\nonl} thirty-two names smiled on the recording scroll, while\\nnow two hundred members in good standing bespeak its\\nstrength, with the following incumbent officers: J. M. John-\\nson, Prest., N. J. Nyquist, Prest., A. Zaar, R. Sec, H.J.\\nNorden, F. Sec, N. B. Nelson, Treasurer, A. T. Lundberg,\\nLibrarian, J. Xyman, ^L C, and P. J. Melin, Otto Roseleaf\\nand D. Nordstrom, Trustees.\\nThe Danish Brotherhood, a national league of high\\nstandard, aiming to benefit and to educate, found admission to\\nWashington about eleven years ago. The Seattle Lodge 29,\\nwas organized April 8, 1888, with eleven chartered members,\\nwhich now numbers one hundred and Hhy. The Danish\\nSisterhood, an auxiliary to the Danish Brotherhood, has taken\\nsteps in the right direction, working to sweeten and strengthen\\nthe ties of love and mutual amicability.\\nThe Norwegian Workingmen s society sprang into exist-\\nence about eight years ago, and lived through manj scenes of\\njoy and pathos, now flourishing, now trembling to its found-\\nation. Alas detonating meteors exploded within its laby-\\nrinth and gloomy melanchol} spread her black veil, an\\noratorical flower dropped here, and a declamatory bloom\\nthere, at last the tree of support shivered in chilly desolation,\\nand withered into nothingness.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88\\nSfANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\na\\n3 K\\nS", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. S9\\nThe Xorse Club, organized three j-ears ago, has reveled\\nin healthy sunshine, and smiling tendrils have encircled its\\nprop. The 17th of Maj 1S99, bespeaks its culmination.\\nTlie celebration of Norwegian independence under its banner\\nwas a marked event among the Scandinavians.\\nThousands of people gathered at Madison Park, Seattle,\\nfrom all parts of the Sound, to participate in perpetuating the\\nmemory of the Xorse heroes. Honor is due to the following\\ngentlemen for launching and piloting this social ship into a\\nhaven of safet}- H. P. Rude, C. IM. Thuland, Frank Oleson,\\nChristian Bolgen, A. J. Thuland, A. H. Soelberg, B. A.\\nClausen, N. A. Christof, A. Scottness, Theodore Pederson\\nand Julius Sunde.\\nFremad, the social wing of the Norwegian Lutheran\\nchurch, has lived through many upheavals, and yet looks\\nforward with unclouded eyes. The other Scandinavian\\nchurches have their inviting adjuncts, l)ut of more recent\\ndate, which tender valuable aids to their respective mothers.\\nScandinavians in Seattle have been fortunate in having\\nmen and women gifted and willing to make the social feature\\nof life entertaining and successful. Of all the gaudy society\\nflowers, no one merits more applause than the genial photo-\\ngrapher, James Eggan. He was born in )sterdalen, Norway,\\n1872, came to America in 1S80, locating in the city of Minne-\\napolis. From boyhood he evinced unusual talent as a comed-\\nian and as an artist. He could have gathered jewels on the\\nstage as well as in the photographic studio. In 18S9, he set", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nAMI I W", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 91\\nout for the Pacific, aud after taking a survey of the picturesque\\nPuget Sound, selected Seattle as his future abode. Though\\nonly a j-outh of seventeen, yet he soon invited the attention of\\nthe public in both the social and the artistic world. Not onl}- is\\nMr. Eggan possessed of natural endowments as a photographer\\nand as a reciter, but is a true type of integrity and honesty.\\nVer3 few cities of three decades in the United States can\\nboast of more short-lived Scandinavian newspapers than\\nSeattle. The Scandinavian Publishing Company was the\\nfirst on record, and issued two Scandinavian weeklies, viz.,\\nVestra Posten and Washington Posten, which j-et live and\\nthrive. This company dissolved, and from its dissolution\\nsprang two others The Swedish Publishing Company, issu-\\ning Vestra Posten and a Norwegian concern of similar nature,\\npublishing Washington Posten.\\nVestra Posten was founded by N. P. Lind and T. Sande-\\ngren, and Washington Posten by Frank Oleson, assisted by\\nJulius Sunde. The former is at present in the hands of N.\\nG. Lind, J. W. Martin and A. Olson, who have raised the\\npaper to a high standard. The latter is owned and edited by\\nA. J. Thuland. C. M. Thuland, now lawyer, also gave heed\\nto journalism. He turned out Seattle Tidende and The\\nNorth, but both fell into an early tomb.\\nJulius and Engward Sunde organized and published\\nFram, which blossomed and bore fruit, but one sad day it was\\nstretched on a lazy bier and wheeled to the grave. Folke-\\ntidende popped into existence about four years ago but through", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "{\u00e2\u0080\u00a22\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE. 93\\nsome intrigue it died and was buried minus tears and cere-\\nmony. Folkets Blad was the next of the ephemeral journals;\\nit was born in 1899, lingered through a few sunny months, then\\nswallowed, without pity, b^- Tacoma Tidende.\\nAnent men of literary ability among the Scandinavians,\\nGeorge Bech, without doubt, stands in the first rank. He is\\na well-known author, musician and business man of Seattle,\\nborn in Roeskilde, Denmark, April 4, 1846. After finishing\\nhis education in the State School, 1S65, he was awarded\\nthe degree of A. M., and the following year took examin\\nphilosophicus. Ph. M., at the ITniversity of Copenhagen;\\nstudied mathematics for some time, then went into business,\\ntrading in Norwa\\\\ Sweden and Germany, but alwa3 s assidu-\\nously at work during leisure writing poems and novels for the\\ndifferent journals of Denmark and Norway. In the latter coun-\\ntry he made acquaintance with Olaf Lofhus, editor of Berg-\\nens Tidende, to whose paper he frequently contributed, and\\nJohan Sverdrup, then president of the National Storthing, in\\nwhose house he was a welcome guest. In 1S87 he left Copen-\\nhagen, arriving in Seattle, August 22, where he found a rich\\nfield for his literary talent, for some time contributing to local\\nand other papers, then editor of Folkedideude, and later\\nFolkets Blad. He has written an cxcjuisite dramatic work,\\nHaeng Ham, and a song, Old Glorious Glory, which he\\nhas also put to music. It is Mr. leech s ambition to liavc his\\nsong adopted as a national liynin. He was married in May,\\n1880, and has one son, sixteen years old.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE.\\n95\\nGraebert Anderson, an eloquent ex-minister of the M. E.\\nchurch, and a gifted writer, was born in Denmark, 1860.\\nNorwegiaii-DaiiUli Lutheran Clinrch, St-nttU-", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THK PACIFIC.\\nli.h M. i; Church. Snillc.\\nAfter gradiialing from the public schools, he spent some time\\nin private study, with a view of entering some academj-, but\\ninstead of carrying out his plan, he left for America, when\\nabout eighteen years old. Shortly after his arrival in the\\nNew World, he commenced to prepare for the ministry of the\\nM. E. church at the university in Kvanston, Illinois. Here", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE.\\n97", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "98\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THK rACIKlC.\\nf\\nI\\nnil il I Vil\\nJlrrik-\\nSwftlUh llapliM Church. Snltle.\\nhe spent five years, then migrated to tlje Pacific, where he has\\nbeen recognized as the most cloqnent pulpit orator among the\\nScandinavians on the coast, and has served as expounder of\\nthe gospel in the largest Norwegian-Danish churches, namely\\nin Oakland and Kurcka, California, and Tacoma and Seattle,", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SEATTLE.\\n99\\nNorwegian-Danish Baptist Cluirch. Seattle.\\nL.tfO.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "100 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nWashington. Two years ago he resigned from the ministry*\\nto devote his time to journalism. In 1S89 he was married to\\nMiss Lottie H. Christensen, a lady of fine education, a\\nteacher in the public schools of Racine, Wisconsin. They re-\\nside in Seattle, where Mr. Anderson is interested in newspaper\\nbusiness, being secretary of the Tacoma Tidcnde Publishing\\nCompany, with office in Coleman building, First Avenue,\\nSeattle.\\nScandinavians have been liberal in their contributions to\\nreligious worship. Kight Scandinavian churches in the city\\nof Seattle join to confirm this fact. The various denomina-\\ntions are represented: Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, and\\nMission Friends. There are one Swedish and two Norwegian-\\nDanish Lutheran churches, one Swedish and one Norwegian-\\nDanish Baptist churches, one Swedish and one Norwegian-\\nDanish Methodist churches, and one Swedish Mission church.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN BALLARD.\\nCHAPTER V.\\nBallard merits the appellation, City of Smokestacks. No\\nsmall town west of the Rocky has more factories. Saw mills\\nand shingle mills are sending clouds of smoke into the air day\\nand night, and brigades of industrious men are busil)^ en-\\ngaged. The city has been regarded b} many as a suburb of\\nSeattle, but this is a misinterpretation. True, Ballard is near\\nSeattle, and is connected to it by a well-equipped street rail-\\nway, but has its own government.\\nThe first Scandinavian who touched Salmon Bay, half a\\nmile below Ballard, was probably Peter Friberg. In 1875\\nGustaf Anderson pitched his tent on a green spot near the\\nrippling water where he yet resides. He was born in Sweden,\\ncrossed the Atlantic in 1S64, and spent several years in Chicago\\nbefore coming to the Pacific. He is a man of intelligence and\\nholds a respectable rank among the people. Ole Schildstad,\\na native of Norway, and highly respected, arrived simul-\\ntaneously.\\nIn those early days Ballard was undreamt. The smoke\\nwhich now curls above its bustle did not enter the calm of\\nthe pioneers hearts. They were contented with the peregri-\\nnation of daily necessity. Few Scandinavians then stalked\\nthe dense forest which clad the turf where five thousand\\npeople now dwell midst noise and progress, but to day over\\none thousand Vikings mingle in the various walks of life in\\nthe town.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN BALLARD. 103\\nlohii Johnson, the leading merchant and an intelli-\\ngent and honored citizen, is a native of Norway, being born\\nMarch 26, 1862, midway between Trondhjem and Levanger,\\nwhere he received his early education. At the age of ten he\\nemigrated to America, locating at Muskegon, Michigan,\\nattended the public schools three ^-ears, worked in a saw mill\\nfour vears, and clerked in a grocery store seven years. In\\n1886 he launched into business for himself which he is pur-\\nsuing with marked success. During the same year he\\nwas married at Muskegon to a cultured young lady. Miss\\nMagna Xelson, whose parents hail from Tromso, Norway.\\nIn 1S93 i\\\\Ir. Johnson moved to Ballard and immediately\\nembarked in grocery business. His large establishment and\\nbusiness method plainh reflect his ability, and a multitudin-\\nous circle of friends bespeaks his generosity and integrity of\\ncharactpr.\\nF rank Engquist, the well-known merchant tailor of\\nBallard, was born in Sweden, 1861, received a fine education\\nin his native country, and in 1SS2 crossed the Atlantic for\\nthe United States, settling at Moline, Illinois, where he\\nremained one and a half years. His next journey was to\\nMinneapolis, where he found employment in one of the largest\\ntailoring establishments in the city. In 1SS8 he migrated to\\nSeattle, Washington, and shortly after resumed his chosen\\noccupation. He was attracted by the fascinating aspect of\\nthe Sound, and abandoned his business to try his hand at\\nagriculture in Rolling Baj-. The gigantic trees and stubborn", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN BALLARD. 105\\nstumps plucked the laurels of his fanc}-, and iu 1896 started\\nbusiness in Ballard, where he is permanently located. Mr.\\nEngquist is an expert workman, honest and intelligent, and\\nwhat is still loftier, a perfect gentleman.\\nP. E. Paulson, a genial business man, was born in Nor-\\nway, 1S65. His father was a prominent educator, having\\nbeen engaged in school work about forty years. Mr. Paul-\\nson enjo)-ed the benefit of an excellent education, and in 1S82\\nsailed for America, locating in Rock county, Minnesota. After\\ntwo years of various occupation he arrived in Sioux Falls,\\nSouth Dakota, where he stayed two years. The Pacific exer-\\ncised a peculiar charm, and thither he emigrated, making\\nSkagit valley his first stopping place, and afterward located in\\nBallard, where he now resides. Mr. Paulson is a leading\\nmember of the Foresters of America and other organizations.\\nHe is a man of a kind disposition, and universally respected.\\nI. C. Olson is a true type of honesty and individual char-\\nacter. He was born in Norway, and for years resided in\\nMinneapolis. He came to the coast in 1893, settling in Bal-\\nlard. In 1S98 he was elected to the legislature, where he\\ndistinguished himself as a man of integrit} and sound\\njudgment.\\nThomas Anderson is a rising grocer, and a prominent\\nmember of the Norwegian Baptist church. Revs. L. Hoieu\\nand G. Berg are well liked and earnest ecclesiastics. Rev.\\nMartin Berg is editor of Kongeriget and an eloquent advocate\\nof Christian jirinciples.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "l(l\u00c2\u00ab\\n.SCANDINAVIAN;; UN TliLl i AClilC.\\nA Runlic Hnditr at Putnt Drfiancr I nrk, Taconia.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA.\\nCHAPTKR VI.\\nTacoma, or the Cit} of Destiii}-, is the second city in\\npopulation in the State of Washington, and the first in natural\\ngrandeur. It is situated on fine terraces, commanding a\\nbeautiful view of Commencement Bay and the Sound for miles\\ndistance. Mt. Rainier, or Tacoma, towers over the city, and\\nhis head of snow and checkered bosom fills the soul with awe\\nand wonder.\\nPride of the West, austere and grand.\\nThe noblest in Freedom s Land,\\nTo thee my soul is turning,\\nIn sapphire flames thou burning;\\nLike spheres that walk the solar planes,\\nThy mellow blaze through heaven rains,\\nSiren in cloudland high,\\nScene bewitching to my eye.\\nHow thy cheeks hang in a silvery glow\\nAwful in look is thj head of snow\\nIn thy face I read Heaven s mighty arm.\\nThe power of God that bids thee charm,\\nA landscape rich in song and flowers.\\nIn rhyming pine and vocal bowers.\\nIn dancing ripples of laughing gold.\\nIn streams of music leaping bold.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "U)6\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nScandinavians have made Taconia their stronghold, about\\nlo.ocx) dwell within the city bonndarj Some rank among\\nthe most thrifty and highly esteemed citizens. They also\\nbear the honor of being among the early pioneers who gave", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA. 109\\nlight and courage to subsequent settlers. Mrs. Fredric Meyer,\\na native of Norway, previously alluded to, was one of the first\\nwhite women to alight in Pierce county. Anton Malm, born\\nin Sweden, came to the coast in 1870, and mingled with the\\nfirst pioneers of Tacoma.\\nThe Scandinavian business and professional men of Tacoma\\nmerit kind consideration. They have risen to prominence and in-\\nvited the confidence and respect of all regardless of nation-\\nality. A biographical histor\\\\^ of the most prominent confronts\\nitself They are exemplary men, and their rise to affluence\\nand influence in an honest, straightforward manner is worthy\\nof emulation.\\nProfessor Olof Bull. There are but few whose souls are\\nimbued with divine strains. Music like poetry is born with\\na man. When Ole Bull was asked, Who taught you to\\nplay so sweetly he answered, Norge s hole Fjeld og dybe\\nDale (Norway s high mountains and deep dales). The name\\nof Olof Bull is sj^nonymous to that of Ole Bull. The former\\ncame from Sweden, the latter from Norway. Prof. Olof Bull\\nwas born in Undersvik, Helsingland, Sweden, March 31,\\n1852. His parents were Olof and Katarina Bull, his father\\nis dead but his mother still lives. From early childhood he\\nevinced extraordinary talent for music which was cultivated\\nto a marked degree under A. Sorenson and other masters. In\\n1869 he sailed for America, arriving in St. Paul, where he\\nrapidly gained fame as a genius violinist. In 1S76 he organ-\\nized the Olof Bull Concert Company which scattered divine", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "ini .SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nPKori\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb(\u00c2\u00bb Oi.or Bn.i.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA. Ill\\nmusic the land over, and rose to enviable reputation. In 1881\\nhe was appointed musical director of the Boston Opera, which\\nhe resigned in a year to accept the professorship of violin in\\nthe Chicago Musical College, where he remained until 1S90,\\nwhen he journeyed to Tacoma to be installed as musical\\ndirector of Tacoma Theatre, which chair he is filling with\\ndistinction. Professor Olof Bull is a genius as a violinist,\\nand greater still a man of character, kind and compassionate.\\nO. B. Selvig. The esteemed cashier of the Metropolitan\\nBank of Tacoma, O. B. Selvig, was born near Drammen, Nor-\\nway, in 1 85 1. He received a fine education, and at the age of\\nseventeen bid farewell to his native seat for America, arriving\\nin Kandiyohi county, Alinnesota, with his parents. Young\\nSelvig, like others who come to a new country with scantv\\nmeans, had to do his own rustling. He worked in different\\nplaces at hard manual labor up to 1878, when he secured a po-\\nsition in the postoffice at Willmar, and two years later received\\nthe appointment of postmaster, and shortly after became head\\nagent for the American Express Company. He served faith-\\nfully for seven 3-ears in this capacity, then resigned to accept\\na more lucrative employment in the Kandiyohi County Bank.\\nIn the fall of 1888 he migrated to Tacoma, Washington, and\\nafter cultivating acquaintance with influential men in the city,\\nhe was tendered a position in the Metropolitan Bank, and soon\\nrose to cashier. Mr. Selvig is not only a man of business, l)ut\\nof honor as well one beloved and respected by all.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112\\nSCANDINAVIANS UN THE PACIFIC.\\n^iS^^^ /^H\\nIl^\\n0-\\nP\\nH K Knatvolp.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIAN S IN TACU.MA. 113\\nH. E. Knatvold. In the fall of 1892, the Scandinavian-\\nAmerican Bank of Tacoma was organized, with a capital stock\\nof $100,000, raised partly in Tacoma and partly in the east.\\nH. E. Knatvold, well known in business circles, was elected\\ncashier and general manager of the institution. He was born\\nin Drammen, Norway, September 3, i84 S, w-here lie obtained\\nhis early education. At the age of fourteen he sailed with his\\nparents for the United States, settling in Freelom county,\\nMinnesota. He engaged in farm work, and spent his leisure\\nstudying, thus acquiring a fair knowledge of English. At the\\nage of twent3 -one he removed to Albert Lea, where he secured\\na clerkship in a store. To prepare himself to cope more\\nefficiently with the surges of the world, he relinquished his\\nposition to take a course in Western College, Iowa, and shortly\\nafter embarked in hardware business in Albert Lea. In 1884\\nhe crossed the Rocky for the Pacific, locating in Tacoma. He\\nengaged in farming and real estate which he followed success-\\nfully until 1892, when he was ushered into the chair of cash-\\nier in the Scandinavian- A uierican Bank, which position he has\\nfilled with credit ever since. Mr. Knatvold is a man of honor\\nand energy.\\nDr. C. Quevli. It is a conceded fact that C. Quevli, of\\nTacoma, is one of the most highly learned doctors on the Pa-\\ncific. He was born in Blakjer, Norway, June 24, 1864. When\\nsix years old he left his fatherland with his parents for\\nAmerica, locating in Jackson county, Minnesota, where he re-\\nceived the education that the common schools could afford, then", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n\u00c2\u00bbJ.i- l..l J\\n^8SPIflH|B\\nI A\\nOn. C. UUBVLI.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA. 115\\ntook a course at St. Olof s College, Northfield, afterward en-\\ntered thd State University of Minnesota, where he graduated\\nwith the degree of M. D. He launched into a sucsessful prac-\\ntice at Lamberton, Minnesota, but his soul was thirsting for\\nmore knowledge, and to satisfy this he sailed for Christiania\\nNorway, where he took a post-graduate course. On returning\\nto the United States he selected Tacoma for his future abode\\nHere he practiced three years, then returned to Europe to\\ncontinue his studies at the University of Berlin, from whence\\nhe crossed the channel to England, and took a post-graduate\\ncourse in Kings College and Hospital of London. Afterward\\nhe traveled in France and other European countries before\\nvoyaging to America. Dr. C. Quevli is a physician of enviable\\nreputation, but that is not all; he is a gentleman beloved and\\nhonored.\\nEmpires rise to fall again.\\nBut truth and love never die;\\nGreater the man with sunshine in his soul,\\nThan kings who woo the fading star of fame.\\nDr. J. L. Rynuing. The well-known doctor and pro-\\nfessor of physiology in the Pacific Lutheran University, J. L.\\nRynuing (formerly Dr. J. L. Jensen), of Tacoma, has gained\\nfriends and eminence in his chosen profession. He was born\\nin Iowa, 185S, of Norwegian parents, who removed to the\\nfrontier of Minnesota while he was an infant of one j-ear.\\nYoung Rynning did not enjoy the opportunities that most", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE I ACIFIC.\\nI ll J I.. kVMI lll(l.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA. 117\\nboys have. The schoolhouse was unknown to him until ten\\nyears of age. When time offered a rural schooling he took\\nadvantage of it as preparation for the public school of Rush\\nford, later studied at the academy of Madison, Wisconsin, and\\nLuther College, Decorah, Iowa. He had a whim for the\\nWest, and migrated to Montana where he engaged in school\\nwork. Mines, too, invited his notice, and during his vacation\\nof 1889 held the superintendency of a silver mine in Mon-\\ntana. Mining, however, was abandoned for a more profes-\\nsional career, and in 1892 graduated from Rush Medical\\nCollege in Chicago with the degree of Medicinae Doctor, M.\\nD. Immediately after graduation he located at Butte, Mon-\\ntana, where he practiced for sometime. In 1S93 he was\\nmarried in Minnesota to Miss Marie Ellertson, a lady of fine\\ntraining, and took a wedding trip to the Pacific. He foresaw\\nthe great future of the country, and removed to Stanwood,\\nWashington, to follow his profession. When the Lutheran\\nUniversity was established at Parkland, he removed toTacoma\\nto tender his aid to the institution. In this city he is perma-\\nnently located, encircled with a multitude of friends. Dr.\\nRynning is a man of heart as well as ability, honest, kind\\nand sympathetic.\\nEric Edw. Rosling. Taconia has reason to feel proud of\\nthe personage of my pen, Eric Edw. Rosling, one of the ablest\\nlawyers on the coast. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden,\\nMarch 3, 1865, ^ame to Boston with his parents while a\\nyoung boy. From infancy he displayed extraordinary talents,", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "118 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA. 119\\nwhich subsequent j-ears have made more realistic. After\\nacquiring a liberal education he entered the Boston University\\nLaw School, where he graduated with honors, completing a\\nthree years course in two. In 1S90 Mr. Rosling arrived\\nin Tacoma and at once manifested the same tireless energy\\nwhich characterized his success at college. As a lawver he\\nhas but few equals, his logical and oratorical endowments\\nmake him especially fit for tlie eminent profession he is pur-\\nsuing. He is a man of literary taste and studious habit\\nwhich his large law and private libraries join to emphasize.\\nIn 1897 he was appointed by the Supreme Court of Wash-\\nington as chairman of the committee to examine applicants\\nfor admission to the bar. In politics he is a republican, but\\nhas refused to accept any political office save the office of\\ncity prosecuting attorney during Huson s administration.\\nTwice he has been elected to the board of education and has\\nfilled with distinction its presidential chair. His deep interest\\nin educational and church work has made him a valuable\\nfactor throughout the Pacific. His oration at the Willamette\\nChautauqua Assembly, Oregon City, in July, 189S, and his\\naddress at the National Educational Association, Los Angeles,\\n1899, placed him before the nation as an eloquent speaker and\\na finished scholar. He was married at Tacoma, December 12,\\n1890, to Miss Minnie Belle Lincoln, an accomplished lady of\\nBoston. The} have tliree children and a beautiful home in\\nthe finest part of the city.\\nJ. M. Arntson. Self-made men, as a rule, become the", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "120 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nJ. M. AKitTaun", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA. 121\\nleaders in a free countr3 where ability shines with unclouded\\nluster. The individual in question, J. M. Arntson, a rising\\nlawyer of Tacoma, is a representative of this class. He was\\nborn on a farm in Waukesha county, Wisconsin, 1858, where\\nhis parents, Johannes and Mekaline, settled in 1844, they being\\namong the first Norwegian emigrants to that part of the state.\\nWhen eight years of age his parents removed to the central\\npart of Minnesota where they engaged in general merchan-\\ndise business. Here young Arntson was reared and trained\\nfor a mercantile career, his education was obtained in the\\npublic schools and by private instruction. He was married\\nat Willmar, Minnesota, 1882, to Miss Annie M. Olson, a lady\\nof heart and character, and the ne. ^t 3 ear joined the army of\\nhomeseekers, attracted to the shores of Puget Sound, and\\nsettled in Tacoma, Washington. Since coming to this city\\nhe has been engaged in various pursuits, first grocery\\nthen real estate. From youth he had possessed an inclin-\\nation for law, and to yield to his forte, he closed out his\\nbusiness, and devoted his whole time to legal acquirements.\\nIn 1894 he was admitted to bar, and immediatel} embarked\\nin practice which has constantly grown more promising. In\\n189S he received the appointment as clerk of police court, and\\nin connection with the duties of his office continues a lucra-\\ntive practice. Though Mr. Arntson was born and raised in\\nAmerica, yet he has been a warm friend of tlie Norwegians,\\nalways ready to extend a helping hand when needed. He is", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "l-2 _\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA. r23\\ndelighted with Norwegian literature, being conversant witli\\nsocial and political problems.\\nGustaf Lindberg, a representative business man of Taco-\\nma, was born in Vennland, Sweden, November 22, 1S65,\\nreceived a careful education, and at the age of fourteen\\nembarked in business as clerk in his native place. In 188 1 he\\nchose the national capital of Sweden for his abode, where he\\nobtained a clerkship with the firm of C. A. Schweder. Being\\nof studious nature and industrious habit, he worked faithfully\\nduring day, and attended school during evening, thus\\nacquiring a store of useful learning and applicable expe-\\nrience. In 1889 he left the land of his birth for America,\\nlocating in Tacoma, where he found employment with the gro-\\ncer}- firm of Forbes Wose. After two years of service with this\\ncompany, he joined his brother John in the grocery business,\\nnow a leading establishment on the corner of Eleventh and\\nG Streets. Mr. Lindberg is a prominent factor in the Swedish-\\nLutheran church and a worthy member of the Tacoma Cham-\\nber of Commerce, and in all respects an honored citizen and\\na true gentleman.\\nS. Samson. For being a young man few have displayed\\nsteadier habits and more business capacity than the congenial\\nproprietor of the People s Hotel and Restaurant, 913 Pacific\\nAvenue, Tacoma. He w^as born in Ostra Torsa, Kronoberg,\\nSweden, November 29, 1869, where he enjoyed the training\\nof splendid school facilities. In 1888 he crossed the storms-\\nAtlantic, and selected Tacoma for his permanent location.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "124\\nSCANDINAVrANS ON THE PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA. 125\\nDuring his early time in the New World he shared the vicis-\\nsitudes of circumstances, ever converting his leisure to useful\\nacquirements. The language was foreign to him, b;it being\\nof docile aptitude this obstacle did not long impede his pro-\\ngress, soon he could handle the English tongue with ease and\\nfluency. Business seemed to be his forte, which he embarked\\nin some years ago and has followed with marked success.\\nHe is a member of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce and\\nowns considerable real estate in the city. Mr. Samson has\\nalways been awake to the interest of the Pacific, and especially\\nhis own town. He is a worthy citizen and enjoys the respect\\nof the people.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "SCAXDINA\\\\ IAXS IX TACOMA.\\nCHAPTER Vn.\\nSocieties Press Prominent Citizens Churches.\\nA number of Scandinavian societies have sprung into\\nexistence in Taconia the last two decades. The X alhalla, a\\nSwedish fraternal and beneficial organization, was tlip first\\nthat blossomed into pros| erity. It was organized December\\n15, 1S84, with G. F. Linquist, president, H. Xj-man, vice-\\npresident, H. Ohlin, secretary, \\\\V. P. Sundberg, treasurer, R,\\nBomen, financial secretary, Charles Berg, master of ceremony.\\nOnly few signed the constitution at its earlj- launching, but\\nhas gradually increased in membership to 125 in good stand-\\ning. A praise-worthy band, known as the Swedish alhalla\\nMilitary- Band, was founded by the society to grace its work\\nwith sweet music.\\nThe Xorwegians organized a lodge of similar nature as\\nthe Walhalla, baptized. The Ancient (^rderof Vikings, which,\\ntoo, embarked with a handful of supporters, but through per-\\nseverance and wise management bloomed into one of the best\\nNorwegian societies in the state. The aim of this compact is\\nbroad and laudable, being like that of the I. C). K., or other\\nsecret organizations of high standard. The ikings was born\\nin 1S92 with the following hard workers in the lead: John\\nBlaauw, Thomas Knudson, G. O. Sande, Ed. Haug and Sam\\nHang.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA. 127\\nThe Danish Brotherhood was instituted in March, 18S9\\nwith fifteen members, and has flourished these years remark-\\nabl} At present it has sixt}- on the roll, with a flowery\\nadjunct, the Danish Sisterhood, which has tendered the\\nfraternal order kind assistance.\\nHaabet, a Norwegian literary society, has grown in vigor\\nand number, and is proving valuable to literary culture. The\\nincumbent officers are: Con. Bjorklund, Prest., Jacob SHppern\\nPrest., H. Hansen, Sec, John Blaauw, Treasurer, G. O.\\nSande, Librarian, Hans Tokelsen, Editor.\\nThe Norden, I. O. G. T., founded in early days, wrought\\nout man}- disagreeable obstacles, and planted seeds of moral\\npurity, but the panic of recent years scattered the prop of sup-\\nport to the four wings of the world, and the pretty flowers that\\nwont to grace the hall found pleasure in other spheres. Week\\nafter week the lodge trembled on flirting arms, which little by\\nlittle gave heed to other diversions, and death on wool} wings\\ndevoured the civilizing factor.\\nThe Scandinavian Temperance Society lived through\\nmany years of gnawing resistance. From it floated mighty\\nwords of wholesome advice, but friends of the alcoholic hell,\\nrobed with smiling garbs of infernal warp, plucked the sweet\\nblooms of future hope, and planted in their souls the stings of\\nruin. As days wore away, the poisonous influence from the\\nsaloon den bewitched the sprightly stripling and the hoary\\nhair, and the temperance workers, the noblest of heroes, were", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "128 SCANDINAVIANS UN THE i AClI-lC.\\ntoo few to feed the fire of interest, and the organization withered\\nand died.\\nThe Scandinavian press, of Tacoma, is growing into pop-\\nvilarity. The first Scandinavian newspaper on record in the\\ncity was, Tacoma Budstikken, a Norwegian-Danish weekly,\\nfounded in December, 1899, by P. O. Bergan, but enjoyed only\\na short period of sunshine. The Tacoma Tidende was launched\\nJulj^ 5, 1S90, and ripened into a Norwegian-Danish state paper.\\nFrom infancy it was in the hands of Dirk Blaauw who bid fair\\nat journalism, but a jear ago it was transferred to his brother\\nJohn who has steeped it with journalistic fire, comparing in\\nmerit with the big eastern weeklies. It takes a man of a con-\\ngenial nature, abilitj and push to make journalism a success,\\nand these qualities manifest themselves every day in the\\neditor of Tacoma Tidende.\\nJohn Blaauw was born in Bergen, Norway, 1S68, but\\nwhen an infant of two years he went with his parents to\\nChristiania, where he resided till he reached the age of seven-\\nteen, save two and a half years he spent in Edinburgh, Scot-\\nland. In 1SS7 he emigrated to America, making Seattle his\\ndestination. Right after the great fire he embarked in Scan-\\ndinavian journalism, and has practically followed it ever\\nsince.\\nNo man is better informed of the condition and natural\\nresources on the Pacific coast than Editor John Blaauw. Ik-\\nhas traveled in every county from British Columbia to the\\nGolden State. He has made Tacoma Tidende an honor to", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA.\\n129\\nJohn Blaaiw.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "130 SCANDINAVIANS ON THK PACIFIC.\\nthe coast and a valuable source of information to thousands of\\npeople throughout the United States. He is of a genial dis-\\nposition, kind and serviceable. Though alwaj-s busy, yet glad\\nto receive visitors, and willing to impart all possible knowledge.\\nMuch of his time is consumed in replying to letters concern-\\ning the Pacific country.\\nTacoma Tribunen, a Swedish weekl} of considerable merit,\\nwas brought to light in April, 1890, by the Swedish Publish-\\ning Company. T. Sandegren was installed as editor, and has\\never since filled the chair with credit.\\nT. Sandegren was bom near Halmstad, Sweden, in 1^58,\\nwhere he enjoyed the benefit of a good common school educa-\\ntion. At the age of twentj he graduated from Lund College,\\nand three years later took the degree of A. B. at the Univers-\\nity of Lund. Journalism was his forte which he embarked\\nimmediately after graduation. In 1883 he crossed the At-\\nlantic for the United States, locating in Minnesota, where he\\nobtained a position as teacher in the Military School at Fort\\nSnelling. In 1889 he migrated to Seattle, and in company\\nwith N. P. Lind organized \\\\*estra Posten. The following year\\nhe was appointed editor of Tacoma Tribunen, and three years\\nlater assumed the ownership of the paper, which he is con-\\nducting with marked ability.\\nThe Pacific Herold, edited by E. Bernim, is a pleasing\\njournal, published at the Pacific Lutheran University. Mr.\\nHerrum has had years of experience in the journalistic field.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA.\\n131\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^r^mi^i,\\nT. Sandi: :kbn.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "132 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nFor half a decade or more he represented Skandinaven\\non the Pacific.\\nA word concerning Scandinavian churches may not be\\nout of place at this point. In spite of a new country and\\nadverse circumstances, nine of them pierce the air of the\\nCity of Destiny. There are three Lutheran churches,\\ntwo Norwegian-Danish, and one Swedish; two Methodist\\nchurches, one Norwegian-Danish, and one Swedish; two Bap-\\ntist churches, one Scandinavian and one Swedish; a Swedish\\nMission church, and a Scandinavian Free church.\\nTo the south of Tacoma smiles the village of Parkland,\\nthe stronghold of the Norwegian Synod, where the Pacific\\nLutheran University stands as a pride to the place.\\n-1.\\nPacific Lvtiibiian t ltivaMiTV.\\nThe aim of the institution is to give thorough instruction\\niu ilic various branches taught in the public schools and", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN TACOMA.\\n133\\nacademies, includiug science, art aud music. It is operated\\nunder the banner of the Norwegian Lutheran Synod, and\\nsound Christian principles are made the basis of all the work.\\nRev. B. Harstad may be rightly called the Father of the\\nInstitution, and Prof. N. J. Hong deserves the appellation\\nFaithful Manager.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN KVKRETT.\\nCHAHTKR III.\\nP^ew cities during the short longevity of eight years have\\nblossomed like Everett. In 1891 it sprang into life midst the\\ngreatest of stir and excitement, and has ever since enjoyed the\\npresence of healthy sunbeams and steady prosperity. Everett\\nis the county seat of Snohomish count) spread over a pleas-\\nant stretch of land between Snohomish river and a beau-\\ntiful bay of the Sound, affording an excellent fresh water\\nharbor and an equally laudable salt-water haven.\\nThe city has a population of about eight thousand, many\\nof whom are Scandinavians. John Brue was among the early\\npioneers, and one of the founders of the Norwegian Lutheran\\nchurch located at that place. F or \\\\ears he was engaged in\\nbusiness in Elverett, but disposed of his interests to take\\npossession of a nice farm near Stanwood.\\nT. T. Enger, a bright business nuui, merchant tailor,\\nwas also one of the first to establish himself in the embryo\\ncity. He was born in Hoff, Sotor, Norway, 1864, but moved\\nwith his parents to Aasnes when one and a half years of age,\\nwhere he received his early education, graduating from the pul\\nlic schools at fifteen. His father, also, T. T. Enger, was a prom-\\ninent citizen and manager of H. Schulze s estate, the largest\\nin that part of Norway. Young Enger left his native seat for\\nChristiania to leani the tailoring trade, and in 1S82 emigrated\\nto America, arriving at Madison, Wisconsin. September 22,", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n135", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "136 SCANDlNAVlA.NtJ IN EVERETT.\\nwhere he remained two years working at his trade. His next\\nmove was to Minneapolis, and in 1S9; migrated to the Pacific,\\nsettling in Seattle, Washington. Shortly after his arrival he\\nwas married to Miss Maria Olson, a worth} lady of Xorse\\nancestry. The transient fame of Anacortes startled the\\ncountry, and thither Mr. Kiiger went to engage in business,\\nbut in January, 1892, sold out and removed to Everett, where\\nhe is conducting a fine tailoring establishment. Mr. Enger\\nis a man of energy and push, reliable and respected. He\\nis a prominent member of the Knights of Pj-thias, and holds\\nnotable standing in the republican party.\\nFew men have passed through the trials that L. P. Elvrum\\nhas, the genial landlord of Everett. He was born in Stordalen.\\nnear Trondjem, Norway, 1858, where he received a good edu-\\ncation. At the age of nineteen he went to sea, and was dashed\\nuninterruptedly on the pitiless waves for four years. Three\\ntimes he weathered the North Cape. In 1881 he sailed for\\nAmerica, spent one year in Minnesota, then journej-ed to the\\nPacific, settling at Stanwood, Washington. He sought the\\nforest for employment, worked four years at logging, then\\nembarked in general merchandise in Silvana, and immediately\\nreceived the appointment of postmaster. In 1889 he was mar-\\nried to Miss Martha lieck, an estimable ladj- of Cedarhome.\\nWhen Everett commenced to bespeak business prospects, Mr.\\nElvrum sold out his interests at Silvana and went thither to\\nstart a hotel. He is the proprietor of the North Star, one\\nof the most respectable taverns in the city. Mr. Elvrum is a", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 137", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138 SCANDINAVIANS IN EVERETT.\\nman of business nature, social and congenial, honest and a\\ntrue gentleman. He has had manj ups-and-downs, but his\\nmotto has been, Try and continue trying and you will suc-\\nceed at last. A motto that ever} man ought to drink into\\nhis soul for ready application in the various turns of life\\nThere are also other Scandinavians in Everett who shine\\nin business and social circles. A. O. Solberg is a leading\\njeweler, and O. Alseth a genial clerk and a popular member of\\nthe Lutheran church Martin Dahl is a well-known merchant\\ntailor, and J. A. Johansen a progressive grocer.\\nEverett has within its limit two Scandinavian churches, a\\nNorwegian Lutheran, previouslj alluded to, and a Scandinav-\\nian Methodist, which was built in 1893. Rev. P. M. Ellefsen,\\na Methodist missionarj visited Everett, 1892, and the follow-\\ning year organized a congregation of ten members which now\\nnumbers thirty. Rev. O. Heggen was the first appointed\\nminister to occupy the pulpit, who was succeeded by the elo-\\nquent Rev. O. O. Twcde.\\nYoung Peoples Society was organized some years ago\\nwhich has grown healthy and vigorous at present it has a\\nmembership of forty.\\nAmong the leading members of the Methodist congrega-\\ntion we find E. A. Olson, Swede, L. Carlsen, A. Thompsen,\\nH. llelgesen, and Mrs. H. Helgesen, Norwegians.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n139\\nXV.-.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "SCAXDIXAXIAXS AT STAXWOOD.\\nCHATTER IX.\\nStanwood is the largest Scandinavian community in the\\nState of Washington, situated in Snohomish county, on a\\ndelta-like angle, where the Skagit and the Stillaguamish rivers\\nmeet to mingle their blue volumes. A navigable tongue of\\nthe Sound ripples up the flat, where daily steamers gracefully\\nride for the proud city. To the east and west from this thriv-\\ning villa a panorama of inexhaustible fertility spreads out be-\\nfore your eye, dotted with quaint dwellings, here and there\\nflecked with rich orchards, and slowly sweeps up forming what\\nis generally termed highland, where a Swedish colony smiles\\nwith flowery gardens and beautiful farms.\\nStanwood compares in magnitude and importance with\\nthe eastern Scandinavian settlements, but differs vastly from\\nthem in spirit. Here is more life, more freedom, and English\\nthe prevailing language, especially among the younger folks.\\nIn 1S70, the time that Eller Graham, a native of Norway,\\ndisembarked at the mouth of Skagit river, a white man was a\\ncuriosity. Doubtless Graham was the first Scandinavian to\\nseek the wilderness for a nestling place, though it is probable\\nthat Martin Toftezen, who landed on W hidbej- Island twelve\\nyears prior, had made a recounoissance of both Skagit and\\nStillaguamish rivers.\\nSivert Guligson Brekhus threw anchor where the Stilla-\\nguamish disembogues its waters, 1S73, but made his pernia-", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n141\\nr\\ni\\nN. P. I.KUUE.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142 SCANDINAVIANS AT STANWOOD.\\nnent habitation ten miles up the river. Two years later O. B.\\nIverson made his appearance as government survej-or, and al-\\nmost simultaneoush N. P. Leque, Nils Eide and A. Danielson\\nlanded in fair-sized canoes. These pioneers had the sagacitj-\\nand foresight to unfold the future, and bought three hundred\\nacres of land together. The first named, O. B. Iverson, was\\nelected to represent Snohomish count}- in the territorial legis-\\nlature, where his keen intellect made palpable impressions.\\nHe now resides in Olympia, and is an active member of the\\ngovernment surveying staff.\\nN. P. Leque is a highlj respected citizen, a gentleman in\\nthe true sense of the word. He was born in Kinservik, Har-\\ndanger, Norway, May S, 1848, but moved with his parents to\\nUlvik when two j-ears old. After receiving a good common\\nschool education, he entered the normal school in Voss, where\\nhe graduated with honor in 1865. The following 3-ear he en-\\ngaged in teaching, but abandoned it after two j-ears of success-\\nful experience. The nth of April, 1868, he was married to\\nMiss Maria Lindebrekke, a lady of fine intellect and noble\\naims, and the same year sailed for America, settling at cr\\nmillion, Clay count\\\\-. South Dakota, where he embarked in\\nfarming. The smiling Pacific created a desire for another\\njourney, and July 31, 1S75, he paraded the streets of Tacoma,\\nwith his family. He made a perambulation of the country,\\nand in 1S76 located on a beautiful island, which bears his\\nname.\\nIn 1SS6 he was elected county commissioner, ser\\\\-ed with", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 143\\ndistinction for two years, and declined renomiuation. He has\\nbeen and is a valuable member of the Lutheran church of\\nStanwood, and has always sought to enhance the best interests\\nof the community, morally and otherwise. For sometime he\\nhas been president of the Stanwood Co-operative Creamery.\\nPeter Leque, a close relative of N. P. Leque, is doubtless\\none of the most popular Scandinavians on the Pacific coast.\\nHe was born in Norway, but came to America in his earl}-\\nyears, and received a fine education in the common\\nschools and at the State University of Washington. Ever\\nsince 1875 he has resided on Leque Island, hard bj Stanwood.\\nHe is a man of a grasping mind and elevated thoughts, a hard\\nworker and a faithful representative of the common people.\\nA man that the public has picked out to fill responsible posi-\\ntions on the merit of honesty and ability. In 1888 he was\\nelected count}- surveyor, in 1892 county assessor, and in 1894\\ncounty auditor.\\nO. K. Melby, proprietor of Melby Hotel, and a man of\\nintelligence and fine training, has shared the struggles of\\npioneer life. He was born in Norway, came to the coast 1S75,\\nmade a visit to Stanwood, and the following year located in\\nthe embryo villa permanently, being the first Scandinavian to\\nengage in hotel business in this part of the state.\\nJohn Brygger, A. J. Brne, Peter Gunderson, Christian\\nJoergensen, Martin Larson, Iver Egge, C. Toftezen, L. T.\\nLand, O. J. Finley, Ole Ryan, Thomas Brue and John Brue\\nare among the early settlers and the most prominent citizens.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "1-14\\nSCANDINAVIANS IN STANWOOD.\\nThey are all independent farmers and potent factors in the\\nupbuilding of the country.\\nThe Norwegian Lutheran church of Stanwood is the\\noldest of the Lutheran churches on Puget Sound. It was\\n1\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0f\\naV\\nA\\ns\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00bb\\nnrj\\nn^\\nIfl\\n111\\nn\\nw\\nin\\n11\\ntt\\nI*?\\n9T\\nTi\u00c2\u00bb\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2n\\ns^.\\nNoKW KIilAM Ll TIIKHAX ClIUKCII OF SfAIIWI\u00c2\u00bbl\\norganized twenty-three years ago by Rev. L. Carlson, and has\\nenjoyed the services of Revs. Kniil Christensen, P. Isberg\\nand C. Joergcn.sen. At present it is in charge of Rev. L. C.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n145\\ngap\\n3 tf. o\\nxCr\\n\u00c2\u00abB\\nxp 5-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2n\\n1 u\\nozK J\\nB C O\\nn r\\nR -i\\nX K\\no r.\\nZ J!\\n2\\nM O\\nz\\nO\\n2\\nX\\n55 X", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146 SCANDINAVIANS IN STANWOOD.\\nFoss who has done much for Christianity and the Lutheran\\ndoctrine. He is a friend of the young people as well as of\\nthe old, the guiding spirit of the Young People s Society and\\na talented musician.\\nThe Norwegian Singing Society is the pride of the com-\\nmunity, and has scattered laurels of accomplishment along\\nthe Sound. On many occasions it has been called to Seattle\\nand other places to cheer and entertain the people with sweet\\nmelodies.\\nThe progress and success of the Scandinavian business\\nmen of Stanwood are well known. S. A. Thompson s estab-\\nlishment affords credit to the town, and Knud Knudson s\\ndrug and jewelry store compares nicely with similar concerns\\nin the larger cities. li. Willard, the popular dairyman, hails\\nfrom Denmark. His energy and keen intellect have always\\nbeen at willing option for the good of his adopted country. A.\\nTackstrom, the genial postmaster, was born in Sweden, and\\nhas been of practical usefulness to his city. Kdward Foss\\ntraces his birthplace to Norway, but has resided for years in\\nStanwood. He is a mechanic by trade, and a gentleman in\\ndemeanor. H. C. Anderson, the wealthy Klondiker, who re-\\nsides near the city, is a conspicuous factor, especially in agri-\\ncultural developments. The genial photographer, J. T.\\nWagness, has gained a standing among the people as a man\\nof ingenuity in his chosen profession. Biographical sketches\\nof men who have worked themselves up in an honorable way\\nwould d()uV)tlcss be of interest to the readers. Such men as", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n147", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "148 SCANDINAVIANS IN STANWOOD.\\nS. A. Thompson, Kmid Knudson, and others merit a place\\namong the most prominent Scandinavians on the Pacific coast.\\nS. A. Thompson was born in Norway, 1S64, where he\\nreceived a splendid school education. In 1S80 he arrived in\\nAmerica, locating at Storj City, Iowa, remaining two years,\\nthen chose Moorhead, Minnesota, for his habitation. After a\\nstay of four years in this city he migrated to Holdstead in the\\nsame state where he spent two years. Up to this time Mr.\\nThompson had been engaged in sundry occupations, clerking\\nand manual labor, always devoting his leisure to the acquire-\\nment of an education. In iSSS he landed in Stanwood, and\\nimmediately embarked in business. For sometime he was\\nconnected with shingle mills, entered Irvine s store, clerked\\nfive years, and May i, 1895, assumed possession of the whole\\nfirm. Mr. Thompson is a man of genial nature, kind and\\nsocial, at the same time energetic, which his business career\\nplainly emphasizes.\\nKnud Knudson, the gifted jeweler and drug merchant,\\nwas born in Modum, Norway, 1864. After learning the\\nwatchmaking trade, he sailed for America, arriving in X alley\\nCity, North Dakota, 1885, where he worked at his trade one\\nyear. He was touched by reports from Casclton, packed\\ntogether his effects and moved thither, engaged in business\\nfor two years, then took another trip, viz., to Chaml)erlain,\\nSouth Dakota, but one and a half years sufficed at this place.\\nWashington was now the absorbing question, and in 1890\\nlocated in Stanwood, and established the first jewelry store", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 149", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "15(1\\nRCANDIXANIANS IN STANWUUD.\\nin the city. In 1896 he launched into drug business in con-\\nnection with his alreadj lucrative engagement. Mr. Knudson\\nis a leading business man, always busj* and attentive, reliable\\nand respected.\\nN. M. Lien is one of the typical Norwegians on the\\nSound honored and intelligent wealthy and conscientious.\\nHe came to America in 1S66, spent eleven years in Minne-\\nRbsiokrck op N. M. Libm.\\nsota, twelve j ears in North Dakota, then journeyed to Suin-\\nwood, Washington. He owns a magnificent farm, running\\npretty nigh into the heart of the city, golden with waving\\ncereals and smiling flowers, and spreads out in an easterly\\ndirection.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n151\\nOlaf Rj djord is a lucrative farmer, one and a half miles\\nup Stillaguamish river from Stanwood. He was born in\\nNorwaj came to Stanwood, 1890, with little or no means.\\nNow he possesses a beautiful farm, and ranks among the\\nprosperous Scandinavians. He is also a man of honor and\\nambition.\\n^wSSbu\\nRHSIOKNCK T OT.AF K^I JOKI).\\nOne of the most laudable institutions in Snohomish\\ncounty is the Stanwood Co-operative Creamery, it bespeaks\\nthe thrift and standard of the farmers. This enterprise orig-\\ninated with Rev. C. Joergensen, who deserves the applause\\nof the whole community for his indefatigable energy. Mr.\\nJoergensen is an ex-minister of the Lutheran faith, armed", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "152\\nSCANDINAVIANS IN STANWoOI*.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 153", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "154 SCANDINAVIANS AT STANWOOD.\\nwith a liberal education and divers experience. He held the\\npresidency of the Stanwood Co-operative Creamery until his\\nelection as commissioner of Snohomish county.\\nThe Stanwood Co-operative Creamery has carried away\\nmany honors since 1S95, the date of its commencement. It\\ntook the first prize, 1896, at the County Fair of Pierce county,\\nheld in Tacoma, also the first prize in Ellensburg, 1898, at\\nthe State Dairy Association. The output of butter has grad-\\nually increased, at present averaging about eighteen thousand\\npounds per month.\\nD. G. Bennie, jr., manager of the Stanwood Co-operative\\nCreamery, has engraved his good will on the hearts of the\\ncommunity. His business methods are commendable, em-\\nphatic of honesty and ability. He was born in Boston, Mas-\\nsachusetts, December 14, 1866, came to the Pacific coast, 1885,\\nembarked in logging and farming, and in the spring of 1898\\nhe was elected to his present position, which he has filled with\\nentire satisfaction.\\nM. O. Coltom, superintendent of the butter-making depart-\\nment, is a worthy gentleman, who has filled his calling with\\ncredit to himself and the association. He was born in Toten,\\nNorvvaj forty-three years ago, came to America, 1866, and to\\nthe coast, 1.SS7. He has been connected with the creamery\\nsince its infancy, and has always been vigilant to the best\\ninterests of the enterprise. John Lund, also a native of Nor-\\nway, has been a faithful assistant to Mr. Coltom, for years he\\nhas served in his present capacity with honor.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n155\\nM. O. Coi.TOM.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "156 SCANDINAVIANS AT STAN WOOD.\\nStanwood is surrounded by thrifty Scandinavian farmers,\\nthe earliest have already been mentioned. Some of the more\\nrecent who have added laurels to agriculture are: Ole Naas,\\nPeter Peterson, T. K. Logan, O. Alseth, Anton F. Anderson,\\nOtto Coltoni, Oluf, John and Gunder Otterson, Engbret\\nOlson, Peter Holte, X. B. Thomle, Louis Christiansen and\\nothers.\\nStanwood, as stated before, is largel}- populated with\\nScandinavians; in addition to the number previously noted\\nwe find manj good citizens, namely Herman Hafstad, con-\\nnected with the Stanwood Hardware Company, Carl Ryan,\\nclerk in Eureka Grocery, Fred Ryan, clerk in Thompson s\\nstore. Peter O. Wold and Ivar Opdal are representative Nor-\\nwegians, well liked and respected. Bert Gunderson is an\\nintelligent young man the members of the Norwegian Sing-\\ning Society rank among the best of young people, Saul Olson,\\nOlc Mellum, Elias Brue, Sam Lovik, Halvor Anderson, John\\nMelkild, Peter Brandall and others bespeak Norse integrity.\\nA. B. Klaeboe, now a gold seeker in Alaska, was once a lead-\\ning business man of this city. Twelve years ago he estab-\\nlished the first drug store in Stanwood, which he managed\\nwith notable success for a number of years. He was born in\\nNorway where he graduated from college with distinguished\\nscholarship.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN STILLAGUAMISH VALLEY.\\nCHAl TKR X.\\nThe Stillaguamish valley, spreading out for a consider-\\nable distance on both sides of the wandering river, which\\nstarts in the green-clad hills, looming up in the southeast,\\nand leaps gracefully downward to the citj of Stanwood, where\\nit disembogues its waters, is a fertile plain, running through\\nthe forest for twenty-five miles, adorned with royal farms and\\nthree happy villas Florence, Norman and Silvana. Thirty\\nyears ago this noble stretch was the home of wild beasts, but\\nnow settled by a jolly populace. Here the Scandinavians found\\na field that hit their fancies plenty of work and rich soil.\\nThe first Scandinavian to brave this wilderness was Sivert\\nGuligson Brekhus, a native of Voss, Norway, who emigrated\\nto America, 1S62, spent eleven years in the east combatting\\nfor success in divers avenues, and in 1S73 entered the mouth\\nof the Stillaguamish river. He proceeded up the stream which\\nwas choked with angry snags and stubborn logs. No less than\\nfour jams impeded his progress. Mr. Brekhus has been a\\nman of unusual strength, and possessed of a heart that knew\\nno fear. On one occasion, in earl} days, a red savage attacked\\nhim in Stanwood. Mr. Brekhus was alone which gave his\\nheathen aggressor, surrounded by a bloodthirsty horde of his\\nrace, lust for blood, and, like a devil in flames, seized a\\nmanageable piece of timber and sought to convert the white\\nman to a heap of jellj The brave X ossing approached him", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "158 SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\nand the following words burst from his lips, H vis du inhji\\nparsa dig ska eg slaa huvii ini niajin paa dig. The red\\nskins understood the depth of his voice, and skulked away.\\nAh picture to yourself the hardship All the provisions\\nhad to be canoed from Seattle, and four boats were required\\nto reach Mr. Brekhus ranch. Many struggles did this val-\\norous pioneer pass through. Once he carried a barrel of\\nherring on his shoulders over the four jams, and at another\\ntime a big cook stove.\\nIver Furness. father of John Kurness, the Norman mer-\\nchant, has also partaken of the trials and difficulties common\\nto pioneer encounters. As early as 1879 dates his first\\nperegrination on Stillaguamish river. Like other adven-\\nturers he endured many days of hardship, anxiety and worry.\\nSupplementary to the toil for subsistence, the savages cast\\nchilly currents through his soul. The Sauk Indians, rav-\\naging in Skagit county, were dreaded like devils. One day\\nthe report reached the home of Iver I urness, while relishing\\na healthy dinner, that the Sauks were paddling up the river\\nfor a bloody massacre. Mrs. Furness was thrown into a\\ntrance of fright, rushed for the door with knife in hand to\\ntake refuge in the woods. Johnny, her son, grabbed\\nthe fire-lock to protect their home, but, lo it was only an\\nIndian scare.\\nIver Johnson, the pioneer merchant of Silvana, and the\\npopular county commissioner, was born in Opdal, Norway,\\n1848. After graduating from the public schools, he took a", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN STILLAGUAMISH VALLEY. 159\\n1 i^\\nIVKB Johnson.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "16U SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\ncourse in the higher branches of learning by private tuition,\\nand in 1869 sailed for the United States, selecting South\\nDakota for his first abode in the New World. In 1875 he\\ntook another step westward, locating at Port Gamble, Wash-\\nington, where he worked in saw mills for two years. Return-\\ning to South Dakota, he was married to Martha Haugan, a\\ncharming young lady, but to his sorrow she withered for the\\ngrave after four years of matrimonial happiness. He\\nrecrossed the Rocky Mountain the same year, settling in the\\nStillaguamish valley, worked in logging camps and cleared\\nland for sometime, then embarked in general merchandise at\\nSilvana, the first store in the Stillaguamish valley. He sold\\nout his interests at Silvana to accept a clerkship in D. O.\\nPearson s store in Stanwood, which he abandoned after five\\nyears of faithful service to assume the position as deputy\\ncounty auditor. In 189S he was elected to the office of county\\ncommissioner of Snohomish county in which capacity he is\\nnow working with credit to himself and to his constituents.\\nHe was married the second time, in 1SS7, to Miss Maria\\nFunk, an accomplished lady of Norse extraction.\\nHalvor Helvy, an intelligent farmer near Silvana, figures\\namong the first pioneers. He was born in Norway, and came\\nto Stillaguamish from South Dakota, 1878.\\nE. A. Heviy, the popular merchant of l- lorence, and one of\\nthe brightest business men on the Sound, was born in C)i)dal,\\nNorway, February 28, 1866, came to America, 1878, and the\\nsame year landed on the Pacific coast. After receiving a com-", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN STILLAGUAMISH VALLEY. 161", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "102 SCANDINAVIANS ON THK PACIFIC.\\nmon school education, he took a course in the state University\\nof Washington. For years he was employed as clerk, but in\\n1 89 1 became the sole owner of a large mercantile establish-\\nment, which he is conducting with marked ability. Mr.\\nHevly is a congenial man, honest, honorable and energetic.\\nJohn I. Hals, proprietor of Hals shingle mill, located\\nacross the river from Florence, is a true type of Xorse man-\\nhood. He was born in Norway, came to Stanwood, 1SS2.\\nworked four years in a saw mill at Utsalady, and in 1SS9\\nbought from Munson, Johnson and Company a shingle mill\\nstanding one mile east of Stanwood, the first Scandinavian\\nshingle mill in Snohomish county. Cedar timber was getting\\nscarce and a change of location became advantageous. To\\neffect this he sold his mill, bought eightj acres of laud further\\nup the river, and built a new mill, of which Mr. Hals is the\\nsole owner. The author does not believe in plowing up the\\nfield of exaggeration, and so far as the personage in question\\nis concerned no occasion affords an opportunitj The men\\nworking for Mr. Hals speak in more elociucnt language than\\nmy pen. In a word, Mr. Hals is a gentleman, kind, intelli-\\ngent and generous.\\nRoud Florence are also other Scandinavians who have\\nscattered lifiht of melioration. Flowery meadows and royal\\ndwellings join to pronounce their industry and rank of\\nintelligence. Mr. Myro is an early pioneer and a thrifty Dane,\\nTaral Larsen is a prosperous farmer, a native of Norway, who\\nhas shared the struggles of frontier life, Hd. Hanson, also a", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN STILLAGl A^rl^ TT VAIJ.KY. ]n3", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "164\\nSCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN STILLAGUAMISII AI.LKY. Ida\\nX a", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0171.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "166\\nSCANDINAVIANS uN THE PACIFIC.\\nNorwegian by birth, has been a valuable factor in the coni-\\nmunit} especially in the promotion of education. .^s we\\nproceed up the river we find an unbroken settlement of well-\\nto-do Scandinavians, who sought the wilderness to make\\nhomes. Engebret and Sven Stenson, Sivert and Rasmus\\nKnutson and S. Erickson were among the first. L. O. Stubb,\\nrRKSTI.IKN BLt l-1-.\\nThe Khoalhoiiitr U behind thr big stump.\\na prominent farmer and a man of ability and influence, has\\ngiven valuable service to the community. He has been one\\nof the foremost men to look after the interest of education,\\nHe was born in Norway, came to Dogfish Ray, Washington,\\niSSo, and the same year settled near Norman.\\nIvcr X. Prcstlicn, the pioneer of Prestlien Hluff, so", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0172.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN STILLAGUAMISH VALLEY. 167\\nnamed to perpetuate his memory, was born in Norway, and\\nsettled on his present location, 1885, when the inviting slope\\nwas a gloomy forest. He has done much for the upbuilding\\nof the community, educationally and otherwise.\\nJohn Furness, previously alluded to, an able business\\nman, in company with Mr. Engdahl, at Norman, has spared\\nno energy for the good of the public schools and the country\\nin general. Andrew Estbj-, O. B. Lee, H. Hereim and others\\nhave also lent willing assistance.\\nCornelius N. Langsjoen, Elias Tangen, Julius Lund,\\nAndrew Prestlien, John Ingebretson, and others have con-\\ntributed heart and hand to better frontier gloom. Two fine\\nLutheran churches, one at Silvana and the other across the\\nriver, emphasize the moral and intellectual standard of the\\npeople.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0173.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS AT CHDARHOME.\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nThree miles east of Stanwood smiles a beautiful villa,\\nwhich fifteen years ago received the baptism Cedarhome. It\\nseems as though Nature in her wisdom long, long ago took\\nspecial pains to prepare a plot for this smoothlj* sloping\\npanorama. If it had been whittled out to order for a quiet,\\nsober and intelligent people nothing more consistent could\\nhave been expected.\\nIn early days a dense forest clothed this spot, and savage\\nbrutes ruled unrestrained. But some forty years ago the\\nirascible agent fire resolved to show his power, which he\\ndid like an unchained demon. He sent his red flames from\\ntree to tree, consuming big and small, save some stubborn\\ngiants, which remained black skeletons in melancholy loneli-\\nness. Hears, cougars, wild-cats, and other inhabitants of the\\nforest picked up their feet and with lightning speed sought\\nthe mountains for refuge.\\nThe once rich sylva, where evergreen and foliage were\\nwont to join in sweet choruses, was now a charcoal desert with\\na few angry monsters frowning in the air, squealing and\\ncracking to the breath of every breeze.\\nYears elapsed, the sun sent down his gentle beams, the\\nclouds unlocked their opulent stores, and the parched earth\\ndrank her fill, and gave birth to shoots that blossomed into a\\ncarpet of green.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0174.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n169", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0175.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "170 SCANDINAVIANS AT CEDAUHOME.\\nAh, all a change! the chilly appearance of yesterday is\\ntoda} sunshine. A fresh sylva, besprinkled with flowers,\\nsmiles to our joy, and birds wheel on happy wings, pouring\\ntheir hearts into dulcet music, and loving zephyrs come to\\nwoo the tender growth.\\nIn 15577 Arn Olson, a native of Norway, made a peram-\\nbulation of the country lying east of Stanwood with the\\nobject in view of finding a suitable bit of ground for a home,\\narriving where Cedarhome now smiles he resolved to pitch\\nhis permanent lot among the green bushes. Almost simul-\\ntaneously, Martin Larsen, a Norwegian by birth, braved the\\ninterior, remained one year, then located on the Stanwood\\nflat, three miles north of the city.\\nIt was not until the following year that Cedarhome com-\\nmenced to echo the presence of white men. Before only a\\nfaint sound now and then rose to indicate human existence.\\nAmong the first who anchored their fortunes at this place was\\nJohn Anderson, who left Sweden in 1S69 for Chicago, but was\\nsoon seized with a whim to see and try other climes. Hoth\\nSouth and West were fields of attraction, and to satisfy his\\nromantic nature he took in the whole country. In 1S76 he\\nstood in the city of Seattle gazing with wonder at the novel-\\nties about him. A reconuoissance of Salmon Bay hit his\\nliking, but shortly after settled on 160 acres of land at Cedar.\\nh mie, then called Burn.\\nMr. John Anderson may be rightly termed the father of\\nCedarhome, and yet, though his flowing beard has silvered", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0176.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON TllK PACIFIC. 171\\nto a halo of snow, he contributes the fall of his life to daily\\nduties.\\nAugust Anderson has passed through experiences not\\ndissimilar to those of John Anderson. He, too, was born in\\nSweden, came to America in his prime of life, and in iSyg\\ncast his lot in the forest. He has shared the ups-and-dowus\\nof frontier struggles, always a faithful supporter of the Meth-\\nodist church.\\nAndrew Gustaf Bergquist made his appearance a few\\nmonths subsequent to the arrival of John and August Ander-\\nson. He is a native of Sweden, where he spent his boyhood,\\nbut like thousands of others sought the New World. Mr.\\nBergquist has been alert to the interests of the community,\\neducationally and moralh For years he has been a member\\nof the school board.\\nNow, gloomy loneliness! where art thine blues and\\nlongings? No jollier crov.d beneath the blue roof of\\nheaven than a bunch of pioneers. Buoyant in spirit, strong\\nat arms, the forest fell to their axes. Trails were swamped\\nand cabins erected to their comforts.\\nCohorts of eager land-seekers from all climes perambu-\\nlated wealthy vales and green-besprinkled knolls, and among\\nthese was P. O. Norman, who had landed in Seattle, iSSi,\\nbut spent two years reconnoitering the coast ere he located\\nat Cedarhouie.\\nLove of work and progress is the spur of a new country.\\nAs population increased so did the burden of responsibility", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0177.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "172\\nSCANDINAVIANS AT CEDAIMK \u00c2\u00bbME.\\nThe ilwrlHiiic to the riuhl im ihc rr\u00c2\u00bbMcncr of K. Yinvr", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0178.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS UN THE PACIFIC. 173\\naugment. Morality and education could not be neglected.\\nMr. Norman contributed from his fund of experience and\\nlearning, acquired in his native country, Sweden, and in the\\nstate of Nebraska where he had served as school trustee and\\ncounty commissioner.\\nA craving had manifested for a union of worship, and\\nin 1S83 a Methodist congregation was organized, forming\\na circuit with Seattle. Rev. Andrew Farrell was called as\\npastor, who expounded the gospel in the two places on alter-\\nnate Sunda\\\\-s. In 1S8S Mr. Norman drew up a petition\\nciting for a separation from Seattle and the formation of a\\ncircuit with Skagit. The petition was granted bj- the bishop,\\nand the Rev. O. E. Olander wes secured as clergyman.\\nAbsolute independence has always been the longing of\\nthe soul. The congregation was now ripe for a di^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2orce from\\nSkagit, which was granted, 1890, and a beautiful church was\\nbuilt, which stands as a pride to the village. The Methodist\\ndoctrine has prove relishing, and credit is due to the following\\nfaithful workers: P. O. Norman, John Anderson, August\\nAnderson, Andrew G. Bergquist, John Lovegren, N. G. Carl-\\nson, W. M. Anderson, N. O. Ekstran, Magnus Haglund, An-\\ndrew Olson and John Olson.\\nThe most promising feature of a church is a health}-,\\nwide-awake Young People s Society. Not only as an instru-\\nmentalitj lo invite to share the glory in Heaven, but to culti.\\nvate literature and music, to cherish each others peculiarities\\nand trend of thoughts. These societies are not exclusivel}", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0179.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "17-1 SCANDINAVIANS AT CEDAKHOMt:.\\nfor the blooms of a few springs, often lingering fall with hoary\\nhair wields the guiding staff. The most eloquent and active\\nsupporter of the Young People s Society at this place is John\\nLovcgren, though he has blushed about twelve summers of\\nmatrimonial happiness. Of course, others have scattered\\nsunbeams, and without their appellation the narrative would\\nnot be complete. William M. Anderson has filled the presi-\\ndential chair, and Misses Minnie Johnson, Annie Anderson,\\nAlice Carlson, Annie, Lizzie and Emma Yngve, Minnie\\nBergquist, Mabel Peterson. Annie and Jennie Olson, and Mrs.\\nKdith Dacke have graced the organization with sweet music\\nand poetry. Messrs. Andrew Bergquist, A. P. Dacke, Charley\\nEdeen, John Carlson and Walter Jensen have contributed\\nable assistance.\\nThe Cedarhome Literary Society, which has been in\\nexistence about three years, has scattered literary light\\nthrough the community. The organizers and star members\\nare: E. C. Xicklason, J. H. Swanson, Thomas Munson, J. C.\\nJensen, Charley and Axel Ek, Eric, Mannie and Eddie\\nLindstrom, Iver and Simon Olson, Jacob and Andrew Settre,\\nAndrew Olson, Kettle Levison, Lewis Sandstrom, Eddie, Eli\\nand Ove Eliason, and Andrew Anderson. The willing parti-\\ncipants among the ladies arc: Misses Minnie Xicklason, Mary\\nJensen, Hilma and Hulda Ek, and Josie Settre.\\nNo pioneer has endured more hardship th:ui Mathias\\nMunson, a native of Xorway. I ^or thirty-five years he dashed\\non the merciless waves from port to port, finallj* making his", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0180.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS UN THE rAGlFlC. 175\\nG. NlCKLASON.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0181.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "176 SCANDINAVIANS AT CEDAKHOME.\\nhome in the wilderness of Washington. Six-and-four scores of\\nyears rested on his shoulders at his death, one year ago, yet\\nstrong and lively. He was an example of courage and endur-\\nance, and is said to have saved many lives during his sea-\\nfaring years.\\nOle Jensen, born and educated in Denmark, bid farewell\\nto his mother country seventeen years ago, landed in Seattle\\nand shortly after settled at Cedarhome. To do and dare\\nwas his motto; the huge forest fell, and a nice home smiles to\\nhis comfort. John Olson also arrived at Cedarhome about\\nseventeen years ago. He is a native of Sweden and has\\ndevoted most of his time to farming, being a prominent mem-\\nber of the Methodist church.\\nCedarhome is no longer a nucleus of yearning bachelors,\\nbut a thriftj town surrounded by gardens and meadows.\\nThree religious denominations are strongly represented, the\\nMethodists, previouslj- mentioned, the Baptists and the\\nLutherans.\\nG. Nicklason, a pioneer of the Skagit valley and a pop-\\nular merchant of Cedarhome, was born in Sweden, but left his\\nnative countrj at the twilight of inauhood. After filling\\nsundry vocations of hardship in the east, his attention was\\ndrawn to the Pacific, settling in the Skagit vallej 1S76, where\\nhe labored hard clearing land and farming. A beautiful farm\\nin that locality bespeaks his industry. In 1S90 he moved to\\nCedarhome to engage in general merchandise business of his\\nliking in which he has proved himself a master. The fertile", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0182.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 177\\nforest awakened acute calculation in his mind, and in conipanj\\nwith Carl O. Walters started a lumber factory capable of\\nturning out both lumber and shingle. Mr. Nicklason is a\\nman of energy and ability, honest and strictly attentive to\\nbusiness.\\nCarl O. Walters, G. Nicklason s partner in lumber man-\\nufacturing, was born in Gottland, Sweden, May 27, 1855,\\nwhere he received his education, graduated from the public\\nschools at the age of fifteen. For three years he served in\\nthe nav}^ of Sweden, spent two 3 ears traveling in his native\\ncountr} for the purpose of studying the natural resources and\\nthe varied conditions. The sea was a pleasing attraction to\\nhim; visited all the countries of Europe, and at the age of\\ntwenty-two embarked a ship for the New World, sailed for\\nsometime on the Atlantic coast, rounded Cape Horn, and\\nlanded in the Golden Gate, 1877. He dashed on the waves up\\nthe coast as far as British Columbia. After eight years of\\nnavigation he stept ashore, engaged in carpentry, worked in\\nSeattle and British Columbia, most of the time as contractor.\\nIn the latter place he spent considerable time prospecting for\\ncoal, employed by the Vancouver Coal Co. Twelve years ago\\nhe located at Cedarhome, turned his attention to farming\\nserved as deputy count} assessor, and gradually drifted into\\nlumber and shingle business, an occupation congenial to\\nmechanical ingenuity, which is Mr. Walters forte, being born\\nwith mechanical aptitude as well as with social and conversa-\\ntional endowments.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0183.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "178 SCANDINAVIANS AT CEDAKHo.ME.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0184.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 179\\nL. G. Hanson, the present deputj- county assessor, was\\nborn in Skone, Sweden, 1S55, emigrated to America in earlj\\nmanhood, 18S2. After some years of ups-and-downs in the\\nsouth, he planted his fortune at Cedarhome, nine years ago,\\nand has ever since taken an active part in public improve-\\nments. He has been a stanch supporter of the public schools\\nand an advocate for good roads. For years he has served as\\nschool director and road supervisor, and in 1899 ^P\\npointed deputy county assessor.\\nE. O. Yngve, a man of affluence and influence in his\\nnative country, Sweden, crossed the salt} billows for America\\nten years ago. He has been alert to the interest of his adopted\\ncountry, and always glad to usher the welfare of his people to\\nthe front.\\nFrank A. Peterson is likewise a man cut out for frontier\\nlife where energy and strong arms are required. He is a\\nnative of Sweden, but came to South Dakota in his early days,\\nstayed there for some ^-ears, and in 1886 landed in Seattle, and\\ntwo years later joined his countrymen at Cedarhome. He has\\nbeen awaketo the interest of the public schools and the wel-\\nfare of the community in general; for years he has been a\\nmember of the school board. His brother John is also a good\\ncitizen.\\nJohn Ek, too, belongs to the category of frontier soldiers\\nwho delight in converting the forest into fields of gold and\\nsmiling gardens. He was born in Sweden and came to Cedar-\\nhome, 1890. Round the village live a number of good citizens", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0185.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "180 SCANDINAVIANS AT CEDAKHUMK.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0186.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n181\\nand industrious farmers; viz., Oluf Johnson, Sivert Wold,\\nRasmus Settre, K. K. Erdahl, N. O. Lindstrom, P. G. Johnson,\\nOlof Anderson, Levi Levison, Ole Johnson, Robert Johnson,\\nP. L. Anderson, Ole Husby, Erik Johnson, P. M. Arentzen,\\nC. P. Hemmingsen, A. Evenson, B. Evenson, and others.\\nAaron Larson, a native of Sweden, who resides on a pleasant\\nranch about three miles east of Cedarhorae, is a highl\\\\- accom-\\nplished musician. His daughter Cora is likewise displaying\\nextraordinary talents for divine strains.\\ni\\n^^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.v\\n1\u00c2\u00bb-^.^", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0187.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN SKAGIT VALLEY\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nSweetest and loveliest of flower} vales,\\nWhere plenty teems and joy hails,\\nWhere waving fields of golden grain\\nMerrilv smile in sun and rain.\\nMOMI.INIl llorMC\\nownrti by Kniit II. op UI. Ihr liml Scmniliiiavlin llotrl in Ihr SkiK^t Valley.\\nThe Skagit valley is a stretch of inexhaustible fertility,\\ncommencing at the month of the river and running north-", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0188.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 183\\nward for scores of miles, and spreads out, east and west, into\\na plain beautifully embellished with proud farms, and niostl}-\\npopulated with Scandinavians. Six miles up the river rests\\nthe town of Fir, a bustling village, surrounded by a rich\\nfarming community. Ole J. Borseth is the leading business\\nman of the town, who located here, 18S3, and in 1891 engaged\\nin general merchandise. He is a native of Norway, where he\\nwas bred and educated.\\nKnuk H. Opdal, also born in Norway, arrived in 1S88,\\nand shortl} afterward embarked in hotel business. He and\\nhis wife are representatives of Norse simplicity and integrity,\\nimbued with love for their native country, and patriotic and\\nloyal to the stars and stripes.\\nJ. F. Anderson was one of the first settlers. He was born\\nin Sweden, left his native land during the early summer of\\nmaturity, and located in the state of Iowa. In 1874 he landed\\nin Port Townsend on Prince Alfred, and immediately pro-\\nceeded to the Skagit valley, settling on North Fork. After a\\nyear of hard work he moved with his family to Seattle in\\norder to give his children the advantages of good schooling.\\nAt the close of six years they returned to the Skagit, locating\\non South F ork, where Fir now stands. In 1S83 a flood rushed\\nover the country, swept along everything save some stubborn\\nbuildings, the crop was destroj-ed, and havoc spread in all\\ndirections. Never give in, says the sage, which is appli-\\ncable to Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Anderson. Onward was their\\nmotto, and two beautiful homes shine to their honest efforts", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0189.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "184\\nSCANDINAVIANS IN SKAGIT VALLEY\\nJ I- \\\\NI KS", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0190.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 185\\none at Seattle and one at Fir. Their children, who are now\\ncombating with the turmoils of the world, are well educated\\nand highly respected. Jennie is married and lives in Seattle;\\nAxel and Eric are connected with the Poison and Wilson\\nHardware Co., established in Seattle and La Conner Victor\\nis married to an esteemed lady, Aliss Marie Paulson, and\\nruns the farm Minnie is postmistress at Fir and a teacher\\nof music, Howard sleeps in the grave, and Otto stays home.\\nAndrew N. Crogstad, a leading citizen, a man of honor\\nand intelligence, has shared the difficulties of the frontier.\\nHe v.-as born in Trondhjem, Norway, 1852, received a good\\nschooling and in February, 1S72, left his fatherland for Dunn\\ncounty, Wisconsin, and five j^ears later disembarked in the\\nSkagit valley. He turned his attention to logging and farm-\\ning. A beautiful farm, surrounded by a wealthy orchard,\\nstands as a pride to his energy. He has seen days of roman-\\ntic awfulness, once hazardous, but now pleasing reminiscences.\\nThe flood has always been a dread, and many frights has it\\ncaused. One Fourth of July Mr. Crogstad went to Fir to\\ncelebrate the independence of his adopted country. The\\nmorning was bright and prognostic of a pleasant time. Re-\\nturning home during gray twilight, a seething, rolling sound\\nfloated down on the breeze, and ere they realized the cause,\\nwater crept up to their feet. The ladies were frightened out\\nof their wits and took to screaming, which seems to be their\\nonly alternative in time of danger. Mr. Crogstad and his", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0191.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "1.S6\\nSCANDINAVIANS IN SKACJIT VALLEY.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0192.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n187", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0193.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "188 SCANDINAVIANS IN SKAGIT VALLEY.\\ncompanion understood the predicament, slung the ladies on\\ntheir backs and pranced home, thus avoiding a disastrous\\noutcome.\\nIn 1887 he was married to an estimable lad} Miss Wil-\\nhelmina Augusta Jensen, born in Scleswig, Holstein, 1863, of\\nDanish parentage, and came to America, 1S75. They have\\nfive children, four girls and one boy; Alvina, Emma, Lottie,\\nClara and Maurice.\\nOne not accustomed to pioneer life in the forest can\\nhardly conceive its man} romantic features. To live on the\\nbank of a big river, rolling and moaning in tireless monotony,\\nand huge trees praying and howling to the wroth of the wind,\\nand frisk} brutes gamboling in wild frolics, and Indians\\nskulking in stealthy moods, is something awe-inspiring.\\nOn a jolly morning, Charles Mann, the pioneer merchant\\nof Fir, reconnoitered in the woods behind his store, add to his\\nawe, stumbled into a hideous infernal, which was afterwards\\ndiscovered to be an Indian cemetery. Ah, terror! hundreds\\nof Indians were hanging in the trees, some nude skeletons,\\nsome with the hearts torn out of their mutilated frames; owls\\nand crows were sailing on evil wings among the ghastly dead,\\nand horror seemed to reign in every bush. This finding\\nstartled the whole town, and into the woods rushed young and\\nold; flames sprang into the air and swept through the forest,\\nand the dead Indians dropped from a hanging hell into a\\nburning one.\\nThe flood of 1887 spread consternation throughout the", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0194.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "bCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 189\\ncommunity. The water leaped down from the mountains in\\nsavage furj- and scattered the dykes to the briny billows, busy\\nhugging the beach below. Houses set sailing down the valley\\nin tipsy joltings, and logs went chasing each other in mad\\nbewilderment for the sea. The deluge broke into Alann s\\nstore and rose to the depth of three feet. Mr. Mann was alone\\nin the store, and to drive awaj- loneliness grabbed the fish line\\nand commenced angling, caught two mountain trouts by the\\ncounter. During the same flood Mrs. Mann was sitting in\\nthe Fir Hotel chatting with some friends, and before they\\nwere aware of the enormit}- of the water they went sailing on\\ntheir chairs around the room.\\nIn and around Fir live a number of Scandinavians who\\nhave witnessed frontier encounters, but their earlj struggles\\nhave become pleasing revels for a fanciful imagination, as the\\nlate 3 ears have crowned their efforts with success. Olof\\nPoison, a son of Sweden, and at present mayor of La Conner,\\nwas along with the first brigade of pioneers that scattered\\nthemselves in the valle} Ole Lonke, born in Norway, and a\\nprosperous farmer, about a mile from Fir, located here over\\ntwenty years ago. Ole Johnson, also a native of Norwaj has\\nresided here over two decades, and Peter Olson dates his\\narrival still further back.\\nAmong the more recent settlers who have proved valu-\\nable exponents are: John Hanson, August Johnson, Even\\nHandstad, John Kragnes, Ole Kvande, Knut Lange, Sivert", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0195.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "190 SCANDINAVIANS IN SKAGIT VALLEY.\\nSande, Ole Olson, Lars Engen, G. O. liranstad, Lars and\\nNils Danielson and Elik Johnson.\\nProceeding up the river we find many Scandinavian\\npioneers who rank among the most prominent citizens; viz.,\\nPeter Egtvet, Ole N. Lee, Frank Tollefson and Magnus\\nAnderson. At Skagit City, N. Erickson, Alfred, Edwin and\\nHerman Johnson are representative farmers who have spared\\nno time for the upbuilding of the countr}-. Rev. John Johnson,\\npresiding elder of the Swedish Methodist church, who resides\\nat this place, is a noted man, being a gifted rhetorician and\\nan able pulpit orator.\\nTo the east of this happ^- village spreads out a fertile\\nplain which sweeps up into a proud elevation, called Pleasant\\nRidge, the home of the old pioneer, Charles John Chillierg, and\\ntwo of his sons, Isaac and James. Here we find also a num-\\nber of other Scandinavians ulio have shared the l)urden of\\nearly struggles.\\nFour miles up the river from Skagit City stands the jolly\\ncity of Mt. X ernon, which has within its boundary many\\nprominent men from the shores of Norway and Sweden. The\\ntwo leading merchants of the city are Norwegians Louis Foss\\nami X. J. Moldstad.\\nLouis Foss is well known throughout the Pacific country,\\nbeing the first Scandinavian state senator in Washington. He\\nwas born in Norway, 1S49, received a liberal education, grad-\\ntiated from college at nineteen, and shortly after emigrated to\\nAmerica, locating in Wisconsin. He worked four years as", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0196.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 191", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0197.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "192 SCANDINAVIANS IN SKAGIT VALLEY.\\nscaler of logs on Chippewa river; went to the Dakota Black\\nHills during the excitement of 1875, where he remained two\\nyears working in the mines. From whence he went to Zum-\\nbrota, Minnesota, to assume the management of a large merchan-\\ndise store, in which capacitj* he labored faithfully for five years.\\nHis name had acquired a favorable clang among the people and\\nthe city of Fosston was christened to his honor. In 18S7\\nhe disposed of his interests in Minnesota and moved to\\nTacoma, Washington, where he engaged in real estate, and\\nentered mercantile business at Mt. ernon and Buckley. Five\\nyears later he was elected state senator from Pierce county,\\nand served his state with honor for four years. At the expira-\\ntion of his senatorship he removed with his family to Mt.\\nVernon, where he now resides, and owns a big mercantile\\nestablishment, The Fair. He has also a large store of similar\\nkind in Anacortes which his eldest son is managing. Mr.\\nFoss is not only a man of business aptitude, but also a man of\\ncharacter, fidelit} and honor.\\nN. J. Moldstad merits the appellation of progressive\\nbusiness man. He was born in N cslre Toten, Norwaj\\nApril I, 1863, where he obtained his early education. July 2,\\n1876, he sailed for America, settling at De Forest, Wisconsin,\\nand shortly after entered his brother s dry goods store. His\\nnext move was to Lanesborough, Minnesota, where he secured\\na clerkship with a big mercantile firm, afterwards as-\\nsumed a similar vocation in Minneapolis. From whence\\nhe turned his attentitm to North Dakota, embarking in store", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0198.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n193", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0199.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "194 SCANDINAVIANS IN SKAUIT VALLEY.\\nand banking business for himself. The Paci6c had become a\\nfascinating field, sold out, and crossed the Rocky, locating in\\nTacoma, where he established a shoe store. Another journey\\nseemed to emphasize business progress, disposed of his estab-\\nlishment in Tacoma and engaged in dry goods and clothing in\\nMt. Vernon. The last years he has also given due considera-\\ntion to the Alaska gold fields, being interested in several\\nclaims around Dawson. In 1S93 he took a trip to Europe,\\ntraveled in England. France, Germany and the Scandinavian\\ncountries. In 189S he was married to an estimable lad} in\\nMt. Vernon, and spent his honej-moon journej-ing in Califor-\\nnia, the Southern states and New York, visited Washington\\nand shook hands with President McKinley. On returning\\ntook in Chicago and other large cities. Mr. Moldstad is a\\nrepublican in politics and has been delegate to county and\\nstate conventions, but has scoffed at the idea of seeking any\\noffice. He is like Mr. Louis Foss, of the same citj^ in being\\na true gentleman, respected and respectable.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0200.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS IN BELLINGHAM BAY.\\nCHAPTER XUI.\\nIt is but few places where nature has been so kind and\\nlavishing with her store of grandeur as in Bellingham Bay.\\nSweet in music, the happy ripples dance to kiss the pebbled\\nborders of the twin cities New Whatcom and Fairhaven.\\nAbove the din of their tumults stands the white-haired Mt.\\nBaker with a snowy hood drawn down his broad shoulders,\\nthrowing glimpses of awe over a gay landscape. About four\\nmiles from these sister cities smiles Lake Whatcom, where\\nliving gondolas ride on its glassy bosom from shore to shore.\\nIn early days Scandinavians gave heed to this happy land\\nof verdure and songs. About forty 3 ears ago the}^ visited\\nthe bay and reconnitered the country. Eversou, a Norwegian\\nby birth, was among the first pioneers. The last ten years a\\nnumber of Norwegians, Swedes and Danes have located in\\nboth New Whatcom and Fairhaven, and rank among the\\nleading business men of the two cities.\\nO. B. Barba, a prominent lawyer of New Whatcom, born\\nin Norwa}-, but raised and educated in Wisconsin, came here,\\n1890, and has steadily invited the confidence of his country-\\nmen and the people in general.\\nOle Oien has the honor of being the first Scandinavian\\nelected to county office in Whatcom county. He was born in\\nToten, Norway, came to Bellingham Bay several years ago,\\nand at the last election was chosen to the office of county", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0201.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "196 SCANDINAVIANS IN BELLINCillAM HAY.\\nclerk. He is a man of energy and intelligence, and may\\nrise to higher trust and honor in the gift of the people.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0202.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 197\\nOlaf Udness and Charley Erholm, the former born in\\nNorway and the latter in Finland, emigrated here, 1889.\\nThey are proprietors of the Pacific Steam Laundr}^, and\\nprominent in business and social circles.\\nThomas Dahlquist, a native of Sweden, and one of the\\nleading grocers in New Whatcom, landed in Bellingham Bay,\\n1889, and has gained the esteem of all the people. His wife\\nwas born in Norway and is regarded as the foremost Scandi-\\nnavian lady in the cit}\\\\\\nJohn Larsen, owner of the only first-class music store in\\nBellingham Bay, is an able business man. His wife is an\\ninfluential member of the Norwegian Synod church.\\nA. G. Wickman, born in Sweden, cast his eye for the\\nfirst time over Bellingham Bay, August 2, 1SS9. He is a\\nman of keen intellect and sound judgment, and possesses the\\nair of a true gentleman. He is a merchant tailor and enjoys\\na lucrative business.\\nP. Osberg and George Martinsen are well-known con-\\ntractors, the firm being Osberg and Martinsen. Aly pen\\nwould not be true to these gentlemen without the following\\nassertion Osberg and Martinsen s ingenious work has\\ncommanded technical honor to the Scandinavians.\\nP. Jacobsen, a son of Denmark, is likewise a man of\\nmechanical aptitude. He is a skillful blacksmith and a true\\ngentleman.\\nIn Fairhaven we find many popular Scandinavians, men\\nwho are held in high esteem by the people. Rev. T. J. Aloen", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0203.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "198 SCANDINAVIANS IN BELLINCJHAM BAY.\\nis one who enjoys the respect and love of the communitj\\nHe was born in Talgen, Norway, where he received his earlj\\neducation. In 1879 he graduated from Haniar Serainariuni,\\namong the highest in scholarship, and two years later emi-\\ngrated to America, where he secured a position as teacher of\\nreligion. His ambition was to be a minister of the gospel,\\nand in 1SS9 entered Augsburg Seminarium, spent one year in\\nthe academic department, then stept into the theological col-\\nHlSllIM. IN nKI.l.IM.IIAM Ba\\\\\\nlege and graduated with honor after three years of diligent\\nstudy. He came to New Whatcom seven years ago as pas-\\ntor of the United Lutheran church, and has met with suc-\\ncess in his responsible vocation.\\nMrs. T. J. Moen, a lady of intelligence and fine training,\\nwas born in Rollag, Numedal, Norwaj-, and came to America\\nwhile a lass of six years. At the age of nineteen she was\\nunited in holy matrimou} to Rev. T. J. Moen. She is an\\nearnest worker in the Sunday school, likewise attentive to her\\nfireside duties.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0204.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 199\\nJ. M. Scarseth and Chris. Grue, proprietors of the Wis-\\nconsin Grocer} rank as the foremost merchants of Fairhaven.\\nScarseth was born in Wisconsin of Norwegian parents and\\nGrue in Norway. They came to Bellingham Bay, 1S89.\\nHenry Christian Kngeberg is a Dane by birth, a fine\\nscholar and a careful druggist. He is a graduate of the\\nUniversity of Copenhagen and came to Fairhaven ten years\\nago.\\nB. W. Benson, a real estate dealer, is a man of true Norse\\ntype, social, honest and intelligent. He was born in Norwaj\\nand came to Bellingham Bay, 1S89.\\nA. L. Stenvig, the only merchant tailor in Fairhaven,\\ntraces his birthplace to Norway. He came to this city ten\\nyears ago, worked for others at first, but now ov.-ns a paying\\nestablishment.\\nGust. Linden, a native of Sweden, O. M. C. Henning and\\nChris. Keel, born in Norway, have been in Fairhaven since\\n1890, and have worked themselves up from meager circum-\\nstances to affluence and honor. The}- are representatives of\\nthe industrial classes, possessed of mechanical ingenuity and\\nprominent members of the Lutheran church.\\nMrs. Henning, wife of O. M. C. Henning, is a woman of\\nlearning and elevated character, being an energetic worker in\\nthe United Lutheran church. Her oldest daughter, Mrs.\\nRichard, is a popular teacher in the city schools of Fairhaven.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0205.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "SCATTERED SCANDINAVIAN COMMUNITIES,\\nPOULSBO AND OTHER PLACES.\\nClI M TKR \\\\I\\\\-.\\nAT I on.^lto liAY-\\nThe rippling bells are ringing,\\nThe driiid woods are singing,\\nAnd mellow throats hang on the air\\nPouring their hearts into music rare.\\nEver ringing.\\nEver singing.\\nAt Poulsbo Bay.\\nNature s soul in rapture smiling,\\nHillocks green the sunbeams climbing;\\nWhen morning bursts on pearl-set wing,\\nThe vocal harps of the forest sing,\\nSweet freedom s air.\\nIn sunshine fair,\\nAt Poulsbo Hay.\\nJingle, jingle, ever chiming,\\nSea and land together rhj ming.\\nSweet poets untaught singinu\\nNature s God to me is ringing.\\nRapture chiming.\\nGrandeur smiling,\\n.\\\\t Poulsbo Bav.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0206.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 201\\nOn a sunny slope slowly rising from the merry sheet of\\ngolden water, stands the town of Poulsbo, in Kitsap count}-,\\nabout twent\\\\--five miles northwest from Seattle. A smiling\\ntongue of the Sound is rippling into the land, and here and\\nthere a green nose is pushing itself into the brine as tr5 ing to\\ncontest with the elements of the deep. Sweet melodies spring\\nfrom the laughing ripples, and sail on the wings of lazy\\nzephyrs to cheer the ears of the village. This musical bay is\\na natural abode for Scandinavians who are wont to the songs of\\nhappy fjords. As earl 3- as 1S75, Ole Stubb stranded his skiff\\non the shore of this vocal stretch for permanent nestling. He\\nwas born in Norwa}-, and has witnessed days of divers\\nstruggles, interlaced with days of sunshine.\\nA year later Fred Landstone pinned his lot to a piece of\\nland about ten miles east of Poulsbo, and in 18S3 Jorgen Eliason\\nwas attracted to the bay, and has ever since been instrumental\\nin shaping the afifairs of the community. He is a native of\\nNorway, landed in Michigan, 1S70, and has proved himself a\\nman of honor and intellectual capacity, a true representative\\nof Norse simplicity and manhood. I. B. Moe arrived simul-\\ntaneously and has been a potent factor in a multitude of\\nenterprises.\\nTorge Jensen, a prominent citizen of Poulsbo, a man of\\nintegrity and intelligence, was a member of the earlj brigade\\nof pioneers. He was born in Norway and came to Poulsbo\\nfrom South Dakota. He has been one of the foremost men to\\nlook after the interest of the place, educationally and otherwise.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0207.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "202\\nSCANDINAVIANS IN l l|.si{(", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0208.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC. 203\\nNils Olson, also of Xorse birth, merits a footing among\\nthe first settlers and deserves the encomium due a man of\\nhonesty and noble aims.\\nAmong the business men of Poulsbo, Adolph Hostmark\\ncarries the honor of being the first merchant. He erected a\\nstore fifteen N-ears ago, and conducted a general merchandise\\nestablishment until his death. Some j ears subsequent Lars\\nChristensen engaged in mercantile business and his career\\nhas been an uninterrupted success, characteristic of industry\\nand uprightness.\\nLars Christensen was born in Thisted, Denmark, 1S44,\\nreceived a common school education, spent j-ears on a large\\nplantation as foreman and assistant manager. In 1872 he\\nemigrated to America, selecting Marquette, Michigan, as his\\nfavorable place for dwelling. He worked on the docks and\\nat other manual labor until 1875, when he migrated to Brook-\\nings county, South Dakota, where he engaged in farming. After\\ntwelve years of varied experiences on the Dakota prairies he\\nturned his attention to the Pacific, arriving in Poulsbo, 1S87,\\nwhere he embarked in clearing land and ranching. A beautiful\\nplace in the heart of the smiling villa bespeaks his pluck and\\nindustry. In 1S93 he launched into general merchandise,\\nwhich he later converted into a dr\\\\- goods store. Mr. Chris-\\ntensen has always been a prominent member of the Lutheran\\nchurch and a true republican in politics, and in every walk of\\nlife a loyal citizen, honest, intelligent and respected. He was\\nmarried to an estimable lady in Denmark. The} have one", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0209.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "201\\nSCANDINAVIANS IN I OULSBO.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0210.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE PACIFIC.\\n205\\nson, C. P. Christenseu, who was boru in Denmark, 1868, and\\ncame to America with his parents. He has inherited the\\ntraits of a noble father and mother and ranks among the best\\nof men, endowed with a fine intellect and moral integrity.\\nPonlsbo has achieved what no other community on the\\ncoast has ventured to do. While the villa was in its early\\nembryo a knot of pioneers organized and incorporated the\\nM1.A.M1.K Advance\\nPoulsbo Wharf and Storage Company, and built a substantial\\ndock and warehouse, accessible b}- any steamer.\\nThe first steamer that cleaved the bosom of the deep be-\\ntween Poulsbo and Seattle was the Quickstep, owned by John\\nJ. Hansen, who later built Hattie Hansen. But to burst the\\nchains of monopolized transportation, and to usher pecuniar^", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0211.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "20b SCANDINAVIAN S IN POULSBO.\\nrelief to the toiling fanners, a sprinkling of valorous hearts,\\nheaded bj- Thomas Hegdahl and Xils Olson, perfected the\\norganization of the Poulsbo-Colbj Transportation Company,\\nand built the beautiful steamer Advance which plies daily\\nbetween Poulsbo and Seattle.\\nThe following are officers of the Poulsbo-Colb\\\\- Trans-\\nportation Company; J. A. McPherson, President; Peter\\nErlandson, ice-president C. P. Christensen, Secretary\\nL. Christensen, Treasurer; J. W. Russell, Manager.\\nPoulsbo has had its religious upheavals but aside from\\nthese fanatical revolutions it has scattered seeds of Christian\\nprinciples. A fine Lutheran church tops a pleasant hillock as\\nevidence of this statement. Rev. I. Tollefsen was summoned to\\nthe bay as the first gospel expounder who unveiled the gems\\nof the Old Book according to Augsburgian theolog}-. Into\\nhis footsteps dropped Rev. H. Langeland who is yet a beloved\\nrepresentative of the Supreme Being in the charming town of\\nPoulsbo. Many of the trance reports which have taken speedy\\nwings for other climes have not been absolutely tru*.-. In\\njustice to Rev. H. Langeland my pen cannot evade the decla-\\nration that he is a gentleman and a true Christian.\\nThe Orphans Home, organized eight years ago, looms\\nmagnificently on a nicely trimmed knoll, overlooking a wizard\\nlandscape. Rev. Tollefsen is the father of the institution, but\\nthe people in general have given to it their unreserved support.\\nDuring recent years, Poulsbo has made quick strides\\nforward, no less than four stores and two hotels combine to", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0212.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "SCANDINAVIANS ON THE rAClFlC.\\n207\\nsignalize its progress. Langeland and Eliason are thrift}\\ngrocers; Alf Hostmark conducts an establishment of similar\\nnature; Thos. Hegdahl is a prosperous furniture dealer and\\nL. Christensen a dry goods merchant. The farmers around\\nPoulsbo have tendered read}- hands to any project tending to\\nadvance the interest of their villa. Steiner Thoreson and T. Paul-\\nson have been active exponents in the divers avenues of mel-\\nioration, and A. V. Paulson, an ex-teacher of the public schools,\\nhas never been lagging when a new enterprise was to be\\nrooted. Ole Thompson, A Talakson, A. O. Hagan, Chris.\\nWilliams and Ole Nelson figure among the early settlers.\\nThey are thrifty farmers and have contributed their time and\\nenergy for the good of the community. Nils Atleson, though\\nrecent colonist, has shared the burden of pushing the place to\\ni", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0213.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "208 SCATTERED SCANDINAVIAN COMMTNITIES.\\nthe front. He is the leader of the United Lutheran church,\\nand a man of intelligence and pluck. K. G. Steen and others\\nhave also proved worthy factors where skill and energy shine\\npre-eminently.\\nThe country surrounding Poulsbo is mostly* peopled with\\nScandinavians. Pearson, across the bay, is a thriving com-\\nmunity, principally settled with intelligent Swedes, who have\\nspared no time to make their terra firma attractive.\\nBreidablik, the home of the Paulson family, is an inviting\\nplace. As we recede further from Poulsbo we come to Seabold\\nwhere many Scandinavians breathe happiness and prosperity.\\nA short distance from this village lives C. Sanders, who was\\nborn in Sweden and came to Port Madison thirty-five j ears ago.\\nThere are also other old settlers as A. M. Anderson and Chas.\\nOlson. Across a pleasant elevation of land slowly falling to\\nthe sea we find the flower-besprinkled Rollingbay, where some\\nearly pioneers contend happily with the wile billows of the\\nworld. Martin Sunnes, Dona Falk, Andrew Sornsen, Nils\\nPeterson, Peter liye, T. Siverson, Mrs. Hanna Johnson and C.\\nJohnson were the first adventurers.\\nThere are other scattered Scandinavian settlements, but\\nlet it suffice, for this volume, by taking a step to Shelton,\\nMason county. Here we find the well-known Professor G. B.\\nGunderson and other prominent Scandinavians. Prof. Gun-\\nderson has .served the people of his county as superintendent\\nof the public schools and as representative in the legislation^\\nwith marked ability and success.", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0214.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0215.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0216.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0217.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0218.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0219.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "iQ^misiii^\\n(i:\u00c2\u00ab^yL.\\nW f^l f^\\n^Wm\\ni^m^ t", "height": "2839", "width": "1835", "jp2-path": "scandinaviansonp00sti_0220.jp2"}}