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A Norwegian Minnesotan (colloquially sometimes known as a Minnewegian) is a Norwegian American in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2009, 868,361 Minnesotans claim Norwegian ancestry —equivalent to 16.5% of Minnesota's population and 18.7% of the total Norwegian American population.
He died of cholera on the homestead near Norway, Illinois in July 1849; his widow, Caroline, survived him three years. Jacob Slogvig married Serena, daughter of Thomas Madland, in March 1831. He became one of the founders of the Norwegian settlement in Lee County, Iowa, in 1840, later went to California, where he died in May 1864. The widow ...
History of the Norwegian People in America. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House. Olson, Gary D. (2011). "Norwegian Immigrants in Early Sioux Falls: A Demographic Profile". Norwegian-American Studies. 36: pp 45–84. Qualey, Carlton C. (1938). Norwegian Settlement in the United States. Norwegian-American Historical Association. Rygg, Andreas ...
The 19th century wave of Norwegian emigration began in 1825. The Midwestern United States, especially the states of Wisconsin and Minnesota, was the destination of most people who left Norway. [3] The first modern Norwegian-American settlement in Minnesota was at Norwegian Ridge, in what is now Spring Grove, Minnesota. [4]
Lovoll, Odd Sverre (1984), The Promise of America: A History of the Norwegian-American People, (Minneapolis, MN: The University of Minnesota Press), ISBN 0-8166-1331-1; Nelson, E. Clifford; Fevold, Eugene L. (1960), The Lutheran Church among Norwegian-Americans: a history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing)
The following year, Norwegian settlers from the Jefferson Prairie Settlement and the Fox River Settlement arrived. By 1850, more than half of Wisconsin's Norwegian population of 5,000 lived in the Koshkonong Settlement, which served for a time as the largest Norwegian-American community in the U.S. [ 5 ] It was the sixth Norwegian settlement in ...
The Settlement and Agriculture Development of the Township of Spring Grove, Houston County, Minnesota to 1880 (Norwegian-American Historical Association. 1936) Norwegian Settlement in the United States (Norwegian American Historical Association. 1938) Recent Biographies in American History (National Council for the Social Studies. 1951 ...
The Norwegian Settlers Memorial is the official memorial of the U.S. state of Illinois maintained in honor of immigrants from the nation of Norway. This Memorial commemorates the Fox River Settlement , the site of the first permanent Norwegian-American immigrant settlement in the Midwest .