Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-12-12
SCAND IN.AVIANS
III America.

Here N the "a where the very large
Scandinavian Immigration Of the past
stly eni i've Yeas mas made cornpara s
tivfly LITTLE imp, ssion. the statistics re-
sarairg the rtfnLer nj people Of that
IA Sc living in thA United States ars sur
prising 70, instance IT will be rather
'startling 10 most persons to know that
there are in this country one-haif as
! many Norwegianss a7 There are in. Nor
way. Norwesfans lead al the reg, Of
The Inhabitants of the Scandinavian
peninsula Ia this tendency 70 corles 10
America, altho The rest are not Al all
sioN and some 81 them are crovding8
'elose upon the wegians themselves
in the matter Of numbers. For instance.
there are onetfjsd as many Swedes, in
the United States as there are in SMe-
iden, and one-fiftf as many Danes as
there aresin Denmark. Two-tiftns ST the
total population Of Minnesota are Scar
1Sdinavians, and i'll some localities Of the
northwest scandinavians are the aomi-
nent sace.
In the recsntiy, revised clifton Of his
History of Seandinavians in the Unit
" ed States @. n. Nelson, of Minneapolis.
4 gives out some interesting facts con-
slscerning the development ofathe Scandi-
i nayian population here as well as some
i equally interesting data concerning the
4 origin and development of the North
men Immigration TO this country. With
\ out following Mr., Nelson int the re-
mote researches concerning the discov-
Il cry of America by the Icelanders
l2about the year 1000 or even dwelling
4 upon the early Scandinavian colonies in
4 Pennsylvania and Delaware and the
Estrong groups of Swedes, Norwegians
and Danes who struggled TO these
shores prior TO the beginning Of the
nineteentil century, II may be said gen
A orally that the real tide of Scan1inav-
4 ian immigration hitherward begar
y with Kleng Persons or Person.
"Sloop Party, which sailed on TIL,
A Restauration from Stavanger for this
country on July 4, 1926. Kleng Peersor
was an adventurer and was regarded
II In his own country as akin TO a tramp
Fl and the "Sloop Party" as it is called
which came with him was not made vi
4 precisely Of the salt OF the Scandinav
i Liam earth. IT was very generally re
ported that Kleng deserted his wife am
family when he set out as a Moses L
lead his countrymen to the promises
land, and 1t is very we'll known tina
I at the mature age of 65 he married an
other wife in the Bsnop Hill colony il
Illinois and deserted her when he wen
to Texas short time after kleni
( died in Texas In 1856 and his tonsbston
bears the not very truthful statemen
that he was the first Norwegian immi
+ grant to America and came here in 1921
The adventures Of the ySloop Party
began very soon after calling from Sta
vanger. In the fret place they begal
T business by Illegally selling liquor-tf
Restauration had brandy az a part o
j her cargo ii the English harbor Lisst
) While pas,.:s down the English channel
Then, when near the leland of Madeira
! they found a cask OF irvine floating In tn
ocean and all got 20 hopelessly drum
that the vesrel drifted into one Of TIL
harbors Of the island without any fla
being hoisted and without any visibl
: signs Of life on board. The officers Q