Early immigrants from Norway
Subtitle: the Dustruds and the Bensons/Bensens
By: by James Skurdall.
Publisher: Anundsen Publishing Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Decorah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Dustrud family; Benson family; Glasrud family; Winjum family; Norwegian Americans -- Wisconsin -- Genealogy; Norwegian Americans -- Minnesota -- Genealogy; Norwegian Americans -- North Dakota -- Genealogy; Wisconsin -- Genealogy; Minnesota -- Genealogy; North Dakota -- Genealogy; Norway -- Genealogy
Genres: Genealogy.
Notes: "The families that are the subjects of this history--the Dustruds, the Glasruds, the Benson/Bensens, and the Winjumns/Lees--came to America between 1839 and 1854, at the forefront of the great migration from Norway to the New World. And they were among the earliest pioneers in the Norwegian settlements of southern Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, and the Red River Valley"--Preface.

The Dusterud family emigrated from Numedal, Norway while the Bensen family from Nedstrand, Norway, the Glasrud family from Vestre Toten and the Winjum/Lee family from Aurland, Norway. The families first settled at Luther Valley and Blue Mounds, Wisconsin. Later they lived around Spring Grove and Black Hammer in Houston County, Minnesota. In North Dakota the family settled near Horace, N.D.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119).
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Dustrud, they left Numedal; title: Glasrud, they left West Toten; title: Benson/Bensen, they left Tysvaer; title: Winjum/Lee, they left Aurland; title: They settled in Wisconsin; title: They settled in Minnesota; title: They settled in North Dakota; title: Partial list of descendants; title: Bibliography.