Excerpt from The First Chapter of Norwegian Immigration, to Its Causes and Results: With an Introduction on the Services Rendered by the Scandinavians to the World and to America The sketches of pioneers' are not well bal ameed. Some are long, while others are very short. This could not be avoided. In some in stances I have been able to secure tolerably full accounts of persons, while in other cases my materials have been most meager, and some times the facts are exceedingly limited, where much information would seem to be desirable. All such blemishes I must beg the reader to ex cuse. In spite of every effort it has in some cases been almost impossible to get more than the bare names of persons. In many instances I have been unable to get into communication with descendants, and then again the descend ants have not been in possession of the meces sary records. In this connection I would like to impress upon my readers the importance of keeping good family records for the benefit of their descendants and of future historians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.