When Else Enersdatter was born on 1 May 1831, in Verket, Hurum, Buskerud, Norway, her father, Ener Knudsen, was 57 and her mother, Berte Karine Halvorsdatter, was 45.
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"Birth year of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote the lyrics to the Norwegian national anthem ""Ja, vi elsker."""
Fox River Settlement in Illinois begun in 1834. It was the first permanent Norwegian-American immigrant settlement in the Midwest.
Homestead Act was passed in the U.S. which made land available for free upon meeting certain conditions. Many Norwegian-Americans acquired land through this process.
Pet form of Elisabeth .
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