Emigrant Info
| Origin (Norway) | Overgaarden pr. Trondheim |
| Emigrated | 1837 |
| Settled in | Lee County |
| State | Iowa |
| Location | Lee County, Iowa |
| Information | Pioneer; one of the first Norwegian settlers in Iowa. He came to Keokuk, Lee County, the first place in Iowa visited by Norwegians, in 1840, as part of a group guided by Kleng Peerson. |
| Source | Ulvestad, page 533, 60 |