Emigrant Info
| Origin (Norway) | Stavanger area |
| Emigrated | pre 1825 |
| Settled in | Bosque County |
| State | Texas |
| Location | Bosque County, Texas |
| Information | Also known as “Cleng Peerson, the Father of Norwegian Immigration.” He lived in several different places during his years in America. He first settled in Kendall, New York, and later in the Fox River settlement in LaSalle County, Illinois. He settled in Shelby County, Missouri, in 1837. In 1850, Kleng Peerson traveled from the Fox River settlement in Illinois to Texas. He made his home at Norse in Bosque County, where he died peacefully in 1865. |
| Source | Ulvestad, page 197, 200, 201, 688 |