Emigrant Info
| Origin (Norway) | Stavanger |
| Settled in | Deuel County |
| State | South Dakota |
| Location | Deuel County, South Dakota |
| Information | Pioneer; the first settler in Deuel County; Settled in the area of Astoria in the early 1870s; In 1878, he was elected as the county’s first Treasurer, becoming the first to hold that office. |
| Source | Ulvestad, page 145, 410, 763 |