Norwegian Emigrant Database

Passenger Information

Name: Johannes Torgersen

Age: 26

Gender: m

Remarks: Steerage

Ship: Bark Benedicte

Year: 1849

Captain: With jr.

Departure: Drammen - June 8

Arrival: New York - Aug. 22

Source: arr. no. 1176 — Transcribed by Børge Solem - 2001

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Additional information

Christina Engelbart (02.03.2017)

Johannes Torgersen (b.1824) from a tenant farm that was part of Schee farm (Hov Parish), settled as a farmer in Akan Township, Richland County, Wisconsin. It is written that the first settlement within the limits now comprising the town of Akan was effected in the spring of 1851 by Martin Munson (#8 on this Passenger List), Ole Johnson and John Torgerson, a party of Norwegians, who came via Dodgeville.

SOURCES: (1) Boka om Land Vol. IV "The Emigration to America from Nordre and Søndre Land, 1839-1915," by Arvid Sandaker 1973. (2) "History of Crawford and Richland Counties, Wisconsin," Union Publishing, 1884, Chapter 19.

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