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Titel: Fellesson, Carl och Brita till Iowa 1854
Skrivet av: Chris Bingefors skrivet 2008-08-14, 23:21
Från Iowa Journal of History and POlitics 1905 A settlement was formed in 1849 in Hardin township in Webster County near the Boone County line. This settle- ment, called Swede Bend and which later extended into Marion township in Hamilton County, was founded by those who had been forced to give up their claims in south- ern Boone County (see above, p. 610). The founder of the settlement was John Linn, born 1826, in Dodringhult, Snialand, Sweden, who with his wife came that year. When he and a few others located in Hardin township there were no white settlers in that part of Webster County. 1 Linn lived as a farmer until 1854 when he became converted to Methodism by Grustaf Smith, a Swedish Protestant Metho- dist minister, who visited the settlement and made some converts there that year. Among the early settlers was also Andrew Erickson, who had emigrated from Bollnas, Hels- ingland, to Victoria, Illinois, in 1849. He came to Swede Bend in 1854 as a Methodist (Episcopal) missionary, in which capacity P. Kassel also visited the locality that year. Through the work of Kassel, Erickson, and Linn the Meth- odist (Episcopal) church 1 became established among the Swedes in Webster County several years before the Luther- ans, in Kev. M. F. Hakanson, sent their first missionary there. Among the early pioneer leaders were P. J. Peter- son (later ordained as a minister), John Nelson, Samuel Peterson, Peter Swedlund, A. P. Anderson, Hon. Augustus Anderson, Peter Linn, Gustaf Linn, John Lindberg, and Carl Monson. Some of the prominent pioneers among the Lutherans were: Hans Hanson, Peter Larson, Lars. Ander- son, Andrew Johnson, G. A. Erickson, Adolf Hanson, John Bergqvist, C. J. A. Ericson, 2 Andrew Lundblad, Gustaf Rustan, Carl Fellerson, and Hans Oberg. In 1860 the settlement numbered a little over 100; since that time it has grown to be one of the most influential settlements in the State.