- LARS H. SKAVLEM, farmer, Sec. 11; P.O. Beloit; born in Norway
in 1819, and came to
- Newark in May, 1841, in company with several other families,
the earliest settlers in the town. He married in Newark May 23,
1844, Groe NELSON, and had four children - Halver L., Bessie,
Helen and Carolina. When he first came, he bought land in Section
11; the first forty acres he bought from the Government and improved
it, although some timber land had been bought before this by
speculators; he in partnership with Knud CHRISPINSON and Germund
SKAVLEM, built a house and improved the land; he now owns over
200 acres of land in Section 11, with residence and barns. His
wife's mother is living with them.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 773.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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