- KNUD GUNDER SPRINGEN, farmer, Sec. 4; P.O. Beloit; born in
Newark Aug. 2, 1844; he
- is the son of Gunder KNUTSON, who was born in Norway in 1812;
emigrated to Wisconsin, and located in the town of Newark in
1843, near the same large spring on Section 4 that his brother
Gulack KNUTSON had located on in 1841; the land that he bought
was owned by Gunnel STORDOCK, who came in September, 1841, to
live near the spring also, and owned forty acres, which he sold;
he made improvements, and built house and barns. He married,
in Norway, Sarah TAURSON, widow of Ole NELSON (by whom she had
three children), and they had three more children; one is living,
Knud Gunder; the name of SPRINGEN is derived from being residents
by the large spring; his wife died in 1854, during the cholera
in this town, by which great numbers died. He married again,
in 1856, Gwin JENSEN, widow of T. ROSTAD, and they had five children;
two are now living. His son, Knud Gunder, married in Newark
Dec. 27, 1871, Anna OLMSTEAD, grand-daughter of the widow GENALE;
they have three children, all living.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 773-774.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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