From a small book, found in books from Daisy Samuelson's house, "Swedish America, An Introduction" by Nils Hasselmo, I found this information:
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| One of the ads in Sweden about land in Minnesota for those emigrating from Sweden |
There is more information about Nils Hasselmo here:
Swedish migration to America peaked between 1881 and 1890 when
almost 325,000 emigrated.
12,105 left Dalarna, where the Lundwalls came from during
that same period.
5,843 left Gävleborg
County where the Ekquist family came from between 1881 and 1890.
Up
until 1890, more than 3 times as many Swedish immigrants came from farms than
from urban areas.
Swedish-American
religious organizations included the Augustana Synod of the Lutheran Church,
The Swedish Mission Covenant, Swedish Methodist and Baptist “conferences,”
“Sedish” activities within the American Episcopal Church, the “Swedish” corps
of the Salvation Army, and the Swedish Free Church.
I went to the internet and found the following:
Information of the Swedes in the Upper Peninsula can be found here:
For
more background on the Upper Peninsula, go here:
Wikipedia
has some fun information about the U.P. as well:
Princeton
University has more information about the Finnish and Swedish in the U.P.:
Information
on Copper Country Ghost Towns can be found here:
Ken Anderson
grew up in the Upper Peninsula believing that pasties were a Swedish thing:
Another
interesting article is about the Finnish people in the U.P.’
Part 1
of Ralph Hoaglund’s book that much of the early information on Homestead came
from is also on line here.
