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The primary resource used for this web site was:

THE SLOOPERS, THEIR ANCESTRY AND POSTERITY, The Story of the People on the Norwegian Mayflower -- The Sloop, "Restoration," by J. Hart Rosdail, published by The Norwegian Slooper Society of America, 1961, printed by Photopress, Inc., Broadview IL. [more information on this excellent, but hard to find, book can be obtained by CLICKING HERE]

Slooper Ole Olson is mentioned on pages 9, 28, 42, 51, 52, 53, 58, 67, 68, 71, 86, 92, 93, 101, 102, 104, 111, 123, 124, 127, 135, 368, 369, 610. His family is covered in Chapter XVIII, pp. 368-388.

Daughter Bertha A. is mentioned on pages 51, 369-375, 383-388.

Son Porter C. is mentioned on pages 58, 93, 245,375-379, 388.

Son Soren L. is mentioned on pages 58, 377, 379, 388.

Son James W. is mentioned on pages 93, 124, 380-381, 388.

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Other References

Ager, Waldemar; translated by Catuna & Clausen.  Colonel Heg and His Boys; A Norwegian Regiment in the Civil War.  Northfield, MN: NAHA, 2000, p. 181.

Anderson, Rasmus B.. The First Chapter of Norwegian Immigration, (1821 - 1840), Its Causes and Results. Madison, WI: Published by the author, 1895, pp. 92, 103, 109-115, 119-127, 148, 151, 282, 367, 398, 408-410, 431.

Blegen, Theodore C.. Norwegian Migration to America, The American Transition. Northfield, MN: NAHA, 1940, p. 134

Blegen, Theodore C.. Norwegian Migration to America 1825-1860. New York: Haskell House Pub., 1969, pp. 45, 248, 395. . 

Flom, George T.. A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States; From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848. Iowa City, IA: Privately Printed, 1909; Facsimile Reprint by Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, MD, 1992, pp. 59-60, 62,  89-90, 178.

Lovoll, Odd S. The Promise of America; A History of the Norwegian-American People.  Minneapolis & London: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1984, p. 55.

Norlie, Olaf Morgan. History of the Norwegian People in America. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1925 (Heritage Books Reprint, 1999), pp. 123, 132-134, 193, 216, 223.