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Sketches From Our Family Life In The Early Nineties, Dagmar, The Eldest Of The Flock
Sketches From Our Family Life In The Early Nineties, Dagmar, The Eldest Of The Flock
The Bridge
In the late Fall of 1890, Father went to the United States to get a job and to make a new home for us all. From Brooklyn the Reverend Anderson helped to send him on his way west, since he had been a farmer. At Chicago the Reverend Nielsen sent him to the Danish School and settlement at Elk Horn, Iowa, where he studied a little English and hired out on a farm, there to learn more English by practical experience.