Category: Biographies
The Arrival of my Father and Brother--Journey to Illinois--Work on a Railroad--The Ague--Doctor Ober--Religious Impressions--The Arrival of my Mother, Sister and her Husband--A Burning Railroad Train--We go to Minnesota--Our Experience as Wood Choppers and Pioneers.
The Arrival of my Father and Brother--Journey to Illinois--Work on a Railroad--The Ague--Doctor Ober--Religious Impressions--The Arrival of my Mother, Sister and her Husband--A...
4. CHAPTER IV.Future Hopes--Farm Life--Norwegian Pioneers--The Condition of the Immigrant at the Beginning of the Fifties--Religious Meetings--The Growth of the Settlement--Vasa Township Orga...
5. CHAPTER V.The Beginning of the Civil War--The Scandinavians taking part in it--Appeal in _Hemlandet_ to the Scandinavians of Minnesota--Company D. Organized--The Expressions of the Press-...
6. CHAPTER VI.Events of 1863--The Siege of Vicksburg--Anecdotes about Gens. Logan, Stevenson and Grant--Little Rock Captured--Recruiting at Fort Snelling--The engagement at Fitzhugh's Woods--...
7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IX.Visit to Sweden in 1868-1869--The Object of my Journey--Experiences and Observations During the Same--Difference Between American and Swedish Customs--My Birth-place--Arrival an...
10. CHAPTER X.The Importance of the Scandinavian Element--A Swede Elected Secretary of State in Minnesota--False Rumors of Indian Depredations--The Northern Pacific Railroad is Built--Trip to...
11. CHAPTER XI.In Sweden Again--Reception at My Old Home--Visit to Northern Sweden--Field Maneuvers in Sweden--The Opening of Parliament--In Norway--Visit in Stockholm--Royal Palaces--The Göta...
12. CHAPTER XII.13. CHAPTER XIII.14. CHAPTER XIV.15. CHAPTER XV.16. CHAPTER XVI.17. CHAPTER XVII.18. CHAPTER XVIII.19. CHAPTER XX.20. CHAPTER XXII.21. CHAPTER XXIII.22. CHAPTER XXIV.23. CHAPTER XXV.24. CHAPTER XXVI.25. CHAPTER XXVII.26. CHAPTER XXVIII.Home from India--A Friendly Reception--Journey to New Mexico--The Maxwell Land Grant Company--Renewed Visits to England and Holland--Re-elected Secretary of State--Visit of the...
27. CHAPTER XXIX.28. CHAPTER XXX.These _reminiscences_ were written from memory in such leisure moments as the author could spare from a busy life, and published in the Swedish language nearly a year ago. They...
29. CHAPTER I.My childhood passed so quietly and smoothly that it would be superfluous to mention it at all, except for the fact that such omission would leave a gap in these reminiscences. F...
30. CHAPTER II.The good brig Ambrosius landed us in Boston on June 29, 1851, but during the voyage about one-half of the passengers were attacked by small-pox and had to be quarantined outside...
31. CHAPTER III.The Arrival of my Father and Brother--Journey to Illinois--Work on a Railroad--The Ague--Doctor Ober--Religious Impressions--The Arrival of my Mother, Sister and her Husband--A...
32. CHAPTER IV.Future Hopes--Farm Life--Norwegian Pioneers--The Condition of the Immigrant at the Beginning of the Fifties--Religious Meetings--The Growth of the Settlement--Vasa Township Orga...
33. CHAPTER V.The Beginning of the Civil War--The Scandinavians taking part in it--Appeal in _Hemlandet_ to the Scandinavians of Minnesota--Company D. Organized--The Expressions of the Press-...
34. CHAPTER VI.Events of 1863--The Siege of Vicksburg--Anecdotes about Gens. Logan, Stevenson and Grant--Little Rock Captured--Recruiting at Fort Snelling--The engagement at Fitzhugh's Woods--...
35. CHAPTER VII.A very important work still remained to be accomplished by the union army, namely, the restoration of law and order in the southern states. I had the honor to be entrusted with...
36. CHAPTER VIII.The war which closed with the events narrated in the last chapter was one of the most important of modern times, and proved the greatness and the resources of the American peopl...
37. CHAPTER IX.Visit to Sweden in 1868-1869--The Object of my Journey--Experiences and Observations During the Same--Difference Between American and Swedish Customs--My Birth-place--Arrival an...
38. CHAPTER X.The Importance of the Scandinavian Element--A Swede Elected Secretary of State in Minnesota--False Rumors of Indian Depredations--The Northern Pacific Railroad is Built--Trip to...
39. CHAPTER XI.In Sweden Again--Reception at My Old Home--Visit to Northern Sweden--Field Maneuvers in Sweden--The Opening of Parliament--In Norway--Visit in Stockholm--Royal Palaces--The Göta...
40. CHAPTER XII.In the spring of 1873 I returned to Minnesota in company with a large number of immigrants. Being anxious to have my children learn the Swedish language, I left my family in Swe...
41. CHAPTER XIII."The world do move" nowadays, and most emphatically so in the great American Northwest. An absence of four years is almost enough to bury one out of sight, at least that is what...
42. CHAPTER XIV.In the morning papers of July 2, 1881, a telegram from Washington announced that President Garfield had appointed me consul-general to India, in the cabinet meeting of the previ...
43. CHAPTER XV.I was now in Africa and Egypt, among the remnants of ancient glory of which I had read so much, and which I so often had longed to see, in the wonder-land of Egypt, with which e...
44. CHAPTER XVI.This is India, the wonderful land of the Hindoos. Africa had appeared strange to us compared with Europe and America; Asia seemed still more so. The Hindoos have a high and very...
45. CHAPTER XVII.No European or American walks out doors in India, excepting a promenade early in the morning or late in the evening. They are either carried in palanquins, or, which is more com...
46. CHAPTER XVIII.I shall now invite my reader to accompany me to the city of Burdwan, which is situated about seventy miles north of Calcutta, for the purpose of attending an Indian fête to whic...
47. CHAPTER XIX.Allahabad means the dwelling of God, and the Hindoos regard it as one of the most sacred places of India. It is a city of one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, and has a s...
48. CHAPTER XX.Returning from Allahabad I visited Benares, the holy city of India and the centre of Hindooism or Brahminism, its religion, art and literature. It is situated on an elevation on...
49. CHAPTER XXI.India is the only country in the world where the civilization of the East and that of the West are found side by side with equal rights and equal chances of a free and full deve...
50. CHAPTER XXII.Having given a sketch of the divine worship, religious rites and sacrificial feasts of the Hindoos, I shall now call the attention of the reader to a brief description of their...
51. CHAPTER XXIIIHaving received all its tributaries on its course from the Himalaya Mountains through Central Hindustan, the Ganges has now swelled to such vast proportions that it cannot keep...
52. CHAPTER XXIV.The cholera has its home proper in India, and breeds in the Bengal lowlands after the rainy season, which closes in the fall. Its ravages are most pronounced in the month of Dec...
53. CHAPTER XXV.A large majority of the Hindoos are agriculturists. The staple crops are wheat, rice, and different species of pease. The wheat production of India exerts a great influence on t...
54. CHAPTER XXVI.From our point of view the social condition of women in India is highly deplorable. The women are not regarded as the equals of men, but rather as an appendix to them. Their rel...
55. CHAPTER XXVII.The train has stopped, and we are in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. The beautiful, the joyous, the memorable Cairo, with its gorgeous mosques, its half mystic, half historical mon...
56. CHAPTER XXVIII.Home from India--A Friendly Reception--Journey to New Mexico--The Maxwell Land Grant Company--Renewed Visits to England and Holland--Re-elected Secretary of State--Visit of the...
57. CHAPTER XXIX.Much has been said on the causes of immigration. These are numerous, but the chief cause I have found to be that the people of the old world are now being aroused to the fact th...
58. CHAPTER XXX.A few weeks ago I made a short visit to Vasa, our first home in Minnesota. The occasion was the eighty-seventh birthday of my mother, who still lives near the old homestead.[7]...