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Title: Reminiscences
The Story of an Emigrant

Author: Hans Mattson

Release Date: May 17, 2010 [EBook #32399]

Language: English

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REMINISCENCES

THE STORY
OF AN
EMIGRANT

BY HANS MATTSON,
Late Consul General of the United States, in India

SAINT PAUL:
D. D. MERRILL COMPANY
1891.

Copyrighted 1891
by
D. D. MERRILL COMPANY
ST. PAUL, MINN.

_All Rights Reserved_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

Ancestry and country home in Sweden--Home influences--My first school
years--Christmas--Military life--Departure for America.

CHAPTER II.

Arrival at Boston--Adventures between Boston and New York--Buffalo--An
Asylum--Return to New York--A Voyage--On the Farm in New Hampshire.

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 Burning Railroad Train--We go to
Minnesota--Our Experience as Wood Choppers and Pioneers.

CHAPTER IV.

Future Hopes--Farm Life--Norwegian Pioneers--The Condition of the
Immigrant at the Beginning of the