{"id":5559,"date":"2017-11-30T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2017-11-29T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T11:20:51","slug":"emigration-from-us-to-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/emigration-from-us-to-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Emigration from US to Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an article from Dean Huseby’s newsletter\u00a0Norwegian & American Cousin Connections<\/strong><\/p>\n

By N. Dean Huseby<\/h6>\n

There were as many Norwegian in America as there are Norwegians. This was because of the huge immigration of Norwegians to America during the period from 1860 to 1920. Second only to Ireland, Norway provided the greatest percentage of its population to the United States than any other nation in the world. This is fairly well known, but what is surprising is that 25% of those who immigrated to America returned to Norway, including a future Norwegian prime minister((1 Wyman, Mark, Round-Trip to America, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), p. 7, 12)) Returning to their native lands was common for most other immigrant groups during the period and true even today.<\/p>\n

Most who immigrated from England, Scotland and Germany from the 1600s through to the middle 1800s never returned to their homeland, partly because of the dangers in sea travel and the tremendous cost. With improved transportation and competition, safety and costs became much less of a deterrent. Many early immigrants did not have anything to return to in their home country, since they often fled for religious, political and economic reasons.<\/p>\n

My Huseby ancestors never returned to Norway and to my knowledge, the same was true for the Nelson and Jensen families. Torkjel and Maren Huseby arrived in 1867 a year after two of their sons came to prepare for their arrival. One son was in his early 20s and the other was still a teenager. None of them returned to Leikanger in the Sogne Fjord. Johannes Nelson arrived in 1872 and I have not found any evidence that he ever returned to his hometown of Lyngdal. Jensine Jensen never returned after arriving from Kristiansand in 1872.<\/p>\n

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Lyngdal panorama by Helt (Own work) [GFDL<\/a> or CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>], via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>My mother\u2019s side arrived in America much later. My grandfather, Abel Haakinson Thormods\u00e6ter, arrived in the United States in 1893 at the age of 19. Seventeen years later, he returned to Norway to seek a wife and start a family. By then, he owned a farm, had learned English and had become a citizen.<\/p>\n

Abel found a wife, Synneva Eide, and returned to America in 1910, but by the 20th century, not everyone left America and returned. For instance, Synneva\u2019s younger half-brother, Halvard, had arrived before Synneva. He was an avid letter writer and his letters were probably the reason why Synneva was so willing to come to America. Halvard had come to America at the age of 18 in 1909. By 1920, he owned and managed his farm near Ellsworth, Iowa. In 1926, he sold his farm and moved back to Norway, wealthy by Norwegian standards. There he married Marie Fjelland and became a prominent person in the Hardanger Fjord.<\/p>\n

Besides marrying, Halvard also probably returned to take care of his parents. He wasn\u2019t the oldest son. His oldest half-brother, Andrew (Eide) Sabo, had immigrated to America. Andrew was living in Oregon and had no inclination to return to Norway.<\/p>\n

In Norway, the eldest son always had the right to inherit. We have a series of letters to Halvard where Andrew relinquished rights to inheriting the family farm. The basis of Andrew\u2019s\u00a0decision probably was, since his mother died soon after his birth and an aunt adopted him. Therefore, he did not have a relationship with his father and stepmother.<\/p>\n

In his letters, Halvard in retrospect expressed regret for returning to Norway after the Great Depression began. Local bank failures caused him to lose much of his wealth. The oppressive Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II followed the Great Depression. Desperate conditions followed the war when there were food, clothing and supply shortages.<\/p>\n

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Abel\u2019s brother, Edward Thormods\u00e6ter, also returned to Norway. He had followed his older brother to America nine years later when he was 22. He worked as a farm hand for the Mason family in Hamilton County for a few years before returning to Norway and married his wife, Signe Landa.<\/p>\n

This article is from Dean Huseby’s newsletter Norwegian & American Cousin Connections.\u00a0<\/strong>If you would like to receive Deans’s articles you can subscribe to his email list by using the address below. (The email address is presented as a graphic to prevent it from spamming. You will have to write the address into your emailreader)<\/em><\/p>\n

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If you have family stories and pictures you would like to share, I am happy to publish them on my blog. Go to the\u00a0contact page<\/a> and send me a word!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Of course, some of us are. I have experienced it myself. I always find these descriptions a bit strange as I am rather talkative. I always find someone to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/category\/life-in-general\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Social-guidebook-to-Norway.jpg?fit=499%2C353&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9761,"url":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/understanding-norwegian-emigration\/","url_meta":{"origin":5559,"position":3},"title":"Understanding Norwegian Emigration","author":"Martin Roe Eidhammer","date":"November 20, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Norwegian emigration to North America unfolded parish by parish, not as a single national event but as a chain of local decisions shaped by land scarcity, kinship, and faith. Scholars from George T. 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By Jim Dietz-Kilen Featured photo of the main street in Lake Mills by Brandonrush [CC BY-SA] Last year was the sesquicentennial year for Lake Mills, a town that straddles the south side of Iowa's border with Minnesota. incorporated in 1869\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "History"","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/category\/history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1024px-US_69_in_Lake_Mills_IA_002.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1024px-US_69_in_Lake_Mills_IA_002.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1024px-US_69_in_Lake_Mills_IA_002.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1024px-US_69_in_Lake_Mills_IA_002.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5310,"url":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/books-on-monday-norwegian-immigrant-stories\/","url_meta":{"origin":5559,"position":5},"title":"Books on Monday: Norwegian immigrant stories","author":"Martin Roe Eidhammer","date":"October 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some books that might interest you Westward We Came: A Norwegian Immigrant's Story, 1866-1898 by Erling Kildahl \u00a0 I paid all my debts: A Norwegian-American Immigrant Saga of Life on the Prairie of North Dakota by Lloyd Svendsbye Take a look at the other books I have suggested\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/category\/life-in-general\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vintage-1592014_640.jpg?fit=640%2C406&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vintage-1592014_640.jpg?fit=640%2C406&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vintage-1592014_640.jpg?fit=640%2C406&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5588,"href":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions\/5588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}