Kendric Babcock - The Scandinavian Element in the United States

Mikkelsen, The Bishop Hill Colony , 24.

Johnson and Peterson, Svenskarne i Illinois , 26; History of Henry County, Illinois .

Swainson in Scandinavia , Jan., 1885.

Mikkelsen, The Bishop Hill Colony , 28.

Johnson and Peterson, Svenskarne i Illinois , 28.

This account is contained in a small pamphlet, signed O. S., which was unearthed in the Royal Library in Stockholm while the author was searching there in 1890 for material on Swedish emigration.

Swainson puts the number of seceders at 250, and asserts that they were drawn off by Jonas Hedström, the Methodist. Scandinavia , Jan. 1885. Mikkelsen, The Bishop Hill Colony , 33, 35, 37.

Johnson and Peterson, Svenskarne i Illinois , 335.

Ibid. , 39.

Act of January 17, 1853. The Charter and Bylaws are reprinted in Mikkelsen, The Bishop Hill Colony , 73 ff. (App.).

Johnson and Peterson, Svenskarne i Illinois , 44 ff.

Mikkelsen, The Bishop Hill Colony , 71.

Johnson and Peterson, Svenskarne i Illinois , 49-52.

The special master in chancery found in 1868 that Olof Johnson was indebted to the Colony in the sum of $109,613.29. Mikkelsen, The Bishop Hill Colony , 68.

Norelius, Svenskarnes Historia , 30-38.

Norelius, Svenskarnes Historia , 34.

See the tables in Appendix.