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Evelyn McCormik article, 1997
- Title
- Evelyn McCormik article, 1997
- Identifier
- P1590
- Date
- 1997
- Creator
- McCormik, Evelyn
- Description
- In 1880 nearly 1,000 Norwegians left from Drammen on the "Beta" and the Musca" as indentured laborers to work on sugar plantations. Some later returned to Norway, others went to Eureka and the surrounding Humboldt county in California. The author tells about some of these latter people: Andreas Pederson family; Nicholai Johnson and his sons; Jon Jakob Anderson; Gustav Waldner; Edward Olsen; Gus Christopherson; Julius Jacobsen.
"Nordics on the North Coast; many sailed abourad the Beta and the Musca." Privately published, 1997; Bibliography: pp. 46-47. See Kenneth O. Bjork, West of the great divide (NAHA, 1958). - Location: 13/A/6
- Extent
- 1 folder
- Type
- Typescripts
Collection
Citation
McCormik, Evelyn, “Evelyn McCormik article, 1997,” Norwegian American Historical Association, accessed October 17, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/10876.