Worth County
>> 1884 Index
History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa
Springfield, Ill: Union Publishing Co., 1884.
Erick
Ellingson is a pioneer of Silver
Lake township. He was born in Norway, June 6, 1822, and come to America
in 1857. That same year he settled in Silver lake township, on section
25, Worth County, where he has 470 acres of good land. He was married
in 1848, to Carrie Swenson. They are the parents of two children - Berget,
who is living at home, and Asa, who married H. O. Herman, and resides
in the township. The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran Church.
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