pg 70- O. S. Johnson - After he was confirmed he attended high school in the nearest town after which he went to Christiania and studied for a time at the university to learn to become a pharmacist. In 1864, he emigrated to America where he studied at Rush Medical College in Chicago to advance himself, but gave up medicine and came to Spring Grove where several years after his arrival, purchased a large farm which was close to town and became a farmer. In 1865 he married Live Olsen, a daughter of Ole Stensrud from Krodsherred who was mentioned earlier and who came to America in 1852. Live was four years old when her parents left Norway.
As was mentioned, Ingevald Muller bought a large farm on the west side of Spring Grove and when Spring Grove was incorporated as a town, he sold a lot of his land to people who built homes inside the limits of the town. Some of his land he sold to his son for farming and he has built a practical house where he now lives a nice live on the outskirts of town.
They also brought up two motherless children of Elesius Muller, Ida who was four years old when her mother died and Luella who was two. They also took care of a young girl by the name of Mathea Trulson from Honefoss, Norway who became an invalid on the trip to America.
1837 - 1917 (80 år)
