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inv Vliiil ij—ll»w llie Imanlnmals ( emr.Capt. II. E. Jeauoon, n Swedish mlniiitcr, and the General Scandinavian Agent of the American Emigrant Company, hoi lately been on a tour through the went I oh j anting tho Jund* of tlila company. JIu ha* loin ted one colony of Swede* In Koh-mith County, and another In Cnlliouu County. Twenty-six families took farm* in n body iu Kossuth, nnd about the name number In Culhoun, and (he number will lie greatly nug-vnential on the o|*nltigof navigation in the spring. Ho ha* another bund of Hfty families which he will locate In the northern part of the State a* a tucfens tor another settlement. Capt. Jonnoon hM been In the service l! the American Emigrant Company for nhout eight yean, and during that time some slaty thousand of his countrymen have passed through Ms hand and found hoiuea In America. lie visited Sweden the pceaent ■***011 aud brought out some thirteen hundred ill one party.-/ir.
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Iowa Voter
Knoxville, Iowa, US
Thu, Oct 13, 1870
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