In early 1871, Oline and Christopher Mikaelson Hoel with their daughters Amalie (3) and Marie (1) immigrated from their generational home in Loeten, Norway, to begin a new life in the burgeoning Norwegian settlement of Norse west of Clifton.
Sadly, Oline died less than a year later leaving Christopher as a single parent of their two very young girls. Somehow, they manage to not only survive, but…