Knud Olsen VINDEG

   Another name for Knud was Knut Olson VINDEIG.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Reference: Nordmændene i Amerika by Marin Ulvestad, 1907, Dane County, WI. In 1839-40, Norwegians poured into the southeast corner of this county, where
they founded the so-called Koshkonong settlement, one of the best known
Norwegian settlements in America. The founders were: the brothers Gunnulf and
Knud Olsen Vindeig from Rollaug parish, Nummedalen, Gjermund Sunde
similarly from Nummedal, Tosten Olsen Bjødland, Lars Schin, Amund
Rossaland, Lars Dugstad, Bjørn Andersen Kvelve, Amund Andersen Hodnefjeld
all from the Stavanger area, Nils Sjursen Gilderhus, Nils Larsen Volstad, Magne
V. Bystølen and Lars Davidsen Reque all from Voss as well as Lars Kvendalen
whose birthplace in Norway is unknown. Those from Nummedal came via
Jefferson Prairie, Wis. while the others came from Illinois, most from the Fox
River settlement where they had lived for a time. They did not all come at the
same time but over a short period.

[Nordmændene i Amerika by Marin Ulvestad;
Olaf Kringhaug's translations of "First Norwegian Settlements in America"]

• Residence: Koshkonong, 1840, Dane County, WI. As the first explorers of Koshkonong from La Salle County, Illinois, in 1839, attracted others in their train from the same region the following year, so Jefferson Prairie and Chicago sent new recruits following Gunnul Vindeig in the summer of 1840. The first of these were the two we have mentioned at the end of the preceding chapter, namely, Lars Kvendalen and Knud Vindeig, a brother of Gunnul ; both were single men. They came there early in the summer of 1840, and met in Albion Township Bjorn Kvelve and Lars Dugstad before these had left for Milwaukee and Illinois in June, 1840. Knud Vin deig and Lars Kvendalen (the latter also from Numedal) came to America in the fall of 1839.
[A History of Norwegian Immigration, GEORGE T. FLOM]